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Author : Mary Hooker
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (246 download)
Download or read book Behind the Scenes in Peking written by Mary Hooker and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mary Hooker
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
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Download or read book Behind the Scenes in Peking written by Mary Hooker and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rachel DeWoskin
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393340074
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (933 download)
Download or read book Foreign Babes in Beijing: Behind the Scenes of a New China written by Rachel DeWoskin and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2010-07-26 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “For a real insider’s look at life in modern China, readers should turn to Rachel DeWoskin.”—Sophie Beach, The Economist Determined to broaden her cultural horizons and live a “fiery” life, twenty-one-year-old Rachel DeWoskin hops on a plane to Beijing to work for an American PR firm based in the busy capital. Before she knows it, she is not just exploring Chinese culture but also creating it as the sexy, aggressive, fearless Jiexi, the starring femme fatale in a wildly successful Chinese soap opera. Experiencing the cultural clashes in real life while performing a fictional version onscreen, DeWoskin forms a group of friends with whom she witnesses the vast changes sweeping through China as the country pursues the new maxim, “to get rich is glorious.” In only a few years, China’s capital is transformed. With “considerable cultural and linguistic resources” (The New Yorker), DeWoskin captures Beijing at this pivotal juncture in her “intelligent, funny memoir” (People), and “readers will feel lucky to have sharp-eyed, yet sisterly, DeWoskin sitting in the driver’s seat”(Elle).
Author : MARY. HOOKER
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781033159309
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (593 download)
Download or read book BEHIND THE SCENES IN PEKING written by MARY. HOOKER and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mary Hooker
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781016835961
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (359 download)
Download or read book Behind the Scenes in Peking, Being Experiences During the Siege of the Legations written by Mary Hooker and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Mary Hooker
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781333428464
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (284 download)
Download or read book Behind the Scenes in Peking written by Mary Hooker and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-08-31 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Behind the Scenes in Peking: Being Experiences During the Siege of the Legations IT does not fall to the lot of every woman - or man, either - to go through a siege, especially one so remarkable, and, indeed, unique in many of its features, as that of the Legations in Peking. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Susan Naquin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520923454
Total Pages : 862 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (234 download)
Download or read book Peking written by Susan Naquin and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2001-01-15 with total page 862 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The central character in Susan Naquin's extraordinary new book is the city of Peking during the Ming and Qing periods. Using the city's temples as her point of entry, Naquin carefully excavates Peking's varied public arenas, the city's transformation over five centuries, its human engagements, and its rich cultural imprint. This study shows how modern Beijing's glittering image as China's great and ancient capital came into being and reveals the shifting identities of a much more complex past, one whose rich social and cultural history Naquin splendidly evokes. Temples, by providing a place where diverse groups could gather without the imprimatur of family or state, made possible a surprising assortment of community-building and identity-defining activities. By revealing how religious establishments of all kinds were used for fairs, markets, charity, tourism, politics, and leisured sociability, Naquin shows their decisive impact on Peking and, at the same time, illuminates their little-appreciated role in Chinese cities generally. Lacking most of the conventional sources for urban history, she has relied particularly on a trove of commemorative inscriptions that express ideas about the relationship between human beings and gods, about community service and public responsibility, about remembering and being remembered. The result is a book that will be essential reading in the field of Chinese studies for years to come.
Author : Grant Hayter-Menzies
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
ISBN 13 : 9888083007
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (88 download)
Download or read book The Empress and Mrs. Conger written by Grant Hayter-Menzies and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of two women from worlds that could not seem farther apart--imperial China and the American Midwest--who found common ground before and after one of the greatest clashes between East and West, the fifty-five day siege of the Beijing foreign legations known as the Boxer Uprising. Using diaries, letters and other sources,The Empress and Mrs. Congertraces the parallel lives of Empress Dowager Cixi and American ambassador's wife Sarah Pike Conger, which converged to alter their perspectives of each other and each other's worlds. Grant Hayter-Menziesis the author ofImperial Masquerade: The Legend of Princess Der Lingand the biographer of stage and screen stars Charlotte Greenwood and Billie Burke. "Sarah Conger's story is worth telling for many reasons. She occupied a point in time that makes her interesting, but the author demonstrates that she is interesting in her own right-a flawed and fascinating individual whose story we want to read not for what we learn about Chinese history, but for what we learn about a woman profoundly typical of her era and class leading a life of determination in the belief that the right combination of positive attitudes and common sense must win out over adversity." - Timothy Brook, University of British Columbia
Author : Rachel DeWoskin
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393059021
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (59 download)
Download or read book Foreign Babes in Beijing written by Rachel DeWoskin and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2005 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Determined to broaden her cultural horizons and live a “fiery” life, twenty-one-year-old Rachel DeWoskin hops on a plane to Beijing to work for an American PR firm based in the busy capital. Before she knows it, she is not just exploring Chinese culture but also creating it as the sexy, aggressive, fearless Jiexi, the starring femme fatale in a wildly successful Chinese soap opera. Experiencing the cultural clashes in real life while performing a fictional version onscreen, DeWoskin forms a group of friends with whom she witnesses the vast changes sweeping through China as the country pursues the new maxim, “to get rich is glorious.” In only a few years, China’s capital is transformed. With “considerable cultural and linguistic resources” (The New Yorker), DeWoskin captures Beijing at this pivotal juncture in her “intelligent, funny memoir” (People), and “readers will feel lucky to have sharp-eyed, yet sisterly, DeWoskin sitting in the driver’s seat”(Elle).
Author : Mary Hooker
Publisher : Scholar's Choice
ISBN 13 : 9781296371777
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (717 download)
Download or read book Behind the Scenes in Peking - Scholar's Choice Edition written by Mary Hooker and published by Scholar's Choice. This book was released on 2015-02-19 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Mary Hooker
Publisher : Nabu Press
ISBN 13 : 9781295514427
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (144 download)
Download or read book Behind the Scenes in Peking, Being Experiences During the Siege of the Legations - Primary Source Edition written by Mary Hooker and published by Nabu Press. This book was released on 2014-01-13 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
Author : Lorraine Sterry
Publisher : Global Oriental
ISBN 13 : 9004213090
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Victorian Women Travellers in Meiji Japan written by Lorraine Sterry and published by Global Oriental. This book was released on 2009-01-29 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Complementing other published works about travel by nineteenth-century women writers by locating and creating ‘space’ for Japan is missing within recent critical discourses on travel writing, it examines narratives of women writers who travelled to Japan from the mid-1850s onwards, and became a highly desirable travel destination thereafter.
Author : Julia Boyd
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 085773184X
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)
Download or read book A Dance with the Dragon written by Julia Boyd and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-02-28 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its fossil hunters and philosophers, diplomats, dropouts, writers and explorers, missionaries and refugees, Peking's foreign community in the early 20th century was as exotic as the city itself. Always a magnet for larger than life individuals, Peking attracted characters as diverse as Reginald Johnston (tutor to the last emperor), Bertrand Russell, Pierre Loti, Rabrindranath Tagore, Sven Hedin, Peter Fleming, Wallis Simpson and Cecil Lewis. The last great capital to remain untouched by the modern world, Peking both entranced and horrified its foreign residents. Ignoring the poverty outside their gates, they danced, played and squabbled among themselves, oblivious to the great political events that were to shape modern China unfolding around them. This is a dazzling portrait of an eclectic foreign community and of China itself.
Author : United States. Central Intelligence Agency
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
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Author : Ruocheng Ying
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0742555542
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (425 download)
Download or read book Voices Carry written by Ruocheng Ying and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2009 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Voices Carry is the moving autobiography of one of China's most prominent citizens of the twentieth century. Ying Ruocheng's lively narrative takes us from his prison cell during the Cultural Revolution back to the princely palace of his childhood. In vivid detail, he describes his unconventional education during China's revolution, which ultimately led to his theatrical work in the era of reform, ranging from a partnership with Arthur Miller on Death of a Salesman to roles in the films The Last Emperor and Little Buddha. The memoir of this internationally renowned actor, director, translator, and high-ranking government official during events in Tiananmen Square in 1989 provides a rare glimpse behind the scenes of contemporary Chinese culture and politics."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Sunghan Ryu
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1071910000
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (719 download)
Download or read book Guide to Digital Innovation in the Cultural and Creative Industry written by Sunghan Ryu and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2024-03-19 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The digital age has brought significant changes to the cultural and creative industries, making it challenging to keep up with the latest trends. The Guide to Digital Innovation in the Cultural and Creative Industry is an informative resource that can help you navigate the revolution. It not only provides a comprehensive understanding of how digital transformation affects existing industries but also outlines emerging business opportunities. Whether you′re an experienced professional or a beginner, this book is an essential resource that will equip you with the knowledge and tools you need to succeed in the rapidly evolving landscape of the cultural and creative industries. Dive into: Democratizing creation: Discover how digital tools break down barriers and empower creators of all levels. From platforms to possibilities: Explore online video streaming, ebook publishing, virtual museums, and more, witnessing the rise of innovative business models. Cutting-edge tech, boundless potential: Delve into AI, blockchain, VR/AR, and other emerging technologies, understanding how they reshape content production, distribution, and consumption. Case studies that examine real-world scenarios, from the digital subscriptions of the New York Times to music consumption in the Spotify era.
