Lao She was a Chinese novelist and dramatist. He was one of the most significant figures of 20th-century Chinese literature. Rickshaw Boy or Camel Xiangzi is a novel about the life of a fictional Beijing rickshaw man. It describes his life encounters, reflects the struggle of the lower class, and the harshness of social environment. It is considered a classic of 20th-century Chinese literature. 本書是現代著名文學家老舍的長篇小說，藉由描寫人力車夫祥子的遭遇，反映低下階層奮鬥的過程，以及社會環境的惡劣，流露出深切的關懷，是寫實主義文學里呈碑式的名著，夏志清更認為該小說的「戲劇力量和敍述技巧都超過作者以前的作品」。全書結構嚴謹，文字生動傳神，採用了大量北京方言，富濃厚地方色彩。...

From the Pulitzer Prize winning journalist: a revelatory portrait of religion in China today its history, the spiritual traditions of its Eastern and Western faiths, and the ways in which it is influencing China s future. Following a century of violent antireligious campaigns, China is now awash with new temples, churches, and mosques as well as cults, sects, and politicians trying to harness religion for their own ends. Driving this explosion of...

"Born the crown prince of a prosperous kingdom, Xie Lian was renowned for his beauty, strength, and purity. His years of dedicated study and noble deeds allowed him to ascend to godhood. But those who rise may also fall, and fall he does--cast from the heavens and banished to the world below. Eight hundred years after his mortal life, Xie Lian has ascended to godhood for the third time, angering most of the gods in the process. To repay his debts,...

A smog has spread. Food crops are rapidly disappearing. A chef escapes her dying career in a dreary city to take a job at a decadent mountaintop colony seemingly free of the world's troubles. There, the sky is clear again. Rare ingredients abound. Her enigmatic employer and his visionary daughter have built a lush new life for the global elite, one that reawakens the chef to the pleasures of taste, touch, and her own body. In this atmosphere of hidden...