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1) Dead pigs
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The fates of an unlucky pig farmer, a feisty home-owner defending her property, a lovestruck busboy, a disenchanted rich girl, and an American ex-pat pursuing the Chinese Dream converge and collide as thousands of dead pigs are found floating down the Huangpu River, towards a modernizing Shanghai in Cathy Yan's (Birds Of Prey) debut feature.
2) Center stage
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International superstar Maggie Cheung embodies tragic screen siren Ruan Lingyu, known as the "Greta Garbo of China," in this unconventional biopic by Hong Kong New Wave master Stanley Kwan. Praised for her moving and emotive onscreen presence, Ruan's private life, which was frequent fodder for the vicious Shanghai tabloids, began to mirror the melodramas which brought her fame, culminating in her suicide at age 24. Kawan and Cheung paint a kaleidoscopic...
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Best friends in high school, Kevin and Jamie's emotional attachment and feelings for each other are abruptly cut short by Kevin's departure to Australia with his mother. Fast-forward a dozen years later, Jamie tracks down Kevin in Australia. The reunion with his best friend reminds Kevin, suffering from depression, of his youthful ambitions, so he decides to return to Hong Kong. Jamie, however, enjoying a steady relationship with his girlfriend, finds...
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In a cold wintry Yanji, a city on China's northern border, young urbanite Haofeng, visiting from Shanghai, feels lost and adrift. By chance, he goes on a tour led by Nana, a charming tour guide who instantly fascinates him. She introduces him to Xiao, a personable but frustrated restaurant worker. The three bond quickly over a drunken weekend. Confronting their individual traumas, their frozen desires slowly thaw as they seek to liberate themselves...
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It follows three characters unknowingly sharing a supposedly empty Taipei apartment. The beautiful realtor May Lin brings her lover Ah-jung to a vacant unit she has on the market, unaware that it is secretly being occupied by the suicidal funeral salesman Hsiao-kang. The three cross paths in a series of precisely staged, tragicomic erotic encounters, but despite their physical proximity, they find themselves no closer to a personal connection.
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Ju zi zuo pin ji volume 29
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中文(繁體)
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"This romance novel tells the story about best friends who are no longer close"--
9) Guia in love
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Years ago, two best buddies, Chan and Choi, both fell for the same woman, Lee. Forty-five years later, Lee has tragically passed away, and the best friends live on, surrounded by a series of complicated romances, big business dealings, and family tragedies.
10) Vive l'amour
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Bizzare love triangle in Taipei, Taiwan between a chic real estate agent, a street merchant, and the young gay man who spies on the couple's trysts
12) Ji e you xi
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Hunger Games volume 1
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This futuristic tale of survival for teenagers will thrill you, put fear in you, but it will offer contemplation on human nature, love, and the right to life.
13) Ke wu de ta ren he ke lian de zi ji: ji shi liao yu ren ji guan xi de tong yu qing gan nei shang
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Xin li volume 44
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Why does the feeling of injury linger? Because you never learn to take care of and regulate your emotions, and you don't know how to take care of those heart injuries in real time! You want to be harmless and kind, but often feel hurt? Don't categorize the world into "bad people" and "poor self", just understand the hurt and pain caused by 10 kinds of relationships. Change your internal system and you can say goodbye to this vulnerable person! It...
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By winning the annual Hunger Games, District 12 tributes Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark have secured a life of safety and plenty for themselves and their families, but because they won by defying the rules, they unwittingly become the faces of an impending rebellion.
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In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss's skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister's place.
16) Xia man tian
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76-year-old Professor Cai Xia lives in a nursing home. This intellectual woman with a special temperament has experienced the extreme blows of life, but still maintains a noble personality. The novel continues the exploration of the deepest spirit of people in Wang Meng's novels, shaping Cai Xia, an intellectual woman, encountered family and marriage misfortunes in her youth, middle age, and old age. She picked up her luggage and moved forward resolutely....
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Hanguo wen xue volume 8603
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"The Vegetarian" consists of three chapters, each of which portrays Ying-hui, a vegetarian whose behavior is becoming increasingly extreme, from a different perspective. In the course of her abstinence from food, questions about violence, beauty, desire, sin, and redemption are integrated. A variety of imagery appears in the book: gorgeous blooming flowers, straight, gloomy trees, petal-sized blue-green birthmarks, bloody dying animals and flying...
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Gelawei'er zuo pin volume 7
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In this treatise spurred by the 2015 death of African American academic Sandra Bland in jail after a traffic stop, the author aims to figure out the strategies people use to assess strangers - to "analyze, critique them, figure out where they came from, figure out how to fix them," in other words: to understand how to balance trust and safety. The author uses a variety of examples from history and from headlines to illustrate that people size up the...
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Ideaman volume 137
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This book deeply analyzes the common self-introduction of first-class people. After actual modification and testing, the "18-second self-introduction rule" is refined. Teach people how to find their own strengths, and establish a good trust relationship with customers at the first time by means of self-introduction. The book assists teachers and job changers to integrate into the new workplace on the first day of their tenure; leads those who are...
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