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1) Abominable
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When teenage Yi encounters a young Yeti on the roof of her apartment building in a modern Chinese city, she and her mischievous friends, Jin and Peng, name him Everest and embark on an epic quest to reunite the magical creature with his family at the highest point on Earth. But the trio of friends will have to stay one step ahead of Burnish, a wealthy man intent on capturing a Yeti, and zoologist Dr. Zara to help Everest get home.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 125 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
The film revolves around four threads set in vastly different geographical and social milieus across modern-day China, ranging from the bustling southern metropolis of Guangzhou to the more rural townships in Jia's home province of Shanxi. [3] Set in current times and based on allegedly true events from the recent past, the film also draws on the history of wuxia stories.
Series
Publisher
A & E Home Video
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 50 min.) : sd., col. & b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
For hundreds of years the Forbidden City was a place of mystery, its doors closed to the outside world. Video describes the history of the Forbidden City as well as the 24 emperors and 2 dynasties who lived there.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
xii, 420 p. : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a Chinese national working for an American-owned construction company is kidnapped along with his one-man security detail, Rutherford Risk, a firm specializing in hostage recovery, recruits two outsiders to aide in the victims return.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1979.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (193 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Mandar
Description
A travelling scholar, intent on translating a Buddhist sutra, loses his way in the mountains. Time and space collapse around him as he continues his journey, encountering ghostly visitations amid a haunting fantasia of color, light and landscape. King Hu rose to prominence in the 1960s and 70s as a superb director of wuxia, a prevalent genre in Chinese-language film and literature built on ancient lore of swords, sorcery and chivalrous heroes. LEGEND...
9) Dragon bones
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2004, c2003
Physical Desc
xv, 348 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
10) The blue kite
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 140 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
The most acclaimed and controversial film of the new Chinese cinema, The blue kite traces the fate of a Beijing boy and his family as they experience the political and social upheavals in 1950s and '60s China.
11) The great wall
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (1 hr., 43 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
European mercenaries searching for black powder become embroiled in the defense of the Great Wall of China against a horde of monstrous creatures.
Publisher
National Geographic Society
Pub. Date
[2009?]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (240 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Filmmaker Phil Agland reveals the everyday drama and passion of contemporary China, a country steeped in tradition and wracked by change, by focussing on life in one small town. Interwoven throughout the four segments of this documentary are the stories of a gang fight, in which one boy is killed, and the subsequent police investigation; a hill country teacher who leaves his charges temporarily in the care of a substitute while he takes a course to...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
358 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Hong Kong has always been many cities to many people: a seaport, a gateway to an empire, a place where fortunes can be dramatically made or lost, a place to disappear and reinvent oneself, and a mixing pot of diverse populations from literally everywhere around the globe. A British Crown Colony for 155 years, Hong Kong is now ruled by the Chinese Communist Party who continues to threaten its democracy and put its rich legacy at risk. Here, renowned...
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This follows the intersecting lives of Western expatriates who are held in confinement by the communist Chinese government. Dr. Dan Maynard is a physician determined to uphold the hippocratic oath, without bending to the will of his heartless captors.
18) Hong Kong
Series
Publisher
Lonely Planet Publications
Pub. Date
c1996
Physical Desc
volumes : color illustrations, color maps ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
HarperSanFrancisco
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Desc
503 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Enter an ancient world of courtly elegance and intrigue, where sages are also sorcerers, and the daughter of a lowly seamstress can become a companion to an empress. In this magical land there is a secret language -- a language that women have passed down from mother to daughter for countless generations -- a language that signals a bond like no other . . . the bond of jin-shei. Set in a mythical Chinese kingdom, The Secrets of Jin-shei is a timeless...
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