My Beijing - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook My Beijing write by Nie Jun. This book was released on 2018. My Beijing available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Four short stories set in a hutong, or residential alleyway, of Beijing, China. Yu'er, her grandfather, and their eccentric neighbors experience the magic of everyday life."--
The Man from Beijing
The Man from Beijing - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Man from Beijing write by Henning Mankell. This book was released on 2010-02-16. The Man from Beijing available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the dean of Scandinavian noir, Henning Mankell, the internationally bestselling and universally acclaimed Kurt Wallander series, an incredible stand-alone masterpiece: a bone-chilling mystery that spans two centuries and four continents. In the far north of Sweden a small, quiet village has been almost entirely wiped out by a mass murderer. The only clue left at the scene is a red ribbon. Among the victims are the grandparents of Judge Birgitta Roslin, who sets out to find the killer. Despite being brushed off by the police, Birgitta is determined to prove that the murders were not a random act of violence but are part of something far more dark and complex. Her investigation leads to the highest echelons of power and into the recesses of history where the seeds of evil deeds were planted.
The Last Days of Old Beijing
The Last Days of Old Beijing - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Last Days of Old Beijing write by Michael Meyer. This book was released on 2010-07-23. The Last Days of Old Beijing available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Journalist Michael Meyer has spent his adult life in China, first in a small village as a Peace Corps volunteer, the last decade in Beijing--where he has witnessed the extraordinary transformation the country has experienced in that time. For the past two years he has been completely immersed in the ancient city, living on one of its famed hutong in a century-old courtyard home he shares with several families, teaching English at a local elementary school--while all around him "progress" closes in as the neighborhood is methodically destroyed to make way for high-rise buildings, shopping malls, and other symbols of modern, urban life. The city, he shows, has been demolished many times before; however, he writes, "the epitaph for Beijing will read: born 1280, died 2008...what emperors, warlords, Japanese invaders, and Communist planners couldn't eradicate, the market economy can." The Last Days of Old Beijing tells the story of this historic city from the inside out-through the eyes of those whose lives are in the balance: the Widow who takes care of Meyer; his students and fellow teachers, the first-ever description of what goes on in a Chinese public school; the local historian who rallies against the government. The tension of preservation vs. modernization--the question of what, in an ancient civilization, counts as heritage, and what happens when a billion people want to live the way Americans do--suffuse Meyer's story.
Two Bicycles in Beijing
Two Bicycles in Beijing - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Two Bicycles in Beijing write by Teresa Robeson. This book was released on 2020-04-01. Two Bicycles in Beijing available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Cycle through the sights of Beijing with Lunzi as she searches for her best friend. One, two; yi, er. Side by side, two bicycles, Lunzi and Huangche, come out of the factory. Side by side, they watch the city of Beijing from their shop window. Then a young girl comes in and buys Huangche, rolling him away from Lunzi! With the help of a delivery boy, Lunzi begins an epic race to find her friend that introduces readers to all the sights and sounds of Beijing.
Tiger of Beijing
Tiger of Beijing - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tiger of Beijing write by Joy Kong. This book was released on 2019-10-24. Tiger of Beijing available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Young Joy, who has been experiencing the stifling control of the Chinese government over the lofty ambitions of university students like herself to study abroad, has just realized that the forces amassed against her won't budge a millimeter despite her efforts to work within the system. So Joy initiates a complex series of daring scenarios to beat the legal system at its own game in order to secure her exit visa to the United States. And she does: transforming herself into the Tiger of Beijing. Calculated. Intuitive. Fierce. But before her plane lands in the Land of Opportunity, Joy finds herself faced with another problem that proves to be much more challenging than leaving a Communist country. Psychologically pushed to the brink of ruin in every way imaginable, Joy once again calls forth the Tiger of Beijing from deep within herself. Set against the austere backdrop of the post-Tiananmen Square Incident in Beijing, China, Tiger of Beijing dramatically relays Joy's five-year hero's journey that takes her across the Atlantic and into the heart of San Francisco where she finally experiences the freedom of the human spirit for which she had longed as a young girl.
