Black Friday Deal – 33% discount on our most popular books

November 24, 2024 – Posted in: Investiture of the Gods, Journey to the West, Last King of Shang

From now through December 10 2024, you can get our most popular series of graded readers – Journey to the West and Last King of Shang – in paperback, for a really low price. You get 33% off the regular price, with no sales tax and free shipping to the US and Canada. This offer is for the following three sets of books: The Journey to the West – All 31 Individual Books in the Series, In Simplified OR Traditional Chinese, Pinyin and…

2 new coffee-table books: The Journey to the West and The Last King of Shang

November 9, 2024 – Posted in: Investiture of the Gods, Journey to the West, Last King of Shang

We’ve just released two oversized hardcover books that will make perfect gifts. They are the complete versions of our two best-selling Chinese novels, “Journey to the West” and “The Last King of Shang” (based on Investiture of the Gods). For both novels, we’ve converted the entire story – in Simplified Chinese, pinyin and English – into a single very large book. Each book is 8.5″ wide, 11″ high, and weighs over 5 pounds. Because the…

Audiobook for “Last King of Shang” now on Audible.com

– Posted in: Audiobooks, Investiture of the Gods, Last King of Shang

I’m delighted to announce that the complete audiobook of The Last King of Shang is now available on Audible.com. This is a high-quality recording, almost 22 hours long, with my introduction in English read by Geraldo Cortes, and all 100 chapters read in Chinese by our terrific audio artist Junyou Chen. If you’re an Audible.com member, you can get this for 1 credit. If you’re not, you can still buy it for $20.96. Check it…

Lots of “Last King of Shang” books now available

October 20, 2024 – Posted in: Investiture of the Gods

So, you’ve been wanting to read our epic Last King of Shang series (based on the Chinese classic Investiture of the Gods), but you’ve been frightened away by the prospect of having to buy and read all six books in the series? We’ve heard you! Now that the series is completed, our final task has been to create a set of comprehensive, single-volume books that cover the entire series, all 100 chapters. Here they are.…

English version of Investiture of the Gods finished!

August 24, 2024 – Posted in: Investiture of the Gods

We’ve been hard at work finishing up the final book in the Last King of Shang series. This, in case you haven’t been keeping track, is our retelling of the classic Chinese novel Investiture of the Gods, using simpler language to make it more accessible to modern readers. It’s a long, long book, which we’ve split into 6 volumes. Five of the volumes are already published. We’ve finished the sixth and final one, in English,…

5th book in Last King of Shang published!

June 20, 2024 – Posted in: Investiture of the Gods, Last King of Shang

It’s been a while since I’ve updated this blog, apologies to those who read this 🙂 Last week we published the fifth book in the Last King of Shang series, covering chapters 68 through 84 of the original 100-chapter epic shenmo novel Investiture of the Gods. Here’s the back cover blurb: Jiang Ziya unites the Zhou rebels and leads them in a series of epic battles as they struggle to overthrow the corrupt Shang dynasty.…

Just released: The Last King of Shang, Book 3

December 7, 2023 – Posted in: Investiture of the Gods, Last King of Shang

Good news! We are happy to announce the arrival of the third book in our Last King of Shang series of graded readers. It covers the events in chapters 35 through 50 of the original epic Chinese novel Investiture of the Gods (封神榜 ). We have now covered half of the material in the original 100-chapter novel. Here is a short blurb from the back cover: In the waning days of the Shang dynasty in ancient China, an epic…