Crimson Dragon Publishing carries books that encourage readers of all ages by sparking the imagination. While we focus on the fantasy and science fiction genres, we also carry illustrated books for young readers that focus on social-emotional skills development and fictionalized non-fiction.
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Contemporary fiction with strong female characters. Realism combining elements of suspense with elements of humor. Multi-layered stories about modern-day life and love, society and human beings. In focus: women and their own view of the world. Universal emotions, desires and human values, a portrait of society and a documentation of recent historical events. Young women in foreign countries. We publish novels, narrations, poems, and short stories.
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The book is devoted to the most tragic period of the history of the Crimean Tatar people - the deportation of 1944. It describes the lives of the expelled people in foreign lands as well as tells us a story of long and self-sacrificing struggle of the Crimean Tatars for the right to return to their homeland. It is a detailed research of the history of the Crimean Tatar national movement and contains a lot of quotes from the Crimean Tatars’ self-publishing press as well as citations from the traditionally friendly to the Crimean Tatars Moscow editions of that times. An author also reinforced her research by analysis of many documents that were found in the Crimean, Kyiv and Moscow archives as well as by the interview with the most famous and respected member of the movement, leader of Crimean Tatar people Mustafa Djemilev, who was a prisoner of conscience many times during Soviet era. Mustafa Djemilev also wrote an introduction to the book. According to the author, resistance of Crimean Tatars to the criminal policy of the Moscow authorities and the refusal of Russian authorities to fulfil the just demands of the Crimean Tatar people are two different fronts of the national struggle of Crimean Tatar people. Despite the victory of the Crimean Tatars and their return to their homeland a quarter century ago, the struggle at the both fronts continues.
After reading the book, you will discover a lot of dishes common among the Crimean Tatars at the beginning of the XX century. The book will help you better realize how the national cuisine changed as a result of the forced deportation of these people in 1944. The scientific text is accompanied by the native language of the old-timers, which gives it a special sound. The book was written by a researcher who has been studying the history and culture of the Crimean Tatar people for many years.
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The beginning of the novel takes place in the 20s of the last century in the Crimea. Crimean Tatars, Ukrainians and Jews live peacefully in the village. We see a company of children of different ethnic backgrounds. Before World War II, these children graduated and were preparing for adult life. Young Crimean Tatar woman Faride works in a kindergarten. Crimea is occupied by the Nazis. They gather all the Jews to shoot them outside the village. Faride taught Jewish children from her kindergarten to say that they were Tatars, and gave them new Crimean Tatar names. The Nazis tortured her, but the children were saved. 50 years later she was awarded the title of the Righteous Among the Nations. In 1944, Crimea was liberated from the Nazis by the Soviet army. Stalin accused the Crimean Tatars of collaborating with the Nazis and ordered their expulsion from the Crimea, even those who had fought in the Soviet army. One night they are all driven from their homes and taken for months in wagons, designed to transport cattle, to camps in Siberia. Half of them died on the way from starvation and disease. Faride manages to save her young son, leaving him in the village with neighbors, but she finds herself in a Stalinist concentration camp, where she works on cutting trees. After Stalin's death, Crimean Tatars were still not allowed to return home to Crimea; they were relocated to Uzbekistan, where they lived under police surveillance until 1989, when the Soviet Union began to disintegrate. Faride returns, but her son did not come to meet her, and strangers live in her house. Faride returns forgotten, tortured by both the Nazis and the Soviet regime. The novel is based on real events, it shows the life story of one woman in parallel with the tragic history of the entire Crimean Tatar nation.
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The book Crimean Tatars: From Ethnogenesis to Statehood is not just a sketch of the life and formation of Crimean Tatars as an ethnos, it is a great opportunity for readers of any age to learn and reflect in a historical (and sometimes political) perspective about who the Crimean Tatars, Krymchaks, Karaites really are, where they came from and how they were formed as a nationality. And why now they, together with other, unfortunately, small ethnic groups are forced to defend their status as the indigenous population of the peninsula, what is their role in the formation of modern Ukraine. A detailed study by Crimean historian Gulnara Abdullaeva will help restore the centuries-old ethnic history of the Crimean Tatars and other indigenous peoples of Crimea, dispel numerous imposed myths, demonstrate the national identity, uniqueness and value of the Crimean Tatar ethnic group for human civilization. The book is for those who want to know the story without expurgates.
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Crimea. It was here that the main character of the novel spent her childhood, youth and met first love. It was here that she realized that she is Ukrainian. Neither grandfather, lieutenant colonel of the KGB, nor Russian blood in his veins stood in the way of her self-identification. The novel intertwines Crimean Tatar culture, Ukrainian history and family skeletons in closets like an ornament. Together with the main character and her friends, Aliye who is a Crimean Tatar, and Alyona who is a Ukrainian, the reader travels a long way from their childhood to the present — the occupation of the peninsula by Russia. «There is a land beyond Perekop» is an ode to Crimea. Not to its natural beauty and uniqueness, but to people. This is an attempt to open the mainland for Crimea, and Crimea for the mainland. After all, there is land both there and there. It should be known and stitched.
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Home, family, blooming pomegranates, children’s mischief. One day all of this is swept away by World War II. And the next day, after so many losses, it turns out that being a Crimean Tatar is a sentence. Hasty deportation, weeks in the freight trains, heavier losses yet, unfriendly new settlements, hard work. Memories of the lost Crimea. How can one find meaning, strength to live, and faith in people?
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Who are we? This is the question that the Ukraїner team has been working on every day for over five years. We tell stories from different parts of Ukraine, and in this way we seek the answer. This book has grown out of a great desire to explore and tell about the people in Ukraine. First of all, it is about the indigenous peoples here, because since July 2021, in addition to Ukrainians, this list has officially included the Crimean Tatars, Krymchaks and Karaites. And also it is about a whole range of national minorities whose representatives appeared on our lands for one reason or another. After all, the history of each people living in the territory of Ukraine is a part of our common history, as ancient and rooted as the formation of the Crimean Tatar people in Crimea and nearby steppe of Prychornomoria, or as fresh as the newly Indian student community in Zakarpattia. With the story of the latter, in 2017 Ukraїner began a series of more than 30 multimedia stories about national minorities of Ukraine, fragments of which became the basis for this book. Most stories are accompanied by QR codes with links, which you can follow to watch the stories. We also set out to tell about the diversity of cultures and thereby answer the question: what are we? The deeper we researched the traditional holidays, cuisine, and symbols of each separate people, the more we found in common.
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The Lost Island is a collection of reportage pieces from the Russian- occupied Crimea by a well-known journalist Nataliya Gumenyuk, who visited the peninsula in 2014– 2019. Her book tells the true stories and tragedies of people whose lives took a drastic turn after 2014. Some of these Crimean residents live under occupation, others in a different country. What is the unvarnished truth of their stories? Businessmen and retirees, Crimean Tatars, students and activists, human rights advocates and soldiers, people of varied political and ideological affiliations tell their stories: some want to share their quiet, long suppressed pain while others are tired of silently succumbing to fear.
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Zwischen zwei Feuern – Tollertopographie: Im New Yorker Exil durchleidet Ernst Toller seinen letzten Tag, den 22. Mai 1939. Ostermaiers Stück entwirft eine Topographie der Künstlerseele: Tollers Alter ego, Tollkirsch, führt ihm immer wieder sein Scheitern vor Augen und hetzt ihn so zu Tode.Zuckersüss & Leichenbitter oder: vom kaffee-satz im zucker-stück: Verzweifelt kaut der Mann, schwarzen Kaffee trinkend, an seinen Sätzen: Bruchstücke einer gescheiterten Lebensgeschichte und Reflexionen über den Tod. Da meldet sich überraschend ein Zuckerstück zu Wort. Ohne Punkt und Komma kämpft es mit Witz und Pop für ungesüßten Kaffee und damit um sein Leben.Tatar Titus: Titus Andronicus, kein Feldherr, sondern Dichter, hat sich mit Herrscher und Staat verbündet, um dem eigenen Ruhm zu dienen. Zu tollkühn hat er sich ins Mahlwerk der Macht begeben, und dort haben sie Hackfleisch aus ihm gemacht.
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The book analyses more than 20 Russian myths fabricated to legitimise the annexation of Crimea. The annexation of the Ukrainian peninsular of Crimea by Russia in 2014 caused the largest political crisis in Europe since the Second World War. It also gave rise to the unprecedented growth of propaganda to justify the aggressive policy of the Russian Federation in the eyes of the world. Is Crimea really an original Russian land? Is it true that the Crimean Tatars are all traitors? Was the peninsula really integrated into Ukraine illegally? And what, after all, were the events of February–March 2014–the illegal occupation of the foreign territory or the “restoration of historical justice”?
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Dragon fruit (pitaya) is a perennial climbing cactus, native to the tropical areas of North, Central and South America. It is suited to tropical and subtropical regions and is commercially grown in an increasing number of countries, including Israel, Australia and the USA. Dragon fruit generates considerable consumer interest because of its exotic appearance and potential health benefits. The fruit is rich in nutrients and phytochemical compounds. It can be eaten fresh or used in the preparation of juices, jellies, jams, etc. The natural bioactive compounds in pitaya have the potential to be exploited in food, pharmaceutical and cosmetic industries. Increasingly cultivated worldwide, the plant is drought-resistant, easily adapts to light intensity and high temperatures, and has a tolerance to a wide range of soil salinities. With ongoing global warming, dragon fruit has great potential as a new crop for many more countries. This book is a compilation of the current state of knowledge on dragon fruit physiology, cultivation, production technology, postharvest management and processing, and is written by leading international authors.
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The profound reportage, Yuan Longping’s World, pays a tribute to a hero of our time -- Yuan Longping, Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering and a great scientist. The reportage has comprehensively and profoundly demonstrated the patriotism and scientific spirit of Yuan Longping, and objectively showed the rigorous but interesting daily life of Yuan and his team. The work has accurately describes the research principle and process of hybrid rice technology,analyzes and clarifies the generally concerned transgenic doubts about hybrid rice in the form of literature for the first time. It has been the most authoritative and deep-going biography of Yuan Longping so far, and even the most approved version by Yuan Longping himself. Chen Qiwen, author of the reportage, who lays emphasis upon field work and longitudinal interview, has worked for three years on this book, and nearly visited the paddy bases throughout the country, and even around the whole world.
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China Story Picture Books is the first set of children's picture books launched by the Bingxin Award Committee. This set of books covers the works of seven Bingxin Award-winning writers of different ages including children's literature masters and promising young writers. The illustrations are full of traditional Chinese cultural elements such as dragon lantern dance, paper cutting, oil paper umbrella, and bamboo. Powerful painters at home and abroad are invited to do illustrations, which brings interesting fusion and collision of Chinese and foreign cultures to the books. In addition to the original illustrations, the stories are more touching. Every child can harvest the courage and wisdom for growing up from these stories. The series consists of 7 picture books: The Dragon Lantern, The Path of Golden Flowers, The Child in Three-Story Attic, The School Day Gifts, The Secret of Crossing, The Slope of Sisters. The Dragon Lantern tells a folk story of the Spring Festival. Yuanyuan and Fangfang are twins, and they have a common wish: to have a big lantern on the day of the Spring Festival. When the new year comes, the dragon in the dragon lantern jumps into the sky and turns into a fire dragon with colorful lights. He takes the God of Fortune, the Door God, the Kitchen God and the Lord Rabbit for a walk in the sky, laughs, and brings everyone the blessings of the festival.
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Dream under the Harvest: The Story of Yuan Longping is a picture book about Yuan Longping's life experiences from childhood to becoming a scientist. The picture book highlights Yuan's scientist spirit with a child-friendly story and realistic drawings, tells the story of Yuan's life for the cause of hybrid rice, and presents his vivid and colorful life, his persistent spirit of exploration and his bright and open mind.
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On the top of the mountain, live a dragon that often spout fire. Everyone in the village is afraid of the lone dragon. Three friends are curious about it and want to take a peek if the dragon is truly as scary as people said. When they arrive there, what they see is definitely not something they expected!
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The creation of this book was spearheaded by two journalists who used to work in Ukraine’s Crimea. The book’s genre is a mix of reportage, activism, and oral history and presents a narrative about Russia’s invasion of Crimea and its annexation in the spring of 2014. The volume captures the everyday life and resistance of the Crimean people under the occupation as well as the work of human rights and pro-Ukrainian activists who had remained in Crimea despite the crackdown of the collaborating local authorities and Russian security forces. The editors have amassed a sizable amount of recollections and testimonies. They interviewed forced migrants who moved to Ukraine-controlled territory immediately or soon after the annexation, people who were persecuted, held captive, or incarcerated by the FSB (the Russian Security Service) as well as residents who stayed in Crimea. These testimonies have undergone a media fact-check and an assessment by human rights institutions, such as the Crimean Human Rights Group and the Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union, and were reworked in accordance with the standards of democratic journalism, translated into Ukrainian, and equipped with authentic illustrations. Some stories and documents were taken from the public domain and are included with the authors’ permission, while other stories were recorded specifically for this book.
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This book is a fantasy novel which written by Yuanye, who places his gaze on the prairie where his life came from, gazing at the unique experience of exploring nature by Mongolian children. Through the perspectives of teenager Baiyin, Suolong and Uncle Tonglaga, their fantastic adventures show the beauty of the prairie's animals, plants, and folklore. This is a fantasy world in the depths of the prairie, which reads fantastically and purely. The naivete of children, the simplicity of herders, the reverence of nature, the exploration of the unknown world, and the cherishing of culture grow in this prairie, where there are adventures and growth, pure laughter and tears, making people yearn for childhood.
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The book is based on Confucianism and focuses on reformation, loyalty, filial piety, benevolence and the study of life. The book is written in a simple, fresh and timeless manner and is highly readable. The author's extensive quotations and examples make this book a 'mini-encyclopaedia' of traditional Chinese culture. The Yuan Family Sermon is mainly a record of the daily teachings of Yuan's parents to their children, the contents of which can be cross-referenced with the Four Sermons of Yuan.
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This book tells the story of WW1 in a clear and interesting way with historical facts. This book is totally different from any history book you have read. Readers can take a lot of joy and also understand the history of WW2 at the same time.
