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421) Carved in silence
Publisher
Lowedown Productions
Pub. Date
1988.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (47 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Carved in Silence tells the story of Chinese immigrants who were detained at the United States Immigration Station at Angel Island in San Francisco Bay during the little known Chinese Exclusion era. The film examines the genesis of racially discriminatory immigration policies, its reality, and its consequences. Interviews are intercut with historical footage and dramatic re-enactments to powerfully translate the impact of public policies into human...
Author
Publisher
Moment of Lift Books
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
322 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
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Description
"The moving memoir of a girl coming of age as an immigrant in America who finds her calling as a scientist at the forefront of the AI/Machine Learning revolution. Fei-Fei Li is known to the world as the creator of ImageNet, a key catalyst of modern artificial intelligence (AI). But her career in science was improbable from the start. Moving from China's middle class to American poverty, her family navigated the hardships of immigrant life while struggling...
423) King of Chinatown
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber, Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (57 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Violence and death stalk the Chinese faction o fa big American city, but one man, Dr. Chang Ling, and his daughter, Dr. mary Ling, defy the gangsters who are responsible, and, against terrific odds, bring peace to their oppressed neighbors.
424) Poison is not polite
Author
Series
A Wells and Wong mystery volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
321 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1930s England, schoolgirl detectives Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong are at Daisy's home for the holidays when someone falls seriously, mysteriously ill at a family party, but no one present is what they seem--and everyone has a secret or two--so the Detective Society must do everything they can to reveal the truth . . . no matter the consequences.
426) Dead pigs
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
The fates of an unlucky pig farmer, a feisty home-owner defending her property, a lovestruck busboy, a disenchanted rich girl, and an American ex-pat pursuing the Chinese Dream converge and collide as thousands of dead pigs are found floating down the Huangpu River, towards a modernizing Shanghai in Cathy Yan's (Birds Of Prey) debut feature.
427) Take out
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
A day in the life of Ming Ding begins as a pair of hammer-wielding loan sharks come to the door of Ming's squalid apartment. Their ultimatum, delivered in Mandarin, is as simple as it is virtually impossible to fulfill, needing to give them $800 by the evening or the debt will be doubled. With the family he supports half a world away, Ming has a single rain-soaked shift at his job in which to pay off his thuggish creditors. Ming Ding anonymously and...
Author
Language
English
Description
This book contains six works that each reflect the different styles of the author in each period of his work, paying attention to men of low status, memories of childhood, campus life, and the living conditions of Beijing's drifters. Told in a straightforward manner, all the stories in this book are told in the first person and can be regarded together as a spiritual autobiography. Xu Zechen won the sixth Lu Xun Literature Award for short stories,...
429) Mandarin Chinese Visual Dictionary: A photo guide to everyday words and phrases in Mandarin Chinese
Author
Language
English
Description
A photographic guide to the key words and phrases in Chinese. This attractive eBook is a perfect travel companion and provides a practical guide to China and Chinese language and culture. Everyday words are arranged in themes with carefully selected up-to-date images to illustrate key words and phrases, and an English and Chinese index help you to find words quickly as you learn. 3,000 essential words and phrases for modern life in China are at your...
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Language
English
Description
Socialist Cosmopolitanism offers an innovative interpretation of literary works from the Mao era that reads Chinese socialist literature as world literature. As Nicolai Volland demonstrates, after 1949 China engaged with the world beyond its borders in a variety of ways and on many levels-politically, economically, and culturally. Far from rejecting the worldliness of earlier eras, the young People's Republic developed its own cosmopolitanism. Rather...
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Language
中文(繁體)
Description
English Mandarin Bilingual Children's Book (Chinese Simplified - no pinyin). Perfect for kids studying English or Chinese as their second language.
In this children's book, you meet a girl named Amanda who has a habit of wasting her time. That is until, one day, something magical happens and Amanda finally realizes that time is the most precious thing we have - and that once it is wasted, it is lost forever. In order to get her lost time back, Amanda...
Author
Language
English
Description
What do you do when your life has become a Disaster Zone?
If you're Randy Green, you leave your American roots behind and rebuild life, step by step, in China. On the way, you'll discover that to relocate, rebuild, and reinvent your life takes courage, acceptance, and a gradual attitude shift.
After 15 years of surviving and thriving in China, Randy Green writes about his experiences and reflections as a waiguoren (foreigner). One of the few Americans...
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Language
English
Description
Learn Chinese the natural way, from a Norwegian! Join Cantonese fundamentalist Cecilie Gamst Berg as she journeys through the non-stop surrealism that is today's China. Traveling by camel, sleeper bus and train across, the deserts of Xinjiang, through the backwoods of Tibet, over the mountains of Sichuan to the outlying islands of Hong Kong, Cecilie shows how China is not only the fastest-changing place on earth, but also the most fun.
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Language
English
Description
As the travelers continue westward, the monkey king Sun Wukong steals rice from an elderly villager's kitchen. Then the pig-man Zhu Bajie takes three silk vests from a seemingly abandoned tower. These small crimes trigger a violent confrontation with a monster who uses a strange and powerful weapon to disarm and defeat the disciples. Helpless and out of options, Sun Wukong must journey to Thunderclap Mountain and beg the Buddha himself for help.
This...
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Language
English
Description
Nothing but the Now is a collection of seven stories, most of them about chance encounters in the world, the consequences of greed and temptation, the inescapable past, and moral dilemmas that seem to be tailored to each character's flaws and foibles. The book explores the larger and more fundamental issues of life, death, love, and desire, and further interrogates the inter-relationships between the individual, the other, and the world. Each character...
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English
Description
This exciting new translation with footnotes is more readable than past versions and will appeal to modern readers.The Three Kingdoms is an epic Chinese novel written over six centuries ago. It recounts in vivid historical detail the turbulent years at the close of the Han Dynasty, when China broke into three competing kingdoms and over half the population were either killed or driven from their homes. Part myth, part fact, readers will experience...
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Language
English
Description
Ever thought you were incapable of learning language? Think again. Unsure where to start your first or next language learning journey? Start here. Regardless of your circumstance, this concise guide will equip with the tools to approach learning any language. Through a holistic lens encompassing modern lifestyle factors and evidence-based learning principles, this guide filters the often overwhelming noise of language learning into 12 straight-forward...
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English
Description
Extensively revised and expanded, The New Essential Guide to Hong Kong Movies includes over 670 film reviews, a poster gallery, and a look at the key studios that made Hong Kong cinema so amazing. Rick Baker and Ken Miller have curated a huge selection of reviews of kung-fu and swordplay films, gangster flicks, crime dramas, action, horror, fantasy, erotic, and assorted Category III films, sharing their love for these distinctive, kinetic, and sometimes...
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English
Description
Home cooking is always a favorite, no matter where you are. With over 30 clear color photos, Homestyle Chinese Cooking has everything you need to create 35 easy, light, healthy, delicious, and authentic home cooked Chinese recipes. This Chinese cookbook contains authentic, homestyle recipes for appetizers, rice, noodles, soups, seafood, meat, poultry, and vegetables. Recipes include: o Poached tofu with spicy sauce o Home-style fried rice o Sesame...
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