Brook Ziporyn's carefully crafted, richly annotated translation of the complete writings of Zhuangzi—including a lucid Introduction, a Glossary of Essential Terms, and a Bibliography—provides readers with an engaging and provocative deep dive into this magical work.

    When the beautiful Zixin arrives on campus, they soon discover they both share an interest in her. To preserve their friendship, they make a promise not to pursue her. However, when Wendong sees Zixin going for a ride in Dapeng's car, the truce dissolves into a battle between the two friends trying to gain the affection of Zixin. Whom does she really like, or are they "Just Friends?"Mandarin Companion is a series of easy-to-read novels in Chinese that are fun to read and proven to accelerate language learning. Every book in the Mandarin Companion series is carefully written to use characters, words, and grammar that a learner is likely to know.The Breakthrough Level is written using only 150 unique Chinese characters and is intended for Chinese learners who have obtained a low elementary or novice level of Chinese. Most learners will be able to approach this book after one year of traditional formal study, depending on the learner and program. This level is designed to help learners begin to read full-length texts in Chinese and combines simplicity of characters with an easy-to-understand storyline that helps beginners grow their vocabulary and language comprehension abilities.

    Who would have guessed that the heavens would be jealous of this heroic genius?! After waking up from a car accident, he unexpectedly finds that he is reborn as a hamster!Never mind that he’d turned into a hamster, but the CEO rival he hated the most in his previous life adopted him!

    Contents* Introduction by Ken Liu* Six Views of a Spring Festival* The Psychology Game* Up in the Air* Meeting Anna* On Miluo River* A Time Beyond Your Reach* Tick-Tock* Eternal Summer Dream* Heat Island* Duet of Love* Light of Their Days* All You Need is Love* Night Journey of the Dragon-Horse* Tongtong's Summer

    Together, they assemble disparate writers, artists, filmmakers and architects to help us navigate the world anew.

    Chih-Ying Lay, a Montreal-based expatriate from Taiwan familiar with both homesickness and home sickness, probes our desperate need for home, often matched with an equally desperate need to get away from it. Lay's characters are outsiders, whether queer, indigenous, unloved or lost, and each discovers that home is not the sanctuary it was meant to be. Sometimes, they find a place to call their very own, as if to tell the reader: You can, too."Good writers create worlds--great writers, glittering constellations. Chih-Ying Lay's debut collection makes my head spin. Diamond-hard, harrowing, melancholy, bawdy, erudite, his stories stream with blood, sperm, tears, piss, sweat, passion, loss. A medical student lovingly dissects the body of a dear friend who was a political dissident; a twisted sexual triangle develops between an artist, her nine-year-old son, and a day labourer; a young man whose mother is in chemo develops sympathetic symptoms all his own. By turns blunt, cynical, yearning, delicate, wounding, HOME SICKNESS is the work of a true original. As one queer writer to another, I salute an astonishing new talent."--Will Aitken