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Author : William Somerset Maugham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book On a Chinese Screen written by William Somerset Maugham and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : W. Somerset Maugham
Publisher : Standard Ebooks
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (99 download)
Download or read book On a Chinese Screen written by W. Somerset Maugham and published by Standard Ebooks. This book was released on 2021-10-18T19:49:51Z with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a Chinese Screen was first published in 1922 by Heinemann Publishers, London. Its 58 short vignettes are based on Maugham’s travels along the Yangtze River from 1919 to 1920. Although later editions of the book added the subtitle “Sketches of Life in China,” there are actually only a few descriptions of the places he visited and the local Chinese people he met; rather, Maugham focuses on relaying his encounters with a range of Europeans living and working in the country. Maugham is quite critical of many of them and their lack of interest in, and sometimes disdain, for the country and its people, except for the extent to which their careers and pockets could benefit. His sketches highlight the difficulties that many expatriates encounter while living in a foreign culture. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.
Author : W. Somerset Maugham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781548163556
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (635 download)
Download or read book On a Chinese Screen (Jovian Press) written by W. Somerset Maugham and published by . This book was released on 2017-06-16 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ON A CHINESE SCREEN is a sequence of remarkable vignettes of Europeans residents in China just after the First World War -Westerners culturally out of their depth in the immensity of the Chinese civilisation. Somerset Maugham, who travelled over a thousand miles up the Yangtse river, used his acerbic and insightful notes to write this fascinating book.
Author : Hsiu-Chuang Deppman
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824833732
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)
Download or read book Adapted for the Screen written by Hsiu-Chuang Deppman and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2010-04-30 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hsiu-Chang Deppman puts landmark contemporary Chinese films in the context of their literary origins & explores how the best Chinese directors adapt fictional narratives & styles for film.
Author : W. Somerset Maugham
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781523213542
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (135 download)
Download or read book On a Chinese Screen written by W. Somerset Maugham and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ON A CHINESE SCREEN is a sequence of remarkable vignettes of Europeans residents in China just after the First World War -Westerners culturally out of their depth in the immensity of the Chinese civilisation. Somerset Maugham, who travelled over a thousand miles up the Yangtse river, used his acerbic and insightful notes to write this fascinating book.
Author : Wu Hung
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1861898428
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (618 download)
Download or read book The Double Screen written by Wu Hung and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 1996-11-22 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first exploration of Chinese paintings as both material products and pictorial representations, The Double Screen shows how the collaboration and tension between material form and image gives life to a painting. A Chinese painting is often reduced to the image it bears; its material form is dismissed; its intimate connection with social activities and cultural conventions neglected. A screen occupies a space and divides it, supplies an ideal surface for painting, and has been a favorite pictorial image in Chinese art since antiquity. Wu Hung undertakes a comprehensive analysis of the screen, which can be an object, an art medium, a pictorial motif, or all three at once. With its diverse roles, the screen has provided Chinese painters with endless opportunities to reinvent their art. The Double Screen provides a powerful non-Western perspective on issues from portraiture and pictorial narrative to voyeurism, masquerade, and political rhetoric. It will be invaluable to anyone interested in the history of art and Asian studies.
Author : W. Maugham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (51 download)
Download or read book On a Chinese Screen written by W. Maugham and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a Chinese Screen, also known as On a Chinese Screen: Sketches of Life in China, is a travel book by W. Somerset Maugham, first published in 1922.
Author : William Somerset Maugham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book On a Chinese Screen written by William Somerset Maugham and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : W. Somerset Maugham
Publisher : Hesperides Press
ISBN 13 : 9781406794403
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (944 download)
Download or read book On a Chinese Screen written by W. Somerset Maugham and published by Hesperides Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of sketches of life in China. Mr. Somerset Maugham writes with equal certainty and vigour whether his characters are Chinese or European
Author : W. Somerset Maugham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781722440879
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (48 download)
Download or read book On a Chinese Screen written by W. Somerset Maugham and published by . This book was released on 2018-07-05 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a Chinese Screen is a sequence of remarkable vignettes of Europeans residents in China just after the First World War -Westerners culturally out of their depth in the immensity of the Chinese civilisation. Somerset Maugham, who travelled over a thousand miles up the Yangtse river, used his acerbic and insightful notes to write this fascinating book.
Author : Paola Voci
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136960015
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (369 download)
Download or read book China on Video written by Paola Voci and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-06-10 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China On Video is the first in-depth study that examines smaller-screen realities and the important role they play not only in the fast-changing Chinese mediascape, but also more broadly in the practice of experimental and non-mainstream cinema. At the crossroads of several disciplines—film, media, new media, media anthropology, visual arts, contemporary China area studies, and cultural studies--this book reveals the existence of a creative, humorous, but also socially and politically critical "China on video", which locates itself outside of the intellectual discourse surrounding both auteur cinema and digital art. By describing smaller-screen movies, moviemaking and viewing as light realities, Voci points to their "insignificant" weight in terms of production costs, distribution size, profit gains, intellectual or artistic ambitions, but also their deep meaning in defining an alternative way of seeing and understanding the world. The author proposes that lightness is a concept that can usefully be deployed to describe the moving image, beyond the specificity of recent new media developments and which can, in fact, help us rethink previous cinematic practices in broad terms both spatially and temporally.
Author : Zheng Wang
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231148909
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)
Download or read book Never Forget National Humiliation written by Zheng Wang and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wang follows the Chinese Communist Party's ideological re-education of the public through the exploitation of China's humiliating modern history, tracking the CCP's use of history education to glorify the party, re-establish its legitimacy, consolidate national identity, and justify one-party rule in the post-Tiananmen and post-Cold War era.
Author : Robert van Gulik
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226848679
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (486 download)
Download or read book The Lacquer Screen written by Robert van Gulik and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1992-12-15 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early in his career, Judge Dee visits a senior magistrate who shows him a beautiful lacquer screen on which a scene of lovers has been mysteriously altered to show the man stabbing his lover. The magistrate fears he is losing his mind and will murder his own wife. Meanwhile, a banker has inexplicably killed himself, and a lovely lady has allowed Dee's lieutenant, Chiao Tai, to believe she is a courtesan. Dee and Chiao Tai go incognito among a gang of robbers to solve this mystery, and find the leader of the robbers is more honorable than the magistrate. "One of the most satisfyingly devious of the Judge Dee novels, with unusual historical richness in its portrayal of the China of the T'ang dynasty."-—New York Times Book Review "Even Judge Dee is baffled by Robert van Gulik's new mysteries in The Lacquer Screen. Disguised as a petty crook, he spends a couple of precarious days in the headquarters of the underworld, hobnobbing with the robber king. Dee's lively thieving friends furnish some vital clues to this strange and fascinating jigsaw."-—The Spectator "So scrupulously in the classic Chinese manner yet so nicely equipped with everything to satisfy the modern reader."-—New York Times Robert Van Gulik (1910-67) was a Dutch diplomat and an authority on Chinese history and culture. He drew his plots from the whole body of Chinese literature, especially from the popular detective novels that first appeared in the seventeenth century.
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 : Geng Song
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472220047
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (722 download)
Download or read book Televising Chineseness written by Geng Song and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2022-05-09 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The serial narrative is one of the most robust and popular forms of storytelling in contemporary China. With a domestic audience of one billion-plus and growing transnational influence and accessibility, this form of storytelling is becoming the centerpiece of a fast-growing digital entertainment industry and a new symbol and carrier of China’s soft power. Televising Chineseness: Gender, Nation, and Subjectivity explores how television and online dramas imagine the Chinese nation and form postsocialist Chinese gendered subjects. The book addresses a conspicuous paradox in Chinese popular culture today: the coexistence of increasingly diverse gender presentations and conservative gender policing by the government, viewers, and society. Using first-hand data collected through interviews and focus group discussions with audiences comprising viewers of different ages, genders, and educational backgrounds, Televising Chineseness sheds light on how television culture relates to the power mechanisms and truth regimes that shape the understanding of gender and the construction of gendered subjects in postsocialist China.
Author : Zhang Zhen
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226982373
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (823 download)
Download or read book An Amorous History of the Silver Screen written by Zhang Zhen and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrating the cultural significance of film and its power as a vehicle for social change, this book reveals the intricacies of the cultural movement and explores its connections to other art forms such as photography, drama, and literature.
Author : William Somerset Waugham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Zhongguo Jian Wen Za Ji written by William Somerset Waugham and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
