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Letter Of Love From China
Hardcover
10" x 8", 28 color pages |
ISBN 1-4243-0236-6
© Copyright 2006
For Ages 4 years - Adult
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Foster Care Program, in Eugene, Oregon. |
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Perfect book to replace the party goody bag, great gift for children's clubs and groups.
Explains to the non adopted child what International adoption means and why some children's classmates,
friends and family members may not always look like their Mom and Dad.
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The Last Empress
Author : Anchee Min.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Format: hardcover
ISBN:9780618531462
Pages/Publication Date
308/2007
Description: Adult
This sequel to Empress Orchid continues during the last, violent decades of 19th-century China, and is the story of Tsu Hsi/Empress Orchid's transition from a strong-willed young woman to a wise and politically savvy leader who ruled China for nearly 50 years. Moving into the spotlight of the world stage, Orchid faces not only the perilous condition of her empire, but also a series of devastating personal losses, as her son and then her adopted son succumb to early death. Yearning only to step aside, yet growing constantly in her role, only Orchid—allied with the progressives, but loyal to the conservative Manchu clan of her dynasty—can hold together the nation's rival factions.
"[Anchee] Min completes her stupendous two-volume historical novel about China's Empress Tzu Hsi, or Orchid, an indomitable and forward-thinking leader who was demonized, conspired against, feared, and worshipped…. [She] distills and transcends a vast amount of long hidden, highly significant historical fact to create a brilliantly imagined and pellucid novel possessing all the drama and angst of a Greek tragedy in its portrayal of an unjustly maligned, truly extraordinary woman leader. |
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Beautiful Xiangxi: A Photographic Journey of Hunan through the Pen of Shen Congwen
Author:Shen Congwen.
Publisher:Reader's Digest
Format: hardcover
ISBN 0762106387
Pages/Publication Date 300/2004
Description: Teens/Aults
A prolific author of books that focus primarily on the life and customs of the people of the western Hunan Province, Shen Congwen (1902-1988) is considered one of China's leading regional writers of the 20th century, notable for his ability to describe beautiful and fulfilling styles of life in primitive rural surroundings. Zhuo Ya, also from Hunan, went on a 20-year photographic expedition inspired by his writings. This book pairs her poetic images with excerpts from a wide range of Shen Congwen's early writings, resulting in an evocative tour of a remote and mysterious part of the world. |
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The Island of Seven Cities: Where the Chinese Settled When They Discovered America
Author; Paul Chiasson.
Publisher: St. Martin's
Format: hardcover
ISBN 9780312361860
Pages/Publication Date 384/2006
Description: Teens/Adults
In the summer of 2002, architect Paul Chiasson climbed a mountain he had never explored on Cape Breton Island, where eight generations of his Acadian family had lived. The island is littered with remnants of old settlements, with an acknowledged history of exploration going back to John Cabot in 1497, but Chiasson found something else: a road, well made and evenly wide, with the remains of stone walls, and the foundations of a town. Using aerial photographs, historical records, and his own expertise, Chiasson determined that it was not built by the Portuguese, French, or English, and in fact predated Cabot's landing. He comes to the startling conclusion here that this was a Chinese colony, and also argues that the culture of the Mi'kmaq Indians—their written language, clothing, technical knowledge, religious beliefs, and legends—reveals deep cultural ties to China. |
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Savoring China
Author: Jacki Passmore et al.
Publisher: Oxmoor House
Format hardcover
ISBN 0848726448
Pages/Publication Date 256/2003
Description: Adult
Strikingly illustrated with both hunger-inspiring color photos of prepared dishes and evocative scenes of life in China, this coffee table cookbook offers more than a hundred traditional recipes from all over the country. A food writer and culinary historian who lived and traveled extensively in China for almost 30 years, Jacki Passmore offers such recipes as Roast Pork Buns, Stir Fried Beef with Ginger and Celery, and Stuffed Black Mushrooms. Here too are Scallops and Snow Peas with Crabmeat Sauce, Sticky Rice in Lotus Leaves, Spicy Chicken and Vegetables "on a Cloud," and Snow Peas Poached in Rock Sugar Syrup. |
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China: The Middle Kingdom
Author: Wu Rui Lian.
Publisher: Times Editions
Format hardcover
ISBN 9812328882
Pages/Publication Date 144/2004
Description: Teens/Adults
Communist regimes and other caprices of its rulers notwithstanding, the timelessness of China's culture is the predominant theme in this large album of captioned color photographs. Here are glimpses of the Yellow and Yangzi rivers, page-filling portraits of the South Chinese tiger and giant panda and flocks of cranes, street life and cuisine, magnificent palaces and gardens, and the cities that mark China's rapid indoctrination into a Western-style economy.
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