Our Lunar New Year

Our Lunar New Year
Author: Yobe Qiu
Publisher: Project You Start
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2018-10
Genre:
ISBN: 9781792305764

It's almost Lunar New Year! Xiao Mi, Hang, Kwan, Malai and Charu all celebrate the New Year in their own special way. Experience how each one of the Chinese, Korean, Thai, Vietnamese and Indian children and their families honor Lunar New Year, from dragon dances in China to firecrackers in India!

Lunar New Year

Lunar New Year
Author: Hannah Eliot
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 24
Release: 2018-12-11
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 153443304X

Learn all about the traditions of Lunar New Year—also known as Chinese New Year—with this fourth board book in the Celebrate the World series, which highlights special occasions and holidays across the globe. After the winter solstice each year, it’s time for a celebration with many names: Chinese New Year, Spring Festival, and Lunar New Year! With beautiful artwork by Chinese illustrator Alina Chau, this festive board book teaches readers that Lunar New Year invites us to spend time with family and friends, to light lanterns, and set off fireworks, dance with dragons, and to live the new year in harmony and happiness.

My First Chinese New Year

My First Chinese New Year
Author: Karen Katz
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2004
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780805070767

A girl and her family prepare for and celebrate Chinese New Year.

Mulan's Lunar New Year (Disney)

Mulan's Lunar New Year (Disney)
Author: Natasha Yim
Publisher:
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2020
Genre: Children's stories
ISBN: 9781743836033

It's the Lunar New Year and it happens to be Mulan's favourite festival! There is a lot to do to prepare for this important celebration and for the first time, Mulan is old enough to help out. But everything Mulan does seems to turn out wrong... Follow along with Mulan in this special Lunar New Year story that captures the unique sense of magic, imagination and possibility that surrounds the holiday!

Relax, You're Already Home

Relax, You're Already Home
Author: Raymond Barnett
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2004-12-16
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1101143657

Simple ways to a fuller and more vibrant existence, drawn from the Taoist tradition and shaped to fit our modern lives. Relax, You’re Already Home explores how we can enrich our lives in modern America by incorporating simple habits discovered in the Taoist tradition. We don't have to dramatically reshape our lives or perform time-consuming rituals like meditation, kung fu, or breathing practices. Dr. Raymond Barnett instead shows how we can focus on basic daily Taoist habits through activities like going to the park, gardening, or enjoying a cup of tea. He even helps us create our own rituals around holidays, saints, historical figures or events, or anything else that resonates with us. This warm and accessible book is ideal for anyone whose life seems too fast and complicated, as well as for those who are interested in Eastern religions but don’t have the time or inclination to take up esoteric practices. Complete with “interactives” that suggest exercises and probing questions, Relax, You're Already Home is a perfect primer for Taoism and a philosophy in its own right.

Mindy Kim and the Lunar New Year Parade

Mindy Kim and the Lunar New Year Parade
Author: Lyla Lee
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2020-01-14
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1534440127

Fresh Off the Boat meets Junie B. Jones in this second novel in an adorable new chapter book series about Mindy Kim, a young Asian American girl who is getting ready to celebrate Lunar New Year! Mindy is excited to celebrate the Lunar New Year! Even though it’s the first one without her mom, Mindy is determined to enjoy the day. She decides to make traditional Korean New Year food, a rice cake soup that’s her favorite. But things aren’t going quite to plan, and the celebration doesn’t feel the same as it did before. With the help of her family and friends, can Mindy find a way to still enjoy her old holiday traditions, and create new ones along the way?

A Sweet New Year for Ren

A Sweet New Year for Ren
Author: Michelle Sterling
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2022-11-15
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1534496602

Ren has always been too little to help make her favorite pineapple cakes for the Lunar New Year, but when her one-of-a-kind brother Charlie arrives for the festivities, with his help, she finally gets her chance.

Time in Antiquity

Time in Antiquity
Author: Robert Hannah
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 221
Release: 2008-11-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 1134323166

Time in Antiquity explores the different perceptions of time from Classical antiquity, principally through the technology designed to measure, mark or tell time. The material discussed ranges from the sixth century BC in archaic Greece to the 3rd century AD in the Roman Empire, and offers fascinating insights into ordinary people’s perceptions of time and time-keeping instruments.

The Sacred Willow

The Sacred Willow
Author: Mai Elliott
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 497
Release: 2017-08-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 0190870516

A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Duong Van Mai Elliott's The Sacred Willow illuminates recent Vietnamese history by weaving together the stories of the lives of four generations of her family. Beginning with her great-grandfather, who rose from rural poverty to become an influential landowner, and continuing to the present, Mai Elliott traces her family's journey through an era of tumultuous change. She tells us of childhood hours in her grandmother's silk shop, and of hiding while French troops torched her village, watching while blossoms torn by fire from the trees flutter "like hundreds of butterflies" overhead. She makes clear the agonizing choices that split Vietnamese families: her eldest sister left her staunchly anti-communist home to join the Viet Minh, and spent months sleeping in jungle camps with her infant son, fearing air raids by day and tigers by night. And she follows several family members through the last, desperate hours of the fall of Saigon-including one nephew who tried to escape by grabbing the skid of a departing American helicopter. Based on family papers, dozens of interviews, and a wealth of other research, this is not only a memorable family saga but a record of how the Vietnamese themselves have experienced their times.

Where Chingchoks Chirp My Childhood Days in Bangkok

Where Chingchoks Chirp My Childhood Days in Bangkok
Author: Kim Pao Yu
Publisher: Archway Publishing
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2023-01-10
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1665735031

Bangkok in the 1950s and early 1960s was a relatively small city consisting of exotic temples and palaces built in bygone days surrounded by rows of commercial and residential shophouses. Author Kim Pao Yu, a child born into a traditional Northern Chinese family, writes about his parents, their origins in Shandong, and how they escaped the war and communism in China to settle in Bangkok. In Where Chingchoks Chirp, a collection of essays, he shares his parents’ beliefs and values, their hopes and joys, and their struggles to ensure a better life for their children. Raised in a shophouse where his parents owned an antique and furniture store, situated in a compound inhabited by immigrant Chinese from Swatow, Kim describes everyday activities—the myriad vendors who sold their goods and services, the neighborhood children and the games they played, and how they celebrated holidays and festivals. The selections also cover the food and recipes his mother left as a legacy; his memories of people and experiences encountered while growing up; and his adventures at an American school as a local Chinese boy attending with the children of American expatriate and military families that shaped his thinking as he left Bangkok for higher learning in the United States. Where Chingchoks Chirp shares the sights, sounds, and smells of the bygone days of Bangkok, now a modern, bustling city that still retains much of its past.