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      • Trusted Partner
        November 2021

        Worn out from Staying Awake Alone: Guo Songtao and the Big Changes of Late Qing Dynasty

        by Meng Ze

        This book follows the line of the ups and downs of Guo Songtao’s life experience, connecting Zeng Guofan, Zuo Zongtang, Hu Linyi, Li Hongzhang and other important military and political figures in the late Qing Dynasty. By describing the choices and destinies of different figures in the changes unprecedented in the past three thousand years, it reflects the political situation of the late Qing Dynasty which is intertwined with internal and external contradictions.

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        Huxiang Library -- Huxiang traditional patterns

        by Zuo Hanzhong

        Huxiang culture has a long history, extensive and profound, and is an important vein of the unique city characteristics in the middle age culture. Especially since modern times, a batch of Sanxiang British style, with its literature and military strategy. All powerful, please write a brilliant chapter of history, make Huxiang culture more colorful, far-reaching influence. In order to promote Huxiang culture and enligh10 future generations of Huxiang, Hunan Provincial Committee of CPC and Hunan Provincial People's Government decided to compile and publish a large series of books called Huxiang Library.

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        2009

        Grand View of Chinese Auspicious Images

        by Zuo Hanzhong

        A glossary of Chinese auspicious images with extensive content, complete patterns, detailed interpretation, and in-depth discussion. In the first part of this glossary, there is a study report on auspicious images followed by more than one hundred illustrations with texts, allowing readers to develop a clue visually and have a clear understanding of the origin and context of the auspicious images, thus to initiate some meaningful thinking.

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        2014

        Chinese Folk Fine Art Modeling

        by Zuo Hanzhong

        This is China’s first monograph on  the study of folk fine art modeling. It expounds the relationship between folk fine art modeling and the primitive culture and the folk culture from a macroscopic point of view, and traces the path of the inheritance, blending and variation of folk fine art modeling. It also analyzes the basic characteristics and modeling methods of folk fine art modeling in a microscopic way, and explores the aesthetic implication of folk fine art modeling. It also enriches interesting legends with creative ideas, allowing readers to gain a deeper understanding of the true meaning of Chinese folk fine art modeling and obtain inspiration of artistic creation therefrom.

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        The Analects for Children

        by Liu Yaohui

        The Analects for Children, written by renowned scholar Liu Yaohui, is a popular book for children to understand The Analects. Selecting historical figures from The Analects and combining the relative records in Records of the Grand Historian, Zuo Zhuan, and The Sayings of Confucius and His Disciples to Tell, the book presents the life experiences, thoughts, and spirits of Confucius and his disciples. It vividly showcases the essence of thoughts in The Analects and leads young readers to better appreciate the personal charm and profound thinking of sages. The book introduces profound academic knowledge with legible words, offering young readers an interesting and intriguing reading experience.

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        June 2021

        The Xiang River Running North

        by Deng Xiangzi, Zuo Hanzhong

        The Xiang River Running North is an original picture book on the theme of river culture. During the 100 years of the Chinese Communist Party's struggle, the Xiang River has undergone radical changes in water quality, the economy along the river, the development of natural scenic areas, and the construction of new rural areas. Now, there is a prosperous new face of Hunan. This book depicts the beautiful landscape of Xiang River in a large scroll, and at the same time, these changes are cleverly integrated into it. For example, high-speed rail through the mountains, high buildings are everywhere, bridges across the river, and new countryside all over the China, etc. In a large format, this book opens a lively course for young readers to read about Xiang River, nature and the times.

      • Trusted Partner
        December 2020

        Festivals of Chinese Ethnic Groups·Nu: The Flower Festival

        by Yan Xiangjun, Zuo Hanzhong

        This book mainly introduces the origin of the Nu ethnic group's Flower Festival. A beautiful Nu girl used her ingenuity to help the Nu people solve the problem of crossing the river. Later, the wealthy bully wanted to marry her because of her beauty and intelligence. She fled to the cave but was killed by the bully on March 15th of the lunar calendar. Later, when people went to worship her on March 15th, they found that the cave was full of flowers. Thus, people called that day the “Flower Festival”.

      • Historical fiction

        Going to Changan

        Stories from the Bamboo Slips in Han Dynasty

        by Zuo Qiumeng

        The book told eight stories from unearthed bamboo and silk documents which are about small potatoes of Han Dynasty. These stories cover the thoughts, official system, military system, basic necessities of life, folk beliefs and many other aspects at that time. Following the stories are several popular articles, which combine unearthed cultural relics and documents to explain the social life and material culture of Han Dynasty in more detail and restore the details of the specific scenes of the life at that time.

      • Kid of Sun Village

        by Guo Jiangyan

        It was a cold morning when Grandpa, who picked wastes for a living, came across the most precious thing in his life—a baby. For an old childless couple, the baby is a gift from the gods. Though they were poor, they cared so selflessly about this little boy, who they later named Chouchou. When Grandpa and Grandma died, Aunt Kuihua, Mr. Cheng—headmaster of Chouchou’s school, and especially his homeroom teacher, Miss Zuo, took good care of him. His friends—timid Chen Ying, Jiang Daya, whose family suffered from misfortune, thoughtless Lin Sheng—with him. “Even if he was born in dirt, he lives in the sunshine bravely.”

      • Humanities & Social Sciences

        Collected Works of Yang Kuan

        by Yang Kuan

        This book is one of the representative works of Chinese famous historian Yang Kuan. It edited the historical materials on a yearly basis, which was on to the last year of “Zuo Zhuan”, until Qin Dynasty unified the whole country, starting from king Zhending of Zhou (468 BC) and ending in the twenty-sixth year of king Ying Zheng (221 BC). The historical materials of the original distraction, the chronological error, and the true or false confusions, are arranged and compiled for the year, so as to be an orderly and authentic historical document. These historical data focus on the major events of the year, including the rulings of Political Strategists, the rhetoric and the letters. Widely used in all kinds of ancient books and modern-person research results, the material is rich, sophisticated, and has a very high academic value.

      • October 2014

        MONSTER MANSION

        by Lan Qi Zuo Ren

        * Over 1 million books sold * Bestselling author on books.com and Kingstone book platforms * Already adapted to radio drama, tabletop game, and a limited edition mobile game in collaboration with SONY High school freshman Feng Ping-Lan is excited to move on-campus, make new friends, and start a new school year. Unfortunately, he has arrived a day early and can’t move into the dorms. As a temporary solution, the dorm coordinator directs him to the “haunted house” on the hill next to campus.   Though the house appears empty, it is actually a magical prison for a band of monsters that entered the human world a decade ago. After losing a decisive battle, they were trapped in the house with a magical seal. In a moment of confusion, Feng Ping-Lan accidentally breaks the seal as he explores the house.   The monsters are now free, but one of their members, a monster prince, is missing. Before they can deal with that problem, however, they need to first secure their existence in the human world. Thus they adopt the appearance of ordinary high school students and befriend Feng Ping-Lan. Before long, the high school freshman’s life is completely entangled with these new companions. Attending high school by day, and monster magic school by night, the mismatched crew also has to find time to track down the missing monster prince!   With its swift-moving plot and complex fantasy world-building, this series took Taiwan by storm, selling over one million individual books. If you enjoy youthful characters who exhibit cool in the face of danger, and would do anything for the sake of friendship, then this series is not to be missed.

      • Children's & YA

        Princess Zodiac Series

        by The Bubble Studio

        With interesting interpretation of the most professional views on health, wealth and friendship.Get to know the traits of your children and search for the most suitable career.Fully understand your children’s nature and development, learn together with little ones and foster good bonds with them. Bring out the characteristics of the constellations with wonderful and lively story, so that readers can know advantages and disadvantages of the constellations through stories. Work with Li Beibei from Qingdao Feng Xiang Biao Comic Studio, China.

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