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The thousand recipe Chinese cookbook
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Gloria Bley Miller
Gloria Bley Miller does indeed include the 1000 recipes promised, but this amazing cookbook includes much more. Beginning with background, Miller writes extensively about Chinese attitudes toward food and cooking, about the evolution of the Chinese diet over the centuries, and about the regional variations that make the cuisine so rich and diverse ...
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The Red Heart of Jade
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Marjorie M Liu
The Dirk & Steele Detective Agency sends clairvoyant investigator Dean Campbell to Taipei to look into a series of murders. Soon, Dean becomes embroiled in an ancient game of immortals--a game in which he and the stunning Mirabelle Lee are both players and prizes. Original.
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Lucky Girl
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Mei-Ling Hopgood
In a true story of family ties, journalist Hopgood, one of the first wave of Asian adoptees to arrive in America, comes face to face with her past when her Chinese birth family suddenly requests a reunion after more than two decades.
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Kilo Class
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Patrick Robinson
A specialized team of Navy SEALs travel to Russia to thwart a Chinese plot to overtake Taiwan using Russian nuclear weapons.
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Bound feet & western dress
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Pang-Mei Natasha Chang
The author, born in China in 1900 during the Boxer Rebellion, tells the story of her tumultuous life: her arranged marriage to a poet who treated her cruelly and ultimately abandoned her; her flight to Germany where she educated herself and became a teacher; and her career as the first woman vice-president of a Shanghai bank. This memoir was ...
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The Foreigner
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Francie Lin
A noirish work about family, fraternity, conscience, and the curious gulf between a man's culture and his deepest self, "The Foreigner" is a darkly comic tale of crime and contrition, and a riveting story about what it means to be a foreigner--even in one's own family.
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Shark Mutiny
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P Robinson
A group of Chinese generals and Iranian religious leaders team up and hatch a plot to destroy the global economy by blowing up most of the world's oil tankers. U.S. National Security Adviser Admiral Arnold Morgan discovers the plan and fights to save the world.
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The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-Shek and the Struggle for Modern China
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Jay Taylor
One of the most momentous stories of the last century is China's rise from a self-satisfied, anti-modern, decaying society into a global power that promises to one day rival the United States. Chiang Kai-shek, an autocratic, larger-than-life figure, dominates this story. A modernist as well as a neo-Confucianist, Chiang was a man of war who led ...
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A Thrice-Told Tale: Feminism, Postmodernism, and Ethnographic Responsibility
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Margery Wolf
A Thrice-Told Tale is one ethnographer's imaginative and powerful response to the methodological issues raised by feminist and postmodernist critics of traditional ethnography. The author, a feminist anthropologist, uses three texts developed out of her research in Taiwan - a piece of fiction, anthropological fieldnotes, and a social science ...
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Lonely Planet Taiwan
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Robert Kelly, S.J, Joshua Samuel Brown
A guide to Taiwan with Chinese script, written by two long-term residents. It includes a feature on the hot springs.
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Wild Kids: Two Novels about Growing Up
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Ta-Ch'un Chang, Dachun Zhang, Professor Chang Ta-Chun
Two short novels by a popular Taiwanese TV personality: MY KID SISTER, about the rebellious daughter in a very conventional family, and WILD CHILD, about a troubled teenager on the streets.
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Formosa Straits
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Anthony Hyde
Nick Lamp is the son of a Chinese father and an American mother. On a visit to Taiwan to see an old family friend, who he finds dead. Lamp's friend was the head of the Taiwan mafia, and Nick becomes a suspect. He must navigate the Taiwan underworld to prove his innocence.
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Learning Gap: Why Our Schools Are Failing and What We Can Learn from Japanese and Chinese Educ
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Harold W Stevenson, James W Stigler
Compares United States elementary education practices with those in Asia and comes to some surprising conclusions.
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Life & Death on Mt. Everest: Sherpas & Himalayan Mountaineer
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Sherry B Ortner
The Sherpas were dead, two more victims of an attempt to scale Mt. Everest. Members of a French climbing expedition, sensitive perhaps about leaving the bodies where they could not be recovered, rolled them off a steep mountain face. One body, however, crashed to a stop near Sherpas on a separate expedition far below. They stared at the frozen ...
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Encyclopedia of Chinese Food and Cooking
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Wonona Chang
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Peanut Butter Friends in a Chop Suey World
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Deb Brammer, Grace Kim (Illustrator)
Sixth-grader Amy and her family move to Taiwan to do missionary work, but even at her school for English-speaking students Amy finds the adjustment difficult.
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The wok [a Chinese cook book.
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Gary Lee
More than 1.3 million copies of this best-seller have been sold. You can prepare all popular Chinese specialties expertly and easily with this complete cookbook by a Chinese cooking master. It contains delicious recipes for everything from simple stir-fried delicacies to exotic meals for guests, a guide to ingredients, and easy-to-follow ...
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Bamboo Shoots After the Rain: Contemporary Stories by Women Writers of Taiwan
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Ann C Carver (Editor), Professor Sung-Sheng Yvonne Chang (Editor)
This remarkable anthology introduces the short fiction of 14 writers, major figures in the literary movements of three generations, who represent a range of class, ethnic, age, and political perspectives. It is filled with "unexpected gems," writes Scarlet Cheng in Belles Lettres, including Lin Hai-yin's story of a woman suffering under a feudal ...
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Go Home and Tell
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Bertha Smith, Timothy George (Editor), Denise George (Editor)
An inspiring story of God's work in China during the Shantung Revival. A first-person account by a remarkable American missionary and conference leader. During her 99 years, Bertha Smith served as a missionary to China, and spent over 30 years as a popular speaker and conference leader.
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The Best of Taiwanese Cuisine
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Karen H Bartell
Dishes from the four corners of China are found in Taiwanese kitchens and restaurants: noodles, dumplings and Mongolian Lamb Barbecue from northern China; sauces and herbs from the east are featured in recipes like Piquant Lime Chicken in Swallow's Nest; hot spicy, fried foods from southern China such as lightly seasoned fresh seafood. This ...
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The Rough Guide to Taiwan
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Stephen Keeling, Brice Minnigh
"The Rough guide to Taiwan" is your definitive guide to this fascinating island. From the vibrant, frenetic streets of Taipei and teahouses of Taichung to the laid-back, historic Tainan, the full-colour section highlights all the 'things-not-to-miss'. Taiwan's enticing markets and vast range of culinary specialities are covered in full with ...
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China the Beautiful Cookbook: Chung-Kuo Ming Ts'ai Chi Chin Chieh Pen
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Kevin Sinclair
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Hudson Taylor: Deep in the Heart of China
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Janet Benge, Geoff Benge
"Christian Heroes: Then & Now have set a new standard of quality in Christian biography. These thrilling true adventures are the best-written biographies for ages 10 and up! A pioneer missionary to China at age 21, Hudson Taylor eventually led 641 missionaries, about half the entire protestant force in China (1832-1905).
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Beyond the Narrow Gate
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Leslie T Chang
Lifting the veils of secrecy that have so long hung over the "bamboo generation, " "Beyond the Narrow Gate" is the brave and moving story of four Chinese girls and their ultimate passage through the "narrow gate" in Communist China to America.
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culture shock! taiwan: A Survival Guide to Customs and Etiquette
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Chris Bates, Ling-Li Bates
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