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Book Synopsis The Jade Figurine by : Bill Pronzini
Download or read book The Jade Figurine written by Bill Pronzini and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A freelance charter pilot on uneasy terms with the police but greatly respected by the underworld, Dan Connell turns down a bundle of cash to smuggle a jade carving of a bird out of Singapore—which doesn’t make the thieves or the authorities happy. When an old cohort is killed, Connell discovers that only by finding the bird can he avoid his own murder.
Book Synopsis The Jade Figurine by : Bill Pronzini (Schriftsteller, Herausgeber)
Download or read book The Jade Figurine written by Bill Pronzini (Schriftsteller, Herausgeber) and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book THE JADE FIGURINE written by JACK FOXX and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Jade Figurine by : Bill Pronzini
Download or read book The Jade Figurine written by Bill Pronzini and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on 2012-03 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Pronzini is a pro." -The New York Times A freelance charter pilot on uneasy terms with the police but greatly respected by the underworld, Dan Connell turns down a bundle of cash to smuggle a jade carving of a bird out of Singapore-which doesn't make the thieves or the authorities happy. When an old cohort is killed, Connell discovers that only by finding the bird can he avoid his own murder.
Book Synopsis The Jade Figurines by : Jan Alexander
Download or read book The Jade Figurines written by Jan Alexander and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Jade Figurine by : Mary-Frazier Paul
Download or read book The Jade Figurine written by Mary-Frazier Paul and published by . This book was released on 2010-04 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-one year-old twins Karl and Katerina Olson live in Sumatra. They were orphaned by a tsunami which killed their parents and grandparents. Their parents, Bjorn and Maria Olson, left their store, KK imports and exports, to Karl and Katarina. Their will also stipulated that a friend of theirs, Alistair Sims, be appointed their guardian. The store has become extremely lucrative, and Karl, Katarina, and Alistair Sims are well-off. Pearl and jade smuggling has become rampant and three people have mysteriously disappeared in the last six months. Roger Dorchester is a professor on leave from duke university doing a thesis on the pearl-fishing industry. Boris Strinski is a Russian in charge of the political area of Sumatra and Borneo. Katerina is the next victim targeted to disappear. She is naive and completely unaware of the danger surrounding her.
Download or read book The Naked Gaze written by Carlos Rojas and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a study of visuality in early modern and modern China. Its focus, however, is not so much on imagery per se but rather on how vision itself has been conceived, imagined, and deployed in a variety of discursive contexts. Of particular interest is how these discourses of vision have been used to articulate issues of gender and desire, and specifically processes of gendered subject formation. Through detailed readings of narrative works by eight authors of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries—ranging from the canonical to the popular to the esoteric—the study identifies three distinct constellations of visual concerns corresponding to the late imperial, mid-twentieth century, and contemporary periods, respectively. At the same time, however, it argues that those historical periodizations themselves do not reflect a smooth, unidirectional temporal movement; rather, they are the result of a complex process of retrospection and anticipatory projection. The goal of this volume is to use a focus on tropes of visuality and gender to reflect on shifting understandings of the significance of Chineseness, modernity, and Chinese modernity.
Download or read book Wearing Culture written by Heather Orr and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2013-03-15 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wearing Culture connects scholars of divergent geographical areas and academic fields—from archaeologists and anthropologists to art historians—to show the significance of articles of regalia and of dressing and ornamenting people and objects among the Formative period cultures of ancient Mesoamerica and Central America. Documenting the elaborate practices of costume, adornment, and body modification in Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Oaxaca, the Soconusco region of southern Mesoamerica, the Gulf Coast Olmec region (Olman), and the Maya lowlands, this book demonstrates that adornment was used as a tool for communicating status, social relationships, power, gender, sexuality, behavior, and political, ritual, and religious identities. Despite considerable formal and technological variation in clothing and ornamentation, the early indigenous cultures of these regions shared numerous practices, attitudes, and aesthetic interests. Contributors address technological development, manufacturing materials and methods, nonfabric ornamentation, symbolic dimensions, representational strategies, and clothing as evidence of interregional sociopolitical exchange. Focusing on an important period of cultural and artistic development through the lens of costuming and adornment, Wearing Culture will be of interest to scholars of pre-Hispanic and pre-Columbian studies.
Book Synopsis Recording State Rites in Words and Images by : Yi Song-mi
Download or read book Recording State Rites in Words and Images written by Yi Song-mi and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2024-03-05 with total page 557 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautifully illustrated, interdisciplinary look at the ceremonies and protocols of the dynastic court of Joseon Korea Recording State Rites in Words and Images provides an engaging and in-depth exploration of the large corpus of court statutes compiled during the Joseon dynasty of Korea. The term uigwe, commonly translated as “royal protocols,” is the name given to the collection of nearly four thousand books that were commissioned and written to document the customs, rituals, rules, protocols, and ceremonial practices of the Joseon dynasty. In this generously illustrated book, Yi Song-mi introduces readers to the rich and varied documentary tradition embodied in the uigwe, sharing invaluable insights into time-honored court customs through text and images and analyzing changes in ritual practice over time. The first comprehensive study of its kind in English, Recording State Rites in Words and Images presents groundbreaking research that opens a window on Korean history and art and will serve as an inspiration to students, scholars, and anyone interested in topics such as dynastic customs, court artists, and bookmaking. Published in association with the P. Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art at Princeton University
Book Synopsis The Olmec & Their Neighbors by : Matthew Williams Stirling
Download or read book The Olmec & Their Neighbors written by Matthew Williams Stirling and published by Dumbarton Oaks. This book was released on 1981 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-one papers on the Olmec were written for this volume in tribute to Matthew W. Stirling, "pioneer archaeologist, ethnologist, and the discoverer of the Olmec civilization."
Download or read book 笔记（英文版） written by 孙了红 and published by 露露. This book was released on 2023-05-03 with total page 1132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At that moment, I didn't know how he could be sure that the person was Wen Jin. I saw that the person's face was covered with mud, and I couldn't even tell whether he was a boy or a girl. But there was no time to think too much at this time. Pan Zi shouted "Go help", and several people immediately followed the stuffy oil bottle and rushed into the water.
Download or read book Modeling Peace written by Jie Shi and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among hundreds of thousands of ancient graves and tombs excavated to date in China, the Mancheng site stands out for its unparalleled complexity and richness. It features juxtaposed burials of the first king and queen of the Zhongshan kingdom (dated late second century BCE). The male tomb occupant, King Liu Sheng (d. 113 BCE), was sent by his father, Emperor Jing (r. 157–141 BCE), to rule the Zhongshan kingdom near the northern frontier of the Western Han Empire, neighboring the nomadic Xiongnu confederation. Modeling Peace interprets Western Han royal burial as a political ideology by closely reading the architecture and funerary content of this site and situating it in the historical context of imperialization in Western Han China. Through a study of both the archaeological materials and related received and excavated texts, Jie Shi demonstrates that the Mancheng site was planned and designed as a unity of religious, gender, and intercultural concerns. The site was built under the supervision of the future occupants of the royal tomb, who used these burials to assert their political ideology based on Huang-Lao and Confucian thought: a good ruler is one who pacifies himself, his family, and his country. This book is the first scholarly monograph on an undisturbed and fully excavated early Chinese royal burial site.
Book Synopsis The Jin Yong Phenomenon by : Ann Huss
Download or read book The Jin Yong Phenomenon written by Ann Huss and published by Cambria Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pioneering book is the first English-language collection of academic articles on Jin Yong's works. It introduces an important dissenting voice in Chinese literature to the English-speaking audience. Jin Yong is hailed as the most influential martial arts novelist in twentieth-century Chinese literary history. His novels are regarded by readers and critics as "the common language of Chinese around the world" because of their international circulation and various adaptations (film, television serials, comic books, video games). Not only has the public affirmed the popularity and literary value of his novels, but the academic world has finally begun to notice his achievement as well. The significance of this book lies in its interpretation of Jin Yong's novels through the larger lens of twentieth-century Chinese literature. It considers the important theoretical issues arising from such terms as modernity, gender, nationalism, East/West conflict, and high literature versus low culture. The contributors of the articles are all eminent scholars, including famous exiled scholar, philosopher, and writer Liu Zaifu.
Book Synopsis The Serpent's Son by : S.A. Bouraleh
Download or read book The Serpent's Son written by S.A. Bouraleh and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-09-21 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What starts with a sudden kidnapping reveals to be so much more: a prophetic call to adventure that had been foretold ages before the heroes of this story came around. In a world where the only thing extraordinary is the amount of unengaging ordinariness, below the seemingly mundane surface lies an incredible, lavish secret world that not many are privy to. From Whisperers of Death, to Dragons, to Kabuki Creatures and ghoulish Zombies, those aware of this hidden reality have fantastical journeys and adventurous trials laying in wait for them. Some seek to rescue a kidnapped friend and distribute justice while keeping malevolent forces at bay. Others plot to eliminate the existence of those pesky do-gooders, plans of conquesting combat and corrupting those that stand in their way. Others still just happened to be caught up in the cross-fire, and they are NOT happy about it. Whatever actions they take and consequences they face, at the end of the day, the sword shall always be sheathed.
Book Synopsis Some Standing Jade Figurines of the Shang-Chou Period by : Dekun Zheng
Download or read book Some Standing Jade Figurines of the Shang-Chou Period written by Dekun Zheng and published by . This book was released on with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Knowledge and Skills in Identification and Gambling of Jade: The Most Comprehensive Handbook by : James Leong
Download or read book Knowledge and Skills in Identification and Gambling of Jade: The Most Comprehensive Handbook written by James Leong and published by DeepLogic. This book was released on with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is a collection of detailed knowledge and skills on the identification, evaluation and gambling of jade raw stones. The book is about 300,000 words, and can be regarded as a encyclopedia on the evaluation of jade raw materials（赌石）.
Author :United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :1380 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (35 download)
Book Synopsis Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Government Operations by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations
Download or read book Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Government Operations written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 1380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
