Search results for "China"
epub |eng | 2005-06-11 | Author:Ted C. Fishman

*Not long ago, the Illinois River was so polluted in parts that no fish could swim its length and survive. Today it is mostly clean and a favorite for anglers, ...
( Category: Commerce June 12,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Sarah Rose

Behind the gentlemanly façade of the East India Company there were often hidden rivalries and simmering tensions, and within the Indian network of company gardeners this friction often centered on ...
( Category: China June 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-03-07 | Author:Martin Jacques [Jacques, Martin]

Together they constitute what might be described as the Middle Kingdom mentality. The historically arresting fact is simply how old these beliefs and convictions actually are. The obvious parallel is ...
( Category: Asian June 12,2015 )
epub | | 2011-01-14 | Author:Min, Anchee [Anchee, Min,]

The clouds drifted low to the ground and the crowns of pine trees spread like beggars' arms. Dick and I followed the trail leading to the top of the Purple ...
( Category: Biographical June 12,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jeff Gammage

IN CHINA, Jin Yu was afraid of the bathtub. It may have been the cold tile or the warm water, or the sound produced when one sloshed against the other. ...
( Category: Chinese June 12,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2014-07-30 | Author:Max China

Chapter 16 The motorcyclist noted that the road was far busier than it had been when he first drove down. Passing the wreck of the garage he’d destroyed a couple ...
( Category: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense June 12,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2010-03-30 | Author:Anchee Min

CHAPTER 19 I accepted Dick Lin's offer to be the editor of his magazine. I made up my mind to move to Shanghai for good. Pearl was devastated. A month ...
( Category: Biographical June 11,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-12-23 | Author:Peter Hessler

III WEI ZIQI’S BUSINESS LED HIM TO JOIN THE PARTY, AND the Party in turn led him to more business. Cadres from out of town occasionally came to the restaurant, ...
( Category: Road Travel June 11,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2008-07-07 | Author:Troost, J. Maarten [Troost, J. Maarten]

There are typhoons and there are super typhoons. Typhoon Chancu was only the second super typhoon to ever be recorded in the South China Sea. And somehow, I had managed ...
( Category: General June 11,2015 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2009-03-18 | Author:Paul Midler

CHAPTER 12 No Animal Testing Bernie mentioned that we would soon have visitors. Shop Corp, our largest customer, wanted to come in and conduct its own inspection. The visit would ...
( Category: Global June 11,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2012-05-16 | Author:Giles, Herbert Allen [Giles, Herbert Allen]

CHAPTER VII—PHILOSOPHY AND SPORT Chinese philosophy covers altogether too large a field to be dealt with, even in outline, on a scale suitable to this volume; only a few of ...
( Category: Children's Literature June 4,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-01-20 | Author:Karl E. Meyer

Chapter Fourteen Threads of Heaven On January 1, 1912, the revolutionary leader and Christian convert Sun Yat-sen returned from foreign exile to be inaugurated in Nanking as the first provisional ...
( Category: History May 27,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Deborah Nam-Krane

CHAPTER 18 Two hours later, Michael was just about to leave his house when there was a knock on the door. "I ought to punch you, you know that?" Richard ...
( Category: Romantic Suspense May 27,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-07-15 | Author:Chen Zhongshi & Jia Pingwa [Zhongshi, Chen]

5 It was the evening of August 5, 1945. The dreadful alarm horn went on the whole evening. After a quick supper, all the people fled to the air-raid shelters. ...
( Category: Chinese May 25,2015 )
epub |eng | 2007-03-15 | Author:Peter Hessler [Hessler, Peter]

POLAT NEVER MENTIONED the mugging during my visit in January of 2001. I didn’t learn about it for more than a year, when a mutual friend informed me. Afterward, I ...
( Category: Travel Writing May 23,2015 )

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