In rural Gaotai County, two lonely, middle-aged outcasts are pushed into an arranged marriage by their families. Ma is a humble farmer with little to offer his timid and sickly wife, Cao, except for a small, abandoned house on a barren patch of land. From just a few seeds, their ...
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"Describes some of the longest and most famous bridges ever built. Includes information on the bridge designers, the challenges they faced, and statistics of the finished bridges"--Provided by publisher.
This beautifully illustrated and exquisitely detailed book takes you on an unforgettable time-traveling journey through Chinese history. Spanning 2,500 years and 1,115 miles (1,794 km), from Hangzhou in the south to Beijing in the north, China Through Time tells the fascinating s...
"Josh Chin and Liza Lin's Surveillance State is a groundbreaking work of investigative nonfiction on life in China's burgeoning surveillance state People living in democracies have for decades drawn comfort from the notion that their form of government, for all its flaws, is the ...
An exciting read in which Eric Weiner invites us to travel the world and through time to show us how creative genius flourishes in specific places and at specific times. Weiner examines the connection between what surrounds us and our most innovative ideas. Explore 1900 Vienna, R...
浙江菜，简称浙菜，是我国汉族八大菜系之一，其地山清水秀，物产丰富佳肴美，故谚曰："上有天堂，下有苏杭"。浙江省位于我国东海之滨，北部水道成网，索有江南鱼米之乡之称。浙菜有四个特点：选料讲究，烹饪独到，注重本味，制作精细。除了有薄皮嫩肉，色泽红亮，味醇汁浓的东坡肉；颜色鲜艳，鱼米软嫩，松仁香脆的松仁鱼米之外，本书还精选了鲃肺汤、百鸟朝凤、龙井虾仁、叫化童鸡等好吃的浙江菜肴。书中分步讲解每一道菜品制作全过程，让您轻轻松松烹饪出具有江南风味的美味菜肴。( Zhejiang cuisine (Zhe cuisine for short), one of the ...
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • "A complex period tapestry inscribed with the age-old tragedy of love and death."- The New York Times Book Review "I finally understand what the poets have written. In spring, moved to passion; in autumn only regret." In seventeenth-century C...