Chinese

The Little Stone Lion $21.95

In a small Chinese village a stone-carved lion sits and watches as a guardian spirit and holder of the villagers' collective memory. Older people stop, stroking his head to remember the past and children walk by knowing he...

Gai See: What You See in Chinatown $20.95

Take a charming tour of Chinatown! What in the world could you possibly see at an old gai see, just you and me on a warm and easy, slightly breezy springtime Saturday morning? In Cantonese, gai see means "street market"...

Long-Long's New Year: A Story About The Chinese Spring Festival $22.95

In this beautifully illustrated picture book, a little Chinese boy named Long-Long accompanies his grandfather into the city to sell cabbages in order to buy food and decorations for the New Year. Selling cabbages is harder...

The Wishing Tree $24.00

Every Lunar New Year, Ming and his grandmother visited the Wishing Tree. Its branches were covered with wishes, each written on red and yellow paper fluttering in the breeze, secured by the weight of an orange. Grandmother...

Dragonsong: A Fable for the New Millenium $24.00

Once every thousand years the four Imperial Dragons choose one dragon to be Keeper of the Mountain. Now, little Chiang-An, being the youngest dragon, must find a gift that will last a thousand years to win the honor of the...

The Empress and the Silkworm $22.00

Almost five thousand years ago, the young Chinese empress Si Ling-Chi was having tea in the garden. Suddenly - plop! - something small and round and white fell into her cup. It was a cocoon from a mulberry tree. Through a...

What the Rat Told Me $21.50

One day, the Great Emperor of Heaven invited all the animals to visit him on the Jade Mountain. Twelve animals came, and they became the twelve signs in the Chinese zodiac. But where was the cat? What really happened on that...

Ming's Adventure in the Forbidden City (Chinese_simplified-English) $19.95

A boy of today and a Little Emperor from the past find adventure and fun in the Forbidden City! On a visit to the Forbidden City, Xiao Ming somehow manages to lose his father. During his search, Ming finds a strange set of...

The Snake Goddess Colors the World (Chinese_simplified-English) $19.95

Long long ago, the world was a colorless, gray place. It had stayed that way for thousands of years. People never expected anything different until one day, the colorful Snake Goddess, Nuwa, fell from the sky. She was...

Ming's Adventure with the Terracotta Army $19.95

When a special exhibition of terracotta warriors comes to town, Ming and his mother goes to see them at the museum. To remember this exciting event, Ming's mother buys him a little figurine of a General to keep in his room...