Abducted from his home by bandits, fifteen-year-old Wang Lee is rescued from slavery by a mysterious girl who introduces him to the Taiping Tienkuo, a secret society partly based on Christian principles and dedicated to the overthrow of...
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Author:Sandford, Robert WilliamSummary:In this latest RMB Manifesto, Canadian freshwater expert Robert Sandford takes readers to China and shares what it is like to deal with some of the most intractable freshwater problems in the world. It all started out innocently enough...
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Author:Stewart, Roderick, Stewart, SharonSummary:In Phoenix: The Life of Norman Bethune Roderick and Sharon Stewart provide the intriguing details of Bethune's controversial career as a surgeon, his turbulent personal life, his passionate crusade to eradicate tuberculosis, and his...
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Author:Min, AncheeSummary:Arriving in late 19th-century China with her missionary parents, Pearl Buck is soon fascinated by her new home and strikes up a friendship with a young Chinese girl named Willow. The two become inseparable even as civil war, failed...
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It is 1938 in China and, as a young wife, Meilin's future is bright. But with the Japanese army approaching, Meilin and her four year old son, Renshu, are forced to flee their home. Relying on little but their wits and a...
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Dr. Noah Haldane knows that humanity is overdue for a new killer flu, so when a mysterious new strain of flu is reported in China, he expects trouble. He discovers that Acute Respiratory Collapse Syndrome is far more deadly than SARS....
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Author:Meng, Yuan, Tu, LongSummary:This true story of the Bai Family in China traces how their devotion to truth placed them on a collision course with the Communist Party. When they became practitioners of Falun Gong, it paved the way for a painful and torturous, yet...
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The year is 1927, and Shanghai teeters on the edge of revolution. After sacrificing her relationship with Roma to protect him from the blood feud, Juliette has been a girl on the warpath. One wrong move, and her cousin will step in to...
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Lucy Ching was blinded as an infant and she struggled alone apart from the selfless help of her amah. With her support, Lucy attained education and independence and she went on to become a great benefactor of the blind in China.
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Written in a literary, narrative style, the book gives readers a picture of Chinese society and the country as it evolved beyond recognition in one lifetime. A few details suffice to give the flavor of life under Japanese rule in...
- Author:Turkel, NurySummary:
In recent years, China has rounded up three million Uyghurs, placing them in concentration camps. As a human rights attorney and Uyghur activist, Nury Turkel tells his personal story of this historic injustice.
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Author:Jin, HaSummary:During the 1937 attack on Nanjing, American missionary and women's college dean Minnie Vautrin decides to remain at her school during a violent Japanese attack that renders the school a refugee center for ten thousand women and children...
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Yan Ling tries hard to be servile--it's what's expected of a girl of her class. Being intelligent and strong-minded, she finds it a constant battle. Proud Fei Long is unimpressed by her spirit--until he realizes she's the answer to his...
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Author:Seto, LorettaSummary:In this picture book, a young girl shares the special celebration of the Chinese Moon Festival with her parents. This edition combines both written and spoken words.
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Author:Dzogchen Ponlop, RinpocheSummary: - Author:Dikötter, FrankSummary:
Combining newly released documents from Chinese archives with stories from the disenfranchised masses of the time, Dikötter recounts how Mao sought to prove the power of Communism, but instead plunged his country into a hellish...
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Author:Kuramoto, KazukoSummary:Kazuko Kuramoto was born and raised in Dairen, Manchuria, in 1927, at the peak of Japanese expansionism in Asia. Dairen and the neighboring Port Arthur were important colonial outposts on the Liaotung Peninsula; the train lines...
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Author:Laurence, Patricia OndekSummary:Lily Briscoe's Chinese Eyes traces the romance of Julian Bell, nephew of Virginia Woolf, and Ling Shuhua, a writer and painter Bell met while teaching at Wuhan University in China in 1935. Relying on a wide selection of previously...
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Author:Renaud BouretSummary:Les Chinoises est un roman autobiographique situé en Chine, dans la région de bas-Yangze, à la fin des années 1990, une époque où le pays, en pleine transformation, doute encore de son avenir. Le héros conduira le lecteur à...
- Author:Asensi, MatildeSummary:
Un formidable roman historique doublé d'une touchante leçon de vie. Nous sommes en 1923. Elvira de Poulain est une peintre espagnole qui vit en France. Elle apprend la mort, dans des circonstances étranges, de son mari, un homme d’...
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