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3) Saints
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
c2013.
Physical Desc
170, [2] pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
Vibiana, an unwanted fourth child, finds her name and identity in Christianity, but with the Boxer Rebellion in full swing and Chinese Christians facing death, she must decide whether her loyalties lie with her religion or her country.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
xxvii, 468 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Description
This narrative history of China's nineteenth-century Taiping Rebellion (which cost some twenty million lives) brims with unforgettable characters and vivid re-creations of massive and sometimes gruesome battles--a riveting, both sweeping and intimate portrait of the largest civil war in history.
Publisher
Kultur
Pub. Date
c200?
Physical Desc
1 DVD (50 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Using superb 3D graphics, this program highlights China's architectural achievements including The Great Wall of China, the terracotta army of the First Chinese Emperor, a Chinese village from seven thousand years ago and Beijing's Forbidden City.
8) Boxers
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
c2013.
Physical Desc
328 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
In 1898 China, Little Bao has had enough of foreign missionaries and soldiers robbing peasants, and he recruits an army of Boxers to fight to free China from its oppressors.
Author
Series
Legends of the condor heroes volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xii, 527 pages ; 25 cm.
Description
"In the Jin capital of Zhongdu, Guo Jing learns the truth of his father's death and finds he is now betrothed, against his will, to two women. Neither of them is his sweetheart Lotus Huang. Torn between following his heart and fulfilling his filial duty, Guo Jing journeys through the country of his parents with Lotus, encountering mysterious martial heroes and becoming drawn into the struggle for the supreme martial text, the Nine Yin Manual. But...
10) Frog: a novel
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
388 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"The author of Red Sorghum and China's most revered and controversial novelist returns with his first major publication since winning the Nobel Prize. In 2012, the Nobel committee confirmed Mo Yan's position as one of the greatest and most important writers of our time. In his much-anticipated new novel, Mo Yan chronicles the sweeping history of modern China through the lens of the nation's controversial one- child policy. Frog opens with a playwright...
Author
Formats
Description
Through the stories of a terra-cotta soldier who has survived through the centuries, thirteen-year-old Ming, a village boy in 1970s China, learns the history of Emperor Qin, known both for building the Great Wall of China and for burying scholars alive, and how and why the terra-cotta soldiers came to be.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Formats
Description
Publishers Weekly Best Book * ALA Best Book for Young Adults * ALA Notable Children's Book * ALA Booklist Editors' Choice
Moving, honest, and deeply personal, Red Scarf Girl is the incredible true story of one girl's courage and determination during one of the most terrifying eras of the twentieth century.
It's 1966, and twelve-year-old Ji-li Jiang has everything a girl could want: brains,
...Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
xi, 361 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 26 cm.
Description
This lavishly illustrated volume explores the history of China from the founding of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1912) through to the present day. Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand this rising superpower on the verge of what promises to be the 'Chinese century'.
16) Mouse
Author
Series
Five ancestors. Original series volume 6
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
192 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
In seventeenth-century China, orphaned ShaoShu, who can squeeze into small spaces, puts his life in danger when he becomes a spy for a young band of warrior monks known as the Five Ancestors and bravely infiltrates evil Tonglong's camp.
Author
Series
Foul lady Fortune volume 2
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
544 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
In 1932 Shanghai, exposed national spy Rosalind Lang must rescue fellow spy, Orion, whose memories of Rosalind were wiped, and find a cure to a dangerous chemical weapon before it lands in the hand of foreign invaders.
Author
Publisher
Disney/Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Description
When Tai Shan and his father, Baba, are separated during China's Cultural Revolution, they are able to stay close by greeting one another every day with flying kites until Baba, like the kites, is free. Includes historical note.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
310 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Description
An entrepreneur shares how he and his former wife, a highly intelligent and equally ambitious woman who has since disappeared, worked their way up to China's billionaire status and reveals the truth of what really happens inside the country's wealth-making machine.
Author
Pub. Date
c2007
Formats
Description
Peony is the cloistered daughter of a wealthy family betrothed to a suitor she has never met. In the garden of the Chen family villa, a small theatrical troupe is performing scenes from the epic opera, Peony Pavillon. Peony attends the production, watching from behind a screen, but catches sight of a handsome man and begins a journey of love and sorrow.
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