Chinese Literature

他是“五世相韩”的富家公子。张良，这个自出生之日起便身处逆境，遭受欺凌的公子哥，却在韩国灭亡之际，孤注一掷，做孤胆英雄，寻找机会刺秦……他是「五世相韓」的富家公子。張良，這個自出生之日起便身處逆境，遭受欺凌的公子哥，卻在韓國滅亡之際，孤注一擲，做孤膽英雄，尋找機會刺秦……

一个普通的哨位，竟让一名士兵为之奋斗多年。如愿以偿后，才发现哨兵的位置不过是表面的现象……一個普通的哨位，竟讓一名士兵為之奮鬥多年。如願以償後，才發現哨兵的位置不過是表面的現象……

Sophie’s work on the Chinese booth at last year’s Rainbow Fair is a point of pride for her and her parents, even if Sophie and her best friend, Katie, think the whole thing is a little silly. Sophie's family is Hui, Chinese Muslim. The Muslim part is something she doesn't know much about. Her parents prefer to keep it private. So when it gets slipped to an overenthusiastic teacher that Sophie is Muslim, the only Muslim in her class, suddenly Sophie is in charge of debuting a booth representing the Islamic religion she doesn't practice, an assignment she is determined to keep secret.

This series is a collection of mainly novellas and a select few shorts, written by a hand-picked mix of Chinese and other international writers; it artistically reincarnates the 60-year-old gruesome battle of Japan’s invasion of Communist Party-led China, dissecting this culturally important event from all levels and angles.

Love is a pure and sincere emotion. Cupid may be blindfolded, yet it continually finds its way into people's hearts. Love, in essence, is recognizing others' "self" as one's own. Love is the enrichment of life, much like a cup brimming with wine. What matters is love, not being loved.

This collection gathers the finest pieces from the "Appreciation of Foreign Literature" column. It includes works by influential contemporary writers from countries such as the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Russia, and Japan, with a focus on the United States and Japan.

Vivian Yin is dead. The first Chinese actress to win an Oscar, the trailblazing ingénue rose to fame in the eighties, only to disappear from the spotlight at the height of her career to live out the rest of her life as a recluse. Now her remaining family members are gathered for the reading of her will, and her daughters expect to inherit their childhood home: Vivian’s grand, sprawling, Southern California garden estate. But due to a last-minute change to the will, the house is passed on to another family instead—one that has suddenly returned after decades of estrangement.

San Francisco, 1906: Fifteen-year-old Mercy Wong is determined to break from the poverty of Chinatown, and an education at St. Clare’s School for Girls is her best hope. Although St. Clare’s is off-limits to all but the wealthiest white girls, Mercy gains admittance through a mix of cunning and a little bribery, only to discover that getting in was the easiest part. Not to be undone by a bunch of spoiled heiresses, Mercy stands strong—until disaster strikes.

In 1936, classical pianist Thomas Greene is recruited to Shanghai to lead a jazz orchestra of fellow African-American expats. From being flat broke in segregated Baltimore to living in a mansion with servants of his own, he becomes the toast of a city obsessed with music, money, pleasure, and power, even as it ignores the rising winds of war. Song Yuhua is refined and educated, and has been bonded since age eighteen to Shanghai's most powerful crime boss in payment for her father's gambling debts.

Driving home after being kicked out of college, Tucker meets and picks up the mysterious Corinne Chang at a rest stop. Infatuated, and with nothing better to do, he ends up with her in St. Louis, where he gets a job as a chef in a Chinese restaurant. Even though he’s a gwai lo—a foreign devil—his cooking skills impress the Chinese patrons of the restaurant, and his wooing skills impress Corinne when she joins him there as a waitress.

它们是世间最有名的情诗，他们是世间最有名的诗人，诗和爱情相遇在此，就成了人世间最感天动地的情诗，情之所以成诗，乃因爱太美……它們是世間最有名的情詩，他們是世間最有名的詩人，詩和愛情相遇在此，就成了人世間最感天動地的情詩，情之所以成詩，乃因愛太美……

四个要好的动物朋友——忠厚善良的鼹鼠、聪明热情的河鼠、老成持重的獾和冒失疯狂的蛤蟆在风光旖旎的河畔开始了他们惊险刺激的冒险之旅……四個要好的動物朋友——忠厚善良的鼴鼠、聰明熱情的河鼠、老成持重的獾和冒失瘋狂的蛤蟆在風光旖旎的河畔開始了他們驚險刺激的冒險之旅……

1815年初春拿破仑复辟前夕，马赛的青年水手爱德蒙・唐泰斯遭人诬陷，被安上“拿破仑党”的罪名关进伊夫堡监狱地下黑牢……1815年初春拿破崙復辟前夕，馬賽的青年水手愛德蒙・唐泰斯遭人誣陷，被安上「拿破崙黨」的罪名關進伊夫堡監獄地下黑牢……

贴贴尔和弥贴尔兄妹是樵夫的儿女，梦中一位仙女让他们寻找青鸟来救重病的孙女……貼貼爾和彌貼爾兄妹是樵夫的兒女，夢中一位仙女讓他們尋找青鳥來救重病的孫女……

住在爱德华王子岛艾凡里镇上的一对单亲兄妹马修和玛莉拉・卡斯伯特，原本打算领养一个男孩来帮忙农务，但领养中心却误送了一个女孩给他们……住在愛德華王子島艾凡里鎮上的一對單親兄妹馬修和瑪莉拉・卡斯伯特，原本打算領養一個男孩來幫忙農務，但領養中心卻誤送了一個女孩給他們……

民族英雄岳飞，从一个贫家之子成长为一代名将，他的一生，是传奇的一生，悲壮的一生……民族英雄岳飛，從一個貧家之子成長為一代名將，他的一生，是傳奇的一生，悲壯的一生……

为了权力，本性刚强果断的武则天变得丧心病狂，毫无人性残忍至极……為了權力，本性剛強果斷的武則天變得喪心病狂，毫無人性殘忍至極……

No one has ever seen a ghosted bird—birds only come out when it's dark. It's said that the Ghosted Bird in Beihu Lake of Jingdu are drowned ghosts that have turned into birds—they are human souls. The book Dead Soul Bird tells the bizarre fate of a beautiful woman. The protagonist Wei Na is a lovely and charming educated youth. She falls in love with Zheng Qiulun, the talented and tall, handsome man at the farm. And so their misfortune began. The two loved each other deeply.

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.