The Empress and Mrs. Conger

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Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
ISBN 13 : 9888083007
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book The Empress and Mrs. Conger written by Grant Hayter-Menzies and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of two women from worlds that could not seem farther apart--imperial China and the American Midwest--who found common ground before and after one of the greatest clashes between East and West, the fifty-five day siege of the Beijing foreign legations known as the Boxer Uprising. Using diaries, letters and other sources,The Empress and Mrs. Congertraces the parallel lives of Empress Dowager Cixi and American ambassador's wife Sarah Pike Conger, which converged to alter their perspectives of each other and each other's worlds. Grant Hayter-Menziesis the author ofImperial Masquerade: The Legend of Princess Der Lingand the biographer of stage and screen stars Charlotte Greenwood and Billie Burke. "Sarah Conger's story is worth telling for many reasons. She occupied a point in time that makes her interesting, but the author demonstrates that she is interesting in her own right-a flawed and fascinating individual whose story we want to read not for what we learn about Chinese history, but for what we learn about a woman profoundly typical of her era and class leading a life of determination in the belief that the right combination of positive attitudes and common sense must win out over adversity." - Timothy Brook, University of British Columbia

Letters from China

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Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Letters from China written by Sarah Pike Conger and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Mrs. Ziegfeld

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Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786453087
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Mrs. Ziegfeld written by Grant Hayter-Menzies and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2009-04-22 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Broadway actress Billie Burke was one of the most sought after young stage beauties of her time, stealing the hearts of Enrico Caruso, Mark Twain, and, most importantly, famed Broadway producer Florenz Ziegfeld, who became her husband. Following Ziegfeld's death, the threats of financial ruin and encroaching age forced Burke to recreate herself as a Hollywood character actress. This biography benefits from the cooperation of the daughter and grandchildren of Burke and Ziegfeld, as well as from anecdotes provided by actors who performed with Burke on the stage and screen. In addition to studying the character and significance of Burke's greatest screen role as Glinda the Good Witch of the North, this richly illustrated book also provides a complete history of Burke's stage, screen, and radio work.

Shadow Woman

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Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773589090
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Shadow Woman written by Grant Hayter-Menzies and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kansas-born Pauline Benton (1898-1974) was encouraged by her father, one of America's earliest feminist male educators, to reach for the stars. Instead, she reached for shadows. In 1920s Beijing, she discovered shadow theatre (piyingxi), a performance art where translucent painted puppets are manipulated by highly trained masters to cast coloured shadows against an illuminated screen. Finding that this thousand-year-old forerunner of motion pictures was declining in China, Benton believed she could save the tradition by taking it to America. Mastering the male-dominated art form in China, Benton enchanted audiences eager for the exotic in Depression-era America. Her touring company, Red Gate Shadow Theatre, was lauded by theatre and art critics and even performed at Franklin Roosevelt's White House. Grant Hayter-Menzies traces Benton's performance history and her efforts to preserve shadow theatre as a global cultural treasure by drawing on her unpublished writings, the recollections of her colleagues, the testimonies of shadow masters who survived China's Cultural Revolution, as well as young innovators who have carried on Benton's pioneering work.

With the Empress Dowager

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Total Pages : 388 pages
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Imagining Gay Paradise

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ISBN 13 : 9789888083244
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Imagining Gay Paradise written by Gary Atkins and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This look at gay paradises in Southeast Asia and the men who created them considers the obstacles gay men have faced in securing a voice as citizens, and how they have used images of paradise in Bali, Bangkok and Singapore to create a sense of refuge, construct homes for themselves, and dissent from typical notions of manhood and masculinity. It focuses on Walter Spies, a gay German painter who in the 1930s depicted Bali as an ideal male aesthetic state; Khun Toc, who founded an architectural paradise called Babylon in Thailand; and the "cyber-paradise" of Fridae.com created by a young Singaporean named Stuart Koe. Collectively, Atkins examines their pursuit of sexual justice, the ideologies of manhood they challenged, the different types of gay spaces they created (geographic, architectural, online), and political obstacles they have encountered. Gary Atkins is professor of communication at Seattle University. He is the author of Gay Seattle: Stories of Exile and Belonging--Página 4 de la cubierta.

With the Empress Dowager of China

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Total Pages : 394 pages
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Download or read book With the Empress Dowager of China written by Katharine Augusta Carl and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

From Stray Dog to World War I Hero

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Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1612347924
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (123 download)

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Download or read book From Stray Dog to World War I Hero written by Grant Hayter-Menzies and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2015-11 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the streets of Paris one day in July 1918, an American doughboy, Sgt. Jimmy Donovan, befriended a stray dog that he named Rags. No longer an unwanted street mutt, Rags became the mascot to the entire First Division of the American Expeditionary Force and a friend to the American troops who had crossed the Atlantic to fight. Rags was more than a scruffy face and a wagging tail, however. The little terrier mix was with the division at the crucial battle of Soissons, at the Saint-Mihiel offensive, and finally in the blood-and-mud bath of the Meuse-Argonne, during which he and his guardian were wounded. Despite being surrounded by distraction and danger, Rags learned to carry messages through gunfire, locate broken communications wire for the Signal Corps to repair, and alert soldiers to incoming shells, saving the lives of hundreds of American soldiers. Through it all, he brought inspiration to men with little to hope for, especially in the bitter last days of the war. From Stray Dog to World War I Hero covers Rags's entire life story, from the bomb-filled years of war through his secret journey to the United States that began his second life, one just as filled with drama and heartache. In years of peace, Rags served as a reminder to human survivors of what held men together when pushed past their limits by the horrors of battle. Watch a book trailer.

Ten Lessons in Modern Chinese History

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Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526126974
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Book Synopsis Ten Lessons in Modern Chinese History by : Zheng Yangwen

Download or read book Ten Lessons in Modern Chinese History written by Zheng Yangwen and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-25 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a timely and solid portrait of modern China from the First Opium War to the Xi Jinping era. Unlike the handful of existing textbooks that only provide narratives, this textbook fashions a new and practical way to study modern China. Written exclusively for university students, A-level or high school teachers and students, it uses primary sources to tell the story of China and introduces them to existing scholarship and academic debate so they can conduct independent research for their essays and dissertations. This book will be required reading for students who embark on the study of Chinese history, politics, economics, diaspora, sociology, literature, cultural, urban and women’s studies. It would be essential reading to journalists, NGO workers, diplomats, government officials, businessmen and travellers.

An Ohio Woman in the Philippines. Giving Personal Experiences and Descriptions Including Incidents of Honolulu, Ports in Japan and China

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ISBN 13 : 9780649370689
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (76 download)

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Book Synopsis An Ohio Woman in the Philippines. Giving Personal Experiences and Descriptions Including Incidents of Honolulu, Ports in Japan and China by : Mrs. Emily Bronson Conger

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Imperial Masquerade

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Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
ISBN 13 : 9789622098817
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book Imperial Masquerade written by Grant Hayter-Menzies and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2008-02-01 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Imperial Masquerade: The Legend of Princess Der Ling, the first biography of one of the twentieth century's most intriguing cross-cultural personalities, traces not only the life of Princess Der Ling, in all its various transformations, but offers a fresh look at the woman she lionized and, ultimately, betrayed - the Empress Dowager Cixi, to whom, like Der Ling, many legends have been affixed over the past century. The book also depicts the changing worlds of Paris, Tokyo and the other international stages of Der Ling's development as woman and as mystery, and deals with the many teachers who made her who she was." --Book Jacket.

Beleaguered in Peking

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Total Pages : 284 pages
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Download or read book Beleaguered in Peking written by Robert Coltman and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

With the Empress Dowager of China

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0710302185
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book With the Empress Dowager of China written by Katharine Augusta Carl and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1986 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Empty Hands, Open Arms

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Publisher : Milkweed Editions
ISBN 13 : 1571318496
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (713 download)

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Download or read book Empty Hands, Open Arms written by Deni Ellis Béchard and published by Milkweed Editions. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Absorbing . . . Béchard’s masterful, adventure-driven reporting delivers an inspiring account of an all-too-rare ecological success story.” —Booklist Bonobos have captured the public imagination, due not least to their famously active sex lives. Less well known is the fact that these great apes don’t kill their own kind, and that they share nearly 99% of our DNA. Their approach to building peaceful coalitions and sharing resources has much to teach us, particularly at a time when our violent ways have pushed them to the brink of extinction. Animated by a desire to understand bonobos and learn how to save them, Deni Ellis Béchard traveled into the Congo. Empty Hands, Open Arms is the account of this journey. Along the way, we see how partnerships between Congolese and Westerners, with few resources but a common purpose and respect for indigenous knowledge, have resulted in the protection of vast swaths of the rainforest. And we discover how small solutions—found through openness, humility, and the principle that poverty does not equal ignorance—are often most effective in tackling our biggest challenges. Combining elements of travelogue, journalism, and natural history, this incomparably rich book takes the reader not only deep into the Congo, but also into our past and future, revealing new ways to save the environment and ourselves. “Riveting [and] surprisingly uplifting.” —David Suzuki, author of The Sacred Balance “The embodiment of the type of reporting that we dream of reading, but all too rarely encounter—intelligent, engaged, and above all, astonishingly perceptive.” —Dinaw Mengestu, author of The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears Also published as Of Bonobos and Men.

With The Empress Dowager Of Chin

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113614434X
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (361 download)

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Download or read book With The Empress Dowager Of Chin written by Katherine Augusta Carl and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in the year 1986, With The Empress Dowager Of Chin is a valuable contribution to the field of Asian Studies.

The Independent

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Total Pages : 1586 pages
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The Independent

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Total Pages : 1012 pages
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Download or read book The Independent written by Leonard Bacon and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 1012 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: