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Culture in China
This book looks at one of the greatest cultures the world has known. Read about the Chinese arts of painting, music, literature and drama. Learn about the Cultural Revolution, which wiped out centuries of cultural tradition, and the recent revival of traditional arts. This series looks at people's ways of living. It examines the ways people identify themselves through language, social customs a…
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- 1740701313
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- 32 pages : illustration : 28 cm
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- 951 GUI
Maples in the mist : children's poems from the Tang Dynasty
A collection of short poems written over 1000 years ago by such poets of the Tang Dynasty as Li Po, Yin Luan, and Du Mu
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- 9789812613455
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- 32 pages : illustration : 27 cm
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- 895 HO
Paper Lanterns
Little Mouse loves paper lanterns with their impossible delicate beauty, and the way Old Chen's hands seem to effortlessly cut, paste, and paint his masterful creations. Little Mouse watches and learns until, when Old Chen can no longer make the lanterns, he finds his inner strength and his hidden talent. But more important than Little Mouse's achievement is the bond of friendship between him a…
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- 9781415514252
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- 32 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
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- C
The story about Ping
Ping was an adventurous duck who lived on a beautiful wise-eyed boat on the Yangtze River. He liked his life on the riverboat just and liked his large family and his kind master. He didn't like to be the last in line to board the boat at night, for that unlucky duck got a loud spank. So what did Ping do when it seemed that he would be the last on line? What else but set out on his own to explor…
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- 0140502416
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- 32 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
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- F
The art lesson
Tommy knows he wants to be an artist when he grows up. He can't wait to get to school and have real art lessons. When Tommy gets to school and finds out that the art lessons are full of "rules", he is surprised and dismayed. How the wise art teacher finds a way to give Tommy the freedom to create and stay within the "rules" makes a wonderfully perceptive picture book about growing up and keepin…
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- 0590367951
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- 32 pages : illustration ; 25 cm
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- D
Ming Lo moves the mountain
Ming Lo's wife is angry. The couple live beside a big mountain which causes them no end of trouble. Shadows fall over their garden. Rocks fall through their roof. And it is always raining. "Husband," says Ming Lo's wife, "you must move the mountain so that we may enjoy our house in peace." But how can a man as small as Ming Lo move something as large as a mountain? Maybe the village wise man ca…
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- 059048110X
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- 32 pages : illustration ; 19 cm
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- LO
Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese cat
"Before you go out into the world," Ming Miao told her five kittens, "you must know the true story of your ancestors...." And so begins the story of Sagwa of China, a mischievous, pearl white kitten. Sagwa lived in the House of the Foolish Magistrate, a greedy man who made up rules that helped only himself. One day, Sagwa fell into an inkwell and accidentally changed one of the Foolish Magis…
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- 9780689846175
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- 32 pages : illustration ; 27 cm
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- T
Kumpulan dongeng klasik China
Buku ini berisi dongeng-dongeng pilihan berupa cerita rakyat dan legenda populer dari Negeri China. Anak-anak akan menyukai beragam karakter menyenangkan seperti Raja Kera Wu Kong, Chang-E, Dewi Bulan, dan Dewi Kwan Im- Sang Dewi Welas Asih. Kisah dengan ilustrasi indah ini diceritakan kembali bagi pembaca cilik di seluruh dunia supaya mereka juga memehami kehidupan dan budaya tradisional China.
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- 9789797984144
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- 96 pages : illustration ; 23 cm
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- Y
Er-lang and the suns : a tale from China
Powerful Er-lang saves the people from the burning heat of the suns and helps create the very first night
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- 9780329624842
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- 22 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
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- 398 GUO
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