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The Han dynasty has collapsed, a new group of heroes hoping to save China has fallen apart, and Zhuo Dong remains in charge. With the coalition fighting, one man will go to great lengths to bring down the tyrannical leader.

Explores the progression and improvements in technological innovations in ancient China and connects them to the present day.

Text and illustrations chronicle the life and career of Confucius, a Chinese philosopher.

Examines the lives of female migrant factory workers in China, focusing on the experiences of two young women and including the author's story of her family's migration within China and to the West.

When Mulan's ailing father is called to fight against the invading Huns, she decides to disguise herself as a boy and go in his place. Mushu, a young magical dragon, joins Mulan to protect her. Mulan will fight honorably and go down in history as one of China's greatest heroines. Based on the Disney movie "Mulan.".

After her liberation from a Japanese prison camp in Indochina at the end of World War II, Tian, a young French-Chinese girl, supports her family in Communist Saigon as a translator and travels to Biarritz to arrange for their escape.

Recounts how the author, who had previously decided against having children, accompanied a friend to China to assist the latter's adoption efforts and adopted the baby herself when the friend backed out, an unexpected choice that profoundly changed her life and eventually tested the bonds of the friendship.

An elementary introduction to the relationship between cooking and Chinese culture, the effect of local agriculture on the diets of different regions, common tools such as woks, and recipe instructions.

"When Communist Party leaders adopted the one-child policyin 1980, they hoped curbing birth-rates would help lift China's poorest and increase the country's global stature. But at what cost? Now, as China closes the book on the policy after more than three decades, it faces a population grown too old and too male, with a vastly diminished supply of young workers.--Amazon.com.