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Download or read book Daughters of Hui written by Xu Xi and published by Typhoon Media Ltd. This book was released on 2010-12-02 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of a novella and three stories was named one of the top ten "best books of Asia" of 1996 and won wide critical acclaim. Reviewers say the author "addresses the prudery of Confucian values" and remark "the streak of mischief in the tapestry of her story line."
Download or read book Chinese Walls written by Xu Xi and published by Typhoon Media Ltd. This book was released on 2010-12-02 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It "s the sixties. US sailors on R&R prowl the streets of the waterfront in Hong Kong where the Indonesian-Chinese Hsu family lives. "What "s a prostitute?" nine-year old Ai-Lin asks her older brother Philip, who is horrified she knows the word. This controversial first novel launched the author "s career in Asia.
Download or read book Wild Swans written by Jung Chang and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-06-20 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of three generations in twentieth-century China that blends the intimacy of memoir and the panoramic sweep of eyewitness history—a bestselling classic in thirty languages with more than ten million copies sold around the world, now with a new introduction from the author. An engrossing record of Mao’s impact on China, an unusual window on the female experience in the modern world, and an inspiring tale of courage and love, Jung Chang describes the extraordinary lives and experiences of her family members: her grandmother, a warlord’s concubine; her mother’s struggles as a young idealistic Communist; and her parents’ experience as members of the Communist elite and their ordeal during the Cultural Revolution. Chang was a Red Guard briefly at the age of fourteen, then worked as a peasant, a “barefoot doctor,” a steelworker, and an electrician. As the story of each generation unfolds, Chang captures in gripping, moving—and ultimately uplifting—detail the cycles of violent drama visited on her own family and millions of others caught in the whirlwind of history.
Download or read book Muslim Chinese written by Dru C. Gladney and published by Harvard Univ Asia Center. This book was released on 1996 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second edition of Dru Gladney's critically acclaimed study of the Muslim population in China includes a new preface by the author, as well as a valuable addendum to the bibliography, already hailed as one of the most extensive listing of modern sources on the Sino-Muslims.
Book Synopsis A Chinese Beggars' Den by : David C. Schak
Download or read book A Chinese Beggars' Den written by David C. Schak and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2010-11-23 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fascinating study of a community of Chinese beggars, David Schak offers evidence that challenges widely held theories on poverty. It is a path-breaking, systematic anthropological study that challenges long-held beliefs about poverty, and is one of the few works on beggars available. Over a period of seven years, Schak's fieldwork uncovers a structure of leadership, organizational methods, and alms-getting tactics. Moreover, certain members became upwardly mobile and able to leave this lifestyle. The severe stigma of gambling, adultery, and failure to marry proved the stimulus for a younger generation to leave begging behind.
Book Synopsis Daughters of the Canton Delta by : Janice Stockard
Download or read book Daughters of the Canton Delta written by Janice Stockard and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1992-03-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes an extraordinary traditional marriage system, 'delayed transfer marriage', that is virtually unknown in the ethnographic literature on Chinese Society, though it was widely established in the Canton Delta. In striking contrast to the orthodox Confucian form of marriage, brides in delayed transfer marriages were required to separate from their husband shortly after marriage and return to live with their parents for at least three more years. During this customary period of separation, brides were expected to visit their husband on several festival occasions each year. Idelly, brides became pregnant about three years after marriage and then settled in the husband's home. The area in which delayed transfer marriage was the customary and dominant form of marriage encompassed the rich silk-producing district of the Canton Delta as well as adjacent rice-producing areas. The book analyzes the effect of economic change on the practice of delayed transfer marriage in the silk district.
Book Synopsis Mythology and Folklore of the Hui, A Muslim Chinese People by : Shujiang Li
Download or read book Mythology and Folklore of the Hui, A Muslim Chinese People written by Shujiang Li and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Chinese Cinemas by : Carlos Rojas
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Chinese Cinemas written by Carlos Rojas and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-25 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean for a cinematic work to be "Chinese"? Does it refer specifically to a work's subject, or does it also reflect considerations of language, ethnicity, nationality, ideology, or political orientation? Such questions make any single approach to a vast field like "Chinese cinema" difficult at best. Accordingly, The Oxford Handbook of Chinese Cinemas situates the term more broadly among various different phases, genres, and distinct national configurations, while taking care to address the consequences of grouping together so many disparate histories under a single banner. Offering both a platform for cross-disciplinary dialogue and a mapping of Chinese cinema as an expanded field, this Handbook presents thirty-three essays by leading researchers and scholars intent on yielding new insights and new analyses using three different methodologies. Chapters in Part I investigate the historical periodizations of the field through changing notions of national and political identity — all the way from the industry's beginnings in the 1920s up to its current forms in contemporary Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the global diaspora. Chapters in Part II feature studies centered on the field's taxonomical formalities, including such topics as the role of the Chinese opera in technological innovation, the political logic of the "Maoist film," and the psychoanalytic formula of the kung fu action film. Finally, in Part III, focus is given to the structural elements that comprise a work's production, distribution, and reception to reveal the broader cinematic apparatuses within which these works are positioned. Taken together, the multipronged approach supports a wider platform beyond the geopolitical and linguistic limitations in existing scholarship. Expertly edited to illustrate a representative set of up to date topics and approaches, The Oxford Handbook of Chinese Cinemas provides a vital addition to a burgeoning field still in its formative stages.
Book Synopsis Marriage and Inequality in Chinese Society by : Rubie S. Watson
Download or read book Marriage and Inequality in Chinese Society written by Rubie S. Watson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1991-04-02 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until now our understanding of marriage in China has been based primarily on observations made during the twentieth century. The research of ten eminent scholars presented here provides a new vision of marriage in Chinese history, exploring the complex interplay between marriage and the social, political, economic, and gender inequalities that have so characterized Chinese society.
Book Synopsis Farmer's Daughter: General is Planting by : Shi Guangshenchudemao
Download or read book Farmer's Daughter: General is Planting written by Shi Guangshenchudemao and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2019-12-12 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is nothing milder than a white fairy to be widowed before one is married once through to the ancient times the walls only a bed all that was left was an ailing mother and a thin little brother waiting to be fed brandish sleeve carry big knife kill the first bucket of gold that pig earns door-to-door service delivers take-out when the kitchen niang opens a restaurant the business is more and more do bigger and bigger until one day the side has been dull man changed a face mother not her short-lived fiance
Book Synopsis The Enchanting Illegitimate Daughter by : Xianer Mama
Download or read book The Enchanting Illegitimate Daughter written by Xianer Mama and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-09-13 with total page 677 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once she was reborn, Su Yan Dou would destroy his father and his mother, and he would make the person who bullied her pay with his blood! Once the evil people were eliminated, a sick person would come knocking on her door and demand that she fulfill the marriage contract? Su Yan raised her eyebrows and smiled. In this life, she used to have a divine doctor as her master, and in the future, she would be the Grand Princess's biological mother. The marriage contract didn't exist! However, the prince who was said to be down to his last breath... Why did he stand up? "I heard you want to end the engagement?" His phoenix-like eyes glowed brightly. Su Yan was forced into a corner, her hands and feet went soft. The heavens are bullying me!
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Book Synopsis Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Indian Affairs (1993- )
Download or read book Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Indian Affairs (1993- ) and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Zhangs from Nanxun by : Nanchen Zhang
Download or read book The Zhangs from Nanxun written by Nanchen Zhang and published by CF Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Reference Guide to Christian Missionary Societies in China: From the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Century by : R. G. Tiedemann
Download or read book Reference Guide to Christian Missionary Societies in China: From the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Century written by R. G. Tiedemann and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive guide will facilitate scholarly research concerning the history of Christianity in China as well as the wider Sino-Western cultural encounter. It will assist scholars in their search for material on the anthropological, educational, medical, scientific, social, political, and religious dimensions of the missionary presence in China prior to 1950.The guide contains nearly five hundred entries identifying both Roman Catholic and Protestant missionary sending agencies and related religious congregations. Each entry includes the organization's name in English, followed by its Chinese name, country of origin, and denominational affiliation. Special attention has been paid to identifying the many small, lesser-known groups that arrived in China during the early decades of the twentieth century. In addition, a special category of the as yet little-studied indigenous communities of Chinese women has also been included. Multiple indexes enhance the guide's accessibility.
Download or read book Linguistic Survey of India written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Rethinking Representations of Asian Women by : Noriko Ijichi
Download or read book Rethinking Representations of Asian Women written by Noriko Ijichi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on historic and ethnographic approaches, this volume examines how the ideological images of Asian women are produced, circulated, appropriated, and pluralized. Contributors analyze the interactions between the politicized formation of ideological representations and the everyday practices of women who resist and re-contextualize these images.
Book Synopsis Islam and Chinese Society by : Jianxiong Ma
Download or read book Islam and Chinese Society written by Jianxiong Ma and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-04-21 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the long history in China of Chinese Muslims, known as the Hui people, and regarded as a minority, though in fact they are distinguished by religion rather than ethnicity. It shows how over time Chinese Muslims adopted Chinese practices as these evolved in wider Chinese society, practices such as constructing and recording patrilinear lineages, spreading genealogies, and propagating education and Confucian teaching, in the case of the Hui through the use of Chinese texts in the teaching of Islam at mosques. The book also examines much else, including the system of certification of mosques, the development of Sufi orders, the cultural adaptation of Islam at the local level, and relations between Islam and Confucianism, between the state and local communities, and between the educated Muslim elite and the Confucian literati. Overall, the book shows how extensively Chinese Muslims have been deeply integrated within a multi-cultural Chinese society.
