Books published by publisher Foreign Languages Press

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.

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.

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.

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.