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The Chinese Groove
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Author : Kathryn Ma
language : en
Publisher: Catapult
Release Date : 2024-01-23
The Chinese Groove written by Kathryn Ma and has been published by Catapult this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-01-23 with Fiction categories.
Anne Tyler meets Jade Chang in this buoyant, good-hearted, and sharply written novel about a blithely optimistic immigrant with big dreams, dire prospects, and a fractured extended family in need of his help—even if they don't know it yet “Ma’s iteration of the young migrant story is imbued with inherent optimism."—New York Times Book Review Eighteen-year-old Shelley, born into a much-despised branch of the Zheng family in Yunnan Province and living in the shadow of his widowed father’s grief, dreams of bigger things. Buoyed by an exuberant heart and his cousin Deng’s tall tales about the United States, Shelley heads to San Francisco to claim his destiny, confident that any hurdles will be easily overcome by the awesome powers of the “Chinese groove,” a belief in the unspoken bonds between countrymen that transcend time and borders. Upon arrival, Shelley is dismayed to find that his “rich uncle” is in fact his unemployed second cousin once removed and that the grand guest room he’d envisioned is but a scratchy sofa. The indefinite stay he’d planned for? That has a firm two-week expiration date. Even worse, the loving family he hoped would embrace him is in shambles, shattered by a senseless tragedy that has cleaved the family in two. They want nothing to do with this youthful bounder who’s barged into their lives. Ever the optimist, Shelley concocts a plan to resuscitate his American dream by insinuating himself into the family. And, who knows, maybe he’ll even manage to bring them back together in the process.
The Year She Left Us
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Author : Kathryn Ma
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2014-05-13
The Year She Left Us written by Kathryn Ma and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-13 with Fiction categories.
Three generations of Chinese-American women in a San Francisco family must confront their past and carve out a future in this extraordinary novel, a “haunting” debut full of “shimmering and unforgettable” characters. (New York Times Book Review) The Kong women are in crisis. A disastrous trip to visit her "home" orphanage in China has plunged eighteen-year-old Ari into a self-destructive spiral. Her adoptive mother, Charlie, a lawyer with a great heart, is desperate to keep her daughter safe. Meanwhile, Charlie must endure the prickly scrutiny of her beautiful, Bryn Mawr educated mother, Gran—who, as the daughter of a cultured Chinese doctor, came to America to survive Mao's Revolution—and her sister, Les, a brilliant judge with a penchant to rule over everyone's lives. As they cope with Ari's journey of discovery and its aftermath, the Kong women will come face to face with the truths of their lives—four powerful intertwining stories of accomplishment, tenacity, secrets, loneliness, and love. Beautifully illuminating the bonds of family and blood, The Year She Left Us explores the promise and pain of adoption, the price of assimilation and achievement, the debt we owe to others, and what we owe ourselves.
All That Work And Still No Boys
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Author : Kathryn Ma
language : en
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Release Date : 2009-09
All That Work And Still No Boys written by Kathryn Ma and has been published by University of Iowa Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-09 with Fiction categories.
How do we survive our family, stay bound to our community, and keep from losing ourselves? In All That Work and Still No Boys, Kathryn Ma exposes the deepest fears and longings that we mask in family life and observes the long shadows cast by history and displacement. Here are ten stories that wound and satisfy in equal measure. Ma probes the immigrant experience, most particularly among northern California’s Chinese Americans, illuminating for us the confounding nature of duty, transformation, and loss. A boy exposed to racial hatred finds out the true difference between his mother and his father. Two old rivals briefly lay down their weapons, but loneliness and despair won’t let them forget the past. A young Beijing tour guide with a terrible family secret must take an adopted Chinese girl and her American family to visit an orphanage. And in the prize-winning title story, a mother refuses to let her son save her life, insisting instead on a sacrifice by her daughter. Intimate in detail and universal in theme, these stories give us the compelling voice of an exciting new author whose intelligence, insight, and wit impart a sense of grace to the bitter resentments and enduring ties that comprise family love. Even through the tensions Ma creates so deftly, the peace and security that come from building and belonging to one’s own community shine forth.
Translations From The Chinese
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Author : Arthur Waley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1941
Translations From The Chinese written by Arthur Waley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1941 with Chinese poetry categories.
Translations From The Chinese
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1945
Translations From The Chinese written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1945 with Chinese poetry categories.
The Shi King The Old Poetry Classic Of The Chinese
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Author : William Jennings
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1891
The Shi King The Old Poetry Classic Of The Chinese written by William Jennings and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1891 with Chinese poetry categories.
More Translations From The Chinese
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Author : Arthur Waley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007-09-01
More Translations From The Chinese written by Arthur Waley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-09-01 with categories.
The Last Chinese Chef
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Author : Nicole Mones
language : en
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date : 2008
The Last Chinese Chef written by Nicole Mones and has been published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Fiction categories.
This exhilarating story is the transporting tale of how the sensual, romantic elements of haute Chinese cuisine become the perfect ingredients to lift the troubled soul of a grieving American woman.
Lyrics From The Chinese
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Author : Helen Waddell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
Lyrics From The Chinese written by Helen Waddell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with categories.
Niubi
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Author : Eveline Chao
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2009-11-24
Niubi written by Eveline Chao and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-11-24 with Humor categories.
How to talk dirty and influence people—in Chinese! You can study Chinese for years, but do you really know how to talk like a native speaker? The next book in Plume’s foreign language slang series, Niubi! will make sure you learn all the colorful vernacular words and phrases used by Chinese people of all ages in a variety of situations, including flirting and dating, wheeling and dealing, and even specific Internet slang—not to mention plenty of Chinese words that are...well, best not to mention. Accessible and useful to complete novices (Niubi! newbies), intermediate students of Mandarin Chinese, or just anyone who enjoys cursing in other languages, this irreverent guide is packed with hilarious anecdotes and illustrations, mini cultural lessons, and contextual explanations. So whether you?re planning a trip to Beijing, flirting with an online acquaintance from Shanghai, or just want to start a fight in Chinatown—Niubi! will ensure that nothing you say is lost in translation.