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Although paper cutting has existed with human beings for thousands of years, there is no writing material to summarize its principles and detailed techniques. After more than 50 years of practice, and based on the previous published works, this author summarized the language of paper cutting and applied the composition rule to paper cutting. In this book, the author attempts to introduce the basic principles for paper cutting to readers.After more...
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If you're interested in learning a new language and exploring a rich and fascinating culture, then the Beginner's Chinese Language Course is an excellent place to start. With this course, you'll gain a solid foundation in the basics of the Chinese language, including pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary.Whether you're planning to travel to China for business or pleasure, or simply want to expand your horizons and challenge yourself, learning Chinese...
3) Hulin and the Mad Goose: Four Chinese Folk Tales in Simplified Chinese and Pinyin, 600 Word Vocabula
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Folk tales are immensely popular in China. Passed down orally over the centuries from grandparents and parents to children, they serve as an unwritten handbook for living. Nearly all Chinese folk tales are about simple people who find themselves in difficult situations. These people are often helped (and occasionally hindered) by talking animals, as well as by powerful gods, wizards and other supernatural beings who actively interfere in events...
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Reassesses didacticism in seventeenth-century Chinese vernacular fiction and challenges the view that the late Ming was a notoriously immoral time.
Reading for the Moral offers an innovative reassessment of the nature of moral representation and exemplarity in Chinese vernacular fiction. Maria Franca Sibau focuses on two little-studied story collections published at the end of the Ming dynasty, Exemplary Words for the World (Xingshi yan, 1632) and...
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With this groundbreaking collection Classical Chinese Poetry, translated and edited by the renowned poet and translator David Hinton, a new generation will be introduced to the work that riveted Ezra Pound and transformed modern poetry.
The Chinese poetic tradition is the largest and longest continuous tradition in world literature, and this rich and far-reaching anthology of nearly five hundred poems provides a comprehensive account of its first...
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One of the Best Cookbooks of 2021 by the New York Times
Experience the sublime beauty and flavor of one of the oldest and most delicious cuisines on earth: the food of Shanghai, China's most exciting city, in this evocative, colorful gastronomic tour that features 100 recipes, stories, and more than 150 spectacular color photographs.
Filled with galleries, museums, and gleaming skyscrapers, Shanghai is a modern metropolis and the world's largest...
7) The fortunes
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"Inhabiting four lives--a railroad baron's valet who unwittingly ignites an explosion in Chinese labor, Hollywood's first Chinese movie star, a hate-crime victim whose death mobilizes Asian Americans, and a biracial writer visiting China for an adoption--this novel captures over a century of our history through the immigrant family experience"--
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From beloved chef and author Joanne Chang, the first cookbook from her acclaimed Boston restaurant, Myers+Chang
Award-winning and beloved chef Joanne Chang of Boston's Flour bakery may be best known for her sticky buns, but that's far from the limit of her talents. When Chang married acclaimed restaurateur Christopher Myers, she would make him Taiwanese food for dinner at home every night. The couple soon realized no one was serving food like...
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The modern imagination of classical Chinese thought has long been dominated by Confucius, Mozi, Mencius, and other so-called "Masters" of the Warring States period. Michael Hunter argues that this approach neglects the far more central role of poetry, and the Shijing (Classic of Poetry) in particular, in the formation of the philosophical tradition.
Through a new reading of its ideology and poetics, Hunter reestablishes the Shijing as a work of...
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A mouthwatering collection of 20 easy, speedy, nutritional and delicious recipes taken from TV chef Ching's beautiful new book, Eat Clean. Includes fresh and healthy breakfast, lunch and dinner recipes, as well as sides, pickles and salsas, and teas. Forget your saucepan and roasting tin, Ching-He Huang's beautiful new recipe book shows you how you can Eat Clean and wok yourself to health. Eat Clean is the perfect cookery book for the time starved...
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Chicken can get a little boring if eaten day in and day out. There's only so much you can do with barbeque sauce! So, this book has gathered the most favorite recipes to spice up chicken and make this mainstay a whole lot tastier. No more asking about how to do it, because this book has everything you want.The Bible of Chicken Cookbook is filled with: Salad and vegetables dishes, Stir-Fry recipes, Modern and International Dishes and other popular...
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Includes All of Your Favorite Chinese Takeout Recipes That You Can Easily Make At Home! If you're like most people, you probably love Chinese food. But have you ever wished you could make your favorite Chinese dishes at home? Well, now you can!This cookbook includes the most delicious Chinese restaurant recipes that can be easily made at home. So whether you're craving sweet and sour pork, kung pao chicken, or beef and broccoli, you'll find a recipe...
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First Second
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2024.
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Graphic novel superstars Gene Luen Yang and LeUyen Pham join forces in this heartwarming rom-com about fate, family, and falling in love. Val is ready to give up on love. It's led to nothing but secrets and heartbreak, and she's pretty sure she's cursed--no one in her family, for generations, has ever had any luck with love. But then a chance encounter with a pair of cute lion dancers sparks something in Val. Is it real love? Could this be her chance...
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The work of the contemporary Chinese painter prompts reflections on nature, art, and music from one of America's leading philosophers.
This text by John Sallis carries out a series of ruminations by taking up Cao Jun's art and thought, with a focus on questions of the elemental. Sallis's reflections are not a matter of simply relating art works to philosophical thought, as theoretical insights and developments run throughout Cao Jun's writings and...
15) Summer at Squee
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Kokila
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2024.
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IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
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Tween Phoenny Fang attends a Chinese cultural overnight camp where she explores new friendships and first crushes and discovers a deeper understanding of her community.
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Good Luck Life is the first book to explain the meanings of Chinese rituals and to offer advice on when and how to plan for Chinese holidays and special occasions such as Chinese weddings, the Red Egg and Ginger party to welcome a new baby, significant birthdays, and the inevitable funeral. Packed with practical information, Good Luck Life contains an abundance of facts, legends, foods, old-village recipes, and quick planning guides for Chinese New...
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The Periplus Pocket Cantonese Dictionary is a convenient and handy pocket-sized dictionary that contains the most common Cantonese words you will need to use and understand, whether as a traveler or as a beginner in the early stages of learning the language. Different meanings of the same word are distinguished so that you will always be able to make the correct choice with confidence. This handy reference guide provides the essentials of Cantonese...
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Aunties volume 3
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2024.
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"After an ultra-romantic honeymoon across Europe, Meddy Chan and her husband Nathan have landed in Jakarta to spend Chinese New Year with her entire extended family. Chinese New Year, already the biggest celebration of the Lunar calendar, gets even more festive when a former beau of Second Aunt's shows up at the Chan residence bearing extravagant gifts-he's determined to rekindle his romance with Second Aunt and the gifts are his way of announcing...
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