Is it too much to ask for an ordinary, boring life?Bai Jian is a typical Chinese boy growing up in a big city. But his life is far from typical: his mother abandoned him when he was a baby, and his father, Hei Jian, is always out of work, always fighting with his long parade of girlfriends, always getting the two of them involved in some harebrained scheme.The latest idea involves spending every last dime they have putting Bai Jian up in a posh boarding school so that Hei J...

Is it too much to ask for an ordinary, boring life?Bai Jian is a typical Chinese boy growing up in a big city. But his life is far from typical: his mother abandoned him when he was a baby, and his father, Hei Jian, is always out of work, always fighting with his long parade of girlfriends, always getting the two of them involved in some harebrained scheme.The latest idea involves spending every last dime they have putting Bai Jian up in a posh boarding school so that Hei J...

In diesem neuen Band preisgekrönter chinesischer Kurzgeschichten und Novellen aus 2019 werden die Leserinnen und Leser eingeladen, einzutauchen in verschiedenste Lebenswirklichkeiten Chinas, beschrieben von namhaften und mehrfach ausgezeichneten zeitgenössischen Autorinnen und Autoren. Die Geschichten beleuchten verschiedene gesellschaftliche und persönliche Herausforderungen, von der Armutsbekämpfung bis zur Genforschung. Moral und Ethik sind ein wiederkehrendes Thema. Die Gegebenheiten v...

A UBE – União Brasileira de Escritores – tem a satisfação de trazer a público a Antologia Sino-Brasileira de Contos, uma obra bilíngue – português/mandarim, mandarim/português – resultante da feliz parceria com a Associação de Escritores de Xangai.O livro traz 16 contos, sendo 8 de autores(as) brasileiros(as), entre clássicos e contemporâneos, e 8 de autores(as) chineses(as).O ineditismo desta antologia está no fato de os contos chineses terem sido traduzidos diret...