Chinese Literature
Speaking of Chinese
Sale Price: $9.66*
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(Overstock Books)
Not a how-to text, this beguiling book is instead a fascinating look at Chinese language and culture. Ranging through history, literature, folklore, linguistics, and sociology, this is a breezy, straightforward primer of surprising breadth.
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The Te of Piglet
Sale Price: $12.89*
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What is Te? What is Taoism? What has Piglet to do with either? Te (pronounced Deh ) is Chinese for Virtue. Taoism is a Chinese philosophy.
Merchant: Overstock Books
Red Sorghum
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The history of a Chinese family as recalled by its youngest member. The story opens with the long and brutal struggle between invading Japanese armies and Chinese peasants in the Sino-Japanese War of the 1920s and 30s. With the defeat of Japan and...
Merchant: Overstock Books
Ocean of Words
Sale Price: $9.88*
Retail: $13 (24% off!)
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Stories by the Chinese poet and winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award for Fiction, Ha Jin. They take place in the early 1970s, when Russia and China were on the verge of going to war, and most of the characters are Chinese soldiers. Copyright (C) Muze Inc.
Merchant: Overstock Books
Who`s Irish?
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Retail: $12 (18% off!)
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A collection of stories about Chinese-Americans, including ``House, House, Home, `` a novella-length story about the marriage of a Chinese woman and a Scandinavian man and its perhaps inevitable breakup. A New York Times Notable Book in 1999.
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Andrographis Herb 10:1 Powdered Extract (Andrographis paniculata; Green Chiretta; Kariyat; Chuan Xin Lian) 5 kg (11 lbs): Q
Andrographis paniculata is an ancient medicinal herb with an extensive ethnobotanical history in Asia. It is found through Chinese medicinal literature, modern and ancient; it is prominently listed in the Indian Pharmacopoeia.
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