Nine Dragons

• Author : George Herman
• Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
• Release : 21 October 2011

With unique illustrations based on classical Chinese painting, this multicultural children's story tells a classic folktale that children will love. Long ago, in a far-off land, two tribes shared a common legend — they believed the mountains between them were the home of nine terrible and terrifying dragons. For generations, fear of the dragons kept the two tribes apart, until a catastrophic drought forced them into the mountains in search of food. Nine Dragons tells the story of how the two

• Author : Jiang GongZi
• Publisher : Funstory
• Release : 28 October 2019

He had seized the nine dragons that defied the heavens! With the Lightning Perception surrounded, one's soul would be reincarnated, reborn into the body of the trash, Lei Nian. What? Cultivation genius? I have the Nine Dragons Stone! Unconvinced? Close the door, let loose thunder!

• Author : Tim Symonds
• Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
• Release : 07 November 2016

It's the year 1906. Rumours abound that a deadly plot is hatching - not in the fog-ridden back-alleys of London's Limehouse district or the sinister Devon moors of the Hound of the Baskervilles but in faraway Peking. Holmes's task - discover whether such a plot exists and if so, foil it. But are the assassins targeting the young and progressive Ch'ing Emperor or his imperious aunt, the fearsome Empress Dowager Cixi? The murder of either could spark a civil war. The

• Author : Joseph R. Yogerst
• Publisher : Abbeville Press
• Release : 04 February 1992

Most accounts of contemporary Vietnam take the retrospective approach: veterans or correspondents return for the first time since the war and compare what they see today with memories of combat tours. They dwell on their own past history, telling us little of this ancient country and its people today. The objective of this book, however, is to take a much different look at Vietnam, to examine the nation more as a modern entity than as a chapter of American military

• Author : Kong Shen
• Publisher : Funstory
• Release : 12 November 2019

I am the Emperor of the Nine Layered Heavens of the Myriad Domain! My decree is so vast that in this world, there is no one who dares to disobey it! This was the story of an ordinary boy like Lin Dong growing up to become the Nine Heavens Emperor! Experts were as numerous as the clouds, and they could also be seen how Lin Dong managed to carve a path through countless geniuses and powerhouses! If a beauty falls

• Author : Adam T. Kessler
• Publisher : BRILL
• Release : 25 July 2012

Song Blue and White Porcelain on the Silk Road disproves received opinion that pre-Ming blue and white dates to the Yuan (1279-1368 A.D.) and establishes the proper foundation for 21st century study of ancient Chinese porcelain.

• Author : Guan Shen
• Publisher : Funstory
• Release : 21 June 2020

Lin Xi, the pawnbroker who was about to lose his job, coincidentally obtained a pair of Heaven's Eyes from the jade pendant his master left behind. He wanted to see how Lin Xi would grow up, pick up treasures while growing up, and play the strings of fate. A pair of Heaven's Eyes could detect treasure, avoid disaster, and drive away evil. However, what secrets did it hide ...

• Author : Zhi DuanQingChang
• Publisher : Funstory
• Release : 01 September 2020

He, was a member of China's most mysterious organization! He was a man that could shock the entire world! He, was also known as Thunder God! An unexpected mission had left him in the city. Behind the mission, there was an earth-shattering conspiracy. And he, with his iron fists, defended everything, protected his woman. While fighting to the death with the dark forces, he also threw himself into the bustling city. Beautiful women, money, little brothers, love rivals. He used

• Author : Qu MaoDeLaoShu
• Publisher : Funstory
• Release : 24 November 2019

After entering the ptacticing world, Li Xiaobai, a young man who woke up and found that the world he knew was different. High school is no longer just teaching cultural knowledge, but actually teaching martial arts! He had a crush on the beautiful girl in school for three years while no one in the school was able to defeat her. The grade director who was very harsh on the students turned out to have a sword against the sky. The

• Author : Qing YiShen
• Publisher : Funstory
• Release : 22 May 2020

I was originally an Immortal, but because my six Daos were incomplete and my seven spirits were incomplete, I could ascend to become an Immortal, but not an Immortal. The world is vast, and my cultivation base can fight against the heavens and the earth, and protect my people. [Previous Chapter] [Table of Contents] [Next Chapter] Tenth reincarnation, nine dead and one alive. To avenge his family, Ah'Bao stepped onto the path of cultivation. Close]

• Author : Lu SHaoYou
• Publisher : Funstory
• Release : 10 July 2020

What genius Holy Son, peerless Holy Son, daring to provoke me, I'll stomp them all down. What big sect or underworld clan, if they dare to invade me, I'll flatten them all. The Dual God of Pills, Du Shaowu, a peerless genius who had crossed worlds twice. Since he had come in this life, he would leave behind a legend, waking up with power in his hands, drunk on the knees of beauties!

• Author : Bei JiHai
• Publisher : Funstory
• Release : 08 November 2019

When Lu Yang returned to the world that he lived in for many years, he unexpectedly discovered that the time was fixed at three days before he disappeared. Back then, Lu Yang had tried to learn literature but failed to do so. He could only be mocked by his clansmen as trash if he had no cultivation. He was helpless to do anything about it. In the past, his mother had been neglected because of her birth, so she had

• Author : Zhui BiSanQian
• Publisher : Funstory
• Release : 15 April 2020

Unparalleled Sovereign Ye Dongfeng was only an inch away from the Misty Heavenly Dao, but at the critical moment, he was plotted against and reincarnated at the starting point of everything. In this life, Ye Dongfeng had created a perfect dao heart. He slowly got up, used his cold talent to sweep the world, turned his hand into a cloud, and used his own strength to trample all around, suppressing the current era. The regret and unwillingness from his past

• Author : Tan Ye
• Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Release : 15 March 2020

There is a sense of timelessness in the Chinese theater: ever since its maturation, its format has not changed in any significant way. Chinese Theater matured into its final format in the 13th century and flourished during the Yuan, Ming, and Qing Dynasties. It is a unique, exclusive, and self-sufficient system, whose evolution has received little influence from the West and whose influence on Western theaters has been minimal and often misinterpreted. It is essentially a performer's theater; the actors

• Author : Jerome Silbergeld,Eugene Y. Wang
• Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
• Release : 31 October 2016

China has an age-old zoomorphic tradition. The First Emperor was famously said to have had the heart of a tiger and a wolf. The names of foreign tribes were traditionally written with characters that included animal radicals. In modern times, the communist government frequently referred to Nationalists as “running dogs,” and President Xi Jinping, vowing to quell corruption at all levels, pledged to capture both “the tigers” and “the flies.” Splendidly illustrated with works ranging from Bronze Age vessels to