Chinese Literature

戦火から生き延びた呉用は、梁山泊の生き残りを組織しつつ、南方で勢力を増し叛乱を企図する方臘の配下に偽名を使って潜入する。少年・岳飛は山賊掃討戦のさなか、童貫元帥と出会う。

『飛』の旗を掲げた岳飛のもとに、かつての仲間、孟遷や于才も加わり、さらに梁山泊からの援助を受けつつ、本格的に岳家軍が再興されていく。金国と講和した南宋は、韓世忠率いる水軍が、次の相手を梁山泊水軍と見据え準備を始めていた。

淮水で金軍の兀朮が岳家軍と、ほぼ同時に撻懶が梁山泊軍と交戦するが、それぞれ退く形で一旦収束する。兀朮は楊令の遺児・胡土児を養子に迎え、南宋の宰相に復帰した秦桧は漢土の統一を目指し奔走する。

金軍・兀朮と呼吸を合わせたかのように戦を停止し、本拠に戻った岳飛。一方、呉用は宣凱に「岳飛を救え」と言い遺していた。梁山泊が救出に動き始める。ようやく臨安府に赴いた岳飛は、帝に拝謁後監禁されてしまう。

延凌率いる梁山泊軍と兀朮率いる金国軍が、激戦を展開していた。両軍とも勇将を失うも、勝敗はつかず。そんな中、梁山泊水軍も動き出す。李俊は、交易船を狙う不穏な動きを見せていた韓世忠をついに追い詰め、打ち斃す。

童貫率いる宋禁軍が、ついに梁山泊討伐に出動した。開封府では、燕青と侯真が、不穏な動きを見せる青蓮寺の妓館を探っている。梁山泊は楊令を中心に結束を強め、童貫を迎え撃つ準備をかためた。張平は黒騎兵を離れ、新たに編成した青騎兵を率いる。

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。

Holed up with other mothers-to-be in a secret maternity home in Los Angeles, Scarlett Chen is far from her native China, where she worked in a factory and fell in love with the married owner, Boss Yeung. Now she’s carrying his baby. To ensure that his child - his first son - has every advantage, Boss Yeung has shipped Scarlett off to give birth on American soil. As Scarlett awaits the baby’s arrival, she spars with her imperious housemates. The only one who fits in even less is Daisy, a spirited pregnant teenager who is being kept apart from her American boyfriend.

Harbin, China, 1925. Fifteen-year-old Anyu Zhang discovers a priceless Fabergé egg in the snow and returns it to the owner, Isaac Mandelburg, a fugitive and former master jeweler for Russia’s imperial palace. In gratitude, he leaves her his address in Shanghai and a promise of hospitality, forever altering her fate. A dazzling world of jewelry shrouded in secrecy and greed awaits, when later Anyu arrives at Mandelburg’s jewelry shop as an orphan.

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 Beijing Duck House in Rockville, Maryland, is not only a beloved go-to setting for hunger pangs and celebrations; it is its own world, inhabited by waiters and kitchen staff who have been fighting, loving, and aging within its walls for decades. When disaster strikes, this working family’s controlled chaos is set loose, forcing each character to confront the conflicts that fast-paced restaurant life has kept at bay.

I am a mortician working at a funeral home. After applying makeup to the body of a beautiful woman, she unexpectedly appeared in front of my bed that night! With two years of experience as a mortician, I deal with corpses, converse with spirits, and document various bizarre and eerie incidents...

Idioms are selected from a large number of idioms that people use every day. The language of these stories is vivid and easy to understand, which can help children understand history, learn knowledge, and feel the unique charm of traditional Chinese culture. This album is the first series of "Idiom Stories", which recites and interprets idiom stories.

In The White Mirror, Li Du, an imperial librarian and former exile in 18th-century China, is now an independent traveler. He is journeying with a trade caravan bound for Lhasa when a detour brings them to a valley hidden between mountain passes. On the icy planks of a wooden bridge, a monk sits in contemplation. Closer inspection reveals that the monk is dead, apparently of a self-inflicted wound. His robes are rent, revealing a strange symbol painted on his chest.

《阿凡提的故事》既能给听众带来快乐，又能使听众通过故事展开联想，从中得到有益的启示。机智的阿凡提非常受人喜爱，其聪明才智和机智勇敢给人们留下了深刻的印象。…… 《阿凡提的故事》既能給聽眾帶來快樂，又能使聽眾通過故事展開聯想，從中得到有益的啟示。機智的阿凡提非常受人喜愛，其聰明才智和機智勇敢給人們留下了深刻的印象。

来自北京的温妮与来自江南的肖言在美国留学时相识，相爱，并同居。不料，肖言在临回国前决意与温妮分道扬镳……來自北京的溫妮與來自江南的肖言在美國留學時相識，相愛，並同居。不料，肖言在臨回國前決意與溫妮分道揚鑣……

A selection of the very best of Chinese poetry over the course of a thousand years, from 100 years before Christ was born up of the middle ages. Arthur Waley's translations of Chinese poetry are still the benchmark by which such translations are held, nearly two hundred years after he introduced the west to the wonder of classical Chinese poetry.

Two young girls sneak onto the grounds of a hospital, where they find a disturbing moment of silence in a rose garden. A couple grows a plant that blooms underground, invisibly, to their long-time neighbor's consternation. A cat worries about its sleepwalking owner, who receives a mysterious visitor while he's asleep. After a ten-year absence, a young man visits his uncle, on the twenty-fourth floor of a high-rise that is floating in the air, while his ugly cousin hesitates on the stairs . . .

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."