Reeling from newly uncovered family secrets, and anger at her mother and aunt for keeping them from her, Joy runs away to Shanghai in early 1957 to find her birth father, the artist Z.G. Li, with whom both May and Pearl were once in love. Dazzled by him, and blinded by idealism and defiance, Joy throws herself into the New Society of Red China, heedless of the dangers in the communist regime.

To avoid a nap, Tad plays his favorite quiet game with his aunt and together their imaginations take them from their home in Buffalo, New York, to Hong Kong.

Zhou never seems to beat his brother, Cheng, at anything, but when Zhou finds a jade dragon, his luck changes. Soon, Zhou is beating Cheng at everything.

When his mother's beautiful brocade is snatched away by a greedy goddess, a young Chinese boy faces many perils as attemps to get it back.

A little duck finds adventure on the Yangtze River when he is too late to board his master's houseboat one evening.

The Buyu Cottage is a mesmerizing novel by acclaimed novelist Yan Geling (13 Flowers of Nanjing) about the guests of Buyu Cottage. The Cottage is located in the country not far from the bustles of Beijing. Buyu is a poor but smart businesswoman who decides to open a sort of bed and breakfast outside of the city. People tired of the usual city hotels and city life sought out this bastion and the name Buyu Cottage begins to spread. The novel is a collection...

After her father dies, a young Chinese woman struggles to survive and finds she has much in common with an old hunchbacked woman in her village.

A young girl acquires the qualities of the miraculous phoenix--wisdom, clear sight, generosity, and right judgment--by practicing drawing the mythical bird.

Amy receives a gift for the Chinese New Year from her aunt and uncles who live far away in China.