I Love Yan An

Download I Love Yan An full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online I Love Yan An ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!

The House of Yan

Author : Lan Yan
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062899821
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (628 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The House of Yan by : Lan Yan

Download or read book The House of Yan written by Lan Yan and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-01-28 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the sweeping cultural and historical transformations of China, entrepreneur Lan Yan traces her family’s history through early 20th Century to present day. The history of the Yan family is inseparable from the history of China over the last century. One of the most influential business leaders of China today, Lan Yan grew up in the company of the country’s powerful elite, including Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, and Deng Xiaoping. Her grandfather, Yan Baohang, originally a nationalist and ally of Chiang Kai-shek, later joined the communists and worked as a spy during World War II, never falling out of favor with Soong May-ling, aka Mrs. Chiang Kai-shek. Lan’s parents were diplomats, and her father, Yan Mingfu, was Mao’s personal Russian translator. In spite of their elevated status, the Yan’s family life was turned upside down by the Cultural Revolution. One night in 1967, in front of a terrified ten-year-old Lan, Red Guards burst into the family home and arrested her grandfather. Days later, her father was arrested, accused of spying for the Soviet Union. Her mother, Wu Keilang, was branded a counter-revolutionary and forced to go with her daughter to a re-education camp for five years, where Lan came of age as a high school student. In recounting her family history, Lan Yan brings to life a century of Chinese history from the last emperor to present day, including the Cultural Revolution which tore her childhood apart. The reader obtains a rare glimpse into the mysteries of a system which went off the rails and would decimate a large swathe of the intellectual, economic and political elite country. The little girl who was crushed by the Cultural Revolution has become one of the most active businesswomen in her country. In telling her and her family’s story, Lan Yan serves up an intimate account of the history of contemporary China.

Mao Zedong’s “Talks at the Yan’an Conference on Literature and Art”

Author : Bonnie McDougall
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472901338
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (729 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Mao Zedong’s “Talks at the Yan’an Conference on Literature and Art” by : Bonnie McDougall

Download or read book Mao Zedong’s “Talks at the Yan’an Conference on Literature and Art” written by Bonnie McDougall and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2020-06-01 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The writings of Mao Zedong have been circulated throughout the world more widely, perhaps, than those of any other single person this century. The “Talks at the Yan’an Conference on Literature and Art” has occupied a prominent position among his many works and has been the subject of intense scrutiny both within and outside China. This text has undoubted importance to modern Chinese literature and history. In particular, it reveals Mao’s views on such questions as the relationship between writers or works of literature and their audience, or the nature and value of different kinds of literary products. In this translation and commentary, Bonnie S. McDougall finds that Mao was in fact ahead of many of his critics in the West and his Chinese contemporaries in his discussion of literary issues. Unlike the majority of modern Chinese writers deeply influenced by Western theories of literature and society (including Marxism), Mao remained close to traditional patterns of thought and avoided the often mechanical or narrowly literal interpretations that were the hallmark of Western schools current in China in the early twentieth century. Many of the detailed discussions on the “Talks” in the West have been concerned with their political and historical significance. However, since Mao is a literary figure of some importance in twentieth-century China, McDougall finds it worthwhile to follow up his published remarks on the nature and source of literature and the means of its evaluation. By better understanding the complex and revolutionary ideas contained in the “Talks,” McDougall suggests we may acquire the necessary analytical tools for a more fruitful investigation into contemporary Chinese literature.

Mao Zedong’s “Talks at the Yan’an Conference on Literature and Art”

Author : Bonnie McDougall
Publisher : U OF M CENTER FOR CHINESE STUDIES
ISBN 13 : 0892640391
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (926 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Mao Zedong’s “Talks at the Yan’an Conference on Literature and Art” by : Bonnie McDougall

Download or read book Mao Zedong’s “Talks at the Yan’an Conference on Literature and Art” written by Bonnie McDougall and published by U OF M CENTER FOR CHINESE STUDIES. This book was released on 1980-01-01 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The writings of Mao Zedong have been circulated throughout the world more widely, perhaps, than those of any other single person this century. The “Talks at the Yan’an Conference on Literature and Art” has occupied a prominent position among his many works and has been the subject of intense scrutiny both within and outside China. This text has undoubted importance to modern Chinese literature and history. In particular, it reveals Mao’s views on such questions as the relationship between writers or works of literature and their audience, or the nature and value of different kinds of literary products. In this translation and commentary, Bonnie S. McDougall finds that Mao was in fact ahead of many of his critics in the West and his Chinese contemporaries in his discussion of literary issues. Unlike the majority of modern Chinese writers deeply influenced by Western theories of literature and society (including Marxism), Mao remained close to traditional patterns of thought and avoided the often mechanical or narrowly literal interpretations that were the hallmark of Western schools current in China in the early twentieth century. Many of the detailed discussions on the “Talks” in the West have been concerned with their political and historical significance. However, since Mao is a literary figure of some importance in twentieth-century China, McDougall finds it worthwhile to follow up his published remarks on the nature and source of literature and the means of its evaluation. By better understanding the complex and revolutionary ideas contained in the “Talks,” McDougall suggests we may acquire the necessary analytical tools for a more fruitful investigation into contemporary Chinese literature.

How the Red Sun Rose

Author : Gao Hua
Publisher : The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
ISBN 13 : 9629968223
Total Pages : 840 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (299 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis How the Red Sun Rose by : Gao Hua

Download or read book How the Red Sun Rose written by Gao Hua and published by The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press. This book was released on 2018-11-15 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work offers the most comprehensive account of the origin and consequences of the Yan'an Rectification Movement from 1942 to 1945. The author argues that this campaign emancipated the Chinese Communist Party from Sovietinfluenced dogmatism and unified the Party, preparing it for the final victory against the Nationalist Party in 1949. More importantly, this monograph shows in great detail how Mao Zedong established his leadership through this partywide political movement by means of aggressive intraparty purges, thought control, coercive cadre examinations, and total reorganizations of the Party's upper structure. The result of this movement not only set up the foundation for Mao's new China, but also deeply influenced the Chinese political structure today. The Chinese version of How the Red Sun Rose was published in 2000, and has had nineteen printings since then.

Strange Beasts of China

Author : Yan Ge
Publisher : Melville House
ISBN 13 : 1612199100
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (121 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Strange Beasts of China by : Yan Ge

Download or read book Strange Beasts of China written by Yan Ge and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2021-07-13 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Editors' Choice and Notable Book of 2021 "Best Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror of 2021"—The Washington Post From one of the most exciting voices in contemporary Chinese literature, an uncanny and playful novel that blurs the line between human and beast… In the fictional Chinese city of Yong’an, an amateur cryptozoologist is commissioned to uncover the stories of its fabled beasts. These creatures live alongside humans in near-inconspicuousness—save their greenish skin, serrated earlobes, and strange birthmarks. Aided by her elusive former professor and his enigmatic assistant, our narrator sets off to document each beast, and is slowly drawn deeper into a mystery that threatens her very sense of self. Part detective story, part metaphysical enquiry, Strange Beasts of China engages existential questions of identity, humanity, love and morality with whimsy and stylistic verve.

Hard Like Water

Author : Yan Lianke
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1473566088
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (735 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Hard Like Water by : Yan Lianke

Download or read book Hard Like Water written by Yan Lianke and published by Random House. This book was released on 2021-06-03 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The new masterpiece by eminent Chinese writer Yan Lianke . . . two revolutionaries take matters disastrously into their own hands while conducting a crazed affair' MARGARET ATWOOD on Twitter A breakneck adventure story following the erotic love affair of party cadres Aijun and Hongmei during China's Cultural Revolution This is the story of the freewheeling love affair between married soldier Aijun and Hongmei, a beautiful young woman from his village in the Balou Mountains. Intoxicated with one another, Aijun and Hongmei hurl themselves into their town's revolutionary struggle. Spending their days and nights stamping out feudalism, writing pamphlets and organising rallies, they become inseparable: they are the engines of history. But as their political activity reaches new heights, so does the danger of getting caught... 'A blistering tour-de-force... Sensuous and riveting' MADELEINE THIEN, Booker-shortlisted author of Do Not Say We Have Nothing 'Fascinating... This tale of an illicit tryst during the Cultural Revolution is a stinging satire' The Times **A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST FICTION IN TRANSLATION BOOK 2021**

The Columbia Companion to Modern Chinese Literature

Author : Kirk A. Denton
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231541147
Total Pages : 818 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Columbia Companion to Modern Chinese Literature by : Kirk A. Denton

Download or read book The Columbia Companion to Modern Chinese Literature written by Kirk A. Denton and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Columbia Companion to Modern Chinese Literature features more than fifty short essays on specific writers and literary trends from the Qing period (1895–1911) to the present. The volume opens with thematic essays on the politics and ethics of writing literary history, the formation of the canon, the relationship between language and form, the role of literary institutions and communities, the effects of censorship, the representation of the Chinese diaspora, the rise and meaning of Sinophone literature, and the role of different media in the development of literature. Subsequent essays focus on authors, their works, and the schools with which they were aligned, featuring key names, titles, and terms in English and in Chinese characters. Woven throughout are pieces on late Qing fiction, popular entertainment fiction, martial arts fiction, experimental theater, post-Mao avant-garde poetry, post–martial law fiction from Taiwan, contemporary genre fiction from China, and recent Internet literature. The volume includes essays on such authors as Liang Qichao, Lu Xun, Shen Congwen, Eileen Chang, Jin Yong, Mo Yan, Wang Anyi, Gao Xingjian, and Yan Lianke. Both a teaching tool and a go-to research companion, this volume is a one-of-a-kind resource for mastering modern literature in the Chinese-speaking world.

Revolutionary Discourse in Mao's Republic

Author : David Ernest Apter
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674767805
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (678 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Revolutionary Discourse in Mao's Republic by : David Ernest Apter

Download or read book Revolutionary Discourse in Mao's Republic written by David Ernest Apter and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique interpretation of the revolutionary process in China uses empirical evidence as well as concepts from contemporary cultural studies. Apter and Saich base their analysis on recently available primary sources on party history, accounts of the Long March and Yan'an period, and interviews with veterans and their relatives.

A Chinese Dictionary in the Cantonese Dialect: K-M

Author : Ernest John Eitel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1174 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis A Chinese Dictionary in the Cantonese Dialect: K-M by : Ernest John Eitel

Download or read book A Chinese Dictionary in the Cantonese Dialect: K-M written by Ernest John Eitel and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 1174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Deng Xiaoping

Author : Alexander Pantsov
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 019939203X
Total Pages : 641 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Deng Xiaoping by : Alexander Pantsov

Download or read book Deng Xiaoping written by Alexander Pantsov and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers the entire life of Deng Xiaoping. Starting with his childhood and student years to the post-Tiananmen era.

The Oxford Illustrated History of Modern China

Author : Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191506710
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Oxford Illustrated History of Modern China by : Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom

Download or read book The Oxford Illustrated History of Modern China written by Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-16 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lavishly illustrated volume explores the history of China during a period of dramatic shifts and surprising transformations, from the founding of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1912) through to the present day. The Oxford Illustrated History of Modern China promises to be essential reading for anyone who wants to understand this rising superpower on the verge of what promises to be the 'Chinese century', introducing readers to important but often overlooked events in China's past, such as the bloody Taiping Civil War (1850-1864), which had a death toll far higher than the roughly contemporaneous American Civil War. It also helps readers see more familiar landmarks in Chinese history in new ways, such as the Opium War (1839-1842), the Boxer Uprising of 1900, the rise to power of the Chinese Communist Party in 1949, and the Tiananmen protests and Beijing Massacre of 1989. This is one of the first major efforts -- and in many ways the most ambitious to date -- to come to terms with the broad sweep of modern Chinese history, taking readers from the origins of modern China right up through the dramatic events of the last few years (the Beijing Games, the financial crisis, and China's rise to global economic pre-eminence) which have so fundamentally altered Western views of China and China's place in the world.

One in a Billion

Author : Nancy Pine
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538143410
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis One in a Billion by : Nancy Pine

Download or read book One in a Billion written by Nancy Pine and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-12-09 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This heart-wrenching story immerses readers in the dramatic survival of one outspoken man who illuminates the souls of a billion ordinary Chinese citizens. An Wei—a stubborn, hardworking peasant who has lived by his values and stood up for his convictions—has succeeded against all odds in the authoritarian environment of China. Despite grinding poverty, hunger, reeducation campaigns, and attacks from jealous peers, An Wei continues to inspire with his daring achievements, such as launching a democratic congress in his own village. His compelling life provides a vivid backdrop for understanding the development of modern China from the unique perspective of an outspoken citizen. Through his audacious determination and survival skills forged in rural poverty, An Wei’s unstoppable drive to improve himself and rural China will captivate and enthrall readers. Her website can be found at https://nancypine.info/

The Chilli Bean Paste Clan

Author : YAN. GE
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781911221227
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (212 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Chilli Bean Paste Clan by : YAN. GE

Download or read book The Chilli Bean Paste Clan written by YAN. GE and published by . This book was released on 2018-05 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in a fictional town in West China, this is the story of the Duan-Xue family, owners of the lucrative chilli bean paste factory, and their formidable matriarch. As Gran's eightieth birthday approaches, her middle-aged children get together to make preparations. Family secrets are revealed and long-time sibling rivalries flare up with renewed vigour. As Shengqiang struggles unsuccessfully to juggle the demands of his mistress and his wife, the biggest surprises of all come from Gran herself...... (Winner of English Pen Award)

1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows

Author : Ai Weiwei
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0553419471
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (534 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows by : Ai Weiwei

Download or read book 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows written by Ai Weiwei and published by Crown. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The “intimate and expansive” (Time) memoir of “one of the most important artists working in the world today” (Financial Times), telling a remarkable history of China over the last hundred years while also illuminating his artistic process “Poignant . . . An illuminating through-line emerges in the many parallels Ai traces between his life and his father’s.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice) ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Time, BookPage, Booklist, Kirkus Reviews Once a close associate of Mao Zedong and the nation’s most celebrated poet, Ai Weiwei’s father, Ai Qing, was branded a rightist during the Cultural Revolution, and he and his family were banished to a desolate place known as “Little Siberia,” where Ai Qing was sentenced to hard labor cleaning public toilets. Ai Weiwei recounts his childhood in exile, and his difficult decision to leave his family to study art in America, where he befriended Allen Ginsberg and was inspired by Andy Warhol and the artworks of Marcel Duchamp. With candor and wit, he details his return to China and his rise from artistic unknown to art world superstar and international human rights activist—and how his work has been shaped by living under a totalitarian regime. Ai Weiwei’s sculptures and installations have been viewed by millions around the globe, and his architectural achievements include helping to design the iconic Bird’s Nest Olympic Stadium in Beijing. His political activism has long made him a target of the Chinese authorities, which culminated in months of secret detention without charge in 2011. Here, for the first time, Ai Weiwei explores the origins of his exceptional creativity and passionate political beliefs through his life story and that of his father, whose creativity was stifled. At once ambitious and intimate, Ai Weiwei’s 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows offers a deep understanding of the myriad forces that have shaped modern China, and serves as a timely reminder of the urgent need to protect freedom of expression.

Drawing from Life

Author : Christine I. Ho
Publisher : University of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520309626
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Drawing from Life by : Christine I. Ho

Download or read book Drawing from Life written by Christine I. Ho and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2020-02-11 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing from Life explores revolutionary drawing and sketching in the early People’s Republic of China (1949–1965) in order to discover how artists created a national form of socialist realism. Tracing the development of seminal works by the major painters Xu Beihong, Wang Shikuo, Li Keran, Li Xiongcai, Dong Xiwen, and Fu Baoshi, author Christine I. Ho reconstructs how artists grappled with the representational politics of a nascent socialist art. The divergent approaches, styles, and genres presented in this study reveal an art world that is both heterogeneous and cosmopolitan. Through a history of artistic practices in pursuit of Maoist cultural ambitions—to forge new registers of experience, new structures of feeling, and new aesthetic communities—this original book argues that socialist Chinese art presents a critical, alternative vision for global modernism.

Mao's Road to Power

Author : Stuart Schram
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317465431
Total Pages : 796 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Mao's Road to Power by : Stuart Schram

Download or read book Mao's Road to Power written by Stuart Schram and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-24 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By 1939 Mao Zedong was a leader in the Chinese Communist Party through his political acumen, his organizing energy, and his executive ability. At the same time, his abilities to shift register, to maintain a sense of the whole and also of the particular, and to absorb seemingly contradictory realities in the social, political and military arenas he

Wild Swans

Author : Jung Chang
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743246985
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Wild Swans by : Jung Chang

Download or read book Wild Swans written by Jung Chang and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2003-08-12 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memoir of three Chinese women, Jung Chang, her mother, and her grandmother in twentieth-century China.