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The Poet Empress
A Beast Slinks Towards Beijing
The Great Heist: China’s Epic Campaign to Steal America’s Secrets
Daughter of the Moon Goddess (The Celestial Kingdom, #1)
Things in Nature Merely Grow
The Lotus Shoes
The Fourth Daughter
Never
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
This Time It's Real
Counterfeit
Autocracy, Inc.
Apple in China: The Capture of the World's Greatest Company
Daughters of the Bamboo Grove: From China to America, a True Story of Abduction, Adoption, and Separated Twins
The House of Doors
薬屋のひとりごと 10 [Kusuriya no Hitorigoto 10]
I Deliver Parcels in Beijing
The Apothecary Diaries: Volume 13
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
The Good Earth (House of Earth, #1)
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
The Joy Luck Club
The Art of War
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze
China in Ten Words
Tao Te Ching
Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China
Shanghai Girls (Shanghai Girls, #1)
Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China
Oracle Bones: A Journey Between China's Past and Present

Amy Tan
And then it occurs to me. They are frightened. In me, they see their own daughters, just as ignorant, just as unmindful of all the truths and hopes they have brought to America. They see daughters who grow impatient when their mothers talk in Chinese, who think they are stupid when they explain things in fractured English. They see that joy and luck do not mean the same to their daughters, that to these closed American-born minds "joy luck" is not a word, it does not exist. They see daughters wh ...more
Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club

Derek Landy
Every once in a while, I get the urge. You know what I’m talking about, don’t you? The urge for destruction. The urge to hurt, maim, kill. It’s quite a thing, to experience that urge, to let it wash over you, to give in to it. It’s addictive. It’s all-consuming. You lose yourself to it. It’s quite, quite wonderful. I can feel it, even as I speak, tapping around the edges of my mind, trying to prise me open, slip its fingers in. And it would be so easy to let it happen. But we’re all like tha ...more
Derek Landy

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