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Chronicles of a Village

Author : Nguyen Thanh Hien
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300276400
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Chronicles of a Village written by Nguyen Thanh Hien and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2024-04-02 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An incantatory poetic novel that interweaves the legends, tragedies, and histories of a village in Vietnam "The book bursts with characters, poetry, philosophy, romance, violence, and struggle. . . . A dreamlike, original, strangely hopeful book."--Kirkus Reviews At the foot of Mun Mountain in central Vietnam, a self-appointed scribe collects the stories of his neighbors--tales of love, nature, and war--and weaves them into a surrealist history of their farming community. In crystalline fragments resembling prose poems, the scribe eternalizes the vanishing beauty and tragic transformation of the village--its sacred forests, astonishing animals, mythical figures, and human lives nurtured by a profound love for soil and sky, as well as its catastrophes: ecological destruction, political purges, asphyxiating modernity, violence, and indoctrination in the name of progress. Nguyễn Thanh Hiện's Chronicles of a Village, the writer's first work to be translated into English, is an elegy for a place and a people; a profound meditation on how history is created, destroyed, manipulated, and rewritten; and a tribute to the beauty and "fatal historical disabilities of a land."

Westways: A Village Chronicle

Author : S. Weir Mitchell
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Westways: A Village Chronicle written by S. Weir Mitchell and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-17 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Westways: A Village Chronicle' is a novel written by S. Weir Mitchell. The story follows the life of The Penhallows, who were a family with a long history of hard work and dangerous adventure. Many of the younger generations left home early to pursue different paths, such as joining the army or going to sea. One Penhallow prospered in the city and returned to the family's ancestral home in Pennsylvania, discovering iron and soft coal and building a large house known as "Penhallow's Folly." Eventually the family accepted the place as their home, renaming it "Grey Pine."

Change Of China's Rural Community: A Case Study Of Zhejiang's Jianshanxia Village

Author : Dan Mao
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 981120652X
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book Change Of China's Rural Community: A Case Study Of Zhejiang's Jianshanxia Village written by Dan Mao and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2019-11-07 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes the industrialization process of Jianshanxia, a mountain village in Zhejiang Province, and its organizational changes since China's reform and opening-up. As a small mountain village far from the city, Jianshanxia Village used its contingent funds to open up a factory collectively owned by the village. At that time, it was common for city dwellers to run a factory in cities but this was still rare in rural areas. The book analyzes how the village could quickly claim a large market share of the domestic electric mosquito incense market. The successful industrialization of the village increased the income of the villagers, improved its appearance and enhanced its collective economic strength. In retrospect, the transformation of this village was a miracle and a typical example of industrialization of township enterprises in China.

A Morphological Interpretation of a Northern Chinese Traditional Village

Author : Kun Li
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9819969611
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book A Morphological Interpretation of a Northern Chinese Traditional Village written by Kun Li and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Chronicles of Oren

Author : Alan St. Jean
Publisher : Alan St Jean
ISBN 13 : 9780977727261
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book The Chronicles of Oren written by Alan St. Jean and published by Alan St Jean. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the age of dragons, 17 year old Oren discovers a mysterious book in an ancient burial ground. Perception, however, can be far from reality as the book reveals much more about life than about death. In a world of suffocating darkness, Oren makes choices-- choices motivated by nobility, by love and even revenge- that will change the course of history, for better or for worse.

The Anatomy of the Village

Author : Thomas Sharp
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134472455
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book The Anatomy of the Village written by Thomas Sharp and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-24 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Sharp was a key figure in mid-C20 British planning whose renown stems from two periods in his career. First, he came to attention as a polemical writer in the 1930s on planning issues, including as a virulent opponent of garden cities. His prose tempered over time and this phase perhaps culminated in Town Planning, first published in 1940 and reputed to have sold over 250,000 copies. Subsequently the plans he produced for historic towns in the1940s, such as Oxford, were very well known and were influential in developing ideas of townscape. Started as an official manual on village planning, The Anatomy of the Village followed on from the Scott Report, for which Sharp had been one of the Secretaries. When the Ministry decided not to proceed with the publication, Sharp himself published in it 1946. It became one of Sharp's best known works, with lucid prose and generous illustration by photograph and beautiful line-drawings of village plans. The aim of The Anatomy of the Village was to set out the main principles of village planning, especially in relation to physical design. Anatomy became a key text in thinking about villages in the post-war period; a period when there was great concern that settlements should develop in more sensitive ways than inter-war ribbon and suburban development patterns. The problems of poor quality development, unrelated to settlement form, was to continue to stimulate books such as Lionel Brett’s Landscape in Distress and campaigns from the Architectural Review. Reading the text today it still has much to offer: while some of its assumptions about the level of services a village might support clearly belong to another era, its beautiful and simple typological analyses of village form continue to be of relevance.

A Century of Change in a Chinese Village

Author : Lin Juren
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538112361
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book A Century of Change in a Chinese Village written by Lin Juren and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-05-04 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compelling book analyzes the dramatic changes in rural Chinese society as a result of rapid urbanization. Building on eight decades of studies of the village of Lengshuigou, Chinese sociologists examine the fundamental changes over the last century that have radically transformed centuries-old systems of patriarchy and generational order.

Village Christmas

Author : Miss Read
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 140914867X
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Village Christmas written by Miss Read and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2013-11-08 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taken from A COUNTRY CHRISTMAS, this is the perfect short tale for the festive season. When the Emery family first moved into the village of Fairacre, the locals were not entirely sure what to make of them. With three children, and another on the way, Mrs Emery didn't exactly fit the villagers' idea of a perfect mother. On Christmas morning, with the sunshine catching the frost on the thatched roofs, there is an unexpected knock at the door of the cottage where Miss Margaret Waters and her sister Mary live. And the events which unfold that day ensure a very different Christmas to any either have seen in all their lives...

Chronicles of Fairacre

Author : Miss Read
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Chronicles of Fairacre written by Miss Read and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Fishing Villages in Tokugawa, Japan

Author : Arne Kalland
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824816322
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (163 download)

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Download or read book Fishing Villages in Tokugawa, Japan written by Arne Kalland and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is more, Japan's fishing villages played a significant role in Japan's economic development. In particular, during the Tokugawa period (1600-1868), they acted as key commercial links between the castle towns and dispersed farming communities.

Afghan Village Voices

Author : Richard Tapper
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0755600886
Total Pages : 529 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (556 download)

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Download or read book Afghan Village Voices written by Richard Tapper and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-06-25 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Afghanistan in the 20th century was virtually unknown in Europe and America. At peace until the 1970s, the country was seen as a remote and exotic land, visited only by adventurous tourists or researchers. Afghan Village Voices is a testament to this little-known period of peace and captures a society and culture now lost. Prepared by two of the most accomplished and well-known anthropologists of the Middle East and Central Asia, Richard Tapper and Nancy Tapper-Lindisfarne, this is a book of stories told by the Piruzai, a rural Afghan community of some 200 families who farmed in northern Afghanistan and in summer took their flocks to the central Hazârajât mountains. The book comprises a collection of remarkable stories, folktales and conversations and provides unprecedented insight into the depth and colour of these people's lives. Recorded in the early 1970s, the stories range from memories of the Piruzai migration to the north a half century before, to the feuds, ethnic strife and the doings of powerful khans. There are also stories of falling in love, elopements, marriages, childbirth and the world of spirits. The book includes vignettes of the narrators, photographs, maps and a full glossary. It is a remarkable document of Afghanistan at peace, told by a people whose voices have rarely been heard.

Palestinian Village Histories

Author : Rochelle Davis
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804773130
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Palestinian Village Histories written by Rochelle Davis and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book chronicles the local histories written by modern Palestinians about their villages that were destroyed in the 1948 war.

Utopia and the Village in South Asian Literatures

Author : A. Mohan
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137031891
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Utopia and the Village in South Asian Literatures written by A. Mohan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-07-24 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shifting the postcolonial focus away from the city and towards the village, this book examines the rural as a trope in twentieth-century South Asian literatures to propose a new literary history based on notions of utopia, dystopia, and heterotopia and how these ideas have circulated in the literary and the cultural imaginaries of the subcontinent.

Trust, Property and Social Change in a Southern Slovakian Village

Author : Davide Torsello
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 9783825869625
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book Trust, Property and Social Change in a Southern Slovakian Village written by Davide Torsello and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2003 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slovakia is a young and little studied country of the former socialist bloc. As in all post-socialist Eurasia, continuing transformations of everyday practices are still inadequately understood. This study combines anthropological and historical methods to search for alternative ways of "reading post-socialism" in the rural community. More specifically, it applies the notions of trust and property to map the outcomes of over a hundred years of turbulent social change, but not in the way that mainstream economists and political scientists have used these concepts. Trust and property acquire analytic significance only when contextualised into the practices and ideologies of the actors. This allows the observer to grasp the nuances of apparently ambivalent behaviour and "uttered mistrust" in other villagers and local institutions. Ambiguity veils subtle strategies for keeping up with the instability of the times and obtaining the best one can from the present. By providing a theoretically grounded ethnographical account of historical transformation the book makes an original anthropological contribution to the classic theme of social change in rural societies, while at the same time engaging constructively with other social science approaches to postsocialism.

Russian Village Prose

Author : Kathleen F. Parthé
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400820758
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Russian Village Prose written by Kathleen F. Parthé and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1992-07-28 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kathleen Parth offers the first comprehensive examination of the controversial literary movement Russian Village Prose. From the 1950s to the decline of the movement in the 1970s, Valentin Rasputin, Fedor Abramov, and other writers drew on "luminous" memories of their rural childhoods to evoke a thousand-year-old pattern of life that was disappearing as they wrote. In their lyrical descriptions of a vanishing world, they expressed nostalgia for Russia's past and fears for the nation's future; they opposed collectivized agriculture, and fought to preserve traditional art and architecture and to protect the environment. Assessing the place of Village Prose in the newly revised canon of twentieth-century Russian literature, Parth maintains that these writers consciously ignored and undermined Socialist Realism, and created the most aesthetically coherent and ideologically important body of published writings to appear in the Soviet Union between Stalin's death and Gorbachev's ascendancy. In the 1970s, Village Prose was seen as moderately nationalist and conservative in spirit. After 1985, however, statements by several of its practitioners caused the movement to be reread as a possible stimulus for chauvinistic, anti-Semitic groups like Pamyat. This important development is treated here with a thorough discussion of all the political implications of these rural narratives. Nevertheless, the center of Parth's work remains her exploration of the parameters that constitute a "code of reading" for works of Village Prose. The appendixes contain a translation and analysis of a particularly fine example of Russian Village Prose--Aleksei Leonov's "Kondyr."

How to Adopt a Village in Africa

Author : Sheena Ashdown
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1039174752
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book How to Adopt a Village in Africa written by Sheena Ashdown and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2024-02-16 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to Adopt a Village in Africa: A Story of Joy, Pain, and Purpose is the memoir of how author Sheena Ashdown started a small NGO, the Africa Village Project Association (AVPA). As a young adult, Sheena travelled around West Africa, doing almost a complete circumnavigation of the region. During this journey, she saw a world very different from her own. The poverty of the continent and the strength of the African people stayed with her, and when she eventually settled down and wanted to give back, she turned to the place that remained so close to her heart: Africa. For ten years, the AVPA partnered with a village in Tanzania. Working alongside her husband Dale, Sheena’s approach was based on Jeffrey Sachs’s Millennium Villages Project. Instead of focusing on one aspect to improve, the AVPA addressed the whole village. From infrastructure and education to business grants and health, the organization worked to improve the standard of living and self-sufficiency of the village. The outpouring of support was tremendous and gratifying. But what started as a way to give back became an extraordinarily challenging venture. After difficulties and disappointments, worsening need in the village and demoralizing fundraising, Sheena had to make a choice: endure or shut down. How to Adopt a Village in Africa chronicles the hardships and joys of charitable work and social activism. With honesty and vulnerability, Sheena shares how her determination to live a meaningful life led her on an unforgettable journey.

Chronicles of a Village

Author : Nguyen Thanh Hien
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 030027839X
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Chronicles of a Village written by Nguyen Thanh Hien and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2024-04-02 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An incantatory poetic novel that interweaves the legends, tragedies, and histories of a village in Vietnam "The book bursts with characters, poetry, philosophy, romance, violence, and struggle. . . . A dreamlike, original, strangely hopeful book."—Kirkus Reviews At the foot of Mun Mountain in central Vietnam, a self-appointed scribe collects the stories of his neighbors—tales of love, nature, and war—and weaves them into a surrealist history of their farming community. In crystalline fragments resembling prose poems, the scribe eternalizes the vanishing beauty and tragic transformation of the village—its sacred forests, astonishing animals, mythical figures, and human lives nurtured by a profound love for soil and sky, as well as its catastrophes: ecological destruction, political purges, asphyxiating modernity, violence, and indoctrination in the name of progress. Nguyen Thanh Hien's, Chronicles of a Village, the writer’s first work to be translated into English, is an elegy for a place and a people; a profound meditation on how history is created, destroyed, manipulated, and rewritten; and a tribute to the beauty and "fatal historical disabilities of a land."