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Path of Possession: Way of the Immortals, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 502min

In search of Hugo and a reincarnated monk, Nick Barnette and company make their way to the Island Kingdom of Jonang.At least that’s the plan.Their ship is attacked, leading to an epic fight that separates Nick's party.Things only get more complicated once they arrive on the island and find that a newly crowned emperor has wreaked havoc on the natives, an emperor Nick is intimately familiar with.It’s going to take all the runes Nick has learned plus a deeper knowledge of his own ability if he hopes to best the emperor and find the reincarnated monk, and that’s not to mention the wind spirits, sea dragons, armed soldiers, flaming skulls, and demons he’ll be forced to engage along the way.With little time to continue cultivating and understanding his power, Nick must rely on his friends, his own intuition, his unique time abilities, and a good amount of luck to save the day, especially once a fleet of warships from Lhasa make landfall.Way of the Immortals, book three: Path of Possession is a western cultivation series weaving Bhutanese and Tibetan lore into a fast-paced novel that xianxia, wuxia, LitRPG, and progression fantasy readers will love. Way of the Immortals is an isekai portal fantasy written by Harmon Cooper, best-selling GameLit author of Death’s Mantle, House of Dolls, Cherry Blossom Girls, The Feedback Loop, and Monster Hunt NYC. A portion of the sales of this series will go to Tibet House. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Neil Hellegers. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/184995/bk_acx0_184995_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Darkening Skies : Path of the Thunderbird, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 559min

A boy abandoned at an ancient school of warrior arts. A princess bartered away as a treaty bride. A lurking evil with the power to topple the world.Ji Yu Raijin is happy to live out his life serving his school, cultivating his life force, and learning the path of darkening skies, an ancient and noble warrior art - until the day comes when he has to choose: Remain true to the teachings of his path and allow his art to die out or commit an unforgivable sin and save the world.Second princess Shyong San Koida was born the only cripple in a dynasty of powerful warriors. With a broken life force, the only way Koida can contribute to her family’s empire is by sealing a strategic alliance to a barbarian leader with her hand in marriage. But hidden forces within the court conspire to stop the union and obliterate the Shyong San dynasty at all costs.At the intersection of the servant boy and the princess’s stories lies a secret, malignant art bent on destroying not only them, but the entire world.Darkening Skies is the first novel in the Path of the Thunderbird series, for fans of Wuxia, Xanxia, cultivation novels, demon beasts, and all styles of martial arts. Darkening Skies is written by Eden Hudson, enthusiastic but terrible martial arts student and best-selling author of Jubal Van Zandt and the litRPG fantasy Rogue Dungeon. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nick Podehl. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/163085/bk_acx0_163085_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Rogan's Monsters: Wastelands, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 360min

Death, it seems, isn’t always the end.I was a soldier, fighting for the lives of the whole damned world, when I went and got myself obliterated by this alien f**k.I figured that was it. Game over, done. But then I woke up in a different body, in a strange world full of dust and ruins, with awesome martial arts skills I’d never had before. Not to mention a chi gift thing that seemed to work a lot like magic.I had no clue why or how it all happened. All I knew was that there were these monster girls I was supposed to protect from an endless horde of semi-human things that wanted us all dead.And there were these words seared into my brain like a motivational quote: You can save them. You can save all of them.Of course, I had no clue who the words referred to, whether there was any truth to them at all, or where to f**king begin.Rogan’s Monsters: Wastelands follows our hero's sword-swinging adventure across the wastes of a strange new world. It is the first book in a harem series that includes isekai, wuxia, xianxia elements (martial arts and magic), as well as a few gamelit mechanisms for good measure. Set (mostly) in a post-apocalyptic world, it contains violence, nudity, and sex, as well as alien invasions, wraiths, and monster girls.Listen at your own risk. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Andrew B. Wehrlen. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/192248/bk_acx0_192248_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Preface to Wang Du-Lu's Anthology (eBook, ePUB)

Wang Du-Lu was a writer who was once forgotten. Many people in mainland China recalled him or just knew his name only because of the Academy Award-winning film "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon". However, watching the film is certainly no replacement for reading the original! and without reading the novel. Wang Du-Lu is the founder of knight-errant and tragic romance novels in China. The first novel Wang consciously wrote with this style was "Precious Sword, Golden Hairpin". Although this was the first one, it was a ground-breaking master-piece work based on his many years' profound accumulation of fine products of social, romance and Wuxia, hence, the author had established his indisputable status as the founding master of novels of this style. The male and female knight warriors in these love stories had superb martial arts skills, but they were only human beings, not supermen. When the author didn't give them a great task of protecting the country or saving the people, but only let them to fight to defend the "right to love", they were often fearful, troubled, hesitant or indecisive on how to deal with the love life. Although they were invincible in Jianghu, and they dared to violate the law by force if necessary, they had scruples about breaking their own moral law. Eventually, they found that the most terrifying "enemy" they faced were themselves. In Wang's social novels, tragedy often occurred to the weak who was living in lower-class, while in his knight-errant and tragic romance novels, the strong, i.e. a knight-errant, often suffered a tragedy which was tragedy of the heart.Wang Du-Lu expressed his preference for "tragic ending" over "happy ending". He wrote: "Nothing is perfect. Flaw is always a part of beauty. A 'perfect ending' is always less memorable than 'a beauty with a flaw'". Besides, life is always bitter, how could there be so many perfect things?" The "flaws" in "Dancing Crane, Singing Phoenix" and "Colorful Phoenix, Silver Snake" were the death of the heroines and the sadness of the heroes; in "Precious Sword, Golden Hairpin", "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", and "Iron Knight, Silver Vase", the "flaws" were not the death of the hero or heroine, but rather their heart wounds that will never heal; while in "The Double Dragon Sword" and "A Hero at Luoyang", Wang used a touch of comedic light to antithesise their pathos. Wang made a great contribution to the Chinese martial arts literature. The elevation of Wuxia-romance novels to the realm of profoundly psychological tragedy literature by Wang was a great contribution to the Chinese martial arts fiction. Just like Sigmund Freud once indicated: "The painful struggle between different impulses was carried on in the mind of the protagonist. At the end of the struggle was not the death of the protagonist, but rather the suppression of one of these impulses". Although this impulse "disappeared" because of the protagonist's renunciation, the turbulent waves of sorrow were always hidden deep in his/her heart for the rest of his/her life.

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In Search of Footprints of My Father (eBook, ePUB)

2000 is the year of Dragon according to Chinese zodiac. In 2000, the film of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was released and became a huge success being nominated for ten Oscars including Best Picture at the 73rd Academy Awards, winning four awards (Best Foreign Language Film, Best Art Direction, Best Original Score and Best Cinematography) plus many other nominations and awards. These achievements were greatly attributed to the iconic director Ang Lee and his team, however, few people knew the film was based on the novel of the same name written by Wang Du-Lu who was my father. Wang Du-Lu is the founder of knight-errant and tragic romance novels in China. The first novel Wang consciously wrote with this style was "Precious Sword, Golden Hairpin". Although this was the first one, it was a ground-breaking master-piece work based on his many years' profound accumulation of fine products of social, romance and Wuxia, hence, the author had established his indisputable status as the founding master of novels of this style. The male and female knight warriors in these love stories had superb martial arts skills, but they were only human beings, not supermen. When the author didn't give them a great task of protecting the country or saving the people, but only let them to fight to defend the "right to love", they were often fearful, troubled, hesitant or indecisive on how to deal with the love life. Although they were invincible in Jianghu, and they dared to violate the law by force if necessary, they had scruples about breaking their own moral law. Eventually, they found that the most terrifying "enemy" they faced were themselves. In Wang's social novels, tragedy often occurred to the weak who was living in lower-class, while in his knight-errant and tragic romance novels, the strong, i.e. a knight-errant, often suffered a tragedy which was tragedy of the heart.Wang Du-Lu expressed his preference for "tragic ending" over "happy ending". He wrote: "Nothing is perfect. Flaw is always a part of beauty. A 'perfect ending' is always less memorable than 'a beauty with a flaw'". Besides, life is always bitter, how could there be so many perfect things?" The "flaws" in "Dancing Crane, Singing Phoenix" and "Colorful Phoenix, Silver Snake" were the death of the heroines and the sadness of the heroes; in "Precious Sword, Golden Hairpin", "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", and "Iron Knight, Silver Vase", the "flaws" were not the death of the hero or heroine, but rather their heart wounds that will never heal; while in "The Double Dragon Sword" and "A Hero at Luoyang", Wang used a touch of comedic light to antithesise their pathos. Wang made a great contribution to the Chinese martial arts literature. The elevation of Wuxia-romance novels to the realm of profoundly psychological tragedy literature by Wang was a great contribution to the Chinese martial arts fiction. Just like Sigmund Freud once indicated: "The painful struggle between different impulses was carried on in the mind of the protagonist. At the end of the struggle was not the death of the protagonist, but rather the suppression of one of these impulses". Although this impulse "disappeared" because of the protagonist's renunciation, the turbulent waves of sorrow were always hidden deep in his/her heart for the rest of his/her life.

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Chinese words and phrases

Chinese words and phrases ab 29.49 € als Taschenbuch: Pinyin Jeet Kune Do Mahjong Xiangqi Wuxia Yin and yang Ketchup Guanxi Oolong Kowtow Tao Ganqing Nian Qigong Three player mahjong Feng shui Face Kangchu system Penjing Typhoon Ghost marriage Cheng Man-ch'ing Tianxia. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Wirtschaft & Soziales,

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