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Have you ever wondered why the Christian Church has played such an important role in the secular affairs and in the politics of the ancient, medieval, ...
The Buddhist monk Tangseng arrives with his disciples at a mountain monastery, and he is visited in a dream by someone claiming to be the ghost of a murdered king. The ghost claims that the king...
Discover the magic of the Indonesian island of Bali in this captivating book on its history, from the origins of Bali's geological formation until mode...
While traveling the Silk Road, Tangseng and his three disciples encounter a young boy hanging upside down from a tree. They rescue him only to discover that he is really Red Boy, a powerful...
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The monk Tangseng and his disciple, the short-tempered Monkey King Sun Wukong, begin their multi-year journey to retrieve Buddhist scriptures from Thunderclap...
Have you ever wondered how Germany became a military and economic powerhouse that placed its bid for world domination in the 20th century? If you want ...
A young boy shares a little house in Beijing with 23 cats. His friend comes to visit, but the two of them can't sit down, can't study, and can't even eat dinner together because of all the cats....
Folk tales are immensely popular in China. Passed down orally over the centuries from grandparents and parents to children, they serve as an unwritten ...
The story of Cinderella is possibly the world's most popular folk tale. The earliest known version is from Greece around two thousand years ago, and over...