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2021.
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English
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"Every year a boy and his parents travel back to their hometown to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival. It's a wonderous time for the boy, as he learns Chinese traditions from his grandparents. He always leaves with only one wish-- to return next year."--page 2 of cover.
5) China
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"Let's spend a day in China! Fly kites in the square, buy sweet lychee at the market and go paddle boating at the lake. Author Songju Ma Daemicke and illustrator Jam Dong draw on their personal experiences growing up in China to create this appealing board book as part of the Our World Series for very young readers"--
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Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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"In a single year, my father left us twice. The first time, to end his marriage, and the second, when he took his own life. I was ten years old."Master storyteller Madeleine Thien takes us inside an extended family in China, showing us the lives of two successive generations--those who lived through Mao's Cultural Revolution and their children, who became the students protesting in Tiananmen Square. At the center of this epic story are two young women,...
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House of Earth trilogy volume 1
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English
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"Travel to 1920s China, a time when the last emperor still ruled and the sweeping changes of the twentieth century were distant rumblings, with this timeless, evocative classic tale of the honest farmer Wang Lung and his family as they struggle to survive in the midst of vast political and social upheavals"--
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Pub. Date
2018.
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中文(繁體)
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The author uses his poetic imagination to care for the lifetime events of common people. They love life with discipline in their hearts; respect tradition with the minds of changes. Their lives are like dreams full of interesting lights, spikes, and climax.
《大淖记事》是汪曾祺的小说集,以诗意的想象,关怀最普通平常的人世的婚丧嫁娶、各行各业的故事,仿佛一幅幅铺展开来的风俗画,跃动着秩序和自由并存于一心的人。他们热爱生活,心中又有戒律;尊重礼俗,又会打破礼俗;渴望随性而活,又不时隐忍压抑。他们的生活,如梦境一般,灿烂有趣,荆棘遍地,哀乐升至高潮,就成了人性的注脚,展示出民俗社会的全景。他们的浪漫故事、爱恨情仇,是民族的心灵史。...
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