San Antonio College Library

A Chinese-English dictionary that provides definitions and usage and grammatical information for thousands of words and phrases from each language.

Set against the backdrop of a modern-day China caught in the midst of a growing capitalism, Baldy Li, a teenage ne'er-do-well, and Song Gang, his bookish stepbrother, vow to preserve their close relationship despite their personal differences.

This popular autobiographical novel, written by litterateur, inventor, and business tycoon Chen Diexian (1879-1940), is the story of his youth, and in it he chooses to focus on his amorous and erotic development - a rare subject in Chinese literature - revealing his passage from innocent boy, surrounded by females, to young man, armed with a new attitude toward money, business, and the women in his life. The novel is built on our narrator's relationships...

Meng Jiangnü Brings Down the Great Wall brings together ten versions of a popular Chinese legend that has intrigued readers and listeners for hundreds of years. Elements of the story date back to the early centuries B.C.E. and are an intrinsic part of Chinese literary history.

Brings together fiction, poetry, drama, folk stories, elegies, letters, travelogues, criticism and theory. It emphasizes the distinctive features of Chinese literature through the ages by means of its topical arrangement.

Drawing upon 12 short works that are essential to literary culture throughout the Chinese-speaking world and through carefully developed discussion topics, exercises, and special sections on writing-related topics, the author invites students to be thoughtful and creative in responding to the readings, and challenges them to use the readings as models to improve their own composition skills. For self-study and developing reading, writing, and vocabulary...

Born in Japanese-occupied Taiwan, raised in the scholarly traditions of ancient China by his grandfather but forced into the Japanese educational system, Hu Taiming, the protagonist of Orphan of Asia, ultimately finds himself estranged from all three cultures. He finds that his Japanese education and his adoption of modern ways have alienated him from his family and native village. Neither in Japan, where he goes to study physics in the belief that...