"James Beard Award winner Kevin Pang and his dad Jeffrey, hosts of the hit America's Test Kitchen series Hunger Pangs, show you the way to delicious Chinese cooking in this accessible, funny, heartfelt cookbook. From American Chinese classics (General Tso's Chicken) to Sichuan street foods (Dan Dan Mian) and Hong Kong dim sum favorites (Shu Mai), A Very Chinese Cookbook is ideal for both the Chinese food-curious and experienced cooks seeking a weekend...

"The origin stories of each Chinese dish told using the framework of Chinese cuisine -- oftentimes based in folklore, both ancient and contemporary"--

Although paper cutting has existed with human beings for thousands of years, there is no writing material to summarize its principles and detailed techniques. After more than 50 years of practice, and based on the previous published works, this author summarized the language of paper cutting and applied the composition rule to paper cutting. In this book, the author attempts to introduce the basic principles for paper cutting to readers.After more...

"At once comic and cantankerous, tender and discomfiting, piercing and irreverent, Genghis Chan on Drums is a shape-shifting book of percussive poems dealing with aging, identity, PC culture, and stereotypes about being Chinese via a wide range of surprising forms (pantoums and sonnets) and unlikely subjects, including the 1930s Hollywood actress Carole Lombard, the Latin poet Catullus, the fantastical Renaissance painter Piero di Cosimo's imaginary...

"Ludovica Squirru publicó su primer horóscopo chino hace cuarenta años y muy pronto se convirtió en un best seller. Desde su aparición literaria logró que la astrología china se popularizara en la Argentina y otros países de habla hispana y que gracias a sus predicciones miles de lectores se inspiraran en esta filosofía milenaria para conocerse más íntimamente y tuvieran herramientas para tomar mejores decisiones en el amor, el trabajo,...

"About a Chinese American chef who, lured to a decadent, enigmatic colony of the superrich in a near future in which food is disappearing, discovers the meaning of pleasure and the ethics of who gets to enjoy it, altering her life and, indirectly, the world"-- A smog has spread. Food crops are rapidly disappearing. A chef escapes her dying career in a dreary city to take a job at a decadent mountaintop colony seemingly free of the world's troubles....

Folk tales are immensely popular in China. Passed down orally over the centuries from grandparents and parents to children, they serve as an unwritten handbook for living. Nearly all Chinese folk tales are about simple people who find themselves in difficult situations. These people are often helped (and occasionally hindered) by talking animals, as well as by powerful gods, wizards and other supernatural beings who actively interfere in events...

Connections I & II is the second-year sequence to accompany the enormously popular introductory texts Interactions I & II by Margaret Yan and Jennifer Li-chia Liu. This innovative system makes learning Chinese an interactive, cognitive process rather than a matter of simple rote or drill. Connections is designed to offer intermediate learners of Chinese a complete set of learning tools to improve their language skills and enhance their understanding...

"Mott Street follows Chinese American writer Ava Chin, who grew up estranged from her father, as she seeks the truth about her family history -- and uncovers a legacy of exclusion and resilience that speaks to the American experience past and present. Chin's ancestors became lovers, classmates, sworn enemies, and, eventually, through her birth, kin -- all while converging at a single Chinatown address"--

Everyday, at-home Chinese cooking from MasterChef NZ winner Sam Low Sam Low demystifies modern Chinese cooking with a collection of accessible, easy recipes that can be cooked with ingredients from the supermarket. He describes in detail how to build your pantry of classic Chinese ingredients, setting the foundation for cooking. Having grown up in a diasporic Chinese household, Sam creates recipes with a unique take on nostalgic traditional...