SinoAmerican Books
The Easiest Way To Learn Mandarin:
Image Maps, Word Images, And Other Mnemonics
(Second Edition)
J.J. Counsilman, PhD, and Shi Huijing, MBA
Journey Into A Far Country
J.J. Counsilman
The Superior Men of Xinjiang
J.J. Counsilman
Becoming Tough
(Third Edition)
J.J.Counsilman
The Color of Ice
Gordon Mathieson
The Vengeance of Superior Men
J.J. Counsilman
The Vengeance of Superior Men is a political/action novel that builds on the characters and storyline in The Superior Men of Xinjiang (though the story will also stand on its own).
Robert Jiang, a Chinese American doctor and martial artist, faces the mounting consequences
of exposing the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) attempts to use an environmental
disaster against the large Muslim minority in the vast resource-rich Xinjiang Autonomous
Region. In that expose, Robert was aided by a native Uyghur doctor, a young Uyghur-Chinese
woman, a Chinese friend, and a Special Operations Group (SOG) of the National Clandestine
Service. After initially rejecting Robert, the young woman, Shamema, accepts him
as her lover, and together they fend off attempts by the Chinese Bureau of Insurgency
Elimination to kill them. To protect Shamema and his family, Robert rejoins the
SOG to shutdown the Bureau.
International condemnation of the CCP’s actions in Xinjiang and Tibet, economic woes, and the damaging trial of a student blackmailed into aiding the Bureau weaken the iron grip of the Beijing government on the mainland. The Party’s belief that the “inferior can defeat the superior” through a set of deceptive strategies (called since ancient times Assassin’s Maces) lead it to the brink of war with America.
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Professor of Microbiology, Carrie Bock, is recruited by the President in a clandestine
project that stretches far beyond her university teaching and research experience.
The Chinese Ministry of State Security has informed the American government that
an elite group of Islamic terrorists possesses a new generation of biological weaponry.
The weapon, a highly contagious virus, is designed to infect and kill specific races.
Beijing enlists the help of American scientists to determine whether a racially targeted
bio-agent is feasible and if so to develop vaccines for the major races, Caucasoid,
Mongoloid, and Negroid. The American scientists are skeptical but have no choice
but to join forces with Chinese scientists.
Carrie must test the feasibility of a potential racial cleanser while spying on fellow project members, including the project leader, her new lover, and the vivacious, enigmatic “ice woman.” After discovering a hidden agenda within the project, Carrie must compromise her personal limits regarding love, sex, and loyalty to shield the world from the most heinous weapon ever developed.
In her dangerous and clandestine role, Carrie finds a hidden strength within herself; a passionate, forbidden romance; and a surprising renewal of her life.
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The Easiest Way To Learn Mandarin applies more than a dozen established memory techniques, nearly all for the first time, to the learning of Mandarin. The techniques include most importantly: Word Images, Image Maps, and Illustrations. Other mnemonics include 100 Basic Mandarin Words; Rhymes; Humor; Spelling, Sound, and Meaning of Names; and more. The Dictionary presents mnemonic word images for 1,400 English/Mandarin words. The book’s greater value lies in its potential for helping users expand their knowledge beyond the Mandarin presented here through the use of mnemonic methods, such as six strategies for creating English mnemonic images of Mandarin words.
For details, including samples of mnemonics applied to Mandarin, click here. [ISBN:
978-0-9769259-5-8]
May 2011
An environmental crisis in the largely desolate Xinjiang region of the People’s Republic
of China re-ignites the centuries-old conflict between the native Uygurs and their
recurrent Chinese masters. The escalating disaster draws in criminals, opportunistic
politicians, terrorists, and military forces. A Uygur doctor and Chinese colleague
defy Beijing and enter the affected region. A Chinese-American doctor, Dr Robert
Jiang, with the aid of an American special operations team, infiltrates Xinjiang
to rescue his Uygur and Chinese friends from gangsters, Muslim radicals, and Special
Forces of the People’s Armed Police. Together with another “hybrid,” a resolute
young Uygur-Chinese woman, Robert uses a rare Chinese-Muslim martial art ( xīn yì
liù hé quán) in confrontations with their enemies. The information they attempt to
bring out of Xinjiang could jeopardize the Communist Party’s long subjugation of
the region and eventually its control over the whole of China.
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The Belgian Mandarin: Paul Splingaerd
Anne Splingaerd Megowan
The Belgian Mandarin: Paul Splingaerd is a fascinating non-fiction chronicle of the
extraordinary life of Paul Splingaerd, the Belgian orphan who traveled to China as
a young man in 1865, and became a top-ranking mandarin. Paul's adventures may sound
more like fiction than fact, but he really did exist. His four decades in China were
during the pivotal post-Opium Wars years when China's doors were being pried open
for trade with the West. Paul explored all regions of the “Middle Kingdom” with
renowned German geologist Ferdinand von Richthofen, and established a fur trading
business in Mongolia before being appointed customs inspector in China's far west
by powerful viceroy Li Hongzhang.
Find out what brought Splingaerd to China, and read about how he earned recognition
from his king, King Leopold II, who made him a “Chevalier de L'Ordre de la Couronne.”
Splingaerd's perspective on China's interaction with the West during the late nineteenth
century offers the reader many intriguing insights into the roots of China's dynamism
in the twenty-
Masterfully authored by Splingaerd's great-
For details, including an excerpt from the book, click here. [ISBN: 978-
Journey Into A Far Country is a novel of love and prejudice in modern China. Thomas,
a long-time foreign resident, discovers China through random travels, “living vignettes”
that are circumscribed life experiences with no relation to the rest of his life
until he is attacked on an isolated mountain in Sichuan Province. The consequences
of the assault evolve as Thomas tries to defeat a vengeful policeman, be accepted
into a Chinese family, and lay his Chinese alter ego, Lóng Măn Róng (Dragon Full
Glory), to rest. In successive roles as patient, prisoner, monk, farmer, bouncer,
and gangster, Thomas encounters the dark side of modern Chinese society and himself.
He also finds bravery, love, and wisdom within both, and learns about Chinese thinking,
Daoism, and martial arts.
For details, including a sample chapter, click here. [ISBN: 978-0-9769259-1-0]
How does one become tough? The answer proposed in Becoming Tough is, “Whatever kind
of toughness you seek, it is achieved in the same way as any skill, through practice
and study, that is, through training.” To that end, Becoming Tough presents simple
exercises whose outstanding feature is their use of easy, repetitive physical movements
to facilitate concentration. Because a long-lasting physical activity is easier
to sustain than a long-lasting mental task, the poorer one's ability to concentrate,
the more important this assistance becomes. Physical fitness is a significant by-product,
not only because it improves physical health but also because it encourages social
confidence and self-esteem. Another exceptional feature is a toughening program
that addresses the user’s long-term aspirations for change without interfering with
personal beliefs that the user does not wish to change.
For details, including a sample chapter, click here. [ISBN: 978-0-9769259-4-1]
