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Explains how Chinese writing developed and demonstrates how to write seventy-five Chinese characters, using detailed instructions and examples.

A poor farmer's youngest daughter agrees to marry a fierce dragon in order to save her father's life.

When the villagers hire a famous hunter to kill the tiger rumored to live in the woods, only one young boy wishes to protect the animal; and, in fact, the hunter knows more than one way to shoot a tiger.

While they work on the Central Pacific Railroad in the Sierra Nevada mountains, the Chinese workers build an unusual railroad of their own.

Discusses the history, culture, and religion of the Chinese, factors encouraging their emigration, and their acceptance as an ethnic group in North America.