Chinese Biography

The King of Violins is the heartbreaking story of China's most celebrated violin prodigy, Ma Sicong, who composed his first concerto at the age of 12. During his career, this gentle, dignified man composed 57 of the world's best-known symphonies and concertos, and performed in front of hundreds of sold-out audiences across the globe. Chairman Mao Zedong declared Ma Sicong "a national treasure" and nicknamed him "the King of Violins". But Mao's brutal Cultural Revolution distorted the truth of Ma's life and work. Ma and his family made a breathtaking escape to America.

In the early 20th century, few women in China were to prove so important to the rise of Chinese nationalism and liberation from tradition as the three extraordinary Soong sisters: Eling, Chingling, and Mayling. As told with wit and verve by Emily Hahn, a remarkable woman in her own right, the biography of the Soong sisters tells the story of China through both world wars. It also chronicles the changes to Shanghai as they relate to a very eccentric family that had the courage to speak out against the ruling regime. Greatly influencing the history of modern China, they interacted with their government and military to protect the lives of those who could not be heard, and they appealed to the West to support China during the Japanese invasion.

At the start of the 20th century in China, the Hans were married in an elaborate ceremony before they were even born. While their future was arranged by their families, this couple had much to be grateful for. Not only did they come from similar backgrounds - and as such were recognized as a good match - they also had a shared passion in their deep love of ancient Chinese poetry. They went on to have nine children and chose colours portrayed in some of their favourite poems as nicknames for them - Red, Cyan, Orange, Yellow, Green, Ginger, Violet, Blue and Rainbow.

从世俗角度看，尼采的一生充满不幸，但他的思想是现代思想中一座巍然耸立的里程碑……從世俗角度看，尼采的一生充滿不幸，但他的思想是現代思想中一座巍然聳立的里程碑……

她不是甄嬛，被逼着才学会了后宫权谋；她不是武后，利用男人的弱点成就自己；她是吕雉，一生看准了一个男人，然后把他扶上了皇帝宝座。…… 她不是甄嬛，被逼著才學會了後宮權謀；她不是武后，利用男人的弱點成就自己；她是呂雉，一生看准了一個男人，然後把他扶上了皇帝寶座。

她不是甄嬛，被逼着才学会了后宫权谋；她不是武后，利用男人的弱点成就自己；她是吕雉，一生看准了一个男人，然后把他扶上了皇帝宝座。…… 她不是甄嬛，被逼著才學會了後宮權謀；她不是武后，利用男人的弱點成就自己；她是呂雉，一生看准了一個男人，然後把他扶上了皇帝寶座。

她不是甄嬛，被逼着才学会了后宫权谋；她不是武后，利用男人的弱点成就自己；她是吕雉，一生看准了一个男人，然后把他扶上了皇帝宝座。…… 她不是甄嬛，被逼著才學會了後宮權謀；她不是武后，利用男人的弱點成就自己；她是呂雉，一生看准了一個男人，然後把他扶上了皇帝寶座。

A former US Navy intelligence officer, David Locke Hall was a federal prosecutor when a bizarre-sounding website, CRACK99, came to his attention. It looked like Craigslist on acid, but what it sold was anything but amateurish: thousands of high-tech software products used largely by the military, and for mere pennies on the dollar. Want to purchase satellite tracking software? No problem. Aerospace and aviation simulations? No problem. Communications systems designs? No problem.

Surviving the Dragon is the remarkable life story of Arjia Rinpoche, who was ordained as a reincarnate lama at the age of two and fled Tibet 46 years later. In his gripping memoir, Rinpoche relates the story of having been abandoned in his monastery as a young boy after witnessing the torture and arrest of his monastery family. In the years to come, Rinpoche survived under harsh Chinese rule, as he was forced into hard labor and endured continual public humiliation as part of Mao’s Communist "reeducation".

Driven by strong family culture, author Xianhua Ma passes on the life lessons she learned through serving in the Korean War and surviving China’s Cultural Revolution. Even though she endured cruel hardships, she managed to raise a family and create a career for herself in enterprise culture.

A journey back in time, The Golden Mountain is the gripping tale of four generations of Chinese women who live and die under the restrictions of their culture, except for one, the author. Her story tells of growing up in Hong Kong and of her transition to New York City where she struggled to meld the American dream with her ethnic background. Finally, at age 50, she dares to move into the present and understand the true nature of dreams and what it means to live.

Step into the vibrant, complex world of a Chinese college through the eyes of a foreign teacher who has made it his home. In this heartfelt and deeply personal memoir, I invite listeners to experience the joys, challenges, and unexpected beauty of teaching in a culture vastly different from our own. From the quiet girl who poured her darkest thoughts into a journal to the aspiring musician torn between passion and family expectations, this book is filled with unforgettable stories of students navigating the pressures of academics, tradition, and self-discovery.

“一本用血换来的，和泪写成的小书，我能够活着把它写出来，是我毕生的最大幸福。”……「一本用血換來的，和淚寫成的小書，我能夠活著把它寫出來，是我畢生的最大幸福。」

他是一位自由思想者，是苦难与荒谬结晶出来的天才，他被誉为中国的乔伊斯兼卡夫卡，他的作品影响了一代人，他就是王小波。……他是一位自由思想者，是苦難與荒謬結晶出來的天才，他被譽為中國的喬伊斯兼卡夫卡，他的作品影響了一代人，他就是王小波。

People were dying! Malaria is a deadly mosquito-borne disease that causes fevers, chills and often death. In 1969, the People’s Republic of China created a task force to find a cure. Working in the 1970s, Chinese scientist Tu Youyou reviewed the traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) scrolls for ideas on where to start her research. She found 640 traditional treatments, and methodically started extracting compounds and testing them against malaria. Would any of them work? Follow the struggles of Nobel Prize scientist Tu Youyou as she works to find a cure to malaria.

A heart-warming love letter from Ray Simmons, an American professor and ESL teacher, to some of the best students he ever had, Yen-Shen is the furthest thing from an academic treatise on folktales. It is not a book comparing Western and Chinese fairy tales, either. This little book is a lot less rigid and a lot more...intimate. It is the story of students sharing with a foreign teacher, one of the most beloved tales from their culture.

Double Luck is filled with examples of how the human spirit can triumph over adversity. In the Chinese language, the word "crisis" is written with two symbols: one meaning "danger", and the other meaning "opportunity". Although Chi Fa's childhood was filled with crisis, he always looked for opportunity. His successful triumph over crisis after crisis is an inspiration for all who seek hope in the face of great challenges.

Double Luck is filled with examples of how the human spirit can triumph over adversity. In the Chinese language, the word crisis is written with two symbols: one meaning "danger" and the other meaning "opportunity". Although Chi Fa's childhood was filled with crisis, he always looked for opportunity. His successful triumph over crisis after crisis is an inspiration for all who seek hope in the face of great challenges.

如果把霍金比喻成科学界的星星的话，他绝对不是流星，也不是彗星，他是恒星，永远闪烁在科学的星空中……如果把霍金比喻成科學界的星星的話，他絕對不是流星，也不是彗星，他是恆星，永遠閃爍在科學的星空中……

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.