China Literature

On the dark waterside docks of Shanghai, a photographer is recording cargo being secretly loaded when he's brutally killed and his camera destroyed. Shortly thereafter Covert-One director Fred Klein brings the word to the President that there's a Chinese cargo ship rumored to be carrying tons of chemicals to be used by a rogue nation to create new biological weapons. Klein is ordered to get the President solid proof of what the Chinese ship is ferrying.

In una Londra tetra e indecifrabile, Billy Harrow, studioso di cefalopodi, guida i visitatori all'interno del Museo di Storia Naturale, dove è ospitato un raro e impressionante esemplare di Architeutis dux, meglio noto come "Calamaro gigante". Nessuno può immaginare quello che sta per accadere, l'evento che avrebbe cambiato per sempre l'esistenza di chi vi avesse assistito: quando il calamaro svanisce nel nulla prima dell'arrivo di Billy e dei visitatori, ogni spiegazione razionale appare subito vana.

È tempo di rivolte e rivoluzioni, conflitti e intrighi. New Crobuzon sta cadendo a pezzi. Da un lato la guerra contro l'arcana, oscura città-stato di Tesh, dall'altro i ribelli che si aggirano per le strade portando la metropoli sull'orlo della rovina. Nel mezzo dei disordini, una misteriosa figura mascherata incita a una nuova forma di ribellione, mentre tradimenti e violenze si manifestano in luoghi inconsueti.

A dive into one of China's great poets by the first great populariser of Chinese literature, Arthur Waley.

Der Mandarin Kao-tai reist mittels eines Zeitkompasses aus dem China des 10. Jahrhunderts ins 20. Jahrhundert nach München. Mit der Unbefangenheit, die ein Abstand von 1000 Jahren und ein völlig anderer Kulturkreis ermöglichen, beobachtet er den "Fortschritt" der "Großnasen", die nicht ruhen und rasten, sondern beständig von sich fortschreiten...

You can’t dig a hole to China! Squirt doesn’t believe Bubba can dig a hole to China. But when the hole swallows them, the kids find themselves in Xi’an, China, surrounded by Terracotta Warriors. It gets worse when the ghost of the first emperor of China appears. He tells them they can’t go home until they find his missing pi.

No one knew his name. But soon millions would know about his bravery. For almost two months in spring 1989, Beijing’s Tiananmen Square had been the site of growing protests against China's hardline communist government.

Kokosnuss im "Drachenland" China! Seit Tagen liest Kokosnuss alles, was er zum spannenden Thema "China" in die Pfoten bekommen kann. Da platzt Oskar mit einer Überraschung in die Drachenhöhle: Sein Vater, der Fressdrache Herbert, plant eine Reise zur Verwandtschaft nach China. "Auweia, kennt sich dein Papa mit chinesischen Drachen aus?", fragt Matilda. "Ich glaube, dort muss man sehr höflich sein." Da schlägt Kokosnuss vor, dass die Freunde Herbert nach China begleiten. Denn er weiß, dass mit dem mächtigen chinesischen Drachen Long Long nicht zu spaßen ist.

A multigenerational novel of love, oppression, trauma and the pursuit of freedom, inspired in part by the author's own family history, China Room twines together the stories of a woman and a man separated by more than half a century but united by blood.

He saves her, but can she save him? This is no fairy tale... Amidst the rugged beauty of the Scottish Highlands, mysteries of the past converge with the present, weaving a tale of lost love, haunting legacies, and redemption. Jack Mathers is drawn into a suspenseful journey, seeking answers about his mother's death and his father's bizarre behaviour. As ancient folklore involving enigmatic Highlanders, sinister wolves, and ethereal cranes resurfaces, the Mathers family is plunged deeper into a supernatural enigma. "The Crane Wife" by Max China is a heart-wrenching exploration of love, ...

Un chino en bicicleta, inspirada en el caso del pirómano Fosforito, ganó el Premio de Novela "La otra orilla" en 2007, se publicó en España y en América Latina y fue traducida a seis idiomas. Crónica, con su particular modo de informar, se hizo una fiesta con el caso de Li, el chino pirómano que incendió varias mueblerías en el barrio de Caballito allá por el año 2004. Hasta le pusieron el apodo de "Fosforito".

In fuga da New Crobuzon, dove amici e conoscenti di Isaac Dan der Grimnebulin vengono rastrellati dalla milizia, Bellis Coldwine, ex fidanzata dello scienziato rinnegato, si imbarca per Nova Esperium, intenzionata a vivere in quella colonia di frontiera finché la situazione nella metropoli non si sarà risolta.

In an alternate reality, 5,000 years in the future, the evil Dragon of Death has become ruler of Dragon City. Humans now live to serve the dragon population, and it’s no different for Billy Chan and his friends. After losing contact with their own dragons, they’re determined to track them down in this new city, even if it means putting their own lives at risk. But one dragon has turned to the dark side and has no plans to return.

Montaigne might well be one of the most sympathetic writers ever known. He is known for popularizing the essay as a literary genre; his style merges casual anecdotes and autobiography with deep intellectual insights. His Essays are among the most influential ever written; one can recognize Montaigne's direct influence on great literary figures all over the world, from René Descartes to Nietzsche, Isaac Asimov, and possibly William Shakespeare. We have selected for you 100 of his most fascinating, insightful, and amusing quotes, so you can meet directly with one of the greatest minds who ever lived.

The Frog Prince, The Three Little Men in the Wood, The Puppet-show Man, Cinderella, Hänsel and Gretel, Little Red Riding Hood, Rapunzel, The Snowman, The Little Match Girl. Fables, folktales and stories play a fundamental part in children's development. They use powerful imagery and symbols to entertain while conveying essential moral teachings; the stories ignite imagination, taking a firm root in children's minds, and gently initiate them to the essential moral principles of life. Our tales and stories have been carefully selected for their wisdom and power of evocation.

Little Red Riding Hood, The Emperor's New Clothes, The Story of a Mother, Cinderella, The Little Match Girl, The Snowman. Fables, folktales and stories play a fundamental part in children's development. They use powerful imagery and symbols to entertain while conveying essential moral teachings; the stories ignite imagination, taking a firm root in children's minds, and gently initiate them to the essential moral principles of life. Our tales and stories have been carefully selected for their wisdom and power of evocation. Discover or rediscover, narrated in a warm and lively way, the best stories for kids in Chinese Mandarin.

In this Chinese folk tale, an old widow’s son is killed by a tiger. After she demands justice from the magistrate, he grants it to her, but not quite in the way she expected. Will she be able to move past her grief and find a way to survive on her own?

The jaw-dropping conclusion to Girls of Storm and Shadow left the fates of Lei and Wren hanging in the balance. There's one thing Lei knows - she can never return to the Hidden Palace. The trauma and tragedy she suffered behind those opulent walls will plague her forever. She cannot be trapped there with the sadistic king again, especially without Wren.

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After decades of loyal service, Ma Daode, a corrupt and lecherous party official, has been appointed director of the China Dream Bureau, charged with promoting President Xi Jinping’s China Dream of national rejuvenation. But just as he is about to present his plan for a microchip that will be implanted into the brain of every citizen to replace all painful recollections with a collective dream of national supremacy, his sanity begins to unravel.