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The Clouds Float North

Author : Yu Xuanji
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780819563446
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (634 download)

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Download or read book The Clouds Float North written by Yu Xuanji and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 1998-11-20 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Outside of her remarkable poems, we know next to nothing about Yu Xuanji,” David Young writes. “She was born in 844 and died in 868, at the age of twenty-four, condemned to death for the murder of her maid…We owe the survival of her forty-nine poems to the ancient Chinese anthologists’ urge to be complete.” The poems gathered in this bilingual (Chinese/English) edition will be read again and again for their beauty. The works preserve Yu Xuanji’s passion, her sharp eye for detail, her often witty variations on familiar Chinese themes, all of which give the poems an immediacy one rarely finds in ancient, translated texts. Poems addressed to Yu Xuanji’s husband and to other men (some famous poets) and women give us some sense of her relationships; the book also includes other traditional Chinese forms such as meditations on landscapes and occasional poems commemorating feast days. As noted in the introduction, the poetry also provokes us to think about the act of writing, about the culture and politics of the T’ang Dynasty, and about gender.

The Clouds Float North

Author : Xuanji Yu
Publisher : Wesleyan
ISBN 13 : 9780819563439
Total Pages : 75 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (634 download)

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Download or read book The Clouds Float North written by Xuanji Yu and published by Wesleyan. This book was released on 1998 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Outside of her remarkable poems, we know next to nothing about Yu Xuanji, David Young writes. She was born in 844 and died in 868, at the age of twenty-four, condemned to death for the murder of her maid We owe the survival of her forty-nine poems to the ancient Chinese anthologists urge to be complete. The poems gathered in this bilingual (Chinese/English) edition will be read again and again for their beauty. The works preserve Yu Xuanji s passion, her sharp eye for detail, her often witty variations on familiar Chinese themes, all of which give the poems an immediacy one rarely finds in ancient, translated texts. Poems addressed to Yu Xuanji s husband and to other men (some famous poets) and women give us some sense of her relationships; the book also includes other traditional Chinese forms such as meditations on landscapes and occasional poems commemorating feast days. As noted in the introduction, the poetry also provokes us to think about the act of writing, about the culture and politics of the T ang Dynasty, and about gender. "

Inquire Within for Anything You Want to Know, Or, Over, Three Thousand Seven Hundred Facts Worth Knowing ...

Author : Robert Kemp Philp
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Inquire Within for Anything You Want to Know, Or, Over, Three Thousand Seven Hundred Facts Worth Knowing ... written by Robert Kemp Philp and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Black Lab

Author : David Young
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0307494152
Total Pages : 87 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Black Lab written by David Young and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2009-03-04 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Young, the distinguished poet and translator, offers us a gorgeous cycle of poems attuned to the Midwestern seasons—to weather both emotional and actual. A writer of thrilling invention and humanity, Young beckons the reader into an effortless proximity with the fox at the field’s edge, with the chattering crow and the startling first daffodils of spring. In his tour of both exterior and interior landscapes, the poet scatters his father’s ashes and remembers losing his wife, Chloe, to cancer, a loss at times still fresh after several decades; pays homage to the wisdom of the Chinese masters whose aesthetic has helped shape his own; and reflects on the gladdening qualities of a walk in a snowstorm with his black labrador, Nemo: and in this snowfall that I should detest, late March and early April, I’m still rapt to see his coat so constellated, starred, re-starred, making a comic cosmos I can love. Young’s expert shaping of this world in which, as he writes, “We’re never going to get God right. But we / learn to love all our failures on the way,” becomes for the reader a fresh experience of life’s mysterious goodness and of the abundant pleasure of the language that embodies it.

Inquire Within for Anything You Want to Know

Author : Robert Kemp Philp
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inquire Within for Anything You Want to Know written by Robert Kemp Philp and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Field of Light and Shadow

Author : David Young
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0307599612
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Field of Light and Shadow written by David Young and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2011-05-31 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gorgeous selection of the humane and moving poetry of David Young, a celebrated poet of the midwestern landscape and the people who live in it, with an expanded section featuring sixteen new poems exclusive to the paperback edition. A newly expanded career-spanning volume from one of our most valuable living American poets, offering poems that display an exquisite ear tuned to the natural world, to love and friendship, and to the continually renewable possibilities of language, and new poems that reflect a continued artistic interest in these subjects. Young’s settings are at once local and universal—an adolescence in Omaha, late summer on Lake Erie, a sleepless night in the backyard during a meteor shower. He moves with dazzling ease between culture and nature, between the literary and the philosophical, microcosm and macrocosm. Here are poems on Osip Mandelstam and Chairman Mao, the meaning of boxcars on the track, the beautiful names of the months, and a fox at the field’s edge, charged in each case by Young’s fierce intelligence and candor in the face of grief and loss. “We float through space. Days pass,” Young writes in “The Portable Earth-Lamp.” “Sometimes we know we are part of a crystal / where light is sorted and stored.” His metaphysical reach, balancing remarkable humility with penetrating vision, is one of the great gifts of this exemplary career in poetry.

Du Fu

Author : Du Fu
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0307804429
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Du Fu written by Du Fu and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2013-08-21 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Du Fu (712–770) is one of the undisputed geniuses of Chinese poetry—still universally admired and read thirteen centuries after his death. Now David Young, author of Black Lab, and well known as a translator of Chinese poets, gives us a sparkling new translation of Du Fu’s verse, arranged to give us a tour of the life, each “chapter” of poems preceded by an introductory paragraph that situates us in place, time, and circumstance. What emerges is a portrait of a modest yet great artist, an ordinary man moving and adjusting as he must in troubled times, while creating a startling, timeless body of work. Du Fu wrote poems that engaged his contemporaries and widened the path of the lyric poet. As his society—one of the world’s great civilizations—slipped from a golden age into chaos, he wrote of the uncertain course of empire, the misfortunes and pleasures of his own family, the hard lives of ordinary people, the changing seasons, and the lives of creatures who shared his environment. As the poet chases chickens around the yard, observes tear streaks on his wife’s cheek, or receives a gift of some shallots from a neighbor, Young’s rendering brings Du Fu’s voice naturally and elegantly to life. I sing what comes to me in ways both old and modern my only audience right now— nearby bushes and trees elegant houses stand in an elegant row, too many if my heart turns to ashes then that’s all right with me . . . from “Meandering River”

Studies on Local Forecasting

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 754 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Studies on Local Forecasting written by and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Women in Tang China

Author : Bret Hinsch
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 153813490X
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Women in Tang China written by Bret Hinsch and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-11-11 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important book provides the first comprehensive survey of women in China during the Sui and Tang dynasties from the sixth through tenth centuries CE. Bret Hinsch provides rich insight into female life in the medieval era, ranging from political power, wealth, and work to family, religious roles, and virtues. He explores women’s lived experiences but also delves into the subjective side of their emotional life and the ideals they pursued. Deeply researched, the book draws on a wide range of sources, including standard histories, poetry, prose literature, and epigraphic sources such as epitaphs, commemorative religious inscriptions, and Dunhuang documents. Building on the best Western and Japanese scholarship, Hinsch also draws heavily on Chinese scholarship, most of which is unknown outside China. As the first study in English about women in the medieval era, this groundbreaking work will open a new window into Chinese history for Western readers.

Planetary Modernisms

Author : Susan Stanford Friedman
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231539479
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Planetary Modernisms written by Susan Stanford Friedman and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2015-08-18 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on a vast archive of world history, anthropology, geography, cultural theory, postcolonial studies, gender studies, literature, and art, Susan Stanford Friedman recasts modernity as a networked, circulating, and recurrent phenomenon producing multiple aesthetic innovations across millennia. Considering cosmopolitan as well as nomadic and oceanic worlds, she radically revises the scope of modernist critique and opens the practice to more integrated study. Friedman moves from large-scale instances of pre-1500 modernities, such as Tang Dynasty China and the Mongol Empire, to small-scale instances of modernisms, including the poetry of Du Fu and Kabir and Abbasid ceramic art. She maps the interconnected modernisms of the long twentieth century, pairing Joseph Conrad with Tayeb Salih, E. M. Forster with Arundhati Roy, Virginia Woolf with the Tagores, and Aimé Césaire with Theresa Hak Kyung Cha. She reads postcolonial works from Sudan and India and engages with the idea of Négritude. Rejecting the modernist concepts of marginality, othering, and major/minor, Friedman instead favors rupture, mobility, speed, networks, and divergence, elevating the agencies and creative capacities of all cultures not only in the past and present but also in the century to come.

Classical Chinese Poetry

Author : David Hinton
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1466873221
Total Pages : 597 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Classical Chinese Poetry written by David Hinton and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2014-06-10 with total page 597 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With this groundbreaking collection Classical Chinese Poetry, translated and edited by the renowned poet and translator David Hinton, a new generation will be introduced to the work that riveted Ezra Pound and transformed modern poetry. The Chinese poetic tradition is the largest and longest continuous tradition in world literature, and this rich and far-reaching anthology of nearly five hundred poems provides a comprehensive account of its first three millennia (1500 BCE to 1200 CE), the period during which virtually all its landmark developments took place. Unlike earlier anthologies of Chinese poetry, Hinton's book focuses on a relatively small number of poets, providing selections that are large enough to re-create each as a fully realized and unique voice. New introductions to each poet's work provide a readable history, told for the first time as a series of poetic innovations forged by a series of master poets. From the classic texts of Chinese philosophy to intensely personal lyrics, from love poems to startling and strange perspectives on nature, Hinton has collected an entire world of beauty and insight. And in his eye-opening translations, these ancient poems feel remarkably fresh and contemporary, presenting a literature both radically new and entirely resonant, in Classical Chinese Poetry.

China: A History

Author : Harold Miles Tanner
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0872209156
Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (722 download)

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Download or read book China: A History written by Harold Miles Tanner and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2009-03-13 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A deep and rigorous, yet eminently accessible introduction to the political, social, and cultural development of imperial Chinese civilisation, this volume develops a number of important themes -- such as the ethnic diversity of the early empires -- that other editions omit entirely or discuss only minimally. Includes a general introduction, chronology, bibliography, illustrations, maps, and an index.

Gender, Power, and Talent

Author : Jinhua Jia
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231545495
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Gender, Power, and Talent written by Jinhua Jia and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Tang dynasty (618–907), changes in political policies, the religious landscape, and gender relations opened the possibility for Daoist women to play an unprecedented role in religious and public life. Women, from imperial princesses to the daughters of commoner families, could be ordained as Daoist priestesses and become religious leaders, teachers, and practitioners in their own right. Some achieved remarkable accomplishments: one wrote and transmitted texts on meditation and inner cultivation; another, a physician, authored a treatise on therapeutic methods, medical theory, and longevity techniques. Priestess-poets composed major works, and talented priestess-artists produced stunning calligraphy. In Gender, Power, and Talent, Jinhua Jia draws on a wealth of previously untapped sources to explain how Daoist priestesses distinguished themselves as a distinct gendered religious and social group. She describes the life journey of priestesses from palace women to abbesses and ordinary practitioners, touching on their varied reasons for entering the Daoist orders, the role of social and religious institutions, forms of spiritual experience, and the relationships between gendered identities and cultural representations. Jia takes the reader inside convents and cloisters, demonstrating how they functioned both as a female space for self-determination and as a public platform for both religious and social spheres. The first comprehensive study of the lives and roles of Daoist priestesses in Tang China, Gender, Power, and Talent restores women to the landscape of Chinese religion and literature and proposes new methodologies for the growing field of gender and religion.

Old-Time Country Wisdom & Lore

Author : Jerry Mack Johnson
Publisher : Voyageur Press (MN)
ISBN 13 : 0760340013
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book Old-Time Country Wisdom & Lore written by Jerry Mack Johnson and published by Voyageur Press (MN). This book was released on 2011-04-11 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of old-fashioned country wisdom on all kinds of topics describes how to make and cook things, read the weather, and dowse; and provides lore on animals and plants.

The Complete Dramatic Works of Tang Xianzu

Author : Tang Xianzu
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 191239202X
Total Pages : 1068 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (123 download)

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Download or read book The Complete Dramatic Works of Tang Xianzu written by Tang Xianzu and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-02-22 with total page 1068 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tang Xianzu (1550–1616) is acclaimed as the 'Shakespeare of the East' and widely regarded as China's greatest playwright, yet his work has not reached Western readers in its entirety. The Complete Dramatic Works of Tang Xianzu represents a literary landmark: this is the first English-language collection of the revered dramatist's most important works to be made available outside China. Translated over two decades, the collection showcases the playwright's major pieces, including The Purple Flute, The Purple Hairpins, The Nanke Dream, The Handan Dream – and The Peony Pavilion. The Peony Pavilion is the playwright's most celebrated work and has drawn comparisons to Homer's Odyssey, Virgil's Aeneid, Dante's Divine Comedy and John Milton's Paradise Lost. Known for his lyrical use of metaphor, Tang Xianzu weaves the beauty of nature with the tragedy of emotion. His plays offer an extensive exploration of love, and remain at the heart of Chinese culture. This important collection represents an opportunity for a wider audience to discover the profound and poetic works of this classic playwright.

Step into the Bible

Author : Ruth Graham
Publisher : Zonderkidz
ISBN 13 : 0310429579
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Step into the Bible written by Ruth Graham and published by Zonderkidz. This book was released on 2011-01-04 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In just 10 minutes, your family can take a step into the Bible. Fresh, creative and engaging — this devotional helps you explore the Bible together. Designed for use with kids ages 10 and under, Step Into the Bible includes the following features:100 Bible stories highlight the core values of the Christian faith; Unique layout with rich, full-color photography; Open ended questions encourage exploration and spark imagination; Memory verses build spiritual character and knowledge. “This book is a children’s Christian classic. I am happy to recommend it to all parents, and urge them to take advantage of its unique approach. I know of no book on the market like it.” – Billy Graham. Ruth Graham shares this collection of Bible stories that has been used by four generations of the Graham family. Winner of the 2008 Christian Book Award.

Old-Time Country Wisdom and Lore for Garden and Trail

Author : Jerry Mack Johnson
Publisher : Voyageur Press
ISBN 13 : 0760369313
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book Old-Time Country Wisdom and Lore for Garden and Trail written by Jerry Mack Johnson and published by Voyageur Press. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Achieve your goal of a self-sufficient, sustainable lifestyle with instruction on a range of basic garden and trail techniques inspired by old time country living. Achieve your goal of a self-sufficient, sustainable lifestyle with instruction on a range of basic garden and trail techniques inspired by old time country living, no matter where you live. As big box stores and foreign-made, disposable goods take over commerce, the drive to get back to the origins of what we consume and how we sustain ourselves is becoming ever more compelling. Whether you are a country dweller or an urbanite, or somewhere in between, you can respond by learning to garden more simply, use what you have, and be more sustainable. With content from and expanding on the classic Jerry Mack Johnson book Old-Time Country Wisdom and Lore, this is a guide to living a sustainable lifestyle, lowering your carbon footprint, and finding the appreciation in the know-how to do for yourself or go without. Make your garden an adventure where you invest yourself and learn to live with purpose using country wisdom and know-how as your guide. With thousands of recipes, projects, and instructions, Old-Time Country Wisdom and Lore for Garden and Trail includes practical information on: Composting Planting Vegetables Water collection Flowers Herbs Pest control Land management Beekeeping Attracting Pollinators Resilient planting Preserving Overwintering 4-Season Gardening And so much more Basic, thorough, and reliable, this book deserves a place in urban and rural homes alike.