Sound Rising From The Paper

Author : Paize Keulemans
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684175444

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Sound Rising from the Paper by Paize Keulemans Pdf

Chinese martial arts novels from the late nineteenth century are filled with a host of suggestive sounds. Characters cuss and curse in colorful dialect accents, vendor calls ring out from bustling marketplaces, and martial arts action scenes come to life with the loud clash of swords and the sounds of bodies colliding. What is the purpose of these sounds, and what is their history? In Sound Rising from the Paper, Paize Keulemans answers these questions by critically reexamining the relationship between martial arts novels published in the final decades of the nineteenth century and earlier storyteller manuscripts. He finds that by incorporating, imitating, and sometimes inventing storyteller sounds, these novels turned the text from a silent object into a lively simulacrum of festival atmosphere, thereby transforming the solitary act of reading into the communal sharing of an oral performance. By focusing on the role sound played in late nineteenth-century martial arts fiction, Keulemans offers alternatives to the visual models that have dominated our approach to the study of print culture, the commercialization of textual production, and the construction of the modern reading subject.

Author : Fan Shengyu
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-29
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781000582901

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The Translator’s Mirror for the Romantic by Fan Shengyu Pdf

The Translator’s Mirror for the Romantic: Cao Xueqin’s Dream and David Hawkes’ Stone is a book that uses precious primary sources to decipher a master translator’s art in Stone, a brilliant English translation of the most famous Chinese classic novel Dream. This book demonstrates a bilingual close reading which sheds light on both the original and its translation. By dividing the process of translation into reading, writing, and revising, and involving the various aspects of Sinological research, textual criticism, recreation, and literary allusions, this book ventures to emphasise the idea of translation as a dialogue between the original and the translated text, between the translator and his former self, and a learning process both for the translator and the reader of his translation. Any student of Chinese language and literature, or Chinese–English translation, will benefit from this book; for students and scholars who want to study David Hawkes and his Stone, this book is an indispensable aid. Readers will be interested to see how a non-theoretical analysis could be used to evaluate this translation, for it makes an extremely important and useful contribution to this subject.

Author : John Christopher Hamm
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231549004

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The Unworthy Scholar from Pingjiang by John Christopher Hamm Pdf

Xiang Kairan, who wrote under the pen name “the Unworthy Scholar from Pingjiang,” is remembered as the father of modern Chinese martial arts fiction, one of the most distinctive forms of twentieth-century Chinese culture and the inspiration for China’s globally popular martial arts cinema. In this book, John Christopher Hamm shows how Xiang Kairan’s work and career offer a new lens on the transformations of fiction and popular culture in early-twentieth-century China. The Unworthy Scholar from Pingjiang situates Xiang Kairan’s career in the larger contexts of Republican-era China’s publishing industry, literary debates, and political and social history. At a time when writers associated with the New Culture movement promoted an aggressively modernizing vision of literature, Xiang Kairan consciously cultivated his debt to homegrown narrative traditions. Through careful readings of Xiang Kairan’s work, Hamm demonstrates that his writings, far from being the formally fossilized and ideologically regressive relics their critics denounced, represent a creative engagement with contemporary social and political currents and the demands and possibilities of an emerging cultural marketplace. Hamm takes martial arts fiction beyond the confines of genre studies to situate it within a broader reexamination of Chinese literary modernity. The first monograph on Xiang Kairan’s fiction in any language, The Unworthy Scholar from Pingjiang rewrites the history of early-twentieth-century Chinese literature from the standpoints of genre fiction and commercial publishing.

Author : Pierre Fuller
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684176021

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Famine Relief in Warlord China by Pierre Fuller Pdf

Famine Relief in Warlord China is a reexamination of disaster responses during the greatest ecological crisis of the pre-Nationalist Chinese republic. In 1920–1921, drought and ensuing famine devastated more than 300 counties in five northern provinces, leading to some 500,000 deaths. Long credited to international intervention, the relief effort, Pierre Fuller shows, actually began from within Chinese social circles. Indigenous action from the household to the national level, modeled after Qing-era relief protocol, sustained the lives of millions of the destitute in Beijing, in the surrounding districts of Zhili (Hebei) Province, and along the migrant and refugee trail in Manchuria, all before joint foreign–Chinese international relief groups became a force of any significance. Using district gazetteers, stele inscriptions, and the era’s vibrant Chinese press, Fuller reveals how a hybrid civic sphere of military authorities working with the public mobilized aid and coordinated migrant movement within stricken communities and across military domains. Ultimately, the book’s spotlight on disaster governance in northern China in 1920 offers new insights into the social landscape just before the region’s descent, over the next decade, into incessant warfare, political struggle, and finally the normalization of disaster itself.

Author : Robert Goree
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781684176267

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Printing Landmarks by Robert Goree Pdf

Printing Landmarks tells the story of the late Tokugawa period’s most distinctive form of popular geography: meisho zue. Beginning with the publication of Miyako meisho zue in 1780, these monumental books deployed lovingly detailed illustrations and informative prose to showcase famous places (meisho) in ways that transcended the limited scope, quality, and reliability of earlier guidebooks and gazetteers. Putting into spellbinding print countless landmarks of cultural significance, the makers of meisho zue created an opportunity for readers to experience places located all over the Japanese archipelago. In this groundbreaking multidisciplinary study, Robert Goree draws on diverse archival and scholarly sources to explore why meisho zue enjoyed widespread and enduring popularity. Examining their readership, compilation practices, illustration techniques, cartographic properties, ideological import, and production networks, Goree finds that the appeal of the books, far from accidental, resulted from specific choices editors and illustrators made about form, content, and process. Spanning the fields of book history, travel literature, map history, and visual culture, Printing Landmarks provides a new perspective on Tokugawa-period culture by showing how meisho zue depicted inspiring geographies in which social harmony, economic prosperity, and natural stability made for a peaceful polity.

Author : Emer O'Dwyer
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684175529

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Significant Soil by Emer O'Dwyer Pdf

"Like all empires, Japan’s prewar empire encompassed diverse territories as well as a variety of political forms for governing such spaces. This book focuses on Japan’s Kwantung Leasehold and Railway Zone in China’s three northeastern provinces. The hybrid nature of the leasehold’s political status vis-à-vis the metropole, the presence of the semipublic and enormously powerful South Manchuria Railway Company, and the region’s vulnerability to inter-imperial rivalries, intra-imperial competition, and Chinese nationalism throughout the first decades of the twentieth century combined to give rise to a distinctive type of settler politics. Settlers sought inclusion within a broad Japanese imperial sphere while successfully utilizing the continental space as a site for political and social innovation.In this study, Emer O’Dwyer traces the history of Japan’s prewar Manchurian empire over four decades, mapping how South Manchuria—and especially its principal city, Dairen—was naturalized as a Japanese space and revealing how this process ultimately contributed to the success of the Japanese army’s early 1930s takeover of Manchuria. Simultaneously, Significant Soil demonstrates the conditional nature of popular support for Kwantung Army state-building in Manchukuo, highlighting the settlers’ determination that the Kwantung Leasehold and Railway Zone remain separate from the project of total empire."

Author : Riccardo Moratto,Defeng Li
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000787689

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Advances in Corpus Applications in Literary and Translation Studies by Riccardo Moratto,Defeng Li Pdf

Professor Riccardo Moratto and Professor Defeng Li present contributions focusing on the interdisciplinarity of corpus studies, with a special emphasis on literary and translation studies which offer a broad and varied picture of the promise and potential of methods and approaches. Inside scholars share their research findings concerning current advances in corpus applications in literary and translation studies and explore possible and tangible collaborative research projects. The volume is split into two sections focusing on the applications of corpora in literary studies and translation studies. Issues explored include historical backgrounds, current trends, theories, methodologies, operational methods, and techniques, as well as training of research students. This international, dynamic, and interdisciplinary exploration of corpus studies and corpus application in various cultural contexts and different countries will provide valuable insights for any researcher in literary or translation studies who wishes to have a better understanding when working with corpora.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 776 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Mechanics, Applied
ISBN : UCAL:C2682433

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Applied Mechanics Reviews by Anonim Pdf

Author : MC Price
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781496932488

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BELLE BREZING by MC Price Pdf

Somewhere between a paperboy’s first cup of chicory coffee and the memories of the Madam who inspired Belle Watling of Gone With the Wind fame, there lies a story of sex, secrets and spiritual redemption. Interweaving portals to the past with the magic of a Spirit Guide called back to his lover’s deathbed, Belle Brezing is a haunting love story about a loyal paperboy on a high-stakes mission: To guide his former lover to remember the secret that forged her rise to fame but closed her heart to love. Belle Brezing, the novel, takes a look at the woman who died in virtual isolation in 1940, decades after her business was closed by the Army in 1917. Brezing was a nationally known southern Madam whose obituary appeared on the front of the NY Times as well as Time Magazine. (1863-1940) Belle Brezing was a charismatic woman who brought herself out of poverty and an emotionally and physically painful early childhood. Shedding light on the connections of a wounded past and a life lived in quiet desperation, the award-winning novel Belle Brezing exposes the scandals and secrets of this dynamic woman whose life parallels timely issues in the arena of prostitution and sex trafficking.

Author : Kevin Robert Aldrich
Publisher : Aldys Books
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Racing Hearts by Kevin Robert Aldrich Pdf

Sometimes the smartest thing is to stop thinking. Lindsay Rhodes owns a data science startup in San Francisco. When her estranged father, Kellen Hart, dies, she must leave her business behind to fly to England to settle his estate. Cormac “Mac” McEwan loved Kellen Hart like his own father. A hell of a lot more, in fact. When Kellen dies, Mac must do everything he can to keep his adopted family, Kellen’s racing business, intact. With Lindsay wanting to get home to her startup and Mac desperate to save Kellen’s business, both hope for a quick solution. But Kellen Hart’s will shows that Kellen had something else in mind. A sexy, heart-wrenching tale of love over logic, Racing Hearts will leave you breathless. Get your copy today!

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 896 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1928
Category : Electrical engineering
ISBN : IOWA:31858044794646

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Selected Papers ...: Theory of sound by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Bioengineering
ISBN : CHI:61756756

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Collected Papers by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11384173

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Publishers' circular and booksellers' record by Anonim Pdf

Author : Carstairs Douglas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11137151

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Chinese-English Dictionary of the vernacular or spoken language of Amoy, with the principal variations of the Chang-Chew and Chin-Chew dialects by Carstairs Douglas Pdf

Author : John Sullivan Dwight
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783375090470

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Dwight's Journal of Music, a Paper of Art and Literature by John Sullivan Dwight Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1865.