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Jin In Time-Two

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Author : Karin De Havin
Publisher : Supernatural Fantasy Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jin In Time-Two written by Karin De Havin and published by Supernatural Fantasy Publishing. This book was released on 2020-12-17 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can ten wishes change her destiny? Seventeen-year-old Esme is about to find out when a bowler-hatted genie pops out of her grandmother’s antique vase. Jin says he’ll grant her ten life-changing wishes. At first Esme gets off to a bumpy start with Jin and her wishes. But she soon finds herself falling for her Victorian genie. Things take a dangerous turn when Jin’s former master, a diabolical Victorian magician, sends a message through the vase—he wants his genie back! Esme has a tough choice to make. Work on rebuilding her relationship with her dad and a new life in Long Island or use her last wish to and save the genie she loves. If she travels back in time to Victorian England will she ever be able to return home again? Find out more in Jin in Time-Two, the second book in the Time is Forever Series by author Karin De Havin! If you enjoy young adult time travel romances that are filled with magic and adventure that keeps you turning the pages, then one-click for your copy of Jin in Time-Two today! Keywords: young adult time travel, young adult historical fantasy, genie books, young adult books, young adult historical fantasy complete series, young adult coming of age fantasy, time travel books, Victorian London based books, young adult action adventure supernatural, teen high paranormal, young adult supernatural books, time travel books, Victorian fantasy, time travel stories, magician fantasy books.

Jin In Time-One

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Author : Karin De Havin
Publisher : Supernatural Fantasy Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 91 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jin In Time-One written by Karin De Havin and published by Supernatural Fantasy Publishing . This book was released on 2020-12-16 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life would be amazing if you had a genie, right? Seventeen-year-old Esme is about out to find out when her guardian grandmother dies and leaves her an antique vase. Forced to move in with a father she hardly knows, she rubs it for good luck. Out pops a bowler-hatted genie! Esme hopes to turn her luck around now that she has a genie to help her deal with her problems but there’s a catch. She realizes the wishes are powered by Victorian-era magic and that her genie’s past could put her life in danger…for good. Find out more in Jin in Time Part One, the first book in the Time is Forever Series by author Karin De Havin which you can read for free! If you enjoy young adult time travel romances that are filled with magic and adventure that keeps you turning the pages, then one-click for your FREE copy of Jin in Time Part One today! **Part One ends where Part Two begins** Keywords: young adult time travel, young adult historical fantasy, genie books, young adult free books, young adult historical fantasy complete series, young adult coming of age fantasy, time travel books, Los Angeles based books, young adult action adventure supernatural, teen high paranormal, young adult supernatural books, time travel free, Victorian fantasy, time travel stories, magician fantasy books.

The Jin In Time Boxed Set- Books 1-3

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Author : Karin De Havin
Publisher : Supernatural Fantasy Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Jin In Time Boxed Set- Books 1-3 written by Karin De Havin and published by Supernatural Fantasy Publishing. This book was released on 2020-12-04 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life would be amazing if you had a genie, right? Seventeen-year-old Esme is about out to find out when her guardian grandmother dies and leaves her an antique vase. Forced to move in with a father she hardly knows, she rubs it for good luck. Out pops a bowler-hatted genie! Esme hopes to turn her luck around now that she has a genie to help her deal with her problems but there’s a catch. She realizes the wishes are powered by Victorian-era magic and that her genie’s past could put her life in danger…for good. Included: Jin In Time Book One, Jin In Time Book Two, and Love in the Time of Jin Book Three. If you love time traveling genies from Victorian England, coming of age stories with a bit of magic, unforgettable characters and page turning action (with a dash of humor and romance mixed in) and a happy ever after ending, then grab your copy of the Jin in Time 1-3 boxed set today! **The Time is Forever Series has a prequel The Genie Academy Series.** Keywords: young adult time travel, young adult historical fantasy, genie books, young adult books, young adult historical fantasy complete series, young adult coming of age fantasy, time travel books, Los Angeles based books, young adult action adventure supernatural, teen high paranormal, young adult supernatural books, time travel , Victorian fantasy, time travel stories, magician fantasy books, happy ever after books.

Love in the Time of Jin

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Author : Karin De Havin
Publisher : Supernatural Fantasy Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Love in the Time of Jin written by Karin De Havin and published by Supernatural Fantasy Publishing. This book was released on 2020-12-22 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Will she be stuck in the past forever? Eighteen-year-old Esme uses her last wish to help her genie, Jin, which sends her back in time to Victorian England. Esme is there to confront Roderick, Jin’s former master, and it may be the biggest mistake she’s ever made. With no wishes left, Esme is stuck in the past, possibly forever. Just as she is getting used to living in Victorian times, Jin’s troubles with his former master turn deadly. Esme, and Jin have two enemies to face: Roderick full of revenge for the loss of his magician powers, and the genie High Council, who want to destroy Jin for breaking the genie rules and running off with Esme. Can love conquer all like in the fairy tales? Find out more in Love in the Time of Jin, the third and final book in the Time is Forever Series by author Karin De Havin! If you enjoy young adult time travel romances that are filled with magic and adventure that keeps you turning the pages, and a happy ever after ending then one-click for your copy of Love in the Time of Jin today! Keywords: young adult time travel, young adult historical fantasy, genie books, young adult books, young adult historical fantasy complete series, young adult coming of age fantasy, time travel books, Los Angeles based books, young adult action adventure supernatural, teen high paranormal, young adult supernatural books, time travel , Victorian fantasy, time travel stories, magician fantasy books, happy ever after books. **If you enjoyed the Time is Forever Series , it has a prequel The Genie Academy Series.**

Little Gods

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Author : Meng Jin
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062935976
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (629 download)

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Download or read book Little Gods written by Meng Jin and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-01-14 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/OPEN BOOK AWARD “Compellingly complex…Expands the future of the immigrant novel even as it holds us in uneasy thrall to the past.” – Gish Jen, New York Times Book Review Combining the emotional resonance of Home Fire with the ambition and innovation of Asymmetry, a lyrical and thought-provoking debut novel that explores the complex web of grief, memory, time, physics, history, and selfhood in the immigrant experience, and the complicated bond between daughters and mothers. On the night of June Fourth, a woman gives birth in a Beijing hospital alone. Thus begins the unraveling of Su Lan, a brilliant physicist who until this moment has successfully erased her past, fighting what she calls the mind’s arrow of time. When Su Lan dies unexpectedly seventeen years later, it is her daughter Liya who inherits the silences and contradictions of her life. Liya, who grew up in America, takes her mother’s ashes to China—to her, an unknown country. In a territory inhabited by the ghosts of the living and the dead, Liya’s memories are joined by those of two others: Zhu Wen, the woman last to know Su Lan before she left China, and Yongzong, the father Liya has never known. In this way a portrait of Su Lan emerges: an ambitious scientist, an ambivalent mother, and a woman whose relationship to her own past shapes and ultimately unmakes Liya’s own sense of displacement. A story of migrations literal and emotional, spanning time, space and class, Little Gods is a sharp yet expansive exploration of the aftermath of unfulfilled dreams, an immigrant story in negative that grapples with our tenuous connections to memory, history, and self.

The Boat Rocker

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Author : Ha Jin
Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 : 0307911624
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book The Boat Rocker written by Ha Jin and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2016 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the award-winning author of Waiting and War Trash: an urgent, timely novel that follows an aspiring author, an outrageous book idea, and a lone journalist's dogged quest for truth in the Internet age. New York, 2005. Chinese expatriate Feng Danlin is a fiercely principled reporter at a small news agency that produces a website read by the Chinese diaspora around the world. Danlin's explosive exposés have made him legendary among readers--and feared by Communist officials. But his newest assignment may be his undoing: investigating his ex-wife, Yan Haili, an unscrupulous novelist who has willingly become a pawn of the Chinese government in order to realize her dreams of literary stardom. Haili's scheme infuriates Danlin both morally and personally--he will do whatever it takes to expose her as a fraud. But in outing Haili, he is also provoking her powerful political allies, and he will need to draw on all of his journalistic cunning to emerge from this investigation with his career--and his life--still intact. A brilliant, darkly funny story of corruption, integrity, and the power of the pen, The Boat Rocker is a tour de force of modern fiction.

Pachinko (National Book Award Finalist)

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Author : Min Jin Lee
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1455563919
Total Pages : 604 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book Pachinko (National Book Award Finalist) written by Min Jin Lee and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Top Ten Book of the Year and National Book Award finalist, Pachinko is an "extraordinary epic" of four generations of a poor Korean immigrant family as they fight to control their destiny in 20th-century Japan (San Francisco Chronicle). NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2017 * A USA TODAY TOP TEN OF 2017 * JULY PICK FOR THE PBS NEWSHOUR-NEW YORK TIMES BOOK CLUB NOW READ THIS * FINALIST FOR THE 2018DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE* WINNER OF THE MEDICI BOOK CLUB PRIZE Roxane Gay's Favorite Book of 2017, Washington Post NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * #1 BOSTON GLOBE BESTSELLER * USA TODAY BESTSELLER * WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER * WASHINGTON POST BESTSELLER "There could only be a few winners, and a lot of losers. And yet we played on, because we had hope that we might be the lucky ones." In the early 1900s, teenaged Sunja, the adored daughter of a crippled fisherman, falls for a wealthy stranger at the seashore near her home in Korea. He promises her the world, but when she discovers she is pregnant--and that her lover is married--she refuses to be bought. Instead, she accepts an offer of marriage from a gentle, sickly minister passing through on his way to Japan. But her decision to abandon her home, and to reject her son's powerful father, sets off a dramatic saga that will echo down through the generations. Richly told and profoundly moving, Pachinko is a story of love, sacrifice, ambition, and loyalty. From bustling street markets to the halls of Japan's finest universities to the pachinko parlors of the criminal underworld, Lee's complex and passionate characters--strong, stubborn women, devoted sisters and sons, fathers shaken by moral crisis--survive and thrive against the indifferent arc of history. *Includes reading group guide*

Free Food for Millionaires

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Author : Min Jin Lee
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0446504386
Total Pages : 663 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (465 download)

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Download or read book Free Food for Millionaires written by Min Jin Lee and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2007-07-02 with total page 663 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this "mesmerizing" novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Pachinko, the Korean-American daughter of first-generation immigrants strives to join Manhattan's inner circle (USA Today). Meet Casey Han: a strong-willed, Queens-bred daughter of Korean immigrants immersed in a glamorous Manhattan lifestyle she can't afford. Casey is eager to make it on her own, away from the judgements of her parents' tight-knit community, but she soon finds that her Princeton economics degree isn't enough to rid her of ever-growing credit card debt and a toxic boyfriend. When a chance encounter with an old friend lands her a new opportunity, she's determined to carve a space for herself in a glittering world of privilege, power, and wealth-but at what cost? Set in a city where millionaires scramble for the free lunches the poor are too proud to accept, this sharp-eyed epic of love, greed, and ambition is a compelling portrait of intergenerational strife, immigrant struggle, and social and economic mobility. Addictively readable, Min Jin Lee's bestselling debut Free Food for Millionaires exposes the intricate layers of a community clinging to its old ways in a city packed with haves and have-nots. Includes a Reading Group Guide.

A Song Everlasting

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Author : Ha Jin
Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 : 152474879X
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (247 download)

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Download or read book A Song Everlasting written by Ha Jin and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2021-07-27 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the universally admired, National Book Award-winning, bestselling author of Waiting—a timely novel that follows a famous Chinese singer severed from his country, as he works to find his way in the United States At the end of a U.S. tour with his state-supported choir, popular singer Yao Tian takes a private gig in New York to pick up some extra cash for his daughter’s tuition fund, but the consequences of his choice spiral out of control. On his return to China, Tian is informed that the sponsors of the event were supporters of Taiwan’s secession, and that he must deliver a formal self-criticism. When he is asked to forfeit his passport to his employer, Tian impulsively decides instead to return to New York to protest the government’s threat to his artistic integrity. With the help of his old friend Yabin, Tian’s career begins to flourish in the United States. But he is soon placed on a Chinese government blacklist and thwarted by the state at every turn, and it becomes increasingly clear that he may never return to China unless he denounces the freedoms that have made his new life possible. Tian nevertheless insists on his identity as a performer, refusing to give up his art. Moving, important, and strikingly relevant to our times, A Song Everlasting is a story of hope in the face of hardship from one of our most celebrated authors.

Jin In Time

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Author : Karin De Havin
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781511781329
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (813 download)

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Download or read book Jin In Time written by Karin De Havin and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-04-17 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spending senior year with the father who abandoned her is the last thing seventeen-year-old Esme wanted. But when her guardian grandmother dies, she has no choice. The only thing she has left of her once happy life is her grandmother's antique vase-until she discovers it comes with a bowler-hatted genie. Jin promises to do whatever it takes to make Esme happy again. But things get off to a bumpy start when Esme learns that her wishes are powered by Victorian-era magic. Hiding a genie isn't easy, either. Esme gives Jin a modern makeover and stashes him in the school library. One tiny hiccup-her dad's the principal. When word spreads that Esme is spending all her free time with a cute British guy, she's busted, and her dad uses his parental authority to ground her. Esme falls for Jin just as her dad finally seems to care about her. Meanwhile, Jin's former master, a diabolical Victorian magician, sends a message through the vase-he wants his genie back. Esme must decide to use her last wish to run off to Victorian England and save the genie she loves, but she might be stuck there forever-and incur the wrath of Jin's dark master. Or, she can choose to work on her relationship with her dad. And she thought having a genie would be fun.** This book contains both parts one and two of Jin In Time

Jin Yuelin's Ontology

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Author : Yvonne Schulz Zinda
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004176667
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Jin Yuelin's Ontology written by Yvonne Schulz Zinda and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-02-17 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is both a work-immanent analysis of Lun dao, and an introduction to Jin’s thought. It begins with the problem of induction, which is the study’s central theme, and proceeds to outline Jin’s ontological response. In addition, it also considers his epistemological response to the problem.

Jinnealogy

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Author : Anand Vivek Taneja
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1503603954
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Jinnealogy written by Anand Vivek Taneja and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2017-11-21 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the ruins of a medieval palace in Delhi, a unique phenomenon occurs: Indians of all castes and creeds meet to socialize and ask the spirits for help. The spirits they entreat are Islamic jinns, and they write out requests as if petitioning the state. At a time when a Hindu right wing government in India is committed to normalizing a view of the past that paints Muslims as oppressors, Anand Vivek Taneja's Jinnealogy provides a fresh vision of religion, identity, and sacrality that runs counter to state-sanctioned history. The ruin, Firoz Shah Kotla, is an unusually democratic religious space, characterized by freewheeling theological conversations, DIY rituals, and the sanctification of animals. Taneja observes the visitors, who come mainly from the Muslim and Dalit neighborhoods of Delhi, and uses their conversations and letters to the jinns as an archive of voices so often silenced. He finds that their veneration of the jinns recalls pre-modern religious traditions in which spiritual experience was inextricably tied to ecological surroundings. In this enchanted space, Taneja encounters a form of popular Islam that is not a relic of bygone days, but a vibrant form of resistance to state repression and post-colonial visions of India.

A Distant Center

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Author : Ha Jin
Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
ISBN 13 : 1619321874
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (193 download)

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Download or read book A Distant Center written by Ha Jin and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the bold tradition of the “Misty Poets,” Ha Jin confronts China’s fraught political history while paying tribute to its rich culture and landscape. The poems of A Distant Center speak in a voice that is steady and direct, balancing contemplative longing with sober warnings from a writer who has confronted the traumas of censorship and state violence. With unadorned language and epigrammatic wit, Jin conjures scenes that encompass the personal, historical, romantic, and environmental, interrogating conceptions of foreignness and national identity as they appear and seep into everyday interactions and being. These are poems that offer solace in times of political reaction and uncertainty. Jin’s voice is wise, comforting, and imploring; his words are necessary and his lessons are invaluable. Question your place in the world—do not be complacent—look for strength and hope in every nook: “Keep in mind the meaning of / your existence: wherever you land, / your footprints will become milestones.”

A Map of Betrayal

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Author : Ha Jin
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0804170363
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book A Map of Betrayal written by Ha Jin and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Christian Science Monitor Best Book of the Year Lilian Shang, a history professor in Maryland, knew that her father, Gary, had been the most important Chinese spy ever caught in the United States. But when she discovers his diary after the death of her parents, its pages reveal the full pain and longing that his double life entailed—and point to a hidden second family that he’d left behind in China. As Lilian follows her father’s trail back into the Chinese provinces, she begins to grasp the extent of her father’s dilemma—torn between loyalty to his motherland and the love he came to feel for his adopted country. As she starts to understand that Gary, too, had been betrayed, she finds that it is up to her to prevent his tragedy from endangering yet another generation of the Shangs. A stunning portrait of a multinational family, an unflinching inquiry into the meaning of patriotism, A Map of Betrayal is a spy novel that only Ha Jin could write.

Nanjing Requiem

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Author : Ha Jin
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 030774373X
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Nanjing Requiem written by Ha Jin and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s 1937, and the Japanese are poised to invade Nanjing. Minnie Vautrin, an American missionary and the dean of Jinling Women’s College, decides to remain at the school, convinced that her American citizenship will help her safeguard the welfare of the Chinese men and women who work there. She is painfully mistaken. In the aftermath of the invasion, the school becomes a refugee camp for more than ten thousand homeless women and children, and Vautrin must struggle, day after day, to intercede on the behalf of the hapless victims. Yet even when order and civility are restored, she remains deeply embattled, always haunted by the lives she could not save. At once a searing story that unfurls during one of the darkest moments of the twentieth century and an indelible portrait of a singular and brave woman, Nanjing Requiem is another tour de force from the National Book Award-winning author of Waiting.

Routledge Companion to Ba Jin

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Author : Chen Chang
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000956857
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Routledge Companion to Ba Jin written by Chen Chang and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-09-19 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the creations of Ba Jin (1904–2005), one of the most significant writers in modern China, this edited volume offers in-depth discussions of the writer and his works from a global perspective to initiate and advance dialogues between the Chinese- and English- speaking scholarly communities. The four sections of the book provide readers with a detailed biography and an overview of research on Ba Jin since the 1980s to reflect on the academic achievements of several generations in China. In addition, it includes a selected collection of articles from Korean, German, and French scholars. These articles cover Ba Jin’s life thoughts, personality, literary creation, editing, publishing, and other aspects of the research. This companion aims to provide an alternative lens for Chinese literature studies in a global context. It will be an essential read to students and scholars of East Asian studies, Chinese studies, and those interested in modern Chinese literature.

James Clavell's Gai-Jin

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Author : James Clavell
Publisher : Random House Digital, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 044021680X
Total Pages : 1106 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book James Clavell's Gai-Jin written by James Clavell and published by Random House Digital, Inc.. This book was released on 1994 with total page 1106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new leader of the noble family meets a beautiful French woman in Japan in the 1860s.