Chinese Literature

When illness strikes, is your "love" also sick? Urbanites with different emotional syndromes often fall into various emotional illnesses. The four main characters, two men and two women from different backgrounds, are critically ill patients of "loving too much," "unable to love," "impotent love," and "loving money."

On a December morning in 1982, the courtyard of a Beijing siheyuan - a lively quadrangle of homes - begins to stir. Auntie Xue’s son Jiyue is getting married today, and she is determined to make the day a triumph. Despite Jiyue’s woeful ignorance in matters of the heart - and the body. Despite a chef in training tasked with the onerous responsibility of preparing the banquet.

Critically acclaimed author Gish Jen is a National Book Critics Circle Award nominee and the person John Updike proclaimed as the young novelist most likely to become his successor. In The Love Wife, Jen poignantly explores the explosive dynamics of a mixed-race modern family.

A buried corpse disappears. A child is kidnapped. A woman suddenly vanishes. The only clue - mysterious Chinese symbols; left behind at each of the crime scenes in a provincial town in Northern Denmark. In the eye of the storm is Eva. After suffering a deeply sorrowful tragedy - where her long-awaited daughter is stillborn - Eva is fighting to get her life back on track together with her husband who recently, and inexplicably, became paralyzed and is now unable to take care of himself. In an attempt to escape her grief, Eva embarks on her own investigation to find out who is behind these violent crimes.

Jia’s family is busy preparing for the Chinese New Year feast at their restaurant in Chinatown, and Jia wants to take part. But each time she tries to help she’s told that she’s too young: too young to be in the kitchen, too young to light the lanterns, too young to carry the plates. And then the feast begins, and something wonderful happens. When Jia is scolded for getting too close to the exciting lion dance, one of the dancers swoops her up and into the costume, and suddenly she’s a part of the performance—a crucial part that saves the show.

北宋仁宗年间以白眉大侠徐良和玉面小达摩白云瑞为首的开封府群侠大破东海小蓬莱碧霞宫逼得武圣人于荷自刎虽然大获全胜但徐良却厌倦了官场生涯选择了辞官归隐然而树欲静而风不止白云瑞府邸被袭莲花门再次崛起为情义为正义徐良被迫重出江湖同真假方书安及女侠柳依依等人扶助临危受命的上三门总门长白云瑞与敌对势力展开了斗智斗勇和血战续写了一段荡气回肠的侠义传奇. 本部听书为白眉侠义传全书上部

淘宝店主接连被杀，死者身上都烙有五芒星标志。五芒星烙印究竟代表什么？……淘寶店主接連被殺，死者身上都烙有五芒星標誌。五芒星烙印究竟代表什麼？

Long Fei, an agent of the KMT, planned a secret rendezvous with Bai Wei, the daughter of Plum Blossom Party’s leader, to locate the Plum Blossom Painting, which contains a list of the Plum Blossom Party members. It’s said that Fei failed in his mission, and from then on, the painting was nowhere to be found, the identity of the party’s members an even bigger mystery. 10 years later, following the unauthorized release of a nuclear submarine design, the odd occurrence of a woman in disguise at Tiger Beach, and the haunting of a crematorium, the Plum Blossom Party reemerges from the depths.

It's 1980s New York, and though the coke flows freely, money and glamour are the more powerful intoxicants. While fortunes are being made in SoHo galleries and on Wall Street, an underclass of transient drag queens and dandies, club kids and strippers, artists and actors, models and waitstaff wander the streets, providing the city's background color, cheap labor, and even cheaper entertainment.

Meet Regional Emmy nominated Kimberly Ming in one of the most intimate settings, her speaking to you. Ming takes you on a journey using short stories and spoken word poetry to explore concepts of race, culture, and belonging as someone who is Chinese and Puerto Rican. She uses writing as a tool to create a home for herself and others within mixed and multicultural spaces.

Chinese Yankee by Ruthanne Lum McCunn tells the true story of Hong Kong born Thomas Sylvanus (Ah Yee Way), an orphan brought to America for schooling in the mid-1850s, but enslaved in Baltimore. Only sixteen at the outbreak of war, Thomas ran north, joined the Freedom Army, and was blinded in the first major campaign. He failed to fully recover his sight and, deemed incapable of performing the duties of a soldier, was discharged.

孤儿项离与入燕为质的王子赢稷是兄弟一样的朋友，长大后二人重逢于战场……孤兒項離與入燕為質的王子贏稷是兄弟一樣的朋友，長大後二人重逢於戰場……

利音市理科高考状元牧典蓝因感情问题，放弃读大学，几经周折后，来到上海成了一名操盘手……利音市理科高考狀元牧典藍因感情問題，放棄讀大學，幾經周折後，來到上海成了一名操盤手……

《荆楚春秋》70万字，生动地再现了楚人从荆山创业，在方圆只有50公里的荆山深处开辟领地，最终横跨江汉，东抵大海，问鼎中原，成为春秋五霸之一的宏大历史画卷。……《荊楚春秋》70萬字，生動地再現了楚人從荊山創業，在方圓只有50公里的荊山深處開闢領地，最終橫跨江漢，東抵大海，問鼎中原，成為春秋五霸之一的宏大歷史畫卷。

安史之乱后唐帝国由盛转衰，各地藩镇雄踞一方，天下精兵尽在其手。唐宪宗李纯于惊涛骇浪中即位，有意重振皇权，开始计划有步骤的地削弱割据势力……安史之亂後唐帝國由盛轉衰，各地藩鎮雄踞一方，天下精兵盡在其手。唐憲宗李純於驚濤駭浪中即位，有意重振皇權，開始計劃有步驟的地削弱割據勢力……

人不但无法选择家庭出身，更无法选择所处的时代，但无论这两点对人多么不利，人仍有选择自己人性坐标的可能，哪怕选择余地很小很小……人不但無法選擇家庭出身，更無法選擇所處的時代，但無論這兩點對人多麼不利，人仍有選擇自己人性坐標的可能，哪怕選擇餘地很小很小……

《简·爱》主要通过简·爱与罗切斯特之间一波三折的爱情故事，塑造了一个出身低微、生活道路曲折，却始终坚持维护独立人格、追求个性自由、主张人人平等、不向命运低头的坚强女性形象。…… 《簡·愛》主要通過簡·愛與羅切斯特之間一波三折的愛情故事，塑造了一個出身低微、生活道路曲折，卻始終堅持維護獨立人格、追求個性自由、主張人人平等、不向命運低頭的堅強女性形象。

Chinese literature offers the most satisfying glimpse into the mysterious and beautiful civilization of China of any of the means at our disposal. But we discover in its pages the same human conditions which color our own cultures today. Love, revenge, betrayal, honor...they all bring our humanity into sharper focus, cutting through the confusion of nationality and time to draw us closer together with a celebration of our own similarities.

Shanghai in the 20s was a fabulous place, a gaudy, immoral, violent, unjust, optimistic free-for-all where rickshaws competed with Rolls-Royces and a wealthy Englishman, American, or Japanese who spent an afternoon at the dog races might be inconvenienced by the sight of a public beheading on his way to the club for cocktails. It was also an improbable model for the future where racial barriers were rigid in certain neighborhoods and completely lacking in others only a few blocks away.

In "My Lady of the Chinese Courtyard," Elizabeth Cooper offers the reader a translation of two series of letters by Kwei-li, the wife of a high-rank Chinese official. The first series is addressed to her husband whilst he is on a world tour with Prince Chung in the late 19th century. The second series of letters is from 25 years later and are addressed to her mother-in-law. Political intrigue is raging in China and the country is on the verge of a revolution.