"Finalist for the PROSE Award in Art History and Criticism, Association of American Publishers" Wu Hung is the Harrie A. Vanderstappen Distinguished Service Professor of Art History at the University of Chicago, where he is also director of the Center for the Art of East Asia. His many books include A Story of Ruins: Presence and Absence in Chinese Art and Visual Culture (Princeton) and Zooming In: Histories of Photography in China. A sweeping look...

Pourquoi créer un livre de recettes asiatiques ? Parce que partager mes connaissances en cuisine représente l'aboutissement de plusieurs années d'apprentissage et de passion, mais aussi parce que c'est ma chance de faire découvrir aux gens toute la richesse de cette cuisine goûteuse et diversifiée. Je souhaite également rendre la cuisine asiatique moins intimidante et plus accessible à tous. Cuisiner les classiques d'Asie que l'on aime, ce...

Chinese is the most commonly spoken living language. Don't miss out and start learning the language of the future! Do you know why so many people have already started learning Chinese? Imagine being bilingual and able to communicate in Chinese. They don't say China is the future for nothing. With technological breakthroughs and advancement, learning this common language will easily place you ahead and open the doors to many jobs and traveling opportunities....

A new wave of cutting-edge, risk-taking science fiction has energized twenty-first-century Chinese literature. These works capture the anticipation and anxieties of China's new era, speaking to a future filled with uncertainties. Deeply entangled with the politics and culture of a changing China, contemporary science fiction has also attracted a growing global readership. Fear of Seeing traces the new wave's origin and development over the past three...

I Love Bill and Other Stories showcases the work of Wang Anyi, one of China's most prolific and highly regarded writers, in two novellas and three short stories. A young artist's life spirals out of control when she drops out of school to pursue a series of unfulfilling relationships with foreign men. A performance troupe struggles to adapt to a changing China at the end of the Cultural Revolution. The head of an isolated village arranges a youth's...

Want to make easy, healthy Chinese food? Go for a wok. In the time it takes to call for takeout, you could make a delicious Chinese dinner at home! The Healthy Wok Chinese Cookbook shows you how to create nourishing, satisfying versions of Chinese restaurant favorites using just a wok. With this one versatile pan, you can stir-fry meats, steam veggies, simmer soup, and more. This Chinese cookbook uses lower sodium and sugar, heart-healthy oils,...

The Yijing (I Ching), or Scripture of Change, is traditionally considered the first and most profound of the Chinese classics. Originally a divination manual based on trigrams and hexagrams, by the beginning of the first millennium it had acquired written explanations and a series of appendices attributed to Confucius, which transformed it into a work of wisdom literature as well as divination. Over the centuries, hundreds of commentaries were written...

Introducing toddlers to one of the twelve Chinese zodiac animals, the dragon, this exciting board book celebration of Lunar New Year shows all the wonderful ways they interact with the world around them and all the amazing attributes they have.

With the help of Ji-Young and Lily the tiger, Elmo learns about different Lunar New Year celebrations, in this colorful board book filled with good fortune and fun!