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Author : William Boyd
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0359896200
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (598 download)
Download or read book China Mirror written by William Boyd and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry Rosemont
Publisher : Open Court Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A Chinese Mirror written by Henry Rosemont and published by Open Court Publishing. This book was released on 1991 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Henry Rosemont raises hard questions, commonly overlooked, and does so with sensitivity, compassion, and broad understanding. The questions focus on modern China, but extend far beyond, to general problems of development, the moral foundations of civilization, and the nature of a just society. It is a challenging and thoughtful enquiry." --Noam Chomsky
Author : Laikwan Pang
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824830938
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)
Download or read book The Distorting Mirror written by Laikwan Pang and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2007-10-31 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Distorting Mirror analyzes the multiple and complex ways in which urban Chinese subjects saw themselves interacting with the new visual culture that emerged during the turbulent period between the 1880s and the 1930s. The media and visual forms examined include lithography, photography, advertising, film, and theatrical performances. Urbanites actively engaged with and enjoyed this visual culture, which was largely driven by the subjective desire for the empty promises of modernity—promises comprised of such abstract and fleeting concepts as new, exciting, and fashionable. Detailing and analyzing the trajectories of development of various visual representations, Laikwan Pang emphasizes their interactions. In doing so, she demonstrates that visual modernity was not only a combination of independent cultural phenomena, but also a partially coherent sociocultural discourse whose influences were seen in different and collective parts of the culture. The work begins with an overall historical account and theorization of a new lithographic pictorial culture developing at the end of the nineteenth century and an examination of modernity’s obsession with the investigation of the real. Subsequent chapters treat the fascination with the image of the female body in the new visual culture; entertainment venues in which this culture unfolded and was performed; how urbanites came to terms with and interacted with the new reality; and the production and reception of images, the dynamics between these two being a theme explored throughout the book. Modernity, as the author shows, can be seen as spectacle. At the same time, she demonstrates that, although the excessiveness of this spectacle captivated the modern subject, it did not completely overwhelm or immobilize those who engaged with it. After all, she argues, they participated in and performed with this ephemeral visual culture in an attempt to come to terms with their own new, modern self.
Author : Roland Michaud
Publisher : Flammarion-Pere Castor
ISBN 13 : 9782080300607
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (6 download)
Download or read book China in a Mirror written by Roland Michaud and published by Flammarion-Pere Castor. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " ... Using the mirror as their motif, photographer-poets Roland and Sabrina Michaud pair traditional Chinese artworks with their own photographs taken over a period of nearly twenty years ..."--Back cover.
Author : Pamela Kyle Crossley
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520234243
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book A Translucent Mirror written by Pamela Kyle Crossley and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2002-04-16 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Translucent Mirror explores the origins of nationalism and cultural identity in China, revealing how the Qing dynasty incorporated neighbouring but disparate political traditions into a new style of imperialism.
Author : Friedrich Hirth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Chinese Metallic Mirrors written by Friedrich Hirth and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Chihua Wen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429972369
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book The Red Mirror written by Chihua Wen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-12 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These evocative stories bring to life the tragic personal impact of the Cultural Revolution on the families of China's intellectuals. Now adults, survivors recall their childhood during the tumultuous years between 1965 and 1976, when Mao's death finally drew a curtain on a bitterly failed social and political experiment.A series of first-person narratives eloquently describes the life-long influence of this seminal period on China's children. Those who were teenagers in the late 1960s joined the Red Guards and the revolutionary rebel groups, following Mao's directives to make revolution, often to their own undoing. Those who were too young to participate directly were even more vulnerable. Although they had little understanding of the political firestorm that engulfed their parents, they were old enough to understand and feel the terror it brought. Vividly capturing the emotional intensity of the time, these stories explore what it was like to be caught up in revolutionary fervor, to be sent to the countryside, to be separated,either ideologically or physically,from one's parents, often forever.By undermining families and family structure, the Cultural Revolution created a generation of Chinese who view politics, the Communist Party, and life itself with deep cynicism. Presenting a spectrum of individual stories of people who saw the Cultural Revolution through the eyes of a child, The Red Mirror offers rare insights for understanding the crippling legacy of the Cultural Revolution.
Author : Michael Farman
Publisher : White Pine Press (NY)
ISBN 13 : 9781935210498
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (14 download)
Download or read book Jade Mirror written by Michael Farman and published by White Pine Press (NY). This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A delectable selection of poems by China's greatest women poets in translations of exquisite beauty. A rare achievement!"--Red Pine "Jade Mirror's particular strength comes from the fact that all of its fine translators bring to the work different senses of where poetry is to be found in the originals as well present some of the finest poetic translation of the last twenty years."--Jerome Seaton This anthology spans twenty-five hundred years of writing by women. These are voices that were most often left out of the official anthologies and represent a hidden tradition that deserves a wider audience.
Author : Mirra Ginsburg
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780152175085
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (75 download)
Download or read book The Chinese Mirror written by Mirra Ginsburg and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1988 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A retelling of a traditional Korean tale in which a mirror brought from China causes confusion within a family as each member looks in it and sees a different stranger.
Author : Stephen W. Durrant
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791426555
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (265 download)
Download or read book The Cloudy Mirror written by Stephen W. Durrant and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sima Qian's writings have influenced the Chinese for over 2,000 years and still serve as a fiscal source of historical information about China.
Author : Florence Wheelock Ayscough
Publisher : London : J. Cape
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (45 download)
Download or read book A Chinese Mirror written by Florence Wheelock Ayscough and published by London : J. Cape. This book was released on 1925 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sabine Melchoir-Bonnet
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136687602
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (366 download)
Download or read book The Mirror written by Sabine Melchoir-Bonnet and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This engaging and witty cultural history traces the evolution of the mirror from antiquity to the present day, illustrating its journey from wondrous object to ordinary trinket. With its earliest invention, the mirror allowed us to gaze upon ourselves, bestowing a power both fascinating and terrifying.
Author : Timothy Cheek
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108842771
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)
Download or read book The Chinese Communist Party written by Timothy Cheek and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-06 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mosaic of lives and voices illustrating the history of the Chinese Communist Party over the last hundred years.
Author : Julia K. Murray
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824830016
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)
Download or read book Mirror of Morality written by Julia K. Murray and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2007-01-31 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Fascinate is a riveting journey through the forces of fascination—how it irresistibly shapes our ideas, opinions, and relationships—and how to wield it to your advantage.” — Alan Webber, author of Rules of Thumb In Fascinate, advertising and media personality Sally Hogshead explores what triggers fascination—one of the most powerful ways to attract attention and influence behavior—and explains how companies can use these concepts to make their products and ideas irresistible to consumers. Marketing professionals of every ilk will find much of use in the pages of Fascinate; in the words of business guru Tom Peters, “fascination is arguably the most powerful of product attachments,” and Fascinate a “pioneering book [that] helps us approach the word and the concept in a thoughtful and also practical manner.”
Author : Laikwan Pang
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824864670
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)
Download or read book The Distorting Mirror written by Laikwan Pang and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2007-10-31 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Distorting Mirror analyzes the multiple and complex ways in which urban Chinese subjects saw themselves interacting with the new visual culture that emerged during the turbulent period between the 1880s and the 1930s. The media and visual forms examined include lithography, photography, advertising, film, and theatrical performances. Urbanites actively engaged with and enjoyed this visual culture, which was largely driven by the subjective desire for the empty promises of modernity—promises comprised of such abstract and fleeting concepts as new, exciting, and fashionable. Detailing and analyzing the trajectories of development of various visual representations, Laikwan Pang emphasizes their interactions. In doing so, she demonstrates that visual modernity was not only a combination of independent cultural phenomena, but also a partially coherent sociocultural discourse whose influences were seen in different and collective parts of the culture. The work begins with an overall historical account and theorization of a new lithographic pictorial culture developing at the end of the nineteenth century and an examination of modernity’s obsession with the investigation of the real. Subsequent chapters treat the fascination with the image of the female body in the new visual culture; entertainment venues in which this culture unfolded and was performed; how urbanites came to terms with and interacted with the new reality; and the production and reception of images, the dynamics between these two being a theme explored throughout the book. Modernity, as the author shows, can be seen as spectacle. At the same time, she demonstrates that, although the excessiveness of this spectacle captivated the modern subject, it did not completely overwhelm or immobilize those who engaged with it. After all, she argues, they participated in and performed with this ephemeral visual culture in an attempt to come to terms with their own new, modern self.
Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book The Antiquarian written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Julia K. Murray
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 082486364X
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)
Download or read book Mirror of Morality written by Julia K. Murray and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2007-01-31 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mirror of Morality takes an interdisciplinary look at an important form of pictorial art produced during two millennia of Chinese imperial rule. Ideas about individual morality and state ideology were based on the ancient teachings of Confucius with modifications by later interpreters and government institutions. Throughout the imperial period, members of the elite made, sponsored, and inscribed or used illustrations of themes taken from history, literature, and recent events to promote desired conduct among various social groups. This dimension of Chinese art history has never before been broadly covered or investigated in historical context. The first half of the study examines the nature of narrative illustration in China and traces the evolution of its functions, conventions, and rhetorical strategies from the second century BCE through the eleventh century. Under the stimulus of Buddhism, sophisticated techniques developed for representing stories in visual form. While tracing changes in the social functions and cultural positions of narrative illustration, the second half of the book argues that narrative illustration continued to play a vital role in elite visual culture.
