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The Enchanted Chinese Brush Pen
Another classic folklore re-imagined into an original fairy-tale by Xuemei Han, “The Enchanted Chinese Brush Pen” is a universal story of personal imagination and social responsibility. A poor boy in ancient Asia discovers an enchanted…
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A Walk Across Dalian
In the tradition of his “Everyday Dalian” photobook, the Municipal Government of Dalian originally commissioned SongLi to produce his second photography book about the city. The intended purpose was as…
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Under The Dragon Flag
James Allan recounts his misadventures in Northeast Asia during the 1894-95. After gambling away his fortune in Monte Carlo Allan signs up as a sailor and sets out for the seas. He eventually finds himself aboard the…
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Under the Ensign of the Rising Sun
The Russo-Japanese War grew out of the rival imperial ambitions of the Russian Empire and Japanese Empire over Manchuria and Korea. Harry Collingwood provides a personal narrative of this conflict, that served as a prelude for the…
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1904: An Officer’s Journal During the Russo-Japanese War
In 1904-1905, Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton was the military representative of the Indian Army serving with the Japanese Army in Manchuria. Among the several military advisors from Western countries, he was the first to arrive in Japan…
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Dalian Ghost Stories
The city of Dalian has always held secrets. Its foreign colonization and occupation brought external cultures and languages to Northeast China. Great Britain, Russia, and Japan took turns dominating the region for nearly a century, influencing local…
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The Radish and the Girl with Long Hair
Another classic folklore re-imagined into an original fairy-tale by Xuemei Han, “The Radish and the Girl with Long Hair” takes the reader on a fantastic journey to a distant Asian land. Farmers had moved near…
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Everyday Dalian
A former colony briefly founded by Russia but later developed over two generations by Japan, Dalian has always been a strategic hub for control of Northeast China. SongLi’s photography collection about the city and its population has…
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Brave Little Mongolian Sisters
An original fairy-tale inspired by true events from the 1960s, “Brave Little Mongolian Sisters” is the heroic tale of two young nomadic girls in Northern Asia. Blossom and Jade provided for their sick parents by raising their…
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Some Chinese Ghosts
This is a collection of ghost stories based on Chinese old tales and legends. They are rich in atmosphere, authentic in tone, and almost without exception very good stories. They are an interesting contrast to Western lore,…
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The Awakening of China
China’s period of isolation is over. To understand its future, look to its recent past. A century ago, China was considered a theatre of the greatest movement taking place on the face of the globe. Efforts of…
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On the Great Highway
James Creelman became the first American journalist to interview the Pope, accompanied the Japanese in their war with China in Manchuria, visited Tolstoy at his home in Russia, got wounded in the Philippines as a correspondent in…
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New Forces In Old China
This book from 1909 describes the development of change within old, conservative, exclusive China by the three great transforming forces of the modern world – Western trade, Western politics and Western religion. These forces are producing stupendous…
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Chinese Manga Artwork
China has a long history of artistic works. They have survived many ages of prosperity and censorship. Today’s China is absorbing the popular Japanese Manga style of drawing, and applying it to traditional folk stories. The artwork…
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Notable Women of Modern China
During a stay of some months in China during 1909, Margaret E. Burton had an opportunity to see the educational system of the country for women. She was greatly impressed, and compiled profiles of some of the…
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The Civilization of China
Herbert Allen Giles (1845-1935) was a British linguist who modified a Mandarin Chinese Romanization system established by Thomas Wade earlier, resulting in the Wade-Giles Chinese transliteration system. Giles was a diplomat to China (1867-1892) who later became…
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Memoir of a Chinese Princess
In 1903, Princess Der Ling became First Lady-in-Waiting to Tzu-Hsi, the Empress Dowager, who was fascinated by the young woman’s travels and experiences in places the Empress would never see. Der Ling served her Empress for two…
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Court Life in China
One woman ruled China for nearly half a century, The Empress Dowager. An unequaled historical figure, the Empress has often been misunderstood and misrepresented. From her participation in the Boxer movement to failing to modernize China in…
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China and the Manchus
Herbert Allen Giles (1845-1935) was a British linguist who modified a Mandarin Chinese Romanization system established by Thomas Wade earlier, resulting in the Wade-Giles Chinese transliteration system. Giles was a diplomat to China (1867-1892) who later became…
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China and the Foreign Powers
The relationship between China and the world is a complex one of economic cooperation and political mistrust. This book give a detailed account of the turbulent times in Asia at the turn of the century. Plus, its…
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Dairen: 1936
The original text from the 1936 SMR tourist handbook for the city of Dairen, now known as Dalian. This historic document details the colonial situation of the famous Chinese port while it was a Japanese territory. The…
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Blue Sky Red Tears: Book One
Dairen was Japan’s first colonial city in Manchuria. It was a foothold for the Empire’s plans of expansion in and conquest of China. But the prosperity of the 1930s was not shared by all of the colony’s…
