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From China-based publisher Shanghai Press, this book recounts the legend of Mulan and her bravery through beautiful Chinese ink paintings. Though we all know the beloved Disney retelling, the original story ofMulan comes from a folktale from China's Northern Dynasty (439-589) about the unusual tale of an ordinary girl named Fa Mulan. One day, the government drafted Mulan's father into the army. However, he was too old. Mulan didn't have an older brother and the younger one was not old enough to be a soldier, so she decided to disguise herself as a man and joined the army in place of her father, hoping her secret wouldn't be exposed. Her excellent martial arts skills always put her on the front lines of every battle. During the 12 years she was in the army, she made great contributions and won admiration from her unit of soldiers. After the war, the emperor honored generals and soldiers, rewarding them with status and money; Mulan didn't care about either. All she wanted was a horse to take her home as soon as possible. Once home, Mulan changed her armor into a dress and fixed her hair in an elegant hairstyle. She came out and thanked her unit for accompanying her home. It's safe to say, she had fooled them all.

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Ze Wstępu Autora: „Wtedy zaczęła się rewolucja kulturalna. Ojciec został uwięziony, a potem zesłany gdzieś daleko. Mama straciła swoją toaletkę. Książki płonęły na ulicach. Patrzyłem na dym unoszący się nad biblioteką, byłem świadkiem, jak płomień obracał w popiół znaki. Znaki, z których Qu Yuan, Li Bai, Du Fu, Su Shi tworzyli poezję, kreska po kresce unosiły się w niebo wirującą wstążką dymu. Moją szkołę zamknięto. Miałem wtedy dwanaście lat, byłem w piątej klasie, właśnie zaczynaliśmy uczyć się pisania wypracowań. Wróciłem nad jezioro, co dzień łowiłem ryby, pływałem. Pewnego popołudnia wraz z ojcem spaliliśmy potajemnie jego księgozbiór. Ogień wznieciliśmy w emaliowanej misie, którą rodzice dostali w prezencie ślubnym. Żółtawy płomień, czarne motyle papieru. Misa była jak ołtarz. Tam zaczęło się moje pisanie. Wciąż zadaję sobie pytanie – dlaczego trzeba było spalić tamte znaki? Jaką straszną treść niosły, że musiały spłonąć? Piszę od czterdziestu lat”. Yu Jian – poeta, eseista, fotograf, urodzony w 1954 roku w Kunmingu w prowincji Yunnan. Jeden z czołowych przedstawicieli tzw. „Trzeciej Generacji” współczesnych poetów chińskich. Sławę przyniosły mu w latach 80. wiersze pisane językiem potocznym, w latach 90. zaś umocniły ją poematy takie jak Kartoteka 0 oraz eseje o tematyce teoretycznoliterackiej. Laureat licznych nagród literackich, m.in. Nagrody Literackiej im. Lu Xuna oraz Chinese Literature Media Award. Jego utwory tłumaczone były na wiele języków, niektóre doczekały się także adaptacji scenicznej.

‘One of China’s greatest living novelists’ Guardian Blending fact with fiction, China Dream is an unflinching satire of totalitarianism. After decades of loyal service, Ma Daode, a corrupt and lecherous party official, has been appointed director of the China Dream Bureau, charged with promoting President Xi Jinping’s China Dream of national rejuvenation. But just as he is about to present his plan for a microchip that will be implanted into the brain of every citizen to replace all painful recollections with a collective dream of national supremacy, his sanity begins to unravel. Plagued by flashbacks of the Cultural Revolution, his nightmare visions from the past threaten to destroy his dream of a glorious future. This darkly comic fable is a dystopian vision of repression and state-enforced amnesia set not in the future, but in China today. ‘Excoriating…Not for nothing has Ma been called both the Orwell and Solzhenitsyn of Chinese literature’ A Financial Times Book of the Year ‘Red Guards meet Kurt Vonnegot, sort of: powerful!’ Margaret Atwood, via Twitter

This beautifully illustrated multicultural children's book follows Ming as he discovers the birth of Kung Fu.After Xiao Ming participates in a martial arts exercise at school, his parents take him on a trip to the Shaolin Temple—the birth-place of kung fu—in the central Henan Province of China. The temple is situated in the forests of Shaoshi Mountain, one of the seven mountains of Song Mountains. With a history of over 1,500 years, the grand Shaolin Temple has precious stone-carvings in its many buildings. At the Warrior Monks School ( Wuseng Yuan ), he sees monks practicing kung fu and jumps in to learn some martial arts skills.He then goes into a stone cave by mistake and meets a monk who turns out to be Bodhidharma, the founder of Zen Buddhism, according to legend. Bodhidharma takes him onto the mountain to see peach flowers, small birds and big trees. He tells Ming how the Shaolin Temple became the birthplace of Zen in Buddhism.

The kindness and generosity of those born under the sign of the sheep in the Chinese zodiac is brought to life in this heartwarming multicultural fairy tale. Long, long ago, there lived a kind physician. He lived on a mountain in a small Chinese village where he practiced traditional Chinese medicine for all the villagers. On his way home one day, he found an injured sheep, rescued it and brought it home where he nursed the sheep back to life. One evening, after the sheep had been living with the physician for some time, a beast barged into the village, demanding payment of each household in the form of one child. If the villagers refused to hand over their children, the beast would eat everyone! In the blink of an eye, the rescued sheep transforms into a lovely girl, who, with a clever plan, manages to frighten the beast away and keep everyone in the village safe from harm. And so, with one simple act of kindness, an entire village is saved, reminding us that every action, no matter how small, has consequences.

Meili, a young peasant woman born in the remote heart of China, is married to Kongzi, a village school teacher, and a distant descendant of Confucius. When family planning officers storm the village to arrest violators of the population control policy, mother, father and daughter escape to the Yangtze River and begin a fugitive life.

Following the convening of Hong Kong International Poetry Nights 2011, Words & the World was a collection of selected works by some of the most internationally acclaimed poets today. This collection represents the finest contemporary poetry in trilingual or bilingual presentation.

Dai Wei, a PhD student and protestor in Tiananmen Square in June 1989, was caught by a soldier's bullet and fell into a deep coma. But as the millennium draws near, he begins to emerge from unconsciousness, and to sense the massive changes in his country. At once a powerful allegory of a rising China, and a seminal story of the Tiananmen Square protests, Beijing Coma is Ma Jian's masterpiece.