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Li Delin and Liu Jinding are determined to leave China‿s Central Plain behind. Li‿s honest talent and hard graft bring him to power and Liu a sprawling business empire. Their success is not sustainable and they are exploited and betrayed by former confidants. Li‿s career is soon enveloped in corruption and tragedy. Attempts at resolution become the fight of his life.

The empire is in mortal danger. Hai Rui and his allies bought her time, but now it is spent. Addled by mercury and aided by sycophants, Emperor Jiajing is squandering the last remnants of the treasury. Now it is time to rescue the once-mighty Ming or join in the plunder as it descends in flames to a hell of no return.

In The Sons of Red Lake, Zhou Daxin tells the story of an ambitious young woman who refuses to accept the constraints of life determined by the village she comes from.

1960s Zhongguancun, Beijing. A gang of young scientists toils into the night over the nation‿s first atomic bomb, not knowing they will lay the foundation for China‿s enterprising tech sector. Ning Ken delves into more than five decades of history and the triumphs and disasters that forged the “Silicon Valley of the Eastâ€?.

Renowned Sinologist Kerry Brown recounts his time doing business and diplomacy in five of China's key cities. His account a light, insightful alternative to today's doom-laden tomes and thinkpieces charts the social transformation of a rising power. Through wit, anecdote and analysis, Brown seeks to render China 'knowable' to his readers.

1900. For Tianjins European colonists a profitable new century is dawning, but for the citys downtrodden Chinese natives the Zodiac cycles end signals imminent catastrophe. Meanwhile the fearsome Boxer warriors said by some to be bulletproof are spilling in from the provinces. On restless streets, a dangerous liaison begins. Ouyang Jue, gentle layabout and heir to a merchant fortune, finds himself entangled with Xnia, a French officers daughter indulging every impulse on her first visit to China. Each sees liberation in the other a chance to leap through the mirror and escape the mundane. Separated by the widening divide between

The Chinese Civil War is on, and the Red Army is in trouble. Their prize asset: codebreaking genius Ji Zhenren. His task: to break the government's ciphers and save his comrades' lives. Ji will take the fight from the dark alleys of Shanghai to frozen mountain passes, and face both forbidden romance and political controversy along the way.

In this collection of dispatches from China's far northwestern province of Xinjiang, Li Juan recalls helping her mother to grow sunflowers from the barren earth. Li Juan's skill as a writer captures the extraordinary everyday in this sensitive and lively record of both the fragility of life, and the joys and dignity of family bonds.

Where China’s leadership and the sages of antiquity see eye-to-eyeSince taking office, General Secretary Xi Jinping has promoted the ‘Chinese Dream of National Rejuvenation’ - a concept which neatly binds together past vitality and future prosperity. Accordingly, Xi has incorporated allusions to the classics as part of his signature style, prescribing the ideas of Confucius, Mencius, and others as cures for the vexations of modernity. From both a domestic and an international perspective this is a strikingly novel approach, well worthy of closer examination. Xi Jinping’s Adages pairs 35 classical references from Xi Jinping’s key speeches with expert analysis, affording the reader a fascinating perspective on the thinking of a leader who believes China’s ancient past can - and should - shape its future.

THE INSEPARABLE BOND BETWEEN YOUNG BOWA AND A LITTLE WHITE CRANEBowa is a young boy of the Tujia ethnic minority living in a small village outside Chongqing. A severe speech impediment means he can't string two words together until after the age of ten, which prevents him from going to school and causes his fellow villagers, family and acquaintances to write him off as silly or dumb.But not being able to speak doesn't stop him from dreaming and imagining. With the help of an enlightened supply teacher who has volunteered to teach in this remote mountainous area, and help from a little white crane he befriends along the way, he eventually overcomes his speech impediment revealing a veritable child prodigy beneath the surface…

Jiang and his friends explore life beyond their beloved mountainside village as they prepare for adulthoodAlong the banks of the Bachi River, a group of young people overcome many obstacles, one after another. Like a boat fighting against rapids, they bravely walk the long mountain road to school. The serenity of the flowing river, the beauty of the landscape, the ways of the world, human nature and life itself fill the hearts of Jiang, his family, his friends and his neighbours.Huang Zheng's moving portrait of a rural village in the Zhuang community of southern China documents a world that has long been swept away by modern life.

Little Tashi and his elder brother Dawa have many adventures as they tend their flock on the mountainside.Two brothers, Tashi and his elder brother, Dawa, tend their family's flock of sheep on the mountainside. Little Tashi tries to help his brother but his head is filled with dreams of going to school, leading to mishaps and danger. The brothers encounter many perils that threaten their family's livelihood and Tashi's dream of attending school.The beauty of the mountain and the pastures is captured in this charming tale of two young boys discovering savagery in nature and finding the strength to overcome obstacles and set-backs to preserve what is most dear to them.

In the gateway city, only the best stories surviveThe port of Tianjin is where the ancient Chinese empire met the sea. The turn of the 20th century was a tumultuous time for the city, with the Qing dynasty on its last legs and the Boxers unleashing their ill-fated rebellion against the European trading concessions that had colonised its streets.For Tianjin's inhabitants, daily life carried on. These hardy people were shaped by the bitter earth from which they sprang, and every once in a while, there would emerge someone so remarkable that a new name would be inducted into Tianjin's hall of fame.From a miracle doctor to an ill-mannered mynah bird, they came from every walk of life and in all shapes and sizes. Together, their stories make up the rich tapestry of a city that the modern world has washed away...

In times of war, sacrifices must be made to hold families together and defend a fractured nation…After a gruelling trek from the north, the Lü family is finally reunited in Kunming, but the hardships of war are not over. Disoriented in unfamiliar surroundings, they do their best to rebuild some semblance of normality amid the hardships of rural living and the constant terror of Japanese bombing raids.In the struggle to survive, the Lü children are forced to shoulder burdens beyond their years as they try to piece together a shattered childhood among the rugged beauty of Yunnan. Even in the face of grinding poverty, the family strive to find beauty in this land of deep blue skies, where so much danger lurks.Meanwhile, life proves insufferable for the family and friends left behind in Beiping, where opium is often the only solace against the despairs of war.The war against fascism grinds on. Will there ever be hope for a better tomorrow?

What's left after a lifetime of service in the Chinese government? At the age of 66, Ouyang Wantong, the former governor of Qinghe province, was too young to die. He touched the lives of so many people during his time on Earth. Some of them loved him intimately, while many more held him in the highest esteem. But there were also those who hated him and wished him dead. And now the battle to find his rightful place in the history books has begun…After the Finale is a fictional biography of an extraordinary man who grew up in poverty in China's Mao era and then rose through the ranks of government during the country's period of reform and opening up. It's a tale of love, leadership, betrayal, corruption, lust, greed and the nature of power amid the rise of the 21st century's new superpower.

China is often viewed with suspicion by the West due to its perceived backwardness in implementing the rule of law. However, these assumptions are misplaced, according to this thought-provoking and timely examination of new developments in China's constitutional system.Evolving Towards Rule of Law in China - Changes Over the Past 10 Years charts the substantial progress that has been made in this area.Written by Yun Changzhi, Vice President of Beyondsoft Corporation, this book is edited and published by ACA Publishing in association with CNPIEC as part of a five-book series called 'Exploring Modern China'.This book is dedicated to readers seeking to understand the latest developments in China's political, commercial and civil legal environment and for people who are interested in business, complex commercial transactions, civil and criminal procedures, and workers' rights as well as for those who just want to know more about China's legal system. Evolving Towards Rule of Law in China will give you a solid introduction to the evolution of laws and regulations in contemporary China.

The flesh is a boundary, you and I are two cagesOf all the brief lives I've inhabited, humans are definitely the most interesting. Poetry and painting, literature and drama, song and dance; there's nothing they can't do.As I fell into this young creature named Ding Yi, a life filled with hardship, love and betrayal unfolded before me.I'll try to make this account as entertaining as possible, but please bear with me - it was several lifetimes ago.My Travels in Ding Yi is an epic novel told from the perspective of a nomadic spirit named Shi who inhabits a Chinese boy living in the second half of the 20th century. Shi describes coming of age during the Cultural Revolution in language that dips and soars from crude to lyrical, often in a single breath. Unpredictable and engrossing, this contemporary classic of Chinese fiction was first published in 2006 and is now available in English for the first time.

Tigers. BanditsA 10,000 mile journey Sichuan is empty, depopulated by war, famine and plague. When the emperor issues a decree asking citizens to re-settle this former land of abundance, Ning Xi takes up the call, vowing to find her father, Ning Degong, who vanished in Sichuan years ago. Beset by tigers, bandits, and a powerful old enemy, this courageous woman and her family must face countless dangers - including a new set of rivals, the influential Zhao clan - to build a new life in this wild land. Between Four Rivers is the stunning multi-generational tale of two families linked by shocking twists of fate that leave their lives and the destiny of Sichuan changed forever.

Following heroic victories on the battlefield, a former soldier faces his greatest challenge from the enemy within. Yu Erlong, a veteran guerrilla captain of the Chinese Communist Party, returns to a remote place to confront his past. Stone lake was where he grew up in poverty on a fishing boat and then fought against the Kuomintang and the Japanese for control of his motherland. It was also the scene of the shooting of his beloved wife, Luhua. Thirty years after that cowardly murder, Erlong, with flowers in hand, is determined to find Luhua's remains and solve the mystery of who pulled the trigger.The second volume of Li Guowen's award-winning Spring in Winter explores a web of personal relationships against the backdrop of four decades of tumultuous political change in China, from the civil war in the 1930s to the end of the Cultural Revolution in the 1970s.