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Download or read book Jian written by Eric Van Lustbader and published by . This book was released on 2014-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jian is the Champion, the Man who Excels. His arts are martial and philosophic, terrifyingly physical, cruelly cerebral. Who is he? What are his aims? Is he Jake Maroc: a man haunted by his past, threatened by his present, careless for his future - except to exact the vengeance which is his? Is he Nichiren, Jake's deadly adversary, as skilled in the arts of survival as Maroc himself? Four pieces of jade hold the answer: like pieces in wei qi, the Chinese game of strategy, they are to be used as part of a Grand Game. Honk Kong is part of the prize - but only part. As violence breeds violence, deception breeds chaos and the great nations of the world manoeuvre for position, one man and his secret strategy could destroy them all.
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.
Download or read book Jian written by Eric Van Lustbader and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2017-07-18 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times–bestselling author of The Ninja comes the first “authentic and engrossing” thriller in the series featuring Jake Maroc (Los Angeles Times). Jake Maroc, a top agent for the secret US government agency known as the Quarry, is a martial arts expert on a quest for vengeance. Nichiren, Jake’s deadliest adversary, is a cold-blooded assassin with a deadly secret. And Shi Zilin is a Communist minister, a cunning survivor of turmoil. But only one can be the Jian: the ultimate master of strength and wisdom. Like stones in wei qi, the Chinese game of strategy, four ancient pieces of jade determine their fate. All three men are part of a grand scheme, but as the Communist Chinese, the KGB, and the Americans maneuver for position, only the Jian will determine who controls Hong Kong, the glittering gateway to China. From the author of the Nicholas Linnear novels and the continuing adventures of Robert Ludlum’s Jason Bourne, this thriller is “brilliant . . . Perhaps no other piece of fiction since Shogun illuminates the mind, machinations, and mores of Eastern peoples with the style and intensity of Jian” (The Miami Herald).
Book Synopsis Mao's China and the Cold War by : Jian Chen
Download or read book Mao's China and the Cold War written by Jian Chen and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2010-03-15 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive study of China's Cold War experience reveals the crucial role Beijing played in shaping the orientation of the global Cold War and the confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union. The success of China's Communist revolution in 1949 set the stage, Chen says. The Korean War, the Taiwan Strait crises, and the Vietnam War--all of which involved China as a central actor--represented the only major "hot" conflicts during the Cold War period, making East Asia the main battlefield of the Cold War, while creating conditions to prevent the two superpowers from engaging in a direct military showdown. Beijing's split with Moscow and rapprochement with Washington fundamentally transformed the international balance of power, argues Chen, eventually leading to the end of the Cold War with the collapse of the Soviet Empire and the decline of international communism. Based on sources that include recently declassified Chinese documents, the book offers pathbreaking insights into the course and outcome of the Cold War.
Book Synopsis Historical Dictionary of the Chinese Cultural Revolution by : Guo Jian
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of the Chinese Cultural Revolution written by Guo Jian and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-07-23 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the world’s only English-language historical dictionary of the Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966-1976), this book offers a comprehensive coverage of major historical figures, events, political terms, and other matters relevant to this unique period of modern Chinese history that had profound influence on social and cultural movements of the world in the 1960s and 1970s. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of the Chinese Cultural Revolution covers its history through a chronology, an introductory essay, glossary, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 400 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about this important period in Chinese history.
Book Synopsis Lian Jian Fengyun Lu Volume 1 by : liping guo
Download or read book Lian Jian Fengyun Lu Volume 1 written by liping guo and published by liping guo. This book was released on with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Lian Jian Fengyun Lu Volume 2 by : liping guo
Download or read book Lian Jian Fengyun Lu Volume 2 written by liping guo and published by liping guo. This book was released on with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis City Maps Jian China by : James mcFee
Download or read book City Maps Jian China written by James mcFee and published by Soffer Publishing. This book was released on with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: City Maps Jian China is an easy to use small pocket book filled with all you need for your stay in the big city. Attractions, pubs, bars, restaurants, museums, convenience stores, clothing stores, shopping centers, marketplaces, police, emergency facilities are only some of the places you will find in this map. This collection of maps is up to date with the latest developments of the city as of 2017. We hope you let this map be part of yet another fun Jian adventure :)
Book Synopsis Taiji Jian 32-Posture Sword Form by : James Drewe
Download or read book Taiji Jian 32-Posture Sword Form written by James Drewe and published by Singing Dragon. This book was released on 2009 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by an experienced teacher of Taijiquan, this book provides a detailed description of the Jian (the sword), its parts and how it should be held. Using photographs and illustrations, the author gives step-by-step instructions for the main 13 applications including sword strokes, stances and footwork techniques.
Book Synopsis Lian Jian Fengyun Lu Volume 3 by : liping guo
Download or read book Lian Jian Fengyun Lu Volume 3 written by liping guo and published by liping guo. This book was released on with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Ice Identification; Bing Jian冰鉴 by : Zeng Guofan 曾国藩
Download or read book Ice Identification; Bing Jian冰鉴 written by Zeng Guofan 曾国藩 and published by DeepLogic. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of the book, Zeng Guofan 曾国藩 (November 26, 1811 - March 12, 1872), was born in Changsha, Hunan. He was a key senior official in the late Qing Dynasty, the founder and commander of the Xiang Army, a strategist and politician of the Qing Dynasty. The book of Bing Jian冰鉴, literally “Ice Identification”, is a textbook on recognizing and selecting talents. It is a practical classic handbook about traditional Chinese Physiognomy, including Zeng Guofan’s insights and experience for all his life. It has great influence in China and other countries around the world.
Book Synopsis Wen Jian Zi Ju Ru Men by : Friedrich Hirth
Download or read book Wen Jian Zi Ju Ru Men written by Friedrich Hirth and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Red Dust written by Ma Jian and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1983, at the age of thirty, dissident artist Ma Jian finds himself divorced by his wife, separated from his daughter, betrayed by his girlfriend, facing arrest for “Spiritual Pollution,” and severely disillusioned with the confines of life in Beijing. So with little more than a change of clothes and two bars of soap, Ma takes off to immerse himself in the remotest parts of China. His journey would last three years and take him through smog-choked cities and mountain villages, from scenes of barbarity to havens of tranquility. Remarkably written and subtly moving, the result is an insight into the teeming contradictions of China that only a man who was both insider and outsider in his own country could have written.
Book Synopsis Floating City by : Eric Van Lustbader
Download or read book Floating City written by Eric Van Lustbader and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-03-03 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seeking to destroy the Torch, an evil tool used for wanton destruction by the bloodthirsty leader of Vietnam's Floating City, Nicholas Linnear must confront his own personal demons in order to reach his target.
Book Synopsis China's Road to the Korean War by : Chen Jian
Download or read book China's Road to the Korean War written by Chen Jian and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1995-01-05 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China's Road to the Korean War
Download or read book Beijing Coma written by Ma Jian and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-05-27 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At once a powerful allegory of a rising China, racked by contradictions, and a seminal examination of the Tiananmen Square protests, "Beijing Coma" is a novel spiked with dark wit, poetic beauty, and a deep rage.
Download or read book The Dark Road written by Ma Jian and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-06-13 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of world literature’s most courageous voices, a novel about the human cost of China’s one-child policy through the lens of one rural family on the run from its reach Far away from the Chinese economic miracle, from the bright lights of Beijing and Shanghai, is a vast rural hinterland, where life goes on much as it has for generations, with one extraordinary difference: “normal” parents are permitted by the state to have only a single child. The Dark Road is the story of one such “normal” family—Meili, a young peasant woman; her husband, Kongzi, a village schoolteacher; and their daughter, Nannan. Kongzi is, according to family myth, a direct lineal descendant of Confucius, and he is haunted by the imperative to carry on the family name by having a son. And so Meili becomes pregnant again without state permission, and when local family planning officials launch a new wave of crackdowns, the family makes the radical decision to leave its village and set out on a small, rickety houseboat down the Yangtze River. Theirs is a dark road, and tragedy awaits them, and horror, but also the fierce beauty born of courageous resistance to injustice and inhumanity. The Dark Road is a haunting and indelible portrait of the tragedies befalling women and families at the hands of China’s one-child policy and of the human spirit’s capacity to endure even the most brutal cruelty. While Ma Jian wrote The Dark Road, he traveled through the rural backwaters of southwestern China to see how the state enforced the one-child policy far from the outside world’s prying eyes. He met local women who had been seized from their homes and forced to undergo abortions or sterilization in the policy’s name; and on the Yangtze River, he lived among fugitive couples who had gone on the run so they could have more children, that most fundamental of human rights. Like all of Ma Jian’s novels, The Dark Road is also a celebration of the life force, of the often comically stubborn resilience of man’s most basic instincts.
