Chinese Fiction

戦いの気配が次第に濃厚になっていた。岳都で高山の民を加え調練の日々を送る岳飛。南宋水軍の韓世忠は遭難した梁紅玉を救うため、張朔の交易船を襲った。南下してくる南宋軍に対し岳飛は警戒を強め、小梁山の秦容と手を組むことに。

南宋の宰相・秦桧は闇の中で戦いが終わってからのことを考えていた。そんな中、梁山泊の宣凱が岳飛を訪ね対話をする。岳飛は答えた。「中華を中華の民の国にしたい」と。一方、梁山泊の南の開墾地は本格的に始動。

Columbia is a rich, vivid canvas of heroes and scoundrels, of men and women and their dreams of land, gold, timber, salmon, and power--dreams that begin when a nomad hunter kills a mastodon and ends with an archaeology team working frantically to uncover evidence of that kill before the Columbia's waters rise to cover the past forever--and a family destiny that proves "some things must be believed to be seen."

Prepare to embark on an exciting linguistic journey through the heartwarming fable of 龜兔賽跑 (The Hare and the Tortoise), narrated in delightful colloquial Cantonese! This engaging bilingual book is tailor-made for families and language enthusiasts eager to learn Cantonese or improve their language skills in a playful and interactive manner.

父母双亡的小瘪三迫于生计来到上海，十五岁起跟着师父套签子福生频频出入烟街柳巷，随着年龄增长，对女人的渴望越来越强烈，并为此立下出人头地的志向……父母雙亡的小癟三迫於生計來到上海，十五歲起跟著師父套簽子福生頻頻出入煙街柳巷，隨著年齡增長，對女人的渴望越來越強烈，並為此立下出人頭地的志向……

Fifteen-year-old Kate lives a rarefied life of wealth and privilege in the pre-war Hong Kong expatriate community, but when the Japanese invade she’s interned in squalid Stanley Camp with her parents. Enduring cramped conditions, humiliation, disease, and starvation, Kate befriends seventeen-year-old Charles, who is half Chinese, and they give their hearts to each other under the orchid tree. Meanwhile, forty miles away in Portuguese Macau, thirteen-year-old Sofia’s suspicions are aroused when her father invites a Japanese family to dinner.

A mysterious "fear disease" is scaring to death the citizens of Longzhou, China. Literally. Victims go insane or die frozen in terror, while survivors rant maniacally about demons infiltrating the city. But what's really behind the sudden epidemic? To find the answer, Chief Inspector Luo Fei teams up with a controversial historian and a brilliant psychologist to track down the true source of the illness and halt the wave of horror that threatens the metropolis.

The novel depicts the story of the "second generation of Xinjiang" born in the oases of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps in the 1960s-1970s growing up with their fathers' generation. It portrays the passionate era of two generations dedicating themselves to defending and developing the borders, and the arduous process of building a happy homeland.

Meet Carter Kovac disgraced art dealer turned reluctant, bumbling private detective. After inheriting his famous father's detective agency, he immediately becomes entangled in a mysterious web of intrigue and murder--and the police think he's the culprit. Or they'd at least like to pin it on him, as that'd save a lot of time.

The realist long novel "Overture" tells the coming-of-age story of Xinjiang youth Du Dazhuan. Born in Xinjiang, he attended middle school in Beijing and university in Xinjiang before going to study in the US and do business in Russia. He later returned to his homeland and devoted himself to development and poverty alleviation.

Considered encyclopedic due to its detailed descriptions of upper class life in the 18th century Qing Dynasty China, this masterpiece is one of China's four great classical novels, and it vividly narrates the rise and fall of the aristocratic Jia family. An exceptionally large cast of major characters—such as Jia Baoyu, Lin Daiyu, Xue Baochai, and Wang Xifeng—are depicted in a way that is at once vivid and cutting. Their stories of joy, sorrow, love, and hatred are universally known throughout China.

Hongmei is the perfect Chinese wife: beautiful, diligent, passive. Glen is the perfect American husband: intelligent, caring, well-off. From the outside, Hongmei and Glen's life in the San Francisco Bay Area seems perfect. But at home, their marriage is falling apart. Post-its left on the fridge are their primary form of communication.

欧罗巴大地上演绎过多少历史的纠葛和纷争，欧洲列国经过怎样的演变形成了现在的版图…… 歐羅巴大地上演繹過多少歷史的糾葛和紛爭，歐洲列國經過怎樣的演變形成了現在的版圖……

A heart-wrenching saga of a prostitute and various strongmen she meets on her journey. All the men in this story are all so seemingly devoted and just, yet it’s exactly this earth-shattering devotion that pushes the heroine to her downfall.

姚澜年近三十三才迎来婚礼，但横遭新郎田坤前女友抢婚，她愤然取消婚礼。这却让她和大男孩陆小贝相识……姚瀾年近三十三才迎來婚禮，但橫遭新郎田坤前女友搶婚，她憤然取消婚禮。這卻讓她和大男孩陸小貝相識……

九牛一毛和史学家司马迁有什么关系？二桃三士这个成语中，晏子又是如何用三个桃子，就除掉了齐景公的心腹大患？听《成语故事》，借用古人智慧，享受现代人生。…… 九牛一毛和史學家司馬遷有什麼關係？二桃三士這個成語中，晏子又是如何用三個桃子，就除掉了齊景公的心腹大患？聽《成語故事》，借用古人智慧，享受現代人生。

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During a chance encounter, two nearly identical boys, one a poor beggar and the other a prince, decide to exchange places. The pauper, now living in the royal palace, is constantly filled with the dread of being discovered for who and what he really is; while the Prince, dressed in rags, lives on the street enduring hardships he never thought possible. Both children soon discover that neither life is as carefree as they expected.

The Funeral Cryer long ago accepted the mundane realities of her life: avoided by fellow villagers because of the stigma attached to her job and underappreciated by her husband, whose fecklessness has pushed the couple close to the brink of breakup. But just when things couldn't be bleaker, she takes a leap of faith—and in so doing, things start to take a surprising turn for the better.

Mandarin Companion is a series of easy-to-read novels in Chinese that are fun to read and proven to accelerate language learning. Every book in the Mandarin Companion series is carefully written to use characters, words, and grammar that a learner is likely to know.