The part of poems mirrors the emotions of the poet about life different from others and shows how vivid the human imagination can be. The story part has one truly happened in life and a very interesting one about a special lovely dog.
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Lois, Tricia and Sally were sisters and private investigators. They had been brought up and taught Chinese traditional kungfu with chi. Their Uncle Charles, also a kungfu master, was killed in a special way only kungfu people could do. The three sisters set to work to find the killer. As death after death turned up, the manner of the murders connected only with the kungfu world, all the clues pointed to a secret kungfu organization called Black Panther. While the sisters were investigating, they ran into several traps set by Black Panther and almost got killed, hence causing a series of exciting critical conflictions. Once Sally was kidnapped and once Lois got a fatal injury. But she survived in a miraculous way. Since the big boss of Black Panther killed his early-separated twin brother and assumed his identity, and did all the bad things under the cover of good behavior, no one knew his real identity. When the three sisters had an unexpected encounter with two bad masters, Sally was captured in the fight and her life was in serious danger. Therefore, the good masters stepped forward and in the final combat, the masters, good and bad, performed their wonderful kungfu to settle the scores among themselves.
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EMPRESS DOWAGER CIXI
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Empress Wu was stunning in her beauty, in her ruthless elimination of rivals (including sons and daughters), and, most important, in her discernment. She was esteemed for appointing capable officials throughout the realm, and she implemented reforms that improved standards of higher education, gave some status to women, and 'democratized' the recruitment of candidates for official posts by eliminating the requirement that they be nominated by someone within the establishment.Europe and Great Britain have had many sovereign queens in the course of history. In ancient China, there was none of that. Only one Empress ever ruled China in her own name Empress Wu. Given her startling performance in a world of deadly intrigue and shifting loyalties, Wu is still respected as an effective and clear-sighted ruler.Related in an easy-reading style, the facts in the book are derived from China's classic historical record the Zizhitongjian (meaning 'History is a mirror to help rule' ), which was written by a courtier in Song Dynasty, the very next dynasty after the Tang Dynasty.Beginning in AD 617, the narrative traces the rise of Wu's father from humble bean-curd dealer to army officer and friend of the Emperor, her own arrival at age 13 as a concubine to the Emperor, and the brilliant exploitation of opportunities by which she attained the throne.Other empresses had ruled China for a time while their husbands were weak and their sons were young; Wu did the same from 665 to 690. But Wu achieved a higher status than any woman before or since when she declared her own dynasty in 690 and ruled directly for another 15 years.Readers are treated to some of the flavor of life inside the capital, then at Xi'an, the eastern tip of the great Silk Road (now known in international tourism as the site of the famous Terracotta Warriors). In those years the Chinese ruler held sway far to the south, into Indochina, and westward as far as today's Kyrgyzstan. Brief descriptions indicate the tumultuous events unfolding throughout Asia as China vied with Mongol tribes and the Tibetan Empire to establish the map we know today and some of the disputes over boundaries and sovereignty that are still ongoing
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In all the history of China, only two women ever conquered and held the heights of power. Both enjoyed long reigns characterized by ruthless intrigue; they maintained an iron grip at the center while the vast country was torn by rebellions and caught up in foreign wars. Through their policy decisions as well as their personal foibles, both left a deep imprint in history and in the minds of the Chinese people, fueling literature and legend. Fighting to maintain her power base, Empress Cixi struggled with the need to modernize the painfully backward empire she had inherited while honoring age-old traditions. She studied previous rulers' failures and achievements, and especially followed the example of another Chinese woman leader, Wu-Hou, who had elevated herself from concubine to empress some 1200 years earlier.The stories that follow, some legendary, offer a glimpse of life during the declining days of the last Chinese dynasty. Popular rebellions, foreign wars, devastating floods and drought-induced famines killed tens of millions in the 19th century. Cixi learned her lessons well. She fended off every adversary, prolonging her reign for 48 years and proving that a woman could be a successful ruler. But all her craft and guile were not enough to repair the internal divisions and preserve traditional China against the onslaught of modernity, of Europe, and of her Asian neighbors. In the end, the Empress Dowager Cixi (1835 1908) brought destruction to the Qing Dynasty.Written with charm and verve, this book is a delightful exploration of the history of her extraordinary life and reign, relating both historical facts and apocryphal anecdotes. How did she climb from the bottom rung of the ladder as an ordinary ambitious girl to the top rung of power as an empress dowager? How did she grow from an inexperienced girl to a mature politician who managed to maintain her sovereign status for half a century?
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This novel, "Adventure of an American Girl in Ancient China ", describes all interesting weird traditions in old China, some non-existing now. Through the adventures the girl experienced them like when everywhere she went, many boys wanted to marry her, but when she disguised herself as a boy, girls wanted to marry her. And she was sold to be a sing-song girl in a brothel and was kidnapped by outlaws, etc.
USEFUL STRATEGIES IN EVERYDAY LIFE
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This book introduces many thoughtful ways for self-protection as strategies to be used to deal with situations in everyday life, some awkward, some even dangerous, all from the author's own experience and the experience of others, and from the scaring reports of newspapers and TV.
