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Author : Jules Verne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Tribulations of a Chinaman in China written by Jules Verne and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jules Verne
Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
ISBN 13 : 8726505630
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (265 download)
Download or read book Tribulations of a Chinaman in China written by Jules Verne and published by Lindhardt og Ringhof. This book was released on 2024-01-04 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jules Verne’s, ‘Tribulations of a Chinaman in China’ is an adventure novel exploring the themes of true happiness, and the real value of life. Kin-Fo is a young and extremely rich man who suddenly loses his fortune. He decides that there is no point in living but, since it’s impossible for him to take his own life, he asks his mentor, the philosopher, Wang, to do the deed for him. Things go wrong when Wang decides to give the task to a bandit. However what Kin-Fo does not know is that there is a plan going on behind his back and he is to be taught a lesson he’ll remember for the rest of his life – however long that might be... Using humour, adventure and important life lessons, Verne questions whether we need to lose something in order to appreciate it. Jules Verne (1828-1905) was a French novelist who became known as the ‘Father of Science Fiction.’ He wrote more than 60 novels, including ‘Journey to the Center of the Earth’ (1864), ‘Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea’ (1870), and ‘Around the World in Eighty Days’ (1873), the last of which has been released as a TV drama, featuring former Dr Who star, David Tennant.
Author : Jules Verne
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)
Download or read book The Tribulations of a Chinaman written by Jules Verne and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Helene Chung
Publisher : HarperCollins Australia
ISBN 13 : 0730498751
Total Pages : 487 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Ching Chong China Girl written by Helene Chung and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of Amy Tan, an hilarious and bittersweet memoir of growing up different in a very eccentric but traditional Chinese-Tasmanian family. Warning: Not to be read by convent girls not wearing their gloves. 'Ching Chong Chinaman' girls taunted Helene Chung in her Catholic school playground. An Australian-born Chinese growing up in 1950s Hobart, Helene not only dealt with being different from her blonde-haired, blue-eyed classmates but suffered the shame of having divorced parents. And she kept a shocking secret - her mother, Miss Henry, was a nude model, who also lived in sin with a foreign devil and drove a red MG. Surviving the embarrassment of childhood, Helene discovered the thrill of the theatre, fell into journalism and travelled the world. She became the first non-white reporter on Australian tV and the first female posted abroad by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. CHING CHONG CHINA GIRL is filled with honesty, humour, love and loss, and gives insight into life that traverses cultures East and West.
Author : Jules Verne
Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3849645827
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (496 download)
Download or read book Tribulations of a Chinaman in China written by Jules Verne and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on 2014-10-13 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jules Verne has written, and Virginia Champlin translated, The Tribulations of a Chinaman in China, which is, as a matter of course, highly amusing and absurd. The scenes are laid in a country not often chosen in fiction, and the plan is as novel as it is preposterous. Nobody but this extravagant and irresponsible author would have been likely to have executed such a piece of work. To give the plot would be to spoil it: enough to say that the hero, Kin-fo, who is young, rich, handsome, and about to be married, is also tired of living, and after insuring his life for a hundred years at an immense sum, covering all risks, even of suicide, decides to kill himself that his betrothed and his friend Wang may have the money, but changing his mind agrees with the latter on assassination. Afterwards concluding that he will live, he hunts China over in search of Wang, who has disappeared, two of the company's agents going with him. Their adventures, in which a phonograph and Paul Boyton's armor have an important part, are the wildest conceivable, but all ends well, and Kin-fo, turned philosopher after his vicissitudes, sees that only those who know "how to appreciate life " are fit to live. Jules Verne has evidently "read up" China to good purpose, for there is a great amount of information, down to minute points of etiquette and ways of living, and the descriptions of Chinese matters, geographical, political, and social, are accurate and interesting.
Author : Jules Verne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The demon of Cawnpore written by Jules Verne and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eleanor Cooper
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Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Grace written by Eleanor Cooper and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memoir follows Grace Devine, who, in 1932, despite interracial marriage laws, her family's opposition, and the constraints of society, married Liu Fu-chi, a Chinese scholarship student, and then moved to China where she lived for the next forty years.
Author : Jules Verne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781085897426
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (974 download)
Download or read book Tribulations of a Chinaman in China written by Jules Verne and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-28 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kin-Fo, a well to do Chinese man living in Shang-Hai, is accused by his good friend Wang of not having had any discomforts in his life that would make him appreciate true happiness. When Kin-Fo, receives news that his fortune is lost, he arranges for an insurance policy to be taken out on his life that would cover his death, even by suicide; which he is planning on committing. When Kin-Fo can't bring himself to end his own life, he contracts Wang to do it, by even giving him a letter that will exonerate him of the deed. Then Wang disappears and then Kin-Fo feels much discomfort, especially when he is informed that his fortunes are not lost. He travels around China, hoping to avoid being murdered before the contract expires. His discomfort increases when a note from Wang arrives saying that he regrets not being able to fulfill the contract, so he has turned it over to his old friend Lao-Shen, a notorious character.
Author : Jules Verne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781077696884
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (968 download)
Download or read book Tribulations of a Chinaman in China written by Jules Verne and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-13 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kin-Fo, a well to do Chinese man living in Shang-Hai, is accused by his good friend Wang of not having had any discomforts in his life that would make him appreciate true happiness. When Kin-Fo, receives news that his fortune is lost, he arranges for an insurance policy to be taken out on his life that would cover his death, even by suicide; which he is planning on committing. When Kin-Fo can't bring himself to end his own life, he contracts Wang to do it, by even giving him a letter that will exonerate him of the deed. Then Wang disappears and then Kin-Fo feels much discomfort, especially when he is informed that his fortunes are not lost. He travels around China, hoping to avoid being murdered before the contract expires. His discomfort increases when a note from Wang arrives saying that he regrets not being able to fulfill the contract, so he has turned it over to his old friend Lao-Shen, a notorious character.
Author : James Oliver Curwood
Publisher : The Floating Press
ISBN 13 : 1775453219
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (754 download)
Download or read book The Alaskan written by James Oliver Curwood and published by The Floating Press. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writer and conservationist James Oliver Curwood was a remarkably powerful force in the campaign to bring environmental issues into the public discourse in the early twentieth century. In The Alaskan, Curwood uses the intertwined tales of two protagonists to explore the difficulties that early pioneers in Alaska faced in their everyday lives.
Author : Jules Verne
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3382505940
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (825 download)
Download or read book The Baltimore Gun Club written by Jules Verne and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-05-18 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1874. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Author : Jules Verne
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781537588735
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (887 download)
Download or read book Tribulations of a Chinaman in China written by Jules Verne and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-09-09 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tribulations of a Chinaman in China: Illustrated, is an adventure novel by Jules Verne, first published in 1879. The story is about a rich Chinese man, Kin-Fo, who is bored with life, and after some business misfortune decides to die. The book is a traditional adventure, similar in style to Around the World in Eighty Days, which is one of the author's more well-known books. However, it does contain more humour as well as criticism of topics such as the British opium trade in China. Kin-Fo, a well to do Chinese man living in Shang-Hai, is accused by his good friend Wang of not having had any discomforts in his life that would make him appreciate true happiness. When Kin-Fo, receives news that his fortune is lost, he arranges for an insurance policy to be taken out on his life that would cover his death, even by suicide; which he is planning on committing. When Kin-Fo can't bring himself to end his own life, he contracts Wang to do it, by even giving him a letter that will exonerate him of the deed.
Author : Jules Verne
Publisher : BookRix
ISBN 13 : 3736811160
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (368 download)
Download or read book The Tribulations of a Chinaman in China written by Jules Verne and published by BookRix. This book was released on 2014-05-15 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tribulations of a Chinaman in China: Illustrated, is an adventure novel by Jules Verne, first published in 1879. The story is about a rich Chinese man, Kin-Fo, who is bored with life, and after some business misfortune decides to die. The book is a traditional adventure, similar in style to Around the World in Eighty Days, which is one of the author's more well-known books. However, it does contain more humour as well as criticism of topics such as the British opium trade in China. Kin-Fo, a well to do Chinese man living in Shang-Hai, is accused by his good friend Wang of not having had any discomforts in his life that would make him appreciate true happiness. When Kin-Fo, receives news that his fortune is lost, he arranges for an insurance policy to be taken out on his life that would cover his death, even by suicide; which he is planning on committing. When Kin-Fo can't bring himself to end his own life, he contracts Wang to do it, by even giving him a letter that will exonerate him of the deed.
Author : Anne Witchard
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
ISBN 13 : 9888139606
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (881 download)
Download or read book Lao She in London written by Anne Witchard and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lao She remains revered as one of China's great modern writers. His life and work have been the subject of volumes of critique, analysis and study. This book covers the four years the young aspiring writer spent in London between 1924 and 1929.
Author : Rana Mitter
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780192806055
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (6 download)
Download or read book A Bitter Revolution written by Rana Mitter and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2004 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China is now poised to take a key role on the world stage, but in the early twentieth century the situation could not have been more different. Rana Mitter goes back to this pivotal moment in Chinese history to uncover the origins of the painful transition from a premodern past into a modern world. By the 1920s the seemingly civilized world shaped over the last two thousand years by the legacy of the great philosopher Confucius was falling apart in the face of western imperialism and internal warfare. Chinese cities still bore the imprints of its ancient past with narrow, lanes and temples to long-worshipped gods, but these were starting to change with the influx of foreign traders, teachers, and missionaries, all eager to shape China's ancient past into a modern present. Mitter takes us through the resulting social turmoil and political promise, the devastating war against Japan in the 1940s, Communism and the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s, and the new era of hope in the 1980s ended by the Tian'anmen uprising. He reveals the impetus behind the dramatic changes in Chinese culture and politics as being China's "New Culture" - a strain of thought which celebrated youth, individualism, and the heady mixture of strange and seductive new cultures from places as far apart as America, India, and Japan.
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Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
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Author : Karl Gerth
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1684173868
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (841 download)
Download or read book China Made written by Karl Gerth and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-05-11 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "“Chinese people should consume Chinese products!” This slogan was the catchphrase of a movement in early twentieth-century China that sought to link consumption and nationalism by instilling a concept of China as a modern “nation” with its own “national products.” From fashions in clothing to food additives, from museums to department stores, from product fairs to advertising, this movement influenced all aspects of China’s burgeoning consumer culture. Anti-imperialist boycotts, commemorations of national humiliations, exhibitions of Chinese products, the vilification of treasonous consumers, and the promotion of Chinese captains of industry helped enforce nationalistic consumption and spread the message—patriotic Chinese bought goods made of Chinese materials by Chinese workers in factories owned and run by Chinese. In China Made, Karl Gerth argues that two key forces shaping the modern world—nationalism and consumerism—developed in tandem in China. Early in the twentieth century, nationalism branded every commodity as either “Chinese” or “foreign,” and consumer culture became the place where the notion of nationality was articulated, institutionalized, and practiced. Based on Chinese, Japanese, and English-language archives, magazines, newspapers, and books, this first exploration of the historical ties between nationalism and consumerism reinterprets fundamental aspects of modern Chinese history and suggests ways of discerning such ties in all modern nations."
