China's venture capital market is not just the world's largest and fastest developing market, it also has the unique distinction of being engineered through heavy governmental intervention. This book breaks new ground by examining and testing established legal theories regarding the law of venture capital through the lens of the Chinese venture capital market. Using a hand-collected dataset of venture capital agreements, interviews with practitioners, and Chinese court judgements, it provi...

A Newbery Honor Book!A New York Times bestseller!An Al Roker's TODAY Show Book Club Pick!A Time Magazine 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time selection!A Reader’s Digest Best Children’s Book of All Time!This stunning fantasy inspired by Chinese folklore is a companion novel to Starry River of the Sky and the New York Times bestselling and National Book Award finalist When the Sea Turned to Silver...

CNN anchor Carol Lin is at the height of her career after becoming the first network journalist to break the news of the 9/11 attacks.A month later, she finds herself in the crosshairs of a Taliban sniper along Pakistan's border with Afghanistan, a stark reminder of the sacrifices she made to succeed in a white-centric, male-dominated journalism career. For Lin, breaking news and the defining split second when lives change is a drug-and a love that her traditional ...

Jodi has been hearing voices since they were a child. Their favorite voice is WIm, the voice of their wiser self or wise mind. In times of crisis, she comforts them with details of their future. They named her WIm and she consented. The letter "I" in her name is intentionally capitalized because her voice is for Jodi, about Jodi and no one else can hear her. She even speaks like Jodi but softer, with more breath and nasality. Jodi began a practice of notating what WIm told them during thei...

A captivating steampunk fairytale of intrigue and deception from the Gunpowder Chronicles series.Hanzo the karakuri puppet maker is summoned to Koriya Castle to build a mysterious device for a fearsome warlord. Within the walls, he encounters a beautiful courtesan who must sing from dusk until dawn to chase away nightmares. Caught in a madman’s domain, will Hanzo find his escape, or sacrifice himself for the sake of love? A classic fairy-tale retold with a...

Maidservant Yue-ying is not one of those beauties. Street-smart and practical, she’s content to live in the shadow of her infamous mistress—until she meets the aristocratic playboy Bai Huang.Bai Huang lives in a privileged world Yue-ying can barely imagine, yet alone share, but as they are thrown together in an attempt to solve a deadly mystery, they both start to dream of a different life.Yet Bai Huang’s position means that all she could ever be to him is his concubine—wil...

Lady Bai's first taste of freedom brings her face-to-face with murder. A dangerous and enigmatic stranger becomes her ally while the killer may be someone closer than she ever imagined. Part of the bestselling Lotus Palace seriesLady Bai, called Wei-wei by her aristocratic family, has always been the perfectly obedient daughter--but only on the outside. When she dares to pay a forbidden visit to a public tea garden in men's clothing, only Gao looks close enough to ...

Now sorrowful, now joking, but always in deadly earnest, the Chinese philosopher faces the grim facts of war and the grimmer prospects of peace. Dismayed by the materialism of the West, he offers not a "blueprint" for the postwar world, but an approach to thinking about it, that is new to us but not new at all to the Orient, wise in the ways of Man.This book is a positive contribution from the store of Chinese political philosophy to the vexed question of world peace. More important...

Aleese Lin’s delightful, spooky—or Spük-y?—contemporary romance debut is perfect for fans of Legends & Lattes and Netflix’s Wednesday.Samantha Spük is your go-to wedding planner, be it for werewolf, vampire, or fae!...even if that's the last thing she would’ve imagined. Samantha “Sabby” Spük has spent her life trying to escape her family’s legacy of supernatural chaos. She’s finally graduated and landed a nice,

**Still recovering from her previous case, Rhona MacLeod must investigate a series of brutal killings on the Isle of Skye. Time for the Dead is the fourteenth book in Lin Anderson's forensic crime series.'One of the most satisfying characters in modern crime fiction' – Daily Mail**Taking time away from work, forensic scientist Rhona MacLeod returns to her roots on the Isle of Skye. But a chance encounter in the woods leads her to what seems to be a crime s...

An Offering By Maura Lin How do we judge the worth of a person? What happens when we falter, when we commit acts that offend our own values? What effects do shame and silence have on our lives and relationships? An Offering examines these questions as it depicts the struggle of Alice and her daughter, Lucy, to confront troubling aspects of themselves and their pasts. Ultimately, it is a story about embracing our experiences, strengths, and weaknesses. It is also about sharing, forgiveness,...

Stretching from the present to the future, from China to America and beyond, M Lin’s piercing debut collection depicts characters finding beauty amidst the disorientation of migration, the contradictions of living between cultures, the perverse realities of race and class, and the delicate dance between survival and resistance. In “Scenes from Childhood,” an elderly woman in a dystopian reality is visited by forgotten memories of her grandfather’s village. In “Magic, or Something Less Assu...