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  • Soul Mountain

    by Gao Xingjian ...
    A writer flees Beijing's Communist authorities and embarks on a mythical quest through rural China in a "playful monster of a book" by a Nobel Prize winner ( The New York Times Book Review).In 1983 Chinese playwright, critic, fiction writer, and painter Gao Xingjian was diagnosed with lung cancer and prepared for imminent death. But six weeks later, a second examination revealed the cancer was ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Messy Roots

    A Graphic Memoir of a Wuhanese American

    by Laura Gao ...
    Illustrated by Laura Gao ...
    “Messy Roots is a laugh-out-loud, heartfelt, and deeply engaging story of their journey to find themself--as an American, as the daughter of Chinese immigrants, as a queer person, and as a Wuhanese American in the middle of a pandemic.”—Malaka Gharib, author of I Was Their American DreamAfter spending her early years in Wuhan, China, riding water buffalos and devouring stinky tofu, Laura ... Read more

    $9.49 USD

  • The Strange Creature at Kuroyuri Apartments, Vol. 1

    by Gao Yuzuki, Rochelle Gancio ...
    Translated by Abby Lehrke ...
    Series Book 1 - The Strange Creature at Kuroyuri Apartments
    Meet Meme, the good-for-nothing daughter of the Demon World's mighty Summoners Clan leader. Her dad has kicked her out into the human realm to learn some responsibility, and she needs to find a home! Enter Sentarou Narigane, wealthy landlord of Kuroyuri Apartments. Suffering from the worst case of malaise, Sentarou offers Meme a free apartment on one condition: She has to be his entertainment! ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • One Man's Bible

    A Novel

    by Gao Xingjian ...
    From the Nobel Prize–winning author of Soul Mountain , a "sweeping panorama of history and the suffering and reconciliation that underlie it" ( The Washington Post Book World ).One Man's Bible is a fictionalized account of Gao Xingjian's life under the oppressive totalitarian regime of Mao Tse-tung during the period of the Cultural Revolution and its aftermath. Whether i... ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Have You Eaten?

    Deliciously Simple Asian Cooking for Every Mood

    by Verna Gao ...
    A beautifully personal cookbook of more than 70 easy and inspiring Chinese and East Asian recipes for every occasion.Verna Gao is throwing a Chinese dumpling party and everyone is invited-so roll out the dough and learn to pleat like a Hangzhou grandma!The Hungry Banana Cookbook brings together more than 70 of Verna's all-time favorite Asian-inspired recipes. Each dish is simple to make and ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Nezha

    A Story in Easy Chinese, Pinyin and English

    by Ting Gao ...
    Before he became a god, Nezha was just a troublemaker.Born from a glowing sphere after three and a half years in the womb, Nezha arrives in the world already armed with the Universe Ring and the Red Armillary Sash, destined for greatness and almost certain to cause chaos along the way.From a legendary battle with the Dragon King of the East Sea to a heartbreaking sacrifice that reshapes his very ... Read more

    Was $6.99 USD Now $5.99 USD

  • The Ming Dynasty: Restoration and Expansion

    Dynasties of Ancient China, #6

    by Ting Gao, Jeff Pepper ...
    Series Book 6 - Dynasties of Ancient China
    The Ming Dynasty began in war, hunger, and rebellion. The Yuan government was failing, the Yellow River was flooding, and ordinary people were losing faith in the rulers who were supposed to protect them. Out of this chaos rose Zhu Yuanzhang, a poor orphan who had once begged for food and lived as a monk. In 1368, he drove out the Mongol-led Yuan court and founded a new dynasty.This book tells the ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Born Red

    A Chronicle of the Cultural Revolution

    by Yuan Gao ...
    Born Red is an artistically wrought personal account, written very much from inside the experience, of the years 1966-1969, when the author was a young teenager at middle school. It was in the middle schools that much of the fury of the Cultural Revolution and Red Guard movement was spent, and Gao was caught up in very dramatic events, which he recounts as he understood them at the time. Gao's ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • How the Red Sun Rose: The Origins and Development of the Yan’an Rectification Movement, 1930-1945

    by Gao Hua ...
    Translated by Stacy Mosher and Guo Jian ...
    This work offers the most comprehensive account of the origin and consequences of the Yan’an Rectification Movement from 1942 to 1945. The author argues that this campaign emancipated the Chinese Communist Party from Soviet-influenced dogmatism and unified the Party, preparing it for the final victory against the Nationalist Party in 1949. More importantly, this monograph shows in great detail how ... Read more

    $49.04 USD

  • Zhou Enlai

    The Last Perfect Revolutionary

    by Gao Wenqian ...
    Zhou Enlai, the premier of the People's Republic of China from 1949 until his death in 1976, is the last Communist political leader to be revered by the Chinese people. He is considered "a modern saint" who offered protection to his people during the Cultural Revolution; an admirable figure in an otherwise traumatic and bloody era. Works about Zhou in China are heavily censored, and every hint of ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Six Funny Scary Stories of Three Girls (Children's Books)

    by Vicky Gao ...
    This is where our adventure all started: OUR NEW SCHOOL. No sooner had I thought it than I felt a hand on my shoulder. I whipped around to see a short plump girl with bounce-a-bounce black hair that was tied up in an out of fashion pony tail."Hullo." She said in a short cheeky voice and as she spoke I noticed that her front tooth was missing. The tooth made her look tricky and kind of wicked. Her ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Introduction to Visual SLAM

    From Theory to Practice

    by Xiang Gao, Tao Zhang ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    This book offers a systematic and comprehensive introduction to the visual simultaneous localization and mapping (vSLAM) technology, which is a fundamental and essential component for many applications in robotics, wearable devices, and autonomous driving vehicles. The book starts from very basic mathematic background knowledge such as 3D rigid body geometry, the pinhole camera projection model, ... Read more

    $143.09 USD