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1) Beijing
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Publisher
Lonely Planet Global Limited
Pub. Date
[2017].
Description
Spending time here is to be on a permanent journey of discovery, where eyepopping buildings appear seemingly overnight, historic hutong are transformed into hip hang-outs, and new venues open all the time. But some things never change in Beijing and that is equally enticing.
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Publisher
Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group
Pub. Date
2009
Description
Informed by the latest research and enlivened by wit and anecdote, Keay's classic single-volume history of China spans 5,000 years, from the Three Dynasties (2000-220 BC) to Deng Xiaoping's opening of China and the past three decades of economic growth.
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The "emotions, identities, and relationships of three very different American women living in same small expat community in Hong Kong... As each woman struggles with her own demons, their lives collide in ways that have irreversible consequences for them all."--
Three very different American women livie in the same small expat community in Hong Kong. Mercy, a young Korean American and recent Columbia graduate, is adrift, undone by a terrible incident...
5) Red poppies
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2002
Description
"Story of the Maichi family, its powerful chieftain, his Han Chinese wife, his first son and presumptive heir, and his second, "idiot" son, the novel's narrator and unlikely hero. The time is the 1930s, the setting a stone fortress overlooking all the family rules. A feud breaks out with a neighboring chieftain; an emissary from the Chinese Nationalists comes to the Maichis' aid with tools of modern warfare. In exchange, fields of bright red poppies,...
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Li-yan and her family align their lives around the seasons and the farming of tea. There is ritual and routine, and it has been ever thus for generations. Then one day a jeep appears at the village gate -- the first automobile any of them have seen -- and a stranger arrives. In this remote Yunnan village, the stranger finds the rare tea he has been seeking and a reticent Akha people. Li-yan, one of the few educated girls on her mountain, translates...
11) The risk agent
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When a Chinese National working for an American-owned construction company is grabbed off the streets of Shanghai in broad daylight and his one-man security detail goes missing, the security firm Rutherford Risk hires two unique outsiders to locate the two hostages ahead of the deadline.
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Series
These violent delights volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 21
Description
In 1926 Shanghai, eighteen-year-old Juliette Cai, heir of the Scarlet Gang, and her first love-turned-rival Roma Montagov, leader of the White Flowers, must work together when mysterious deaths threaten their city.--
Shanghai, 1926. A blood feud between two gangs runs the streets red, leaving the city helpless in the grip of chaos. Juliette Cai, a former flapper, has returned to assume her role as the proud heir of the Scarlet Gang, a network of...
13) Ancient China
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Illustrations and text explore the history of Imperial China from its earliest beginnings to the days of the last emperor.
14) The painted veil
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Set in the 1920s. A young English couple, Walter a middle class doctor and Kitty, an upper-class woman, get married for all the wrong reasons and relocate to Shanghai. Kitty falls in love with someone else. When Walter discovers her infidelity, in an act of vengeance, he accepts a job in a remote village in China that is being ravaged by a deadly epidemic. He takes his wife along and their journey brings meaning to their relationship and gives them...
15) Shanghai
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Series
Publisher
Lonely Planet Global Limited
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
This is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Enjoy the Bund's spectacle of heritage architecture, wander the Yuyuan traditional Chinese gardens, or see the latest in fashion at French Concession; all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of Shanghai and begin your journey now!
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"Kevin Kwan, ... author of Crazy Rich Asians, is back with a ... new novel of social climbing, secret e-mails, art-world scandal, lovesick billionaires, and the outrageous story of what happens when Rachel Chu, engaged to marry Asia's most eligible bachelor, discovers her birthfather"--
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"From one of China's most acclaimed and decorated writers comes a powerful first-person account of life in Wuhan during the COVID-19 outbreak. On January 25, 2020, after the central government imposed a lockdown in Wuhan, acclaimed Chinese writer Fang Fang began publishing an online diary. In the days and weeks that followed, Fang Fang's nightly postings gave voice to the fears, frustrations, anger, and hope of millions of her fellow citizens, reflecting...
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Publisher
Crown
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"When Samuel Pickens's great love tragically loses her life, Samuel travels the globe, Annabelle always on his mind. Eventually, he comes face-to-face with the mirror image of his obsession in the last place he would expect. As Pickens uncovers her secrets, he must decide how far he will go for a woman he loves"--Dust jacket flap.
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Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Sent into an arranged marriage, Tan Yunxian, forbidden to continue her work as a midwife-in-training as well as see her forever friend Meiling, is ordered to act like proper wife and seeks a way to continue treating women and girls from every level of society in fifteenth-century China.
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