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Our Story

Author : Rao Pingru
Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 : 1101871504
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Our Story written by Rao Pingru and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Begun by the author when he was eighty-seven years old and mourning the loss of his wife, Our Story is a graphic memoir like no other: a celebration of a marriage that spanned the twentieth century in China, told in vibrant, original paintings and prose. Rao Pingru was twenty-four-year-old soldier when he was reintroduced to Mao Meitang, a girl he’d known in childhood and now the woman his father had arranged for him to marry. One glimpse of her through a window as she put on lipstick was enough to capture Pingru’s heart: a moment that sparked a union that would last almost sixty years. Our Story is Pingru and Meitang’s epic but unassuming romance. It follows the couple through the decades, in both poverty and good fortune—looking for work, opening a restaurant, moving cities, mending shoes, raising their children, and being separated for seventeen years by the government when Pingru is sent to a labor camp. As the pair ages, China undergoes extraordinary growth, political turmoil, and cultural change. When Meitang passes away in 2008, Pingru memorializes his wife and their relationship the only way he knows how: through painting. In an outpouring of love and grief, he puts it all on paper. Spanning 1922 through 2008, Our Story is a tales of enduring love and simple values that is at once tragic and inspiring: an old-fashioned story that unfolds in a nation undergoing cataclysmic change. (With gorgeous full-color illustrations throughout, and a distinctive exposed spine emulating the original Chinese design.)

Our Life in China

Author : Helen Sanford Coan Nevius
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9787563382385
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (823 download)

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Download or read book Our Life in China written by Helen Sanford Coan Nevius and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Our Life in China

Author : Helen Sanford (Coan) Nevius
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 670 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Our Life in China written by Helen Sanford (Coan) Nevius and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Moving the Mountain

Author : Lu Li
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Moving the Mountain written by Lu Li and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A student leader of the demonstrations in Tiananmen Square provides a persona account of the protests, the Chinese government's violent retaliation, and the aftermath.

Life and Death in Shanghai

Author : Cheng Nien
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0802145167
Total Pages : 561 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Life and Death in Shanghai written by Cheng Nien and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2010-12-14 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A woman who spent more than six years in solitary confinement during Communist China's Cultural Revolution discusses her time in prison. Reissue. A New York Times Best Book of the Year.

My Life in China and America

Author : Wing Yung
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Life in China and America written by Wing Yung and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Our Life in China

Author : Helen Sanford Coan Nevius
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330129555
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (295 download)

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Download or read book Our Life in China written by Helen Sanford Coan Nevius and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-16 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Our Life in China I remember that, in one of my earliest lessons in geography, I was told of a country directly underneath me, on the opposite side of the globe; and my teacher added the sage re-mark, that, if I should make a hole directly through the earth, I would come upon a very strange people, called Chinese. The idea haunted me. Some vague conceptions of the "pneumatic express" dawned upon my infant mind. Would it be possible, I wondered, to make such a small, safe tunnel, and to glide swiftly through until I could see, with my own eyes, those singular men, with hair braided down their backs, and grown-up women, with feet no larger than my own, whose food was "rats, cats, and puppies"? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Life in Ancient China

Author : Paul Clarence Challen
Publisher : Crabtree Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780778720379
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Life in Ancient China written by Paul Clarence Challen and published by Crabtree Publishing Company. This book was released on 2005 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Along China's Yellow River, a mighty and technologically advanced civilization grew and flourished for thousands of years without any contact from the rest of the world. Life in Ancient China explores the daily lives of early the Chinese people, profiles the great dynasties that ruled China over the centuries, and introduces important religious and philosophical contributions, such as Confucianism, Daosim, and Buddhism. Enduring Chinese innovations, such as writing, papermaking, and The Great Wall are also featured.

Our Life and Work in China

Author : Absalom Sydenstricker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780870123054
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Our Life and Work in China written by Absalom Sydenstricker and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Beijing Payback

Author : Daniel Nieh
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062886665
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (628 download)

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Download or read book Beijing Payback written by Daniel Nieh and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-07-23 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Propulsive. . . . Highly enjoyable. . . . It sets up a sequel, one that I very much look forward to reading.” —The New York Times Book Review A fresh, smart, and fast-paced revenge thriller about a college basketball player who discovers shocking truths about his family in the wake of his father’s murder Victor Li is devastated by his father’s murder, and shocked by a confessional letter he finds among his father’s things. In it, his father admits that he was never just a restaurateur—in fact he was part of a vast international crime syndicate that formed during China’s leanest communist years. Victor travels to Beijing, where he navigates his father’s secret criminal life, confronting decades-old grudges, violent spats, and a shocking new enterprise that the organization wants to undertake. Standing up against it is likely what got his father killed, but Victor remains undeterred. He enlists his growing network of allies and friends to finish what his father started, no matter the costs.

Exotic Commodities

Author : Frank Dikötter
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231511872
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (118 download)

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Download or read book Exotic Commodities written by Frank Dikötter and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2007-03-27 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exotic Commodities is the first book to chart the consumption and spread of foreign goods in China from the mid-nineteenth century to the advent of communism in 1949. Richly illustrated and revealing, this volume recounts how exotic commodities were acquired and adapted in a country commonly believed to have remained "hostile toward alien things" during the industrial era. China was not immune to global trends that prized the modern goods of "civilized" nations. Foreign imports were enthusiastically embraced by both the upper and lower classes and rapidly woven into the fabric of everyday life, often in inventive ways. Scarves, skirts, blouses, and corsets were combined with traditional garments to create strikingly original fashions. Industrially produced rice, sugar, wheat, and canned food revolutionized local cuisine, and mass produced mirrors were hung on doorframes to ward off malignant spirits. Frank Dikötter argues that ordinary people were the least inhibited in acquiring these products and therefore the most instrumental in changing the material culture of China. Landscape paintings, door leaves, and calligraphy scrolls were happily mixed with kitschy oil paintings and modern advertisements. Old and new interacted in ways that might have seemed incongruous to outsiders but were perfectly harmonious to local people. This pragmatic attitude would eventually lead to China's own mass production and export of cheap, modern goods, which today can be found all over the world. The nature of this history raises the question, which Dikötter pursues in his conclusion: If the key to surviving in a fast-changing world is the ability to innovate, could China be more in tune with modernity than Europe?

Daily Life in China on the Eve of the Mongol Invasion, 1250-1276

Author : Jacques Gernet
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804707206
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Daily Life in China on the Eve of the Mongol Invasion, 1250-1276 written by Jacques Gernet and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1962 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the occupations, pleasures, clothes, food, art, and social and civic life of the people in the city of Hangchow.

A Year Without "Made in China"

Author : Sara Bongiorni
Publisher : Wiley + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1118039173
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book A Year Without "Made in China" written by Sara Bongiorni and published by Wiley + ORM. This book was released on 2010-12-28 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can an American family live without Chinese-made goods? “A wry look at the ingenuity it takes to shun the planet’s fastest-growing economy.” —Bloomberg News “Journalist Bongiorni, on a post-Christmas day mired deep in plastic toys and electronics equipment, makes up her mind to live for a year without buying any products made in China, a decision spurred less by notions of idealism or fair trade—though she does note troubling statistics on job loss and trade deficits—than simply ‘to see if it can be done.’ In this more personal vein, Bongiorni tells often funny, occasionally humiliating stories centering around her difficulty procuring sneakers, sunglasses, DVD players and toys for two young children and a skeptical husband . . . Bongiorni is a graceful, self-deprecating writer, and her comic adventures in self-imposed inconvenience cast an interesting sideways glance at the personal effects of globalism.” —Publishers Weekly

Everyday Life in Early Imperial China During the Han Period, 202 BC-AD 220

Author : Michael Loewe
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780872207585
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Everyday Life in Early Imperial China During the Han Period, 202 BC-AD 220 written by Michael Loewe and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers the important aspects of life during the Han period, when the foundations were laid for the chief political, economic, cultural and social structures that would characterise imperial China.

Our Life in China

Author : Mrs. Helen Sanford Coan Nevins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Our Life in China written by Mrs. Helen Sanford Coan Nevins and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Our Life in China (Classic Reprint)

Author : Helen Sanford Coan Nevius
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780332095127
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book Our Life in China (Classic Reprint) written by Helen Sanford Coan Nevius and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-28 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Our Life in China Our state-room was on deck, Opening Off the dining cabin; in size, just three and a half feet wide, and not quite six long. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

A Day in the Life of China

Author : David Cohen
Publisher : Harper San Francisco
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book A Day in the Life of China written by David Cohen and published by Harper San Francisco. This book was released on 1989 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pictures taken in a single 24-hour period on April 15, 1989, capturing the life of China.