Li Li: 1151 books
by Arne Lißewski, Michael Suckow, Joachim Albers
Language: German
Release Date: March 5, 2012
Language: German
Release Date: March 5, 2012
Ihr Rechtsberater in Sachen Steuervergehen Finanzämter werten Steuer-CDs mit gestohlenen Daten aus, provozieren reihenweise Selbstanzeigen und zudem wird das Steuerstrafrecht ständig verändert– Ermittlungen wegen Steuerhinterziehung betreffen Prominente ebenso wie Bürger. In diesem Ratgeber...
Red Scarf Girl
A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2010
Publishers Weekly Best Book * ALA Best Book for Young Adults * ALA Notable Children's Book * ALA Booklist Editors' Choice
Moving, honest, and deeply personal, Red Scarf Girl is the incredible true story of one girl’s courage and determination during one of the most terrifying eras of the...
Gracieuse dans ce désert
quinze nouvelles, traduites par Michel Volkovitch
Language: French
Release Date: May 28, 2010
Zyrànna Zatèli apparaît en 1984, à trente-trois ans, avec La fiancée de l’an passé, recueil de neuf nouvelles visiblement autobiographiques, où dès la première page elle crée son monde et ensorcelle ses lecteurs. Deux ans plus tard, elle donne un second recueil, Gracieuse dans ce désert,...
De zoetzure smaak van dromen
het familieverhaal achter een Chinees restaurant
Language: Dutch
Release Date: September 5, 2016
‘De zoetzure smaak van dromen’ van Sun Li (1980) beschrijft het familieverhaal achter een Chinees restaurant. De ouders van Sun Li komen in 1980 naar Nederland, met lege zakken en vijf kinderen. Zij openen een Chinees restaurant in Friesland en het hele gezin helpt mee, maar tegelijkertijd worden...
Daughter of Heaven
A Memoir with Earthly Recipes
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2011
In this powerful, touching memoir of a critically acclaimed Chinese-American writer, taste becomes the keeper of memory and food the keeper of culture when Nai-nai, her extraordinary grandmother, arrives from mainland China.
Leslie Li’s paternal grandfather, Li Zogren, was China’s first...
Land's End
Capitalist Relations on an Indigenous Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
Drawing on two decades of ethnographic research in Sulawesi, Indonesia, Tania Murray Li offers an intimate account of the emergence of capitalist relations among indigenous highlanders who privatized their common land to plant a boom crop, cacao. Spurred by the hope of ending their poverty and isolation,...
by Li Feng
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
'Deeply moving story of self-sacrifice and pride' - Jennifer Byrne, Australian Women's Weekly
One family's epic tale of survival in tumultuous twentieth-century China.
Li Feng grew up in Mao's communist China with her mother's motto burning in her ears - Success demands two things: unconditional...
by Indalecio Liévano Aguirre
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
Este el es el segundo y último de dos sobresalientes tomos de la historia de Colombia escritos por el jurista, diplomático, académico e historiador colombiano Indalecio Liévano Aguirre. En los últimos 16 capítulos de su formidable obra, Liévano Aguirre describió las luchas intestinas entre...
Shanghai Homes
Palimpsests of Private Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
In the dazzling global metropolis of Shanghai, what has it meant to call this city home? In this account—part microhistory, part memoir—Jie Li salvages intimate recollections by successive generations of inhabitants of two vibrant, culturally mixed Shanghai alleyways from the Republican, Maoist,...
Shang Yun-Xiang Style Xingyiquan
The Foundations and Subtleties of Xingyiquan Training
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
A modern classic, Shang Yun-Xiang Style Xingyiquan is essential for Xingyiquan practitioners and a useful guide for any practitioner of the Chinese martial arts. While focusing on Shang-style Xingyiquan (derived from author Li Wen-Bin's training under Grandmaster Shang Yun-Xiang), this book clearly...
by Li Po, Tu Fu
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
Li Po (AD 701-62) and Tu Fu (AD 712-70) were devoted friends who are traditionally considered to be among China's greatest poets. Li Po, a legendary carouser, was an itinerant poet whose writing, often dream poems or spirit-journeys, soars to sublime heights in its descriptions of natural scenes and...
The Vagrants
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2009
In luminous prose, award-winning author Yiyun Li weaves together the lives of unforgettable characters who are forced to make moral choices, and choices for survival, in China in the late 1970s.
Shortlisted for the 2011 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
Morning dawns on the provincial...
by Isabelle Li
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Sixteen exquisite stories exploring recent Chinese migration to Australia and elsewhere, exploring intergenerational and interracial relationships, the search for meaning, and the effects of isolation and the inability to express oneself in a second language.Best-selling author, Debra Adelaide, says...
Good Fortune
My Journey to Gold Mountain
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
In this dramatic memoir of early-twentieth century immigration, author Li Keng Wong shares her family’s journey from rural China to a new life in California.
In 1933, seven-year-old Li Keng’s life changed forever. Her father decided to bring his family from a small village in southern China to...