Books published by publisher Aspasia Books

Once an expert at smiling, Oowa is now enjoying life with his friends in a White Forest where they can sing and swap their memories for whatever they need. In the forest, life's treasures just wait to be stumbled upon, and the supply of sweet memories seems inexhaustible. Or at least this is what Oowa thinks... Oowa had been relying on those memories to keep him smiling, but one day something unimaginable happened: the memories ran out. How can he go on without a smile? A bittersweet journey through the White Tunnel to all the joys and pains of memory seems to be the only way for Oowa to recover. However, just as it begins, he discovers something unexpected about yesterday and tomorrow...

After miraculously rediscovering his heart in A Time for the Heart, Oowa lived happily for a time in his own little world. But one day, he met a little girl who never smiled. Others thought this glum child strange and shunned her, but Oowa befriended her and soon discovered that she wasn't so glum after all: she simply did not know how to smile. Oowa set out to teach her, to no avail. In Smile, please, readers follow Oowa as he discovers the secret of the girl's missing smile and in the process, reveals something within himself that could actually change her whole world.

Unveil the secrets of the Chinese palace. Learn about behind-the-scenes-and-screens intrigues of the various dynasties of China in the great halls and buildings of the palace complex. Meet the occupants of the palace: the emperors, empresses, imperial concubines and siblings, eunuchs and many others, and find out how the notable ones altered the course of history.

When the Opium War broke out in 1840, China entered its period of modern history. After the war, China signed a series of unequal treaties which almost reduced it to a colonized country under Western imperialist powers. Due to aggression from Western powers and the corruption of the Qing dynasty, the people yearned for a national revolution. Many important figures arose out of this national aspiration. It included Sun Yat-sen, Yuan Shikai, the Kuomintang (KMT) and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) who fought for power. China has gone through many challenging moments and events before arriving at what it is today. Chinese Modern History chronicles the events that occurred from 1840 to 1949, and the many important figures who changed the fate of modern China.