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Ancient China Fable Stories (aka Fables from Ancient China)
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Ancient China Fable Stories (aka Fables from Ancient China)
SKU: CUSTA

This bilingual, illustrated Chinese-English series with pinyin aim to teach students the Chinese language as well as the Chinese culture. The first series consist of five titles. This book is one of them.

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Ancient Chinese Fables
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Ancient Chinese Fables
SKU: ANCHF1

The Echoes of Classics series presents the classics of Chinese literature in a bi-lingual (simplified) Chinese-English format. Many of these books have been translated into English by the famed husband-and-wife translation team Yang Xianyi and Gladys Yang.

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Anecdotes about Spirits and Immortals
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Anecdotes about Spirits and Immortals
SKU: ANSPIM

Anecdotes about Spirits and Immortals is a collection of myths, legends and stories that together is a Chinese folklore classic dating from the third century.

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Autumn in the Han Palace
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Autumn in the Han Palace
SKU: AUHAPA

The earliest account of Wang Zhaojun journeying beyond the Great Wall is in the form of fragmentary references in the chapters Annals of Emperor Yuan and Account of the Huns in Ban Gu's History of the Han Dynasty.

Contents: Inside and Outside the Palace Walls; Two Rule by Non-Action;....


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Beijing Legends
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Beijing Legends
SKU: BELEGE

Compiled by Jin Shoushen, a gentleman whose family lived for many generations in Beijing. These folktales, with their genuine Chinese fl avor, carry the reader back to the building of Beijing as the Ming Dynasty capital in 1421. Dealing with the city’s layout, some of its chief monuments, place....

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China's Major Mysteries
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China's Major Mysteries
SKU: CHMAMY

This is one of the first books to examine the growing fascination with paranormal activity in China, where phenomena such as UFO sightings and research into unexplained psychic powers have attained unprecedented popularity as well as sustained scientific inquiry in recent years.

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Chinese Classical Stories 1
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Chinese Classical Stories 1
SKU: CHCLST1

Twenty Chinese classical stories that every Chinese kid know growing up are put together in this beautifully-illustrated bilingual children's collection.

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Chinese Classical Stories 2
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Chinese Classical Stories 2
SKU: CHCLST2

Twenty Chinese classical stories that every Chinese kid know growing up are put together in this beautifully-illustrated bilingual children's collection.

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Chinese Classical Stories 3
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Chinese Classical Stories 3
SKU: CHCLST3

Twenty Chinese classical stories that every Chinese kid know growing up are put together in this beautifully-illustrated bilingual children's collection.

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Chinese Classical Stories 4
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Chinese Classical Stories 4
SKU: CHCLST4

Twenty Chinese classical stories that every Chinese kid know growing up are put together in this beautifully-illustrated bilingual children's collection.

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Chinese Classical Stories 5
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Chinese Classical Stories 5
SKU: CHCLST5

Twenty Chinese classical stories that every Chinese kid know growing up are put together in this beautifully-illustrated bilingual children's collection.

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Chinese Philosophy on Life
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Chinese Philosophy on Life
SKU: CHPHLI

Concise essays by a leading philosopher on Chinese views of harmony, love, enlightenment, life and death, etc.

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Chinese Tales of the Supernatural
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Chinese Tales of the Supernatural
SKU: CHTAS1

Chinese Tales of the Supernatural is a collection of fables, political allegories, and ghost stories, adapted from Tai Ping Guang Ji during the Song dynasty some 1,000 years ago. Wang Xuanming's simple and clever line drawings together with these fantastic stories will amuse and fascinate....

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Chinese Tales of the Supernatural, Vol. 2
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Chinese Tales of the Supernatural, Vol. 2
SKU: CHTAS2

This second volume contains eight classic yarns of mysterious happenings adapted from the Song Dynasty collection known as Taiping Guangji. With origins going back as far as the Han Dynasty, these tales chronicle battles with the supernatural in bizarre situations. Fully illustrated.

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Dragon Tales
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Dragon Tales
SKU: DRTALE

In China, there are many fantastic stories and legends about dragons, and this collection contains 35 of the finest classical and modern examples. "The Rakshas and the Sea Market" and "The Princess of the West Lake", both by the Qing Dynasty master writer of the supernatural, Pu Songling, tell....

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Dragonsong
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Dragonsong: A Fable for the New Millennium (Hardcover)
SKU: DRFANE

Once every thousand years the four Imperial Dragons choose one dragon to be Keeper of the Mountain. Now, little Chiang-An, the youngest dragon, must find a gift that will last a thousand years to win the honor of the title.

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Fantastic Tales
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Fantastic Tales
SKU: FATALE

This collection contains over 100 stories from Notes of the Thatched Abode of Close Observations by 18C writer Ji Xiaolan. Ghost stories mix freely with history, reality commingles with fantasy, and social satire is concealed within intricate plots and fascinating characters.....

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The Headless Tribe
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The Headless Tribe
SKU: HETR

Myths are an integral part of the human culture. They may be bizarre, unusual, and unexplained supernatural happenings and sightings, defying the natural order of things, or just simple takes of love and friendship, but all of them have profound meanings and set the human mind on flights of....

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Houyi Shoots Down the Suns
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Houyi Shoots Down the Suns
SKU: HOSHDO

When the ten sons of the Mother sun, decide to rule the sky all at once, all life on earth gets burned and scorched. The brave Huoyi takes on the challenge to teach these ten boys a lesson.

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In the Realm of the Gods
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In the Realm of the Gods: Lands, Myths, and Legends of China
SKU: REGODS

China is a land that has fascinated the world for centuries. Take a journey in this book back to a land that is both stunning and mysterious, back to the places where tales of magic were born.

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