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Author : Christopher West
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Detective and mystery stories
ISBN : 0002325667
Author : Dominic Ziegler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9781594203671
Black Dragon River recounts a personal journey down one of Asia's great rivers. The world's ninth largest river, the Amur serves as a large part of the border between Russia and China. As a crossroads for the great empires of Asia, this area offers Economist journalist Dominic Ziegler a lens with which to examine the societies at Europe's only borderland with East Asia. Part travel writing, part history, it reveals how the long shared history on the Amur has conditioned the way China and Russia behave toward each other.
Author : Bosley Wilder
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781412011808
When young teacher Shelby Johnson leaves Louisiana and crosses the Pacific to teach English at a university in northern China, she does not expect to find a corpse in her office. Who would murder Judith Treadway, respected and admired senior foreign expert? A disgruntled student? Japanese? Russians? a jealous lover? Linguistics Professor Stanley Poussaint, Shelby's colleague and friend, works with the local police Chief Ling Feng, to find the answer to this gruesome murder.
Author : Gary J. Hausladen
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780292779365
From Tony Hillerman's Navajo Southwest to Martin Cruz Smith's Moscow, an exotic, vividly described locale is one of the great pleasures of many murder mysteries. Indeed, the sense of place, no less than the compelling character of the detective, is often what keeps authors writing and readers reading a particular series of mystery novels. This book investigates how "police procedural" murder mysteries have been used to convey a sense of place. Gary Hausladen delves into the work of more than thirty authors, including Tony Hillerman, Martin Cruz Smith, James Lee Burke, David Lindsey, P. D. James, and many others. Arranging the authors by their region of choice, he discusses police procedurals set in America, the United Kingdom and Ireland, Europe, Moscow, Asia, and selected locales in other parts of the world, as well as in historical places ranging from the Roman Empire to turn-of-the-century Cairo.
Author : Jeffrey C. Kinkley
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780824896737
With the 1989 Beijing massacre fading from popular memory in the West, China from the mid-1990s to a few years ago felt more open than ever to global trade, communication, travel, and cultural and educational exchanges. There was even talk in the mainstream press that China was heading toward a more democratic future. It was during this second Sino-Western honeymoon that authors in the US, Canada, France, the UK, and elsewhere began writing mystery fiction set in contemporary China in their regional languages. These “China mysteries”—crime, detective, and mystery thriller novels that take place in China but were not written or published there—formed a new genre of popular fiction that highlighted the world’s hopes and fears after Tiananmen. The multinational and multicultural writers of China mysteries, among them ex-PRC nationals like Qiu Xiaolong, Zhang Xinxin, and Diane Wei Liang, converged on the China Mainland to negotiate political and cultural complexities through crime fiction plotlines. Their books emerged from Western lineages of the modern novel and popular genre fiction—with Chinese contributions—and depended on Western commercial publishing models shaped by cultural, national, political, and economic factors. This work examines more than a hundred China mysteries—many describing and analyzing social and economic changes at the center of modern life in China—to provide a brief history of the genre and analyze the formulaic and original elements of the mysteries, including their attention to matters of location, social content, characterization, history, and biography. It also highlights the role of “information” acquisition as a motivation for readers and authors of popular fiction, which has become a topic of discussion in Chinese literature studies. With its timely commentary on Sino-Western relations as presented through crime fiction, China Mysteries will appeal to students and scholars of contemporary Chinese literature and culture, as well as fans of crime novels and others who are curious about the global dimensions of the genre and how it complicates our understanding of “world literature.”
Author : Wu ZiQi
Publisher : Funstory
Page : 827 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781648975783
Since the birth of the Yinyang Continent, the two races of Yin and Yang had been born and bred. The Yang Race possessed the attribute of 'goodness', and possessed all sorts of superpowers to defend their 'goodness'. The attribute of the Yin Clan was' evil '. Demons, demons, ghosts, and other creatures belonged to it. They wanted to enslave the Yang Clan and control the entire continent. A youth who had comprehended 'creating from nothing' from the 'Classic of Virtue' was not tolerated by the current Heavenly Dao and had his body destroyed. His soul, by chance and coincidence, was taken in by the Yinyang Continent and reborn into the body of an ordinary Yang Clan youth. None: "The Yang race is good, forsaken by the Evil God; the Yin race is evil, born of the Good God. Tell me what is evil and what is good? " Close]
Author : Russell James
Publisher : Remember When
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2009-04-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781844680269
The first full-length study of its type highlighting over 400 British literary detectives, many famous through their film and TV adaptations. Using essays to highlight different types of detectives and focusing on some of the more famous such as Sherlock Holmes and Inspector Morse, popular crime fiction writer and former President of Britain's Crime Writers Association, Russell James celebrates the role of the detective in British fiction. Illustrations include original film posters and first edition covers from classic detective fiction. Future books by Russell James in this series will include Great British Fictional Villains and US Fictional Detectives and Villains.
Author : Lo Kuan-Chung
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2011-12-20
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781462903030
This epic saga of brotherhood and rivalry, of loyalty and treachery, of victory and death, forms part of the indelible core of classical Chinese culture and continues to fascinate modern-day readers. In 220 EC, the 400-year-old rule of the mighty Han dynasty came to an end and three kingdoms contested for control of China. Liu Pei, the legitimate heir to the Han throne, elects to fight for his birthright and enlists the aid of his sworn brothers, the impulsive giant Chang Fei and the invincible knight Kuan Yu. The brave band faces a formidable array of enemies, foremost among them the treacherous and bloodthirsty Ts'ao Ts'ao. The bold struggle of the three heroes seems doomed until the reclusive wizard Chuko Liang offers his counsel, and the tide begins to turn. Romance of the Three Kingdoms is China's oldest novel and the first of a great tradition of historical fiction. Believed to have been compiled by the play-wright Lo Kuan-chung in the late fourteenth century, it is indebted to the great San-kuo chi (Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms) completed by the historian Ch'en Shou just before his death in 297 CE. The novel first appeared in print in 1522. This edition, translated in the mid-1920s by C. H. Brewitt-Taylor, is based on a shortened and simplified version which appeared in the 1670s. An Introduction to this reprint by Robert E. Hegel, Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature at Washington University, provides an insightful commentary on the historical background to the novel, its literary origins and its main characters.
Author : Li Donghao
Publisher : Sellene Chardou
Page : 4479 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781304467843
At this time, however, a pale palm suddenly stretched out from a pile of sand, followed by the other one. Two palms forcibly opened the sand, and a boy with a blank face slowly climbed up from the bunker
Author : Kuang WuJiuYe
Publisher : Funstory
Page : 747 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781647961237
This story starts from an ordinary and ordinary young man Zhang song. Let's see how Zhang Song led his brothers to fight together and become a generation of urban kingpins.
Author : Frederick Marryat
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026850013
Author : Annika A. Culver,Norman Smith
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9789888528134
This groundbreaking volume critically examines how writers in Japanese-occupied northeast China negotiated political and artistic freedom while engaging their craft amidst an increasing atmosphere of violent conflict and foreign control. The allegedly multiethnic utopian new state of Manchukuo (1932–1945) created by supporters of imperial Japan was intended to corral the creative energies of Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, Russians, and Mongols. Yet, the twin poles of utopian promise and resistance to a contested state pulled these intellectuals into competing loyalties, selective engagement, or even exile and death—surpassing neat paradigms of collaboration or resistance. In a semicolony wrapped in the utopian vision of racial inclusion, their literary works articulating national ideals and even the norms of everyday life subtly reflected the complexities and contradictions of the era. Scholars from China, Korea, Japan, and North America investigate cultural production under imperial Japan’s occupation of Manchukuo. They reveal how literature and literary production more generally can serve as a penetrating lens into forgotten histories and the lives of ordinary people confronted with difficult political exigencies. Highlights of the text include transnational perspectives by leading researchers in the field and a memoir by one of Manchukuo’s last living writers. “This first-rate collection offers the most comprehensive overview of Manchukuo literature in any language. Containing an abundance of very original research and analysis, with relevant references to diverse sources in Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, and Russian, the essays will be welcomed by scholars dealing with literary, historical, political, and colonization issues in Manchukuo and its neighbors.” —Ronald Suleski, Suffolk University, Boston “Manchukuo Perspectives is an excellent contribution to the field. Manchukuo was a fascinating and fraught experiment. Colonialism, imperialism, modernism, and nationalism were just some of the many different forces at play there. With an impressive set of contributors bringing both breadth and depth to the study of these issues, this collection fills a void in our understanding of the cultural and literary production of Manchukuo wonderfully.” —James Carter, Saint Joseph’s University
Author : R.D. Lyons
Publisher : S.A.G.A. Publications A Div. of Movie Manga Arts Co.
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781329666498
The Second Book Volume II in a V part Series The SHINOBI! - Order of the BLACK DRAGON! Mac Mathews code named "SHURIK'EN" a H.I.F. Super Agent that commands an Elite Black Ops force against all Global Mega-Terrorists and their cells, must fight extremely powerful Magical forces after his Grandfather is suddenly sanctioned by a Mysterious Powerful SHINOBI Clan! However, the Super Ninja is given a Magical gift that holds much mystique and dynamic Power before his Grandfather departs from the Earth for good. Now Shurik'en and his B.O.O.T. Force with the help of his trusted friends Slash and Caleb joined by a Top Beautiful female Assassin and a Black Alsatian Dog named Black Jack, must battle Ninja, Necromancy and Paranormal Phenomena beyond Comprehension. The Clock is ticking down to zero, as they must try to prevent the most dangerous Organization on the planet; the Black Dragon, from transferring stolen ingredients of a Doomsday device which can be detonated by any mobile phone into the hands of Mega Terrorists capable of starting World War III,ultimately starting a Nuclear Armageddon!
Author : Noble Timothy Myers-El
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 9781434327673
After completing my first book "The Huevolution of Sacred Muur Science" I found there were many aspects of Muur history and culture that I touched on too lightly. So, I set out to do a follow up book that more or less expounded on subjects like Joseph Smith and the Mormons, the Poro & Keetowah societies, and the Delawares & Nanticokes. This particular book also has a chapter on ancient & modern round ball sports, after reading it, one, might better explain the overall craze of round ball sports in America. One of the most fascinating aspects of Moorish Science Temple history is the (Pan American Conference 1928) And the so called Moor circle (7). I conclude this book with Addendums dealing with these very intriguing subjects along with the national headress the (Fez). My mother is part Nanticoke and Fulani, my father Cherokee & Mende. My mission, was to represent my family roots through literature along with magnifying cultures not often written about, at least not by one of its own.
Author : Luo Guanzhong
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141197449
A new translation and abridgement of one of the four classical Chinese novels - an epic story of warring factions in the era of China's Han dynasty Part historical and part legend, The Romance of the Three Kingdoms dramatizes the lives of feudal lords and their retainers, recounting their personal and military battles, intrigues, and struggles to achieve dominance for almost a hundred years. It is one of the most beloved works of East Asian literature, and the most famous historical novel in China.