Shenzheners

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Shenzhen Shi (China)
ISBN : 1988130042

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Shenzheners by Anonim Pdf

Author : Yiwei Xue
Publisher : Linda Leith Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1988130034

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Shenzheners by Yiwei Xue Pdf

Shenzheners is inspired by the young city of Shenzhen, a city in which everyone is a newcomer.

Author : Joshua Bolchover,Peter Hasdell
Publisher : Birkhäuser
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-19
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9783035602845

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Border Ecologies by Joshua Bolchover,Peter Hasdell Pdf

Hong Kong’s border with Shenzhen is dissolving. By 2047, the border will likely not exist. Integration with the Mainland will remove distinctions created by the "One Country Two Systems" policy. The uncertainty surrounding what will happen has created anxiety relating to law, identity, freedom of speech, and voting rights. Caught in this debate is the Frontier Closed Area, a 1951 undeveloped buffer zone of estuaries, fish farms, forests, villages and military posts. In contrast, Shenzhen, has exploded into a metropolis of 15 million plus. The book explores this unique border ecology. Design strategies inserted within this ecology promote alternate forms of development. The example widens the discourse on borders to raise critical issues that impact the contemporary city.

Author : Mary Ann O'Donnell,Winnie Wong,Jonathan Bach
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780226401126

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Learning from Shenzhen by Mary Ann O'Donnell,Winnie Wong,Jonathan Bach Pdf

"This volume developed out of two conferences: 'Shenzhen+China, Utopias+Dystopias', held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2011, and 'Learning from Shenzhen', held at the Shenzhen Land Use Resources and Planning Commission in 2011 as part of the Shenzhen Urbanism Biennale"--ECIP data.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : East Asia
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110556037

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The Stockholm Journal of East Asian Studies by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Asia
ISBN : UOM:39015051510538

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Positions by Anonim Pdf

Author : Xue Yiwei
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1988130514

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Dr. Bethune's Children by Xue Yiwei Pdf

Xue Yiwei's life has been marked by that of the legendary Montreal surgeon Norman Bethune, who died in China in the cause of Communism. Like other Chinese of his generation - the generation that has turned China into the world power it is today - Xue Yiwei was inspired by Dr. Bethune's example during the Cultural Revolution. But unlike his peers, he went to the lengths of moving to Montreal, where he has lived for sixteen years as a writer acclaimed in China and - until now - unknown in Canada. This subversive novel is the story that only he could write.Dr. Bethune's Children, which is banned in China (it is available only in a Chinese language version published in Taiwan), focuses on individual lives marked by some of the traumatic events of recent decades that have been veiled by official secrecy. In showing us the effects of the distress and repression that have marked his whole generation, Xue Yiwei unveils the human heart.

Author : Valentina Pedone,Miriam Castorina
Publisher : Firenze University Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-22
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9791221500677

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Words and visions around/about Chinese transnational mobilities 流动 by Valentina Pedone,Miriam Castorina Pdf

This collection gathers the contributions of ten scholars on the topic of transnational cultural and physical mobility originating in China. These contributions aim to open conversations among Chinese Studies scholars by applying a Mobility Studies perspective. Exploring diverse narratives and forms of representation from people of Chinese heritage, the book is divided into three parts that each look closely at the relationship between movement and cultural production. The first part is dedicated to four types of mobility of people from China to Italy, namely tourist mobility (Miriam Castorina), labor mobility (Valentina Pedone), student mobility (Xu Hao), and mobility of social elites (Andrea Scibetta). The second part is dedicated to examples of reverse mobility from Italy to China (Gao Changxu, Chiara Lepri, Giuseppe Rizzuto). The third part focuses on case studies based on mobilities from China to territories other than Italy (Rebecca Ehrenwirth, Martina Renata Prosperi, Giulia Rampolla).

Author : Karim Buksh
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2006-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780595383863

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A Magic Life by Karim Buksh Pdf

A Magic Life starts in England then on to Germany and finishes in China up to the World Trade entry of China. The author learns to speak, read and write Russian and Chinese. Then is offered a teaching job in Chinas top university, Beijing Remnin Daxue. This is stopped due to being over 60. Then the author is offered a job in a Medical College in Wuhan, China, which he does for 2 years. Then the Chinese Government ask him and his Wife to be teachers at an experimental language school in Shenzhen, next to Hong Kong. They are there 6 years and during that period the author teaches at the Hua Wei Technical Institute, The Fujian bank and finally Shenzhen University. The cultural impact of the East meeting the west is embedded in the story.

Author : Franck Hofmann,Markus Messling
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110691610

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The Epoch of Universalism 1769–1989 / L’époque de l’universalisme 1769–1989 by Franck Hofmann,Markus Messling Pdf

2019 witnessed the 30th anniversary of the German reunification. But the remembrance of the fall of the Berlin Wall coincided with another event of global importance that caught much less attention: the 250th anniversary of Napoleon Bonaparte’s birth. There is an undeniable historical and philosophical dimension to this coincidence. Napoleon’s appearance on the scene of world history seems to embody European universalism (soon thereafter in the form of a ‘modern’ imperial project); whilst scholars such as Francis Fukuyama saw in the events of 1989 its historical fulfilment. Today, we see more clearly that the fall of the Berlin Wall stands for an epistemic earthquake, which generated a world that can no longer be grasped through universal concepts. Here, we deal with the idea of Europe and of its relation to the world itself. Picking up on this contingency of world history with an ironic wink, the volume analyses in retrospect the epoch of European universalism. It focusses on its dialectics, polemically addressing and remembering both 1769 and 1989. L’année 2019 a été marquée par le 30e anniversaire de la réunification de l’Allemagne, éclipsant un autre événement d’envergure mondiale : le 250e anniversaire de Napoléon Bonaparte. La dimension philosophico-historique de cette coïncidence ne peut pourtant pas être négligée : si l’arrivée de Bonaparte sur la scène de l’histoire mondiale semble incarner l’avènement de l’universalisme européen (bientôt amené à prendre sa forme « moderne » et impériale), certains penseurs ont suggéré, avec Francis Fukuyama, que « 1989 » marquait son accomplissement historique. Aujourd’hui, il apparaît au contraire que la chute du mur de Berlin a été un véritable tremblement de terre épistémique, et rendu inopérants les concepts universels. Dans le monde d’après, c’est à l’idée d’Europe et à sa relation au monde que nous avons affaire. Revenant par un geste ironique sur cette contingence historique, le présent volume se veut une analyse rétrospective de l’époque de l’universalisme, dans toute la dialectique que les commémorations de 1769/1989 ont fait surgir.

Author : Xue Yiwei
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781459748064

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Celia, Misoka, I by Xue Yiwei Pdf

A meditation on the meaning of life in an increasingly global world, from acclaimed Chinese-Canadian author Xue Yiwei. Set in modern-day Montreal, Celia, Misoka, I is the story of a middle-aged Chinese man who has been living in the city for fifteen years. After the death of his wife, he begins to reflect on his past and how he has ended up alone in Canada, a solitary member of the Chinese diaspora. It is in this period of angst and uncertainty, during the most unusual of winters, that he meets two women by Beaver Lake, on Montreal’s Mount Royal. They, too, have their own stories: stories of their own personal plights, which connect present to past, and West to East. The distinct paths taken by these three characters — Celia, Misoka, and “I” — span continents and decades, but, whether by chance or design, converge in Montreal, like mysterious figures in an ancient Chinese Zen painting. After coming together, the three begin to examine who they are, where they might belong, and how to navigate otherness and identity in a globalized world. A RARE MACHINES BOOK

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Theater
ISBN : IND:30000081121638

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Asian Theatre Journal by Anonim Pdf

Author : Mary Ann O'Donnell,Winnie Wong,Jonathan Bach
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226401263

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Learning from Shenzhen by Mary Ann O'Donnell,Winnie Wong,Jonathan Bach Pdf

This multidisciplinary volume, the first of its kind, presents an account of China’s contemporary transformation via one of its most important yet overlooked cities: Shenzhen, located just north of Hong Kong. In recent decades, Shenzhen has transformed from an experimental site for economic reform into a dominant city at the crossroads of the global economy. The first of China’s special economic zones, Shenzhen is today a UNESCO City of Design and the hub of China’s emerging technology industries. Bringing China studies into dialogue with urban studies, the contributors explore how the post-Mao Chinese appropriation of capitalist logic led to a dramatic remodeling of the Chinese city and collective life in China today. These essays show how urban villages and informal institutions enabled social transformation through cases of public health, labor, architecture, gender, politics, education, and more. Offering scholars and general readers alike an unprecedented look at one of the world’s most dynamic metropolises, this collective history uses the urban case study to explore critical problems and possibilities relevant for modern-day China and beyond.

Author : Ken Liu
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780765384188

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Invisible Planets by Ken Liu Pdf

Invisible Planets, edited by multi award-winning writer Ken Liu--translator of the bestselling and Hugo Award-winning novel The Three Body Problem by acclaimed Chinese author Cixin Liu--is his second thought-provoking anthology of Chinese short speculative fiction. Invisible Planets is a groundbreaking anthology of Chinese short speculative fiction. The thirteen stories in this collection, including two by Cixin Liu and the Hugo and Sturgeon award-nominated “Folding Beijing” by Hao Jingfang, add up to a strong and diverse representation of Chinese SF. Some have won awards, some have garnered serioius critical acclaim, some have been selected for Year’s Best anthologies, and some are simply Ken Liu’s personal favorites. To round out the collection, there are several essays from Chinese scholars and authors, plus an illuminating introduction by Ken Liu. Anyone with an interest in international science fiction will find Invisible Planets an indispensable addition to their collection. For more Chinese SF in translation, check out Broken Stars. Stories: “The Year of the Rat” by Chen Qiufan “The Fist of Lijian” by Chen Qiufan “The Flower of Shazui” by Chen Qiufan “A Hundred Ghosts Parade Tonight” by Xia Jia “Tongtong’s Summer” by Xia Jia “Night Journey of the Dragon-Horse” by Xia jia “The City of Silence” by Ma Boyong “Invisible Planets” by Hao Jingfang “Folding Beijing” by Hao Jingfang “Call Girl” by Tang Fei “Grave of the Fireflies” by Cheng Jingbo “The Circle” by Liu Cixin “Taking Care of God” by Liu Cixin Essays: “The Worst of All Possible Universes and the Best of All Possible Earths: Three-Body and Chinese Science Fiction” by Liu Cixin and Ken Liu “The Torn Generation” Chinese Science Fiction in a Culture in Transition” by Chen Qiufan and Ken Liu “What Makes Chinese Science Fiction Chinese?” by Xia Jia and Ken Liu At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Maria Heimer
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2006-03-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0824830709

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Doing Fieldwork in China by Maria Heimer Pdf

Doing fieldwork inside the PRC is an eye-opening but sometimes also deeply frustrating experience. In this volume scholars from around the world reflect on their own fieldwork practice to give practical advice and discuss more general theoretical points. The contributors come from a wide range of disciplines such as political science, anthropology, economics, media studies, history, cultural geography, and sinology. The book also contains an extensive bibliography. Contributors: Bu Wei, Björn Gustafsson, Mette Halskov Hansen, Baogang He, Maria Heimer, Björn Kjellgren, Li Shi, Kevin J. O’Brien, Dorothy J. Solinger, Maria Svensson, Elin Sæther, Mette Thunø, Stig Thøgersen, Emily T. Yeh.