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Author : Yawen Zhang
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Total Pages : 379 pages
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Download or read book Summons of Centuries Past written by Yawen Zhang and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : ZhangYawen
Publisher : BEIJING BOOK CO. INC.
ISBN 13 : 7500152566
Total Pages : 511 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (1 download)
Download or read book 百年钟声:香港沉思录 The Summons of Centuries Past Reflections on Hong Kong: A True Account written by ZhangYawen and published by BEIJING BOOK CO. INC.. This book was released on 2017-06-01 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 《百年钟声：香港沉思录》八章，除过*章《漫长而艰难的中英谈判》和第五章《蹉跎岁月，峥嵘人生》是写回归前的历史截面之外，其余各章主要书写回归后的现实情状。这也许是读者*为期待也是作者*有价值的着力之处。这些方面包括：解放军驻港部队面临的各种考验和优异表现，香港各路精英的成长之路和对港贡献，香港的慈善事业，香港的民生、医疗、文化、媒体、教育，香港的廉政建设，香港面临的现实挑战与前景，等等。这些方面，是回归之后香港面貌的写照，是香港的现在进行时。其中一些章节内容，不光是当今香港成功经验的写照，对大陆乃至许多国家地区都有借鉴意义，其中*为突出的，如香港的廉政建设。
Author : JieMo
Publisher : BEIJING BOOK CO. INC.
ISBN 13 : 750015156X
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (1 download)
Download or read book 裸婚 Real Marriage written by JieMo and published by BEIJING BOOK CO. INC.. This book was released on 2017-06-01 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 《裸婚》里的很多地方都真实得近乎残酷，但真的很深刻，每个女人都应该看看。从结婚到离婚到再婚，态度一贯诙谐真诚。体裁是随笔，但因为通篇故事，所以读起来更是小说。与其他小说不同的是，该书真实。其中人物无一完美，而且前后诸多矛盾——但惟有矛盾和变化才构成真实的人生。这是作者自传性质的小说。本书的态度和观点，有很多前后矛盾的地方。但人走到不同位置，眼里的景观和心情必定不同，没有对错之分，只有高下之别，希望读者能在这矛盾当中悟到真实，看到一个女人在婚姻中真实的成长经历，或者会有所触动。这也就是这本书的中心观点。在作者笔下，生活的种种琐屑，都成为遍地镜子碎片，闪着领悟生命的灵光，映照出婚姻面前男男女女的情感世界。
Author : WangYang
Publisher : BEIJING BOOK CO. INC.
ISBN 13 : 7500151527
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (1 download)
Download or read book 永不放弃自己 Never Give Up on Yourself written by WangYang and published by BEIJING BOOK CO. INC.. This book was released on 2017-06-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 她曾经是最倒霉落魄的女人：少年丧父，高考落榜，离婚，失业，抱着脑瘫的女儿绝望奔走。如今，她被美国媒体誉为极品女人，成为跨国集团的总裁夫人。被美国国会授予“华人作家成就奖”，成为美国上流社会的宠儿。陷于困境的人们，能从本书中获得与生活博弈的勇气。
Author : William Jennings
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Total Pages : 394 pages
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Download or read book The Shi King, the Old "Poetry Classic" of the Chinese written by William Jennings and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Diane Goldstein
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
ISBN 13 : 0874216818
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (742 download)
Download or read book Haunting Experiences written by Diane Goldstein and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2007-09-15 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ghosts and other supernatural phenomena are widely represented throughout modern culture. They can be found in any number of entertainment, commercial, and other contexts, but popular media or commodified representations of ghosts can be quite different from the beliefs people hold about them, based on tradition or direct experience. Personal belief and cultural tradition on the one hand, and popular and commercial representation on the other, nevertheless continually feed each other. They frequently share space in how people think about the supernatural. In Haunting Experiences, three well-known folklorists seek to broaden the discussion of ghost lore by examining it from a variety of angles in various modern contexts. Diane E. Goldstein, Sylvia Ann Grider, and Jeannie Banks Thomas take ghosts seriously, as they draw on contemporary scholarship that emphasizes both the basis of belief in experience (rather than mere fantasy) and the usefulness of ghost stories. They look closely at the narrative role of such lore in matters such as socialization and gender. And they unravel the complex mix of mass media, commodification, and popular culture that today puts old spirits into new contexts.
Author : John C. England
Publisher : Orbis Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 742 pages
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Download or read book Asian Christian Theologies: Asia region, 7th-20th centuries ; South Asia ; Austral Asia written by John C. England and published by Orbis Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: V.1. Asia region 7th-20th centuries; South Asia; Austral Asia; v.2. Southeast Asia; v.3. Northeast Asia.
Author : Julian Jaynes
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547527543
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (475 download)
Download or read book The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind written by Julian Jaynes and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2000-08-15 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Book Award Finalist: “This man’s ideas may be the most influential, not to say controversial, of the second half of the twentieth century.”—Columbus Dispatch At the heart of this classic, seminal book is Julian Jaynes's still-controversial thesis that human consciousness did not begin far back in animal evolution but instead is a learned process that came about only three thousand years ago and is still developing. The implications of this revolutionary scientific paradigm extend into virtually every aspect of our psychology, our history and culture, our religion—and indeed our future. “Don’t be put off by the academic title of Julian Jaynes’s The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. Its prose is always lucid and often lyrical…he unfolds his case with the utmost intellectual rigor.”—The New York Times “When Julian Jaynes . . . speculates that until late in the twentieth millennium BC men had no consciousness but were automatically obeying the voices of the gods, we are astounded but compelled to follow this remarkable thesis.”—John Updike, The New Yorker “He is as startling as Freud was in The Interpretation of Dreams, and Jaynes is equally as adept at forcing a new view of known human behavior.”—American Journal of Psychiatry
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Download or read book The Japan Daily Mail written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 1400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 656 pages
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Download or read book Japan Weekly Mail written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Katharine P Burnett
Publisher : The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
ISBN 13 : 9629964562
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Dimensions of Originality written by Katharine P Burnett and published by The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press. This book was released on 2013-03-13 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the issue of conceptual originality in art criticism of the seventeenth century, a period in which China dynamically reinvented itself. In art criticism, the term which was called upon to indicate conceptual originality more than any other was "qi", literally, "different"; but secondarily, "odd," like a number and by extension, "the novel," and "extraordinary." This work finds that originality, expressed through visual difference, was a paradigmatic concern of both artists and critics. Burnett speculates on why many have dismissed originality as a possible "traditional Chinese" value, and the ramifications this has had on art historical understanding. She further demonstrates that a study of individual key terms can reveal social and cultural values and provides a linear history of the increase in critical use of "qi" as "originality" from the fifth through the seventeenth centuries, exploring what originality looks like in artworks by members of the gentry elite and commoner classes, and explains how the value lost its luster at the end of the seventeenth century.
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Total Pages : 776 pages
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Download or read book Notes and Queries written by and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Cecilia Lai Wan Chan
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
ISBN 13 : 9789622097872
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (978 download)
Download or read book Death, Dying and Bereavement written by Cecilia Lai Wan Chan and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fear marks the boundary between the known and the unknown. Some Chinese people believe that talking about death will increase the likelihood of occurrence. Also, by talking about death, evil spirits will be attracted to haunt people. In facing death, individual response is inevitably moulded by the values, attitudes, and beliefs of one's culture. Despite the large Chinese emigrant population in major cities in the world, available material in English on death, dying and bereavement among Chinese people is scarce. As Hong Kong is a place where East meets West, most professionals working in the field of death, dying and bereavement adapt knowledge from the West to their practice with the Chinese population. The intention of this volume is to consolidate and disseminate valuable practical wisdom with professionals in the local and international communities who serve Chinese patients and their family members. Both Editors are from the Department of Social Work and Social Administration, University of Hong Kong. Professor Cecilia Lai Wan Chan has done extensive research in psychosocial oncology, behavioral health, grief, loss and bereavement. Amy Yin Man Chow, an Honorary Clinical Associate in the department, is a registered social worker specialized in bereavement counselling.
Author : Adeline Yen Mah
Publisher : Laurel Leaf
ISBN 13 : 0307482804
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Chinese Cinderella written by Adeline Yen Mah and published by Laurel Leaf. This book was released on 2009-05-06 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 800,000 copies in print! From the author of critically acclaimed and bestselling memoir Falling Leaves, this is a poignant and moving true account of her childhood, growing up as an unloved daughter in 1940s China. A Chinese proverb says, "Falling leaves return to their roots." In her own courageous voice, Adeline Yen Mah returns to her roots to tell the story of her painful childhood and her ultimate triumph in the face of despair. Adeline's affluent, powerful family considers her bad luck after her mother dies giving birth to her, and life does not get any easier when her father remarries. Adeline and her siblings are subjected to the disdain of her stepmother, while her stepbrother and stepsister are spoiled with gifts and attention. Although Adeline wins prizes at school, they are not enough to compensate for what she really yearns for -- the love and understanding of her family. Like the classic Cinderella story, this powerful memoir is a moving story of resilience and hope. Includes an Author's Note, a 6-page photo insert, a historical note, and the Chinese text of the original Chinese Cinderella. A PW BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR AN ALA-YALSA BEST BOOK FOR YOUNG ADULTS “One of the most inspiring books I have ever read.” –The Guardian
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Download or read book The Illustrated London News written by and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Author : Jessica Au
Publisher : Giramondo Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1922725188
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (227 download)
Download or read book Cold Enough for Snow written by Jessica Au and published by Giramondo Publishing. This book was released on 2022-02-01 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inaugural winner of The Novel Prize, an international biennial award established by Giramondo (Australia), Fitzcarraldo Editions (UK) and New Directions (USA). Cold Enough for Snow was unanimously chosen from over 1500 entries. A novel about the relationship between life and art, and between language and the inner world – how difficult it is to speak truly, to know and be known by another, and how much power and friction lies in the unsaid, especially between a mother and daughter. A young woman has arranged a holiday with her mother in Japan. They travel by train, visit galleries and churches chosen for their art and architecture, eat together in small cafés and restaurants and walk along the canals at night, on guard against the autumn rain and the prospect of snow. All the while, they talk, or seem to talk: about the weather, horoscopes, clothes and objects; about the mother’s family in Hong Kong, and the daughter’s own formative experiences. But uncertainties abound. How much is spoken between them, how much is thought but unspoken? Cold Enough for Snow is a reckoning and an elegy: with extraordinary skill, Au creates an enveloping atmosphere that expresses both the tenderness between mother and daughter, and the distance between them. 'So calm and clear and deep, I wished it would flow on forever.' — Helen Garner 'Rarely have I been so moved, reading a book: I love the quiet beauty of Cold Enough for Snow and how, within its calm simplicity, Jessica Au camouflages incredible power.' — Edouard Louis 'Au’s prose is elegant and measured. In descriptions of bracing clarity she evokes ‘shaking delicate impressions’ of worlds within worlds that are symbolic of the parts of ourselves we keep hidden and those we choose to lay bare. Put simply, this novel is an intricate and multi-layered work of art — a complex and profound meditation on identity, familial bonds and our inability to fully understand ourselves, those we love and the world around us.' — Jacqui Davies, Books+Publishing
