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The Salt Smugglers

Author : Gerard de Nerval
Publisher : Archipelago
ISBN 13 : 0981987397
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (819 download)

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Download or read book The Salt Smugglers written by Gerard de Nerval and published by Archipelago. This book was released on 2009-07-10 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published as a feuilleton in a left-wing newspaper in 1850, The Salt Smugglers provides a political satire of the waning days of France’s short-lived Second Republic. With nods to Diderot and Sterne, this shaggy-dog story deals less with contraband salt smugglers than with the subversive power of fiction to transgress legal and esthetic boundaries. By writing what he claimed was a purely documentary account of his picaresque adventures in search of an elusive book recording the true history of a certain seventeenth-century swashbuckler, Nerval sought to deride the press censors of the day who forbade the serial publication of novels in newspapers – and in the process he provocatively deconstructed existing distinctions between fact and fiction. Never before translated into English and still unavailable as a separately published volume in French, The Salt Smugglers is a pre-postmodern gem of experimental prose. Richard Sieburth’s vibrant translation and illuminating afterword remind us why Gérard de Nerval’s blend of sly irony and acerbic social criticism proved so inspiring to authors as various as Baudelaire, Proust, and Leiris.

The Salt Smugglers

Author : Gerard de Nerval
Publisher : Archipelago
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Salt Smugglers written by Gerard de Nerval and published by Archipelago. This book was released on 2009-08-28 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published as a sprawling feuilleton in the newspaper Le National in 1850, The Salt Smugglers was political and topical. With nods to Diderot and Sterne, this protean, digressive satire deals less with contraband salt and more with questions of subversion, transgression, censorship and marginality. Never-before-translated into English and never published as a free-standing volume, The Salt Smugglers is an unearthed pre-postmodern gem.

Salt Water

Author : Josep Pla
Publisher : Archipelago
ISBN 13 : 1939810728
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (398 download)

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Download or read book Salt Water written by Josep Pla and published by Archipelago. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Bush, winner of the Ramon Llull Prize for Literary Translation, brings to English this most prolific and influential of Catalan writers. Dripping with a panache that can turn in a comic instant to the most conciliatory humility, Josep Pla's foray into the land and sea most familiar to him will plunge readers head-first into its mysterious (and often tasty!) depths. Here are adventures and shipwrecks, raspy storytellers and the fishy meals that sustain them. After describing the process of beating an octopus with branches to soften up its flesh, Pla writes, "These are dishes that must be seen as a last resort." Pla inflects the mundane with the hidden rhythms of power sculpting culture, so that a hot supper is never just food--it embodies economic precarity and environmental erosion along with its own peculiar flavor. A lifetime of reporting on current events gave Pla the necessary skills to describe the world in all its gritty, funny, invigorating detail.

Salt and Silver

Author : Anna Katherine
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1429937483
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Salt and Silver written by Anna Katherine and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-04-28 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When trust fund baby-turned-waitress Allie and her friends accidentally open a Door to Hell in the basement of Sally's Diner, they don't realize the havoc it will wreak on their Brooklyn neighborhood. Of course, the upside to murder-happy demons coming through the Door all the time is that Allie gets her own sexy and mysterious demon hunter: the dark-eyed, leather-clad, Stetson-wearing Ryan. Ryan teaches Allie everything he knows about fighting the creatures of the underworld—but refuses to give in to the sexual tension that simmers between them. Allie has almost given up on taking her relationship with Ryan to the next level when there's a surge in demonic activity... and the Door disappears. Now Allie and Ryan have to travel through Hell, literally, to try to stop Hell from taking over the Earth. They may not survive the trip, but Allie is about to discover something very important: Mortal peril is a total turn-on.

The Smugglers

Author : Iain Lawrence
Publisher : Yearling
ISBN 13 : 0440415969
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book The Smugglers written by Iain Lawrence and published by Yearling. This book was released on 2000-10-10 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Steer clear of that ship," warns the mysterious gentleman who shares a coach with John and his father. "Death she'll bring you," says the man. "It's the way of a ship that was christened with blood." This is an ominous introduction to the schooner John is about to be entrusted with for a voyage to London. But he's too charmed by the pretty Dragon to heed the advice. The ship looks clever and quick, and John can hardly wait to sail her. She was a smugglers' vessel once, but now she's his Dragon, and she'll proudly carry wool for honest trade. But soon John will be forced to consider the gentleman's warning. And to wonder what he really knows about his bonny crew.

Emblems of Desire

Author : Maurice Scève
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 9780812236941
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (369 download)

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Download or read book Emblems of Desire written by Maurice Scève and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introducted and annotated by the prize-winning translator Richard Sieburth, this bilingual selection from Scève's Délie are love poems for the intellectual.

Officialdom Unmasked

Author : T.L. Yang
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
ISBN 13 : 9622095437
Total Pages : 647 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Officialdom Unmasked written by T.L. Yang and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2001-06-01 with total page 647 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has been said that the downfall of the Qing dynasty was due not so much to the 1911 Revolution as to the pervasive corruption and weakness within the Qing administration. The regime was rotting from within, and it did not take much to topple the three-hundred-year-old dynasty. Officialdom Unmasked (官場現形記) was written by Li Boyuan in the early years of the twentieth century as the dynasty crumbled. Bizarre though they may seem, the stories told in the novel are based on true stories. From senior ministers to junior clerks, few were immune from taking bribes, stealing, philandering, dereliction of duty, or other wrongdoings. Here the writer portrays an official class who placed their selfish interests above that of the state, and who were so devoid of any moral rectitude that one could but wonder how a once mighty empire had fallen into so complete a decline. Unlike most satires, often written with a degree of humour which evoke a chuckle here and there, this work came from a broken heart; it brings only tears, not smiles.

Popular Religion and Shamanism

Author : Xisha Ma
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004174559
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Popular Religion and Shamanism written by Xisha Ma and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-02-14 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular Religion and Shamanism addresses two areas of religion within Chinese society; the lay teachings that Chinese scholars term folk or “popular” religion, and shamanism. Each area represents a distinct tradition of scholarship, and the book is therefore split into two parts. Part I: Popular Religion discusses the evolution of organized lay movements over an arc of ten centuries. Its eight chapters focus on three key points: the arrival and integration of new ideas before the Song dynasty, the coalescence of an intellectual and scriptural tradition during the Ming, and the efflorescence of new organizations during the late Qing. Part II: Shamanism reflects the revived interest of scholars in traditional beliefs and culture that reemerged with the “open” policy in China that occurred in the 1970s. Two of the essays included in this section address shamanism in northeast China where the traditions played an important role in the cultures of the Manchu, Mongol, Sibe, Daur, Oroqen, Evenki, and Hezhen. The other essay discusses divination rites in a local culture of southwest China.

O Jerusalem

Author : Laurie R. King
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0553901354
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (539 download)

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Download or read book O Jerusalem written by Laurie R. King and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2009-04-28 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the close of the year 1918, forced to flee England's green and pleasant land, Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes enter British-occupied Palestine under the auspices of Holmes' enigmatic brother, Mycroft. "Gentlemen, we are at your service." Thus Holmes greets the two travel-grimed Arab figures who receive them in the orange groves fringing the Holy Land. Whatever role could the volatile Ali and the taciturn Mahmoud play in Mycroft's design for this land the British so recently wrested from the Turks? After passing a series of tests, Holmes and Russell learn their guides are engaged in a mission for His Majesty's Government, and disguise themselves as Bedouins--Russell as the beardless youth "Amir"--to join them in a stealthy reconnaissance through the dusty countryside. A recent rash of murders seems unrelated to the growing tensions between Jew, Moslem, and Christian, yet Holmes is adamant that he must reconstruct the most recent one in the desert gully where it occurred. His singular findings will lead him and Russell through labyrinthine bazaars, verminous inns, cliff-hung monasteries--and into mortal danger. When her mentor's inquiries jeopardize his life, Russell fearlessly wields a pistol and even assays the arts of seduction to save him. Bruised and bloodied, the pair ascend to the jewellike city of Jerusalem, where they will at last meet their adversary, whose lust for savagery and power could reduce the city's most ancient and sacred place to rubble and ignite this tinderbox of a land.... Classically Holmesian yet enchantingly fresh, sinuously plotted, with colorful characters and a dazzling historic ambience, O Jerusalem sweeps readers ever onward in the thrill of the chase.

The Zhangs from Nanxun

Author : Nanchen Zhang
Publisher : CF Press
ISBN 13 : 0692008454
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (92 download)

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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:

Smuggling

Author : Simon Harvey
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 178023595X
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book Smuggling written by Simon Harvey and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A cellar door creaking open in the middle of the night, or a hand slipping quickly into a trench coat – the most compelling transactions are surely those we never see. Smuggling can conjure images of adventure and rebellion in popular culture, but as this fascinating book shows, it has also had a profound effect on the geopolitics of the world. Shining a light onto seven centuries of dark history, it illuminates a world of intrigue and fortune, hinged on furtive desires and those who have been willing to fulfil them. World-changing contraband has ranged from silk, spices and silver in the Age of Exploration to gold, opium, tea and rubber in times of empire, as well as drugs, people and blood diamonds today. Guns and art have always been smuggled, as have the most dangerous of all contraband – ideas. Central to this story are the (not always) legitimate forces of the Dutch and British East India Companies, the luminaries of the Spanish Empire, Napoleon Bonaparte, the Nazis, Soviet trophy brigades and the CIA, all of whom, at one point or another, have made smuggling part of their business. In addition, Simon Harvey traces out the smaller-time smugglers, the micro-economies of everyday goods, precious objects and people, drawing these stories together into a map of a subterranean world criss-crossed by smugglers’ paths. All told, this is the story of an unrelenting drive of markets to subvert the law, and of the invisible seams that have sewn the globe together."--Book jacket flap.

Emperor and Ancestor

Author : David Faure
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804767934
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (679 download)

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Download or read book Emperor and Ancestor written by David Faure and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2007-03-01 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book summarizes twenty years of the author's work in historical anthropology and documents his argument that in China, ritual provided the social glue that law provided in the West. The book offers a readable history of the special lineage institutions for which south China has been noted and argues that these institutions fostered the mechanisms that enabled south China to be absorbed into the imperial Chinese state—first, by introducing rituals that were acceptable to the state, and second, by providing mechanisms that made group ownership of property feasible and hence made it possible to pool capital for land reclamation projects important to the state. Just as taxation, defense, and recognition came together with the emergence of powerful lineages in the sixteenth century, their disintegration in the late nineteenth century signaled the beginnings of a new Chinese state.

Hungary and Transylvania

Author : John Paget
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 662 pages
Book Rating : 4.L/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hungary and Transylvania written by John Paget and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Law across imperial borders

Author : Emily Whewell
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526140047
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Law across imperial borders written by Emily Whewell and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2019-12-20 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the story of British consuls at the edge of the British and Chinese empires. By embracing local norms and adapting to transfrontier migration, consuls created forms of transfrontier legal authority.

Sources of Chinese Tradition

Author : Wm. Theodore De Bary
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231517998
Total Pages : 657 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Sources of Chinese Tradition written by Wm. Theodore De Bary and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2001-04-18 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For four decades Sources of Chinese Tradition has served to introduce Western readers to Chinese civilization as it has been seen through basic writings and historical documents of the Chinese themselves. Now in its second edition, revised and extended through Deng Xiaoping and Jiang Zemin–era China, this classic volume remains unrivaled for its wide selection of source readings on history, society, and thought in the world's largest nation. Award-winning China scholar Wm. Theodore de Bary—who edited the first edition in 1960—and his coeditor Richard Lufrano have revised and updated the second volume of Sources to reflect the interactions of ideas, institutions, and historical events from the seventeenth century up to the present day. Beginning with Qing civilization and continuing to contemporary times, volume II brings together key source texts from more than three centuries of Chinese history, with opening essays by noted China authorities providing context for readers not familiar with the period in question. Here are just a few of the topics covered in this second volume of Sources of Chinese Tradition: Early Sino-Western contacts in the seventeenth century; Four centuries of Chinese reflections on differences between Eastern and Western civilizations; Nineteenth- and twentieth-century reform movements, with treatises on women's rights, modern science, and literary reform; Controversies over the place of Confucianism in modern Chinese society; The nationalist revolution—including readings from Sun Yat-sen and Chiang Kai-shek; The communist revolution—with central writings by Mao Zedong; Works from contemporary China—featuring political essays from Deng Xiaoping and dissidents including Wei Jingsheng. With more than two hundred selections in lucid, readable translation by today's most renowned experts on Chinese language and civilization, Sources of Chinese Tradition will continue to be recognized as the standard for source readings on Chinese civilization, an indispensable learning tool for scholars and students of Asian civilizations.

Power and Protest in the Countryside

Author : Robert Paul Weller
Publisher : Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Power and Protest in the Countryside written by Robert Paul Weller and published by Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Constitutes an important and timely addition to the literature on peasant rebellion; wisely, the editors have been eclectic in drawing from some of the leading historians, anthropologists, political scientists, and sociologists active in the field an analysis of the forms that rural violence has taken through the past three centuries."--Pacific Affairs

Far Eastern Political Science Review

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1036 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Far Eastern Political Science Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 1036 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: