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  • What's a Snow Leopard to You?

    A Novel

    by Chen-Fu Hsu ...
    Translated by Howard Goldblatt, Sylvia Li-chun Lin ...
    *Winner of the 2021 Taiwan Literature Award*A captivating fusion of travelogue, fiction, and cultural meditation that journeys deep into the heart of Tibet.Chen-Fu Hsu’s debut novel begins with a young Taiwanese naturalist on an arduous quest for the elusive snow leopard, weaving in excerpts from translated entries from a left behind diary of a fictional Japanese monk, which bears witness to the ... Read more

    $21.74 CAD

  • Chinese Painting: An Intellectual History

    by Deng Qiaobin, Zhao Youbin, Zhang Zhiqing, Li Chun, Shi Jiasheng, Lin Wei ...
    Chinese Painting: An Intellectual History provides a panorama of Chinese painting from primitive times to the Qing Dynasty. But it is not a mere list of various theories, paintings, and painters in chronological order. Much space of the book is devoted to describing the political, cultural, and economic situations as well as the philosophical, literary, and academic elements that have influenced ... Read more

    $55.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Song of King Gesar

    by Alai ...
    Translated by Howard Goldblatt, Sylvia Li-chun Lin ...
    Series series Canongate Myths
    The first English translation of Tibet's founding myth, written by the renowned Chinese poet, novelist, and winner of China's Mao Dun Prize.The Song of King Gesar is one of the world's great epics, as significant for Tibetans as the Odyssey and Iliad were for the ancient Greeks. Passed down in song from one generation to the next, it is sung by Tibetan bards even today. Set partly in ancient Tibet ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Cook, the Crook, and the Real Estate Tycoon

    A Novel of Contemporary China

    by Liu Zhenyun ...
    Translated by Sylvia Li-chun Lin, Howard Goldblatt ...
    The Cook, the Crook, and the Real Estate Tycoon, by prize-winning Chinese novelist Liu Zhenyun is a novel of Beijing that paints a microcosm of contemporary China, dealing with classes at the two extremes: the super rich and the migrant workers who make them rich through deceit and corruption.The protagonist, Liu Yuejin, is a work site cook and small-time thief whose bag is stolen. In searching ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • I Did Not Kill My Husband

    A Novel

    by Liu Zhenyun ...
    Translated by Sylvia Li-chun Lin, Howard Goldblatt ...
    Li Xuelian, married to Qin Yuhe, is pregnant with their second child. Happy news? Not in China, with its one-child policy. It is a crime. What is she to do? Her only option is divorcing before the second child is born.Once the baby has entered into the household registry, we’ll marry again. The baby will be born after the divorce, so we’ll each have one child when we marry again. No law says ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • My Enemy's Cherry Tree

    by Ting-Kuo Wang ...
    Translated by Howard Goldblatt, Sylvia Li-chun Lin ...
    A man who has come from nothing, from poverty and loss, finds himself a beautiful wife, his dream love. When she vanishes without a trace, he sets up a small caf� in her favourite spot on the edge of the South China Sea, hoping she'll return.Instead, he is confronted by the man he suspects may be responsible for everything he has suffered: Luo Yiming, a prominent businessman and philanthropist who ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • The Piano Tuner

    A Novel

    Translated by Howard Goldblatt, Sylvia Li-chun Lin ...
    by Chiang-Sheng Kuo ...
    This bestseller and winner of every major literary award in Taiwan is an elegiac novel about love and loss, broken dreams and desolate hearts—and music: "A delightful read."—Ha JinA widower grieving for his young wife. A piano tuner concealing a lifetime of secrets. An out-of-tune Steinway piano. A journey of self-discovery across time and continents, from a dark apartment in Taipei’s red-light ... Read more

    $24.64 CAD

  • Green Energy Driven Integrated Smart Grid and Wireless Networks

    by Li-Chun Wang, Swades De, Ashutosh Balakrishnan ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    Green energy and next-generation wireless systems are no longer independent domains, rather they are rapidly converging to redefine the future of sustainable connectivity. This book presents a forward looking study outlining the design of green energy driven, integrated smart grid and wireless networks. It reimagines the integration of renewable energy with the traditional power grid, by enabling ... Read more

    $230.59 CAD

  • The Soldier-Writer, the Expatriate, and Cold War Modernism in Taiwan

    Freedom in the Trenches

    by Li-Chun Hsiao ...
    The Soldier-Writer, the Expatriate, and Cold War Modernism in Taiwan: Freedom in the Trenches argues that what appeared to be a "genesis" of new literature engendered by the modernist movement in postwar Taiwan was made possible only through the "splendid isolation" within the Cold War world order sustaining the bubble in which "Free China" lived on borrowed time. The book explores the trenches of ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • The Boletes of China: Tylopilus s.l.

    by Yan-Chun Li, Zhu L. Yang ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This book introduces the Chinese boletes, including the history, ecological and economic values, as well as the geographical distribution patterns with a highlight on the Tylopilus species. Species in Tylopilus s.l. are not only of important ecological values but also of scientific interests. They are very diverse in morphology, complex in structure and wide in ecological niches. China is one of ... Read more

    $179.39 CAD

  • Apricot's Revenge

    A Crime Novel

    by Song Ying, Howard Goldblatt, Sylvia Li-chun Lin ...
    Translated by Howard Goldblatt, Sylvia Li-chun Lin ...
    Apricot's Revenge is an absorbing detective novel and more. Song Ying uses an ingenious plot to investigate social problems in modern China, which makes the book a profound and captivating read, leaving readers thinking long after reaching the last page.A business tycoon in China is found dead; he apparently suffered a heart attack while swimming. His body is washed onto a beach in a popular ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD

  • Graph Sampling

    by Li-Chun Zhang ...
    Many technological, socio-economic, environmental, biomedical phenomena exhibit an underlying graph structure. Valued graph allows one to incorporate the connections or links among the population units in addition. The links may provide effectively access to the part of population that is the primary target, which is the case for many unconventional sampling methods, such as indirect, network, ... Read more

    $46.71 CAD