A collection of vignettes based on Pu Ning's personal life in China between 1950s and 1970s, Flower Terror portrays the absurdity of the period in which flowers seemed so alien to the oppressive atmosphere that they evoked a sense of terror in people's mind and heart. Many of the stories are so shocking and heart-wrenching that one cannot but feel suffocated.

Flower Terror: Suffocating Stories of China

Literature & Fiction

Ning, Pu

Contemporary

Homa & Sekey Books

A sixteen-year-old girl visits a forbidden garden and falls in love with her dream-lover and dies longing for him. After her death, her unflagging spirit continues to wait for her dream-lover. Does her lover really exist? Can a youthful love born of a garden dream ever blossom? 
Based on a famous sixteen-century Chinese opera by Tang Xianzu, "the Shakespeare of China," the novel leads the reader into a mythical world of passion and romance. Its many fascinating characters include a failed scholar, a Taoist nun, a husband-wife rebel team, a dissolute emperor, and Tartar invaders from the North.

The Peony Pavilion

Romance

Yen, Xiaoping

Paranormal

A collection of paintings by eighty acclaimed American-Chinese artists in the late 20th century, the book is the first of its kind in English publication. The album falls into three categories (oil painting, Chinese painting and other media painting) and offers a profile of the artists and information on their professional accomplishment. Artists included come from Mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong, among whom are such highly acknowledged names as Chen Yifei, Ting Shao Kuang, Jin Gao, Liao Shiou-Ping and Chen Danqing whose works have enjoyed international fame and recognition. Artists whose works are included in the album come from different backgrounds, use different media and belong to different schools. Some of them are veterans of the fascinating world of artistic creation who enjoy national and international fame while others are enterprising young men and women who are more impressionable to novelty and singularity. With their innate Chinese temperament, their life's experience, original thinking, and unique expression, each of them paints 'man' in a style that is clearly his or her own. All of their paintings combined reflect a facet of the splendid Chinese culture of five thou-sand years. Answering calls from the hearts' yearning, these paintings reveal a natural beauty of flow, just like days passing by. They move in such a way that resembles the impulsive unfolding of yesterday, today and tomorrow. Tide rises and falls, but each movement has a different rhythm each day. So do the paintings of our artists, each of which bears the artist's unmistakable imprint and all of which deserve our awesome appreciation.

Always Bright: Paintings by American Chinese Artists 1970-1999

Arts & Photography

Ning, Li

Yong, Zhou

Xin, Xue Jian

Ye, Shawn

Painting

Based on the Chinese folk tale 'Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai', this romantic tragedy portrays 'Romeo and Juliet' from a distinctly Chinese angle, with its two star-crossed lovers facing the obstacle of a class-based arranged marriage and the archaic idea that 'a virtuous woman is one without any talent.' Their fateful convergence begins as the heroine, Yingtai, escapes from her imprisonment in a home where she is not valued and disguises herself as a man, only to fall passionately in love with Shanbo, the poor young scholar she comes to live and study with while she is in disguise. Yingtai's family is not at war with Shanbo's; rather, it does not recognise its existence. Traversing class and gender expectations, Yingtai and Shanbo spiral toward the inevitable consequences of a life so much at odds with tradition.

Butterfly Lovers

DAI FAN

Literary

Musical qigong is a special healing energy therapy that combines two ancient Chinese traditions-healing music and qigong. Focusing on the five major organs, this method enlivens the mind, relaxes the body, and lifts the spirit, while enhancing one's healing energy. This guide contains two complete sets of exercises with photo illustrations and discusses how musical qigong is related to acupuncture, tai chi, feng shui, and the five elements in the ancient Chinese concept of the universe-metal, wood, water, fire, and earth.

Musical Qigong: Ancient Chinese Healing Art from a Modern Master

Wu, Shen

Music

A selection of paintings by ninety-two Chinese American artists in the late 20th century and the new millennium, Always Bright, Vol. II showcases the artistic creation of these painters who distinguish themselves in a variety of art forms and with various techniques. The book includes ninety-two artworks in oil painting, Chinese painting, watercolor painting, and other media painting such as mixed media, acrylic, pastel, pen and pencil, etc. The profile part provides background information on the artists and their professional accomplishment.

Always Bright, Vol. II: Paintings by Chinese American Artists

BOOK DESCRIPTION Although dreams have been studied in great depth about this most influential classic Chinese fiction, the study of all the dreams as a sequence and in relation to their structural functions in the allegory is undertaken for the first time in this book. Major topics include: Dream Sequence as the Narrative Framework; The Co-existence of Dream and Reality; Discourse on Love: Daguanyuan and Its Literary Lineage; Medieval Allegory: Its Origin and Its Representation; Dream as Representation of Allegory: The Roman de la Rose and Honglou meng. THE AUTHOR Jeannie Jinsheng Yi earned her Ph.D. degree in Asian Studies from Washington University. Author of several books in both English and Chinese, she has been writing extensively on topics related to China and Asia.

The Dream of the Red Chamber: An Allegory of Love

Yi, Jeannie Jinsheng

History & Criticism

Based on the author s thirty years of research and many first-hand and exclusive materials, this book, for the first time, provides a comprehensive introduction to wendou or nonviolent struggles -- those bizarre and weird behavior and activities in all the cultural fields -- during China's Cultural Revolution. The author describes in detail the origin, social background, various forms of wendou in all major fields of China s cultural life, and the most influential wendou events in major cities and provinces, etc. The book is a very informative read for general readers and an important reference for scholars and researchers.

Wendou: Nonviolent Struggle In the Cultural Revolution (Mandarin Chinese Edition)

History

Guanglu Zheng

Asia

In a Seed contains 60 poems by the author, which best represent the poet's creative life over a period of fifty years. The poems of Hyang-Ah Lee are very touching, for they have inner strength to bravely cope with agonies without disregarding the realities of life teetering all the time on the edge of a cliff. Instead of accepting her poetic objects sensuously, she tries to restructure them with poetic imaginations by dissecting and analyzing the essence. Lee always tries to identify life's questions with an introspective attitude. Her poems have deep resonance because their roots reach to the base of spiritual domain all humans share.  Hyang-Ah Lee was born in Seocheon and spent much of her youth in Gunsan Chollabukdo. She studied Korean literature & language and received her doctorate from Kyunghee University. She made a successful debut in 1966 through Hyundae Munhak, a prestigious literary magazine and published a total of 19 volumes of poems and 15 volumes of essays as well as 7 books of literary theory during the past 50 years. She won the Kyunghee Literature Award, the Kwangju Literature Award, the Korea Literature Award, the Yoon Dong Joo Literature Award, the Poetic Works Award, the Midang Simaek Award and the Changjo Munye Award. She is now professor emeritus of Honam University at which she taught until her retirement. E-mail address: poetry202@hanmail.net

In a Seed: Poems of Hyang-ah Lee

Lee, Hyang-ah

Anshun local drama, a traditional Chinese artistic form full of humanistic spirit, is popular in the vast rural areas surrounding the city of Anshun in southwest China's Guizhou province. The unique feature and style of Anshun local drama are embodied in its organization, costumes, props, performance time and place, tunes, instrumental accompaniment, actions, scripts, masks and strict performing procedures. The sacrificial rite is also an integral part of Anshun local drama performance, which includes opening chest, inviting gods, worshiping gods, singing gods, masking gods, visiting temple, sweeping opening and closing, sealing chest, opening gate of wealth, etc. However, after six hundred years of persistence in inheritance and maintenance, inheritors of Anshun local drama have finally come to realize that change is an inevitable fact. Customs and beliefs of local people have got mixed with today's ideological trend, which bring exciting new elements to the evolvement Anshun local drama. 
 Titles in the Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity series, a set of 15 titles: 
 9781931907866: Shaolin Kungfu 9781931907873: Taijiquan 9781931907880: Chinese New Year Painting 9781622460014: Anshun Local Drama in China 9781622460021: Dehua Porcelain in China 9781622460038: Huzhou Writing Brush in China 9781622460045: Mount Tai Steles in China 9781622460052: Silk and Bamboo Music in Southern China 9781622460069: Bronze Drums in China 9781622460076: Folk Legends of Gengcun in China 9781622460083: Quanzhou String Puppetry in China 9781622460090: Cantonese Opera in China 9781622460106: The Glove Puppet Show in China 9781622460113: Sichuan Opera in China 9781622460120: Violet Sand Crafts in China

Anshun Local Drama in China (Illustrated) (Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity Series, a Set of 15 Titles)

Shuai Xuejian

Performing Arts

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