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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This video features Li Chiao-Ping and members of her company demonstrating her "Extreme Moves Training Method, a regimen of strength-building and balance exercises and techniques. This revolutionary curriculum trains dancers to perform rotational, upside down, and gyroscopic movements and to use unusual parts of the body for balance, taking weight, and locomotion.
Author
Series
Zhongguo wen xue yi shu jia zhuan ji volume 12
Publisher
Hua yan chu ban she
Pub. Date
min guo 85 [1996]
Language
中文(繁體)
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Powerful methods for global investing from a dual expert on Chinese and U.S. markets Tiger Woman on Wall Street is the remarkable story of how one woman has risen to the top of the traditionally male-dominated world of finance. Raised by "tiger parents" in China in the 1980s, when the Chinese economy was just starting to boom, Junh Li came to the United States to attend college and climbed her way up to the top with a relentless personal drive and...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1968
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
An African folktale tells how the sun and water once lived on earth as friends, but because the sun failed to build his house large enough, he and his wife, the moon, were driven into the sky when the water came to visit them.
Author
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2005, c2003
Language
English
Description
"From a desperately poor village in northeast China, to a career that took him across the world, this is the incredible story of Li Cunxin -- a story that almost vanished, like so many other peasants' lives, amid revolution and chaos. At age eleven, Li was chosen by Madame Mao's cultural delegates to be taken from his rural home and brought to Beijing, where he would study ballet. In 1979, the young dancer arrived in Texas as part of a cultural exchange,...
9) Jet Li
Author
Series
Publisher
Lucent Books
Language
English
Description
Presents the life and career of Chinese martial artist and action movie star Jet Li, from his childhood in Beijing and his film work to the charity he began after surviving the tsunami in the Indian Ocean in 2004.
10) A girl named Faithful Plum: the true story of a dancer from China and how she achieved her dream
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Tells the true story of Zhongmei Lei, an eleven-year-old girl in 1977 who won one of twelve spots at the prestigious Beijing Dance Academy, and whose determination to remain in the school impressed teachers and students alike; and discusses how Zhongmei, whose name means Faithful Plum, went on to form her own dance company which debuted in New York when she was in her late twenties.
Author
Series
Bo ya wen ku volume 245
Publisher
Wu nan tu shu chu ban gu fen you xian gong si
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
中文(繁體)
Author
Series
Wen xue sen lin xi lie volume 59
Publisher
Xin jing dian tu wen chuan bo you xian gong si
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
中文(繁體)
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Five site-specific dance films shot on location in rural Wisconsin. Each vignette is created in and of the landscape and local architecture and speaks to metaphors of the senses, relationships, and the changing of the seasons. Emmy nominated Director Douglas Rosenberg and Gemini nominated Director Allen Kaeja collaborate with Li Chiao-Ping and Karen Kaeja as well as guest artists from Kaeja d'Dance and others including Heidi Latsky, David Dorfman,...
Author
Series
Cai jing qi guan volume 523
Publisher
Yuan jian tian xia wen hua chu ban gu fen you xian gong si
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
中文(繁體)
Author
Publisher
Distributed to the trade by Macmillan
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Selected by Chairman Mao's officials from among millions of children to become a dancer, Li's new life began as he left his family behind. At the Beijing Dance Academy, days were long and difficult. Li's hard work was rewarded when he was chosen yet again, this time to travel to America.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
The author narrates her life during the Cultural Revolution when the Red Guards launched brutal assaults and forced confessions and describes how she found solace in a world of imagination when her father smuggles a reading list of banned books to her from labor camp.
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