Examines over sixty ideas and inventions that originated in China, covering eleven subject areas, including metal, transportation and exploration, paper and printing, and food, and including a time line and map.
Peony is the cloistered daughter of a wealthy family is betrothed to a suitor she has never met, these lyrics from The Peony Pavilion mirror her own longings. In the garden of the Chen Family Villa, a small theatrical troupe is performing scenes from this epic opera. Peony attends the production, watching from behind a screen, but catches sight of a handsome man and begins a journey of love and sorrow.
When the eldest son fell in the well and most of the time getting help was spent pronouncing the name of the one in trouble, the Chinese, according to legend, decided to give all their children short names.
"This novel . . . takes place in a Japanese internment camp in China in WWII, where thirteen-year-old Gwen follows the Girl Guide code in order to survive"--Provided by publisher.
Contains two stories that depict a day in an American and in a Chinese kindergarten classroom to determine the similarities and differences between how classes are run in the two countries.
one family's true life adventure in the global economy
Bongiorni, Sara
Sara Bongiorni recounts her family's year-long boycott of Chinese products, describing what she learned about how easy, or difficult, it could be to live without China, which is the world's fastest growing economy.
Introduces the Chinese zodiac and relates how each of its twelve signs was named for an animal selected by the Jade Emperor. Includes a table showing the signs for the years 1900 through 2007, and the character traits of each sign.
In 1934, Ruth Harkness had never seen a panda. Few people in the world had. But two years later, despite her friends' concern, she traveled to the Chinese wilderness to fulfill her late husband's goal: bringing a panda to the United States.
