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Author : Bette Bao Lord
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780330326131
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (261 download)
Download or read book Legacies written by Bette Bao Lord and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bette Bao Lord
Publisher : Diane Books Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780788150395
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Legacies written by Bette Bao Lord and published by Diane Books Publishing Company. This book was released on 1997-07 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urgent and timeless, Legacies brings us closer than we have ever been to penetrating the great conundrum of China m the twentieth century. It could only have been written by Bette Bao Lord -- born in China, raised in America, author of the bestselling novel Spring Moon, wife of a former American ambassador to China, resident in Beijing during the "China Spring" of 1989. Lord's unique web of relationships and her sensitive insight have enabled her to observe Chinese life both high and low, Communist and dissident, intellectual and ordinary. Lord interweaves her own story, and that of her clansmen, with the voices of men and women who recall the tumultuous experience of the last fifty years, and the legacy of the Cultural Revolution. In precise, subtle prose, Lord explores the reality of Red Guards and reeducation camps, of friends and families severed by political disgrace, and captures the individual voices of those caught up in them: the seven-year-old girl with a heart full of hate for her father; the journalist whose girlfriend believes the Party newspapers, not him; the imprisoned scholar who hid his writings in his quilt for years; the anti-revolutionary who tells his bitter story in a vein of high farce. All bear heartbreaking witness to the surreal quality of Chinese society today -- and to the astonishing resilience, humor, and heroic equanimity of the Chinese spirit.
Author : Bette Bao Lord
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780780733510
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (335 download)
Download or read book Legacies: A Chinese Mosaic written by Bette Bao Lord and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : B. Lord
Publisher : Turtleback Books
ISBN 13 : 9781417672042
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (72 download)
Download or read book Legacies: A Chinese Mosaic written by B. Lord and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 1991-07-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : 1938- Lord
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Legacies written by 1938- Lord and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bette Bao Lord
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062857363
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (628 download)
Download or read book In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson written by Bette Bao Lord and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A timeless classic that will enchant readers who love Jennifer L. Holm and Thanhhà Lại, about an immigrant girl inspired by the sport she loves to find her own home team—and to break down any barriers that stand in her way. Shirley Temple Wong sails from China to America with a heart full of dreams. Her new home is Brooklyn, New York. America is indeed a land full of wonders, but Shirley doesn't know any English, so it's hard to make friends. Then a miracle happens: baseball! It's 1947, and Jackie Robinson, star of the Brooklyn Dodgers, is a superstar. Suddenly Shirley is playing stickball with her class and following Jackie as he leads the Brooklyn Dodgers to victory after victory. With her hero smashing assumptions and records on the ball field, Shirley begins to feel that America is truly the land of opportunity—and perhaps has also become her real home.
Author : Bette Bao Lord
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060599758
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (65 download)
Download or read book Spring Moon written by Bette Bao Lord and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2004-04-27 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a time of mystery and cruelty ... in an ancient land of breathtaking beauty and exotic surprise ... a courageous woman triumphs over her world's ultimate tragedy. Behind the garden walls of the House of Chang, pampered daughter Spring Moon is born into luxury and privilege. But the tempests of change sweep her into a new world -- one of hardship, turmoil, and heartbreak, one that threatens to destroy her husband, her family, and her darkest secret love. Through a tumultuous lifetime, Spring Moon must cling to her honor, to the memory of a time gone by, and to a destiny, foretold at her birth, that has yet to be fulfilled.
Author : Bette Bao Lord
Publisher : Turtleback Books
ISBN 13 : 9780613128773
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (287 download)
Download or read book The Middle Heart written by Bette Bao Lord and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1932: As China shamefully kowtows under Japanese occupation, three unlikely companions are fatefully bound by their steadfast patriotism: an heir to a once-great aristocracy; his crippled servant; and "Firecrackers", a poor grave keeper's daughter masquerading as a boy. Enmeshed in a love triangle, they will live to see their loyalty to one another tested again and again.
Download or read book Legacies written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Min Li
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107141451
Total Pages : 587 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Social Memory and State Formation in Early China written by Min Li and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-24 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thought-provoking book on the archaeology of power, knowledge, social memory, and the emergence of classical tradition in early China.
Author : Jung Chang
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439106495
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)
Download or read book Wild Swans written by Jung Chang and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-06-20 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of three generations in twentieth-century China that blends the intimacy of memoir and the panoramic sweep of eyewitness history—a bestselling classic in thirty languages with more than ten million copies sold around the world, now with a new introduction from the author. An engrossing record of Mao’s impact on China, an unusual window on the female experience in the modern world, and an inspiring tale of courage and love, Jung Chang describes the extraordinary lives and experiences of her family members: her grandmother, a warlord’s concubine; her mother’s struggles as a young idealistic Communist; and her parents’ experience as members of the Communist elite and their ordeal during the Cultural Revolution. Chang was a Red Guard briefly at the age of fourteen, then worked as a peasant, a “barefoot doctor,” a steelworker, and an electrician. As the story of each generation unfolds, Chang captures in gripping, moving—and ultimately uplifting—detail the cycles of violent drama visited on her own family and millions of others caught in the whirlwind of history.
Author : Xiran Jay Zhao
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1665900725
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (659 download)
Download or read book Zachary Ying and the Dragon Emperor written by Xiran Jay Zhao and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-05-10 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Percy Jackson meets Tristan Strong in this hilarious middle grade “edge-of-your-seat adventure” (James Ponti, New York Times bestselling author of City Spies) that follows a young boy as he journeys across China to seal the underworld shut and save the mortal realm. Zachary Ying never had many opportunities to learn about his Chinese heritage. His single mom was busy enough making sure they got by, and his schools never taught anything except Western history and myths. So Zack is woefully unprepared when he discovers he was born to host the spirit of the First Emperor of China for a vital mission: sealing the leaking portal to the Chinese underworld before the upcoming Ghost Month blows it wide open. The mission takes an immediate wrong turn when the First Emperor botches his attempt to possess Zack’s body and binds to Zack’s AR gaming headset instead, leading to a battle where Zack’s mom’s soul gets taken by demons. Now, with one of history’s most infamous tyrants yapping in his headset, Zack must journey across China to heist magical artifacts and defeat figures from history and myth, all while learning to wield the emperor’s incredible water dragon powers. And if Zack can’t finish the mission in time, the spirits of the underworld will flood into the mortal realm, and he could lose his mom forever.
Author : Loren Brandt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108480993
Total Pages : 529 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Policy, Regulation and Innovation in China's Electricity and Telecom Industries written by Loren Brandt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-30 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Openness and competition sparked major advances in Chinese industry. Recent policy reversals emphasizing indigenous innovation seem likely to disappoint.
Author : Nicholas D. Kristof
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307764230
Total Pages : 529 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)
Download or read book China Wakes written by Nicholas D. Kristof and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-10-12 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive book on China's uneasy transformation into an economic and political superpower, and an insightful and thought-provoking analysis of daily life in China from the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalists and bestselling authors of Half a Sky. "Nick Kristof's and Sheryl WuDunn's work as correspondents in China was beyond compare, and now they have written a book every bit as astonishing. China Wakes is filled with anecdote, detail, and analysis of the highest order.... This book demands reading, and yet it is a pleasure as well as an education." —David Remnick, Editor of The New Yorker Featuring 16 pages of photos
Author : José Vadi
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1593766963
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (937 download)
Download or read book Inter State written by José Vadi and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A "must read" debut collection of poetic, linked essays investigating the past and present state of California, its conflicting histories and their impact on a writer's family and life (Los Angeles Times). California has been advertised as a destiny manifested for those ready to pull up their bootstraps and head west across to find wealth on the other side of the Sierra Nevada since the 19th century. Across the seven essays in the debut collection by José Vadi, we hear from the descendants of those not promised that prize. Inter State explores California through many lenses: an aging obsessed skateboarder; a self-appointed dive bar DJ; a laid-off San Francisco tech worker turned rehired contractor; a grandson of Mexican farmworkers pursuing the crops they tilled. Amidst wildfires, high speed rail, housing crises, unprecedented wealth and its underlying decay, Inter State excavates and roots itself inside those necessary stories and places lost in the ever-changing definitions of a selectively golden state.
Author : Patricia Nelson Limerick
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393078809
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)
Download or read book The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West written by Patricia Nelson Limerick and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-02-07 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Limerick is one of the most engaging historians writing today." --Richard White The "settling" of the American West has been perceived throughout the world as a series of quaint, violent, and romantic adventures. But in fact, Patricia Nelson Limerick argues, the West has a history grounded primarily in economic reality; in hardheaded questions of profit, loss, competition, and consolidation. Here she interprets the stories and the characters in a new way: the trappers, traders, Indians, farmers, oilmen, cowboys, and sheriffs of the Old West "meant business" in more ways than one, and their descendents mean business today.
Author : Richard Baum
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295800216
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (958 download)
Download or read book China Watcher written by Richard Baum and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This audacious and illuminating memoir by Richard Baum, a senior China scholar and sometime policy advisor, reflects on forty years of learning about and interacting with the People’s Republic of China, from the height of Maoism during the author’s UC Berkeley student days in the volatile 1960s through globalization. Anecdotes from Baum’s professional life illustrate the alternately peculiar, frustrating, fascinating, and risky activity of China watching — the process by which outsiders gather and decipher official and unofficial information to figure out what’s really going on behind China’s veil of political secrecy and propaganda. Baum writes entertainingly, telling his narrative with witty stories about people, places, and eras. China Watcher will appeal to scholars and followers of international events who lived through the era of profound political and academic change described in the book, as well as to younger, post-Mao generations, who will enjoy its descriptions of the personalities and political forces that shaped the modern field of China studies.
