280 results for 'ma ying'

Born during the Great Famine of the early 1960's, Hong Ying, or Little Six as she was known, grew up in a slum on the hilly Yangtze bank, a neighbourhood permanently veiled in fog and steeped in...

Daughter of the River is a memoir of China unlike any other. Born during the Great Famine of the early 1960s and raised in the slums of Chongqing, Hong Ying was constantly aware of hunger and the...

At dawn on the June morning in 1989 following the brutal repression of student demonstrations in Beijing, a young poet flees the bullets, tanks, and soldiers, trying desperately to get back to the...

Read the graphic novel that Caldecott medal-winning illustrator, Dan Santat, calls, "An edge-of-your-seat thriller!"Ever Barnes is a shy orphan guarding a secret in an amazing puzzle box of a...

After saving their beloved mechanized city of Oskars, Hannah and Ever team up with new friends to try to save both Oskars and the nearby city of Alexios from the evil assassin Vash.

"Empress Dowager Cixi (1835-1908), who ruled China from 1861 until her death in 1908, is a subject of fascination and controversy, at turns vilified for her political maneuvering and admired for...

Over the past decade, a wave of Chinese international undergraduate students―mostly self-funded―has swept across American higher education. From 2005 to 2015, undergraduate enrollment from China rose...

An all-new delectably unhinged romantasy duet from New York Times bestseller Jasmine Mas set in a world full of dark magic, rebellion, and vicious rivalry. Pre-order your deluxe limited edition, with...

A definitive new history of the origins, evolution, and scope of the ancient Greek city-stateThe Greek polis, or city-state, was a resilient and adaptable political institution founded on the...

NOW A NETFLIX FILM STARRING VIOLA DAVIS AND CHADWICK BOSEMANFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Fences and The Piano Lesson comes the extraordinary Ma Rainey's Black Bottom—winner of the New...

Candace Chen, a millennial drone self-sequestered in a Manhattan office tower, is devoted to routine. With the recent passing of her Chinese immigrant parents, she's had her fill of uncertainty...

A deeply affecting portrait of a woman’s life from the author of the Harvey Award-winning MomsAt first there was “Lake,” and then there was “Island.” Or was it the other way around? A story told in...

Why say thank you with a portrait statue? This book combines two different and quite specialized fields, archaeology and epigraphy, to explore the phenomenon of portraits in ancient art within the...

Are you ready for Bonds of Hercules? The sequel to the viral hit Blood of Hercules is (almost) finally here! Pre-order your deluxe hardcover limited edition with gorgeous cover effects, stamped foil...

A richly illustrated companion to selected works from the collections at M+, Hong Kong’s new museum of 20th-and 21st-century visual culture.M+, Hong Kong’s new museum of contemporary visual culture,...

En toute chose, Rosa Luxemburg rpugnait la tideur. S'emparant d'un fait divers (l'empoisonnement mortel d'une centaine de misreux par de la nourriture avarie, dans un asile de nuit berlinois), Rosa...

Karen believes the ghost of her great-grandfather, Ben Brewer, lives on the third floor of her father's house and that he plans to throw a party on Halloween, so as Halloween approaches Karen becomes...

Written around AD 1200 by an unnamed Icelandic author, the Orkneyinga Saga is an intriguing fusion of myth, legend and history. The only medieval chronicle to have Orkney as the central place of...

"For New Year's Eve, Karen thinks everyone should make a promise. Hannie is going to stop biting her nails. Kristy promises not to talk to her boyfriend about softball on the phone so much. And Karen...