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3) Jackie Chan
Author
Series
Publisher
Raintree
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Avid Reader Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Drawing on his years of first-hand reporting across China, including insights from scholars and diplomats and analyses of official speeches and documents, a Wall Street Journal correspondent provides a broad, lucid account of China's leader and how he inspires fear and fervor in his Party, his nation and beyond.
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Tu Youyou had been interested in science and medicine since she was a child, so when malaria started infecting people all over the world in 1969, she went to work finding a treatment. Trained as a medical researcher in college and healed by traditional medicine techniques when she was young, Tu Youyou started experimenting with natural Chinese remedies. The treatment she discovered through years of research and experimentation is still used all over...
Author
Publisher
Soft Skull Press, an imprint of Counterpoint
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"It’s 1983. Scott Savitt, one of the first American exchange students in Beijing, picks up his guitar and begins strumming Blackbird. He’s soon surrounded by Chinese students who know every word to every Beatles song he plays. Scott stays on in Beijing, working as a reporter for Asiaweek Magazine. The city’s first nightclubs open; rock ‘n’ roll promises democracy. Promoted to foreign correspondent for the Los Angeles Times then United Press...
Author
Publisher
Distributed to the trade by Macmillan
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Selected by Chairman Mao's officials from among millions of children to become a dancer, Li's new life began as he left his family behind. At the Beijing Dance Academy, days were long and difficult. Li's hard work was rewarded when he was chosen yet again, this time to travel to America.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
A young Chinese woman describes growing up in Moso country in the Himalayas, among her people's unique matrilineal society, and the conflicts with her strong-willed mother that led her to leave her mother's home to create a life of her own.
"In the remote Himalayas, on the shores of magnificent Lake Lugu, there is a place the Chinese call "the Country of Daughters." This is the home of the Moso, a remarkable society in which women rule men. In the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Born in 551 BC, Confucius was a young man when he set his heart and mind on learning as much as he could. By his thirties, he'd become a brilliant teacher who shared his knowledge of several subjects, including arithmetic, history, and poetry, with his students. Confucius wanted to make sure that everyone in China had access to an education and devoted his whole life to learning and teaching so he could transform and improve society. His lessons--now...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Two leading experts on China evaluate its rise throughout the past one hundred fifty years, sharing portraits of key intellectual and political leaders to explain how China transformed from a country under foreign assault to a world giant.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The long-awaited memoir by Fang Lizhi, one of the most prominent scientists of the People's Republic of China and the celebrated physicist whose clashes with the Chinese regime helped inspire the Tiananmen Square protests.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In his widely anticipated memoir, Ai Weiwei-one of the world's most famous artists and activists-tells a century-long epic tale of China through the story of his own extraordinary life and the legacy of his father, Ai Qing, the nation's most celebrated poet. Hailed as "the most important artist working today" by the Financial Times and as "an eloquent and unsilenceable voice of freedom" by The New York Times, Ai Weiwei has written a sweeping memoir...
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