Shanghai Boy

Author : Ron Ratcliffe
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780244694289

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Shanghai Boy by Ron Ratcliffe Pdf

Author : Stevan Eldred-Grigg
Publisher : Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781869798604

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Shanghai Boy by Stevan Eldred-Grigg Pdf

A clever and compelling novel about illicit love and raw passion with unexpected twists and poignant depth. Manfred Morse has just hit fifty, and also the wall. Life seems empty. His marriage is long since over, his leathery old father is in his tenth year of dying of cancer, while his colleagues play games of petty politics. Seeking stress leave from his New Zealand university, he takes a job as guest lecturer at a university in Shanghai. Here he suddenly comes face-to-face with raw passion, but in the shape of one his students, aged only eighteen. He ducks this way and that, fending off love and, when he can no longer hold out, he lashes out. The young student goes missing. The police come knocking on Manfred's door. Who is the killer? Manfred? Or is he a victim? As the story slips back and forth between the southern and northern hemispheres, Shanghai increasingly takes centre stage: a pulsing city of crowded streets and clouding smog; motley smells and mindless noise; a complex and contradictory place that leaves Manfred both horrified and aroused. This is a clever and compelling novel from a prize-winning author.

Author : Yuezhi Xiong
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004522893

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Shanghai Urban Life and Its Heterogeneous Cultural Entanglements by Yuezhi Xiong Pdf

In this book, Xiong Yuezhi and a team of distinguished scholars bring together cutting-edge research on the urban history of Shanghai and the diversity of its distinctive culture.

Author : Suzy Gershman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2005-10-03
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780471762775

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Suzy Gershman's Born to Shop Hong Kong, Shanghai & Beijing by Suzy Gershman Pdf

"Gershman may be the best guide for novice and pro shoppers alike." —The Washington Post For nearly twenty years, Suzy Gershman has been leading savvy shoppers to the world s best finds. Now Born to Shop Hong Kong, Shanghai & Beijing is easier to use and packed with more up-to-date listings than ever before. Inside you ll find: What s hot in Hong Kong, from hip new fashions and designer labels to porcelain, jade, and colorful markets The best of Shanghai, from the Old City to the exciting new Pudong area Terrific buys in Beijing, from the Silk Market to the Pearl Market to the famous antiques street of Liulichang A completely new section on Hanoi and its unique treasures such as contemporary art, sophisticated lacquer, and funky ethnic fashions

Author : Helen Zia
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780345522337

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Last Boat Out of Shanghai by Helen Zia Pdf

The dramatic real life stories of four young people caught up in the mass exodus of Shanghai in the wake of China’s 1949 Communist revolution—a heartrending precursor to the struggles faced by emigrants today. “A true page-turner . . . [Helen] Zia has proven once again that history is something that happens to real people.”—New York Times bestselling author Lisa See NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR AND THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR • FINALIST FOR THE PEN/JACQUELINE BOGRAD WELD AWARD FOR BIOGRAPHY Shanghai has historically been China’s jewel, its richest, most modern and westernized city. The bustling metropolis was home to sophisticated intellectuals, entrepreneurs, and a thriving middle class when Mao’s proletarian revolution emerged victorious from the long civil war. Terrified of the horrors the Communists would wreak upon their lives, citizens of Shanghai who could afford to fled in every direction. Seventy years later, members of the last generation to fully recall this massive exodus have revealed their stories to Chinese American journalist Helen Zia, who interviewed hundreds of exiles about their journey through one of the most tumultuous events of the twentieth century. From these moving accounts, Zia weaves together the stories of four young Shanghai residents who wrestled with the decision to abandon everything for an uncertain life as refugees in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the United States. Benny, who as a teenager became the unwilling heir to his father’s dark wartime legacy, must decide either to escape to Hong Kong or navigate the intricacies of a newly Communist China. The resolute Annuo, forced to flee her home with her father, a defeated Nationalist official, becomes an unwelcome exile in Taiwan. The financially strapped Ho fights deportation from the U.S. in order to continue his studies while his family struggles at home. And Bing, given away by her poor parents, faces the prospect of a new life among strangers in America. The lives of these men and women are marvelously portrayed, revealing the dignity and triumph of personal survival. Herself the daughter of immigrants from China, Zia is uniquely equipped to explain how crises like the Shanghai transition affect children and their families, students and their futures, and, ultimately, the way we see ourselves and those around us. Last Boat Out of Shanghai brings a poignant personal angle to the experiences of refugees then and, by extension, today. “Zia’s portraits are compassionate and heartbreaking, and they are, ultimately, the universal story of many families who leave their homeland as refugees and find less-than-welcoming circumstances on the other side.”—Amy Tan, author of The Joy Luck Club

Author : Peter Gue Zarrow
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0820479454

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Creating Chinese Modernity by Peter Gue Zarrow Pdf

Over the first half of the twentieth century, the lives of millions of urban Chinese were transformed by new ideas, new objects, new jobs, new leisure pursuits, new forms of transportation, new architecture: in a word, new «life-styles» and habits of mind. What did these changes mean to ordinary people? The essays in this book examine how prevailing discourses - on nationalism, feminism, democracy, individualism, socialism, and the like - emerged and were absorbed into the lived experiences and material culture of ordinary Chinese. Only from intimate personal experiences with forces ranging from war, revolution, and state-building to advertising blitzes and boycotts was Chinese modernity forged, forged out of «forces» larger than individuals but simultaneously observed, interpreted, adapted, and absorbed by those individuals.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1142 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1913
Category : Shanghai (China)
ISBN : UOM:39015039401636

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The North-China Herald and Supreme Court & Consular Gazette by Anonim Pdf

Author : Robert Culp
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684174607

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Articulating Citizenship by Robert Culp Pdf

"At the genesis of the Republic of China in 1912, many political leaders, educators, and social reformers argued that republican education should transform China’s people into dynamic modern citizens—social and political agents whose public actions would rescue the national community. Over subsequent decades, however, they came to argue fiercely over the contents of citizenship and how it should be taught. Moreover, many of their carefully crafted policies and programs came to be transformed by textbook authors, teachers, administrators, and students. Furthermore, the idea of citizenship, once introduced, raised many troubling questions. Who belonged to the national community in China, and how was the nation constituted? What were the best modes of political action? How should modern people take responsibility for “public matters”? What morality was proper for the modern public?This book reconstructs civic education and citizenship training in secondary schools in the lower Yangzi region during the Republican era. It also analyzes how students used the tools of civic education introduced in their schools to make themselves into young citizens and explores the complex social and political effects of educated youths’ civic action."

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 990 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1910
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015084570707

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The North-China Herald & Supreme Court & Consular Gazette by Anonim Pdf

Author : Hanchao Lu
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520931671

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Beyond the Neon Lights by Hanchao Lu Pdf

How did ordinary people live through the extraordinary changes that have swept across modern China? How did peasants transform themselves into urbanites? How did the citizens of Shanghai cope with the epic upheavals—revolution, war, and again revolution—that shook their lives? Even after decades of scholarship devoted to modern Chinese history, our understanding of the daily lives of the common people of China remains sketchy and incomplete. In this carefully researched study, Hanchao Lu weaves rich documentary data with ethnographic surveys and interviews to reconstruct the fabric of everyday life in China's largest and most complex city in the first half of this century.

Author : Jimmy O. Yang
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-13
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780306903502

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How to American by Jimmy O. Yang Pdf

Standup comic, actor and fan favorite from HBO's Silicon Valley and the film Crazy Rich Asians shares his memoir of growing up as a Chinese immigrant in California and making it in Hollywood. "I turned down a job in finance to pursue a career in stand-up comedy. My dad thought I was crazy. But I figured it was better to disappoint my parents for a few years than to disappoint myself for the rest of my life. I had to disappoint them in order to pursue what I loved. That was the only way to have my Chinese turnip cake and eat an American apple pie too." Jimmy O. Yang is a standup comedian, film and TV actor and fan favorite as the character Jian Yang from the popular HBO series Silicon Valley. In How to American, he shares his story of growing up as a Chinese immigrant who pursued a Hollywood career against the wishes of his parents: Yang arrived in Los Angeles from Hong Kong at age 13, learned English by watching BET RapCity for three hours a day, and worked as a strip club DJ while pursuing his comedy career. He chronicles a near deportation episode during a college trip Tijuana to finally becoming a proud US citizen ten years later. Featuring those and many other hilarious stories, while sharing some hard-earned lessons, How to American mocks stereotypes while offering tongue in cheek advice on pursuing the American dreams of fame, fortune, and strippers.

Author : Seung-Joon Lee
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780804772266

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Gourmets in the Land of Famine by Seung-Joon Lee Pdf

This book project is a cultural history of rice consumption in the city of Canton (now Guangzhou), China's southernmost metropolis. Special emphasis is placed on the qualitative dimension of the local food culture and the dynamic interactions between the local society and the modern state.

Author : Hiromi Mizuno
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2008-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780804769846

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Science for the Empire by Hiromi Mizuno Pdf

This fascinating study examines the discourse of science in Japan from the 1920s to the 1940s in relation to nationalism and imperialism. How did Japan, with Shinto creation mythology at the absolute core of its national identity, come to promote the advancement of science and technology? Using what logic did wartime Japanese embrace both the rationality that denied and the nationalism that promoted this mythology? Focusing on three groups of science promoters—technocrats, Marxists, and popular science proponents—this work demonstrates how each group made sense of apparent contradictions by articulating its politics through different definitions of science and visions of a scientific Japan. The contested, complex political endeavor of talking about and promoting science produced what the author calls "scientific nationalism," a powerful current of nationalism that has been overlooked by scholars of Japan, nationalism, and modernity.

Author : James Tyson,Ann Tyson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 503 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429720741

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Chinese Awakenings by James Tyson,Ann Tyson Pdf

This evocative and fascinating book shows how, from muddy village crossroads to raucous city streets, Chinese exhilarated by new dreams are shaping the future of their nation. Over the course of five years spent as China correspondents for the Christian Science Monitor, James and Ann Tyson dodged government surveillance and sought out the life stories of Chinese throughout the country: in the yak-hair tents of Tibetan nomads, the cramped Shanghai garret of China's most courageous dissident, the seaside mansion of a multimillionaire, and the tiny sheet-metal workshop of a peasant migrant. Allowing the Chinese to speak for themselves, the Tysons have written a book unique among Western studies of China for painting in vivid detail a firsthand portrait of a broad spectrum of Chinese. Through these diverse voices, the Tysons reveal how, with economic reform weakening the grip of the state over everyday life, the people of China are taking the future into their own hands. The initiative for change is coming increasingly from below, as millions of Chinese pursuing their own dreams propel reform far beyond the Communist Party's original intent. Chinese Awakenings provides an intimate understanding of the feelings, aspirations, and workaday lives of ordinary Chinese. It offers the crucial insight into grassroots society that is essential for discerning what lies ahead for China's 1.2 billion people.

Author : Paul Henry King
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1924
Category : China
ISBN : UCSC:32106000467693

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In the Chinese Customs Service by Paul Henry King Pdf