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Author
Language
English
Description
Scrutinizing the experience of growing up Mormon, this personal narrative tells the story of one man's disillusionment with his faith and subsequent excommunication from the Church. This account reveals what is posited as inherent racism and sexism within the church and seeks to expose the controlling methods of indoctrination and the harsh process of excommunication. The basic tenets of the religion are explained, personal stories and analyses are...
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
A traveling scholar is tasked with translating a Buddhist sutra said to have immense power over the spirits of the afterlife. During his research, he loses his way in the mountains, encountering ghostly presences amid a haunting fantasia of color, light and landscape.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Jet Li is arguably the best martial arts actor alive, and his career has crossed numerous cultural and geographic boundaries, from mainland China to Hong Kong, from Hollywood to France. In Jet Li: Chinese Masculinity and Transnational Film Stardom, Sabrina Qiong Yu uses Li as an example to address some intriguing but under-examined issues surrounding transnational stardom in general and transnational kung fu stardom in particular. Presenting case...
7) Gada Meilin
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
A larger-than-life hero, spectacular cinematography, and a story originating from a famous Mongolian epic tale. Gada Meilin is the story of a reluctant leader who guides his people to victory against a tyrannical government who wants to steal their land.
8) Last letter
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Yuan Zhilan attends a class reunion in place of her sister Yuan Zhihua, who recently passed away. While there, she reunites with her high school sweetheart and her story slowly unfolds as they communicate through letter writing.
Series
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
"Ying Zheng, the King of Qin, has one driving ambition: to unify China's seven kingdoms into one magnificent empire. Impressed by her lover's convictions, Lady Zhao helps Ying Zheng concoct an assassination plot that would justify the conquest of Qin's most powerful enemy"--Container.
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
"With no male heirs to run their fireworks factory, the Chai family's beautiful daughter has been groomed for the role of master. Renounced of her femininity, she is clothed like a man and forbidden to marry, a role which she dutifully accepts until a rebellious young artist becomes employed at the factory. He unleashes in her an unbridled passion that challenges her loyalty to her ancestral heritage and threatens the tradition that has bound her."--Container....
12) Fulltime killer
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
A flamboyant assassin sets out to become the #1 killer by taking down his biggest rival.
13) Jiang ziya
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
To earn his place amongst the gods, celestial army commander Jiang Ziya must vanquish a terrifying fox demon threatening the very existence of the mortal realm. After learning the creature's fate is tied to that of a young girl, Jiang Ziya disobeys Heaven's edict and spares the demon, resulting in his banishment to the mortal realm. Ten years later, he is given one more chance to complete the task, and Jiang Ziya must decide: is joining the ranks...
Pub. Date
[between 2000 and 2004]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Lau Ming is a well known executive producer in the music industry. Wan Fanfan is the famous singer who has won the most popular female vocal award for three consecutive years. To the public, Ming and Fanfan are lovers, but their relationship has reached a dead end. Ming hires and trains a new male singer which is really a woman. Ming and Fanfan both unintentionally fall in love with this "Boy."
15) Thar-lo: Tharlo
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Tibetan
Description
Tharlo is a Tibetan shepherd, used to living with little human contact. Visiting a Tibetan town in Qinghai province to obtain a proper ID card from the local police station, Tharlo surprises Police Chief Dorje by reciting from memory a lengthy excerpt from one of Chairman Mao's essays. But things develop in a romantic rather than a political direction. To prepare for his ID photo, Tharlo needs his hair washed, and so meets Yangtso, a beautiful local...
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