The Banana Garden

Author : Dorothy Ko
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0804723591

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Teachers of the Inner Chambers by Dorothy Ko Pdf

This pathbreaking work argues that literate gentry women in 17th-century Jiangnan, far from being oppressed or silenced, created a rich culture and meaningful existence within the constraints of the Confucian system. Momentous socioeconomic and intellectual changes in 17th-century Jiangnan provided the stimulus for the flowering of women's culture. The most salient of these changes included a flourishing of commercial publishing, the rise of a reading public, a new emphasis on emotions, the promotion of women's education, and, more generally, the emergence of new definitions of womanhood. The author reconstructs the social, emotional and intellectual worlds of 17th-century women, and in doing so provides a new way to conceptualize China's past, one offering a more realistic and complete understanding of the values of Chinese culture and the functioning of Chinese society.

Author : Daria Berg,Chloe Starr
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134077038

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The Quest for Gentility in China by Daria Berg,Chloe Starr Pdf

The quest for gentility has shaped Chinese civilization and the formation of culture in China until the present day. This book analyzes social aspirations and cultural practices in China from 1550 to 1999, showing how the notion of gentility has evolved and retained its relevance in China from late imperial times until the modern day. Gentility denotes the way of the gentleman and gentlewoman. The concept of gentility transcends the categories of gender and class and provides important new insights into the ways Chinese men and women lived their lives, perceived their world and constructed their cultural environment. In contrast to analyses of the elite, perceptions of gentility relate to ideals, ambitions, desires, social capital, cultural sophistication, literary refinement, aesthetic appreciation, moral behaviour, femininity and gentlemanly elegance, rather than to actual status or power. Twelve international leading scholars present multi-disciplinary approaches to explore the images, artefacts and transmission of gentility across the centuries in historical and literary situations, popular and high culture, private and official documents, poetry clubs, garden culture and aesthetic guidebooks. This volume changes the ways we look at Chinese cultural history, literature, women and gender issues and offers new perspectives on Chinese sources.

Author : Kang-i Sun Chang,Haun Saussy,Charles Yim-tze Kwong
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 932 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0804732310

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Women Writers of Traditional China by Kang-i Sun Chang,Haun Saussy,Charles Yim-tze Kwong Pdf

The book also includes an extended section of criticism by and about women writers.

Author : Eggert Gunnarsson
Publisher : Booktrail Publishing
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 163767922X

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The Banana Garden by Eggert Gunnarsson Pdf

With little warning, government security and military bodies around the world lock down their countries and go underground as storms on unprecedented scale hit all regions of the globe with ferocity never seen before. Resulting in millions of deaths and widespread destruction. Warnings of the effects of climate change have fallen on deaf ears for too long. Adrian Charles, spin doctor for the UK Government, with the aid of his new-found love a colleague, Ellen, sets about investigating and reporting on the universal disaster from a top-secret division of the BBC. Many of the world leaders have disappeared and billionaire Okar Brag has a surprising agenda. The crew of the international space station witness activities of unknown origin around the Earth. The mystery unfolds as Earth's society teeters on the brink of collapse. What will the future bring after the storms?

Author : Daria Berg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136290220

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Women and the Literary World in Early Modern China, 1580-1700 by Daria Berg Pdf

Exploring the works of key women writers within their cultural, artistic and socio-political contexts, this book considers changes in the perception of women in early modern China. The sixteenth century brought rapid developments in technology, commerce and the publishing industry that saw women emerging in new roles as both consumers and producers of culture. This book examines the place of women in the cultural elite and in society more generally, reconstructing examples of particular women’s personal experiences, and retracing the changing roles of women from the late Ming to the early Qing era (1580-1700). Providing rich detail of exceptionally fine, interesting and engaging literary works, this book opens fascinating new windows onto the lives, dreams, nightmares, anxieties and desires of the authors and the world out of which they emerged.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781134077045

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The Quest for Gentility in China by Anonim Pdf

Author : Milena Doleželová-Velingerová,Oldřich Král,Graham Sanders
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684173648

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The Appropriation of Cultural Capital by Milena Doleželová-Velingerová,Oldřich Král,Graham Sanders Pdf

"For much of the twentieth century, the May Fourth movement of 1919 was seen as the foundational moment of modernity in China. Recent examinations of literary and cultural modernity in China have, however, led to a questioning of this view. By approaching May Fourth from novel perspectives, the authors of the eight studies in this volume seek to contribute to the ongoing critique of the movement. The essays are centered on the intellectual and cultural/historical motivations and practices behind May Fourth discourse and highlight issues such as strategies of discourse formation, scholarly methodologies, rhetorical dispositions, the manipulation of historical sources, and the construction of modernity by means of the reification of China’s literary past."

Author : Ellen Widmer
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781684174362

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The Beauty and the Book by Ellen Widmer Pdf

"Women entered the book trade in significant numbers in China during the late sixteenth century, when it became acceptable for women from “good families” to write poetry and seek to publish their collected poems. At about the same time, a boom in the publication of fiction began, and semiprofessional novelists emerged.This study begins with three case studies, each of which probes one facet of the relationship between women and fiction in the early nineteenth century. It examines in turn the prefaces written by four women for a novel about women; the activities of a woman editor and writer of fiction; and writings on fiction by three leading literary women. Building on these case studies, the second half of the book focuses on the many sequels to the Dream of the Red Chamber—one of which was demonstrably written by a woman—and the significance of this novel for women. As Ellen Widmer shows, by the end of the century, women were becoming increasingly involved in the novel as critical readers, writers, and editors. And if women and their relationship to fiction changed over the nineteenth century, the novel changed as well, not the least in its growing recognition of the importance of female readers."

Author : Alan Fox
Publisher : Benji
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-16
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1605373443

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Benji and the 24 Pound Banana Squash by Alan Fox Pdf

With seeds he saved from a squash they had for dinner last year, Benji plants and carefully tends a plant in their spring garden with the goal of growing a giant banana squash.

Author : Lily Xiao Hong Lee,Clara Lau,A.D. Stefanowska
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317475873

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Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women: v. 1: The Qing Period, 1644-1911 by Lily Xiao Hong Lee,Clara Lau,A.D. Stefanowska Pdf

The first biographical dictionary in any Western language devoted solely to Chinese women, this reference is the product of years of research, translation, and writing by a team of over 60 China scholars from around the world. Compiled from a wide array of original sources, these detailed biographies present the lives, work, and significance of more than 200 Chinese women from many different backgrounds and areas of interest.

Author : Ursula Nafula
Publisher : African Storybook Initiative
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PKEY:b5e881c7-067a-4f1b-aa86-3b8cc15a4c4d

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Grandma's Bananas by Ursula Nafula Pdf

The little girl is curious as she watches her grandma preparing to ripen bananas.

Author : Dan Koeppel
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2007-12-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781101213919

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Banana by Dan Koeppel Pdf

A gripping biological detective story that uncovers the myth, mystery, and endangered fate of the world’s most humble fruit To most people, a banana is a banana: a simple yellow fruit. Americans eat more bananas than apples and oranges combined. In others parts of the world, bananas are what keep millions of people alive. But for all its ubiquity, the banana is surprisingly mysterious; nobody knows how bananas evolved or exactly where they originated. Rich cultural lore surrounds the fruit: In ancient translations of the Bible, the “apple” consumed by Eve is actually a banana (it makes sense, doesn’t it?). Entire Central American nations have been said to rise and fall over the banana. But the biggest mystery about the banana today is whether it will survive. A seedless fruit with a unique reproductive system, every banana is a genetic duplicate of the next, and therefore susceptible to the same blights. Today’s yellow banana, the Cavendish, is increasingly threatened by such a blight—and there’s no cure in sight. Banana combines a pop-science journey around the globe, a fascinating tale of an iconic American business enterprise, and a look into the alternately tragic and hilarious banana subculture (one does exist)—ultimately taking us to the high-tech labs where new bananas are literally being built in test tubes, in a race to save the world’s most beloved fruit.

Author : Hardie Alison
Publisher : Shanghai Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781938368882

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An Illustrated Brief History of Chinese Gardens by Hardie Alison Pdf

There are many books published in English on Chinese gardens, but the majority are primarily picture books with little informative content. With a large number of illustrations of Chinese gardens, ancient paintings, block prints, and other artefacts, this book is a social history of Chinese gardens and focuses on how gardens have functioned and been used in Chinese society through the ages. Apart from the aesthetic or philosophical aspects of Chinese gardens, you may see how gardens functioned as real estate, how they gave opportunities of employment to skilled artisans, how they opened up outdoor space to both elite and lower-class women, how they allowed men of different social classes and of different ethnicities to interact and gain mutual benefit: in short, how the existence of gardens exerted an influence on society as a whole. At the same time, the reader can find how the wider society, and even socio-economic changes beyond China's own borders, had an impact on how gardens in China developed.

Author : Claire Masset
Publisher : National Trust
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-16
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781911358299

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Secret Gardens by Claire Masset Pdf

A whimsical and beautiful book celebrating these hidden gems of the National Trust – from specially made secret gardens to overlooked corners of famous gardens and re-discovered lost gardens. Stunning photographs of the Trust’s idiosyncratic gardens are accompanied by a light text meditating on the magic of the secret garden, and bringing in fascinating historical and botanical details. The book will include secret mazes, hidden corners, walled gardens, lost gardens, gardens that are only open one day a year, follies, orchards, dens, memorials, strange statues, stumperies, huts, ice houses, wendy houses, fairy gates and pixie houses. The gardens featured include the palm-filled Overbeck’s in Devon, Peckover House in Cambridgeshire, which bursts with exotic specimens found on Victorian plant-hunting expeditions, and Monk’s House in East Sussex, where the garden proved a refuge for Virginia Woolf.

Author : Susan Mann,Yu-Yin Cheng
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0520222741

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Under Confucian Eyes by Susan Mann,Yu-Yin Cheng Pdf

"This important volume adds a significant number of new and unique materials for teachers at all levels of higher education to use in classroom and seminar discussion about the issues of gender, society, and religion in imperial China."--Benjamin Elman, author of A Cultural History of Civil Examinations in Late Imperial China "The eighteen primary documents in this anthology, all of them translated for the first time, provide a rich array of sources on the lives of women in China's past. The anthology is important not only for the selection of documents but for the ways it suggests we can think about, and find sources about, women in China. It is must reading for scholars and students alike."--Ann Waltner, author of The World of a Late Ming Visionary: T'an-Yang-Tzu and Her Followers