This is a collection of stories about ordinary Chinese. How they live. How they work. How they survive. How they prosper. How they dream. This book provides a peek at the life of ordinary Chinese through stories written by Chinese graduate students in journalism at Tsinghua University in Beijing. The book was edited by their instructor, R. Thomas Berner, a professor emeritus of journalism and American studies at the Pennsylvania State University. ...

A Sublime Celestial Blessing is a collection of new Short Stories from a wonderful Australian writer, who deals with diverse subjects: crime, the supernatural, humor, murder, the macabre, the unusual, and the resilience of men and women. These stories capture the irony of human existence and humanity's never-ending struggle to make sense of our world.
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