La Véritable histoire de Ah Q (Chinese- French)
Lu Xun
Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 2003. Size: 110×180 mm; 208 pages.
ISBN 7-119-02967-3
The True Story of Ah Q is one of the representative works of the great modern Chinese writer Lu Xun, which produced a wide, far-reaching influence at home and abroad. This book is published in both Chinese and French so that readers can improve their French or Chinese reading ability while enjoying the novel.

Lover-Comrade (Contemporary Literature Series)
Ai Wei
Beijing: People's Literature Publishing House, 2002. 261 pages; with illustrations.
ISBN 7-02-003892-1
It's a contemporary novel which tells the story about a beautiful girl who braved people's taunt and jeer to marry a paralyzed hero. She won flowers and praises but also experienced abandonment and betrayal. This is a heart-breaking secret and also a eulogy of the time. The life experience moves your heart and life's dignity stirs your soul.

Intimations
Han Shaogong
Beijing: People's Literature Publishing House, 2002. 399 pages; with illustrations.
ISBN 7-02-003967-7
This is a new work by the famous writer Han Shaogong after his Dictionary of Maqiao. It observes life itself and deciphers the meaning of modern civilization from the angle of the relation between language and non-verbal world. It challenges the traditional fictions.

Selected Stories of Ba Jin   
Ba Jin
Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 2004. Size: 110×180 mm; 240 pages.
ISBN 7-119-03516-9
This book contains six stories written by Ba Jin in the 1930s: Rain, The Su Causeway, Snow, A Moonlit Night, The Heart of a Slave and Autumn in Spring. The language of the works is refreshing, full of emotion and profound.

Separate the Sheep from the Goats
Yi Ling
Beijing: People's Literature Publishing House, 2002. 570 pages; with illustrations.
ISBN 7-02-003904-9
This is a strange love story that happened on the Yanbei Plateau. During the "cultural revolution," young educated girl "Xiao Kuazi" fell in love with the math teacher Jiang Yuanlan….

White Bean (Contemporary Literature Series)
Dong Libo
Beijing: People's Literature Publishing House, 2003. 279 pages.
ISBN 7-02-004179-5
This is a rare, refined contemporary fiction after Shen Congwen and Wang Zengqi's works. It is a classic about western China that is highly regarded by editors of the Contemporary Literature magazine.

Tending the Roots of Wisdom (Library of Chinese Classics) (Chinese-English)
Hong Yingming (Ming Dynasty)
Translated into English by Paul White
Rendered into modern Chinese by Jiang Hanzhong
Beijing: New World Press, 2003. Hardcover; 388 pages. ISBN 7-80187-154-5
The present book is one of aphorisms written in essay form, mainly dealing with the topic of how to conduct one's life properly. Employing a wealth of quotations and elegant phrasing, its observations explain profound truths in simple terms and provide much food for thought. Aimed at helping the reader to mold his values and temper his will, it is a book for ordinary people who are prepared to make efforts to improve themselves.
This work, after all, was written some 400 years ago. So, while making use of it as a mirror for self-reflection, we must bear in mind that it also contains some feudal dross that should be discarded.

The Sea (Two Vols)
Jian Fan
Beijing: People's Literature Publishing House, 2002. Two volumes; 1256 pages; with illustrations.
ISBN 7-02-003878-6
This book is the author's reminiscence of master artist Liu Haisu and his wife Xia Yiqiao. It also has memories of other people and interviews with them. It is an objective, vivid record of the fate of the Chinese artists in the 20th century and also the best material for understanding and researching on Liu Haisu in particular and modern Chinese fine art history in general.

The Grain Dock
Wang Zifu
Beijing: People's Literature Publishing House, 2003. 632 pages; with illustrations.
ISBN 7-02-004078
This book investigates the history of transporting grain from the south to the capital by water and the prevalent social ills that deeply influenced the feudal empire during the Daoguang reign period (1821-51) of the Qing Dynasty. It fully displays the miseries and struggles the ruling class and common people experienced when the Qing empire started to decline.

Far From Home (Travelers' Series)
Yan Zhen
Beijing: People's Literature Publishing House, 1996, 1998. 571 pages.
ISBN 7-02-002298-7
This novel depicts the life experience of Gao Liwei when he was studying in North America. It portrays the pursuit and the struggles of the inner world of the Chinese students who studied overseas in the 1980s. It manifests the author's self-scrutiny and self-criticism.

La Maison de thé (Chinese-French)
Lao She
Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 2002. 276 pages; with illustrations.
ISBN 7-119-02968-1
Lao She is a famous modern Chinese writer. He created many works in his entire life. One of his representatives Teahouse depicts the dark society and people's hard life in old China through the rise and fall of a teahouse. The novel has simple language and is welcomed by both Chinese and foreign readers.

The Tea Road (English)
Martha Avery (US)
Beijing: China Intercontinental Press, 2003. Size: 184×130 mm; 240 pages.
ISBN 7-5085-0380-5
This book tells of the little-known "Old Tea Road" between China and Russia via Mongolia. This commercial route that opened as a result of China's flourishing tea trade can be traced back to 450 years ago. It reached its zenith in the 18th and 19th centuries, with Sino-foreign cultural exchanges in the hinterland of the Eurasian Continent, and declined in the 1920s and 1930s following the decline of Shanxi merchants. This book gives a vivid description of the rise and decline of this commercial road, changes in the surrounding cultural environment, and prospects for its revival in the era of China's reform and opening-up. It also details Sino-foreign relations on the Eurasian Continent in the fields of politics, economy and culture. Many of its historical photographs record architecture, folklore and the economy along the road. Such firsthand data is rarely seen, even in museums. The book also has a Russian edition.

Palace of Eternal Youth (Library of Chinese Classics) (Chinese-English)
Hong Sheng (Qing Dynasty)
Collated by Xu Shuofang
Translated by Yang Xianyi and Gladys Yang
Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 2004. Hardcover; 579 pages.
ISBN 7-119-03330-1
Palace of Eternal Youth is the representative work of the writer Hong Sheng of the Qing Dynasty. It describes the romance between Emperor Ming Huang of the Tang Dynasty and his concubine Yang Guifei, and at the same time reflects the social upheaval and people's miserable life after the "An Lushan-Shi Siming Rebellion (755-757)." The translation was done by the famous couple Yang Xianyi and Gladys Yang, and its preface was written by the expert of classical Chinese dramas, Prof. Huang Tianji of the Chinese Literature Department, Zhongshan University.

White Paper on Cities (Series of People's Literature Award Books)
Li Peifu
Beijing: People's Literature Publishing House, 2001, 2002. 351 pages; with illustrations.
ISBN 7-02-003677-5
The work sees through some little-known stories of the urban spiritual life from the morbid angle of a little girl. The language is very sharp and mature.

Red (Discoverers Series I)
Zhang Kangkang
Beijing: People's Literature Publishing House, 1995. 427 pages; with illustrations.
ISBN 7-02-003762-3
The novel records the difficult life of an intellectual's family. As the author researched boldly and thought deeply about the revolutionary storm sweeping China for half a century, the ideological connotation and the artistic value of the work are promoted.

New Long-marchers
Ed Jocelyn (UK)
Beijing: China Intercontinental Press, 2004. Size: 184×130 mm; 208 pages.
ISBN 7-5085-0588-3
The year 2005 marks the 70th anniversary of the victorious Long March by the Red Army. To commemorate this historical event, British photographer Ed Jocelyn trekked the route taken by the First Front Army of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army. He took numerous photographs along the way, recording folklore and showing the great changes that have taken place in people's lives since China's reform and opening-up. These photographs constitute historical data. It has Chinese and English versions.

Selected Romances (Chinese Classics) (Chinese-English)
Pei Xing and others (Tang Dynasty)
Rendered into modern Chinese by Nie Xinsen
Translated into English by Yang Xianyi and Gladys Yang
Beijing: New World Press, 2002. 412 pages, with illustrations.
ISBN 7-80005-654-6
This book consists of 11 romances created by Pei Xing, Li Chaowei and other authors of the Tang Dynasty. It includes love stories of The Dragon King's Daughter and The Tale of Li Wa, cynical literary works of The Governor of the Southern Tributary and stories about friendship such as The Man with the Curly Beard. It comes with illustrations. The book will help readers have a better understanding of ancient Chinese politics, culture and history, and gives them the feel of the charm of Chinese literature.

Starting from Two Eggs 
Yang Zhengguang
Beijing: People's Literature Publishing House, 2003. 359 pages; with illustrations.
ISBN 7-02-004246-5
This book is a folklore legend and also a chronicle of a village. It incorporates stories, folk customs, history and debates, showing the changes of society and people's mind.

From 19 to 26
Luo Meng
Beijing: People's Literature Publishing House, 2003. 296 pages; with illustrations.
ISBN 7-02-003950-2
The novel tells a country boy's working and love experiences in a provincial city and Beijing after graduation from high school, representing the life and struggling spirit of the young generation.

From Writers' Literature to Scholars' Literature (Sanlian Forum Series)
Chen Pingyuan
Beijing: SDX Joint Publishing Company, 2004. Size: 187×258 mm; 265 pages.
ISBN 7-108-02104-8
Taking nine famous writers of the Ming and Qing dynasties as the research cases, this book analyzes each writer's method of creation and characteristics, style and contributions by studying their existing prose. With the approach of combining inner research and outer study, the author not only presents the nine writers' literary world but also outlines the literature history, and at the same time elaborates and describes clearly the social background and citizens' life, which influence and restrain the development of literature.

Stories of Poetry of Chu
Meng Chenghua
Illustrated by Ah Gui
Chengdu: Tiandi Publishing House, 2003. 257 pages.
ISBN 7-80624-655-4
Poetry of Chu mainly consists of Li Sao written by the great poet Qu Yuan (c.340-277B.C.), and some similar-style poems of his students such as Song Yu. It has very strong local characteristics and is one of the origins of Chinese literature. The author of the book makes Poetry of Chu easy to understand by telling stories, so that readers can not only glimpse the essence of the work but also enjoy it with modern people's taste.

Dahua Yiyu
Jiang Xindao
Beijing: Writers Publishing House, 2004. 154 pages; with illustrations.
ISBN 7-5063-2960-3
This book incorporates modern sentiment into ancient Chinese language. The language is humorous and witty while the idea is serious. The theory of The Book of Changes goes through the whole book. Wise dictums are found here and their in the book. This book has illustrations drawn by the author himself, which are simple and refined.

The Mansion Gate II
Guo Baochang
Beijing: People's Literature Publishing House, 2003. 697 pages; with illustrations.
ISBN 7-02-004283-X
This book mainly depicts how that one-hundred-year Mansion Gate entered New China. People living inside the tall-walled mansion experienced the challenges and movements of ideology again and again and staged many life shows of joy and sorrow.

As Great As the World
Lisa Carducci (Canada)
Beijing: China Intercontinental Press, 2003. 181 pages; with illustrations.
ISBN 7-5085-0162-4
Lisa Carducci is a foreign expert working for the China International Publishing Group. She has been in China for over 10 years. This book collects essays about her life and work in China and records what she saw, heard, experienced and felt, at the same time, analyzes her unique viewpoints on Chinese culture, communications, education and new ideas. It can be said to be a true record of the changes of Chinese society in over 10 years. It also has humorous cartoons. There are Chinese, English, French, Spanish, German, Japanese, Russian and Arabic versions.

Miss Dai and Blue
Zhu Wenying
Beijing: Writers Publishing House, 2004. 247 pages.
ISBN 7-5063-2892-5
Miss Dai and Blue is the best-selling writer Zhu Wenying's latest work after her best sellers High Heeled Shoes and Unpredictable Marriage. This novel makes a comprehensive survey on people's desire and actions for power.

Painter (Series of People's Literature Award Books)
Wang Xiaoying
Beijing: People's Literature Publishing House, 1997, 2002. 518 pages; with color illustrations.
ISBN 7-02-002479
This book tells the life experience of a painter who devotes himself to art and outlines the influence of politics on artists' creation in contemporary China.

Dix auteurs modernes (French)
Gao Xiaosheng and others
Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 2004. Size: 110×180 mm; 392 pages.
ISBN 7-119-03519-3
This book contains ten stories written by Gao Xiaosheng, Shi Tiesheng, Zhang Xian, Deng Youmei, Zhang Xianliang, Gu Hua, Wang Zengqi, Wure Ertu, Xue Haixiang and Liang Xiaosheng. It reflects the reality of modern China from multiply angles.

Soundless Short Flute
Wu Guanzhong
Beijing: New World Press, 2004. 292 pages; with illustrations.
ISBN 7-80187-183-9
This is the collection of the famous painter Mr. Wu Guanzhong's proses and essays on art in recent years. It has altogether 90 essays which mainly record his true feelings of fine art creation, as well as the relationship between life and creation and some observations and thinking of daily life.

Papers on Tantrism Documents of Dunhuang (Chinese Classics and Culture Research Series)
Li Xiaorong
Beijing: People's Literature Publishing House, 2003. 387 pages.
ISBN 7-02-004076-4
This book does a thorough research on the Dunhuang Tantrism documents, with emphasis on Bodhisattva worship, rituals, water-and-land service and other ideologies. At the same time, it uncovers the influence Tantrism music, painting and mystery had on Chinese literature by analyzing individual cases.

The Tale of Heroic Sons and Daughters (Library of Chinese Classics) (Chinese-English)
Wen Kang (Qing Dynasty)
Translated by Fei Zhide
Beijing: New World Press, 2003. Hardcover; 843 pages; two volumes.
ISBN 7-80187-153-7
The Tale of Heroic Sons and Daughters holds a special position in the history of the Chinese novel. It has been widely popular ever since it was first published. The author made a fanciful story that He Yufeng went to town to revenge her father. She got to know An Ji and Zhang Jinfeng accidentally and acted as a matchmaker for them. Later, He Yufeng herself also married An Ji.

Mr. Ma and Son
Lao She
Beijing: People's Literature Publishing House, 1998. 248 pages; with illustrations.
ISBN 7-02-002658-3
This is one of Lao She's long novels. It discloses the weaknesses of traditional Chinese culture through the contrast of Chinese and English cultures and examines the backwardness of old China and people's ignorance in a humorous and sad tone.

Correction and Verification of Classified Poems of the Tang and Song Dynasties (I, II)
Compiled by Liu Kezhuang
Corrected and verified by Li Geng and Chen Xin
Beijing: People's Literature Publishing House, 2002. 986 pages; two volumes.
ISBN 7-02-003570-1
This book was finished between the Song and Yuan dynasties, which is a comparatively early collection of classified poems of the Tang and Song dynasties. It preserves a great number of poems that can't be found in other poem collections compiled by people in the Tang and Song dynasties, thus it has a high documentary value.

The Phoenix Seeks a Mate (Ancient Chinese Love Stories Series) (Chinese-English)
Xu Fei
Beijing: New World Press, 2004. 271 pages; with illustrations.
ISBN 7-80187-306-8
This book tells the love story between the famous poet Sima Xiangru and a talented girl Zhuo Wenjun in the Western Han Dynasty. A big shot in Linqiong Zhuo Wangsun has a daughter named Zhuo Wenjun who is very pretty and talented, but her husband died. Once at a banquet, she heard Sima Xiangru play zither and fell in love with him, so she went to meet Sima Xiangru at night. Zhuo Wangsun was furious when he knew it and refused to allow his daughter to marry Sima Xiangru. Zhuo Wenjun opened a liquor store in Linqiong to embarrass her father. Zhuo Wangsun had to give in. He gave his daughter a lot of money and ordered them to leave Linqiong. They settled down at Chengdu. Later, Sima Xiangru was appreciated and given a high position by Emperor Wudi, and the couple returned home with fame and fortune.

Report on University Entrance Examinations: He Jianming's Collected Prize-winning Reportage (Fundamental Interests Series)
He Jianming
Beijing: New World Press, 2004. 297 pages; with illustrations.
ISBN 7-80187-254-1
This is an overall report on China's education system and the status quo of the university entrance examination. It examines the great impact on Chinese people brought about by the system of university entrance examination through the personal experience of students and their parents and various phenomena and problems caused by the system since the university entrance examination was resumed. This work won the National Award for Excellent Reportage and was among the ten best sellers of 2000.

Alte Geschichte neu erzählt (Chinese-German)
Lu Xun
Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 2002. Size: 119×185 mm; 244 pages.
ISBN 7-119-02976-2
Old Stories Retold was created by Lu Xun from 1922 to 1935. The whole book consists of eight short stories. They are Mending Heaven, Forging the Sword, Flight to the Moon, Beyond the Frontier, Pacifying the Flood, Against Aggression, Gathering Thorn Ferns and Resurrection.

Hometown (Chinese-Japanese)
Lu Xun
Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 2003. Size: 110×180 mm; 112 pages.
ISBN 7-119-03357-3/I · 755
Lu Xun's Hometown describes three hometowns. One is in the memory, one is real and the other one is ideal. The language is simple; descriptions about the characters are vivid and true to life; and the psychological descriptions are refined and smooth. The Japanese translation excellently conveys the artistic charm of Hometown.

Selected Zaju of Guan Hanqing (Library of Chinese Classics) (Chinese-English)
Guan Hanqing (Yuan Dynasty)
Edited by Wu Xiaoling and others
Translated by Yang Xianyi and Gladys Yang
Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 2004. Hardcover; 455 pages.
ISBN 7-119-03395-6
Guan Hanqing, a great opera writer of the Yuan Dynasty in China, occupies an important position in Chinese literary history. This book selects Guan Hanqing's eight most representative operas, including The Injustice Done to Dou E, The Rescue of a Courtesan, Meeting the Enemies Alone, and so on.

National Action: He Jianming's Prize- winning Reportage (Fundamental Interests Series)
He Jianming
Beijing: New World Press, 2004. Size: 187×258 mm; 208 pages; with illustrations.
ISBN 7-80187-251-7
This book records the migration of one million residents at the Three Gorges of Yangtze River. Over one million villagers living on mountains along the Three Gorges had to give up their home villages that would be drown by the river soon and move to new places because of the construction of the Three Gorges Water Conservancy project. No matter they moved willingly or unwillingly, with joy or sorrow, those common people will always be remembered by history because of their sublime sacrificial spirit. This work won "5-1 Achievement Award" of the Publicity Department of the CPC in 2003.

A Dream of Red Mansions (Chinese Classics) (Chinese-English)
Cao Xueqin and Gao E (Qing Dynasty)
Translated by Yang Xianyi and Gladys Yang
Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 2003. Six volumes; 3575 pages; with illustrations.
ISBN 7-119-03218-6
This is one of the four famous Chinese classics and widely considered as the zenith of the ancient Chinese novels and a treasure of the world's literary heritage. For the past 100 years, the research on A Dream of Red Mansions and its author Cao Xueqin has become a scientific discipline itself.

Red Uproar -- A True Record of the Left-wing Writers Alliance
Liu Xiaoqing
Beijing: People's Literature Publishing House, 2004. 553 pages; with illustrations.
ISBN 7-02-004348-8
This is the first book that systematically records the activities of the Left-wing Writers Alliance. With the documentary writing and a lot of pictures, it reflects the passionate struggling history of the Left-wing Writers Alliance in the 1930s. The portrayal of famous writers such as Lu Xun, Mao Dun, Feng Xuefeng, Pan Hannian, Xia Yan and Ding Ling are true to life.

Collection of Red Poems
Duo Ren
Beijing: People's Literature Publishing House, 2001. 381 pages.
ISBN 7-02-003477
This is a collection of revolutionary and progressive poems written since the May Fourth Movement of 1919. It contains over 170 poems of more than 120 writers, including the representative works that produced great impact in each revolutionary historical period with their inspiring power.

The Rainbow
Mao Dun
Beijing: People's Literature Publishing House, 1983, 1998 (reprinted). 243 pages; with illustrations.
ISBN 7-02-001805-X
The rainbow is beautiful but ephemeral, appealing but fanciful. This masterpiece by Mao Dun is honored to be a "historical record" that reflects the psychological transformation of enlightened educated women in China from the mid-19th century to 1919.

Soul of Tigers (Library of Chinese Writers)
Nian Zhiyong
Beijing: Writers Publishing House, 2004. 693 pages; with illustrations.
ISBN 7-5063-2938-7
This is a great historical novel. It mainly depicts the Zhao Qian couple and also gives some description about many people living on the black earth. Based on a true story, it artistically stages the fast-changing situation that lasted half a century. There are limitless miseries and tragic and moving national struggles; deep love for this land and beautiful imagination of the future life; seeking for individuality and discovery of human nature; heart-torturing love and heart-broken hatred; and rich local culture and splendid northern China scenery…All of these constitute a grand scroll of painting.

Fanciful Whale
Dong Zhi
Beijing: People's Literature Publishing House, 2003. 370 pages.
ISBN 7-02-004060
By combining the artistic skills of psychology, suspense and fantasy with a fine style of writing, the novel tells a thrilling story about how the female character got rid of confusion and cowardice with the help of her spiritual totem, a strong whale, and started her new mental experience.

The Way of Living
Dong Yueling
Beijing: China Youth Press, 2003. 313 pages; with illustrations.
ISBN 7-5006-4973-8/I · 1028
For the past eight years, the senior female journalist of the Column "Freezing Point" of China Youth Daily has been investigating people at the grass-roots level of China. She carefully chose some common people and composed the most extraordinary stories about them. This book vividly depicts 23 characters who do the commonest things, brave the difficulties, keep high spirit in low positions, and never get lost or deteriorated in the hardest situations, and finally achieve their goals.

Record and Fiction (Series of People's Literature Award Books)
Wang Anyi
Beijing: People's Literature Publishing House, 1993, 2002. 462 pages; with illustrations.
ISBN 7-02-001621
This book describes an urban family's history and development. It displays the human nature in a family story, leaving people to think.

The Trilogy of Love: Family, Spring, Autumn
Ba Jin
Beijing: People's Literature Publishing House, 1981, 1996 (reprinted). 398 pages.
ISBN 7-02-001660-X
Family, Spring and Autumn are Ba Jin's masterpieces that are generally called The Trilogy of Love and honored to be A Dream of Red Mansions in modern China. The works uncover the decline of the traditional Chinese family system and created a best-selling myth in the 1930s. Today they still radiate the imperishable charm of art.

Record of China -- New Record Movement of Contemporary China (Modern Criticism Series)
Lü Xinyu
Beijing: SDX Joint Publishing Company, 2003. Size: 187×258 mm; 344 pages.
ISBN 7-108-01849-7
This book is a pragmatic display and theoretical analysis of the new record movement launched by the film circle in China in the past ten years. In the first half of the book, the initiators of the movement recall the history of Chinese documentary film-making and in the later half, the author thoroughly analyzes the practices of Chinese documentary films and maintains that only with grass-roots experience, common people's viewpoints, historical awareness and sense of social responsibility could documentary films step out of the cliché.

The Country
Deng Yiguang
Beijing: People's Literature Publishing House, 2003. 609 pages; with illustrations.
ISBN 7-02-004256-2
Taking a metropolis in southern China as the background and the fate and love stories of three families as the main theme, the novel shows a difficult period of history that the Communist Party established and protected the Republic.

A Song of Everlasting Sorrow of Jin Emperors 
Sun Li
Beijing: Writers Publishing House, 2004. 349 pages; with illustrations.
ISBN 7-5063-2971-9
With the love affairs between the fourth emperor Wan Yan Liang, the fifth emperor Wan Yan Yong of the Jin Dynasty and Wulin Daxiang as the motif and the military, politics, diplomacy and court fights between the Jin and Song dynasties as the background, this long historical novel emphatically portrays a talented, over suspicious, cruel Wan Yan Liang, a capable yet conservative Wan Yan Yong and the smart Wulin Daxiang with a strong character and moral integrity. It brings readers back to the vast land in northern China over 800 years ago in a beautiful, smooth, poetic language. The story is appealing.

Thorny Hat
Mu Bifang
Beijing: Writers Publishing House, 2004. 449 pages; with color illustrations.
ISBN 7-5063-2906-9
The novel tells the over 20 years' grudge and love between the main characters, the influential persons in the political and business circles in the City of Xihua during the period of Development of China's Western Regions. It is a drama about modern Chinese citizens and faithfully records the mental changes of Chinese people during the transitional period.

Cops and Criminals
Cheng Lin
Beijing: Writers Publishing House, 2004. 349 pages; with illustrations.
ISBN 7-5063-2955-7
This long fiction reflects the philosophical relationship between cops and criminals: while they are absolutely irreconcilable, they are also interdependent on each other. It tells the story of a coward who killed a person but was set free because of not enough evidence. Later he became more and more audacious, and finally turned into a real criminal. The assistant leader of the criminal police force Su Yan never gave up looking for evidences surrounding the case. At the same time, many little-known and thrilling stories happened….

Billows
Liu Jianwei
Beijing: People's Literature Publishing House, 2003. 198 pages; with color illustrations.
ISBN 7-02-004053-5
This novel exquisitely depicts how a group army combated the great flood of 1998.

A Tale of the Southern Tributary (English)
Tang Xianzu (Ming Dynasty)
Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 2003. Size: 140×203 mm; 420 pages.
ISBN 7-119-03270-4
This is one of the representative works of the famous Chinese dramatist Tang Xianzu of the Ming Dynasty. It tells that a person went to a Country of Ants and experienced the life of a rich man there. The writing technique is similar to Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis. The story is intricate and very appealing.

Storybooks of Wise Dictums of the Pre-Qin Period
Li Qiuli and others.
Jinan: Qi Lu Press, 2004. 16 volumes; 3656 pages.
ISBN 7-5333-1262-7
This series consists of 16 volumes and each of them carefully chooses some wise dictums from 17 classics of the pre-Qin period The Book of Changes, The Book of Rites, The Book of Poems, The Analects of Confucius, Mencius, The Art of War by Sunzi and The Spring and Autumn Annals of Mr. Lu. It gives a brief explanation of the meaning and background of each wise dictum, and then elaborates it with the help of relevant stories. Combination of wise dictums, elaboration of their fundamental meanings and stories is a good way to understand classics.

Ascending to Heaven
Li Xiuwen
Beijing: People's Literature Publishing House, 2003. 345 pages; with color illustrations.
ISBN 7-02-003883
This novel tells the story of a critically ill city boy who met an outgoing, bright girl. They started a love legend. The language is beautiful, sad, and rich in imagination.

Random Thoughts of a Gourmand
Zhao Heng
Beijing: SDX Joint Publishing Company, 2001. Size: 184×130 mm; 272 pages.
ISBN 7-108-01523-4
Taotie, a mythical ferocious animal, disliked by people as a "greedy eater," became a symbol of scholars who are interested in good food but never lose decency. Wang Shixiang wrote the title and Zhu Jiagui wrote the preface for this book.
The author talks about food in a straightforward style of writing. The author's love for delicate culture can be seen in the descriptions of food, customs, people and history.

Best Essays of Lao She
Lao She
Beijing: People's Literature Publishing House, 1994. 310 pages.
ISBN 7-02-001740
This book carefully selects some 80 essays by Lao She. It is divided into five parts: self-reflection, reminiscence, landscapes, ways of the world and humors. They are the depiction of the author's life, experience, attitude and personality.

Tears
Zhang Xin
Beijing: People's Literature Publishing House, 2003. 297 pages; with illustrations.
ISBN 7-02-004082
A kid who is looking for her parents in dreams must have a sad life. How miserable a mother is when she adopts her own daughter. Just at the moment when the mother and daughter crossed the chasm between their hearts and were ready to accept each other, an accident happened that discovered the deeply hidden secret…The author's awareness of urban life and the insight into female's love world are unique and heart-stirring.

Die Mordwaffe war ein Insekt
(German)
Hu Ben
Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 2001. Size: 110×180 mm; 204 pages.
ISBN 7-119-01898-1
Lord Bao's legendary stories have been popular for over 1000 years in China. He was impartial, smart, integral, honest and upright. His name is known by every Chinese person. Stories of Lord Bao were based on the life stories of Bao Zheng (999-1062) of the Northern Song Dynasty. He held many positions after he became a palace graduate, such as the county magistrate, governor of Kaifeng. This book consists of eight stories that have intricate plots and unexpected results. Readers will admire Lord Bao for his wisdom shown in the process of dealing with complicated cases and his determination to uphold justice for common people.

Legends of Li Jiacheng and His Sons
Li Yongshi
Beijing: People's Literature Publishing House, 2002. 344 pages; with illustrations.
ISBN 7-02-003758
This book depicts the little-known stories during the process of the establishment of Li Jiacheng's business world. Li Jiacheng and his two sons' experience of establishing their businesses and their legendary business vision are amazing.

Flame Ru Ge
Ming Xiaoxi
Beijing: New World Press, 2004. 254 pages; with color illustrations.
ISBN 7-80187-297-5
This book is a masterpiece by the famous Internet writer Ming Xiaoxi -- an imaginary love story. The main character Ru Ge, an outgoing, cute girl got involved in some unexpected misfortunes, and her love stories started. Yu or Xue. Who is she going to be with in the end? The result is worth anticipating.

The Shop of the Lin Family
Mao Dun
Beijing: People's Literature Publishing House, 1958, 1999 (reprinted). 128 pages.
ISBN 7-02-002966-3
This book contains four of Mao Dun's short stories: The Shop of the Lin Family and Trilogy of the Countryside, Spring Silkworms, Autumn Harvest, and Winter Ruin. Based on the main contradictions in real life, the novel created artistic typicals for the countryside and business circle in the early 1930s. It is a rare, excellent work of that time.

Liu Yiting's Learning Skills and Training Details
Zhang Xinwu and Liu Weihua
Beijing: Writers Publishing House, 2004. 438 pages; with illustrations.
ISBN 7-5063-2891-7
In this book, Liu Yiting recounts the colorful life and social activities at Harvard. Her parents thoroughly introduce the specific methods referred to in the book Harvard Girl Liu Yiting -- A Record of Quality Training. These include how to establish an excellent quality system, how to train creativity, how to acquire the learning skills of each course, how to effectively help children study, how to form the habit of working out, how to seize the method and chance of sex education in the family, how to check the development speed of infants' mind and intelligence, etc. It thoroughly answers various questions related to quality education asked by readers of all circles.

Essays of Longpo (Enlarged Edition) (Sanlian Best Selections)
Tai Jingnong; edited by Chen Zishan
Beijing: SDX Joint Publishing Company, 2002. Size: 184×130 mm; 250 pages.
ISBN 7-108-01765-2
The author is a modern Chinese writer, scholar and calligrapher and an outstanding representative of the folk novels of 1920s. This book is his only collection of essays which contains 44 topics.
 
Selected Works of Lu Xun (English)
Translated by Yang Xianyi and Gladys Yang
Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 2003. Size: 130×209 mm; four volumes; 1600 pages.
ISBN 7-119-03408-1/I · 761
Selected Works of Lu Xun consists of four volumes which include Lu Xun's most important works. The first volume includes his short stories; the second, third and fourth volumes contain his relatively important articles. The fourth volume also has a list of all Lu Xun's creative and translated works in chronological order.

Collected Poems of Lu Xun
Lu Xun
Beijing: People's Literature Publishing House, 2001. 109 pages.
ISBN 7-02-003478-0
Poems are an important component of Lu Xun's works. His poems contain deep meaning and reflect the social conflicts and his mental experience of that time. The language is exquisite and ingenious; it is of unique charm and high artistic value. This book collects all of the author's poems, as well as his handwritten manuscripts for readers to appreciate.

Unrestrained London
Zhao Yiheng
Beijing: People's Literature Publishing House, 2002. 217 pages; with illustrations.
ISBN 7-02-003846
Scholar Zhao Yiheng wrote this collection of essays after he visited and lived in England for years. His travel notes are different from other books of the same kind. The scholar's interesting ideas and elegant taste, together with his unrestrained style of writing make the serious cultural essays entertaining.

Tears Are Gold: He Jianming's Prize -- winning Reportage (Fundamental Interests Series)
He Jianming
Beijing: New World Press, 2004. 298 pages; with illustrations.
ISBN 7-80187-253-3
This reportage was finished in 1998. The author analyzes the poor college students' little-known experience and mental world through thorough interviews. He discovers the extraordinary efforts they made in order to go to college and support themselves. He maintains that more care and help should be given to those weak groups during China's modernization process so as to let them feel socialist country's warmth and make contributions to it. This work won the Second "Lu Xun Literary Award" and "Xu Chi Literary Award for Reportage."

Camel Xiangzi
Lao She
Beijing: People's Literature Publishing House, 1962, 2004 (reprinted). 364 pages.
ISBN 7-02-004397-6
This is one of Lao She's famous works and modern Chinese literary classics. It displays rickshaw man Xiangzi's life tragedies and at the same time shows the human relations of old Beijing.

Selected Poems of Mao Zedong
Edited by People's Literature Publishing House
Beijing: People's Literature Publishing House, 1986, 2003 (reprinted). 168 pages; with illustrations.
ISBN 7-02-001113-6
This is the most complete collection of Mao Zedong's poems so far, which consists of 50 poems. The earliest one was written in 1918 while the latest one in 1958. It basically records Mao Zedong's mental experience during different periods before the 1960s. Apart from the compiler's annotations, there are also the author's own annotations and comments that were published for the first time in China.

Roses and Meat Balls -- Selected Works of the Round Table of Life (II) 
Compiled by Sanlian Life Weekly
Beijing: SDX Joint Publishing Company, 2003. Size: 184×130 mm; 264 pages.
ISBN 7-108-01817-9
This is the best collection of the famous columns of Sanlian Life Weekly. The essays selected by the book are mostly short and lively, quick-witted and humorous.

Selected Poems of the Ming Dynasty (Chinese Classics Reading Series: Collected Poems of Past Dynasties)
Du Guichen
Beijing: People's Literature Publishing House, 2003. 601 pages.
ISBN 7-02-003882-4
This book is the only large collection of poems of the Ming Dynasty so far in China. It carefully selects the representative poems of each school and poet, reflecting truly the overall situation of the Ming poems. With very detailed annotations and rich citations, it is a good collection of Ming poems.

Notebook of Sea of Ink
Liu Changchun
Beijing: People's Literature Publishing House, 2002. 430 pages; with illustrations.
ISBN 7-02-003530
This is a book of cultural prose about Chinese calligraphers of past dynasties. The work narrates and discusses about people and history from the angle of life, and outlines the artistic features of calligraphy of different periods and the calligraphers' characteristics.

The Peony Pavilion (English)
Tang Xianzu (Ming Dynasty)
Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 2001. Size: 140×203 mm; 486 pages.
ISBN 7-119-02692-5
The Peony Pavilion is a beautiful love story and the most moving opera in Chinese classics. In the Southern Song Dynasty, the Governor of Nan'an (in today's Jiangsu Province) Du Bao has a daughter named Du Liniang. One day, Liniang dreamt that she met a young man in the Peony Pavilion. When she woke up, she died of lovesickness. A talented young man of Lingnan in Guangdong Province Liu Mengmei stopped at Nan'an on the way to the imperial examination and happened to see the portrait of Liniang. He fell in love with the girl in the painting. He looked at the painting every day thinking of her. Finally Liniang's ghost appeared to see him. When she saw him, she recognized that he was the young man in her dream. Liniang asked Mengmei to dig out her tomb to let her revive. Mengmei did what she said, and then Liniang came back to life. Then, this couple went to visit Liniang's parents to ask for their permission of marriage, but her father was furious about what Mengmei had done and reported him to the emperor….

Eyewitness of Tibet -- Selected News Reports of Tibet
Ji Xiaofeng and others
Beijing: New Star Publishers. Size: 184×130 mm; 427 pages.
ISBN 7-80148-549-1
This book selects various news reports concerning Tibet from important domestic media published in the past ten years. They concern all aspects of Tibet, such as democratic reform, economic construction, environmental protection, religious beliefs, education, medicare, Tibetan medicine, literature and arts, democracy and legal system, women and children, common people's life, scientific investigation and tourism, reflecting the new changes and development of Tibet. It has 160 pictures.

Aufruf zum Kampf (Chinese-German)  
Lu Xun
Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 2002. Size: 119×185 mm; 318 pages.
ISBN 7-119-02973-8
Call to Arms was created by Lu Xun in 1922, consisting of 14 stories. They are: A Madman's Diary, My Old Home, Kong Yiji, The True Story of Ah Q, Medicine, Dragon Boat Festival, Tomorrow, White Light, A Small Incident, Rabbit and Cat, A Story of Hair, A Comedy of A Duck, Storm in A Teacup and Village Opera.

Embarrassment
Liu Tao
Beijing: Writers Publishing House, 2004. 310 pages; with color illustrations.
ISBN 7-5063-2957-3
High school and university life is unforgettable! Fang Sizhe, Liu Qi, Zhi Zhu and others are confused, perplexed and blindly obedient in reality. They hold parties, fall in love, compete for a position in the Students' Union, prepare for the graduate school exams and GRE, indulge in computer games, and follow the fashion, but they can't find their own positions. Without self-judgment and independent thinking, they have to waste their time in confusion. The author is a senior university student, a distinctive new-generation author after Han Han and Guo Jingming.

Chronicle of Literature of the Southern and Northern Dynasties
Cao Daoheng and Liu Yuejin
Beijing: People's Literature Publishing House, 2000. 673 pages.
ISBN 7-02-003133
This is a history of literature in chronological order. It has many citations and the references are carefully studied. It won China Book Award and is of high academic value.

New York Beauty
Xin Li
Beijing: People's Literature Publishing House, 2003. 449 pages; with illustrations.
ISBN 7-02-003948
With the love tragedies of three successful Chinese career women in the US as the theme, the novel displays bizarre and motley society of the US.

Acupuncture Points of Women
Shen Liwen
Beijing: Writers Publishing House, 2004. 170 pages; with illustrations.
ISBN 7-5063-2928-X
Women at Leisure in Beijing was reprinted 16 times and the author's name Shen Liwen became known all over China instantly. This book is a twin book of Women at Leisure in Beijing. Its ideological content and writing style are as usual. Reading her writings is like sipping tea or having a heart-to-heart talk with a smart, kind and considerate woman. Her thinking about life is superb, wit-minded and profound.

Academic Study on Ouyang Xiu (Chinese Classics and Culture Research Series)
Gu Yongxin
Beijing: People's Literature Publishing House, 2003. 341 pages.
ISBN 7-02-004077
This book closely discusses Ouyang Xiu's experience, ideas, travels and influence, which is not only helpful in understanding Ouyang Xiu's academic thought and achievements but also the thought, overall academic features and development of the Northern Song Dynasty.

Auf der Suche (German-Chinese)
Lu Xun
Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 2002. Size: 119×185 mm; 306 pages.
ISBN 7-119-02975-4
Wandering was written by Lu Xun from 1924 to 1925, consisting of 11 short articles. They are: The New Year's Sacrifice, Master Gao, In the Tavern, The Misanthrope, A Happy Family, Regret for the Past, Soap, Brothers, The Lamp of Everlasting Light, Divorce and Pillory.

Annotations of 1000 Selected Poems
Gu Yiran
Beijing: People's Literature Publishing House, 1999. 247 pages.
ISBN 7-02-002904-3
1000 Selected Poems was one of the most popular reading materials in the old-style private school in the Ming and Qing dynasties and plays an important role in popularizing the traditional culture. It selects poems with five characters to a line, poems with seven characters to a line and poems with eight lines that are all famous ones of the poets in Tang and Song dynasties and widely popular. This book collates the generally used versions and adds simple annotations and incisive comments, as well as brief introductions to the poets.

Le cavalier et la demoiselle derrière le mur -- Histoires tirées du théâter de la Chine antique (French)
Compiled by Chen Meilin
Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 2000. Size: 110×180 mm; 370 pages.
ISBN 7-119-01473-0
The Yuan Dynasty opera is the zenith in the development of Chinese literature. It reflects the social life of that time in a popular way of writing. This book contains 14 opera stories with different themes that enable readers to appreciate the greatest playwrights' representative works about 800 years ago.

Histoires de l'Empereur Shihuangdi des Qin (French)
Yuan Yang
Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 2000. Size: 110×180mm; 254 pages.
ISBN 7-119-02102-8
Emperor Qin Shi Huang is a character known by every Chinese. He was born in 259 B.C and was only 13 years old when he ascended the throne. He established the first centralized feudal country -- the Qin Dynasty in Chinese history in 221 B.C. Later generations disagree as to his wrongdoings and contributions. Those who praise him honor him as the greatest emperor while those who criticize him say he was the cruelest emperor of all time. The stories in the book are partly derived from the history that give a general outline of his life, partly from folk stories that vividly describe Emperor Qin Shi Huang and reflect people's love and hatred for him. both parts are supplementary to each other.

Prose-poetry of Qu Yuan in Modern Chinese (Monograph)
Guo Moruo
Shanghai: Shanghai Bookstore Press, 2003. 218 pages; with illustrations.
ISBN 7-80622-972-8
This is a book with both language and illustrations combining the past with the present. Elegies of Chu was written by Qu Yuan. Guo Moruo translated Nine Songs, Summoning the Soul and other parts into modern Chinese in 1953, and wrote A Brief Introduction to Qu Yuan and Postscript, which constituted a fairly complete work named Prose-poetry of Qu Yuan in Modern Chinese that also served as a conclusion of Guo Moruo's research on Qu Yuan. This book lists the original prose-poetry versus Guo Moruo's translation, adds the Qing Dynasty painter Xiao Yuncong's painting of The Sorrow of Separation, giving it a new appearance.

Inquiry into The Sorrow of Separation
Zhao Kuifu
Chengdu: Bashu Publishing House, 2004. Size: 184×130 mm; 390 pages.
ISBN 7-80659-566-X/I · 205
This book, one of the Poetry Research Books, shows the achievements Qu Yuan had made in the poetry art creation by analyzing The Sorrow of Separation. The whole book consists of three volumes concerned with the background, structure and conception of The Sorrow of Separation, and inheritance and innovation of folk songs.

Childhood: Parents Look Forward to My Growing Up (Life Posthouses Series)
Compiled by Lin Fei and others
Beijing: People's Literature Publishing House, 2003. Book I.
ISBN 7-02-004057
Life Posthouses Series consists of three books of Childhood: Parents Look Forward to My Growing Up, Pursuit of Knowledge: Seeking for My World and The World: Hope Is Always with Me. It is a collection of reminiscence prose by nearly 100 famous modern writers, scholars and celebrities about their childhood, pursuit of knowledge and social life.

End Your Sorrow at Sunrise (Listening to Experience Series)
Liu Xuefeng
Beijing: Writers Publishing House, 2004. 326 pages; with illustrations.
ISBN 7-5063-2946-8
This book contains the famous music critic Liu Xuefeng's music criticism articles in recent years, including reviews of classical music, live concerts and important musical events all over the world. It has broad view, mature and passionate way of writing. Especially his reviews of comparison of styles show his deep and unique professional views. The 200 pictures give a three-dimensional effect to this book.

Women Living in Wangjing
Dong Zhi
Beijing: People's Literature Publishing House, 2002. 300 pages; with color illustrations.
ISBN 7-02-003835
This is the first modern woman's novel with Wangjing district as the background. By telling three women's stories of love, sex, sin, beauty and death, this novel shows the happiness, anger, sorrow, joy and separation of life and death of the new generation of women.

Bookcase in Seine
Lu Lan
Beijing: People's Literature Publishing House, 2001. 236 pages; with illustrations.
ISBN 7-02-003491-8
This book is Ms. Lu Lan's reading notes in Paris. The hot books and authors in French literary circle in recent years show appealing cultural charm under Ms. Lu Lan's close observation and detailed introduction.

Three Kingdoms (Chinese Classics) (Chinese-English)
Luo Guanzhong (Ming Dynasty)
Translated by Moss Roberts (US)
Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 2003. Five volumes; 3014 pages; with illustrations.
ISBN 7-119-03219-4
It is one of the famous four Chinese classics. It artistically depicts the historical scene of three kingdoms vying for the throne from the late Eastern Han Dynasty to Jin Dynasty. It has become an important component of Chinese culture, especially the popular culture.

Salome
Li Yafan
Beijing: People's Literature Publishing House, 2002. 288 pages; with illustrations.
ISBN 7-02-003990-1
With unique personality, free soul, superb literary accomplishment and extraordinary artistic temperament, Salome attracted a large number of European elites. Her name is closely linked with F. W. Nietzsche, Rainer Maria Rilke and Sigmund Freud. Her unusual conducts, unique living style and mysterious life experience are worth exploring and thinking about.

Northern Shaanxi -- Blind People Telling Stories (Chinese-English)
Yan Qingzhao
Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 2003. Size: 210×285 mm; 72 pages.
ISBN 7-119-03508-8
A Taiwanese woman tenaciously followed a group of blind storytellers in ravines and caves on the Loess Plateau through freezing winters and scorching summers, recorded the ancient culture and living style of over 1000-year history, as well as the mysterious profession and a group of storytellers who pass down history but are forgotten by history, with camera lens.

Une bourgade à l'écart (French)
Shen Congwen
Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 2004. Size: 110×180 mm; 248 pages.
ISBN 7-119-03517-7
This book contains four of Shen Congwen's novels: Husband, Gui Sheng, The Girl from Hunan and Frontier City. The author loyally reflects the folk customs and habits of Western Hunan people before late 1940s.

The Sage
Qian Ning
Beijing: Writers Publishing House, 2004. 251 pages; with illustrations.
ISBN 7-5063-2932-8
The Sage is another long historical novel written by Qian Ning who wrote the great hit Studying in America and Li Si, the Prime Minister of the Qin Dynasty. The book tells the story of Confucius who traveled around the country to promote his "Great Way" to every state. It is interwoven with his life stories that portray a brand new image of Confucius. He was naïve and absurd, persistent and touching; he stuck to his dream for his whole life, never wavered after so much difficulties, and finally became a sage. The author keeps his style of combining seriousness and humor in this book.

Stories of the Book of Songs
Nie Zuoping
Illustrated by Ah Gui
Chengdu: Tiandi Publishing House, 2003. 253 pages.
ISBN 7-80624-653-3/G · 146
The Book of Songs, the earliest collection of poetry in China, was compiled in the Spring and Autumn Period (770-476 BC). It has altogether 305 lyrics in three genres of Feng (ballads), Ya (courtly songs) and Song (hymns), concerning a wide scope of topics. The songs are divided into three artistic forms Fu (rhyme prose), Bi (analogy) and Xing (evocation). They are beautiful and harmonious, simple and natural. The author of this book made the excellent, representative songs into many lively stories, enabling today's readers to have a certain understanding of the Book of Songs.

Shudai Collection (Sanlian Best Selections)
Chen Congzhou
Beijing: SDX Joint Publishing Company, 2002. Size: 184×130 mm; 233 pages.
ISBN 7-108-01645-1
This is the first collection of essay by the late expert of ancient Chinese architecture, gardening artist Chen Congzhou. This book's title was the handwriting of Ye Shengtao (1894-1988, a famous educator and writer), and Yu Pingbo (1900-1990, a famous Chinese writer and researcher of Chinese classics) wrote the preface for the book.

Outlaws of the Marsh (Chinese Classics) (Chinese-English)  
Shi Naian and Luo Guanzhong (Ming Dynasty)
Translated by Sidney Shapiro
Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 2003. Five volumes; 3077 pages; with illustrations.
ISBN 7-119-03217-8
As one of the four famous Chinese classics, it tells a story of a band of outlaws in the Northern Song Dynasty. Under its chief Song Jiang, they robbed the rich to help the poor, fought ag ainst the cruel suppression of the feudal empire, and finally accepted amnesty and pledged loyalty to the ruler.

Who Kidnapped Love
Wang Jun
Beijing: Writers Publishing House, 2004. 289 pages; with color illustrations.
ISBN 7-5063-2907-7
In this love story the kidnapped female protagonist is the male protagonist's lover. The story is intricate and worth reading.

Private Life (Illustrated Edition)
Chen Ran
Beijing: Writers Publishing House, 2004. 207 pages.
ISBN 7-5063-2934-4
This is a women's psychological history, a long-lasting fight between women and men, a sexy but bizarre life drama and a wonder of women's growth. This is a personalized classical novel. Unlike other avant-garde novels, it sells very well.

Four Generations under One Roof (100 Excellent Chinese Literary Works from 1900 to 1999)
Lao She
Beijing: People's Literature Publishing House, 2000. Two volumes; 1157 pages.
ISBN 7-02-003263-X
This is one of Lao She's famous works. With the Anti-Japanese War as the background, focusing on the four generations of the Qi family, it vents the ancient Beijing people's grievance of losing the country and the city and praises the unconquerable national spirit.

Simple Annotations of 300 Ci of the Song Dynasty
Annotated by Wu Yucheng and Gu Conglong
Beijing: People's Literature Publishing House, 2001. 311 pages.
ISBN 7-02-003388
The 300 Ci of the Song Dynasty compiled by the famous Qing Dynasty poet Zhu Zumou (also named Zhu Jiangfeng) carefully selects ci and is the most popular version of ci of the Song Dynasty. This book collates three versions of 300 Ci of the Song Dynasty and gives simple annotations and rich citations and the brief introductions to the ci writers. It is a good collection for today's readers.

Annotations of Selected Poems of the Song Dynasty
Qian Zhongshu
Beijing: People's Literature Publishing House, 1989. Hardcover; 293 pages.
ISBN 7-02-000307-9
It is a collection of classical poems with the most individual characteristics so far. The compiler is the world-famous scholar of Chinese national culture Qian Zhongshu. This book is special in its selection of poems, fine annotations, resourceful citations and humorous writing. It is an excellent Song Dynasty poem selection. It also can be read as a criticism on the history of the Song Dynasty poems.

Selected Ci of the Song Dynasty
Compiled by Liu Naichang and Zhu Decai
Beijing: People's Literature Publishing House, 2003. Hardcover; 923 pages.
ISBN 7-02-003575-2
This is a large selection of classical ci poetry of the Song Dynasty, with over 800 ci, covering representative pieces of all famous writers of different schools. It comprehensively shows the meaning, charm and diversity of styles of ci poetry of the Song Dynasty. The annotations include titles, original meanings, implications and artistic appreciation, which are written in simple language. It is an excellent reading book suitable for both highbrows and lowbrows.

Stories of Immortals (Library of Chinese Classics) (Chinese-English)
Gan Bao (Jin Dynasty)
Translated into modern Chinese by Huang Diming
Translated into English by Ding Wangdao
Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 2004. Hardcover; two volumes; 1131 pages.
ISBN 7-119-03329-8
This book is one of the books of Library of Chinese Classics and a complete version of Gan Bao's stories. It has 464 stories in original text, modern Chinese and English.

Random Thoughts (Series of Commemorative Works of Ba Jin's 100th Birthday)
Ba Jin
Beijing: SDX Joint Publishing Company, 2004. Size: 187×258 mm; 442 pages.
ISBN 7-108-02009-2
Random Thoughts is a book that tells the truth. Ba Jin is therefore reputed to be the "conscience of modern Chinese intellectuals." This book has been reprinted nine times since its first publication in 1987. The circulation totaled over 100,000, and it won the first prize of the first National Book Award in 1994, exerting far-reaching influence in the circles of ideology and among readers. In the year of Mr. Ba Jin's 100th birthday, it was reedited and republished and listed in the Series of Commemorative Works of Ba Jin's 100th Birthday.

So-called Writer
Wang Jiada
Beijing: People's Literature Publishing House, 2003. 559 pages.
ISBN 7-02-003987-1
This book tells stories of a group of writers, poets and artists, and vividly depicts all phenomena of the art circle around the western border. The language is humorous, relaxing and easy to read.

Hundred Essays about Poetry of the Tang and Song Dynasties (Series of Hundred Essays) (Monograph)
Li Jianbing
Shanghai: Publishing House of the Unabridged Chinese Dictionary, 2004. 292 pages.
ISBN 7-5432-1017-7
This book has very rich content, including the poet's life experience, temperament, creation, popular poetry, schools, phenomena and origins of poetry…It draws a lot of materials, carefully uses citations, which can be very helpful to the readers and researchers of the poetry of Tang and Song dynasties.

300 Poems of the Tang Dynasty
Li Bai and others
Illustrated by Zhou Shen
Beijing: Picture Story Book Publishing House, 2002. Size: 184×162 mm; 300 pages; with color illustrations.
ISBN 7-5061-1007-5/G · 343
This book carefully selects the best of the Tang Dynasty poems. Explanations are given by professionals to children. The language is beautiful and easy to understand. Famous storybook painter Zhou Shen was specially invited to draw pictures for the book. Combining classical and modern styles, this book is suitable for children.

Selected Poems of the Tang Dynasty
Compiled by Institute of Chinese Literature of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Beijing: People's Literature Publishing House, 2003. Size: 184×130 mm.
ISBN 7-02-003981-2
This book carefully selects over 630 poems of the Tang Dynasty that represent the highest achievement of the ancient Chinese poetry. It also has detailed annotations and authors' biographies. The annotations pay special attention to the difficult questions and key words. Author's biographies accurately explicate each poet's characteristics of creation in concise language. It is one of the most popular books of the Tang poems in China.

Annotations of Selected Ci Poetry of the Tang and Song Dynasties
Yu Pingbo
Beijing: People's Literature Publishing House, 1979. Size: 140×203 mm; 287 pages.
ISBN 7-02-00913-1
The compiler of this book is a famous modern Chinese writer and researcher of ci poetry. This book carefully selects ci and has easy-to-understand annotations. It is an influential, classical selection of ci of the Tang and Song dynasties. 

Annotations of 300 Poems of the Tang Dynasty
the Editing Department of People's Literature Publishing House
Beijing: People's Literature Publishing House, 1998. 276 pages.
ISBN 7-02-002589-7
300 Poems of the Tang Dynasty was compiled by Hengtang Tuishi of the Qing Dynasty, which becomes the most popular book of poems of the Tang Dynasty. There is a saying about it which goes like this "if you read 300 Poems of the Tang Dynasty over and over again, you can recite them even if you can't compose poems." This book gives simple but accurate annotations to it and is intended to convey the unique artistic conception of the poems of the Tang Dynasty. With rich citations and brief introductions to the poets, this book is excellent reading material for today's readers.

The Heaven Gave This Kid to China
Cheng Heiyu
Beijing: Writers Publishing House, 2004. 110 pages; with color illustrations.
ISBN 7-5063-2949-2
This is a collection of classical poetry of a 16-year-old teenager. It won compliments from many famous professors, such as Liu Yongxiang, Chen Kejian, Liu Dong and Tang Xiaodu.

Round Heaven, Square Earth
He Yunbo
Beijing: People's Literature Publishing House, 2003. Size: 184×130 mm; 367 pages.
ISBN 7-02-003982-0
Chess is a competitive sport, a game and an art. It is a way between right and wrong, clouds in the sky and dirt on the ground. It is black characters on white paper, a box of books that contains the past, an enlightenment about life, or you can say, it is about life.

Heard-of Stories
Jia Ping'ao
Beijing: People's Literature Publishing House, 2002. 277 pages.
ISBN 7-02-003986-3
This is Jia Ping'ao's latest collection of novellas and short stories. They reach life in every corner of city and countryside and are full of lively atmosphere and humor. The book also contains some ancient novels about thieves and robbers.

Full Blossom
Lin Bai
Beijing: People's Literature Publishing House, 2003. 285 pages; with illustrations.
ISBN 7-02-004215-5
The female writer Lin Bai changed her usual style of writing in this book which tells the story of grass-roots people in a place called Wang Zha.

A Complete Li Ao -- Biographies of Famous Chinese and Foreign People
Fu Ningjun
Beijing: People's Literature Publishing House, 2003. 424 pages; with illustrations. 
ISBN 7-02-004208-2
This book is the first interview of Li Ao by a writer from China's mainland. It shows Li Ao's extraordinary, dramatic life.

New Compilation of Essays (Sanlian Best Selections)
Wang Zengqi
Beijing: SDX Joint Publishing Company, 2002. Size: 184×130 mm; 352 pages.
ISBN 7-108-01624-9
This book is a collection of 49 essays by the late writer Wang Zengqi. They cover the topics of art, literary creation, basic problems of language, his own experience of writing and comments on Shen Congwen and other writers.

The Rise and Fall of the Empires -- War Stories in Ancient China (English)
Yuan Yang.
Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 2001. Size: 110×180 mm; 242 pages.
ISBN 7-119-02104-4
The history of China is, in a way, a history of battles and wars. In fact, these events were so important that many of them have given rise to household proverbs and become an organic part of the culture of the nation. The eleven stories introduced in this book are, undoubtedly, the most representative of warfare in ancient China, including the earliest and largest wars and those that led to the fall of empires and dynasties. This book also has a version in German.

Le Papillon (French)
Wang Meng
Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 2004. Size: 110×180 mm; 248 pages.
ISBN 7-119-03518-5
This book collects Wang Meng's six novels: Butterfly, Kite Streamers, Tender Grass, Spate of Visitors, Voices of Spring, and Eyes of Night. The writer described the difficulties contemporary China encountered in the process of development in a sharp and humorous language.

Autobiography of Wang Meng: My Life Philosophy
Wang Meng
Beijing: People's Literature Publishing House, 2003. 317 pages; with illustrations.
ISBN 7-02-004084-5
This book can be taken as a summary of life experience of the famous writer Wang Meng. His thinking of life, understanding of social development, analysis of living situation are expressed through his own experience.

L'enfant au milieu du lit -- 55 nouvelles courtes (French)
Zhang Weiming and others
Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 2004. Size: 110×180 mm; 240 pages.
ISBN 7-119-03520-7
This book collects 55 mini-stories of Zhang Weiming and other authors, reflecting the reality of contemporary China from different angles.

A Town Besieged (Chinese-English)
Qian Zhongshu
Beijing: People's Literature Publishing House, 1991, 2003 (reprinted). 359 pages.
ISBN 7-02-004210-4
A Town Besieged is the most famous novel of Qian Zhongshu who was well versed in learning of both China and Western countries. This book is the first Chinese-English version of A Town Besieged published in China.

Scholars on Food
Fan Yong
Beijing: SDX Joint Publishing Company, 2004. Size: 140×203 mm; 342 pages.
ISBN: 7-108-02061-0
This book collects 56 prose and jottings about the culture of Chinese cuisine written by 49 famous contemporary writers and scholars. It consists of five sections. Section one talks about the history and culture of Chinese cuisine; section two talks about the different styles of local cuisines all over China; section three lists typical snacks; section four explains the culture of Chinese alcohol and section five talks about the function of tea in Chinese cuisine.

The Future of Literature (Sanlian Best Selections)
Xia Zhiqing
Compiled by Chen Zishan
Beijing: SDX Joint Publishing Company, 2002. Size: 184×130 mm; 261 pages.
ISBN 7-108-0171 
This book is the collection of the best parts of the writer's two books -- The Future of Literature and Love, Society and Novel. It has a lot of precious material on modern Chinese literature and tales of the literary circle.

Problems and Methods -- Lectures of the Research on Contemporary History of Chinese Literature (Sanlian Forum Series)
Hong Zicheng
Beijing: SDX Joint Publishing Company, 2002. Size: 187×258 mm; 304 pages.
ISBN 7-108-01609-5
The Sanlian Forum Series is based on the recording of actual classroom lectures. It reserves the on-the-spot atmosphere and lively features of spoken language. It is more attractive than academic monograph and more inspiring than various lecture books. This book is based on the recorded lectures of elective course in literature at Peking University.

I Rule Over Man's Destiny
Zhou Meisen
Beijing: Writers Publishing House, 2004. 424 pages; with color illustrations.
ISBN 7-5063-2959-X
Zhou Meisen mainly writes about the leaders of a province, carefully portrays a group of senior leaders, such as Governor Zhao Anbang, Secretary of Provincial Party Committee Pei Yihong and Vice-secretary of Provincial Party Committee Yu Huabei. At the same time, he explores the core of the economic life for the first time, discovering the secrets of capital and capital operation and the relation between market economy and power economy. The book successfully depicts several artistic images, such as businessman Bai Yuanwei and corrupted Qian Huiren. It scrutinized China's reform for the past 25 years. The story is thrilling; it alerts and stirs people.

My Life, Crescent Moon
Lao She
Beijing: People's Literature Publishing House, 2001. 239 pages; with illustrations.
ISBN 7-02-003457-8
This book carefully selects 11 of Lao She's novellas and short stories that depict common people's life in old Beijing.

Journey to the West (Chinese Classics) (Chinese-English)
Wu Cheng'en (Ming Dynasty)
Translated by W.J.F.Jenner
Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 2003. Six volumes; 3355 pages; with illustrations.
ISBN 7-119-03216-X
Journey to the West is a classic Chinese mythological novel. It was written during the Ming Dynasty based on traditional folktales. It was put into present form by Wu Cheng'en.
This lively fantasy first recounts the birth of the Monkey King. He learnt 72 transformations from a master and got his Buddhist monastic name Sun Wukong. He got a low position in Heavenly Court after he returned to the Water Curtain Cave. But after he knew the real meaning of Bi Ma Wen (horse tender), he was very unhappy. He messed up Jade Emperor's Peach Feast and returned to the Flower and Fruit Mountain and named himself the Great Sage Equaling to Heaven. The Heavenly Court sent many gods to subdue him. Finally he was caught and was pressed under a mountain by Buddha. Monk Xuan Zang went to the west in search of Buddhist sutras and accepted Sun Wukong as his disciple on the way. Therefore, Sun Wukong protected the Tang Dynasty monk on the way to the West. Later, the Monk accepted Pig, Friar Sand and White Dragon Horse as his disciples. On their journey to the West, they vanquished demons and monsters, overcame many dangers, and finally found the sutra.

Village Clinic (Series of Reviewing the Dream of Painting)
Written and illustrated by Xie Hongjun
Beijing: SDX Joint Publishing Company, 2003. Size: 187×258 mm; 251 pages.
ISBN 7-108-01877-2
This is a common country clinic where most farmers go to see doctors. They suffer from various diseases. There is an extraordinary doctor here who cured many chronic diseases. As a onlooker, Xie Hongjun truly records the grass-roots farmers' pain and depicts a kind-hearted, upright and skilled country doctor.

Encounters with Ancient Beijing
Virginia Anami (Japan)
Beijing: China Intercontinental Press, 2003. Size: 181×206 mm; 330 pages.
ISBN 7-5085-0382-1
Virginia Anami is Japanese American and a scholar of East Asian studies. Her interest in traditional Chinese culture, especially that of the ancient capital of Beijing, has taken her on frequent bicycle tours of Beijing's streets and lanes in her leisure time, and on drives to the suburbs to see and photograph ancient temples. The book's text and photographs tell of her experiences in Beijing. The book is available in Chinese, English, French, Spanish, German and Japanese.

A Tailless Wolf (Yang Hongying's Fairy Tales Series)
Yang Hongying
Beijing: Writers Publishing House, 2004. 224 pages; with illustrations.
ISBN 7-5063-2920-4
In a hunter's small wooden house, the tailless wolf found a beautiful fox tail. From then on, the wolf has a tail and is called wolf fox. The wolf did a lot of bad things at the instigation of the wolf fox and got punishments. The fox tail didn't give the wolf happiness but made her feel worse and worse. The wolf finally gave up the beautiful fox tail and returned to the mountains and started a new life.

Wandering Dog and Cat (Yang Hongying's Fairy Tales Series)
Yang Hongying
Beijing: Writers Publishing House, 2004. 188 pages; with illustrations.
ISBN 7-5063-2918-2
The Rose Holiday Village is a place where rich people gather and pets get together. However, there is a wandering dog and cat that often roam around. The noble Persian cat falls in love with the chivalrous wandering cat. The beautiful Xishi dog falls in love with the chivalrous and fearless roving dog. The owner of the Xishi dog takes it as a tool of making money and tries all efforts to separate it from the roving dog. In order to save the Xishi dog, the roaming cat sacrificed its own life; finally the roving dog and Xishi cat live together happily.

Dear Clumsy Pig (Yang Hongying's Fairy Tales Series)
Yang Hongying
Beijing: Writers Publishing House, 2004. 190 pages; with illustrations.
ISBN 7-5063-2919-0
The clumsy pig is very stupid but he lives more happily than anyone else. At little bear's birthday party, he ate all poisonous mushrooms because of his big appetite, but he saved all other animals at the party. His snores were so loud that they even scared away the big gray wolf which wanted to eat the rabbit. He saw the salty eggs sell well at the market, so he asked the duck mother to drink salty water. As a result, his bottom was pecked swollen by the duck mother. In order to change the mouse's lazy habit, he instigated it to eat books, and the theories in the books filled up the mouse's brain and changed his brain easily….

Mi'er Who Comes by the Box with Wheels (Yang Hongying's Fairy Tales Series)
Yang Hongying
Beijing: Writers Publishing House, 2004. 228 pages; with illustrations.
ISBN 7-5063-2921-2
Meng Xiaoqiao is a girl in Grade Five of elementary school. She met a woman who was willing to be a maid of her family at the bank of the mysterious Fairy Lady Lake. This mysterious woman is Mi'er. The appearance of Mi'er made the life of Meng Xiaoqiao's family mysterious and lively. When she saw Meng Xiaoqiao always busy at homework, she brought her to the forest and made friends with playful little human spirit. At the end of the semester, Mi'er made the teacher wear the magnifier of merits, as a result, the picky teacher gave every student a very good comment….

Mysterious Woman Teacher (Yang Hong- ying's Fairy Tales Series)
Yang Hongying
Beijing: Writers Publishing House, 2004. 224 pages; with illustrations.
ISBN 7-5063-2922-0
This book is a sequel to Mi'er Who Comes by the Box with Wheels. Meng Xiaoqiao studies at a beautiful boarding school known as Honggong School in her new semester of Grade Six. One day, after a gust of wind, a new female teacher comes with a scarf and a purple umbrella. Her teaching method is joyful to the students. She brings students to the wild outskirts to hold a funeral to their "unhappiness." She pretends to be a detective to investigate whose parents are the killers of love. At night classes, she takes them to the "children's castle" to find their own childhood….

Wilde Gräser (German-Chinese)   
Lu Xun
Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 2002. Size: 119×185 mm; 122 pages.
ISBN 7-119-02977-0
Wild Grass was created by Lu Xun between 1924 and 1926. It consists of over 20 essays, including: Autumn Night, The Shadow's Leave-Taking, The Beggars, My Lost Love, Revenge, Hope, Snow, The Kite, The Good Story, The Passer-By, Dead Fire, The Dog's Retort, The Good Hell That Was Lost, Grave Stone Writings, Hanging By A Thread, On Expressing An Opinion, After Death, Such A Fighter, The Wise Man, The Fool And The Slave, The Blighted Leaf, Amid Pale Bloodstains and An Awakening.

Wild Grass with Zhao Yannian's Woodcut Illustrations
Lu Xun
Beijing: People's Literature Publishing House, 2003. 83 pages; with illustrations.
ISBN 7-02-004159-0
Among Lu Xun's works, Wild Grass is the hardest to understand. It has unique conception, varied forms, profound metaphors and strong passion. Zhao Yannian brings the images of the articles to life with his graver.

The River Flows Eastward in Spring (Ancient Chinese Love Stories Series) (Chinese-English)
Compiled by Xu Fei
Beijing: New World Press, 2004. 304 pages; with illustrations.
ISBN 7-80187-307-6
The story of this book happened during the Five Dynasties (907-960), the last king of the Southern Tang Dynasty Li Yu first appoints Zhou Ehuang as the empress. After she dies, he makes Zhou Ehuang's younger sister Zhou Yiyi as the empress. Their love is very complicated. They have experienced the decline of the Southern Tang Dynasty, imprisonment of Li Yu, abduction of Yiyi by the new emperor, and so on. But they never change their love to each other, and finally they died after drinking poison together.

Memories of the Older Generation
Chen Siyi
Beijing: People's Literature Publishing House, 2003. 268 pages; with illustrations.
ISBN 7-02-004245-7
This is a book of prose of reminiscence. The people in the memories include senior scholars, writers, poets, painters and editors. The author recounts his contact and friendship with them. From it, readers can clearly feel the characters' personalities and appearances.

An Introduction to the Couplet (Series of Hundred Essays) (Monograph)
Gan Heng
Shanghai: Publishing House of the Unabridged Chinese Dictionary, 2004. 482 pages.
ISBN 7-5432-0969-1
Couplets are a form of literature unique to the Han people. For hundreds of years, people have been using this special literary form to convey emotions, express aspirations, alert the later generations, recall the past and recount the present and celebrate happy events and express sadness. In history, there are numerous scholars and writers who left myriads of excellent couplets. Even today, couplet is still a literary form loved by people. This book contains 105 essays that introduce the history, characteristics, knowledge and experts of couplets. The essays have simple explanations, detailed annotations, sources and examples, which are easy to understand. Besides giving the readers knowledge about couplets, the book is useful and fun to read.

Collection of Rain Drops
Wang Meng
Beijing: People's Literature Publishing House, 2001. 241 pages.
ISBN 7-02-003486
This book collects over 10,000 poems of Wang Meng, which shows the writer's style of poetry writing and his talent in this genre.

Erzählungen nach Opern der Yuan Dynastie (German)
Chen Meilin
Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 2002. Size: 110×180 mm; 184 pages.
ISBN 7-119-02993-2
Plays of the Yuan Dynasty play an important role not only in the history of Chinese plays but also in the history of Chinese literature. Like poetry of the Han, Tang and Song dynasties, it represents the highest literary achievement of that time. This book selects 14 representative plays of the Yuan Dynasty and rewrites them into stories. The 14 plays include the works of writers throughout the Yuan Dynasty, such as plays of criminal cases, stories of outlaws, love and history. The writers include the famous four dramatists Guan Hanqing, Ma Zhiyuan, Zheng Guangzu and Bai Pu, and other writers like Wang Shifu as well as a small number of ethnic writers and some anonymous writers.

Dance on the Aureole of Life
Compiled by Bu Ning
Beijing: People's Literature Publishing House, 2002. 287 pages; with illustrations.
ISBN 7-02-003817-4
This is the last collected works of the Taiwanese anonymous writer before death. It collects many of his prose about travel experience, life and friends.

Root
Han Dong
Beijing: People's Literature Publishing House, 2003. 314 pages.
ISBN 7-02-004113-2
The Writer Old Tao and his family -- five persons altogether -- were sent to work in the countryside of Sanyu County in the "cultural revolution." They completely changed from urban residents to farmers, but they still couldn't escape from the political suffering. This is Han Dong's first novel and has rich historical awareness and high literary value.

War Vision
Guo Fuwen
Beijing: People's Literature Publishing House, 2002. 482 pages.
ISBN 7-02-003937-5
This book writes about the transition from war concept to tactics to training experienced by the marine corps as the state's emergency force according to the need of the modern warfare in the preparatory stage of future military campaigns.

Morgenblüten abends gepflückt (German-Chinese)
Lu Xun
Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 2002. Size: 119×185 mm; 200 pages.
ISBN 7-119-02974-6
Dawn Blossoms Plucked at Dusk was created by Mr. Lu Xun in 1927. The whole book consists of 12 short essays, mostly about his childhood and early youth.

A True Story of Ah Q with Zhao Yannian's Woodcut Illustrations
Lu Xun
Beijing: People's Literature Publishing House, 2002. 80 pages.
ISBN 7-02-003747-X
With woodcut master Zhao Yannian's 40 woodcut works, this book vividly presents the immortal image of Ah Q created by Lu Xun.

The Diary of A Madman with Zhao Yannian's Woodcut Illustrations
Lu Xun
Beijing: People's Literature Publishing House, 2002. 243 pages; with illustrations.
ISBN 7-02-003942-1
This is a collection of Lu Xun's novellas and short stories with woodcut illustrations by Zhao Yannian. Madman, Xiayu, Juansheng, Sister Xianglin, Kong Yiji and other figures and Lu Xun's spirit come to life in Zhao Yannian's solemn woodcuts.

China the Pearl and I
Dalita Alex (Swi ss)
Beijing: China Intercontinental Press, 2004. Size: 187×258 mm. 144 pages.
ISBN 7-5085-0614-6
Swiss writer Dalita Alex and her husband came to China's Jiangxi Province in the 1980s and became involved in pearl cultivation. This book recalls her China experience, especially her friendship with Chinese people. The book has Chinese, English and French editions.

Selected Fables (Chinese Classics) (Chinese-English)
Gan Bao (Jin Dynasty)
Translated into modern Chinese by Wu Lixin
Translated into English by Yang Xianyi and Gladys Yang
Beijing: New World Press, 2002. 208 pages; with illustrations.
ISBN 7-80005-653-8
This book selects 26 fables written by Gan Bao, Tao Qian and other writers of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. The fables include Couple Han Ping, Ji Kang, and so on. They were translated by famous translators Yang Xianyi and Gladys Yang. With illustrations, this book will help readers have a better understanding of ancient Chinese politics, culture and history, and gives them the feel of the charm of Chinese literature.

Selected Jokes from Past Chinese Dynasties II (Chinese-English)
Compiled and annotated by Cheng Qinhua
Translated by Hua Ruidan
Illustrated by Miao Yintang and others
Beijing: Sinolingua, 1992. 254 pages; with illustrations.
ISBN 7-80052-205-9
Life can't be separated from jokes. Diligent and intelligent Chinese people have left a rich cultural heritage as they create the splendid ancient civilization -- millions of jokes. We select several hundred jokes, edit, add annotations, illustrations and English translation to them and publish them into several books, each one consisting of some 100 jokes.

Ancient Chinese Fables (English)
Illustrated by Feng Zikai
Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 2002. Size: 140×203 mm; 90 pages.
ISBN 7-119-01882-5
This book selects 121 ancient Chinese fables that have been translated into English. Those fables spread widely among Chinese people. Some have rich philosophical meanings; others are funny.

Chinese Idioms and Their Stories (English)
Zhang Yiyun
Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 2002. Size: 140×203 mm; 200 pages.
ISBN 7-119-01774-8/I · 376
Chinese idioms are the epitome of the 5000-year Chinese history and culture and the quintessence of the Chinese language. They are still active after thousands of years. The stories of idioms chosen by this book have deep implied meanings and profound philosophy from which readers can see ancient Chinese people's wisdom, traditional Chinese culture, value and the philosophy of life. Every story is interesting and beneficial to readers.

A Treasure of Chinese Wisdom (English)
Tang Qinghua
Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 2003. Size: 140×203 mm; 420 pages.
ISBN 7-119-01861-2/I · 420
This book collects many stories about ancient Chinese wisdom (mainly in the pre-Qin period), which relate to ancient Chinese politics, military, life and other aspects. From every story, readers can see ancient Chinese people's wisdom. And some of them can still be used as reference to today's society and modern life. The language of the book is smooth, easy to understand, suitable for readers of all levels.

Tales from Ancient China's Imperial Harem (English)
Yuan Yang
Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 2001. Size: 110×180 mm; 188 pages.
ISBN 7-119-02041-2
This book is made up of a series of stories that focus on the concubines of the imperial harem around the emperor. They vie for power; they are jealous of each other and even commit murder. From women's angle, this book recounts some important events in Chinese history. It also vividly describes the ancient Chinese social customs and the life of imperial court and has new understanding of important female figures in Chinese history. This book has English and German editions.

Sons of Heaven: Stories of Chinese Emperors Through the Ages (English)
Cheng Qinhua
Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 2000. Size: 110×180 mm; 352 pages.
ISBN 7-119-02047-1
Chinese history is full of alternating of dynasties, rise and fall of thrones and mysteries. From Emperor Qin Shi Huang in 221 B.C. when he came into power to the last emperor of the Qing Dynasty Pu Yi in 1911 when he gave up the throne, there were 406 emperors in the past 2000 years or more. War, peace, cruelty, wisdom, conspiracy, power, bravery, cowardice, awe and misery -- the splendor, mercilessness, glory and humiliation of history, are performed by emperors. This book selects dozens of representative emperors, describes the life, tales and results of the emperors who exerted great influence on Chinese history and development and the important events during their reigns, and inserts many thought-provoking historical stories, funny anecdotes. When you read it, various figures, thrilling scenes and suspense appear vividly. The language of the book is simple, lively and appealing. With exquisite illustrations, the readers can have a more direct and vivid understanding of ancient Chinese emperors.

Selected Chinese Short Stories of the Tang and Song Dynasties (English)
Yuan Zhen (Tang Dynasty)
Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 2001. Size: 110×180 mm; 308 pages.
ISBN 7-119-02098-6
Short stories are a new style of fiction arising in the Tang Dynasty and an important phase in the development history of classical Chinese fiction. Short stories have a large scope of topics, from love to ghost stories. They are short, moving, lively and exert an important influence on the later dramas. This book includes 14 stories of the Tang Dynasty and eight stories of the Song Dynasty. This book has English and French editions.

Histoires des Immortels de la Chine (French)
Yuan Yang
Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 2003. Size: 110×180 mm; 328 pages.
ISBN 7-119-02143-5
Since antiquity China has tales of immortals, especially after the emergence of Taoism. Spiritual attainment and to become immortal have become Taoists' goal of learning the Way. Immortals are thought to be beyond life and death, magical and forever-living. This book selects over 100 tales from literary works such as Biographies of Immortals and Account of the Saints. It focuses on ancient myths, legends about Taoist figures, funny anecdotes and folklores. The tales of immortals are mainly intended to prove that the immortal pills can be gained, longevity is possible and it's not hard to be an immortal. It is admirable to persist in discovering the mysteries of life. The stories of this book are mostly short but they are rich in content, funny and entertaining.

Six Classical Chinese Tragedies (English)
Compiled by Zhong Yuan
Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 2001. Size: 110×180 mm; 312 pages.
ISBN 7-119-02351-9
This book collects six famous classical Chinese tragedies: "Snow in Midsummer," "Sorrow in the Han Palace," "An Orphan of the Zhao Family," "Flag of Loyalty," "The Peach Blossom Fan" and "Pagoda on Thunder Peak." "Snow in Midsummer" describes the dark Yuan Dynasty. "Sorrow in the Han Palace" uncovers the cruel ethnic suppression of the Yuan Dynasty. "An Orphan of the Zhao Family" depicts the conflicts between loyal and cunning officials in the State of Jin during the Spring and Autumn Period. "Flag of Loyalty" tells the story of General Yue Fei in the Song Dynasty who fought against the troops of the Jin Dynasty. "The Peach Blossom Fan" deeply discloses the degenerated life of the ruling class of the Ming Dynasty and the wrongdoings done by the treacherous court officials to the nation and people. "Pagoda on Thunder Peak" is a myth created in the Qing Dynasty that relates a sad love story and people's yearning for happiness.

Six Classical Chinese Comedies (English)
Compiled by Zhong Yuan
Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 2001. Size: 110×180 mm; 172 pages.
ISBN 7-119-02380-2
The six comedies collected by this book are adapted from six famous classical Chinese comedies of "The Rescue of a Courtesan," "Over the Wall and on the Horse," "The West Chamber," and so on. The stories and figures are known by almost every Chinese household. They are accidental and coincidental, which are entertaining to readers.

Selected Works of Criticism on Chinese Literary Theory 2003
the Committee of Theoretical Criticism of the Chinese Writers Association
Beijing: Writers Publishing House, 2004.
ISBN 7-5063-2898-4
This book contains 35 good essays in the circle of the theoretical criticism of Chinese literature in 2003 and summarizes and outlines the outstanding achievements in the theoretical research on Chinese literature in 2003 in terms of literary principles, context analysis and comments on the overseas Chinese writing.

Selected Ancient Chinese Plays (I, II)
Compiled by Ning Xiyuan
Beijing: People's Literature Publishing House, 2003. 829 pages.
ISBN 7-02-003707-0
This book contains 33 plays of 23 playwrights of the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties. The compiler does serious collation to the original plays, corrects many mistakes in the former versions and gives precise annotations. This is a rare, excellent version.

Chinese Poetics (VIII)
Jiang Yin and Zhang Bowei
Beijing: People's Literature Publishing House, 2003. 290 pages.
ISBN 7-02-004180-9
Papers in this volume of Chinese Poetics start with the study of documents of poetics, poetic theory, history of poems, history of poetics and comparative literature, and do a wide and thorough analysis of the classical Chinese poems in various ways.

The History of Modern Chinese Prose
Zhang Zhenjin
Beijing: People's Literature Publishing House, 2003. 572 pages; with illustrations.
ISBN 7-02-004045-4
This book sorts out the development, schools of the modern Chinese prose (1949- 2000), and the styles and features of prose of many writers with comprehensive materials and precise analysis.

Manned Spaceship of China -- from Dream to Reality
Chen Xiaodong and others.
Beijing: People's Liberation Army Literature Press, 2003. 556 pages; with illustrations.
ISBN 7-5033-1689-6
This collection of reportage records the struggling course of China's manned spaceship project -- from decision-making to research and production and first manned flight. It examines the main work and splendid achievements concerning astronauts, space application, manned spaceship, carrier rockets, launching site, observation and control communication and landing field. It vividly recounts the heroic exploits of the scientific and technological workers who participate in the manned spaceship engineering and introduces readers to some general knowledge about manned spaceship engineering in a simple language.