Little Hut Of Leaping Fishes

Author : Chiew-Siah Tei
Publisher : Picador USA
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : China
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131736246

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Little Hut of Leaping Fishes by Chiew-Siah Tei Pdf

Mingzhi is born to be a mandarin: as the formidable Master Chai's first grandson, his life is mapped from the moment of his birth. But times are changing in China, and as Mingzhi grows, he begins to question his privileged heritage and the secrets and shadows that lurk in the corners of the Chai mansion; eager to flee from the corruption, treachery and rivalries of his family -- Master Chai, who farms opium poppies and beats out orders with his dragon stick; the jealousy of his second mother and half brother; and his opium-addict father -- Mingzhi soon realises his only path to freedom is through learning. But as the foreign devils begin to encroach on China, Mingzhi is torn between two cultures; he must make his choice between the past and the future. A sweeping story of rebellion and discovery, Little Hut of Leaping Fishes traces one man's journey to find a life of his own in the slipstream of historic change.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Women
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132645321

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Women of China by Anonim Pdf

Author : Chiew-Siah Tei
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781447237600

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The Mouse Deer Kingdom by Chiew-Siah Tei Pdf

The year is 1905 and Chai Mingzhi, an immigrant newly arrived in the port-town of Malacca, takes Engi, an indigenous boy from the tropical forest, to live with him. Trapped in a realm he doesn’t recognize and finding himself caught up in Chai Mingzhi’s bitter personal affairs, Engi quickly learns to take on the shape of the legendary mouse deer in order to survive in the outside world. Twenty years later, Engi sets out to unravel the mystery surrounding Chai’s past, his tireless quest for the land where the grand Minang Villa is built, and the tragedy that destroyed him. The Mouse Deer Kingdom is a tale of love and betrayal against the backdrop of a troubled time when hundreds of thousands of Chinese fled poverty and the Qing Empire for Southeast Asia, where their arrival unsettled native life in their new home.

Author : Dana Ferguson
Publisher : Book Review Index Cumulation
Page : 1304 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2009-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1414419120

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Book Review Index - 2009 Cumulation by Dana Ferguson Pdf

Book Review Index provides quick access to reviews of books, periodicals, books on tape and electronic media representing a wide range of popular, academic and professional interests. The up-to-date coverage, wide scope and inclusion of citations for both newly published and older materials make Book Review Index an exceptionally useful reference tool. More than 600 publications are indexed, including journals and national general interest publications and newspapers. Book Review Index is available in a three-issue subscription covering the current year or as an annual cumulation covering the past year.

Author : Rodge Glass
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131673340

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Alasdair Gray by Rodge Glass Pdf

Autobiographies and biographies.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Dissertations, Academic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105213170769

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Index to Theses with Abstracts Accepted for Higher Degrees by the Universities of Great Britain and Ireland and the Council for National Academic Awards by Anonim Pdf

Theses on any subject submitted by the academic libraries in the UK and Ireland.

Author : Rudyard Kipling
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1920
Category : Animals
ISBN : UOM:39015015357935

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The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling Pdf

Author : Chiew-Siah Tei
Publisher : Picador
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781743513347

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The Mouse Deer Kingdom by Chiew-Siah Tei Pdf

It is 1905 and thousands of Chinese natives are fleeing poverty and the Qing Empire to work in the mines and plantations of South East Asia. Chai Mingzhi, an immigrant newly arrived in the port-town of Malacca, meets Engi, a young boy from the jungle, and takes the child to live with him. Trapped in a world he doesn't recognise and finding himself caught up in Chai Mingzhi's bitter personal affairs, Engi quickly learns to take on the shape of the legendary mouse deer, and sets out to unravel the mystery surrounding Chai's past and the tragedy that destroyed him. The Mouse Deer Kingdom is a tale of love and betrayal, and of the struggle to make a home in a new country. Set in a time of mass immigration, it questions the justice of the claims long-term settlers make on land and asks what rights they have to force their culture and language on others?

Author : Chiew-Siah Tei
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Mental illness
ISBN : 1916496075

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Unspoken by Chiew-Siah Tei Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Liberalism (Religion)
ISBN : IOWA:31858009361316

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The New Unity by Anonim Pdf

Author : Elaine Chiew
Publisher : Myriad Editions
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781912408375

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The Heartsick Diaspora by Elaine Chiew Pdf

Set in different cities around the world, Elaine Chiew's award-winning stories travel into the heart of the Singaporean and Malaysian Chinese diasporas to explore the lives of those torn between cultures and juggling divided selves. In the title story, four writers find their cultural bonds of friendship tested when a handsome young Asian writer joins their group. In other stories, a brother searches for his sister forced to serve as a comfort woman during World War Two; three Singaporean sisters run a French gourmet restaurant in New York; a woman raps about being a Tiger Mother in Belgravia; and a filmmaker struggles to document the lives of samsui women—Singapore's thrifty, hardworking construction workers. > Acutely observed, wry and playful, her stories are as worldly and emotionally resonant as the characters themselves. This fabulous debut collection heralds an exciting new literary voice.

Author : Hermynia Zur Mühlen
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781906924270

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The End and the Beginning by Hermynia Zur Mühlen Pdf

First published in Germany in 1929, The End and the Beginning is a lively personal memoir of a vanished world and of a rebellious, high-spirited young woman's struggle to achieve independence. Born in 1883 into a distinguished and wealthy aristocratic family of the old Austro-Hungarian Empire, Hermynia Zur Muhlen spent much of her childhood travelling in Europe and North Africa with her diplomat father. After five years on her German husband's estate in czarist Russia she broke with both her family and her husband and set out on a precarious career as a professional writer committed to socialism. Besides translating many leading contemporary authors, notably Upton Sinclair, into German, she herself published an impressive number of politically engaged novels, detective stories, short stories, and children's fairy tales. Because of her outspoken opposition to National Socialism, she had to flee her native Austria in 1938 and seek refuge in England, where she died, virtually penniless, in 1951. This revised and corrected translation of Zur Muhlen's memoir - with extensive notes and an essay on the author by Lionel Gossman - will appeal especially to readers interested in women's history, the Central European aristocratic world that came to an end with the First World War, and the culture and politics of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Author : Scott O'Dell
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780395069622

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Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell Pdf

Far off the coast of California looms a harsh rock known as the island of San Nicholas. Dolphins flash in the blue waters around it, sea otter play in the vast kep beds, and sea elephants loll on the stony beaches. Here, in the early 1800s, according to history, an Indian girl spent eighteen years alone, and this beautifully written novel is her story. It is a romantic adventure filled with drama and heartache, for not only was mere subsistence on so desolate a spot a near miracle, but Karana had to contend with the ferocious pack of wild dogs that had killed her younger brother, constantly guard against the Aleutian sea otter hunters, and maintain a precarious food supply. More than this, it is an adventure of the spirit that will haunt the reader long after the book has been put down. Karana's quiet courage, her Indian self-reliance and acceptance of fate, transform what to many would have been a devastating ordeal into an uplifting experience. From loneliness and terror come strength and serenity in this Newbery Medal-winning classic.

Author : Eleanor Farjeon
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Children's stories
ISBN : 0192719475

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The Little Bookroom by Eleanor Farjeon Pdf

A collection of the author's best stories, chosen by herself, this charming book will delight and enthrall readers. Tales of the king's daughter who cries for the moon, the girl who saves her village from destruction by kissing a peach-tree, the six princesses who live for the sake of theirlong hair, and many, many more.* Eleanor Farjeon is the recipient of many awards for her work including the Carnegie Medal and the Hans Christian Andersen Award* Exquisite illustrations throughout by Edward Ardizzone

Author : P. D. James
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307367716

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The Children of Men by P. D. James Pdf

The year is 2021. No child has been born for twenty-five years. The human race faces extinction. Under the despotic rule of Xan Lyppiat, the Warden of England, the old are despairing and the young cruel. Theo Faren, a cousin of the Warden, lives a solitary life in this ominous atmosphere. That is, until a chance encounter with a young woman leads him into contact with a group of dissenters. Suddenly his life is changed irrevocably as he faces agonising choices which could affect the future of mankind. NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE