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July 2021Zeng Guofan's Family Motto
by Chen Xiaojun
The Xiangxiang Zeng Guofan family, an influential family in Chinese history for nearly 200 years. During the imperial examinations era, more than 20 members of the Zeng Guofan family passed the imperial examinations to become Hsiu Cai, Supervisory Students, Excellent Grange Students, Excellent Tribute Students, Jurchen and Jinshi; after the abolition of the imperial examinations, more than 160 members of the family received higher education, and many studied in Europe, America or Japan. Many members of the family have made outstanding achievements in various fields such as culture, education, art, chemistry, medicine, diplomacy and military administration.This book is a practical exploration of the role played by the unique family education theories and methods of the Zeng Guofan family in the upbringing of their children. The book contains a selection of 252 family teachings from the Zeng Guofan family, each preceded by an introduction explaining the background and analysing the essence of the meaning, with notes on difficult words and phrases at the end of the chapter for easy reading.The family mottoes of the Zeng Guofan family have extraordinary significance for the present generation in educating their children, dealing with people and achieving success, and readers will be able to glimpse in them the cultural genes that led to the rise and longevity of this illustrious family.
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FictionDecember 1999Library of Chinese Classics :Zhuang Zi
by Qin Xuqing
"Zhuangzi", also known as "South China Scriptures," is one of the Taoist classics by the philosopher Zhuang Zi of the Warring States Period and its later studies. The book includes 7 articles, 15 articles, 11 articles, a total of 33 articles. In this book, Chuang Tzu inherited and developed Lao Tzu's view of "nature of Taoism". Taking "Tao" as the origin of the world, Zhuangzi considered that "Tao" is self-contained and eternal. The difference between things is only relative. In conformity with this concept of cosmology, Zhuangzi advocates the concept of "nature inaction" and advocates the maintenance of individual physical and psychological freedom and the pursuit of a spirit of unrestrained and harmonious man and nature. This book takes Guo Qingfan's Zhuangzi Collection as the base and translates it. The English translation draws on the existing English translations and selection books. It is the current English version of Zhuangzi.
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October 2020Close-ups and Long Shots in Modern Chinese Cinemas
by Hsiu-Chuang Deppman
Two of the most stylized shots in cinema—the close-up and the long shot—embody distinct attractions. The iconicity of the close-up magnifies the affective power of faces and elevates film to the discourse of art. The depth of the long shot, in contrast, indexes the facts of life and reinforces our faith in reality. Each configures the relation between image and distance that expands the viewer’s power to see, feel, and conceive. To understand why a director prefers one type of shot over the other then is to explore more than aesthetics: It uncovers significant assumptions about film as an art of intervention or organic representation. Close-ups and Long Shots in Modern Chinese Cinemas is the first book to compare these two shots within the cultural, historical, and cinematic traditions that produced them. In particular, the global revival of Confucian studies and the transnational appeal of feminism in the 1980s marked a new turn in the composite cultural education of Chinese directors whose shot selections can be seen as not only stylistic expressions, but ethical choices responding to established norms about self-restraint, ritualism, propriety, and female agency. Each of the films discussed—Zhang Yimou’s Red Sorghum, Ang Lee’s Lust, Caution, Hou Hsiao-hsien’s The Assassin, Jia Zhangke’s I Wish I Knew, and Wei Desheng’s Cape No. 7— represents a watershed in Chinese cinemas that redefines the evolving relations among film, politics, and ethics. Together these works provide a comprehensive picture of how directors contextualize close-ups and long shots in ways that make them interpretable across many films as bellwethers of social change.
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FictionJanuary 2020The Illusionist on the Skywalk (Sean Chuang)
by Wu Ming-Yi, Sean Chuang
* 2020 Japan International Manga Award (Silver)* 2020 Golden Comic Award* French, Japanese, and Korean rights have been sold for the original novel and a TV series is soon to be released. Man Booker prize nominee Wu Ming-Yi’s much-loved collection of nostalgic short stories, as a graphic novel. Let the artists whisk you back to Taipei of the 1980s, to the long-gone Chunghwa Market Bazaar and a world of magical memories. In 1980s Taipei, the Chunghwa Market Bazaar was home to hardware stores, snack stalls, record shops, tailors, locksmiths and seal-carvers – if you needed it, you could find it here. Any resident of Taipei at the time will have precious memories of the eight buildings that formed the market. And linking those buildings, they will remember, was a skywalk. And perhaps one day, on the skywalk, they saw an illusionist. The illusionist on the skywalk has many tricks. He can magic up a copy of a key, make the safety railing disappear, and have a papercut man stand up and dance. Children cluster round, trying to spot the trick to his tricks. Years later, those children are grown and the market is gone, and all that is left is stories steeped in magic: The elevator to the 99th floor that turns you invisible, the stone lion that walks into your dreams and joins you for a stroll, the drawing of a goldfish which comes to life and swims around its bowl (although if you look closely, you can see through it) and a curiously clever cat which keeps lonely old folk company. Adapted from a collection of short stories by Taiwan’s best-known writer, Wu Ming-Yi, this graphic novel has been created by two artists, each drawing four stories from the lives of those children who watched the illusionist on the skywalk. These are tales of adventure and setback, of love and death – of all that we must face as we grow up, told in a blend of nostalgia and magical realism. Let Wu Ming-Yi’s words and the art of Sean Chuang and Ruan Guang-Ming carry you back to 1980s Taipei.
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PNSO Animal Museum
Big Cats/Small Cats/The World of Elephants
by Zhao Chuang (Illustrator), Yang Yang (Writer)
Big Cats and Small Cats comprehensively present the fascinating members of the cat family in the aspect of scientific art. In terms of design, the two books still follow the PNSO Museum format, using 1-meter-long colorful fold-out pages to present abundant details. Mr. ZHAO Chuang, a scientific artist, strictly follows available scientific evidence throughout his creation, by building his artistic framework based on fossils and scientific data. He restored skeletons, models, and ecological environment from fossils, to make these both scientifically rigorous and artistically creative. Based on the latest research, Ms. YANG Yang, a science writer for children, vividly depicts many big cats, small cats, old cats, modern cats, and so on to lead the readers to appreciate the charm of the cat world and explore the scientific facts of cats. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The World of Elephants 1 and The World of Elephants 2 from the PNSO Animal Museum series, scientifically and artistically present the evolution of proboscideans that have lasted for 60 million years. In terms of design, the two books still follow the PNSO Museum format in using 1-meter-long colorful fold-out pages to present abundant details. All works in this series come from the research results of “Darwin: An Art Project of Life Science” of “PNSO’s Scientific Art Projects Plan: Stories on Earth”. Mr. ZHAO Chuang, a scientific artist, strictly follows available scientific evidence throughout his creation, by building his artistic framework based on fossils and scientific data. He restored skeletons, models, and the ecological environment from fossils, to make these both scientifically rigorous and artistically creative. Based on the latest research, Ms. YANG Yang, a science writer for children, vividly depicts the tortuous evolutionary process of proboscideans, and the stories about its members that you may know or not, such as Deinotherium, Gomphotherium, Aphanobelodon, Stegodon, Mammuthus, Loxodonta (Africa elephants)... to lead the readers to appreciate the charm of the elephant world and explore the scientific facts of elephants.
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Children's & YAPNSO Marine Museum
The Cambrian Explosion/The Great Development of Life/The Secrets of Whales/The World of Sharks
by Zhao Chuang (Illustrator), Yang Yang (Writer)
The described marine organisms of great significance in the evolutionary history will help the readers to explore the mystery of the origin of life and understand the marine world. In terms of design, the four books still follow the PNSO Museum format in super-long colorful fold-out pages. The fully expanded fold-out pages are almost one meter long which present abundant details. All works in this series come from the research results of “Darwin: An Art Project of Life Science” of “PNSO’s Scientific Art Projects Plan: Stories on Earth”. Mr. ZHAO Chuang, PNSO’s scientific artist, strictly follows available scientific evidence to make these both scientifically rigorous and artistically creative. Based on the latest dinosaur research, Ms. YANG Yang, the science writer for children, vividly depicts the magnificent marine world.
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Children's & YAPNSO Stories on Earth
Age of Dinosaurs/Age of Pterosaurs/Age of Ancient Sea Monsters
by Zhao Chuang (Illustrator), Yang Yang (Writer)
The PNSO Stories on Earth series consists of three volumes: The Age of Dinosaurs, The Age of Pterosaurs, and The Age of Ancient Sea Monsters, which is a set of scientific art picture books about life cognition. Zhao Chuang, the scientific artist, has drawn hundreds of stunning and powerful restorations for this series, which scientifically and artistically shapes the magnificent picture of prehistoric life; Yang Yang, the science writer for children, describes a remote and mysterious era for readers with to-the-point description. The PNSO Stories on Earth series combines rich scientific knowledge, magnificent scientific and artistic restoration illustrations and beautiful and vivid words, presenting the readers with a panoramic view of the glorious era in the history of life evolution and the individual lives that can not be forgotten by the times.
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Children's & YAPNSO Encyclopedia for Children
The Secrets of Dinosaurs/The Secrets of Pterosaurs/The Secrets of Ancient Sea Monsters
by Zhao Chuang (Illustrator), Yang Yang (Writer)
As a set of popular science books created for children, the three books: The Secrets of Dinosaurs, The Secrets of Pterosaurs, and The Secrets of Ancient Sea Monsters, from the PNSO Encyclopedia for Children series, respectively depict the dinosaurs, pterosaurs, and marine reptiles lived in the Mesozoic. Featured with dinosaurs, pterosaurs, and marine reptiles as the main characters, the three volumes present individual species in the form of scientific art life reconstruction images and concise and interesting words. The restoration of every animal strictly follows the available scientific discoveries and integrates scientific research results into artistic creation, which makes these both scientifically rigorous and artistically creative. Zhao Chuang uses his brush to create delicate, beautiful, and scientific restoration images so that children can observe ancient creatures more intuitively; Yang Yang turns complex scientific knowledge into simple and interesting words so that children can also think and learn in easy-to-read stories.
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Biography & True StoriesEtudes for Papa
by Sean Chuang
Dedicated to all fathers, a graphic novel composed with warmth and love for my son. Fatherhood is one of the quintessential human experiences. Sean CHUANG used to wonder, what goes through a father’s mind in the first years? What challenges and hardships does he face? Then CHUANG found himself raising a child of his own, and these questions were being answered. In the middle of the chaos, he began reliving his own childhood, and his thoughts turned to his own father. Perhaps it is the eternal sameness of experiences like fatherhood that connect us across the generations. A rookie dad is just like a child. CHUANG hopes this record of those first years with his son will be helpful to the reader who is father to a young child, or soon to be, and that any reader will find in it something of interest and value.
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PNSO Dinosaur Stars Science Picture Book
Mysterious Nights/Survival Tricks/Secrets of Flying/Is Trying to Win a Mistake/Gaining Weight/Bewildering Colors/Tales of the Ancestors/Unusual Necks/Eating Wisely/Dazzling Crowns
by Zhao Chuang (Illustrator), Yang Yang (Writer)
All works in PNSO Dinosaur Stars Science Picture Book series come from the research results of “Darwin: An Art Project of Life Sciences” of “PNSO’s Scientific Art Projects Plan: Stories on Earth (2010-2070)”. This series takes 10 famous dinosaurs found in China as the main characters. The hand-painted cartoon images and scientific art reconstructions illustrated by ZHAO Chuang, a scientific artist, together with the easy-understanding and humorous stories wrote by YANG Yang, a science writer for children, narrate 10 strange and fascinating topics about dinosaurs. “Why the fatty animals are not willing to loose weight? What do animals with long neck do with their long necks? How do animals usually sleep? What’s the secrets of flying? …..” All these strange questions, you can find the answers in PNSO Dinosaur Stars Science Picture Book series. Meanwhile, this series of books are not only limited to the dinosaurs, but use the scientific thinking method of learning by analogy to expand an interesting topic horizontally and vertically, and compare it with children’s familiar daily life and animals, so that children can experience the fun of thinking and exploration in pleasant reading. This unique way of thinking will imperceptibly affect children and help them establish a unique way to look at things and solve problems in life more easily.
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PNSO Cognitive Games for 0-3 Year Old
I Have Known Many Dinosaurs/Animals/Marine Animals/Stars/Flowers Before I Turn Three
by Zhao Chuang (Illustrator), Yang Yang (Writer)
What can a baby know before the age of three? Although babies have just come to the world, please don't think they understand nothing. As long as you look at their curious eyes and listen to the "what's this" and "why" that come out of their mouths from time to time, you will understand that they want to take the whole world into their little heads. So we think we should bring the world to them! The PNSO Cognitive Games for 0-3 Year Old book series represents a small corner of the world we present to the kids aged from 0 to 3. It is part of the "PNSO New Aesthetic Education: Join ZHAO Chuang and YANG Yang to Create Amazing Stories on Earth." We hope to use the narrative method of scientific art to improve their cognitive ability in perceiving the world. I Have Known Many Dinosaurs Before I Turn Three, I Have Known Many Animals Before I Turn Three, I Have Known Many Marine Animals Before I Turn Three, and I Have Known Many Stars Before I Turn Three from this series have published in Chinese. I Have Known Many Flowers Before I Turn Three, I Have Known Many Fruits Before I Turn Three, etc. will publish soon. - I Have Known Many Dinosaurs Before I Turn Three book set includes five volumes. Although the dinosaurs in this series are presented in form of cartoon images, they still follow the results of scientific research. These dinosaurs with different shapes and fascinating looks and interesting games about dinosaur facts can stimulate your baby's interest in dinosaurs. When reading the books at the first time, parents can help to read the dinosaurs’ bilingual names to let the baby establish the relationship between cartoon images and the dinosaur names, and get a preliminary understanding of the dinosaurs. After repeating this several times, the baby can start to read independently. He or she will identify those dinosaur cartoon images and proudly tell you their names. In addition to reading, the books also provide many interesting cognitive games about dinosaurs. Cognitive ability is an important ability which enables the baby to process, store and extract external information. Memory, imagination and thinking ability are all part of cognition. Games are one of the effective ways to develop the children's cognitive ability. The games in this book series will help the baby to initially recognize life, size, color, quantity, feature and classification, so as to improve the baby's cognitive ability. - I Have Known Many Animals Before I Turn Three book set contains five volumes and covers 40 kinds of animals living in different environments. All animals are illustrated with scientifically accurate and cute cartoon images, which are in line with the aesthetic preference of babies aged from 0 to 3. The bilingual animal names in Chinese and English allow babies to learn English vocabulary while recognizing animals. The interesting scientific cognitive games can help babies to learn about different animals, their living habits, have basic concepts of weight comparison and sequence, and exercise babies’ simple reasoning and analysis, so as to improve their cognitive abilities. This book set provides a special period for babies to get along with different animals. During this period, the babies can know many animals living around the world, but also know that humans live on and share the earth together with countless lives. It is because of their existence that human beings will not be lonely. Let's look forward to meeting your babies to spend this precious period together! - Why should a baby aged 0 to 3 know about marine animals? For the babies, the vast sea is always full of mysteries. They like to run on the beach washed by the sea and play in the cool water, and are also eager to know what animals live in the deep and unfathomable sea. The sea is the cradle of life on earth. In the long period of about 380 million years, it has embraced countless lives with its broad chest. Our human’s ancestors came from there. When our babies want to explore all things in the sea to satisfy their curiosity, we have no reason deny them such an ocean. At this time, the sea for them to wander is not an ordinary place, but a sea spanning over 500 million years. The marine animals from the Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic periods appear like a scroll painting slowly unfolding in front of the babies, depicting the evolution of life on earth. In such an ocean, what they feel will not only be its vastness, but also the power of life. As they explore with curiosity, and end this journey with appreciation for life, the babies will gain a mindset and vision as vast as the sea. I Have Known Many Marine Animals Before I Turn Three book set contains five volumes. I Have Known Many Marine Animals Before I Turn Three 1 is an interactive game manual with rich and interesting cognitive games. Each of the other four books introduces ten marine animals lived in the Paleozoic period, Early Mesozoic, Late Mesozoic, and Cenozoic. All marine animals are illustrated with scientifically accurate and cute cartoon images, which are in line with the aesthetic preference of babies aged from 0 to 3. The bilingual marine animal names allow babies to learn English or Latin vocabulary while recognizing animals. The interesting scientific cognitive games can help babies to subtly improve their cognitive abilities. - For babies aged 0-3, do they really want to know the vast universe? Certainly! You probably remember the time when they discussed with you about the sun and the moon. The universe is not as far away as we thought. We are in it, yet we are unfamiliar with it. As we watch the sun rise in east and set west, and watch the starry sky at night, we would surely have countless questions. The same goes for babies. When they see that the sun only appears during the day and the moon rises to the sky at night, they will definitely be tempted to ask you: Where did the sun go at night? Why doesn't the moon appear with the sun? It is the curiosity and thirst for knowledge that lead the babies into the deep universe. Because of the unremitting efforts of astronomers, we have gained more and more understanding of the universe. Now, we bring the vast universe to the babies. I Have Known Many Stars Before I Turn Three book set will set the baby a magical journey. During this journey, the babies will learn about the profound universe and develop a deeper understanding of the earth we live in. the Let's look forward to meeting your babies on this fantasy journey.
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Children's & YALet's Count to Tea!
by Yu-jing Chuang
"What a good day for afternoon tea! ONE fat teapot is what we need, and TWO tasty spreads: strawberry jam and cream. Follow along with the March Hare as he prepares tea for his best friends! The billingual rhyming text, bright colors, and familiar characters make this board book fun and engaging to read aloud, perfect for young children learning to count."
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Children's & YAThe Dinosaurs: Li An’s War in the Wild
by Yang Yang；Zhao Chuang
In the early Jurassic, in what is now Yunnan, China, the newly emerging dinosaurs were trying to explore the world, in an effort to make breakthroughs in numbers, species and geography. A Panguraptor named Li An after suffering from the sudden earthquake and the subsequent death of his parents, forged a deep friendship with a Yunnan dinosaur named Dian Zhi who accidentally saved him in the earthquake. The novel tells about the delicate and sincere friendship between Li An and Dian Zhi. With Li An’s company and encourage, Dian Zhi stepped out of the shadow of childhood and eventually became the local king.
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Children's & YAThe Dinosaurs: Er Ma’s Secret History in the Jungle
by Yang Yang；Zhao Chuang
In the late Jurassic, the dinosaurs in what is now Sichuan Province, China ushered in a golden age of development. Both species and numbers of dinosaurs had increased considerably. Among numerous groups, sauropod dinosaurs had seen especially rapid development. The novel tells the story of a Mamenchisauru named Er Ma in the sauropod dinosaur family. Abandoned by his parents, he misidentified a Tuojiangosauru named Qi Chuan as his father. Since then on, Er Ma and Qi Chuan had experienced a lot of fun things together. The true feelings between them was really moving.
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The Dinosaurs: Gao Yuan’s Legend in the Sky
by Yang Yang；Zhao Chuang
In the early Cretaceous, in what is now Liaoning, China, the evolution of dinosaurs underwent a revolutionary change. A feathered dinosaur flew into the blue sky and successfully expanded its habitat. The novel tells the story of a little Microraptor named Gao Yuan, who was expelled from home by his father because of the death of his mother at birth. He experienced the process from inferiority to confidence, from anonymity to becoming the king of the family of Microraptors, but then losing everything due to his self conciet. Eventually, Gao Yuan forgave his father, made up with his old self, and found the most beautiful friendship with a little Microraptor named Xiao Ai.
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The Dinosaurs: Lu Xiong’s Expedition on the Land
by Yang Yang；Zhao Chuang
In the late Cretaceous, in what now is Shandong, China, dinosaurs were at their peak, many species have been extinct, but some species have evolved to the extreme, such as the Tyrannosaurus Rex family. The novel tells about the twists and turns between the Tyrannosaurus Rex brothers named Lu Ying and Lu Xiong in the Tyrannosaurus Rex family. In spite of misunderstandings and even hatred, they finally forgave each other and with their courage and mutual trust succeeded in saving the plain on which they depended and the fellows on the plain.
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Children's & YAI Have a T. rex
Growing Pains/Journey in Fantasy/One Mystery after Another/Hero's Dream/Forever Friends
by Zhao Chuang (Illustrator), Yang Yang (Writer)
The 11-year-old cool girl Guanguan is not an obedient child in her mother’s eyes. She is a unusual girl, loves adventure, and hope to become a “great hero” that attracts the attention of the world. She’s confident and brave, honesty and perseverant. Sometimes, she is selfish, feels coward, loses her temper, and couldn’t help being jealous. She’s not perfect, but definitely unique. One day, Guanguan got an egg and had it hatched. Since then, this unique girl has the world’s unique little T. rex as a pet. Together, they explores in the Pleasant Land City, track down mystery cases, and rescues their friends. They trust each other, are full of love and courage, and while solving one problem after another, they reap precious friendship and growth.
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Children's & YAPNSO Dinosaur Museum
The Large/Medium/Small Carnivorous Dinosaurs; The Large/Medium/Small Herbivorous Dinosaurs
by Zhao Chuang (Illustrator), Yang Yang (Writer)
In form of “Museum on Book” , PNSO Dinosaur Museum book set are specially designed for children! This profound pop-science series includes six volumes: The Large Carnivorous Dinosaurs, The Medium Carnivorous Dinosaurs, The Small Carnivorous Dinosaurs, The Large Herbivorous Dinosaurs, The Medium Herbivorous Dinosaurs, and The Small Herbivorous Dinosaurs, which respectively depict one dinosaur group or comprehensively analyze the features of one dinosaur species. The 1-meter-long colorful fold-out pages elaborately explain each dinosaur from different prospectively in detail, which includes life reconstructions, scientifically presenting the physical features of dinosaurs, living habit reconstructions, vividly restoring the living environment and life scenes of dinosaurs, and as well as skeletal restorations, muscle restorations, close-ups, body anatomy, fossil bury sketch, etc. The highly professional content in this series are narrated ins simple, understandable, vivid and interesting words, so that children can read more easily. We hope that what it brings to readers, especially children, is not just scientific knowledge, but the awareness of understanding the world across time and space, the improvement of scientific thinking ability, the cultivation of scientific exploration spirit, and the construction of aesthetic ability.
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PNSO Pterosaur Museum
Pterodactyloids/Non-Pterodactyloids
by Zhao Chuang (Illustrator), Yang Yang (Writer)
PTERODACTYLOIDS and NON-PTERODACTYLOIDS, two volumes from the PNSO Pterosaurs Museum series introduce two groups: the pterodactyloids and non-pterodactyloids, and rebuild the prehistoric sky dominated by pterosaurs. The two books select the pterosaurs of great significance in evolutionary history to help the readers systematically understand their features, living habits, and environment. In terms of design, the two books still follow the PNSO Museum format in using 1-meter-long colorful fold-out pages to present abundant details.
