Books published by publisher Foreign Languages P, China

China's great classic novel Outlaws of the Marsh, written in the fourteenth century, is a fictional account of twelfth-century events during the Song Dynasty. One by one, over a hundred men and women are forced by the harsh feudal officialdom to take to the hills. They band together and defeat every attempt of the government troops to crush them. Within this framework we find intrigue, adventure, murder, warfare, romance ... in a connected series of fascinating individual tales, told in the suspenseful manner of the traditional storyteller.

This series is both a major cultural project which, for the first time ever, presents to the world a systematic and complete set of selected and translated Chinese classics, and a foundation project for showcasing the cream of traditional Chinese culture. The library will comprise more than 100 of the most representative classic works, covering literature, history, philosophy, politics, economy, military science, and science and technology. Works in classical prose have been translated first into modern Chinese, and then into English.

My First Chinese Word-Book is designed for children age between 4 and 8, including 40 fun topics and dialog scenarios, eg. at the zoo and amusement park, on the beah or at a birthday party, in the living room, at school, and even in outer space! Young readers can learn 400 frequently used Chinese words through enjoyable and relaxing reading. Bright, colorful and lively illustrations are printed with their Chinese characters and pinyin, as well as English explanations. My First Chinese Word-Book is a great choice for children to begin their Chinese learning. Comes with 2 CDs (1 CD-Rom, 1 MP3 CD) for listening and easy learning. The author Elizabeth Liu is the Head of Montessori Kindergarten, Canadaian International School of Beijing.

Traveling with his three followers to the West to seek Buddhist scriptures, Hsuan-tsang encounters the White-Bone Demon, who keeps changing herself into different human forms in order to catch and eat him. When Hsuan-tsang's follower, Monkey, sees through her disguises and tries to kill her, the deluded Hsuan-tsang orders him away, only to fall into the demon's clutches. At the last moment Monkey returns to rescue him.

This picture-story book, Monkey Subdues the White-Bone Demon, is based on an episode from The Pilgrimage to the West, a mythological novel by Wu Cheng-en. This novel has had a wide appeal among Chinese reader since its appearance in the 16th century, and its hero, Monkey, has become one of the most lovable figures in Chinese literature. Monkey is a fearless and loyal character capable of performing supernatural feats. In defiance of the powers that be, he creates havoc in heaven, and consequently is imprisoned by Buddha under the Mountain of the Five Elements. Five hundred years later he becomes a Buddhist follower and escorts the monk Hsuan-tsang on his pilgrimage to the west to seek Buddhist scriptures. During the journey he kills demons and performs many other deeds. In the story of their encounter with the White-Bone Demon, Hsuan-tsang fails to see through the demon's disguise, and claims that even a demon can be made to mend its ways. But Monkey refuses to be taken in, and for this he is sent away by Hsuan-tsang. Only after he has saved the monk from the man-eating monster's jaws does the latter realize that people are not always what they appear to be, and that the only way to deal with a demon is resolutely to wipe it out.