Chinese Biography

When her family relocated to rural China in 2003, Kay Bratt was thrust into a new world, one where boys were considered more valuable than girls and poverty and the one-child policy had created an epidemic of abandoned infants. As a volunteer at a local orphanage, Bratt witnessed conditions that were unfathomable to a middle-class mother of two from South Carolina. Based on Bratt’s diary of her four years at the orphanage, Silent Tears offers a searing account of young lives rendered disposable.

2008美国大选，他不仅仅是一位参选人，更推波助澜起一场前所未有的运动，劈荆斩棘起一场史无前例的变革！如果要全方位的认识这位美国总统，就不得不从奥巴马的家族历史说起…… 2008美國大選，他不僅僅是一位參選人，更推波助瀾起一場前所未有的運動，劈荊斬棘起一場史無前例的變革！如果要全方位的認識這位美國總統，就不得不從歐巴馬的家族歷史說起……

One of America's best-known rock and entertainment journalists describes his journey from his childhood, cooped up in the "rice room" of his family's restaurant in Oakland's Chinatown, where he did chores, to the major role he played as a writer and editor at Rolling Stone. It is a story of teen worship of Elvis, but also of Chinese customs and the tragic murder of his brother, and of the '60s scene in San Francisco, where he found freedom - and his career.

寇白门，又名湄，字白门，是明末清初的“秦淮八艳”之一。板桥杂记曰：“白门娟娟静美；跌宕风流，能度曲，善画兰，相知拈韵，能吟诗，然滑易不能竟学”……寇白門，又名湄，字白門，是明末清初的「秦淮八艷」之一。板橋雜記曰：「白門娟娟靜美；跌宕風流，能度曲，善畫蘭，相知拈韻，能吟詩，然滑易不能竟學」……

她，本是将门之女，一朝艳绝秦淮成了媚香楼头牌花魁。他，出身高姓巨族，凭着英才豪气闯荡天下。本是才子佳人的故事，终究是以悲剧收场，想来最动人心弦的，莫过于遗憾了…… 她，本是將門之女，一朝豔絕秦淮成了媚香樓頭牌花魁。他，出身高姓巨族，憑著英才豪氣闖蕩天下。本是才子佳人的故事，終究是以悲劇收場，想來最動人心弦的，莫過於遺憾了……

她自幼聪敏过人，却因家中变故堕入风尘。她满腹才华，却终是秦淮河畔一抹香魂。她的才、她的情，都将留芳千古！…… 她自幼聰敏過人，卻因家中變故墮入風塵。她滿腹才華，卻終是秦淮河畔一抹香魂。她的才、她的情，都將留芳千古！

她用一生演绎曲折离奇的血泪史，真相扑朔迷离令人肝肠寸断。她主张男女平等，关心大事；她敢爱敢恨、黑白分明，这注定是一个传奇女子的故事。…… 她用一生演繹曲折離奇的血淚史，真相撲朔迷離令人肝腸寸斷。她主張男女平等，關心大事；她敢愛敢恨、黑白分明，這註定是一個傳奇女子的故事。

她，幼年幸福却又坠入红楼。她，聪明伶俐，满腹才情。她，勇敢追求自己的幸福，不惧外界流言。我会告诉你，她就是“千古第一贤妾”董小宛吗？…… 她，幼年幸福卻又墜入紅樓。她，聰明伶俐，滿腹才情。她，勇敢追求自己的幸福，不懼外界流言。我會告訴你，她就是「千古第一賢妾」董小宛嗎？

When Ye Pei dreamed of Venice as a girl, she imagined a magical floating city of canals and gondola rides. And she imagined her mother, successful in her new life and eager to embrace the daughter she had never forgotten. But when Ye Pei arrives in Italy, she learns her mother works on a farm far from the city. Her only connection, a mean-spirited Chinese auntie, puts Ye Pei to work in a small-town café. Rather than giving up and returning to China, a determined Ye Pei takes on a grueling schedule.

In The Healing Journey, Sue Maisano tells her heartfelt story of her rise from poverty and obscurity in a Chinese village to fulfillment and success in America, reaching all her goals of education, marriage, family, and a thriving healing practice. Now she shares her secrets of how she realized her dreams by following her intuition and spiritual guidance, as well as spiritual laws that work for everyone.

In September 2014, a Chinese company that most Americans had never heard of held the largest IPO in history - bigger than Google, Facebook, and Twitter combined. Alibaba, now the world's largest ecommerce company, mostly escaped Western notice for over 10 years, while building a customer base larger than Amazon's and handling the bulk of ecommerce transactions in China. How did it happen? And what was it like to be along for such a revolutionary ride?

Alibaba, ahora la empresa de comercio electrónico más grande del mundo, escapó de la atención del mundo occidental durante más de diez años, mientras construía una base de clientes que sumaba más del doble de la de Amazon y se encargaba de la mayor parte de las transacciones de comercio electrónico en China. ¿Cómo pasó? ¿Y qué significó ser parte de tan revolucionario proyecto? En este libro, Porter Erisman, uno de los primeros empleados occidentales de Alibaba y jefe de marketing internacional entre 2000 y 2008, muestra cómo Jack Ma se levantó de la oscuridad para fundar Alibaba y dirigirla.

她是央视记者，她说：“叙述事实，而非评论。” 她是清华副教授，她说：“使人困惑，而非授人真理。” ……她是央視記者，她說：「敘述事實，而非評論。」 她是清華副教授，她說：「使人困惑，而非授人真理。」……

Renowned astrologer Debbie Frank has designed these 12 meditations to connect you with the essence of each zodiac sign. The magical wisdom of astrology can help you to understand how your soul was destined to grow, develop, and evolve in this lifetime. These relaxing journeys will introduce you...

Through the sweeping cultural and historical transformations of China, entrepreneur Lan Yan traces her family’s history through early 20th Century to present day. The history of the Yan family is inseparable from the history of China over the last century. One of the most influential...

While Pang-Mei Natasha Chang was a Chinese Studies major at Harvard University, she stumbled across the name of her 83-year-old great aunt Chang Yu-i in a history book. Over the next several years, Pang-Mei spent long afternoons drawing forth her aunt's story. Born in Shanghai to a well-to-do family, Chang Yu-i lived a life of defiance, continually breaking class and culture barriers.

Share in the joyful, adventure-filled shenanigans of a child growing up in a small mud hut in Inner Mongolia in this charming memoir for young middle grade listeners. Growing up in Inner Mongolia, Jin Wang was rambunctious and boisterous and did not always listen to her Ma. Jin and her family...

Winner of the American Library Association's 2021 Asian/Pacific American Award for Best Picture Book! An inspiring picture-book biography of animator Tyrus Wong, the Chinese American immigrant responsible for bringing Disney's Bambi to life. Before he became an artist named Tyrus Wong, he was...

“This powerful and meticulously argued book reveals that immigration crackdowns … [have] always been about saving and protecting the racist idea of a white America.” —Ibram X. Kendi, award-winning author of Four Hundred Souls and Stamped from the Beginning “A damning inquiry into the...

A generation before Brown v. Board of Education struck down America’s “separate but equal” doctrine, one Chinese family and an eccentric Mississippi lawyer fought for desegregation in one of the greatest legal battles never told On September 15, 1924, Martha Lum and her older sister Berda...