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This is the first album of caricatures that records Taiwan’s not-so-distant past from 1940 to 2020, completely bilingual with Chinese and English placed side by side. It compiles a total of 184 caricatures of Taiwan’s history and 302 important keywords of Taiwan, divided by event and arranged in chronological order. Like standing on a historical timeline, it guides us to experience memories of the past and show us important people and events from Taiwan since 1940. Reference content： 01 https://www.kuan-culture.com/%E6%89%8B%E7%B9%AA%E5%8F%B0%E7%81%A3%E9%97%9C%E9%8D%B5%E5%AD%97 02 https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=344180440105447 About the Author A caricaturist documenting factual and current events.Born in Shuangxi, Taipei, in 1963.Graduated from the National Taiwan Academy of Arts Art Department, Chinese Painting Group, and the C.T.E de Vincennes School of Design, Division of Exhibition Space Design, in Paris, France. Part1 A Hand-Drawn History of 1940-1948 #Taiwan Hit by a Demographic Shock #Second Chinese Civil War #Chongqing Negotiations #Taiwan Power Myth #Peng Meng-chi #27 Brigade #Hsieh Hsueh-hung #Pai Chung-hsi #Lin Ting-li #Ko Yuan-fen #Chang Chi-lang #Chen Fu-chih #Chen Cheng-po #Chen Tsuan-ti #Tang Te-chang #Huang Jung-tsan #Yuanshan Massacre #Chiayi Militia #Thomas Liao #Chung Hao-tung #April 6 Incident #Temporary Provisions for National Mobilization to Suppress the Communist Rebellion #Huang Chi-nan #Yang Kuei Part2 A Hand-Drawn History of 1949-1987 #Chen Yi Communist Spy Case #Chen Cheng #Taiwan Area Emergency Martial Law #40,000 to 1 Dollar #White Group #Kao Yi-sheng #Losing Watan #Valery S. de Beausset #July 13 Penghu Incident #Grand Victory at Kuningtou #Tang Shou-jen #Not Reporting Known Communists Is a Crime Equal to Being One #Civil Service Recruitment According to Province of Origin #China Women’s Anti-Communist and Anti-Russia League #Outbreak of the Korean War #US Seventh Fleet to Taiwan's Defense #Kuo Kuo-chi #Kuo Yu-hsin #Western Enterprises Inc. #Wu San-lien #Military Education at Senior High School Level and Above #37.5% Rent Reduction and Land-to-the-Tiller #China Youth Anti-Communist National Salvation Corps #Termination of Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship and Alliance #Lee You-pang #Battle of Nanri Island #Luku Base Case #Xiluo Bridge Open for Traffic #Treaty of Taipei #Getting Rich in the White Terror Period #Tuapse Incident #Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty #Dachen Islands Withdrawal #Sun Li-jen Coup Case #Vietnam War #May 24 Incident #August 7 Flood #Central Cross-Island Highway Open for Traffic #Lei Chen Case #Chiang Regime Failed to Stop Mongolia Joining the UN #Start of Taiwan Television Broadcasts #Chen Chih-hsiung #Storing Water in Shihmen Reservoir #Hukou Coup #MacArthur Thruway Open for Traffic #Declaration of Formosan Self-Salvation #End of US Aid #Chiang Ching-kuo, Boss of the Intelligence Agency #Nine-Year Compulsory Education #Electoral Fraud Through Power Failure #Peeled Banana Case #Peng Ming-min Escapes Taiwan #April 24 Chiang Assassination Incident #Taiyuan Insurrection #Protect Diaoyu Movement #Establishment of China-Japan Diplomatic Relations #Blowhard Taiwanese Youth Policy #Cheng Ping #Death of Chiang Kai-shek #Yen Chia-kan #80,000 Invalidated Votes #Pai Ya-tsan Incident #Death of Mao Zedong #Wang Sing-nan Mail Bomb Incident #Zhongli Incident #Completion of Sun Yat-sen Freeway #Chiang Ching-kuo Elected President #Taiwan Relations Act #Qiaotou Incident #Hsu Hsin-liang #Yu Teng-fa #Taoyuan Airport Renamed Chiang Kai-shek Airport #Kaohsiung City’s Status Raised #Chungtai Hotel Incident #Formosa Magazine #Formosa Incident #Formosa Incident and Chen Shui-bian #Huang Hsin-chieh #Age of Defense Lawyers #Wang Ching-hsu’s Massive Arrests #Shih Ming-teh Apprehended #Lin Family Murders #Formosa Trials #US Pressure in the Formosa Trials #First-Class Special Exam #Chen Wen-chen Incident #Hsu Shih-hsien #Chiang Nan Case #Tenth Credit Cooperative Case #May 19 Green Action #Democratic Progressive Party Established #Lee Yuan-tseh #Taoyuan Airport Incident #March 7 Incident #Lifting of Martial Law #Opening Up of Cross-Strait Family Visits Part3 A Hand-Drawn History of 1988-2010 #Death of Chiang Ching-kuo #February Political Struggle #May 20 Incident #Breaking Through the Blacklist #Establishment of Eslite Bookstore #President from Taiwan: Lee Teng-hui #Blacklist Incident #Wild Lily Student Movement #End of Diplomatic Relations with Saudi Arabia #Big Four of the Non-Mainstream #Su Chien-ho Case #End of the Period of National Mobilization for Suppression of the Communist Rebellion #Taiwan Independence Association Case #Chen Wan-chen Case #TRA Zaoqiao Train Collision #South Link Line Open for Traffic #April 19 Occupation of Zhongxiao West Road #Criminal Code Article 100 #Chien Kang Kindergarten Bus Fire #Hualien Collective Electoral Fraud #Silver Medal in Olympic Baseball #Establishment of South Korea-China Diplomatic Relations #Lifting of Martial Law on Kinmen and Matsu #Complete Re-election of the Ten-Thousand-Year Congress #Wave of Hijackings in China #Koo-Wang Talks #New Party Established #Qiandao Lake Incident #Influence of the Qiandao Lake Incident #Nagoya Air Crash #Direct Elections of Provincial Governor and City Mayors #Welcome Restaurant Fire #Lee Teng-hui’s February 28 Apology #Implementation of National Health Insurance #Lee Teng-hui’s Visit to Cornell University #Taiwan Strait Missile Crisis #First Direct Presidential Election Candidates Lin and Hau #First Direct Presidential Election Candidates Peng and Hsieh #First Direct Presidential Election Candidates Lee and Lien Elected #Liu Pang-yu Murder Case #Pai Hsiao-yen Case #Chiang Wei-kuo Passed Away #Two-State Theory #Great Earthquake of September 21 #First Party Alternation #Pachang Creek Incident Part4 A Hand-Drawn History of 2000-2020 #Millennium Bug #Bursting of the Dot-Com Bubble #First Party Alternation #Pachang Creek Incident #Pingtung Speaker Cheng Tai-chi Executed #Gaoping Bridge Collapse #Sydney Olympics #Construction of Fourth Nuclear Reactor Halted #Merchant Vessel Amorgos Oil Spill # US-China Airplane Collision #Taiwan Solidarity Union Established #September 11 Terrorist Attacks #DPP Biggest Party in National Assembly #China Joined WTO #US-China Most-Favored Nation Treatment #Taiwan Joined GATT #Euro Issued #Aung San Suu Kyi Released #China Airlines Penghu Air Crash #Sri Lanka Civil War Ended #One Country on Each Side Talk #Policy Cutting Use of Plastic Implemented #Spring Festival Chartered Flights for Cross-Strait Taiwanese Businesspeople #Outbreak of SARS Epidemic #Chiang-Soong Mei-ling Dies of Illness in New York #First Taiwan Pride Parade #Referendum Act Officially Announced #Withdrawal of Parties, Government and Military from Media #Hand-in-Hand Taiwan Rally #March 19 Shooting Incident #Lawsuit to Declare Election of President Invalid #Athens Olympics #US President George W. Bush Second Term #US Military Invasion of Iraq #Taipei 101 Completed and Opened #Hsu Wen-long One China Statement #Ad Hoc National Assembly Elections #South Asia Earthquake #Hurricane Katrina Struck America #Worsening of Avian Flu #Chen Che-nan Casino Scandal #NCC Organization Act Passed #Major KMT Victory in 3-in-1 Elections #Cessation of Guidelines for National Unification #Depose Chen Red Shirt Army Movement #Chen Shui-bian State Visits #Earthquake in Indonesian Java #Solar System Reduced to Eight Stars #Abe Shinzo, New Prime Minister of Japan #North Korea Nuclear Tests #Former Iraq President Hussein Executed #Taiwan High-Speed Rail Open for Traffic #Opening of the National 228 Memorial Museum #Ma Ying-jeou Special Expenses Case #Sarkozy Elected President of France #Global Oil Prices Skyrocket #US Subprime Mortgage Crisis #Kaohsiung’s Sanmin Township Renamed Namasia Township #Ma Ying-jeou and Vincent Siew Elected President and Vice President #Tsai Ing-wen, New DPP Chairperson #Central Bank Opened Taiwan for Renminbi Influx #Beijing Olympics #National Pension Officially Set Up #Want Want Domination of China Post #Chen Yunlin in Taiwan #Three Cross-Strait Links #Tobacco Hazards Prevention Act #Obama Assumed Presidential Post #Panda Diplomacy #Typhoon Morakot #Dalai Lama’s Visit to Taiwan #Wenhu Line Open for Traffic #Liu Chao-shiuan Asked to Resign #Google Announced Withdrawal from Chinese Market #Sean Lien Shooting #Major US Arms Sales to Taiwan #Chen Shui-bian Imprisoned #Cross-Strait Cooperation Agreement on Medicine and Public Health Affairs #Status of Five Cities Raised #Great Japan Earthquake of March 11 #Plasticizer Incident #Kuokuang Petrochemical Scrapped Development #US Military Killed Bin Laden #Ma-Wu Ticket Formed #Steve Jobs Passed Away #Arab Spring #Ma-Wu Successfully Elected for Second Term #Fuel and Electricity Inflation Policy #Lin Yi-shih Bribery Case #US President Obama Second Term #Xi Jinping Appointed Highest Leader of China #Boston Marathon Bombing #White Shirt Army Movement #Dapu Incident #Syria Chemical Weapon Attack #Ma-Wang Strife #Sunflower Movement #Russian Annexation of Crimea #TransAsia Airways Penghu Air Crash #Kaohsiung Gas Explosion #Ting Hsin Malevolent Oil #Chen Shui-bian Released #Greece Debt Crisis #European Refugee Crisis #Two Days Off per Week Policy #Hung Hsiu-chu Replacement Controversy #Ma-Xi Meeting #Paris Terrorist Attack #Wei Kuan Building Collapse #Taiping Island Turned into Rock #Hsiung Feng III Missile Misfire #Trump Elected US President #Trump-Tsai Call #One Fixed Day Off and One Flexible Rest Day Formally Adopted #Park Geun-hye Impeachment #China-Europe Railway #Establishment of China-Pakistan Diplomatic Relations #Three Major Pension Reforms Passed in Three Readings #Taipei Universiade # Lee Ming-che Incident #Relaxing of Organized Crime Definition Passed in Three Readings #China Lifts Restrictions on Presidential Term #Taiwan Travel Act #North Korea-US Summit #UK Signs Bill to Leave the EU #2018 North and South Korea Summit #Yellow Vest Movement #Reiwa Era #Legalization of Same-Sex Marriage #Japan-South Korea Trade War #Tsai Ing-wen Transit in New York #Diplomatic Crisis #Tsai-Lai Ticket Second Term #Havoc Wreaked by Novel Coronavirus Pneumonia #China-India Border Clashes #Han Kuo-yu Recalled #Communist Planes Harassed Taiwan #Hong Kong Area National Security Law Passed #Lee Teng-hui Passed Away
The crow and the cherry blossom meet at the beginning of spring, and part at the end of spring. In the shortest of friendships, each learns to appreciate the other’s beauty, and a beautiful memory is created. Spring has come. When the crow wakes and opens his eyes, he discovers that the cherry blossom throughout the town has opened too – all except one little bud, which is still sleeping. He waits patiently for the bud to unfurl and flower. After a thunderstorm, the crow’s feathers are soaked through, but the cherry blossom is still intact. In the quiet of early morning, the crow tells the cherry blossom about his dream. He looks forward to meeting him again next spring. But can that really happen? The Crow and the Cherry Blossom is an elegant and poetic picture book. The gentle narrative style and the detailed pencil drawings offer a calm and comforting reading experience. Crow is black, Cherry Blossom is pink. One moves, one is still. The crow and the cherry blossom are so different, yet they gradually open up to each other, and enjoy a friendship that is short, but deep.
Hsien-Han, Teng is a high school student. He has a crush on an elder sister Chiao-Wen ,Yeh since childhood. Many years had passed, Chiao-Wen moved to another place, but now, she comes back. Hsien-Han accidentally found that she is stuck in love and needs someone to listen to her problems. Hsien-Han is upset, but he can’t reject her. He thinks that at least he can support her and be a good company. Then Hsien-Han meets a heroic spirit senior sister in part-time job and a positive classmate. The senior sister is shy but works hard for her dream. The classmate is energy and worries about her friendship. They all have their troubles. When the boy and three girls with different personalities get together will start an engaging story.
This collection of cartoons about the life of Mrs Lee Kuan Yew nee madam Kwa Geok Choo and her husband is renown cartoonist, Morgan Chua’s response to the passing on of Madam Kwa Geok Choo in 2010. He felt that a glimpse into the early as well as private life of Madam Kwa was important to complete the official narrative of a woman who had contributed so much to independent Singapore. He spent much time in researching her family background some of which had hitherto never been published before. This completed book of cartoons which were published in 2011 elicited letters of compliment from Mr Lee Kuan Yew and Lee Hsien Loong which, according to Morgan, “is even better than the Cultural Medallion award” given by the Republic of Singapore. All attributable proceeds from this first edition of the book will be given to the family of the late Morgan Chua for use in charitable causes.
Yak est un petit lapin plein d’énergie… mais pas très poli !À cause de cela, il a du mal à se faire des amis.Heureusement pour lui, la Fée polie vient à son secours.
"Little Newton Science Museum" includes 60 volumes. This series books includs wide aspects of life-oriented and Interesting surrounding science, covering 10knowledge fields, and more than 100 scientific topics, providing children with diverse and three-dimensional learning methods, and double the learning effect. It leads children to explore science and technology that amazes the world, to form children’s ability in the sciences, and to allow children to develop their scientific spirit of verification through natural observation and experimentation. The series books are published in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, China in Traditional and Simplified Chinese Versions. "Little Newton Science Museum" is the best original children's science reading in the Chinese-speaking world. There are 60 Volumes in this series.
Gourmet is intertwined with space. The Taiwanese cuisine restaurant is not only filled with scents but also constructs a unique atmosphere of diets. Diet in Taiwan can be generally categorized into Hakka cuisine, Fujian cuisine, and other immigrant styles of cuisine. The local restaurants embody delicate differences between various groups of communities, especially for the metropolitan areas where immigrants from different places were gathered.Diet history is intertwined with local customs and history, which manifests the broadness and inclusiveness of Taiwan. As time goes by, Taiwanese cuisine is fused with Guangdong and Fujian cuisine, Beijing cuisine, Zhejiang cuisine, Shanghai cuisine, and unique dishes from military housing. Taiwanese cuisine is also affected by the local custom, climate, and ingredients, and it has evolved into idiosyncratic dishes and diets. “The cuisine of Taiwan” is another a cultural encyclopedia that analyzes the Taiwanese cuisine with rolling aromas in the air. “so Taiwan! ”
Two of the most stylized shots in cinema—the close-up and the long shot—embody distinct attractions. The iconicity of the close-up magnifies the affective power of faces and elevates film to the discourse of art. The depth of the long shot, in contrast, indexes the facts of life and reinforces our faith in reality. Each configures the relation between image and distance that expands the viewer’s power to see, feel, and conceive. To understand why a director prefers one type of shot over the other then is to explore more than aesthetics: It uncovers significant assumptions about film as an art of intervention or organic representation. Close-ups and Long Shots in Modern Chinese Cinemas is the first book to compare these two shots within the cultural, historical, and cinematic traditions that produced them. In particular, the global revival of Confucian studies and the transnational appeal of feminism in the 1980s marked a new turn in the composite cultural education of Chinese directors whose shot selections can be seen as not only stylistic expressions, but ethical choices responding to established norms about self-restraint, ritualism, propriety, and female agency. Each of the films discussed—Zhang Yimou’s Red Sorghum, Ang Lee’s Lust, Caution, Hou Hsiao-hsien’s The Assassin, Jia Zhangke’s I Wish I Knew, and Wei Desheng’s Cape No. 7— represents a watershed in Chinese cinemas that redefines the evolving relations among film, politics, and ethics. Together these works provide a comprehensive picture of how directors contextualize close-ups and long shots in ways that make them interpretable across many films as bellwethers of social change.
In this volume, the reader will find 10 short stories that explore the author’s fantasies and creative imaginations. Heroes and villains confront each other in dark sceneries. Swords sink into monsters in faraway places, ruins, temples and arenas. Magic emanates from young to more experienced wizards. Adventure is highlighted in each page of the book. Read it with some magic scrolls next to you, but don’t be mistaken: have a sharp sword with you as well, to attack the most terrible creature in its weakest point. Have fun!
* 2021 Taipei Book Fair Award The true story of Tsai Kun-lin, born in Qingshui, Taichung, in 1930, as he lives through Japanese rule and the arrival of the Kuomintang. Polite and a good student, Tsai found himself sentenced to ten years in jail for “membership of an illegal organization” after attending a high school book club. This graphic novel recounts his tenacity and determination. The 1930s, Japanese-ruled Taiwan. A young boy, Tsai Kun-lin grows up, accompanied by picture books and folk tales. But the merciless flames of World War 2 soon arrive – protests, bombing and conscription will change his life forever. After the war, the young booklover learns a new language and hopes to finally live a life of peace, never expecting his attendance at a high school book club will land him in jail. Transported to the penal colony for political prisoners on Green Island, he loses ten years of his youth to torture, terror, hard labor, and brainwashing. This series of graphic novels draws on the actual events of Tsai’s life. At Taichung First Senior High School he was a trainee soldier and a good student; years later he was sentenced to ten years in prison for attending a high school book club. On release he worked in publishing and advertising, and founded Prince, a children’s magazine which kept Taiwan’s cartooning tradition alive during martial law. He raised funds to allow a rural little league team to compete in Taipei and, on retirement, became a human rights activist. Tsai’s life is Taiwan’s recent history writ small. There is darkness, but always a light; hardship, but always the strength to endure. A simple yet graceful style faithfully recreates the historical scenes, with the accurate use of the Chinese, Taiwanese, and Japanese languages bringing those times to life. The warmth and vitality of the storytelling demonstrate that while we cannot control events, we can, as Tsai did, persevere through them.
In New Asian Disorder: Rivalries Embroiling the Pacific Century, Lowell Dittmer and his team explore the recent political disorder in East Asia resulting from growing Sino-American polarization. The rise of China in recent years is widely regarded as a momentous shift in the global balance of power. China is now extending sovereignty into the East China Sea and the South China Sea, constructing a new set of global financial institutions and replacing “universal values” with technologically enhanced nationalism. The country’s “Belt and Road Initiative” is also tainted by the vast ambition to realize the “China Dream” within the foreseeable future. In response to China’s challenge, the United States has abandoned its “constructive engagement” policy towards the rising power and engaged in a trade war. Sino-American relations have been at a historical trough since the normalization of their relationship in the late 1970s. This book sheds new light on the current political disorder in the East Asian international arena. The new Asian disorder is analyzed from three perspectives: the first focuses on identity, the second on political economy, and the third on the triangular dynamic. This collection of essays concludes that, unless and until consensus can be reached on a coherent new framework for cooperation and rule enforcement among different stakeholders in East Asia, the current disorder may be expected to persist.
JOY TO THE WORLD is a monthly English-learning magazine that celebrates the world. Each issue introduces young readers to a country and its fascinating history, culture, people, and everyday life and does this in fun, interesting ways.
* 2020 Japan International Manga Award (Silver)* 2020 Golden Comic Award* French, Japanese, and Korean rights have been sold for the original novel and a TV series is soon to be released. Man Booker prize nominee Wu Ming-Yi’s much-loved collection of nostalgic short stories, as a graphic novel. Let the artists whisk you back to Taipei of the 1980s, to the long-gone Chunghwa Market Bazaar and a world of magical memories. In 1980s Taipei, the Chunghwa Market Bazaar was home to hardware stores, snack stalls, record shops, tailors, locksmiths and seal-carvers – if you needed it, you could find it here. Any resident of Taipei at the time will have precious memories of the eight buildings that formed the market. And linking those buildings, they will remember, was a skywalk. And perhaps one day, on the skywalk, they saw an illusionist. The illusionist on the skywalk has many tricks. He can magic up a copy of a key, make the safety railing disappear, and have a papercut man stand up and dance. Children cluster round, trying to spot the trick to his tricks. Years later, those children are grown and the market is gone, and all that is left is stories steeped in magic: The elevator to the 99th floor that turns you invisible, the stone lion that walks into your dreams and joins you for a stroll, the drawing of a goldfish which comes to life and swims around its bowl (although if you look closely, you can see through it) and a curiously clever cat which keeps lonely old folk company. Adapted from a collection of short stories by Taiwan’s best-known writer, Wu Ming-Yi, this graphic novel has been created by two artists, each drawing four stories from the lives of those children who watched the illusionist on the skywalk. These are tales of adventure and setback, of love and death – of all that we must face as we grow up, told in a blend of nostalgia and magical realism. Let Wu Ming-Yi’s words and the art of Sean Chuang and Ruan Guang-Ming carry you back to 1980s Taipei.
In The Making of Chinese-Sinophone Literatures as World Literature, Kuei-fen Chiu and Yingjin Zhang aim to bridge the distance between the scholarship of world literature and that of Chinese and Sinophone literary studies. This edited volume advances research on world literature by bringing in new developments in Chinese/Sinophone literatures and adds a much-needed new global perspective on Chinese literary studies beyond the traditional national literature paradigm and its recent critique by Sinophone studies. In addition to a critical mapping of the domains of world literature, Sinophone literature, and world literature in Chinese to delineate the nuanced differences of these three disciplines, the book addresses the issues of translation, genre, and the impact of media and technology on our understanding of “literature” and “literary prestige.” It also provides critical studies of the complicated ways in which Chinese and Sinophone literatures are translated, received, and reinvested across various genres and media, and thus circulate as world literature. The issues taken up by the contributors to this volume promise fruitful polemical interventions in the studies of world literature from the vantage point of Chinese and Sinophone literatures.
Little Mouse dreams of travelling around the world. He envies his friend Big Mouse, who is always going somewhere. They live different lives and read different books, but it seems Little Mouse is closer to fulfilling his dream than he thinks. Little Mouse is a very small chef. He’s too busy at work to have time to stop. But he has a dream – to travel around the world! Big Mouse lives in a library, with a globe and a map of the world, and lots and lots of books. He enjoys sharing his news of the world with Little Mouse, who thinks his friend is very lucky. One day, Little Mouse is busier than ever at work, and doesn’t realize how close he is to living his dream! Every child has a dream, but how can they make that dream come true? Little Mouse’ s Dream is like a fable – with few words, and gorgeous illustrations, the story inspires the reader to dream and think about life.
Everywhere he looks, Guy Ninemann sees nine tally marks – and somehow finds himself caught up in a cycle of reincarnation. He witnesses the destruction of the city he lives in, is shot in the head and… awakens as another Guy Ninemann. As a child, Guy Ninemann claimed to have nine lives. As an adult, he does. Out in the city one day, a homeless man shows him nine tally marks spray-painted on a wall, and the image lodges itself inside his mind. Before he can make any sense of what is going on, he is kidnapped, sees his city destroyed and is shot dead. But the end of one life throws him into the middle of another. Ninemann awakes in a new body, in a new time, in a new place – but with all his old memories. Each new life brings its own mission to complete – and linking them all, the explosion that destroys the city. Inspired by the classic 80s Taiwanese sci-fi graphic novel Nine Lives Man, this fast-paced and intricate story challenges our understanding of time. Beautifully drawn, this is a banquet of suspense, detective work and mind-bending sci-fi.
* This follows an earlier book Going to School by Dinosaur (English, French, Korean, Spanish, Slovak, and Simplified Chinese rights sold). Can the children get to the library in time to hear the story? They can if they call for Leilong! But the brontosaurus can’t go inside the library: he’s too big and he doesn’t have a library card. But he wants to hear the story too! Maggie, Mo, and Max want to go to story time, but the library is at the other side of town, and they are running late. When Leilong comes to the rescue, they race down busy roads and speed past traffic, and reach the library just in time! But, the brontosaurus can’t go inside: he is too big, and doesn’t have a library card. He wants to hear the story, but how? The storyteller has an idea, and gives Leilong a special job! From the same author and illustrator of Going to School by Dinosaur. This time Leilong takes the children to the library! Julia Liu’s imaginative story and Bei Lynn’s exquisite illustrations with a taste of Taiwan, combine in a book that children will love to read, and that will inspire them to become readers.
A hungry fox finds a beautiful duck’s egg, but would rather eat a tasty little duck, so he becomes a super-nanny, and waits patiently for the egg to hatch. Fox is so hungry he can hardly move. He chances upon a beautiful smooth duck’s egg. He is just about to crack it open and eat it, when a thought occurs to him: “If I hatch the egg, I’ll be able to eat a tasty little duck!” So he takes the egg with him when he goes walking, and even takes it to bed with him. Over time, the egg becomes his friend. Then, one day, Fox is woken by a strange noise. He notices a little hole in the top of the egg, and sees a little duck’s beak pecking away at the hole… Fox Hatches an Egg has been a classic in the Taiwanese children’s book world for twenty years. Reminiscent of Aesop’s fables, Sun Chyng-feng’s story depicts with humour the relationship between Fox and the little duck, but turns the old-style fox-as-villain story into one with warmth and kindness. The new illustrations by Nan Jun are full of autumnal colour and atmosphere and are cleverly constructed, making this a wonderful reinterpretation of a classic.
A Sensational Encounter with High Socialist China is a recollection of the historic visit of fourteen American students (and one Canadian) to China in 1971. The visit was one of the first approved for American scholars after the Chinese Communist Party came to power in 1949 and occurred prior to President Nixon’s famous trip (as well as that of a second group of scholars) in 1972. One of these students, Paul Pickowicz, kept a journal and photographically documented the trip. This book is a personal account of the events leading up to their visa approvals as well as those that occurred during the journey itself. The five senses are used to connect the reader to his experience and are placed in the context of a theatrical production. The images included have been selected from an archive at the University of California, San Diego, which digitized the author’s images as well as those of others in the Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars (CCAS) taken during both the 1971 and 1972 delegations.
