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Download or read book Beijing Bastard written by Val Wang and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-11-03 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A humorous and moving coming-of-age story that brings a unique, not-quite-outsider’s perspective to China’s shift from ancient empire to modern superpower Raised in a strict Chinese American household in the suburbs, Val Wang dutifully got good grades, took piano lessons, and performed in a Chinese dance troupe—until she shaved her head and became a leftist, the stuff of many teenage rebellions. But Val’s true mutiny was when she moved to China, the land her parents had fled before the Communist takeover in 1949. Val arrives in Beijing in 1998 expecting to find freedom but instead lives in the old city with her traditional relatives, who wake her at dawn with the sound of a state-run television program playing next to her cot, make a running joke of how much she eats, and monitor her every move. But outside, she soon discovers a city rebelling against its roots just as she is, struggling too to find a new, modern identity. Rickshaws make way for taxicabs, skyscrapers replace hutong courtyard houses, and Beijing prepares to make its debut on the world stage with the 2008 Olympics. And in the gritty outskirts of the city where she moves, a thriving avant-garde subculture is making art out of the chaos. Val plunges into the city’s dizzying culture and nightlife and begins shooting a documentary about a Peking Opera family who is witnessing the death of their traditional art. Brilliantly observed and winningly told, Beijing Bastard is a compelling story of a young woman finding her place in the world, and of China, as its ancient past gives way to a dazzling but uncertain future.
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Download or read book BEIJING BASTARD, THE SIXTH GENERATION DIRECTORS. written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chinese Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Insider's Guide to Beijing written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Six Contemporary Chinese Women Writers IV. written by and published by Beijing : Chinese Literature Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Beijing Review written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 920 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book China Tourism written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Far Eastern Economic Review written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 1036 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bastard Moon written by Wenche Ommundsen and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Beijing Payback written by Daniel Nieh and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-07-23 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Propulsive. . . . Highly enjoyable. . . . It sets up a sequel, one that I very much look forward to reading.” —The New York Times Book Review A fresh, smart, and fast-paced revenge thriller about a college basketball player who discovers shocking truths about his family in the wake of his father’s murder Victor Li is devastated by his father’s murder, and shocked by a confessional letter he finds among his father’s things. In it, his father admits that he was never just a restaurateur—in fact he was part of a vast international crime syndicate that formed during China’s leanest communist years. Victor travels to Beijing, where he navigates his father’s secret criminal life, confronting decades-old grudges, violent spats, and a shocking new enterprise that the organization wants to undertake. Standing up against it is likely what got his father killed, but Victor remains undeterred. He enlists his growing network of allies and friends to finish what his father started, no matter the costs.
Download or read book One Red Bastard written by Ed Lin and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When 1976 New York's Chinatown is thrown into turmoil by Chairman Mao's daughter's efforts to defect, detective-in-training Robert Chow is challenged to prove his girlfriend's innocence after a Chinese representative she has interviewed is found dead.
Download or read book China Dream written by Ma Jian and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blending fact and fiction, this darkly comic fable “may be the purest distillation yet of Mr. Ma’s talent for probing the country’s darkest corners and exposing what he regards as the Communist Party’s moral failings” (Mike Ives, The New York Times). Called “Red Guards meet Kurt Vonnegut . . . powerful!" by Margaret Atwood on Twitter, China Dream is an unflinching satire of totalitarianism. Ma Daode, a corrupt and lecherous party official, is feeling pleased with himself. He has an impressive office, three properties, and multiple mistresses who text him day and night. After decades of loyal service, he has been appointed director of the China Dream Bureau, charged with replacing people's private dreams with President Xi Jinping's great China Dream of national rejuvenation. But just as he is about to present his plan for a mass golden wedding anniversary celebration, his sanity begins to unravel. Suddenly plagued by flashbacks of the Cultural Revolution, Ma Daode's nightmare visions from the past threaten to destroy his dream of a glorious future. Exposing the damage inflicted on a nation's soul when authoritarian regimes, driven by an insatiable hunger for power, seek to erase memory, rewrite history, and falsify the truth, China Dream is a dystopian vision of repression, violence, and state–imposed amnesia that is set not in the future, but in China today.
Book Synopsis Blackmail in Beijing by : Roger B. Schagrin
Download or read book Blackmail in Beijing written by Roger B. Schagrin and published by Inkwater Press. This book was released on 2013-09-18 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EXCERPT: Minister Ma lowered her tone to just above a whisper. "Mr. Ambassador, I suggest that before we discuss business that you look at the contents of the envelope on the table." He untied the string closing the envelope and as he reached inside he felt photographs. His heart stopped. Inside were photos of him engaging in sexual activity with Sue Chang. "Do you really want to be a martyr, Mr. Ambassador?" Ma asked. "Instead you could be like your predecessor, claim diplomatic victory and progress."
Book Synopsis Chinese-language Film by : Sheldon H. Lu
Download or read book Chinese-language Film written by Sheldon H. Lu and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive work on Chinese film, this text explores the manifold dimensions of the subject and highlights areas overlooked in previous studies. Leading scholars take up issues and topics covering the entire range of Chinese cinema.
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Download or read book Southeast Review of Asian Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Asian Cinema written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
