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Author : liping guo
Publisher : liping guo
ISBN 13 : 1446135489
Total Pages : 515 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (461 download)
Download or read book Dragon and Phoenix Baochai Fate Volume 2 written by liping guo and published by liping guo. This book was released on with total page 515 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : liping guo
Publisher : liping guo
ISBN 13 : 1446135470
Total Pages : 469 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (461 download)
Download or read book Dragon and Phoenix Baochai Volume 2 written by liping guo and published by liping guo. This book was released on with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paolo Santangelo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789004396869
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (968 download)
Download or read book The Culture of Love in China and Europe written by Paolo Santangelo and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Culture of Love in China and Europe offers a cautiously comparative survey of the cults of love developed in the history of ideas and literary production in China and Europe between the 12th and early 19th century.
Author : Bret Hinsch
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0742568245
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (425 download)
Download or read book Women in Early Imperial China written by Bret Hinsch and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2010-08-16 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a long spell of chaos, the Qin and Han dynasties (221 BCE–220 CE) saw the unification of the Chinese Empire under a single ruler, government, and code of law. During this era, changing social and political institutions affected the ways people conceived of womanhood. New ideals were promulgated, and women's lives gradually altered to conform to them. And under the new political system, the rulers' consorts and their families obtained powerful roles that allowed women unprecedented influence in the highest level of government. Recognized as the leading work in the field, this introductory survey offers the first sustained history of women in the early imperial era. Now in a revised edition that incorporates the latest scholarship and theoretical approaches, the book draws on extensive primary and secondary sources in Chinese and Japanese to paint a remarkably detailed picture of the distant past. Bret Hinsch's introductory chapters orient the nonspecialist to early imperial Chinese society; subsequent chapters discuss women's roles from the multiple perspectives of kinship, wealth and work, law, government, learning, ritual, and cosmology. An enhanced array of line drawings, a Chinese-character glossary, and extensive notes and bibliography enhance the author's discussion. Historians and students of gender and early China alike will find this book an invaluable overview.
Author : Andrew Schonebaum
Publisher : Modern Language Association of America
ISBN 13 : 9781603291118
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (911 download)
Download or read book Approaches to Teaching The Story of the Stone (Dream of the Red Chamber) written by Andrew Schonebaum and published by Modern Language Association of America. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Story of the Stone (or Dream of the Red Chamber), a Chinese novel by Cao Xueqin and continued by Gao E, tells of an amazing garden, of a young man's choice between two beautiful women, of his journey toward enlightenment, and of the moral and financial decline of a powerful family. Published in 1792, it depicts virtually every facet of life in eighteenth-century China—and has influenced culture in China ever since.Part 1 of this volume, "Materials," provides information and resources that will help teachers and students begin and pursue their study of Stone. The essays that constitute part 2, "Approaches," introduce major topics to be covered in the classroom: Chinese religion, medicine, history, traditions of poetry, material culture, sexual mores, servants; Stone in film and on television; and the formidable challenges of translation into English that were faced by David Hawkes and then by John Minford.
Author : Chi-kwan Mark
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199273707
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)
Download or read book Hong Kong and the Cold War written by Chi-kwan Mark and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-08-05 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After 1949, the British Empire in Hong Kong was more vulnerable than the lack of Chinese demand for return and the success of Hong Kong's economic transformations might have suggested. Its vulnerability stemmed as much from Britain's imperial decline and America's Cold War requirements as from a Chinese threat. It culminated in the little known '1957 Question', a year when the British position in Hong Kong appeared more uncertain than any time since 1949.This is the first scholarly study that places Hong Kong at the heart of the Anglo-American relationship in the wider context of the Cold War in Asia. Unlike existing works, which tend to treat British and US policies in isolation, this book explores their dynamic interactions - how the two allies perceived, responded to, and attempted to influence each other's policies and actions. It also provides a major reinterpretation of Hong Kong's involvement in the containment of China. Dr Mark arguesthat, concerned about possible Chinese retaliation, the British insisted and the Americans accepted that Hong Kong's role should be as discreet and non-confrontational in nature as possible. Above all, top decision-makers in Washington evaluated Hong Kong's significance not in its own right, but inthe context of the Anglo-American relationship: Hong Kong was seen primarily as a bargaining chip to obtain British support for US policy elsewhere in Asia.By using a variety of British and US archival material as well as Chinese sources, Dr Mark examines how the British and US government discussed, debated, and disagreed over Hong Kong's role in the Cold War, and reveals the dynamics of the Anglo-American alliance and the dilemmas of small allies in a global conflict.
Author : Klavier J. Wang
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811388172
Total Pages : 539 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (113 download)
Download or read book Hong Kong Popular Culture written by Klavier J. Wang and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-01-07 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the evolution of the Hong Kong’s popular culture, namely film, television and popular music (also known as Cantopop), which is knotted with the city’s geo-political, economic and social transformations. Under various historical contingencies and due to the city’s special geo-politics, these three major popular cultural forms have experienced various worlding processes and have generated border-crossing impact culturally and socially. The worlding processes are greatly associated the city’s nature as a reception and departure port to Sinophone migrants and populations of multiethnic and multicultural. Reaching beyond the “golden age” (1980s) of Hong Kong popular culture and afar from a film-centric cultural narration, this book, delineating from the dawn of the 20th century and following a chronological order, untangles how the nowadays popular “Hong Kong film”, “Hong Kong TV” and “Cantopop” are derived from early-age Sinophone cultural heritage, re-shaped through cross-cultural hybridization and influenced by multiple political forces. Review of archives, existing literatures and corporation documents are supplemented with policy analysis and in-depth interviews to explore the centennial development of Hong Kong popular culture, which is by no means demise but at the juncture of critical transition.
Author : Cao Xueqin
Publisher : Penguin Classics
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Story of the Stone, Volume I written by Cao Xueqin and published by Penguin Classics. This book was released on 1973 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The glory and decline of the illustrious Jia family and its two main characters, Bao-yu and Dau-yu.
Author : Kang-i Sun Chang
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521855587
Total Pages : 748 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (555 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge History of Chinese Literature written by Kang-i Sun Chang and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stephen Owen is James Bryant Conant Professor of Chinese at Harvard University. --Book Jacket.
Author : Dun Mao
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520910959
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Rainbow written by Dun Mao and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1992-05-29 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With this translation of the 1929 novel Rainbow(Hong), one of China's most influential works of fiction is at last available in English. Rainbow chronicles the political and social disruptions in China during the early years of the twentieth century. Inspired by the iconoclasm of the "May Fourth Movement," the heroine, Mei, embarks on a journey that takes her from the limitations of the traditional family to a discovery of the new, "modern" values of individualism, sexual equality, and political responsibility. The novel moves with Mei from the conservative world of China's interior provinces down the Yangtze River to Shanghai, where she discovers the turbulent political environment of China's most modern city. Mao Dun writes with the conviction of one who has lived through the events he is describing. Rainbow provides a moving introduction to the contradictions inherent in the simultaneous quest for personal freedom and national strengthening. Vividly evocative of the period in which it was written, it is equally relevant to the China of today.
Author : Xiaojue Wang
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1684175356
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (841 download)
Download or read book Modernity with a Cold War Face written by Xiaojue Wang and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-05-11 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The year 1949 witnessed China divided into multiple political and cultural entities. How did this momentous shift affect Chinese literary topography? Modernity with a Cold War Face examines the competing, converging, and conflicting modes of envisioning a modern nation in mid-twentieth century Chinese literature. Bridging the 1949 divide in both literary historical periodization and political demarcation, Xiaojue Wang proposes a new framework to consider Chinese literature beyond national boundaries, as something arising out of the larger global geopolitical and cultural conflict of the Cold War.Examining a body of heretofore understudied literary and cultural production in mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and overseas during a crucial period after World War II, Wang traces how Chinese writers collected artistic fragments, blended feminist and socialist agendas, constructed ambivalent stances toward colonial modernity and an imaginary homeland, translated foreign literature to shape a new Chinese subjectivity, and revisited the classics for a new time. Reflecting historical reality in fictional terms, their work forged a path toward multiple modernities as they created alternative ways of connection, communication, and articulation to uncover and undermine Cold War dichotomous antagonism."
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004340629
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Wanton Women in Late-Imperial Chinese Literature written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-04-18 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributors to Wanton Women in Late-Imperial Chinese Literature: Models, Genres, Subversions and Traditions draw attention to ‘wanton woman’ themes across time as they were portrayed in court history (McMahon), fiction (Stevenson), drama (Lam, Wu), and songs and ballads (Ôki, Epstein, McLaren). Looking back, the essays challenge us with views of sexual transgression that are more heterogeneous than modern popular focus on Pan Jinlian would suggest. Central among the many insights to be found is that despite gender performance in Chinese history being overwhelmingly determined by the needs of patriarchal authority, men and women in the late imperial period discovered diverse ways in which to reflect on how men constantly sought their own bearings in reference to women.
Author : Paolo Santangelo
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004177531
Total Pages : 1 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Materials for an Anatomy of Personality in Late Imperial China written by Paolo Santangelo and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How was the concept of 'personality' perceived in (late-imperial) China? Re-constructing the main features describing the individual, this volume, firmly based in textual sources, is a reflection on personality and its attributes in China. It discusses terms that express the propensity, inclinations, predispositions, and temperament of subjects, departing from the descriptions that represent one s and the other s self, as well as terms that describe or label a person's main qualities or defects. As judgments contribute to formulate the image of ourselves and others, when talking of personality not only individual characters (biological traits, cultural basis, innate and acquired traits and habits) are looked into, but also social values and collective mentality, as well as individual and group subjectivity.
Author : Yu Li
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Silent Operas written by Yu Li and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Li Yu was a writer of seventeenth century China. He excelled as a playwright, essayist, critic, and fiction writer. In his stories Li Yu sets out to overturn conventional moral and literary themes. He can be described as the comic specialist of Chinese literature, and his exuberant comedy is mostly concerned with the breaking of social taboos, especially those relating to sex.
Author : Edwards
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004482717
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Men and Women in Qing China written by Edwards and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-09-13 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Men and Women in Qing China is an analysis of Chinese prescriptions of gender as represented in Cao Xueqin's famous eighteenth century Chinese novel of manners, The Red Chamber Dream or The Story of the Stone. Drawing on feminist literary critical methods it examines Qing notions of masculinity and femininity, including themes such as bisexuality, motherhood, virginity and purity, and gender and power. Its central aim is to challenge the common assumption that the novel represents some form of early Chinese feminism by examining the text in conjunction with historical data. The book will be especially important to those interested in issues of gender in China, the history of Chinese literary criticism and the application of feminist theory to the Asian text.
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Publisher : Cambria Press
ISBN 13 : 1621968367
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (219 download)
Download or read book Reflections on Dream of the Red Chamber written by and published by Cambria Press. This book was released on with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jack W. Chen
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520289773
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Idle Talk written by Jack W. Chen and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2013-09-29 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gossip and anecdote may be “idle talk,” but they also serve to knit together individuals in society and to provide the materials through which literary culture and historical memory are constructed. This groundbreaking book provides a cultural history of gossip and anecdote in traditional China, beginning with the Han dynasty and ending with the Qing. The ten essays, along with the introduction and postface, address the verification, transmission, and interpretation of gossip and anecdote across literary and historical genres. Contributors: Sarah M. Allen, Beverly J. Bossler, Jack W. Chen, Ronald Egan, Dore J. Levy, Stephen Owen, Graham Sanders, David Schaberg, Anna M. Shields, Richard E. Strassberg, Xiaofei Tian
