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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. In her biggest seller, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, See introduced...
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Pearl must confront her past and the challenges of the present when she sets out to save her nineteen-year-old daughter Joy, who has run away to Shanghai to find her birth father, artist Z.G. Li, and become caught up in the New Society of Red China in 1957.
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Publisher
Arcade Pub
Pub. Date
c2012
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English
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A fictionalized account of China during the second half of the twentieth century witnessed through the eyes of Ximen Nao, a landowner killed so that his land could be redistributed to peasants, and--as punishment from Lord Yama--is reincarnated into a donkey.
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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After years of chasing the American dream, the Zhen family has moved back to China. Settling into a luxurious serviced apartment in Shanghai, Wei, Lina, and their daughter, Karen, join an elite community of Chinese-born, Western-educated professionals who have returned to a radically transformed city. One morning, in the eighth tower of Lanson Suites, Lina discovers that a treasured ivory bracelet has gone missing. This incident sets off a wave of...
9) The mother
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English
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A peasant woman, living the hard life of a farm wife at the beginning of the communist era in China, must draw upon her inner strength and spirit to survive in the face of her husband's departure and a series of tragedies and hardships.
10) The good earth
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 19
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English
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Pearl S. Buck's epic Pulitzer prize-winning novel of a China that was now in a contemporary classics edition. Though more than sixty years have passed since this remarkable novel won the Pulitzer prize, it has retained its popularity and become one of the great modern classics. "I can only write what I know, and I know nothing but China, having always lived there," wrote Pearl Buck. In the Good Earth she presents a graphic view of a China when the...
11) Iron widow
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Iron Widow volume 1
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Penguin Teen
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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"Pacific Rim meets The Handmaid's Tale in this blend of Chinese history and mecha science fiction for YA readers. The boys of Huaxia dream of pairing up with girls to pilot Chrysalises, giant transforming robots that can battle the aliens that lurk beyond the Great Wall of China. It doesn't matter that the girls die from the mental strain. When 18-year-old Zetian offers herself up as a concubine-pilot, it's to assassinate the ace male pilot responsible...
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Viking
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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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."--
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Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2002
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English
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Possibly Zhong Fong is the only person in all of China who can completely decipher Lily's English, and he hasn't heard from her - or anyone else - in fifty-four months. His own English is excellent, but it has been that long since he had a use for it - fifty-four months since Shanghai Head of Special Investigations Zhong had been reduced to convicted political felon Zhong and exiled to the remote and barren north country, far from the crowded bustling...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.5 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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A small plane carrying four passengers takes off from revolution-torn Baskul, but instead of heading for Peshawur and safety, its mysterious pilot flies ever deeper into the Himalayas, finally crash landing in the unexplored Tibetan wilderness.
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2008
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English
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Modern, independent Mei Wang runs her own PI business in Beijing; she even has that most modern of commodities, a male secretary. When a family friend asks her to locate a Han dynasty jade of great value that was taken from its museum during the years of the Cultural Revolution when Red Guards seized many relics, her investigation reveals a story that has more to do with the past and her own family history than she ever expected. To solve the case,...
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