After the Russian invasion of the Japanese puppet state of Manchuria (Manchukuo) in 1945, fourteen-year-old Akihisa Takayama escapes with his family to their ancestral Taiwan. Here they find themselves under the brutal Chinese dictatorship of the Kuomintang. In the 1960s, now a physician calling himself Charles Yang, he escapes with his young family to the United States, from where they finally go on to Canada to become among the first Taiwanese Canadians in Vancouver. Charles Yang's exper...

This book offers a fascinating picture of how state censorship affected children’s literature translation in post-Civil War Spain. Focusing on the Spanish translations of Mark Twain’s children’s classics The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the author traces the evolution of the censorship system of the Francoist regime and its impact on Spanish children’s literature during the years after the Spanish Civil War. Drawing on the regime’s cens...

This enticing anthology introduces English language readers to a comprehensive selection of twentieth century Chinese women poets from both the mainland and Taiwan. It includes 245 poems by forty poets, and spans the early 1920s and Republican China's literary renaissance through the end of the twentieth century.

Allan Cho: Allan Cho works as an academic librarian at the University of British Columbia. His writing has appeared in Ricepaper, The Georgia Straight, and Diverse.Julia Lin: Julia Lin is the author of Miah, the first book-length work of Taiwanese-Canadian literary fiction ever published.Jim Wong-Chu: Jim Wong-Chu is a writer, historian, and editor. He is a founding member of the Asian Canadian Writers' Workshop, the publisher of Ricepaper ...

With clear, classroom-tested instructional routines backed by science, teachers can confidently help their students build skills for reading success!With clear, classroom-tested instructional routines backed by science, teachers can confidently help their students build skills for reading success! Julia Lindsey's new audiobook answers teachers' persistent questions about how to teach effectively in small groups, showing teachers how to identify specific "sticking points," or needs,...

Embark on an enchanting journey with "The Adventures of Skylark", the first installment in a charming series for young kids.Join, Scout and Ella, two spirited children, as they set sail aboard their beloved ship, Skylark, for an adventure brimming with joy, discovery and the magic of exploration.Follow along as they traverse the open seas, driven by insatiable curiosity and a shared love for discovery. Inspired by the author's own family ad...

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