My One Thousand Days Ordeal

Author : Cheong Ching,程翔
Publisher : Straits Times Press Pte Limited
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : China
ISBN : 9814342343

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My One Thousand Days Ordeal by Cheong Ching,程翔 Pdf

His book re-counts in detail the emotional turmoil he felt at being 'betrayed' by his desire to see China and Taiwan peacefully reunified, the tortuous circumstances under which he was compelled to write a 'confession' of his alleged crime, and his struggle to come to terms with what he--albeit unwittingly--brought upon himself. He decided to write it 'to contribute in a small way to wiping out the soil that produces such miscarriages of justice' in China, to make sure that he 'had not gone to jail for nothing'. For the international legions of human rights activists, Ching's Ordeal describes, in very ordinary terms, how the Chinese authorities--or any other undemocratic regime--use 'logic' and forms of mental torture to obtain 'confessions'. It shows up, without drama, the huge distance China needs to cover to become a country where the rule of law is not subject to politics.

Author : Xun Yuezang
Publisher : Pema Press
Page : 646 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780997238501

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Liberationists by Xun Yuezang Pdf

A human rights worker disappears while crossing the border from HK to China. Though she is presumed kidnapped by the Partystate, no trace of her can be found. With young daughter in tow, her husband takes up the search. Told from the husband's point of view, Liberationists is part love story, part detective novel, part meditation on the value of freedom, democracy and human rights. It depicts the relationship between a parent and young child in a time of crisis as well as the dire situation of those fighting for a better society in today's dystopian China where the world's most powerful dictatorship is intent on maintaining its monopoly on power. The early days of what would become the HK Umbrella Movement play a crucial role in the story's climax. Why push for political and social change at great personal risk, especially when efforts often appear futile? Liberationists examines the motives, logic and actions of people willing to endure hardship and persecution to realize their ideals.

Author : Jay Kolo
Publisher : Jay Kolo
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2004-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781411605589

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The Terminal Game by Jay Kolo Pdf

A story of a man who has a spiritual awakening in an airport terminal. Thirty-three year old Jason Richter, an alcoholic, is hopeless and spiritually bankrupt. Read what leads to his spiritual awakening and how his past and future will forever be changed.

Author : Charlie R. Brown
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780615177540

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My Angel and Me (My Spirit Guide) by Charlie R. Brown Pdf

My Angel and Me is a quick-paced journey of ideas, wisdom and experiences from the real life of the author and his connection with the other side. The author, Charlie R. Brown, has been researching parapsychology for over five decades, and he presents a lifetime of spellbinding, factual psychic events in this book. Every word, every sentence, every page can and should come alive for the reader; and beyond that, it will make you think about how you live!

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : China
ISBN : UCLA:L0106096415

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International Journal of China Studies by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 826 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780295801285

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Stories Old and New by Anonim Pdf

Stories Old and New is the first complete translation of Feng Menglong’s Gujin xiaoshuo (also known as Yushi mingyan, Illustrious Words to Instruct the World), a collection of 40 short stories first published in 1620 in China. This is considered the best of Feng’s three such collections and was a pivotal work in the development of vernacular fiction. The stories are valuable as examples of early fiction and for their detailed depiction of daily life among a broad range of social classes. The stories are populated by scholars and courtesans, spirits and ghosts, Buddhist monks and nuns, pirates and emperors, and officials both virtuous and corrupt. The streets and abodes of late-Ming China come alive in Shuhui Yang and Yunqin Yang’s smooth and colorful translation of these entertaining tales. Stories Old and New has long been popular in China and has been published there in numerous editions. Although some of the stories have appeared in English translations in journals and anthologies, they have not previously been presented sequentially in thematic pairs as arranged by Feng Menglong. This unabridged translation, illustrated with a selection of woodcuts from the original Ming dynasty edition and including Feng’s interlinear notes and marginal comments, as well as all of the verse woven throughout the text, allows the modern reader to experience the text as did its first audience nearly four centuries ago. For other titles in the collection go to http://www.washington.edu/uwpress/books/ming.html

Author : Jim Leeke
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1999-09-22
Category : History
ISBN : 025333537X

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A Hundred Days to Richmond by Jim Leeke Pdf

In the spring of 1864, after three bloody years of civil war and with victory seemingly within reach for the Northern armies, John Brough, Ohio's energetic wartime governor, offered his state's militia for 100 days of federal service. Ordered east for duty in forts, railways, and prisons, they freed veteran troops to make the last great push against Robert E. Lee and the Confederacy. History soon overtook the Ohioans, however. They fought at Monocacy with Lew Wallace and under the watchful eye of Abraham Lincoln at Fort Stevens. They battled Mosby and other feared Southern guerrillas in Virginia and West Virginia. They fell to John Hunt Morgan's cavalry in Kentucky. They toiled and fought against thunderous Petersburg.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1024 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11469708

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Congressional Record by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1264 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Law
ISBN : HARVARD:32044116492182

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Congressional Record by United States. Congress Pdf

The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)

Author : Louis P. Masur
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674067530

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Lincoln’s Hundred Days by Louis P. Masur Pdf

"The time has come now," Abraham Lincoln told his cabinet as he presented the preliminary draft of a "Proclamation of Emancipation." Lincoln's effort to end slavery has been controversial from its inception-when it was denounced by some as an unconstitutional usurpation and by others as an inadequate half-measure-up to the present, as historians have discounted its import and impact. At the sesquicentennial of the Emancipation Proclamation, Louis Masur seeks to restore the document's reputation by exploring its evolution. Lincoln's Hundred Days is the first book to tell the full story of the critical period between September 22, 1862, when Lincoln issued his preliminary Proclamation, and January 1, 1863, when he signed the final, significantly altered, decree. In those tumultuous hundred days, as battlefield deaths mounted, debate raged. Masur commands vast primary sources to portray the daily struggles and enormous consequences of the president's efforts as Lincoln led a nation through war and toward emancipation. With his deadline looming, Lincoln hesitated and calculated, frustrating friends and foes alike, as he reckoned with the anxieties and expectations of millions. We hear these concerns, from poets, cabinet members and foreign officials, from enlisted men on the front and free blacks as well as slaves. Masur presents a fresh portrait of Lincoln as a complex figure who worried about, listened to, debated, prayed for, and even joked with his country, and then followed his conviction in directing America toward a terrifying and thrilling unknown.

Author : Stephanie de Montalk
Publisher : Victoria University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781776560042

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How Does It Hurt? by Stephanie de Montalk Pdf

In How Does It Hurt?, acclaimed poet and biographer Stephanie de Montalk tells the story of the chronic pain that has invaded her life for more than 10 years. She considers how her early experiences have been cast into fresh relief by what she has endured, then goes back in time to investigate the lives and works of three writers who also lived with and wrote about pain: "the consolator," English social theorist Harriet Martineau (1802–1876), "the vendor of happiness," French novelist Alphonse Daudet (1840–1897), and "the imago," Polish poet Aleksander Wat (1900–1967). Through these explorations de Montalk confronts the paradox of writing about suffering: where we can turn when the pain is beyond words? A unique blend of memoir, imaginative biography, and poetry, How Does It Hurt? is a groundbreaking contribution to the understanding of chronic pain and a spellbinding literary achievement.

Author : Stephanie Potocka de Montalk
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780429878671

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Communicating Pain by Stephanie Potocka de Montalk Pdf

Combining critical research with memoir, essay, poetry and creative biography, this insightful volume sensitively explores the lived experience of chronic pain. Confronting the language of pain and the paradox of writing about personal pain, Communicating Pain is a personal response to the avoidance, dismissal and isolation experienced by the author after developing intractable pelvic pain in 2003. The volume focuses on pain's infamous resistance to verbal expression, the sense of exile experienced by sufferers and the under-recognised distinction between acute and chronic pain. In doing so, it creates a platform upon which scholarly, imaginative and emotional quotients round out pain as the sum of physical actualities, mental challenges and psychosocial interactions. Additionally, this work creates a dialogue between medicine and literature. Considering the works of writers such as Harriet Martineau, Alphonse Daudet and Aleksander Wat, it enables a multi-genre narrative heightened by poetry, fictional storytelling and life-writing. Coupled with academic rigour, this insightful monograph constitutes a persuasive and unique exploration of pain and the communication of suffering. It will appeal to students and researchers interested in fields such as Medical Humanities, Autobiography Studies and Sociology of Health and Illness.

Author : Carmen Blacker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134251537

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Carmen Blacker - Collected Writings by Carmen Blacker Pdf

This volume of the Collected Writings of Modern Western Scholars on Japan brings together the work of Carmen Blacker, who wrote extensively on religion, myth and folklore.

Author : Dwight Lyman Moody
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Bible
ISBN : UOM:39015064364626

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One Thousand and One Thoughts from My Library by Dwight Lyman Moody Pdf

A collection of anecdotes and illustrations collected by D.L. Moody during his course of reading, organized by book and chapter of the Bible.

Author : A. Scott Berg
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 868 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781471130113

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Wilson by A. Scott Berg Pdf

'Another deeply hued and character-rich biography to match his justly celebrated study of Lindbergh' Financial Times From Pulitzer Prize-winning, New York Times bestselling author, A. Scott Berg comes the definitive – and revelatory – biography of one of the great American figures of modern times. One hundred years after his inauguration, Woodrow Wilson still stands as one of the most influential figures of the twentieth century, and one of the most enigmatic. And now, after more than a decade of research and writing, A. Scott Berg has completed Wilson – the most personal and penetrating biography ever written about the 28th President. This is not just Wilson the icon – but Wilson the man.