My China Eye

Author : Israel Epstein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : China
ISBN : 7513318662

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My China Eye by Israel Epstein Pdf

My China eye is the memoir of journalist, author, war correspondent and eye-witness to history, Israel Epstein. Spanning over eighty years of the author's life, this memoir offers a dramatic and highly personal account of coming-of-age amid groundbreaking social change during the most turbulent years of the Twentieth century. It is also one of the most revealing narratives by a Western journalist of the Chinese Communist Revolution, from its beginnings to the heights of its power. Despite a profound commitment to the Communist state, Epstein was incarcerated by Red Guards under the regime of the Gang of Four, and his faith was severely challenged. Yet, despite such hardships, he remained devoted to the society and the people whose monumental struggles had so profoundly affected his life.

Author : Israel Epstein
Publisher : LONG RIVER PRESS
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : China
ISBN : 1592650422

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My China Eye by Israel Epstein Pdf

This sweeping, eighty-year memoir is the last work of veteran journalist Israel Epstein (1915-2005), one of the very few Western writers to experience the Chinese Communist Revolution firsthand. Born in Poland and raised in China, Epstein served as a war correspondent from the front lines of the Chinese War of Resistance against Japan, as well as during the Communist-Nationalist struggle. Inspired by the immense social revolution taking place, Epstein took Chinese citizenship, only to be imprisoned during the Cultural Revolution. During this dark period, Epstein found his ideals challenged in ways he never imagined, yet his lifelong struggle for social equality has never wavered. This powerful memoir resonates with some of the twentieth century's most turbulent years and is a fascinating read for anyone interested in Chinese history.

Author : Paul T.K. Lin,Eileen Chen Lin
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780773538573

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In the Eye of the China Storm by Paul T.K. Lin,Eileen Chen Lin Pdf

Born in Vancouver in 1920 to immigrant parents, Lin became a passionate advocate for China while attending university in the United States. With the establishment of the People's Republic, and growing Cold War sentiment, Lin abandoned his doctoral studies, moving to China with his wife and two young sons. He spent the next fifteen years participating in the country's revolutionary transformation. In 1964, concerned by the political climate under Mao and determined to bridge the growing divide between China and the West, Lin returned to Canada with his family and was appointed head of McGill University's Centre for East Asian Studies. Throughout his distinguished career, Lin was sought after as an authority on China. His commitment to building bridges between China and the West contributed to the establishment of diplomatic relations between Canada and China in 1970, to US President Richard Nixon's visit to China in 1972, and to the creation of numerous cultural, academic, and trade exchanges. In the Eye of the China Storm is the story of Paul Lin's life and of his efforts - as a scholar, teacher, business consultant, and community leader - to overcome the mutual suspicion that distanced China from the West. A proud patriot, he was devastated by the Chinese government's violent suppression of student protestors at Tiananmen Square in June 1989, but never lost faith in the Chinese people, nor hope for China's bright future.

Author : Min-Ch'ien T. Z. Tyau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1331297249

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London Through Chinese Eyes by Min-Ch'ien T. Z. Tyau Pdf

Excerpt from London Through Chinese Eyes: Or My Seven and a Half Years in London In dedicating the present volume to the British People a word or two seems not unnecessary. We have called it "London through Chinese Eyes" or "My Seven and a half Years in London," but there is no pretence whatsoever at discussion of serious or weighty subjects affecting politics, industry, commerce, etc. The chapters here deal only with superficial topics and represent merely one's impressions and reminiscences. The best title to this volume is the Chinese legend (to be read vertically from top downwards): Liu Ying Kuan Ku'ei Chi, which literally means "looking at London through the opening of a bamboo pole." We started to write soon after we had returned from England and succeeded in getting through Chapter XVIII before we had to leave the quiet atmosphere of Tsing Hua College for the more exciting task of starting a Chinese daily newspaper in the English language. That caused an interruption of eighteen months, since a journalist's life is never one of ease and luxury. But the continuance of the submarine warfare has also been responsible for this delay: we sent off the first half of our MS. to the publishers in December 1917, but their letter of acknowledgment never arrived in Peking until November 1918 although it was dated February of that year! This change of profession during the intervening period is therefore responsible for the "I" in the first half of the book and the habitual editorial "We" in the latter half. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Patricia Laurence
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781611171761

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Lily Briscoe's Chinese Eyes by Patricia Laurence Pdf

Lily Briscoe's Chinese Eyes traces the romance of Julian Bell, nephew of Virginia Woolf, and Ling Shuhua, a writer and painter Bell met while teaching at Wuhan University in China in 1935. Relying on a wide selection of previously unpublished writings, Patricia Laurence places Ling, often referred to as the Chinese Katherine Mansfield, squarely in the Bloomsbury constellation. In doing so, she counters East-West polarities and suggests forms of understanding to inaugurate a new kind of cultural criticism and literary description. Laurence expands her examination of Bell and Ling's relationship into a study of parallel literary communities—Bloomsbury in England and the Crescent Moon group in China. Underscoring their reciprocal influences in the early part of the twentieth century, Laurence presents conversations among well-known British and Chinese writers, artists, and historians, including Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell, G. L. Dickinson, Xu Zhimo, E. M. Forster, and Xiao Qian. In addition, Laurence's study includes rarely seen photographs of Julian Bell, Ling, and their associates as well as a reproduction of Ling's scroll commemorating moments in the exchange between Bloomsbury and the Crescent Moon group. While many critics agree that modernism is a movement that crosses national boundaries, literary studies rarely reflect such a view. In this volume Laurence links unpublished letters and documents, cultural artifacts, art, literature, and people in ways that provide illumination from a comparative cultural and aesthetic perspective. In so doing she addresses the geographical and critical imbalances—and thus the architecture of modernist, postcolonial, Bloomsbury, and Asian studies—by placing China in an aesthetic matrix of a developing international modernism.

Author : Min-chʻien Tuk Zung Tyau,Min-ch'ien Tuk Zung Tyau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1920
Category : London (England)
ISBN : UCAL:$B41897

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London Through Chinese Eyes by Min-chʻien Tuk Zung Tyau,Min-ch'ien Tuk Zung Tyau Pdf

Author : Robert Stanelle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08
Category : Americans
ISBN : 1477260250

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China by Robert Stanelle Pdf

Most Americans and people all over the world have grown up with an image of China that is vastly different from what is the real China of today. The author, a "senior" American" has lived and taught in China for five years and, through his teaching and travels all around the country, tells the story of those incredible five years. What he experienced, discovered and learned during that time will at times have you laughing, smiling, thinking, wondering or amazed at the China of today. Some stories may bring tears to your eyes. Whatever you may think and feel as you read this fascinating tale, you will thoroughly enjoy "China: In My Eyes."

Author : Elizabeth Chang
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2010-04-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780804759458

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Britain's Chinese Eye by Elizabeth Chang Pdf

This book traces the intimate connections between Britain and China throughout the nineteenth century and argues for China's central impact on the modern British visual imagination through a study of gardens, blue and white willow plates, the opium den, and the photograph, and literary texts.

Author : H. Mark Lai
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9780252077142

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Chinese American Transnational Politics by H. Mark Lai Pdf

Born and raised in San Francisco, Lai was trained as an engineer but blazed a trail in the field of Asian American studies. Long before the field had any academic standing, he amassed an unparalleled body of source material on Chinese America and drew on his own transnational heritage and Chinese patriotism to explore the global Chinese experience. In Chinese American Transnational Politics, Lai traces the shadowy history of Chinese leftism and the role of the Kuomintang of China in influencing affairs in America. With precision and insight, Lai penetrates the overly politicized portrayals of a history shaped by global alliances and enmities and the hard intolerance of the Cold War era. The result is a nuanced and singular account of how Chinese politics, migration to the United States, and Sino-U.S. relations were shaped by Chinese and Chinese American groups and organizations. Lai revised and expanded his writings over more than thirty years as changing political climates allowed for greater acceptance of leftist activities and access to previously confidential documents. Drawing on Chinese- and English-language sources and echoing the strong loyalties and mobility of the activists and idealists he depicts, Lai delivers the most comprehensive treatment of Chinese transnational politics to date.

Author : Great Britain. Foreign Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 844 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HNXACT

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China by Great Britain. Foreign Office Pdf

Author : Yee Chiang
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1974-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780674968035

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Chinese Calligraphy by Yee Chiang Pdf

Chiang Yee’s Chinese Calligraphy: An Introduction to Its Aesthetic and Technique remains the classic introduction to Chinese calligraphy. In eleven richly illustrated chapters, Chiang explores the aesthetics and the technique of this art in which rhythm, line, and structure are perfectly embodied. He measures the slow change from pictograph to stroke to the style and shape of written characters by the great calligraphers. In addition to aesthetic considerations, the text deals with more practical subjects such as the origin and construction of the Chinese characters, styles, technique, strokes, composition, training, and the relations between calligraphy and other forms of Chinese art. Chinese Calligraphy is a superb appreciation of beauty in the movement of strokes and in the patterns of structure—and an inspiration to amateurs as well as professionals interested in the decorative arts.

Author : R. Thomas Berner
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-02
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1492301272

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A Smart Eye in China by R. Thomas Berner Pdf

I have been very lucky to have taught in China twice and visited five other times and the reason I've more than gladly returned is the people. The Chinese are welcoming and non-judgmental people. They accept you as you are; they ignore your faults. I've been in China twice when our governments were clashing and the people of China greeted me warmly even when other Chinese were trashing our embassy in Beijing or dismantling one of our planes on Hainan Island. Over the years I've developed several good relationships. Chinese have visited me in the United States and I have had several happy reunions with old friends in China. My affection grows deeper with each visit. After my first visit, several people suggested that I write a book about China. I never felt I knew enough about China to write a book, but after seven visits and 10,000 photographs I am ready to produce a book of my photographs.I've tried to avoid cliché photographs. I have seemingly millions of photos of people riding bicycles and (fewer) of people watching television in a department store. You've seen those photos in newspapers.I wanted, instead, to present original images that show my affection for the people and their culture.My calligraphy teacher, who always looked at my recent photographs of China on my computer after each calligraphy lesson, told me that I had “smart eyes,” hence the book's title.I hope you enjoy the images.

Author : Bianca Maria Rinaldi
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-08
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780812247633

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Ideas of Chinese Gardens by Bianca Maria Rinaldi Pdf

An annotated collection of essential texts written by European observers from the thirteenth to the nineteenth centuries, Ideas of Chinese Gardens chronicles the evolution of Western perceptions of gardens of China, from curiosity to admiration and ultimately to rejection, echoing the changes in European attitudes toward China.

Author : Min-Chien T. Z. 1888 Tyau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 1374089486

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LONDON THROUGH CHINESE EYES OR by Min-Chien T. Z. 1888 Tyau Pdf

Author : Kerry Brown,Gemma Chenger Deng
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781800612648

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China Through European Eyes: 800 Years Of Cultural And Intellectual Encounter by Kerry Brown,Gemma Chenger Deng Pdf

China Through European Eyes provides a reader's perspective on the conceptualisation of China by Europeans over the last 800 years. With annotated excerpts of their key China related writings by influential figures such as Voltaire, Ricci, Leibniz, Montesquieu, Marx, Weber, Hegel, Barthes and Kristeva, this collection brings together the visions and ideas of individuals who had a unique impact upon European culture. The views within range wildly as the authors wrestle with what sense to make of China's cultural and social difference to their lives in the West, conceptualising China as a place of threat, otherness, exoticism, but also inspiration.This important selection allows for comparison of perspectives across different times in Europe, allowing readers to map out continuities and evolutions of attitudes towards China. It shows that contemporary European attitudes towards China have deep roots. With an extensive introduction, full bibliography and widespread annotations on original texts, this book will be of interest to anyone engaged with the role of China in the world today, particularly those interested in how the crucial relationship between China and Europe developed over time.Related Link(s)