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Binu and the Great Wall

Author : Tong Su
Publisher : Penguin Books India
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780143066170

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Myths Are Universal And Timeless Stories That Reflect And Shape Our Lives They Explore Our Desires, Our Fears, Our Longings, And Provide Narratives That Remind Us What It Means To Be Human. The Myths Series Brings Together Some Of The World S Finest Writers, Each Of Whom Has Retold A Myth In A Contemporary And Memorable Way. Authors In The Series Include: Chinua Achebe, Margaret Atwood, Karen Armstrong, A.S. Byatt, David Grossman, Milton Hatoum, Victor Pelevin, Donna Tartt, Su Tong And Jeanette Winterson. In Peach Village, Crying Is Forbidden. But As A Child, Binu Never Learnt To Hide Her Tears. Shunned By The Villagers She Faced A Bleak Future Until She Met Qiliang, An Orphan Who Offered Her His Hand In Marriage. Then, One Day Qiliang Disappears. Binu Learns That He Has Been Transported Hundreds Of Miles And Forced To Labour On A Project Of Terrifying Ambition And Scale The Building Of The Great Wall. Binu Is Determined To Find And Save Her Husband. Inspired By Her Love, She Sets Out On An Extraordinary Journey Across Great Swallow Mountain, With Only A Blind Frog For Company. What Follows Is An Unforgettable Story Of Passion, Hardship And Magical Adventure.

Binu and the Great Wall of China

Author : Su Tong
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2009-08-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781847676634

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In Peach Village, crying is forbidden. But as a child, Binu never learnt to hide her tears. Shunned by the villagers, she faced a bleak future, until she met Qiliang, an orphan who offered her his hand in marriage. Then one day Qiliang disappears. Binu learns that he has been transported hundreds of miles and forced to labour on a project of terrifying ambition and scale - the building of the Great Wall. Binu is determined to find and save her husband. Inspired by her love, she sets out on an extraordinary journey towards Great Swallow Mountain, with only a blind frog for company. What follows is an unforgettable story of passion, hardship and magical adventure.

Contemporary Chinese Fiction by Su Tong and Yu Hua

Author : Hua Li
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011-02-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004203136

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Contemporary Chinese Fiction by Su Tong and Yu Hua by Hua Li Pdf

The focus of this study is coming of age in troubled Cultural Revolutionary times as portrayed in contemporary Chinese Bildungsroman fiction by Su Tong and Yu Hua, along with a comprehensive overview of the Bildungsroman in China and the west.

20 Fun Facts about the Great Wall of China

Author : Therese Shea
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-30
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781482404739

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20 Fun Facts about the Great Wall of China by Therese Shea Pdf

Presents facts, photographs and information on the Great Wall of China.

Where Three Roads Meet

Author : Salley Vickers
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781847676528

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It is 1938 and Sigmund Freud, suffering from the debilitating effects of cancer, has been permitted by the Nazis to leave Vienna. He seeks refuge in England, taking up residence in the house in Hampstead in which he will die only fifteen months later. But his last months are made vivid by the arrival of a stranger, who comes and goes according to Freud's state of health. Who is the mysterious visitor and why has he come to tell the famed proponent of the Oedipus complex his strange story? Set partly in pre-war London and partly in ancient Greece, Where Three Roads Meet is as brilliantly compelling as it is moving. Former psychoanalyst and acclaimed novelist Salley Vickers revisits a crime committed long ago which still has disturbing reverberations for us all.

Contemporary Chinese Fiction Writers

Author : Laifong Leung
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-28
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781317516187

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Contemporary Chinese Fiction Writers by Laifong Leung Pdf

In the years since the death of Mao Zedong, interest in Chinese writers and Chinese literature has risen significantly in the West. In 2000, Gao Xingjian became the first Chinese writer to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature followed by Mo Yan in 2012, and writers such as Ha Jin and Da Sijie have also become well known in the West. Despite this progress, the vast majority of Chinese writers remain largely unknown outside of China. This book introduces the lives and works of eighty contemporary Chinese writers, and focuses on writers from the "Rightist" generation (Bai Hua, Gao Xiaosheng, Liu Shaotang), writers of the Red Guard generation (Li Rui, Wang Anyi), Post-Cultural Revolution Writers, as well as others. Unlike earlier works, it provides detailed, often first-hand, biographical information on this wide range of writers, including their career trajectories, major themes and artistic characteristics. In addition to this, each entry includes a critical presentation and evaluation of the writer’s major works, a selected bibliography of publications that includes works in Chinese, works translated into English, and critical articles and books available in English. Offering a valuable contribution to the field of contemporary Chinese literature by making detailed information about Chinese writers more accessible, this book will be of interest to students and scholars Chinese Literature, Contemporary Literature and Chinese Studies.

The Great Wall Of China

Author : Leonard Everett Fisher
Publisher : Aladdin
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1995-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0689801785

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The Great Wall Of China by Leonard Everett Fisher Pdf

The Great Wall of China is Angela Fisher's brief history of the Great Wall. Angela FIsher's The Great Wall is an "awe-inspiring, impressive, black and gray illustrations set the tone for this history of the building of the Great Wall of China." (School Library Journal)

Chinese Creative Writing Studies

Author : Mo-Ling Rebecca Leung
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789819909315

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Chinese Creative Writing Studies by Mo-Ling Rebecca Leung Pdf

This book introduces Chinese creative writing to the English-speaking world, considering various aspects of literary and creative theories in research in Chinese writing. It covers recent trends such as cross-media practices, pedagogy in creative writing in China, Taiwan and Hong Kong, specifically, and looks at how Chinese classical culture brings new interpretations to creative writing within a global context. Consisting of 14 chapters by established scholars and experts, writers, and poets working in various genres within the Chinese writing tradition, the book presents data accrued from personal reflections, classroom teaching, video games, museum studies, radio dramas, TV series, and cyber-literature. The book includes leading Chinese leading scholars’ reflections on research and the field, providing an omnibus perspective on theories of creative writing. It focuses on the interconnection between Chinese creative writing and pedagogy and examines different writer-training methods in Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, offering a comparative perspective that deepens the understanding of institutional effects on the development of creative writing. It unpacks the interaction between Chinese creative writing and multimedia and ascertains the possibilities of incorporating media studies into writing practices. It also presents new interpretations of Chinese classical culture assets to new creative or literary manuscripts, such as TV series adaptation and Internet literature. Relevant to researchers, teachers, and students working Chinese creative writing and Chinese literature, it is also a landmark text in exposing English-speaking creative writing scholars to the wealth of Chinese creative writing, in English.

Wolf Totem and the Post-Mao Utopian

Author : Xiaojiang Li
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004276734

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Wolf Totem and the Post-Mao Utopian by Xiaojiang Li Pdf

Applied to topics in the novel Wolf Totem by the political economist Jiang Rong, Western scholarship in the humanities and social sciences has insights and shortcomings to address an allegory of utopia in the novel and its significance for contemporary China.

Myths of Mighty Women

Author : Arlene Kramer Richards,Lucille Spira
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-08
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780429916465

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Myths of Mighty Women by Arlene Kramer Richards,Lucille Spira Pdf

Women whose mothers were not called upon to achieve in a man's world have a difficult time seeing themselves as powerful enough to do that. Identifying with mighty women of the past and of the present culture can help them to permit themselves to achieve more than their mothers did. This book provides several such myths from ancient and modern cultures, from both Western and Eastern traditions, each of which is a standard for a particular aspect of female power and all of which can provide that power for women now. Among the aspects of women's power are Super Girl, Warrior Woman, Evil Temptress, Protective Mother and Provider. This book is useful for therapists to read themselves and/or to give to their patients when they suffer from fantasies of the bad mother who does not want to be surpassed or the weak mother who cannot protect, or the therapist who wants to keep the woman patient in a weak and needy position.

A Companion to Modern Chinese Literature

Author : Yingjin Zhang
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781118451618

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A Companion to Modern Chinese Literature by Yingjin Zhang Pdf

This wide-ranging Companion provides a vital overview of modern Chinese literature in different geopolitical areas, from the 1840s to now. It reviews major accomplishments of Chinese literary scholarship published in Chinese and English and brings attention to previously neglected, important areas. Offers the most thorough and concise coverage of modern Chinese literature to date, drawing attention to previously neglected areas such as late Qing, Sinophone, and ethnic minority literature Several chapters explore literature in relation to Sinophone geopolitics, regional culture, urban culture, visual culture, print media, and new media The introduction and two chapters furnish overviews of the institutional development of modern Chinese literature in Chinese and English scholarship since the mid-twentieth century Contributions from leading literary scholars in mainland China and Hong Kong add their voices to international scholarship

The Age of Irreverence

Author : Christopher Rea
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520283848

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The Age of Irreverence by Christopher Rea Pdf

The Age of Irreverence tells the story of why ChinaÕs entry into the modern age was not just traumatic, but uproarious. As the Qing dynasty slumped toward extinction, prominent writers compiled jokes into collections they called Òhistories of laughter.Ó In the first years of the Republic, novelists, essayists and illustrators alike used humorous allegories to make veiled critiques of the new government. But, again and again, political and cultural discussion erupted into invective, as critics gleefully jeered and derided rivals in public. Farceurs drew followings in the popular press, promoting a culture of practical joking and buffoonery. Eventually, these various expressions of hilarity proved so offensive to high-brow writers that they launched a concerted campaign to transform the tone of public discourse, hoping to displace the old forms of mirth with a new one they called youmo (humor). Christopher Rea argues that this periodÑfrom the 1890s to the 1930sÑtransformed how Chinese people thought and talked about what is funny. Focusing on five cultural expressions of laughterÑjokes, play, mockery, farce, and humorÑhe reveals the textures of comedy that were a part of everyday life during modern ChinaÕs first Òage of irreverence.Ó This new history of laughter not only offers an unprecedented and up-close look at a neglected facet of Chinese cultural modernity, but also reveals its lasting legacy in the Chinese language of the comic today and its implications for our understanding of humor as a part of human culture.

Girl Meets Boy

Author : Ali Smith
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783985943685

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Girl Meets Boy by Ali Smith Pdf

From the astonishingly talented writer of The Accidental and Hotel World comes Ali Smiths brilliant retelling of Ovids gender-bending myth of Iphis and Ianthe, as seen through the eyes of two Scottish sisters. Girl Meets Boy is about girls and boys, girls and girls, love and transformation, and the absurdity of consumerism, as well as a story of reversals and revelations that is as sharply witty as it is lyrical. Funny, fresh, poetic, and political, Girl Meets Boy is a myth of metamorphosis for a world made in Madison Avenues image, and the funniest addition to the Myths series from Canongate since Margaret Atwoods The Penelopiad.

Raise the Red Lantern

Author : Su Tong
Publisher : William Morrow Paperbacks
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2004-07-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0060596333

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The brutal realities of the dark places Su Tong depicts in this collection of novellas set in 1930s provincial China -- worlds of prostitution, poverty, and drug addiction -- belie his prose of stunning and simplebeauty. The title novella, "Raise the Red Lantern," which became a critically acclaimed film, tells the story of Lotus, a young woman whose father's suicide forces her to become the concubine of a wealthy merchant. Crushed by loneliness, despair, and cruel treatment, Lotus finds her descent into insanity both a weapon and a refuge. "Nineteen Thirty-Four Escapes" is an account of a family's struggles during one momentous year; plagued by disease, death, and the shady promise of life in a larger town, the family slowly disintegrates. Finally, "Opium Family" details the last years of a landowning clan whose demise is brought about by corruption, lust, and treachery -- fruits of the insidious crop they harvest.

Chinese Literature in the World

Author : Junfeng Zhao,Defeng Li,Riccardo Moratto
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789811682056

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Chinese Literature in the World by Junfeng Zhao,Defeng Li,Riccardo Moratto Pdf

This book features a collection of articles on comparative literature from a translational perspective, with a special reference to translation of contemporary Chinese literature. Issues of translation, dissemination, and reception of translated literature in the context of world literature are the foci of the book. Given its scope, the book appeals particularly to teachers and students of Chinese literature, translation, and Sinology.