Chinese Biography

The dramatic autobiography of one of China's dedicated, courageous, and intensely persecuted house church leaders. This is the gripping story of how God took a young, half-starved boy from a poor village in Henan province and placed him on the front line for Jesus, in the face of impossible odds. Instead of focusing on the many miracles or experiences of suffering, however, Yun prefers to focus on the character and beauty of Jesus.

More than twenty years after teaching English to China's first boom generation at a small college in Sichuan Province, Peter Hessler returned to teach the next generation. At the same time, Hessler's twin daughters became the only Westerners in a student body of about two thousand in their local primary school. Through reconnecting with his previous students now in their forties—members of China's "Reform generation"—and teaching his current undergraduates, Hessler is able to tell an intimately unique story about China's incredible transformation over the past quarter-century.

God’s people are hiding in plain sightTens of millions of Christians live in China today, leading double lives to hide from a government that relentlessly persecutes them. By day, Bob Fu was a teacher in a communist school; by night, he was a preacher in an underground house church network. This edge-of-your-seat book tells the true story of Fu’s conversion to Christianity, his arrest and imprisonment for starting an illegal house church, his harrowing escape, and his subsequent rise to prominence in the United States as an advocate for his oppressed brethren.

Over the course of the last half dozen years, China's supreme leader Xi Jinping has made extraordinary changes which have profound implications not only for the Chinese people but nations throughout the world. Given how swiftly and fundamentally China's relations with the rest of the world are changing under Xi's rule, it is imperative that we know what Xi Jinping Thought is, how it evolved, and why it is so important.

在源远流长、辉煌灿烂的世界历史岁月中，涌现出成千上万富有创造性和进取精神的名人，只有不断地和名人对话，接近名人，感受名人，从名人的经历和成就中汲取智慧和力量，才能激励自我，提升素养，像名人一样去奋斗，像名人一样成功！…… 在源遠流長、輝煌燦爛的世界歷史歲月中，湧現出成千上萬富有創造性和進取精神的名人。只有不斷地和名人對話，接近名人，感受名人，從名人的經歷和成就中汲取智慧和力量，才能激勵自我，提升素養，像名人一樣去奮鬥，像名人一樣成功！

They were the most famous sisters in China. As the country battled through 100 years of wars, revolutions, and seismic transformations, the three Soong sisters from Shanghai were at the center of power, and each of them left an indelible mark on history. All three sisters enjoyed tremendous privilege and glory, but also endured constant mortal danger. They showed great courage and experienced passionate love, as well as despair and heartbreak.

Chiang Kai-shek (1887-1975) led the Republic of China for almost fifty years, starting in 1926. He was the architect of a new republican China, a hero of the Second World War, and a faithful ally of the United States. Simultaneously a Christian and a Confucian, Chiang dreamed of universal equality yet was a perfidious and cunning dictator responsible for the deaths of over 1.5 million innocent people. This critical biography is based on Chiang Kai-shek's unpublished diaries, his extensive personal files from the Russian archives, and the Russian files of his relatives, associates, and foes.

In his own time (701-762), Li Bai's poems - shaped by Daoist thought and characterized by their passion, romance, and lust for life - were never given their proper due by the official literary gatekeepers. Nonetheless, his lines rang out on the lips of court entertainers, tavern singers, soldiers, and writers throughout the Tang dynasty. The Banished Immortal is an extraordinary portrait of a poet who both transcended his time and was shaped by it and whose ability to live, love, and mourn without reservation produced some of the most enduring verses.

雷军不是一个安分的人，但目标从没有改变，这是一个企业家超常的毅力与耐力。……雷軍不是一個安分的人，但目標從沒有改變，這是一個企業家超常的毅力與耐力。

لى شو فو ذلك الصيني الذي لم يتخيل أن يحقق حلمه وأن تصل سيارته التي ينتجها لكل بقاع العالم. هو شديد الحماسة فى عالم التجارة، وهو (مجنون سيارات) متعصب لرأيه، وهو النسخة الصينية من هنرى فورد، سواء كان فى صناعة السيارات أو فى لعب كرة القدم أو فى الدراسة.. فإن لى شو فو مجنون بأى أمر يقوم به. مرورا بتصنيع الثلاجات ومواد الديكور والدراجات البخارية، وصولا إلى واحد من أكبر مصنعي السيارات ليس فى الصين فحسب بل فى العالم بأسره...قصة حلم صعد بصاحبه إلى القمة.

A Chinese proverb says, "Falling leaves return to their roots." In Chinese Cinderella, Adeline Yen Mah returns to her roots to tell the story of her painful childhood and her ultimate triumph and courage in the face of despair. Adeline's affluent, powerful family considers her bad luck after her mother dies giving birth to her. Life does not get any easier when her father remarries. She and her siblings are subjected to the disdain of her stepmother, while her stepbrother and stepsister are spoiled.

Connie Chung is a pioneer. In 1969 at the age of 23, this once-shy daughter of Chinese parents took her first job at a local TV station in her hometown of Washington, D.C. and soon thereafter began working at CBS news as a correspondent. Profoundly influenced by her family’s cultural traditions, yet growing up completely Americanized in the United States, Chung describes her career as an Asian woman in a white male-centered world.

Empress Wu Zetian (624-705 AD) was the only woman to be the sovereign ruler of imperial China. A teenage concubine of the Tang Emperor Taizong, she seduced his son while the emperor lay dying. Recalled from a nunnery as part of an intricate court power-game, she caused the deaths of two lady rivals, before securing her enthronement as the Emperor Gaozong's consort. She ruled in the name of her husband and two eldest sons, presiding over the pinnacle of the Silk Road, before proclaiming herself the founder of a new dynasty.

Anna May Wong remains one of Hollywood’s best-known Chinese American actors. Between 1919 and 1960, Anna May Wong starred in over fifty movies, sharing billing with stars such as Douglas Fairbanks Sr., Marlene Dietrich, Joan Crawford, Ramon Novarro, and Warner Oland. Her life, though, is the prototypical story of an immigrant’s difficult path through the prejudices of American culture. In a narrative that recalls the pathos of life in LA's Chinese neighborhoods and the glamour of Hollywood’s pleasure palaces, Graham Russell Gao Hodges recovers the life of a Hollywood legend.

Few know that Master You played minor roles for half a lifetime before taking on the role of Ji Gong after age 50. Few know that at 85 years old, Master You still actively performs on stage. Even fewer know that at the incredible age of 80, Master You sold his home to start a performing arts troupe, all to promote art and enlighten people. The story of Master You Benchang is worth young people today learning about and being inspired by. His ideology has profound significance for countless contemporary listeners.

Born into the steam and starch of a Chinese laundry, Anna May Wong (1905-1961) emerged from turn-of-the-century Los Angeles to become Old Hollywood's most famous Chinese American actress, a screen siren who captivated global audiences and signed her publicity photos—with a touch of defiance—"Orientally yours." Now, more than a century after her birth, Yunte Huang narrates Wong's tragic life story, retracing her journey from Chinatown to silent-era Hollywood, and from Weimar Berlin to decadent, prewar Shanghai, and capturing American television in its infancy.

华盛顿，美国国父，民主宪政下的总统楷模，他的一生也是一部“美国建国史”……華盛頓，美國國父，民主憲政下的總統楷模，他的一生也是一部「美國建國史」……

直到很久以后，我才知道，在这个城中村里，联防队员和假烟贩子沆瀣一气，假烟贩子每月定时给联防队员缴纳保护费，联防队员就会“保护”这些坑人的假烟贩子。而所谓的联防队员，其实都是村子里的地痞流氓，欺男霸女，无恶不作。 在这个城中村里，猫鼠一窝…… 直到很久以後，我才知道，在這個城中村里，聯防隊員和假煙販子沆瀣一氣，假煙販子每月定時給聯防隊員繳納保護費，聯防隊員就會「保護」這些坑人的假煙販子。而所謂的聯防隊員，其實都是村子裡的地痞流氓，欺男霸女，無惡不作。 在這個城中村里，貓鼠一窩……

《假如给我三天光明》前半部分主要讲述了海伦变成盲聋人后的生活，后半部分则介绍了海伦的求学生涯。她以一个身残志坚的女子的视角，告诉身体健全的人们应珍惜生命，珍惜造物主赐予的一切。…… 《假如給我三天光明》前半部分主要講述了海倫變成盲聾人後的生活，後半部分則介紹了海倫的求學生涯。她以一個身殘志堅的女子的視角，告訴身體健全的人們應珍惜生命，珍惜造物主賜予的一切。

当代盗墓团伙的人分四种，从低向高，分别是下苦的、腿子、支锅、掌眼。下苦的负责挖墓，收入微薄；腿子就是技术工人，收入高过下苦的；支锅则是盗墓团伙的老板，相当于包工头；而掌眼则是这个团伙中老大，他不但有找寻古墓的能力，还有鉴别文物的特长…… 當代盜墓團伙的人分四種，從低向高，分別是下苦的、腿子、支鍋、掌眼。下苦的負責挖墓，收入微薄；腿子就是技術工人，收入高過下苦的；支鍋則是盜墓團伙的老闆，相當於包工頭；而掌眼則是這個團伙中老大，他不但有找尋古墓的能力，還有鑑別文物的特長……