Author : Teresa Robeson
Publisher : Albert Whitman & Company
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 35,67 MB
Release : 2020-04-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0807507652
Cycle through the sights of Beijing with Lunzi as she searches for her best friend. One, two; yi, er. Side by side, two bicycles, Lunzi and Huangche, come out of the factory. Side by side, they watch the city of Beijing from their shop window. Then a young girl comes in and buys Huangche, rolling him away from Lunzi! With the help of a delivery boy, Lunzi begins an epic race to find her friend that introduces readers to all the sights and sounds of Beijing.
Author : Rachel DeWoskin
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 26,45 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393059021
Determined to broaden her cultural horizons and live a “fiery” life, twenty-one-year-old Rachel DeWoskin hops on a plane to Beijing to work for an American PR firm based in the busy capital. Before she knows it, she is not just exploring Chinese culture but also creating it as the sexy, aggressive, fearless Jiexi, the starring femme fatale in a wildly successful Chinese soap opera. Experiencing the cultural clashes in real life while performing a fictional version onscreen, DeWoskin forms a group of friends with whom she witnesses the vast changes sweeping through China as the country pursues the new maxim, “to get rich is glorious.” In only a few years, China’s capital is transformed. With “considerable cultural and linguistic resources” (The New Yorker), DeWoskin captures Beijing at this pivotal juncture in her “intelligent, funny memoir” (People), and “readers will feel lucky to have sharp-eyed, yet sisterly, DeWoskin sitting in the driver’s seat”(Elle).
Author : Eugene Perry Link
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 23,61 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780393310658
"A lively survey of today's China as seen by [its] brooding intellectuals. A terrific book." -Nicholas D. Kristof, New York Times Book Review
Author : David Aikman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 13,26 MB
Release : 2012-03-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1596986522
This book details the great unreported story of the Chinese giant, its enormously rapid conversion to Christianity, and what this change means to the global balance of power.
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Page : 309 pages
File Size : 34,43 MB
Release : 2000
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Author : Xiaohong Wang
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,16 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Beijing (China)
ISBN : 9780974730257
Ling Ling, an eight-year-old, takes you on a year long journey of her life showing Chinese culture, holidays, festivals, school. family life, and more.
Author : Jasper Becker
Publisher : eBook Partnership
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 34,33 MB
Release : 2015-08-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1783017856
A startling, eye-opening account of a fascinating and decisive moment in Chinese history, packed with evocative stories. Jasper Becker tells the story of why and how China's leaders set about to destroy and rebuild one of the world's greatest cities and how many of the residents tried to stop it and protect their great architectural legacy.
Author : Henning Mankell
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 19,34 MB
Release : 2010-02-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307593177
From the dean of Scandinavian noir, Henning Mankell, the internationally bestselling and universally acclaimed Kurt Wallander series, an incredible stand-alone masterpiece: a bone-chilling mystery that spans two centuries and four continents. In the far north of Sweden a small, quiet village has been almost entirely wiped out by a mass murderer. The only clue left at the scene is a red ribbon. Among the victims are the grandparents of Judge Birgitta Roslin, who sets out to find the killer. Despite being brushed off by the police, Birgitta is determined to prove that the murders were not a random act of violence but are part of something far more dark and complex. Her investigation leads to the highest echelons of power and into the recesses of history where the seeds of evil deeds were planted.
Author : Nie Jun
Publisher : Graphic Universe& 8482
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 32,21 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1512445908
"Four short stories set in a hutong, or residential alleyway, of Beijing, China. Yu'er, her grandfather, and their eccentric neighbors experience the magic of everyday life."--
Author : Chancellor Jackson
Publisher :
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 27,13 MB
Release : 2020-03-25
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"F R E E M E" A psalm of my culture. Restrained for 14 days in a country where I am a foreigner. In my native land I felt foreign, but I felt at home simultaneously. Never would I have thought the phrase "F R E E M E" would mean free me. Glad I'm not dead, lest the front of a shirt be my final resting place. Pride stained on my flesh, how I, a cub, have wandered into the Serengeti. A clock on the wall knows my future, freedom in its hands. A second is life, a minute, eternity. "F R E E M E." Peace is my cell, cold, dark, unchanging. Unfamiliar eyes accompany me daily. Twenty four, seven, fifteen, nine, three, one, one. My lucky numbers. Red and blue. Life and substance. Knowledge and power. A trial of the mind to test the resolve of the soul. "Never let a hard time humble us, the marathon continues." (Hussle, 2019).
