Lucy Luo Author, Artist, Curator. Born in Beijing, China. Studied in London, Britain. Lives in NY, America. Published 4 books: Afternoon Tea 2005 (essay) Solo Dancing in Britain 2007 (essay) Roaming The Borders Of Heaven 2007 (poem) Sweet London Night 2011 (novel) Member of China Writers Association Member of The Poetry institute of China Member of American Watercolor Society Member of Rochester Art Club Curator, The First/Second/Third International Women Artists Exhibitions in 2019/2020/2...

Lucy Luo Author, Artist, Curator. Born in Beijing, China. Studied in London, Britain. Lives in NY, America. Published 4 books: Afternoon Tea 2005 (essay) Solo Dancing in Britain 2007 (essay) Roaming The Borders Of Heaven 2007 (poem) Sweet London Night 2011 (novel) Member of China Writers Association Member of The Poetry institute of China Member of American Watercolor Society Member of Rochester Art Club Curator, The First/Second/Third International Women Artists Exhibitions in 2019/2020/2...

Born and raised in northern Manchuria during the colonial period of Korea, Yun Dong-ju was a poet of the utmost purity, beauty, and sincerity. His posthumously published collection of poems under the title Sky, wind, stars, and poems is one of the all-time favorites of Korean readers. Wishing not to have so much as a speck of shame toward heaven until the day I die, I suffered, even when the wind stirred the leaves. (From Foreword) In simple diction and straightforward expressions, his poe...

An English rendition of a collection of poetry by Do Jong-hwan, one of Korea’s most beloved poets. Do’s literary career started in 1984, when he released Age of Division while teaching Korean language and literature to high-school students. His second poetry collection, You the Hollyhock, sold over a million copies and was made into a film, and he became one of Korea’s most influential poets during the 1980s, popular among critics and readers alike. Through poetry, Do found beauty in the p...

My First Book of Chinese Calligraphy is a fun and engaging introduction to one of China's most popular arts and crafts for kids. Calligraphy—the art of producing decorative handwriting or lettering with a pen or brush—has been around for thousands of years. In this fun calligraphy for kids book, readers will follow along with Mimi, an eight year old, who takes her first steps towards learning this magical art. Dive in, and explore:The Evolution of Chinese Writing—how...

. . . I looked down. Observed the world below, all the caves with rats, poor pansions-pensions with cockroaches, houses with yellow scotches and without, gaming-houses, and museums, churches, deserted towers, seemed from above cosy miniature swallows nests on the background of soft greenery of forest-hills and extended afar, afar, absorbed by space a water azure..And burden and risk of the ascent made sense. (Summer and Wood)

For the first time, English-language readers can access the poems of Jeong Ho-seung, who has become one of Korea's most beloved poets since his literary debut in 1973. A total of 216 poems spanning over 40 years of poetic growth were released in two collections, presented side by side in English and Korean. Loved by readers of all ages, from teenagers to those in their 60s and 70s, Jeong's poems tell of humanity's innate loneliness, sadness, longing, love and pain. In the words of the tran...

Fainting with Freedom displays Ouyang Yu’s characteristic wrestlings with absurdity, the quotidian and the pain of history, while maintaining a distinctly different take on what constitutes ‘the self ’. The poems shimmer with language-play — through slippages between English and Chinese, a more illuminating existential truth arises.‘Why,’ asks Ouyang Yu in this stunning new collection, is fame ‘never associated with failure?’ From the great consensus challenger of our age,...

A dazzling cycle of short stories by one of China’s most revered contemporary writers and one of the world’s leading artist-intellectuals.An Empty Room is the first book by the celebrated Chinese writer Mu Xin to appear in English. A cycle of thirteen tenderly evocative stories written while Mu Xin was living in exile, this collection is reminiscent of the structural beauty of Hemingway’s In Our Time and the imagistic power of Kawabata’s palm-of-t...

* A haunting love story a la Romeo and Juliet ofthe Orient, a love that cannot be but a love that will grow old during the most devastating war in history.* A shamelessly original work of art that you can read legally outside China. ￭ New Beijing Voice* A tour de force. ￭ Leanne Delehanty,author and visual artist* A refreshing pallet of colours…A subtle undercurrent of prose ￭ Ashish Anant, Out of the Blue* This is the kind of book that you ...

Through 40 eloquent prayers and small simple photographs that mirror and interpret the text, Being Home is a celebration of mindfulness. As M. Scott Peck put it, "This is simply the best book I know on the subject of the sacrament of the present moment, and a great work of devotional literature." 43 duotone photographs..

“Sailboat is a book of heartfelt poetry that grabs the reader’s curiosity, first with the outcome of the book, and then with the originality of the author. In the universal motifs and messages, found throughout the poems of Ratka Bogdan, one senses a rich and diversified life, which is spread across three continents. Nevertheless, the birthplace, that beautiful homeland, as with most authors, is never-ending eternal love...”—Danilo Maric, author of “The Mystic Best Man”“Rare...