Ye Xian

Author : Adeline Yen Mah
Publisher : Laurel Leaf
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2009-05-06
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780307482808

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Chinese Cinderella by Adeline Yen Mah Pdf

More than 800,000 copies in print! From the author of critically acclaimed and bestselling memoir Falling Leaves, this is a poignant and moving true account of her childhood, growing up as an unloved daughter in 1940s China. A Chinese proverb says, "Falling leaves return to their roots." In her own courageous voice, Adeline Yen Mah returns to her roots to tell the story of her painful childhood and her ultimate triumph in the face of despair. Adeline's affluent, powerful family considers her bad luck after her mother dies giving birth to her, and life does not get any easier when her father remarries. Adeline and her siblings are subjected to the disdain of her stepmother, while her stepbrother and stepsister are spoiled with gifts and attention. Although Adeline wins prizes at school, they are not enough to compensate for what she really yearns for -- the love and understanding of her family. Like the classic Cinderella story, this powerful memoir is a moving story of resilience and hope. Includes an Author's Note, a 6-page photo insert, a historical note, and the Chinese text of the original Chinese Cinderella. A PW BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR AN ALA-YALSA BEST BOOK FOR YOUNG ADULTS “One of the most inspiring books I have ever read.” –The Guardian

Author : Jeff Pepper
Publisher : Imagin8 LLC
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1952601185

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Ye Xian by Jeff Pepper Pdf

The story of Cinderella is possibly the world's most popular folk tale. The earliest known version is from Greece around two thousand years ago, and over the next thousand years, it traveled to France, Italy and Germany, and eventually to the Walt Disney studio in America. But as the Cinderella story traveled from Greece to Western Europe, it was also carried eastward to Asia along the Silk Road and other ancient trade routes. The story of Ye Xian in this book is the oldest known Asian version, first appearing in a book of folk tales by Duan Chengshi in 860 AD. That story was told in just 750 Chinese words. The Ye Xian story matches the modern Cinderella story more closely than later European versions. But unlike the Disney movie, it does not simply end with the heroine marrying and living happily ever after. The story is more complex and more interesting, showing Zhuang, Hindu, Buddhist, and Chinese influences. In this book, the best-selling writing team of Pepper and Wang retell this wonderful story using just 450 different Chinese words, most of which are in the standard 1200-word HSK4 vocabulary. This limited vocabulary makes the story easily accessible to beginning and intermediate students of Chinese. A glossary of all words is in the back of the book, along with an English translation. A free audiobook version is available on the Imagin8 Press channel of YouTube, and also at www.imagin8press.com.

Author : Graham Seal,Kim Kennedy White
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781440838613

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Folk Heroes and Heroines around the World by Graham Seal,Kim Kennedy White Pdf

This comprehensive collection of folk hero tales builds on the success of the first edition by providing readers with expanded contextual information on story characters from the Americas to Zanzibar. Despite the tremendous differences between cultures and ethnicities across the world, all of them have folk heroes and heroines—real and imagined—that have been represented in tales, legends, songs, and verse. These stories persist through time and space, over generations, even through migrations to new countries and languages. This encyclopedia is a one-stop source for broad coverage of the world's folk hero tales. Geared toward high school and early college readers, the book opens with an overview of folk heroes and heroines that provides invaluable context and then presents a chronology. The book is divided into two main sections: the first provides entries on the major types and themes; the second addresses specific folk tale characters organized by continent with folk hero entries organized alphabetically. Each entry provides cross references as well as a list of further readings. Continent sections include a bibliography for additional research. The book concludes with an alphabetical list of heroes and an index of hero types.

Author : James H. Cole
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 1492 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : China
ISBN : 0765603950

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Twentieth Century China by James H. Cole Pdf

Emphasizing reference works published since 1964, these volumes cover books, periodicals, and inclusions (i.e., chapters in edited volumes) on the 1911 Revolution, the Republic of China (1949--), post-1911 Taiwan, post-1911 Hong Kong and Macao, and post-1911 overseas Chinese.

Author : Sucheta Mazumdar
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 682 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684170258

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Sugar and Society in China by Sucheta Mazumdar Pdf

In this wide-ranging study, Sucheta Mazumdar offers a new answer to the fundamental question of why China, universally acknowledged one of the most developed economies in the world through the mid-eighteenth century, paused in this development process in the nineteenth. Focusing on cane-sugar production, domestic and international trade, technology, and the history of consumption for over a thousand years as a means of framing the larger questions, the author shows that the economy of late imperial China was not stagnant, nor was the state suppressing trade; indeed, China was integrated into the world market well before the Opium War. But clearly the trajectory of development did not transform the social organization of production or set in motion sustained economic growth.

Author : United States. Defense Mapping Agency
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 936 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : China
ISBN : PSU:000015679697

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Gazetteer of the People's Republic of China by United States. Defense Mapping Agency Pdf

Author : Amy Tak-yee Lai
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2009-03-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443808422

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Chinese Women Writers in Diaspora by Amy Tak-yee Lai Pdf

The mention of Chinese women writers in diaspora immediately brings to mind Jung Chang (b. 1952) and her Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China (1991), which won the 1992 NCR book award and the 1993 British Book of the Year Award, and got officially banned in China. Despite its popular reception and crucial acclaim, Chang’s work has invited a lot of attacks. Among the most common is the contention that it merely focuses on the experience of the privileged and does not tell the reader what other memoirs have not already revealed. Chinese Women Writers in Diaspora is a pioneering study that focuses on four Chinese women writers currently living in the United States and England, whose works have been popularly received—and are in many cases, highly controversial—but have received little scholarly attention: Xinran (b. 1958), Hong Ying (b. 1962), Anchee Min (b. 1957), and Adeline Yen Mah (b. 1937). The chapters illuminate how Xinran constructs her identity and her fellow Chinese women in dialectics of self and other; how Hong Ying evokes cycles of return that blend Western and Chinese philosophical concepts; how Min employs images of theatre and theatrical conventions to depict the entrapment and transgression of her protagonists; and how Mah transliterates and appropriates both Western and Chinese fairy tale motifs to fashion her Chinese feminist utopia. While Jung Chang’s memoir seems confining, it has aroused interest in the genre of Chinese female autobiography, and Chinese women writers who live and write between cultures.

Author : 牽絲文化ciansih
Publisher : 牽絲文化
Page : 1085 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9798988596646

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Fine Time by 牽絲文化ciansih Pdf

If you have one chance, you can make the choice of love all over again. You know what? A lot of times, what we think is the truth is actually that's not true. There's an old Chinese saying.

Author : Jack Zipes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135853945

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The Enchanted Screen by Jack Zipes Pdf

The Enchanted Screen: The Unknown History of Fairy-Tale Films offers readers a long overdue, comprehensive look at the rich history of fairy tales and their influence on film, complete with the inclusion of an extensive filmography compiled by the author. With this book, Jack Zipes not only looks at the extensive, illustrious life of fairy tales and cinema, but he also reminds us that, decades before Walt Disney made his mark on the genre, fairy tales were central to the birth of cinema as a medium, as they offered cheap, copyright-free material that could easily engage audiences not only though their familiarity but also through their dazzling special effects. Since the story of fairy tales on film stretches far beyond Disney, this book, therefore, discusses a broad range of films silent, English and non-English, animation, live-action, puppetry, woodcut, montage (Jim Henson), cartoon, and digital. Zipes, thus, gives his readers an in depth look into the special relationship between fairy tales and cinema, and guides us through this vast array of films by tracing the adaptations of major fairy tales like "Little Red Riding Hood," "Cinderella," "Snow White," "Peter Pan," and many more, from their earliest cinematic appearances to today. Full of insight into some of our most beloved films and stories, and boldly illustrated with numerous film stills, The Enchanted Screen, is essential reading for film buffs and fans of the fairy tale alike.

Author : Debin Ma
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780804772730

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Law and Long-Term Economic Change by Debin Ma Pdf

This edited volume provides a unique multidisciplinary perspective on the relationship between legal regimes and long-term economic development across major civilizations in Eurasia.

Author : Qitao Guo
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0804750327

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Ritual Opera and Mercantile Lineage by Qitao Guo Pdf

Focusing on the Confucian transformation of Mulian opera, and especially on the interplay between the "civilizing" effect of ritual performance and the rise of gentrified mercantile lineages in sixteenth-century Huizhou prefecture, this book develops a radically novel interpretation of both Chinese popular culture and the Confucian tradition in late imperial China.

Author : Hing Ming Hung
Publisher : Algora Publishing
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781628941524

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From the Mongols to the Ming Dynasty by Hing Ming Hung Pdf

A beggar, an itinerant monk, leapt to greatness during a tumultuous epoch and went on to found the Ming Dynasty of China (1368--1644). As a destitute peasant with nothing to lose, he started a local rebellion; success built on success. Defeating local warlords, Zhu Yuan Zhang conquered all the southern part of China, then sent his army north and took the rest. By unifying many Chinese lands, he brought peace and prosperity after a long period of tumult. He is honored with the temple name of Ming Taizu, Grand Ancestor of Ming.

Author : Yi Lingxuan
Publisher : Funstory
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781646770083

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Rebirth Husband's Ceaseless Love by Yi Lingxuan Pdf

For the sake of her so-called love, she gave up her billionaire ex-husband and married off Phoenix Man. After the marriage, the husband revealed his true colors and flower name, and also let her raise his illegitimate child. When she realized that the fortune of the Wanshui Family was taken over by him in an instant, he set a trap for her to be tainted, she was afflicted with disease, and she died tragically on the streets. Once they were reborn, she vowed to make them pay! Husband cheating? If he switched them out, his future would be ruined! Little San came to visit? She stole the child of the third child, making her live a life worse than death! Grandma mocked her for not being able to have children? A year after she remarried, she successfully gave birth to twins. "But why did the ex-husband of the dean chase after her relentlessly?" Li Qing Cang, we have already divorced.

Author : Robert Marks
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1998-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139425513

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Tigers, Rice, Silk, and Silt by Robert Marks Pdf

Challenging conventional Western wisdom, Marks examines the relationship between economic and environmental changes in the imperial Chinese provinces of Guangdong and Guangxi (a region historically known as Lingnan, 'South of the Mountains') from 1400 to 1850.

Author : James H. Cole
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1091 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317453222

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Twentieth Century China: An Annotated Bibliography of Reference Works in Chinese, Japanese and Western Languages by James H. Cole Pdf

This bibliography of reference works from Chinese, Japanese and Western language sources covers: the 1911 Revolution; the Republic of China (1912-1949); the People's Republic of China (1949 onwards); post-1911 Hong Kong and Macau; and post-1911 overseas Chinese. Filled with helpful checklists, charts, and suggestions for further reading, this practical, comprehensive, and multidisciplinary guide takes readers through the entire case-writing process, including skills for writing both teaching cases and research cases. This edition includes new discussions of students as case writers, and how to interpret and respond to reviews, as well as updated and expanded material on video, multimedia and Internet cases.