Forget about takeout!Have you ever had a craving for fried dumplings or hot and sour soup at midnight? Ever wonder how your local Chinese takeout makes their food taste so good—and look so easy to make? Still don’t know the difference between Sichuan, Cantonese, and Mandarin cooking? Discovering how to cook the Chinese way will leave you steaming, stir-frying, and food-styling like crazy!The indescribably delicious cuisine of a fascinating country can final...

A New York Times Editors' Choice and Notable Book of 2021"Best Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror of 2021"—The Washington PostFrom one of the most exciting voices in contemporary Chinese literature, an uncanny and playful novel that blurs the line between human and beast…In the fictional Chinese city of Yong’an, an amateur cryptozoologist is commissioned to uncover the stories of its fabled beasts...

This contemplative, semiautobiographical picture book by Nobel Laureate Mo Yan, with illustrations by Hans Christian Anderson Award nominee Zhu Chengliang, is perfect for readers of A Different Pond and Watercress.One morning, so early that fog still sleeps on the surface of the river, a young boy accompanies his yeye seven miles north to the grassy field behind their home to cut satintail to feed the livestock. But when a massive gale scatters th...

Russia. 2000s.After a tragedy that changes his life forever, a young man is thrust into a world ruled by money, violence, and betrayal. To survive, he must endure trials few ever speak off.A story of coming of age, revenge, love, and resilience set against the backdrop of one of the most turbulent eras in modern Russia.

Marry him for a contract, but it is love that supports them to live together.In order to raise medical expenses for the seriously ill father, she had to sign a contract with a strange man, she would be his wife, and he was responsible for paying for the treatment of her father.Life after marriage is very ordinary. He is the CEO of the company. He is busy working every day and occasionally has a look at her, but he is full of disgust. However, she fell in lo...

An unforgettable tale of a village that descends into a sleepwalking spell as the sun threatens to never rise again, by the author of Discovering Fiction.Yan Lianke has secured his place as contemporary China's most essential and daring novelist, "with his superlative gifts for storytelling and penetrating eye for truth" ( New York Times Book Review). His newest novel, The Day the Sun Died—winner of the Dream of the Red Chamber Award, one ...

"A rip-roaring Swiftian satire from a contemporary Chinese master" follows a rural community's transformation from small village to megalopolis ( The Economist ).With the Yi River on one side and the Balou Mountains on the other, the village of Explosion was founded more than a millennium ago by refugees fleeing a seismic volcanic eruption. But in the post-Mao era the name takes on a new significance as the commu...

On the day of her wedding, she had been set up for adultery. Her reputation had been completely ruined, and she had left the house in disgrace. Four years later, she returned with her son!That domineering CEO suddenly wanted to be her child's father."The son is mine! Don't even think about snatching it away! " Angry, she hugged her son and tried to run.The man blocked her way with a smile, "I won't snatch, your son is yours, you are mine …"...

The childhood sweetheart, Ying Qizhao, had been murdered in conspiracy, while the flower had been forced to marry and pacify Gu Tianhong. Gu Tianhong had been depressed all day, but before he died, he had been told that Ying Qizhao's death was related to the Gu family and his father.He had been reborn eight years ago, and now he had been burned to worship Buddha in a temple. He was grateful to be reborn into a new life, and he had sworn that he would no longer be weak and powerless …

In the 21st century, Bai Yixuan had risked her own life to save someone. She had traveled all the way to the body of a poor girl who had been annulled in ancient times.The Dual Healing Medicine slowly became a famous genius doctor in the distant and near future. It would open up heaven's space, help her clear all obstacles, and lead her relatives and friends to become well-off …

Fang Ruixue had been reborn, and had returned to that crossroads where she could change her life.In her previous life, she was a timid and cowardly person. In the end, she became a tool that her stepmother used to seek benefits for her little brother. She was stuck in a quagmire of life.In this life, she would firmly grasp her fate in her own hands.In this life, she actually met someone she could only look up to in her previous life. However, all sh...

When Yu Haoran woke up again, he had gone back to more than one hundred years ago, to the year he turned sixteen and his fate was ushered to a turning point.This time, Yu Haoran retained not only all the memories of previous life, but also a domain tower which was omniscient and had the ability of time acceleration.In this life, as a martial cultivator who practiced less than a month and barely entered the early period of First Level Martial Disciple, how w...