Chinese Literature

Izzy Chen is dreading her family’s annual Chinese New Year celebration, where they all come together at a Michelin-starred restaurant to flaunt their status and successes in hopes to one up each other. So when her seventy-three-year-old glamorous and formidable grandmother walks in with a stunning woman on her arm and kisses her in front of everyone, it shakes Izzy to her core. She’d always considered herself the black sheep of the family for harboring similar feelings to the ones her Nainai just displayed.

在最美的年华里，最美的诗和最美的酒，必定有金风玉露般的相逢。它们的风云际会，亦必定是电闪雷鸣的传奇……在最美的年華里，最美的詩和最美的酒，必定有金風玉露般的相逢。它們的風雲際會，亦必定是電閃雷鳴的傳奇……

姚澜年近三十三才迎来婚礼，但横遭新郎田坤前女友抢婚，她愤然取消婚礼。这却让她和大男孩陆小贝相识……姚瀾年近三十三才迎來婚禮，但橫遭新郎田坤前女友搶婚，她憤然取消婚禮。這卻讓她和大男孩陸小貝相識……

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.

The Tao Te Ching by Lao-tzu is one of the most translated books of world literature. It is here presented in a translation that deliberately avoids any philosophical commentary and renders the text in English in its most simple and straightforward composure.

Clever, rich, and single, the beautiful Ān Mò (Emma Woodhouse) is focused on her career as fashion designer in the glamour of 21st-century Shanghai. She sees no need for romance in her life, but when she tries to find a boyfriend for her new friend Fangfang (Harriet), her carefully laid plans being to unravel. As she ignores the warnings of her good friend Shi Wenzheng (Mr. Knightley), her decisions bring consequences that she never expected.

梅花宴下，她勾魂摄魄，未央宫中，她辗转缠绵。是勾心，还是失魂，而立君王，少年太子，肱骨大臣，且看一代庶女如何步步惊心，成为至高之人！…… 梅花宴下，她勾魂攝魄，未央宮中，她輾轉纏綿。是勾心，還是失魂，而立君王，少年太子，肱骨大臣，且看一代庶女如何步步驚心，成為至高之人！

平息“三藩”之乱之后，康熙四处物色治河能臣，亲赴汴梁，视察黄河，任用能臣疏浚漕运，终使黄河变清；任用良将，操练水军，德威并用，东收台湾；开博学鸿儒科，选拔良臣，缓和民族矛盾；南巡金陵，北巡盛京，完成统一中华大业…… 平息「三藩」之亂之後，康熙四處物色治河能臣，親赴汴梁，視察黃河，任用能臣疏浚漕運，終使黃河變清；任用良將，操練水軍，德威並用，東收台灣；開博學鴻儒科，選拔良臣，緩和民族矛盾；南巡金陵，北巡盛京，完成統一中華大業……

天道茫茫，自有真理在，万里晴空，河汉盼晏清。翦除鳌拜恶势力后，年轻的康熙自掌朝政，但国库空虚，人心浮动，可谓四面楚歌…… 天道茫茫，自有真理在，萬里晴空，河漢盼晏清。翦除鰲拜惡勢力後，年輕的康熙自掌朝政，但國庫空虛，人心浮動，可謂四面楚歌……

One catastrophic flight, one uncharted isle. Stranded far from civilization, a survivor's desperate push into the heart of this verdant prison unearths more than just survival. Whispers of ancient rituals, seductive secrets etched in stone, and the undeniable allure of the island's hidden depths begin to stir a primal curiosity.

经过三千屯丁试垦，古城子比屋环居，人们安土乐业，大有井田遗风。尤其是京旗屯田，更为满洲故里带来了勃勃的生机。然而，由于朝廷首鼠两端，京旗子弟忌惮稼穑之苦，轰轰烈烈的古城子屯田就要就此终结吗？…… 經過三千屯丁試墾，古城子比屋環居，人們安土樂業，大有井田遺風。尤其是京旗屯田，更為滿洲故里帶來了勃勃的生機。然而，由於朝廷首鼠兩端，京旗子弟忌憚稼穡之苦，轟轟烈烈的古城子屯田就要就此終結嗎？

慈禧垂帘听政的清末，即同治、光绪之交，曾发生无数的奇情冤案，其中以杨乃武与小白菜案、名伶杨月楼冤案、太原奇案、张汶祥刺马案最为轰动，统称为清末四大奇案。…… 慈禧垂簾聽政的清末，即同治、光緒之交，曾發生無數的奇情冤案，其中以楊乃武與小白菜案、名伶楊月樓冤案、太原奇案、張汶祥刺馬案最為轟動，統稱為清末四大奇案。

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.

Considered encyclopedic due to its detailed descriptions of upper class life in the 18th century Qing Dynasty China, this masterpiece is one of China's four great classical novels, and it vividly narrates the rise and fall of the aristocratic Jia family. An exceptionally large cast of major characters—such as Jia Baoyu, Lin Daiyu, Xue Baochai, and Wang Xifeng—are depicted in a way that is at once vivid and cutting. Their stories of joy, sorrow, love, and hatred are universally known throughout China.

From one of China’s most famous contemporary writers, here is a stunning collection of stories, selected from the best of Yu Hua’s early work, that shows his far-reaching influence on a pivotal period in Chinese literature. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Yu Hua and other young Chinese writers began to reimagine their national literature. Departing from conventional realism in favor of a more surreal and subjective approach inspired by Kafka, Faulkner, and Borges, the boundary-pushing fiction of this period reflected the cultural changes sweeping the world’s most populous nation.

文字简单，富含韵律，易学易记，朗朗上口，它们仿佛神奇的魔法语言，在含蓄的幽默中，带给孩子数不尽的纯真快乐。…… 文字簡單，富含韻律，易學易記，朗朗上口，它們仿佛神奇的魔法語言，在含蓄的幽默中，帶給孩子數不盡的純真快樂。

古老的巴斯克维尔家族一直被猎犬的诅咒所困扰。所有家族的继承人，都生活在会被猎犬咬死的阴影下。一天早上，巴斯克维尔庄园的管家发现庄园的主人查尔兹·巴斯克维尔爵士死在他经常散步的水松夹道旁…… 古老的巴斯克維爾家族一直被獵犬的詛咒所困擾。所有家族的繼承人，都生活在會被獵犬咬死的陰影下。一天早上，巴斯克維爾莊園的管家發現莊園的主人查爾茲·巴斯克維爾爵士死在他經常散步的水松夾道旁……

A beautiful collection of some of the finest Chinese fairy tales ever told. Incorporating magic, wicked witches, strange adventures and mysterious spirits. Enchanting! Stories include: "The Magic Pillow"; "The Stone Monkey"; "Stealing Peaches"; "The Painted Skin"; "The Wonderful Pear Tree"; "The Country of Gentlemen"; "Learning Magic"; "Theft of a Duck"; "Living for Ever"; "Football on a Lake"; "The Flower Fairies"; "The Talking Bird"; "The Peach Blossom Fountain"; "The Lute Girl’s Lament".

吴敬梓的《儒林外史》是中国小说史上少有的几部出类拔萃的巨制之一，是唯一一部真正意义上的讽刺小说……吳敬梓的《儒林外史》是中國小說史上少有的幾部出類拔萃的巨制之一，是唯一一部真正意義上的諷刺小說……

她只是一个地位卑微的庶女，后来嫁给了侯爷为继妻，侯府的深宅大院，她该怎样以自己的才智生存下去……她只是一個地位卑微的庶女，後來嫁給了侯爺為繼妻，侯府的深宅大院，她該怎樣以自己的才智生存下去……