Chinese Comedy

Gracie Reed is doing just fine. Sure, she was fired by her overly “friendly” boss, and yes, she still hasn’t gotten her mother into the nursing home of their dreams, but she’s healthy, she’s (somewhat) happy, and she’s (mostly) holding it all together. But when a mysterious SUV pulls up beside her, revealing Chinese cinema's golden couple Wei Fangli and Sam Yao, Gracie’s world is turned on its head. The famous actress has a proposition: Due to their uncanny resemblance, Fangli wants Gracie to be her stand-in.

For Dee Kwan, every day is the perfect day. No, really. She has a house she loves, a job she adores, and a ridiculously attractive “nemesis” who never seems to mind when she wins their favorite online game. How can life possibly get better? (It can’t, obviously. It can only get much, much worse.) Soon Dee is forced to share her adorably cozy home with her parents and estranged grandmother. Then she’s tossed into the deep end at work, tasked with cleaning up a scandal for the intimidatingly chic luxury fashion firm Celeste. If that weren’t enough, she discovers her hot nemesis works there, too.

Authors June Hayward and Athena Liu were supposed to be twin rising stars: same year at Yale, same debut year in publishing. But Athena’s a cross-genre literary darling, and June didn’t even get a paperback release. Nobody wants stories about basic white girls, June thinks. So when June witnesses Athena’s death in a freak accident, she acts on impulse: she steals Athena’s just-finished masterpiece, an experimental novel about the unsung contributions of Chinese laborers to the British and French war efforts during World War I.

In this darkly comic novel, a group of women inhabits a world of constant surveillance, where informants lurk in the flower beds and false reports fly. Conspiracies abound in a community that normalizes paranoia and suspicion. Some try to flee - whether to a mysterious gambling bordello or to ancestral homes that can be reached only underground through muddy caves, sewers, and tunnels. Others seek out the refuge of Nest County, where traditional Chinese herbal medicines can reshape or psychologically transport the self. Each life is circumscribed by secrets and transcendent delusions.

A Coward in Modern China is a travel comedy, crime caper and adventure - based on the escapades of bogus professor Robert Runworth. Its first line is: “This is the story of a knowing scoundrel, and of what became of him.” Set largely in contemporary Beijing, and partly in California, it is raunchy and mischievous in its plot and action. Yet the pages are also classically stylish; and historically detailed in their account of life in China today. The book is always entertaining, by its exotic setting and fascinating insights as much as its farcical humor. Here is a good old-fashioned ...

Olivia Huang Christenson is excited-slash-terrified to be taking over her grandmother’s matchmaking business. But when she learns that a new dating app has made her Pó Po’s traditional Chinese zodiac approach all about “animal attraction,” her emotions skew more toward furious-slash-outraged. Especially when L.A.’s most-eligible bachelor Bennett O’Brien is behind the app that could destroy her family’s legacy....

Fitz is all about the rigors of science... ...until he's offered a shot at being the Wizard's Apprentice! Step back into the continuing adventures of Kevin Fitzgerald, Sophie Calais, his beautiful and staggeringly intelligent assistant, and his struggle to learn magic and live up to the title! This time, Brant has something up his sleeve, and it's not a string of colorful handkerchiefs! Fitz is given a mission. There's a bear. Well, a bear that was turned into a woman. Actually, a bear that was turned into a woman who was spurned and turned back into a bear. He's supposed to 'soften' her, ...

In episode 4 of The Chuckie Chin Mystery Series, an awful odor has invaded the homes of the rich and famous of San Francisco. Something disgusting is afoot and the spectacular Chuckie Chin has been solicited to help get to the "bottom" of things ... and you just know that he shall do so with hilarious results!

Oh! Most untimely death! The king of Upper Mongolia is dead. Chuckie Chin is solicited to help get to the bottom of things. He and his sons are more than happy to help ... and the results are shocking - shocking and hilarious.

Chuckie Chin's Mystery of the Missing Dragon is the first episode in The Chuckie Chin Mystery Series. It is a farce/black comedy/mystery. In this episode, there is a dragon missing (actually 2). Chuckie Chin and his two sons must get to the bottom of this dastardly crime. And you can bet that San Francisco's favorite son will do his best to get his man, with truly entertaining results!

Driving home after being kicked out of college, Tucker meets and picks up the mysterious Corinne Chang at a rest stop. Infatuated, and with nothing better to do, he ends up with her in St. Louis, where he gets a job as a chef in a Chinese restaurant. Even though he’s a gwai lo—a foreign devil—his cooking skills impress the Chinese patrons of the restaurant, and his wooing skills impress Corinne when she joins him there as a waitress.

In the twilight of the 21st century, Alton B. Tapscott battles hurricanes, his children, the trappings of polite society, organized religion, and the inescapable control of technology—his only weapons being his cat, a pair of prescription arthritic socks, and his new Wi-Fi-enabled hearing aid.

Ah Q is an indolent and spiteful man from the rural peasant class. He has scant education, no clear job, and a ludicrously high opinion of himself. This unique combination of traits makes him a perpetual target of derision and abuse, yet Ah Q is nonetheless convinced that the indignities leveled against him amount to something of a “spiritual victory” - even as he finds himself succumbing to the tyranny of his oppressors.

Leah Ly a driven, exceptionally talented, Chinese-American actress, working her way through Hollywood’s system, determined to make it on her own, involved with an equally driven Jewish man, discovers she has a Chinese fiancé, arranged at her birth when the Hong Kong businessman comes to LA to meet her. Life collides with life and Leah finds herself unhappy, torn, and conflicted between the love of two men she loves dearly and her heart's greatest desire, as she learns that in all things, she's the key to her happiness or unhappiness.

Collection of Sun Yi's Xiangsheng, amazing performances with professional skills.

DeGang Guo passionately performs classic monologue Xiangsheng pieces such as "Young JieJin," "Master Jie," "Little Immortal," and more! Authentic and original classics! Don't miss this splendid experience!

In modern-day New York City, five seemingly unconnected individuals—Ethan IcarOgun, a brilliant financial trader; Sophia Madira, a fierce attorney; Dr. Amir Seshan, a dedicated physician; Lucimar Bacerra, an intuitive language professor; and Zander Paquette, a relentless detective—are haunted by vivid dreams that feel more like memories than fantasies.

"Stories of Making a Fortune" collects dozens of stories about making a fortune, allowing more listeners to enjoy good stories, read good stories, appreciate good stories, cherish good stories, and spread good stories.

If the Chinese people were to file one by one past a given point, the interesting procession would never come to an end. Before the last man of those living to-day had gone by, another and a new generation would have grown up, and so on for ever and ever. The importance, as a factor in the sum of human affairs, of this vast nation, - of its language, of its literature, of its religions, of its history, of its manners and customs, - goes therefore without saying. Yet a serious attention to China and her affairs is of very recent growth.

This is a short story about a haunted Chinese restaurant. The angry spirits of hundreds and hundreds of cats, dogs, and birds banded together for retribution. The animals wanted justice against Mr. Chong. His evil secret was that he kidnapped hundreds of animals only to butcher them and serve them as food to the unknowing public.