Chinese Literature

Driving home after being kicked out of college, Tucker meets and picks up the mysterious Corinne Chang at a rest stop. Infatuated, and with nothing better to do, he ends up with her in St. Louis, where he gets a job as a chef in a Chinese restaurant. Even though he’s a gwai lo—a foreign devil—his cooking skills impress the Chinese patrons of the restaurant, and his wooing skills impress Corinne when she joins him there as a waitress.

受过教育的农家女孩爱玛嫁给乡医包法利，却向往更奢华浪漫的生活，在历经两次出轨，面对累累负债后爱玛在绝望之余吃下砒霜……受過教育的農家女孩愛瑪嫁給鄉醫包法利，卻嚮往更奢華浪漫的生活，在歷經兩次出軌，面對累累負債後愛瑪在絕望之餘吃下砒霜……

Tras el suicidio de su hermana en la tumba del emperador, la seguridad de Lin Shui en la Ciudad Prohibida pende de un hilo. Ahora, como princesa de una dinastía derrotada y concubina favorita del nuevo emperador, verá cómo las envidias y amenazas crecen a su alrededor. Pero su vulnerabilidad pasa a un segundo plano cuando las muertes empiezan a sucederse y los asesinatos no hacen sino confirmar la sospecha obsesiva que la atormenta.

這是張岱在明亡後追念故國的一本小書。清軍殺進來，可惜什麼都沒了。 這是一個享受生活的人，你也可以這樣享受生活！

A selection of the very best of Chinese poetry over the course of a thousand years, from 100 years before Christ was born up of the middle ages. Arthur Waley's translations of Chinese poetry are still the benchmark by which such translations are held, nearly two hundred years after he introduced the west to the wonder of classical Chinese poetry.

Frontier opens with the story of Liujin, a young woman heading out on her own to create her own life in Pebble Town, a somewhat surreal place at the base of Snow Mountain where wolves roam the streets and certain enlightened individuals can see and enter a paradisaical garden. Exploring life in this city (or in the frontier) through the viewpoint of a dozen different characters, some simple, some profound, Can Xue's latest novel attempts to unify the grand opposites of life

《金瓶梅》借《水浒传》中武松杀嫂一段故事为引子，通过对兼有官僚、恶霸、富商三种身份的封建时代市侩势力的代表人物西门庆及其家庭罪恶生活的描述，揭露了明代中叶社会的黑暗和腐败…… 《金瓶梅》借《水滸傳》中武松殺嫂一段故事為引子，通過對兼有官僚、惡霸、富商三種身份的封建時代市儈勢力的代表人物西門慶及其家庭罪惡生活的描述，揭露了明代中葉社會的黑暗和腐敗……

Fifteen-year-old Kate lives a rarefied life of wealth and privilege in the pre-war Hong Kong expatriate community, but when the Japanese invade she’s interned in squalid Stanley Camp with her parents. Enduring cramped conditions, humiliation, disease, and starvation, Kate befriends seventeen-year-old Charles, who is half Chinese, and they give their hearts to each other under the orchid tree. Meanwhile, forty miles away in Portuguese Macau, thirteen-year-old Sofia’s suspicions are aroused when her father invites a Japanese family to dinner.

Asta Fung is sixteen and sulky. Her parents have moved the whole family to take over the Yau Sum takeaway in another town so Grandpa Charlie can be closer to the big hospital. She's had to give up her dog, her friends, her familiar teenage life. All too soon, she has to give up Grandpa Charlie too. What was the point? When the builder's son, Josh, hands her a bundle of love letters he found under the floorboards, Asta realises they were hidden there by Grandpa Charlie as a young man.

Debut novelist Wenyan Lu brings us this witty yet profound story about one woman’s midlife reawakening in contemporary rural China, for fans of Yiyun Li and Julie Otsuka. The Funeral Cryer long ago accepted the mundane realities of her life: avoided by fellow villagers because of the stigma...

This narration of Chi Him Chiu's book, Recollections of an Overseas Chinese, by Ian Brinkley, recounts the story of our hero, Huai Ren, and his friends, as they find themselves swept through southeast Asia in the turbulent times surrounding the Chinese Cultural Revolution and World War II. The story quickly moves through adventures spanning Singapore, Johor, Malaya, Kuching, Sarawak, Hong Kong, the Philippines, and finally, the United States.

杰克·斯通是一名刚毕业的大学毕业生，他决定搬到纽约市从事金融事业。杰克是一个距离普通人只有一步之遥的人，除了他发现自己陷入困境的不可思议的本领。当命运将他抛在黑帮和联邦调查局的激烈议程之间时，杰克的生活发生了不寻常的转变。 黑帮和联邦调查局都对杰克作为盟友真正感兴趣。他们相互竞争的议程并不完全是杰克对他生活的设想。他们的影响力如此超乎寻常，以至于在纽约市熙熙攘攘的背景下，英雄和恶棍之间的界限被扭曲了。

皮普从小父母双亡，依靠性格暴戾的姐姐抚养长大，和亦师亦友的姐夫乔伊学习铁匠工作……皮普從小父母雙亡，依靠性格暴戾的姐姐撫養長大，和亦師亦友的姐夫喬伊學習鐵匠工作……

楚文杰是汉口白喜堂药店的少爷，二十岁时，父亲打算把他送去日本留学，他却迷恋上一个叫柳云的戏子……楚文傑是漢口白喜堂藥店的少爺，二十歲時，父親打算把他送去日本留學，他卻迷戀上一個叫柳云的戲子……

In this first-ever translation of Lu Yao’s Life, we meet Gao Jialin, a stubborn, idealistic, and ambitious young man from a small country village whose life is upended when corrupt local politics cost him his beloved job as a schoolteacher, prompting him to reject rural life and try to make it in the big city. Against the vivid, gritty backdrop of 1980s China, Lu Yao traces the proud and passionate Gao Jialin’s difficult path to professional, romantic, and personal fulfillment - or at least hard-won acceptance.

梭罗在瓦尔登湖畔度过两年又两个月与大自然水乳交融的隐居生活，在这里搭建木屋、开荒种地、写作看书……梭羅在瓦爾登湖畔度過兩年又兩個月與大自然水乳交融的隱居生活，在這裡搭建木屋、開荒種地、寫作看書……

穿越诗经的画廊，重睹旧时家国，行至穷尽处，拨开逝川上暗绿的荇藻，沉潜于远古生活的激流之下，探寻骊珠……穿越詩經的畫廊，重睹舊時家國，行至窮盡處，撥開逝川上暗綠的荇藻，沉潛於遠古生活的激流之下，探尋驪珠……

本有声书分别选取初唐、盛唐、中唐、晚唐共四十余首唐诗，讲述历史风云，从其中领略一个不一样的唐朝，还原真实的大唐百态民生……本有聲書分別選取初唐、盛唐、中唐、晚唐共四十餘首唐詩，講述歷史風雲，從其中領略一個不一樣的唐朝，還原真實的大唐百態民生……

本有声书收录了马克・吐温19篇中短篇小说，其中以《百万英镑》、《竞选州长》、《加利福尼亚人的故事》等最富盛名……本有聲書收錄了馬克・吐溫19篇中短篇小說，其中以《百萬英鎊》、《競選州長》、《加利福尼亞人的故事》等最富盛名……

西门庆真的很好色吗？武大郎真的是穷鬼吗？古代女性最想嫁给哪种男人？今天我们不妨跟随吴闲云从另一个角度去看看《金瓶梅》……西門慶真的很好色嗎？武大郎真的是窮鬼嗎？古代女性最想嫁給哪種男人？今天我們不妨跟隨吳閒雲從另一個角度去看看《金瓶梅》……