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61) Infernal affairs
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
"Chan Wing Yan is a hard-nosed veteran cop sent undercover to infiltrate the notorious Triad crime ring. An expert at bringing down violent crime syndicates, Chan thinks it's going to be a routine mission. What he's not prepared for is the discovery that the Triad's boss has [also] planted a mole in the police department ... and now Chan is being hunted down. In this battle of wills, only one cop can win!"--Container.
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
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Una enloquecida comedia donde se dan cita trepas sociales, e-mails secretos, escándalos del mundo del arte, multimillonarios enamorados y la extravagante historia de lo que ocurre cuando Rachel Chu, prometida del soltero de oro de Asia, descubre quién es su padre. La víspera de su boda con Nicholas Young, heredero de una de las grandas fortunas asiáticas, Rachel debería sentirse feliz. Tiene un diamante sin igual, un vestido de novia de ensueño...
63) Hooligan sparrow
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Ye Haiyan is labeled a trouble maker by the Chinese government. Someone who embarrasses the state, for example, with public protests involving the civil rights of sex workers. She travels to Hainan Province to protest a case in which sexual mistreatment of elementary-age school girls by their principal has gone unprosecuted.
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Language
English
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At the moment of the Emperor's death, everything changes in the palace. Mei, his former concubine, is free, and Pheasant, the heir and Mei's lover, is proclaimed as the new Emperor, heralding a new era in China. But just when Mei believes she's closer to her dream, Pheasant's chief wife, Lady Wang, powerful and unpredictable, turns against Mei and takes unthinkable measures to stop her. The power struggle that ensues will determine Mei's fate-- and...
Author
Series
Radiant emperor volume 1
Language
English
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Description
"Mulan meets The Song of Achilles in Shelley Parker-Chan's She Who Became the Sun, a bold, queer, and lyrical reimagining of the rise of the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty from an amazing new voice in literary fantasy. To possess the Mandate of Heaven, the female monk Zhu will do anything "I refuse to be nothing..." In a famine-stricken village on a dusty yellow plain, two children are given two fates. A boy, greatness. A girl, nothingness......
68) The painted veil
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Set in the 1920s. A young English couple, Walter a middle class doctor and Kitty, an upper-class woman, get married for all the wrong reasons and relocate to Shanghai. Kitty falls in love with someone else. When Walter discovers her infidelity, in an act of vengeance, he accepts a job in a remote village in China that is being ravaged by a deadly epidemic. He takes his wife along and their journey brings meaning to their relationship and gives them...
69) Beijing taxi
Publisher
Three Waters Productions
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
"BEIJING TAXI is a feature-length documentary that vividly portrays the ancient capital of China undergoing a profound transformation. The intimate lives of three taxi drivers are seen through a humanistic lens as they navigate a quickly morphing city, confronting modern issues and changing values. The three protagonists radiate a warm sense of humanity despite the struggles that each faces in adapting to new realities of life in the modern city....
Author
Language
English
Description
Whether you're traveling to China for business or pleasure, whether your stay will be long or short, your visit will be more pleasurable and effective if you understand your host culture and how to work within it. This updated and expanded edition of the best-selling Chinese etiquette guide on the market addresses not just the puzzling protocols relating to name cards, bowing or shaking hands, bathrooms and public baths--but also what to do when entertaining...
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Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Since 1949, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has maintained an unrivaled grip over the country. Despite economic calamity, widespread social upheaval, and even violence against its own people, the party has overseen the fastest economic growth in history and only strengthened its hold on power. How has it achieved this, and how exactly does the party and the government function? What is political life like for the people of China, and how has this...
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Language
English
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"China's economy has been booming for decades now. Keyu Jin, an economist who was born in China and educated in the United States, brings her fluency in Eastern and Western cultures together to offer an explanation of how China became such a successful economic story. This book is a guide to the Chinese economy as it has shifted from being based primarily on state-owned enterprise to being based on entrepreneurship and participation in the global...
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Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
More than two thousand years ago, with his land under constant attack from nomads, the First Emperor of China came up with a simple solution: build a wall to keep out enemies. It was a wall that kept growing and growing. But its construction came at a huge cost: it is believed that more than a million Chinese died building it, earning the wall its nickname--the longest cemetery on earth. Through the story of the wall, Patricia Brennan Demuth is able...
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Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Twenty years ago, seemingly everything for sale at American retailers had a "Made In China" sticker on it. Now, things have changed. Every year, forty thousand Chinese factories are shuttering their doors as businesses seek cheaper labor elsewhere. Clothes manufacturing is moving to Bangladesh and Vietnam, for example, and shoes to Ethiopia. The exodus is well underway. Even as American commentators fret over "rising China," the real threat lies...
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Language
English
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The story of three generations in twentieth-century China that blends the intimacy of memoir and the panoramic sweep of eyewitness history—a bestselling classic in thirty languages with more than ten million copies sold around the world, now with a new introduction from the author.
An engrossing record of Mao's impact on China, an unusual window on the female experience in the modern world, and an inspiring tale of courage and love,...
An engrossing record of Mao's impact on China, an unusual window on the female experience in the modern world, and an inspiring tale of courage and love,...
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Series
Radiant emperor volume 2
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Zhu Yuanzhang, the Radiant King, is riding high after her victory that tore southern China from its Mongol masters. Now she burns with a new desire: to seize the throne and crown herself emperor. But Zhu isn't the only one with imperial ambitions. Her neighbor in the south, the courtesan Madam Zhang, wants the throne for her husband--and she's strong enough to wipe Zhu off the map. To stay in the game, Zhu will have to gamble everything on a risky...
Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Through an examination of allusions to the Wall in an eclectic array of texts--ranging from official dynastic histories, elite poetry, and popular folktales to contemporary tourist testimonials, children's songs, and avant-garde performance art--this study maps out a provocative new framework for understanding the structure's function and significance.
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