The unique Chinese-style illustrations will engage children and the stories will instill wise oriental philosophies of life such as diligence, courage and kindness. The books were written and illustrated by award-winning authors and artists. The team has won awards such as Feng Zikai Chinese Childen’s Picture Book Award, Hsin Yi Picture Book Award, Bingxin Children’s Literature Award and Hong Kong Youth Literary Awards. The series was reviewed by consultant Dr Wang Jing, a professor of children’s literature at Shanghai Normal University and a student of renowned Chinese children’s literature Mei Zihan.
Hua Mulan’s extraordinary act of disguising herself as a man to contribute to the fight against the enemy is a story that would be told for many centuries to come.
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Unquiet Heart Soliloquy
In modern-day China, a man has travelled to Shanghai on impulse to meet his online lover Luna, but she refuses to see him and soon disappears without a trace. He tries to forget her by immersing himself in dating apps, and also learns to appreciate the nuances within everyday Chinese life while he adjusts himself to mainland China as a member of the greater overseas Chinese diaspora. As the seasons change he falls in love with a budding photographer named Sofia, but with traces of Luna constantly reappearing in his life, will he ever find a way out of his unquiet predicament?
Unquiet Heart Soliloquy is Dano Chow’s debut novel, a confessional account of one’s turning to dating apps for comfort in times of loneliness, in the hope that one casual outing after another will somehow be enough to fulfil a generational desire for intimacy.
The Return on Kindness
The world needs leaders who have the strength to be kind. The Return on Kindness challenges companies to set a higher bar and reimagine what great leadership looks like. Kindness isn’t what you think it is. Kind leaders, far from being soft or weak, are caring and tough.
The Return on Kindness makes a compelling, evidence-based case for why kind leadership is good for business and how kind leaders create value through prioritizing the mental health and wellbeing of their people. Bonnie Hayden Cheng, organizational psychologist, researcher, and consultant to Fortune 500 companies, combines extensive research, storytelling, and in-depth interviews with influential executives across a wide range of industries to reveal the transformative power of kindness in driving business success.
The Return on Kindness provides a simple but impactful RISE framework to inspire kind leadership, accompanied by practical touchpoints for successfully implementing kind leadership in organizations.
Healers: A Novel
Set in the Philippine island of Cebu and spanning a wide expanse of the country’s history, Healers is the first book in a three-novel series that follows the lives of Luis, Armand and Victoria, three immortal children with supernatural skills who are trained in the healing arts.
After centuries of practicing healing, they grow weary of life eternal and become envious of what adults can do that children can’t. Deciding to shed their immortality and grow into adulthood, the three carve their own identities and paths in life, clinging on to the remnants of the immortal powers they once had to fulfil their dreams, aspirations, and innermost desires.
It is only generations later, in the second decade of the 21st century, that misfortune and modern-day societal maladies truly begin to complicate the lives of Luis, Armand, and Victoria, thrusting them into conflicts and existential struggles. And the three, bound together by their shared past, present, and future, will have to choose once more if they are willing to do what it takes to live forever again.
4 Pax to Emptiness
Four people from the tiny, wealthy, hypermodern nation of Singapore visit a remote village in the heart of China. It’s almost forty years since the end of a great famine, hardly known to the world outside China, but psychic echoes of that agony still reverberate through the cosmos. It is the Singaporeans’ task to try to heal that spiritual trauma. When the dead have been universally recognised and mourned for, the ‘hungry ghosts’ will be at peace.
The four are Peter, Katrina, Lumy and Alex: a cripple, a yuppie, a tai-tai and a businessman. On their quest they grow in self-understanding and wisdom, through the guidance of a good spirit named Bezalia.
The story is an amusing closeup of Singaporeans as you’ve never seen them before: four insular people confronting cosmic issues, pragmatists on a spiritual quest. It is also a declaration that transcendence is within everyone’s reach.
Six Saturdays of Beyblade and Other Essays
Quinabuangan and the glorious marching band.
Cembo, Makati and the burning Ship.
Baclaran, Manila at night, for the lost and homeless.
In these ten personal essays, a father confesses in gripping narratives his coming of age without a father, of working at an early age, of finding love in hopeless places, of losing a son to leukemia, and of accepting the language of pain. In Six Saturdays of Beyblade and Other Essays, bestselling author Ferdinand Pisigan Jarin brings us back to memories of being a tennis ball picker in a lavish country club, of achieving his dreams as the smallest member of a countryside marching band, and of drinking Michael Jordan and Olajuwon as breakfast juice inside a walk-in freezer with fellow service crew members. He also introduces us to his exes and lost first loves. He lends us a list of his fist fights, those he knocked down during drinking sessions or brawls, his antics in the field of love, and the truth behind escaping the convent. Sometimes he is a son, sometimes a father, and sometimes a friend who vividly shares without beating around the bush. Written with a cinematic eye, Jarin bares it all, fair and square, no more or less. Most of all, no entrance fee.
Wolf Granny
This series acts as an assiduous explorer, unearthing colossal cultural treasures. The ten typical Chinese folktales selected vividly present classic and ancient Chinese culture. The series is a must-read for all children.
The unique Chinese-style illustrations will engage children and the stories will instill wise oriental philosophies of life such as diligence, courage and kindness.
The books were written and illustrated by award-winning authors and artists. The team has won awards such as Feng Zikai Chinese Childen’s Picture Book Award, Hsin Yi Picture Book Award, Bingxin Children’s Literature Award and Hong Kong Youth Literary Awards. The series was reviewed by consultant Dr Wang Jing, a professor of children’s literature at Shanghai Normal University and a student of Mei Zihan, a renowned author of Chinese children’s literature.
Witty and dark, Wolf Granny is a tale of a wolf and three kids who are left alone at home by their mother! With their sharp senses and a common aim to not be predators to the sly wolf who finds her way inside their house, the three siblings find their way out with vigilance to get rid of her.
Three Monks
This series acts as an assiduous explorer, unearthing colossal cultural treasures. The ten typical Chinese folktales selected vividly present classic and ancient Chinese culture. The series is a must-read for all children.
The unique Chinese-style illustrations will engage children and the stories will instill wise oriental philosophies of life such as diligence, courage and kindness.
The books were written and illustrated by award-winning authors and artists. The team has won awards such as Feng Zikai Chinese Childen’s Picture Book Award, Hsin Yi Picture Book Award, Bingxin Children’s Literature Award and Hong Kong Youth Literary Awards. The series was reviewed by consultant Dr Wang Jing, a professor of children’s literature at Shanghai Normal University and a student of Mei Zihan, a renowned author of Chinese children’s literature.
When a tragedy involving fire befalls the three monks and their temple at once, they practically learn the meaning of ‘Unity is Strength’ and cooperation; and that, without it the balance of nature and humans is disrupted.
The Legend of Lady White
This series acts as an assiduous explorer, unearthing colossal cultural treasures. The ten typical Chinese folktales selected vividly present classic and ancient Chinese culture. The series is a must-read for all children.
The unique Chinese-style illustrations will engage children and the stories will instill wise oriental philosophies of life such as diligence, courage and kindness.
The books were written and illustrated by award-winning authors and artists. The team has won awards such as Feng Zikai Chinese Childen’s Picture Book Award, Hsin Yi Picture Book Award, Bingxin Children’s Literature Award and Hong Kong Youth Literary Awards. The series was reviewed by consultant Dr Wang Jing, a professor of children’s literature at Shanghai Normal University and a student of Mei Zihan, a renowned author of Chinese children’s literature.
The Legend of the Lady White, an ancient Chinese folktale has a great mix of romance, magic, betrayal and action. This folktale revolves around a Buddhist Monk, a snake which takes shape of a beautiful white lady, who was depicted as an evil demon, and Xu Xian, who falls in love with her and has a potential risk of life from the snake. Breaking all barriers, and to an extent the laws of nature, the two fall in love and fight against all odds despite there being a forbidden love.
The River Snail Maiden
This series acts as an assiduous explorer, unearthing colossal cultural treasures. The ten typical Chinese folktales selected vividly present classic and ancient Chinese culture. The series is a must-read for all children.
The unique Chinese-style illustrations will engage children and the stories will instill wise oriental philosophies of life such as diligence, courage and kindness.
The books were written and illustrated by award-winning authors and artists. The team has won awards such as Feng Zikai Chinese Childen’s Picture Book Award, Hsin Yi Picture Book Award, Bingxin Children’s Literature Award and Hong Kong Youth Literary Awards. The series was reviewed by consultant Dr Wang Jing, a professor of children’s literature at Shanghai Normal University and a student of Mei Zihan, a renowned author of Chinese children’s literature.
An ancient Chinese Folktale, The River Snail Maiden is about a beautiful maiden who comes out of a snail shell as ‘a mysterious housekeeper’, and prepares the food for a poor farmer, Xie Duan. Upon falling in love, they fight the obstacles coming from the emperor of a humanly world and a leech from the animals’ kingdom, proving that love stands tall!