1434 The Year a Magnificent Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Ren…

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9780061632648

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368 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.

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945 MEN y

China men

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0679723285

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973.04951 KIN c

Chinese Cinderella: The true story of an unwanted daughter

The daughter of a wealthy Hong Kong businessman describes her very difficult childhood and the psychological abuse she suffered at the hands of her stepmother.

Thief of hearts

When Stacy is paired with a Chinese girl at school who is accused of theft, she must come to terms with her own Chinese and American heritage.

And the rain my drink

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0586037802

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F SUY a

Peradaban Tionghoa selayang pandang

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9789799105288

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305.89510598 NIO p

Under a painted sky

In 1845, Sammy, a Chinese American girl, and Annamae, an African American slave girl, disguise themselves as boys and travel on the Oregon Trail to California from Missouri

The book that proves time travel happens

Twelve-year-olds Ambrose, Tom, and Frankie are transported to the boys' hometown of Freedom Falls, Ohio, in 1852 when Frankie blows her Romani family's magical trombone, and to return home they'll have to use both Morse code and the ancient form of divination known as the I-ching.

American born Chinese

Alternates three interrelated stories about the problems of young Chinese Americans trying to participate in the popular culture. Presented in comic book format.

Half and half

At Seattle's annual Folk Fest, twelve-year-old Fiona and her older brother are torn between trying to please their Chinese grandmother and making their Scottish grandparents happy.

Bend, not break: A life in two worlds

Born on the eve of China's Cultural Revolution, Ping was separated from her family at the age of eight. She grew up fighting hunger and humiliation and shielding her younger sister from the teenagers in Mao's Red Guard. At twenty-five, she found her way to the United States; her only resources were $80 in traveler's checks and three phrases of English: thank you, hello, and help. Yet Ping perse…

New beginnings

In the southern Province of Guangxi amidst the turmoil of the Taiping Rebellion and the Opium War, a woman is kidnapped and her husband shipped out as a coolie to Singapore. Yet from despair came good fortune. Seen through the eyes of one family, this is a moving story of the scourge of opium and one man's plight and rise in fortune in British Malaya. Chan Ling Yap's third novel has all the ass…

Goldy Luck and the three pandas

In this Chinese American retelling of "Goldilocks and the Three Bears," a careless Goldy Luck wreaks havoc on the home of a family of panda bears. She eats up the littlest panda’s rice porridge, breaks his rocking chair, and rumples all the blankets on his futon. When Goldy takes responsibility for her actions, she makes a new friend (and a whole plate of turnip cakes!) just in time for Chine…

Tales from China

This collection of Chinese stories begins with the great legends of how Earth and Heaven came into being, and of how the archer Yi rid the Emperor Yao of the menace of the ten suns. Engrossing folk tales about ghosts and rainmakers, poor students and magicians, and the man who was nearly made into fishpaste flesh out Chinese culture, character, and customs. Throughout all these stories, the aut…

Concise English-Chinese Chinese-English dictionary

One of our best-selling dictionaries for 16 years. Based on its highly acclaimed first edition

Concise English-Chinese Chinese-English dictionary

One of our best-selling dictionaries for 16 years. Based on its highly acclaimed first edition this pocket-sized new edition has been enlarged (25% more pages) extensively revised and updated to take account of new vocabulary and recent developments in English and Chinese. Thousands of additional words and phrases have been included. With pinyin Romanization of each of the more than 20 000 en…