Red Peonies

Author : Zhang Yihe
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-28
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780824874094

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Red Peonies by Zhang Yihe Pdf

Red Peonies: Two Novellas of China is the first translation in English of two of the books written by Zhang Yihe about women she met and befriended in prison. The subjects of her stories have been described as “beautiful women who wielded magic power over men. They were like jealous evil spirits, vengeful treacherous persons—countless snakes coiled around other people.” Zhang Yihe was fifteen in 1957, the year her father was declared an enemy of the People’s Republic of China. Denounced as the nation’s Number One Rightist, he was persecuted by Chairman Mao. Zhang herself was arrested at age twenty-eight and sentenced to twenty-one years in a remote labor prison. While in the women’s prison, she came to know the other inmates, most of whom were from farms and lacked education. In 2011, at age seventy, she began to write and publish her fictionalized accounts of some of the women. The novellas were quickly censored in China, but have become widely popular in pirated, unexpurgated editions in the PRC, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Zhang Yihe is now an outspoken advocate of free expression. Red Peonies contains the first two novellas in Zhang’s projected series of ten. Never before translated into English, the works are powerfully written, tender, and sorrowful. They bring to life the stories of Chinese women caught in the turmoil of the Cultural Revolution. This volume includes the work of Xing Danwen, an internationally known artist based in Beijing.

Author : David Michener,Robert B Grese
Publisher : University of MICHIGAN REGIONAL
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-21
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780472037803

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Passion for Peonies by David Michener,Robert B Grese Pdf

There’s no more breathtaking signal of summer’s onset than the blooming of peonies. Stunningly beautiful and relatively easy to grow, peonies are a favorite flower everywhere they can be cultivated and for good reason: the heady fragrances and enchanting colors of a peony-rich display create an immersive experience that has enamored generations of garden lovers across the world. This passion is on full display each June at the historic Peony Garden of the University of Michigan’s Nichols Arboretum. Originally planted in 1922, the Nichols Arboretum Peony Garden now boasts North America’s largest public collection of heirloom herbaceous peonies. The Peony Garden has become a sacred space for the Ann Arbor community, a not-to-be-missed sensation when it erupts each season, as the Ann Arbor Observer once wrote, in “a riot of color, of crimson, rose and shell pink intermingled with fluffy pompoms of creamy white.” The rather short period of peak bloom—about two fleeting weeks each year—only seems to intensify the garden’s appeal, drawing thousands of visitors annually to this spectacular “living museum” on campus that showcases upwards of 10,000 blossoms. Richly illustrated with hundreds of striking color photos, Passion for Peonies collects short essays that celebrate the story of the Nichols Arboretum Peony Garden as well as the rich social history of peony gardening that it is an integral part of. Together these pieces comprise a love letter both to a magical public space at the University of Michigan and to the broader history and culture of peony gardening. The book will appeal to readers interested in the University of Michigan, the history of public gardens, and of course peonies!

Author : Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc
Publisher : Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
Page : 2927 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781615355570

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Britannica Student Encyclopedia (A-Z Set) by Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc Pdf

Entertaining and informative, the newly updated Britannica Student Encyclopedia helps children gain a better understanding of their world. Updated for 2012, more than 2,250 captivating articles cover everything from Barack Obama to video games. Children are sure to immerse themselves in 2,700 photos, charts, and tables that help explain concepts and subjects, as well as 1,200 maps and flags from across the globe. Britannica Student is curriculum correlated and a recent winner of the 2008 Teachers Choice Award and 2010 AEP Distinguished achievement award.

Author : Lili Fang
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 1184 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2023-05-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811990946

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The History of Chinese Ceramics by Lili Fang Pdf

Adopting the perspective of anthropology of art and combining it with global academic insights, this book helps the readers to recognize that “history is, in great measure, the record of human activity which spreads from the local to the regional, from the regional to the global, and from the global to the universal.” Readers will learn that China was not only the first country to create porcelain, but also the first to export it to the world, both the products and its techniques. Therefore, the history of Chinese ceramics reflects the history of Chinese foreign trade on the one hand and depicts the expansion of Chinese ceramic techniques and cultures on the other. In addition to ceramics types, molds, decoration, and techniques, the book analyzes the spiritual impacts and aesthetic conceptions embodied in the utensils of daily use by the Chinese literati. Therefore, it reaches the conclusion that ideological systems and not technological systems are what bring about social revolutions. In addition, the book is richly illustrated with pictures of earthenware and finely glazed pieces from later periods.

Author : Hugh MacDiarmid
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2006-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0811217817

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Hugh MacDiarmid by Hugh MacDiarmid Pdf

This volume includes the full texts of In Memoriam James Joyce, Three Hymns to Lenin, and The Kind of Poetry I Want. Included are long poems and intense lyrics.

Author : Jonathan N. Lipman,Stevan Harrell
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1990-04-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438411033

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Violence in China by Jonathan N. Lipman,Stevan Harrell Pdf

In this volume, Lipman and Harrell explore the prevalence and ubiquity of violence in China, a society whose official norms value harmony and condemn conflict. The book investigates violence in a wide variety of situations through the sweep of history and in contexts ranging from the family to the national polity. The book explores motivations for violence from both a historical and a contemporary perspective. Historically, the authors cover bloody religious rebellions in premodern times, the depiction of violence in traditional popular novels, ethnic strife between Muslims and Han Chinese in the Northwest, and feuding local communities in the Southeast. Modern China is depicted by analyses of rural and urban violence in Mao's Cultural Revolution and an examination of continuing domestic violence. This depiction of the cultural themes and motivations for violence allow lessons drawn from specific contexts to be applied to the nature of Chinese culture in general.

Author : Sean Brendan-Brown,Joseph Lisowski
Publisher : Pudding House Publications
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1589986970

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Letters to Wang Wei by Sean Brendan-Brown,Joseph Lisowski Pdf

Author : David Pietrusza
Publisher : Church & Reid Books
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Dance Hall: A Novel of Sing Sing by David Pietrusza Pdf

A Brooklyn stickup artist, his taxi-dancing wife, a murderous newspaperman, a risk-taking warden, and a wife with a dark past converge in 1930s Sing Sing heading toward death, redemption-and Ebbets Field. *** "DANCE HALL: A NOVEL OF SING SING" unveils a grand and riveting tale of a violent and desperate past, unforgettably narrated in a gripping, often wry, fashion--recorded in tears and punctuated in--rarely innocent--blood. Dance Hall flawlessly transports readers to a seedy, volatile 1930s underworld where love and honor and redemption jostle for mere survival with greed and lust and betrayal. Dance Hall reveals the story of a Brooklyn stickup artist, his taxi-dancing Filipina spouse, a murderous newspaperman, a risk-taking warden, and a wife with a dark past converging in Sing Sing, destined for love, death, forgiveness, redemption--and Ebbets Field. Dance Hall reveals a page-turning web of perfectly-balanced back stories: of a young parish priest gone wrong and then right again, of a brutal Bowery killer with escape on his mind, a con man with the vestige of a conscience, a thuggish Garment District goon with a devout sister, a tell-all Broadway gossip columnist who can make or break you, a rat of an accomplice, a once-disgraced private detective who now surprisingly elevates a principle above a paycheck. Read Dance Hall and you live and breathe life inside cold and desperate prison halls and cells; sweaty and often violent Brooklyn dime-a-dance dance halls; threadbare tenements, back-alley speakeasies where anything you wanted badly enough was for sale; the offices of the rich and powerful and still conflicted; and of a waiting area for Sing Sing's "Death Row" called "The Dance Hall"--all while returning you to Depression days when hope reigned supreme. Because hope was all you had.

Author : Multiple Authors
Publisher : Notion Press
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-25
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781639404032

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The Summer Diaries by Multiple Authors Pdf

Summer Diaries is an anthology of poems to celebrate summer and the warm sense of nostalgia that it brings with it. From over 150 submissions, these vote worthy poems made it to the top. This collection of poems will serve as a launchpad to bring some of India's greatest contemporary poets into the limelight. From poems in the form of letters, romantic ballads to poems that capture a moment, this diverse anthology contains poetry in all shapes and sizes. There's a poem for every reader and a poem for every mood. This anthology is proof of the ever-evolving, fluid and thriving world of poetry. A must-have for every ardent lover of the art form.

Author : Giuliana Giusti
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443885676

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Nominal Syntax at the Interfaces by Giuliana Giusti Pdf

This volume offers a new perspective on the syntax of nominal expressions in various European languages, arguing that articles do not directly and biunivocally realise semantic definiteness. The first two chapters provide an accessible introduction to recent developments in generative syntax, namely the cartographic and minimalist approaches, by focusing on the “imperfect” parallels between clauses and nominal expressions. The third chapter shows that feature sharing is not the result of a unique syntactic process, but, rather, the consequence of Merge, which creates syntactic structure instantiating two types of relation: Selection and Modification. It argues for three different ways of transferring features: Agreement allows for an argument (an independent phase, selected by a head) to re-enter the computation as part of the predicate of the new phase. It targets Person features and is not involved in the feature sharing triggered by modification. Concord copies the features of N (notably gender, number and case, where this is present). It is the result of Modification and can coexist with Agreement. Finally, Projection is triggered by multiple internal mergers of the head, bundled with all its interpretable and uninterpretable features, which may be realized in different segments. The fourth chapter focuses on the nature of determiners such as articles, demonstratives, quantifiers, possessive adjectives and pronouns, personal pronouns and proper names, and shows that only articles have the properties to be attributed to “functional heads” because they are a segment of a scattered nominal head. The rest of the volume is devoted to the analysis of syntactic phenomena, such as double definiteness, expletive articles, and weak and strong adjectival inflection, by means of the proposal that (scattered) nominal or adjectival heads concord with their modifiers. This approach reinterprets head movement in a fashion that makes it compatible with minimalist requirements, provides an explanation for the apparent optionality of head movement, eliminates the typology of head movements by adjunction or substitution, and gives an original answer to the doubts raised about the legitimacy of the very notion of “functional category”.

Author : Tracy DiSabato-Aust
Publisher : Timber Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2006-07-24
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781604692990

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The Well-Tended Perennial Garden by Tracy DiSabato-Aust Pdf

With more than 180,000 copies sold since its original publication, The Well-Tended Perennial Garden has proven itself to be one of the most useful tools a gardener can have. Now, in this expanded edition, there's even more to learn from and enjoy. This is the first, and still the most thorough, book to detail essential practices of perennial care such as deadheading, pinching, cutting back, thinning, disbudding, and deadleafing, all of which are thoroughly explained and illustrated. More than 200 new color photographs have been added to this revised edition, showing perennials in various border situations and providing images for each of the entries in the A-to-Z encyclopedia of important perennial species. In addition, there is a new 32-page journal section, in which you can enter details, notes, and observations about the requirements and performance of perennials in your own garden. Thousands of readers have commented that The Well-Tended Perennial Garden is one of the most useful and frequently consulted books in their gardening libraries. This new, expanded edition promises to be an even more effective ally in your quest to create a beautiful, healthy, well-maintained perennial garden.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1152 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Income tax
ISBN : OSU:32435053658837

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Publication by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 908 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations
ISBN : UFL:31262071226400

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Cumulative List of Organizations Described in Section 170 (c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1530 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations
ISBN : NYPL:33433016643771

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Cumulative List of Organizations Described in Section 170 (c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Patrick Taylor
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1998-03
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1568981287

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The Garden Lover's Guide to France by Patrick Taylor Pdf

This authoritative new series of guidebooks to the gardens of Europe is the perfect companion for any garden enthusiast, whether tourist or armchair traveler. Each title is a richly illustrated in-depth guide to over 100 gardens, from the famous to little-known hidden treasures, and features colorful photography and easy-to-read illustrations commissioned especially for this series. Also included are maps, directions, complete visitor information, special features, and neighboring sites of interest. Each guide, written by a gardening expert, begins with a comprehensive background on the country's garden history and local climate. The most significant gardens in each volume are featured in even greater detail, accompanied by illustrated plans of the gardens and close-up views of particular features. The numerous color photographs and maps show travelers what awaits at each garden. The Garden Lover's Guides are indispensible aids for those planning European travel itineraries. The Garden Lover's Guide to France covers the Baroque parterres of Versailles as well as the explosive patterns of color in Monet's garden at Giverny.