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Book Synopsis Under the Peach Blossom Shade by : Nhat Linh
Download or read book Under the Peach Blossom Shade written by Nhat Linh and published by Van Quach. This book was released on 2024-09-04 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Under the Peach Blossom Shade" by Nhất Linh and Khái Hưng beautifully captures the subtle intricacies of emotions and relationships, set against the backdrop of a peaceful, yet melancholic village. The narrative paints a vivid picture of unspoken affections, societal expectations, and the fleeting nature of love and beauty. The story revolves around two friends, Nam Chan and Tong Binh, who repeatedly visit a village to buy chrysanthemums from a young woman named Mai. Their visits are initially prompted by Nam Chan’s infatuation, but Tong Binh accompanies him, albeit reluctantly. The story weaves through their interactions with Mai, highlighting Nam Chan’s growing affection and the tension that arises from unfulfilled desires. The characters are well-drawn, with Nam Chan portrayed as the more romantic and impetuous one, while Tong Binh is pragmatic and somewhat shy. Mai, on the other hand, is a mix of innocence and shrewdness, aware of the men’s interest yet maintaining her decorum. The younger brother adds a touch of humor and realism, reminding the readers of the practicalities of life in contrast to the romantic ideals of the main characters.
Download or read book Holistic Spaces written by Anjie Cho and published by Ryland Peters & Small. This book was released on 2018-12-06 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transform your home into a calm, balanced and harmonious oasis using architect Anjie Cho's helpful advice, drawing on her background in green design and feng shui. You don't have to get rid of all your possessions and become an ascetic to change your space and discover the benefits that living in a considered, organic way can bring. The easy suggestions in Holistic Spaces show you how to implement the principles of feng shui and green design in your home. Written for the way we live today, as we move toward a more mindful approach to health, diet and the way that we choose the objects in our homes, this is the perfect guide to help you to clear and refresh your living environment. Learn how to make every room in your home serve its highest purpose, create eco-friendly spaces, bring nature indoors, choose colours for maximum impact, select a space for meditation practice, and overall, create a peaceful and organic home. From the bedroom to the home office, these intuitive, straightforward tips will teach you to how improve your spaces to boost the flow of energy through your life.
Download or read book A Flower's Shade written by Ye Zhaoyan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-05-24 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A decadent family drama of incest, addiction, and crime, this seductive novel set in small towns south of the Yangtze River in the 1920s was the basis for the film Temptress Moon.
Book Synopsis The Flowers and Gardens of Japan by : Florence Du Cane
Download or read book The Flowers and Gardens of Japan written by Florence Du Cane and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-05-24 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IT is safe to assert that no other country has such a distinctive form of landscape gardening as Japan. In English, French, Italian, and Dutch gardens, however original in their way, there are certain things they seem all to possess in common: terraces, which originally belonged to Italian gardens, were soon introduced into France; clipped trees, which were a distinctive feature of Dutch gardens, were copied by the English; the fashion of decorating gardens with flights of stone steps, balustrades, fountains, and statues at one time spread from Italy throughout Europe; and possibly the over-decoration of gardens led to a change in taste in England and a return to a more natural style.
Download or read book From Blossoms written by Li-Young Lee and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Li-Young Lee is a leading American poet, born in Indonesia, whose poetry fuses memory, family, culture and history to explore love, exile, family and mortality. This selection, drawn from three collections and a memoir, shows Lee searching for understanding and for the right language to give form to what is invisible and evanescent.
Download or read book Peach Blossom Paradise written by Ge Fei and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An enthralling story of revolution, idealism, and a savage struggle for utopia by one of China's greatest living novelists. In 1898 reformist intellectuals in China persuaded the young emperor that it was time to transform his sclerotic empire into a prosperous modern state. The Hundred Days’ Reform that followed was a moment of unprecedented change and extraordinary hope—brought to an abrupt end by a bloody military coup. Dashed expectations would contribute to the revolutionary turn that Chinese history would soon take, leading in time to the deaths of millions. Peach Blossom Paradise, set at the time of the reform, is the story of Xiumi, the daughter of a wealthy landowner and former government official who falls prey to insanity and disappears. Days later, a man with a gold cicada in his pocket turns up at his estate and is inexplicably welcomed as a relative. This mysterious man has a great vision of reforging China as an egalitarian utopia, and he will stop at nothing to make it real. It is his own plans, however, which come to nothing, and his “little sister” Xiumi is left to take up arms against a Confucian world in which women are chattel. Her campaign for change and her struggle to seize control over her own body are continually threatened by the violent whims of men who claim to be building paradise.
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Book Synopsis The Arts and Their Mission by : Rudolf Steiner
Download or read book The Arts and Their Mission written by Rudolf Steiner and published by SteinerBooks. This book was released on 2023-10-03 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 8 lectures, Oslo and Dornach, May 18 - June 9, 1923 (CW 276) "Having remained stationary, we can no longer see the spiritual in the physical; we consider only the physical as such. This is materialism. A current has entered human evolution that is, if I may use the expression, hostile to development. Humanity shuns the coining of new concepts; it prefers to continue on with the old. We must overcome this hostility toward development. When we instead become friends of development, then we will acquire a quite natural relationship to anthroposophical spiritual development and pass over from antiquated needs to the truly modern need of humanity--namely, to raise ourselves to the spiritual." -- Rudolf Steiner (May 27, 1923) In these inspired lectures from 1923, Rudolf Steiner weaves the different art forms--including painting, architecture, and music--into a grand tapestry of human experience and expression. In the process, he reveals how each artistic medium contains its own mysteries: how architecture arises out of the soul's need to transition from the spatial to the spiritual world after death; how the art of costuming arises out of the soul's pre-earthly experiences in the world of spirit and is thus an expression, in color and form, of the soul's original nature; how sculpture emerges from an inner sense for the creative, formative forces of the etheric body; how painting can overcome spatial perspective through a new relationship to the world of colors, through color perspective; how music can receive a new direction from the depth-dimension of the single tone, which expands into melody and harmony; how poetry can be deepened through an inner grasp of the qualities inherent in recitation and declamation, through creative speech; and how the new art of eurythmy, arising out of the movement activity of the human archetype, stands midway between mime (indicative gesture) and dance (ecstatic gesture) as an art of expressive gesture. Thus, Steiner outlines a path toward the reunion of that ancient trinity: science (truth), art (beauty), and religion (goodness). It was in the womb of the ancient mysteries--where knowledge was not only a matter for the mind but was carried over into religious rites--that the arts had their origin. Today, we learn facts and figures and believe we have understood reality. To an ancient humanity, this intellectual mode of understanding would have seemed lifeless and sterile. In the ancient world, knowledge became lived artistic experience and religious deed. Modern humanity must once again give wings to knowledge, must seek a deepening of the cognitive life through transformative artistic feeling, if we are to find our way out of our world crisis, which is, at its core, a crisis of the soul. This remarkable volume, packed with profound and far-reaching insights, bears within it the seeds for the renewal of the arts in our time. Includes four color plates of Rudolf Steiner's blackboard drawings. This book is a translation of Das Künstlerische in seiner Weltmission, 4th ed. (Rudolf Steiner Verlag, 2002), GA 276. Cover Image: Bright Noonday, by David Newbatt, from Goethe, The Fairy Tale of the Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily (Wynstones Press 2006).
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Download or read book Dry Goods Merchants Trade Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 1064 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Materiality of Color by : Andrea Feeser
Download or read book The Materiality of Color written by Andrea Feeser and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although much has been written on the aesthetic value of color, there are other values that adhere to it with economic and social values among them. Through case studies of particular colors and colored objects, this volume demonstrates just how complex the history of color is by focusing on the diverse social and cultural meanings of color; the trouble, pain, and suffering behind the production and application of these colors; the difficult technical processes for making and applying color; and the intricacy of commercial exchanges and knowledge transfers as commodities and techniques moved from one region to another. By emphasizing color's materiality, the way in which it was produced, exchanged, and used by artisans, artists, and craftspersons, contributors draw attention to the disjuncture between the beauty of color and the blood, sweat, and tears that went into its production, circulation, and application as well as to the complicated and varied social meanings attached to color within specific historical and social contexts. This book captures color's global history with chapters on indigo plantations in India and the American South, cochineal production in colonial Oaxaca, the taste for brightly colored Chinese objects in Europe, and the thriving trade in vermilion between Europeans and Native Americans. To underscore the complexity of the technical knowledge behind color production, there are chapters on the 'discovery' of Prussian blue, Brazilian feather techn?and wallpaper production. To sound the depths of color's capacity for social and cultural meaning-making, there are chapters that explore the significance of black ink in Shakespeare's sonnets, red threads in women's needlework samplers, blues in Mayan sacred statuary, and greens and yellows in colored glass bracelets that were traded across the Arabian desert in the late Middle Ages. The purpose of this book is to recover color's complex-and sometimes morally troubling-past, and in doing so,
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Download or read book The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: Dictionary written by and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 894 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis War Soul Transformation by : Shao Guangxiajiu
Download or read book War Soul Transformation written by Shao Guangxiajiu and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2019-11-16 with total page 890 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heaven gave birth to Yin and Yang, Yin and Yang gave birth to dragons and phoenixes, and a hundred and eight bloodlines were born under the Dragon Phoenix Supreme Bloodline. These bloodlines were divided into thirty-six Sky Dipper Bloodlines and seventy-two Earth Terminus Bloodlines. The Sky Demon race from another plane had attempted to rule the Beast Soul Continent and launched three wars of aggression. At the same time, three Soul Saints had appeared on the Beast Soul Continent, leading the group in a successful defense. These three soul saints were the spirit race saints, the demon race saints, and the human race saints. The fourth war of Sky Demons was secretly launched ... Half-step Soul Holy Phoenix from the Beast Soul Continent resisted the Heavenly Demon Clan alone. Being bewitched by the Heavenly Demon, she did not hesitate to fuse with the souls of the three spirit demon races ...
Book Synopsis A Practical Treatise on Dyeing and Calico-printing by : Edward Andrew Parnell
Download or read book A Practical Treatise on Dyeing and Calico-printing written by Edward Andrew Parnell and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Language of Color in the First Goetheanum by : Hilde Raske
Download or read book The Language of Color in the First Goetheanum written by Hilde Raske and published by Rudolf Steiner Press. This book was released on 2023-05-25 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rudolf Steiner’s architectural masterpiece, the double-domed building known as the first Goetheanum, featured decorated ceilings that were designed and partly painted by Steiner himself, utilizing vegetable colors and a new layering technique. Steiner emphasized that he was seeking a new artistic conception based on a conscious understanding of the nature of color. Contemporaries report the extraordinary effect of the domed ceilings’ paintings combined with the multicolored light emanating from the engraved glass windows. The cupolas depicted the creation and ages of the world, the initiators of the various cultural epochs and the figure of Christ. Tragically, the ‘complete work of art’ that was the first Goetheanum burned down on New Year’s Eve 1922 – so today we can only get an impression of the lost paintings and windows from Rudolf Steiner’s pastel sketches and drawings and a handful of photographs. In this lavish volume, the result of decades of research and study, Hilde Raske provides a detailed examination of the artistic work on the two cupolas, including Rudolf Steiner’s draft sketches and his written and verbal statements. Featuring 30 color and more than 100 black-and-white illustrations, this printing is a high-quality facsimile of the long out-of-print original edition from 1983.
Book Synopsis A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art, Literature and Practical Mechanics by : Thomas Curtis
Download or read book A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art, Literature and Practical Mechanics written by Thomas Curtis and published by . This book was released on 1829 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
