China and the Chinese
China, the country with a history of 5,000 years, a population of 1.3 billion people, an economy with $420 billion USD GDP and growing at 10% annually. Help yourself to all the information you want to do business with China, or just to know a little bit more about China, or to relax and entertain yourself with anything Chinese.
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Eating Your Way To Health
In traditional Chinese medicine the prevention and treatment of diseases by taking common foodstuffs is called "dietotherapy" or "medicinal foods." Dietotherapy is a gem in the treasure house of Chinese medicine. For countless generations it has shown forth never waning. Chinese dietotherapy originated among the common people. Through the ages this wisdom has been distilled and improved by doctors, and handed down from ancient times. There are several distinct advantages to this method: The basic foods are easily acquirable; the food itself is easy to make; it is safe; and it often can effect a cure. Accordingly, dietotherapy has been much appreciated by people in China, and with the increasing contacts between China and other lands,it is being more and more welcomed abroad. Eating Your Way To Health systematically describes the history of Chinese dietotherapy, tells how to make medicinal foods,introduces the varieties of medicinal foods and explains the proper method of consumption.Dietary trearments for 42 common illnesses are described and more than 100 kinds of medicinal foods are explained in detail.The reader can thus compound and apply the foods as their own condition requires to achieve a cure and greater health. 
Basics Of Taiji Quan
Taiji Quan is one of the major Chinese martial arts(Wushu). It is used for life enhancement,health building and combat. It calls for an uncluttered mind and complete concentration; soft, slow, smooth and complete movements; and a clear distinction between force and yielding. Basics Of Taiji Quan offers an introduction to the origins and development of Taiji Quan, its major schools and their characteristics,and its technical methods and postures. Space is also devoted to the routines of the 24 simplified forms of Taiji Quan recommended by the Physical Culture and Sports Commission of the Peopleīs Republic of China, with special emphasis on the points which merit attention in practising Taiji Quan. In addition, readers will have the help of more than 100 illustrations as they study and practise this ancient martial art form.
Ancient Chinese Fables
One hundred and twenty-one of the best Ancient Chinese Fables - mostly from the 4th and 3rd centuries B.C. as well as the 16th and 17th centuries-are contained in this volume. Written in the simple language of the people, these fables embodying the experience and wisdom of the Chinese have found their way into the hearts of many over hundreds of years. The book has twenty-eight illustrations.
From Emperor To Citizen
From Emperor to Citizen is the autobiography of Pu Yi, the man who was the last emperor of China. A unique memoir of the first half of the 20th century as seen through the eyes of one born to be an absolute monarch, the book begins with the authorīs vivid account of the last, decadent days of the Ching Dynasty, and closes with an introspective self-portrait of the last Ching emperor transformed into a retiring scholar and citizen of the Peopleīs Republic of China. In detailing the events of the fifty years between his ascension to the throne and the final period of his life as a quiet-living resident of Beijing, Pu Yi reveals himself to be first and foremost a survivor,caught up in the torrent of global power struggles and world conflict that played itself out on the Asian continent through many decades of violence and upheaval. This autobiography is the culmination of a unique and remarkable life, told simply, directly and frankly by a man whose circumstances and experiences were like no other.
Things Chinese And Their Stories
Things Chinese And Their Stories presents you the stories of many chinese tradition things. You can learn many chinese scence, chinese food, folk handcraft, and traditional toys. scourse.
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