Summary: At once an intimate drama and a decades-spanning epic that leaps from the recent past to the present to the speculative near-future, Jia's new film is an intensely moving study of how China's economic boom and the culture of materialism it has spawned has affected the bonds of family, tradition, and love.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MOUSummary: A historical action war drama based on the founding of the Republic of China, when nationalist forces led by Sun Yat-sen overthrew the last ruling Qing Dynasty, which held unquestioned power and rule for 250 years. From the walls of the Forbidden City to the battlefields of China, no expense was spared in the production and no detail ignored in its quest for historical accuracy. 1911 is a true...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Well Go USA 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE NINSummary: "Gripping saga of two rival moles--played by superstars Tony Leung Chiu-wai and Andy Lau Tak-wah--who navigate slippery moral choices as they move between the intersecting territories of Hong Kong's police force and its criminal underworld. Set during the uncertainty of the city-state's handover from Britain to China and steeped in Buddhist philosophy, these ingeniously crafted tales of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In four late-nineteenth-century Shanghai "flower houses", courtesans live confined to opulent splendor but are forced to work to buy back their freedom, and romantic intrigue, jealousies and tensions roil around their assignations.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FLOHuang, Al Chung-liang.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.71 HUASummary: Ouyang Feng is a heartbroken and cynical man who spends his days alone in the desert. He connects expert swordsmen with those seeking revenge and willing to pay for it. As Ouyang narrates his tale, he interweaves the stories of his unusual clients, old friends and future foes. He begins to realize the mistakes of his own past, and how his fear of rejection may have led him to a life of exile.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ASHSummary: This take on the traditional wuxia film, set in 9th century China, centers on Nie Yinniang, a young woman who was abducted in childhood from a decorated general and raised by a nun who trained her in the martial arts to be an assassin who is directed to slay corrupt government officials. After 13 years of exile, she is returned to the land of her birth with orders to kill her betrothed...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ASSZhang, Ling
Summary: There was rarely a time when Phoenix Yuan-Whyller's mother, Rain, didn't live with her. Even when Phoenix got married, Rain, who followed her from China to Toronto, came to share Phoenix's life. Now at the age of eighty-three, Rain's unexpected death ushers in a heartrending separation. Struggling with the loss, Phoenix comes across her mother's suitcase, a memory box Rain had brought from...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Amazon Crossing 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LINHuang, Ling Ling
Summary: "In this sly, surprising, and razor-sharp debut novel, a virtuoso pianist gives up her future as a musician to work at a high-end wellness store in New York City where the pursuit of beauty comes at a staggering cost. Our narrator is the youngest student at the Conservatory. She produces a sound from the piano no one else does, employing a special technique she learned from her parents-also...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Liars
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Wea Corp 2021
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK LIALiang, Bridget
Summary: Logan knows he likes boys, but has not come out, and no one knows that he likes to sometimes wear girls' clothes and makeup. Then Logan starts at a school for the arts. There he meets Kyle, who is straight. Logan experiments with nail polish and more feminine clothes. Logan begins questioning his gender and decides to use they pronouns while trying to figure things out. Logan meets a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lorimer Children & Teens 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LIALiang, Ursula
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DOWSummary: Chinese-born, U.S.-raised Billi reluctantly returns to Changchun to find that, although the whole family knows their beloved matriarch, Nai-Nai, has been given mere weeks to live, everyone has decided not to tell Nai Nai herself. To assure her happiness, they gather under the joyful guise of an expedited wedding, uniting family members scattered among new homes abroad. As Billi navigates a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY FARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FARCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE FARLiang, Ann
Summary: Eliza Lin's essay about meeting the love of her life unexpectedly goes viral, she gains the approval of her classmates at her new international school in Beijing, and a career-launching internship opportunity at her favorite magazine. Unfortunately, Eliza's essay is completely fiction. All good writing is lying, right? To hide the truth, Eliza strikes a deal with an actor in her class, the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LIALiang, Ann
Summary: "Channeling her frustrations into email drafts--ones that she'd never send--seemingly perfect Sadie Wen finds her carefully crafted, conflict-free life turned upside down when the email is sent out accidentally, and the only person growing to appreciate the 'real' Sadie is the only boy she's sworn to hate"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LIALiang, Ann
Summary: "Alice Sun has always felt invisible at her elite Beijing international boarding school...When her parents drop the news that they can no longer afford her tuition, even with the scholarship, Alice hatches a plan to monetize her strange new power--she'll discover the scandalous secrets her classmates want to know, for a price. But as the tasks escalate from petty scandals to actual crimes,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Inkyard Press 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LIASummary: Once upon a time in China: The legendary martial arts teacher Wong Fei-hung, with a band of disciples, battles a host of nefarious forces--foreign and local--who are threatening Chinese sovereignty as British and American imperialists encroach upon the Mainland.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ONC1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD FOREIGN ONC
Liars
Contents: disc 1. Scissor -- No barrier fun -- Here comes all the people -- Drip -- Scarecrows on a killer slant -- I still can see an outside world -- Proud evolution -- Drop dead -- The overachievers -- Goodnight everything -- Too much, too much --
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Mute 2010
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK LIALiars
Contents: The exact color of doubt -- Octagon -- No. 1 against the rush -- A ring on every finger -- Ill valley prodigies -- Wixiw -- His and mine sensations -- Flood to flood -- Who is the hunter -- Brats -- Annual moon words.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Mute 2012
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK LIASummary: Born into a prominent family in China, Soong Mei-ling was nonetheless thoroughly Western in thought and philosophy, having studied in America-one of the first Chinese women to do so. After marrying Chiang Kai-shek, the couple led a China embroiled in years of war and political intrigue. During World War II, she became the first Chinese national ever to address a joint session of the U.S....
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Tequila is a die-hard cop who will stop at nothing to avenge his partner's murder, and joins forces with a rebel cop to fight the bad guys.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Mei ya lei she ying die you xian gong si [distributor 1990
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Place a hold to request this item.Krissoff, Liana.
Summary: This hip, modern handbook is filled with fresh and new ways to preserve nature's bounty throughout the year. It features full-color photographs, recipes, and detachable canning labels.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stewart, Tabori & Chang 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.4 KrissoffAn, Jiang.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bess Press 1990
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: J CHINESE 495.1 ANSummary: From master director Jia Zhang-Ke comes a vital document of Chinese society since 1949. Jia interviews three prominent authors, Jia Pingwa, Yu Hua, and Liang Hong, born in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, respectively. In their stories, we hear of the dire circumstances they faced in their rural villages and small towns, and the substantial political effort undertaken to address it, from the social...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021