Enchanted Tales of China Series
The Enchanted Tales of China Series, as part of the Golden Peach Chinese Culture Readers program, collects and retells the most treasured, timeless Chinese myths, legends and folktales that have captured hearts and imaginations for over a thousand years. Each story is retold in English for general Western readers interested in Asian cultures and literature, catered to a multicultural and multi-age level audience. For older readers it comes in an English young adult novel format. For younger age group readers, a bilingual format is adapted, with the Chinese text in the bottom of pages as a supplement for readers who can read Chinese or wish to learn more of the language. Also for the younger age group, the series is loosely leveled based on their abilities to understand the culture and history, with the levels color coded for easy recognitions – the orange level is mostly for teenage readers and the green level is more for younger children. Additionally, detailed notes on Chinese culture in the back will help enhance readers’ understanding of the stories as well as of their historical and social backgrounds, while beautiful full color illustrations highlight important scenes.
Praise for the Series by Amy Tan
“These are the stories I've been waiting to read since childhood -- classic tales, vividly retold, and beautifully illustrated in ways that stimulate the imagination… These are magical stories for everyone.”
To Read More Reviews, Click Here ...
Secure Online Transaction
or call toll free 1(800)247-6553
| |
 The Monkey King and the Book of Death
Ted Tao
Price: $7.99
ISBN: 978-1-930655-01-0
200 Pages
On a particularly clear night, a rock on the highest peak of the Flower and Fruit Mountain shatters open to give birth to an otherwise ordinary looking monkey. The monkey, however, is anything but ordinary. All alone, he travels far across the oceans in search for immortality. Beginning with an encounter with the Book of Death, he rewrites the history of the magical world…. Little does he know that the path to immortality requires far more than immortality, and the true journey of his lifetime has yet to come….
The Monkey King and the Book of Death is the first volume in the Monkey King series, adapted in modern English from Journey to the West by Wu Cheng’en of the Ming Dynasty. One of the most popular Chinese adventure and fantasy novels of all times, Journey to the West tells the story of a magical monkey -- the Monkey King, escorting a monk in his expedition across a whole continent to obtain sacred scriptures from the West, fighting countless demons and overcoming endless difficulties on the way….
|
|
 The Butterfly Lovers
Teri Tao
Price: $5.99
ISBN: 978-1-930655-14-0
48 Pages
A girl in ancient China disguises herself as a boy, in order to go to school. She falls in love with a classmate, but her family has arranged for her to marry someone else. Her lover dies of heartbreak. How does the girl get out of the marriage to prove her love for him? |
|
 Cowherd Boy and Weaver Girl
Teri Tao
Price: $5.99
ISBN: 978-1-930655-02-7
48 Pages
A celestial fairy descends to Earth against heavenly orders to marry a human man she loves -- a cowherd. They have a happy life together, with two beautiful children, but soon the fairy is forced to return to Heaven. When the cowherd tries to catch up with his wife, the Queen Mother of Heaven separates them forever with the Milky Way. Can the family ever get back together? |
|
 Legend of the White Snake
Teri Tao
Price: $5.99
ISBN: 978-1-930655-16-4
48 Pages
A kindly white snake spirit, disguised as a beautiful human girl, falls in love with a mortal man. As their happy life together begins, an evil-minded monk tries to separate them and traps the white snake under a pagoda. Can the white snake ever free herself and get back together with her husband and son? |
|
 Lotus Lantern
Teri Tao
Price: $5.99
ISBN: 978-1-930655-15-7
48 Pages
A celestial princess marries a mortal man and gives birth to a son. Her brother, a guardian god, tries to stop her from seeing her human family to restore heavenly order, by imprisoning her under a huge mountain. When the half-human, half-god son grows up to be a powerful young man and finds out about his mother, he sets out on a most difficult mission…. |
|
 Princess Pearl, Book 1: The Dragon Arch
Teri Tao
Price: $7.99
ISBN: 978-1-930655-00-3
200 Pages
A novel inspired by an ancient Chinese tale, it tells the story of a half-human, half-fish fairy princess of the watery Kingdom of Emerald Mirrors, a lake in Southern China. Pearl lives in a world where tradition holds that girls are supposed to be docile and subdued, but this is not the life Pearl wants. |
|
 The Girl Who Cried on the Great Wall
Teri Tao
Price: $5.99
ISBN: 978-1-930655-13-3
48 Pages
A young man is forced to leave his newly wedded wife to build the Great Wall for the emperor in the far North. His wife travels all the way to the building site to bring winter clothes to him, only to find him already dead. The wife cries for hours on end on the Great Wall, until she joins him in the most extraordinary way…. |
|
 The Girl Who Flew to the Moon
Teri Tao
Price: $5.99
ISBN: 978-1-930655-03-4
48 Pages
Hou-Yi, the celestial hero, and Chang’E, the beauty from Heaven, come down to Earth on a mission ordered by the Emperor of Heaven. Together they save lives in distress and restore the Earth from chaos. After they decide to live together as two mortals on Earth, Chang’E flies to the Moon by herself and can never come back, but why? |
|
