Gold Mountain Blues

Author : Ling Zhang
Publisher : Penguin Canada
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780143185840

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Gold Mountain Blues by Ling Zhang Pdf

A sweeping, tragic novel spanning five generations and two continents Gold Mountain Blues is a rich saga chronicling the lives of five generations of a Chinese family from Guangdong Province, which are transformed by the promise of a better life in Gold Mountain, the Chinese name for Canada’s majestic West Coast. In 1879, 16-year-old Fong Tak-Fat boards a ship to Canada determined to make a life for himself and to support his family back home. He will blast rocks for the Pacific Railway, launder linens for his countrymen, and save every penny he makes to reunite his family because his heart remains in China. From the 1860s to the present day, Gold Mountain Blues relates the struggles and sacrifices of the labourers who built the Canadian Pacific Railway and who laid the groundwork for the evolution of the modern Chinese-Canadian identity. A novel about family, hope, and sacrifice, Gold Mountain Blues is a marvellous saga from a remarkable new Canadian voice.

Author : Zang Ling
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1848875932

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Gold Mountain Blues by Zang Ling Pdf

Author : Jenny Phillips
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 194906218X

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Gold Mountain by Jenny Phillips Pdf

Author : Larissa Lai
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781771120425

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Slanting I, Imagining We by Larissa Lai Pdf

The 1980s and 1990s are a historically crucial period in the development of Asian Canadian literature. Slanting I, Imagining We: Asian Canadian Literary Production in the 1980s and 1990s contextualizes and reanimates the urgency of that period, illustrates its historical specificities, and shows how the concerns of that moment—from cultural appropriation to race essentialism to shifting models of the state—continue to resonate for contemporary discussions of race and literature in Canada. Larissa Lai takes up the term “Asian Canadian” as a term of emergence, in the sense that it is constantly produced differently, and always in relation to other terms—often “whiteness” but also Indigeneity, queerness, feminism, African Canadian, and Asian American. In the 1980s and 1990s, “Asian Canadian” erupted in conjunction with the post-structural recognition of the instability of the subject. But paradoxically it also came into being through activist work, and so depended on an imagined stability that never fully materialized. Slanting I, Imagining We interrogates this fraught tension and the relational nature of the term through a range of texts and events, including the Gold Mountain Blues scandal, the conference Writing Thru Race, and the self-writings of Evelyn Lau and Wayson Choy.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780816537921

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by Anonim Pdf

Author : Séan Arthur Joyce
Publisher : NeWest Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1988732301

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Mountain Blues by Séan Arthur Joyce Pdf

Welcome to Eldorado, a small mountain town in the Kootenays, chock-a-block with aging hippies, eccentrics, loggers, and protestors. When Roy Breen moves to Eldorado after over a decade of working as a journalist in Vancouver, he is impressed by the soaring glacial vistas and the friendliness of the townsfolk, as well as the quality of the coffee they pour. Unfortunately the threat of cutbacks is looming over the local hospital and Roy must find a way to balance his journalistic integrity with the need to join his new neighbours in fighting to keep the hospital open. In the vein of Stephen Leacock's Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town, poet Sean Arthur Joyce's debut novel Mountain Blues is a tale of warmth and joviality.

Author : Tan Yesheng
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781040087862

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Translating Chinese Fiction by Tan Yesheng Pdf

Drawing on the cognitive translatological paradigm, this book introduces a situation-embedded cognitive construction model of translation and explores the thinking portfolios of British and American sinologists-cum-translators to re-examine their multiple voices and cognition in translating Chinese fiction. By placing sinologists-cum-translators in the same discourse space, the study transcends the limitations of previous case studies and offers a comprehensive cognitive panorama of how Chinese novels are rendered. The author explores the challenges and difficulties of translating Chinese fiction from the insider perspectives of British and American sinologists, and cross-validates their multiple voices by aligning them with cross-cultural communication scenarios. Based on the cognitive construction model of translation, the book provides a systematic review of the translation thoughts and ideas of the community of sinologists in terms of linguistic conventions, narrative styles, contextual and cultural frames, readership categories and metaphorical models of translation. It envisions a new research path to enhance empirical research on translators' cognition in a dynamic translation ecosystem. The title will be an essential read for students and scholars of translation studies and Chinese studies. It will also appeal to translators and researchers interested in cognitive stylistics, literary studies and intercultural communication studies.

Author : Li-hua Ying
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 825 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-15
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781538130063

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Historical Dictionary of Modern Chinese Literature by Li-hua Ying Pdf

Modern Chinese literature has been flourishing for over a century, with varying degrees of intensity and energy at different junctures of history and points of locale. An integral part of world literature from the moment it was born, it has been in constant dialogue with its counterparts from the rest of the world. As it has been challenged and enriched by external influences, it has contributed to the wealth of literary culture of the entire world. In terms of themes and styles, modern Chinese literature is rich and varied; from the revolutionary to the pastoral, from romanticism to feminism, from modernism to post-modernism, critical realism, psychological realism, socialist realism, and magical realism. Indeed, it encompasses a full range of ideological and aesthetic concerns. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Modern Chinese Literature presents a broad perspective on the development and history of literature in modern China. It offers a chronology, introduction, bibliography, and over 400 cross-referenced dictionary entries on authors, literary and historical developments, trends, genres, and concepts that played a central role in the evolution of modern Chinese literature.

Author : Bill Knott
Publisher : Berkley Books
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0425045978

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The Golden Mountain by Bill Knott Pdf

Author : Betty G. Yee
Publisher : Carolrhoda Lab ®
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-05
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781728451015

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Gold Mountain by Betty G. Yee Pdf

Working on the Transcontinental Railroad promises a fortune—for those who survive. Growing up in 1860s China, Tam Ling Fan has lived a life of comfort. Her father is wealthy enough to provide for his family but unconventional enough to spare Ling Fan from the debilitating foot-binding required of most well-off girls. But Ling Fan’s life is upended when her brother dies of influenza and their father is imprisoned under false accusations. Hoping to earn the money that will secure her father’s release, Ling Fan disguises herself as a boy and takes her brother’s contract to work for the Central Pacific Railroad Company in America. Life on “the Gold Mountain” is grueling and dangerous. To build the railroad that will connect the west coast to the east, Ling Fan and other Chinese laborers lay track and blast tunnels through the treacherous peaks of the Sierra Nevada, facing cave-ins, avalanches, and blizzards—along with hostility from white Americans. When someone threatens to expose Ling Fan’s secret, she must take an even greater risk to save what’s left of her family . . . and to escape the Gold Mountain alive.

Author : Charlotte Paul
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1978-01-01
Category : English fiction
ISBN : 0583128858

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Gold Mountain by Charlotte Paul Pdf

Author : Hal Z. Bennett
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1475023537

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White Mountain Blues by Hal Z. Bennett Pdf

The hero of this pastoral story, “Crawdad” Templer, unwittingly creates a crisis of the heart when he unwisely asks his beloved, Cheri Bari, to choose between him and her seventeen feral cats. Having lost the toss, he drives off aimlessly into the mountains in his battered old pickup truck and a few cardboard boxes of meager belongings. With wounded ego and fractured heart he stumbles upon a remote village—White Mountain—where he is welcomed into a community of loveable outcasts, eccentrics and oddballs. After a few unfortunate mishaps, life and romance begin anew with Crawdad's chance meeting of the beautiful and mysterious Isha and the rediscovery of his hidden gifts as a writer. Before long he is happily entangled in the lives of White Mountain's citizens, who gather regularly in the dining room of the town's Gold Rush era inn and collectively work out solutions to their shared problems. The book is rich with quirky characters such as McTeague, the 100 year-old shaman married to a schoolteacher nearly half his age, Mark and Andy, longtime companions and owners of Hanna's Grocery and Supplies, Barry, Goody and Zarkov the aging hipster who returns unexpected, resurrected with a teenaged heart. Overhead, soaring in the distant aeries, an eagle named Sun weaves the invisible bonds that make up White Mountain's spirit and strength. A charming, bucolic story, at once romantic, comic and wise. Fans of TV's legendary “Northern Exposure” will find themselves right at home here."Delightfully quirky characters put one in mind of Lake Wobegon, with a subtle, shamanic theme." (Napra ReView)

Author : Mary M. Farrell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Coronado National Forest (Ariz. and N.M.)
ISBN : UCR:31210010485744

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Tearing Up the Ground with Splendid Results by Mary M. Farrell Pdf

Author : Zhang Ling
Publisher : AmazonCrossing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1662510381

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Where Waters Meet by Zhang Ling Pdf

A daughter discovers the dramatic history that shaped her mother's secret life in an emotional and immersive novel by Zhang Ling, the bestselling author of A Single Swallow. There was rarely a time when Phoenix Yuan-Whyller's mother, Rain, didn't live with her. Even when Phoenix got married, Rain, who followed her from China to Toronto, came to share Phoenix's life. Now at the age of eighty-three, Rain's unexpected death ushers in a heartrending separation. Struggling with the loss, Phoenix comes across her mother's suitcase--a memory box Rain had brought from home. Inside, Phoenix finds two old photographs and a decorative bottle holding a crystalized powder. Her auntie Mei tells her these missing pieces of her mother's early life can only be explained when they meet, and so, clutching her mother's ashes, Phoenix boards a plane for China. What at first seems like a daughter's quest to uncover a mother's secrets becomes a startling journey of self-discovery. Told across decades and continents, Zhang Ling's exquisite novel is a tale of extraordinary courage and survival. It illuminates the resilience of humanity, the brutalities of life, the secrets we keep and those we share, and the driving forces it takes to survive.

Author : Peter Cox
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1430360761

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New gold mountain by Peter Cox Pdf