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Download or read book Kafka and China written by Adrian Hsia and published by Bern : P. Lang. This book was released on 1996 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world is fascinated by Kafka, and Kafka was fascinated by China to the point that he identified himself with the Chinese. Elias Canetti, one of the few Western authors who studied Chinese language and culture at university level, has recognized Kafka as the only Western author whose narrative sensibility is deeply Chinese in character. The present collection of essays examines this intricate phenomenon both of Kafka's reception of Chinese culture, and of the Chinese reception of Kafka's works.
Download or read book Kafka in China written by Warren Rothman and published by . This book was released on 2016-02-25 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: KAFKA IN CHINA, The People's Republic of Corruption is the true story of attempted murder, torture, black jails, and fraudulent incarceration in a Shanghai mental hospital committed against the author as the result of a blurt-out to him about a large bribe allegedly paid by an iconic American company to Chinese officials. The fraudulent incarceration was accomplished with purported letters from the US Consulate General in Shanghai. The Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Joel Brinkley reported this case in depth in Politico and the San Francisco Chronicle in 2012. The author is telling the complete story in the belief that Americans can best learn from an American what it means to be caught up in the Chinese Communist kleptocracy and thereby understand the plight of ordinary Chinese who are routinely brutalized by that regime, and further that it is unrealistic to think that China has adopted or to hope that it ever will adopt anything approximating Rule of Law under this regime. This story also raises the following serious questions: why has the State Department refused to answer whether the purported US Consulate General letters are genuine or forgeries; whether the State Department was complicit in what happened to the author; whether the State Department covered up any involvement; whether certain US media companies refused to cover this story in order to protect their own interests. This book is being published in parts; this volume is part one. Includes 28 photographs by the author, in full color in print on createspace.com and in kindle version; available in print in black and white on amazon.com. From the back cover: "Rothman recounts with mastery and artful suspense his experience of two decades of going native, and of what happened when he accidentally learned too much about local customs. KAFKA IN CHINA is a Kafkaesque story of resistance to the evils of state control, when even one's own country is in on the hunt. It sends chills down the spine of anyone doing business, or even travelling, abroad." - R. Howard Bloch Sterling Professor of French, Yale University "For a personal account of one Westerner's abuse in modern-day China, Rothman's chilling and beautifully written memoir is essential reading." - Lew Spratlan Composer, Pulitzer Prize in Music "This is an extraordinary book about the dark side of China that our American media and government have done so much to cover over. This is a must read." - Williamson Murray Professor Emeritus of Military History, Ohio State University
Book Synopsis Kafka: The Definitive Guide by : Neha Narkhede
Download or read book Kafka: The Definitive Guide written by Neha Narkhede and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2017-08-31 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every enterprise application creates data, whether it’s log messages, metrics, user activity, outgoing messages, or something else. And how to move all of this data becomes nearly as important as the data itself. If you’re an application architect, developer, or production engineer new to Apache Kafka, this practical guide shows you how to use this open source streaming platform to handle real-time data feeds. Engineers from Confluent and LinkedIn who are responsible for developing Kafka explain how to deploy production Kafka clusters, write reliable event-driven microservices, and build scalable stream-processing applications with this platform. Through detailed examples, you’ll learn Kafka’s design principles, reliability guarantees, key APIs, and architecture details, including the replication protocol, the controller, and the storage layer. Understand publish-subscribe messaging and how it fits in the big data ecosystem. Explore Kafka producers and consumers for writing and reading messages Understand Kafka patterns and use-case requirements to ensure reliable data delivery Get best practices for building data pipelines and applications with Kafka Manage Kafka in production, and learn to perform monitoring, tuning, and maintenance tasks Learn the most critical metrics among Kafka’s operational measurements Explore how Kafka’s stream delivery capabilities make it a perfect source for stream processing systems
Download or read book Kafka in China written by Warren Rothman and published by . This book was released on 2015-05-16 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: KAFKA IN CHINA, The People's Republic of Corruption is the true story of attempted murder, torture, black jails, and fraudulent incarceration in a Shanghai mental hospital committed against the author as the result of a blurt-out to him about a large bribe allegedly paid by an iconic American company to Chinese officials. The fraudulent incarceration was accomplished with purported letters from the US Consulate General in Shanghai. The Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Joel Brinkley reported this case in depth in Politico and the San Francisco Chronicle in 2012. The author is telling the complete story in the belief that Americans can best learn from an American what it means to be caught up in the Chinese Communist kleptocracy and thereby understand the plight of ordinary Chinese who are routinely brutalized by that regime, and further that it is unrealistic to think that China has adopted or to hope that it ever will adopt anything approximating Rule of Law under this regime. This story also raises the following serious questions: why has the State Department refused to answer whether the purported US Consulate General letters are genuine or forgeries; whether the State Department was complicit in what happened to the author; whether the State Department covered up any involvement; whether certain US media companies refused to cover this story in order to protect their own interests. This book is being published in parts; this volume is part one. Includes 28 color photographs by the author From the back cover: "Rothman recounts with mastery and artful suspense his experience of two decades of going native, and of what happened when he accidentally learned too much about local customs. KAFKA IN CHINA is a Kafkaesque story of resistance to the evils of state control, when even one's own country is in on the hunt. It sends chills down the spine of anyone doing business, or even travelling, abroad." - R. Howard Bloch Sterling Professor of French, Yale University "For a personal account of one Westerner's abuse in modern-day China, Rothman's chilling and beautifully written memoir is essential reading." - Lew Spratlan Composer, Pulitzer Prize in Music "This is an extraordinary book about the dark side of China that our American media and government have done so much to cover over. This is a must read." - Williamson Murray Professor Emeritus of Military History, Ohio State University
Book Synopsis Kafka in China Part Two by : Warren Rothman
Download or read book Kafka in China Part Two written by Warren Rothman and published by . This book was released on 2018-04-20 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kafka in China, Part Two, continues the personal memoir of American lawyer Warren Henry Rothman and how a blurt-out to him about a large bribe arranged to secure high-level approval of a deal in Communist China leads to a forced journey of escalating terror through a succession of Chinese black jails and a Shanghai mental hospital and his torture and attempted murder. This is the true story of an American caught in the grip of the totalitarian police state that is Communist China.
Book Synopsis Franz Kafka and Chinese Culture by : Yanbing Zeng
Download or read book Franz Kafka and Chinese Culture written by Yanbing Zeng and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-10-20 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book conducts a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of Franz Kafka’s relation to China. Commencing with an examination of the myriad Chinese cultural influences to which Kafka was exposed, it goes on to explore the ways in which they manifest themselves in canonical stories, such as Description of A Struggle, The Great Wall of China, and An Old Manuscript. This leads the way to thought-provoking comparative studies of Kafka and major Chinese writers and philosophers, such as Zhuang Tzu, Pu Songling, Qian Zhongshu, and Lu Xun. Highlighting kindred philosophical concepts, shared aesthetic tastes, and parallel narrative strategies, these comparisons transcend mere textual analysis, to explore the profound cultural, historical, and philosophical implications of Kafka’s works. Finally, the book turns to an examination Kafka’s impact on modern life in China, including its translation studies, literature, and even its mass culture.
Book Synopsis Franz Kafka in Context by : Carolin Duttlinger
Download or read book Franz Kafka in Context written by Carolin Duttlinger and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accessible essays place Kafka in historical, political and cultural context, providing new and often unexpected perspectives on his works.
Book Synopsis The Great Wall of China by : Franz Kafka
Download or read book The Great Wall of China written by Franz Kafka and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis He: Shorter Writings of Franz Kafka by : Franz Kafka
Download or read book He: Shorter Writings of Franz Kafka written by Franz Kafka and published by Picador. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new selection of Franz Kafka’s shorter fiction and nonfiction work, selected and with a preface by Book of Numbers author Joshua Cohen. “Being asked to write about Kafka is like being asked to describe the Great Wall of China by someone who’s standing just next to it. The only honest thing to do is point.” —Joshua Cohen, from his foreword to He: Shorter Writings of Franz Kafka This is a Kafka emergency kit, a congregation of the brief, the minor works that are actually major. Joshua Cohen has produced a frame that refuses distinctions between what is a story, a letter, a workplace memo, and a diary entry, also including popular favorites like The Bucket Rider, The Penal Colony, and The Burrow. Here we see Kafka’s preoccupations in writing about animals, messiah variations, food, and exercise, each in his signature style. Cohen’s selection emphasizes the stately structure of utterly coherent logic within an utterly incoherent and illogical world, showing how Kafka harnessed the humblest grammar to metamorphic power, until the predominant effect ceases to be the presence of an unreliable narrator but the absence of the universe’s only reliable narrator—God.
Book Synopsis Ideograms in China by : Henri Michaux
Download or read book Ideograms in China written by Henri Michaux and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previously available only as a limited editon, Henri Michaux's Ideograms in China is now available as a New Directions paperback. Peerlessly translated by the American poet Gustaf Sobin, this long, beautifully illustrated and annotated prose poem was originally written as an introduction to Leon Chang's La calligraphie chinoise (1971), a work that now stands as an important complement to Pound and Ernest Fenollosa's classic study, The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry.
Book Synopsis Ideographic Modernism by : Christopher Bush
Download or read book Ideographic Modernism written by Christopher Bush and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-02-01 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ideographic Modernism offers a critical account of the ideograph (Chinese writing as imagined in the West) as a modernist invention. Through analyses of works by Claudel, Pound, Kafka, Benjamin, Segalen, and Valery, among others, Christopher Bush traces the interweaving of Western modernity's ethnographic and technological imaginaries, in which the cultural effects of technological media assumed "Chinese" forms, even as traditional representations of "the Orient" lived on in modernist-era responses to media. The book also makes a methodological argument, demonstrating new ways of recovering the generally overlooked presence of China in the text of Western modernism.
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Kafka by : Julian Preece
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Kafka written by Julian Preece and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-02-21 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a rounded contemporary appraisal of Central Europe's most distinctive Modernist.
Book Synopsis The Great Wall of China by : Franz Kafka
Download or read book The Great Wall of China written by Franz Kafka and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Kafka written by Reiner Stach and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-07-13 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the acclaimed central volume of the definitive biography of Franz Kafka. Reiner Stach spent more than a decade working with over four thousand pages of journals, letters, and literary fragments, many never before available, to re-create the atmosphere in which Kafka lived and worked from 1910 to 1915, the most important and best-documented years of his life. This period, which would prove crucial to Kafka's writing and set the course for the rest of his life, saw him working with astonishing intensity on his most seminal writings--The Trial, The Metamorphosis, The Man Who Disappeared (Amerika), and The Judgment. These are also the years of Kafka's fascination with Zionism; of his tumultuous engagement to Felice Bauer; and of the outbreak of World War I. Kafka: The Decisive Years is at once an extraordinary portrait of the writer and a startlingly original contribution to the art of literary biography.
Book Synopsis The Day the Sun Died by : Yan Lianke
Download or read book The Day the Sun Died written by Yan Lianke and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2018-08-20 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One dusk in early June, in a town deep in the Balou mountains, fourteen-year-old Li Niannian notices something strange about his town. Instead of settling down for the night, the residents start appearing in the streets and fields. There are people everywhere. Li Niannian watches, mystified. But then he realises the people are dreamwalking, carrying on with their daily business as if the sun hadn’t gone down. And before too long, as more and more people succumb, in the black of night all hell breaks loose. Set over the course of one night, The Day the Sun Died sets chaos and darkness against the sunny optimism of the ‘Chinese dream’ promoted by President Xi Jinping. We are thrown into the middle of an increasingly strange and troubling waking nightmare as Li Niannian and his father struggle to save the town, and persuade the sun to rise again.
Book Synopsis The Chinese Kafka Part 2 by : Mark Obama Ndesandjo
Download or read book The Chinese Kafka Part 2 written by Mark Obama Ndesandjo and published by BookRix. This book was released on 2020-07-28 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the second of a series of essays inspired by the poems of the Tang Poet Li Shangyin (813-858 AD), and includes many insghtful observations on the author's personal multicultural journey through America, Asia and Africa. The bilingual book also includes the author's beautiful Chinese calligraphy and a groundbreaking analysis on the relevance of poetry to the existential dislocations of our modern era. it is an excellent resource for students of English and Chinese, as well as those interested in exploring other cultures. Li Shangyin is one of the most fascinating of poets and this book includes historical background on the poet as well as introductory and explanatory notes by the translator. For over 1200 years, scholars have attempted to understand, let alone translate, Li Shangyin’s poems. At least four different schools of thought have developed. Firstly, his poems are reflections on political patrons and a failed career. Secondly, they are thinly veiled political satires of the Court and political factions. Thirdly, they are stories of actual affairs with Court ladies and Taoist priestesses. Finally, they are admirable vehicles of mystery and beauty. My interpretations include elements of all the above, but are also a synthesis of sentiments - the poet’s (as Mark sees him) and his own, of which music is a core part. This is particularly appropriate with Li Shangyin. His poetry is a labyrinth of passionate images, almost musical in sound and sequencing. They are at once ebullient, sad, loving, hateful, spiteful, sneering, and religious - a cornucopia of musical words that sing across the ages.
Download or read book Kafka's Curse written by Achmat Dangor and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 1999 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: His unforgiving brother, a post-apartheid politician, tries to come to terms with Oscar's apostasy but will himself betray both his principles and his family when he falls in love with Amina, a beautiful and spirited psychotherapist.
