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Author : Don Cohn
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Vignettes from the Chinese written by Don Cohn and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 029580226X
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (958 download)
Download or read book Vignettes from the Late Ming written by and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology presents seventy translated and annotated short essays, or hsiao-p’in, by fourteen well-known sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Chinese writers. Hsiao-p’in, characterized by spontaneity and brevity, were a relatively informal variation on the established classical prose style in which all scholars were trained. Written primarily to amuse and entertain the reader, hsiao-p’in reflect the rise of individualism in the late Ming period and collectively provide a panorama of the colorful life of the age. Critics condemned the genre as escapist because of its focus on life’s sensual pleasures and triviality, and over the next two centuries many of these playful and often irreverent works were officially censored. Today, the essays provide valuable and rare accounts of the details over everyday life in Ming China as well as displays of wit and delightful turns of phrase.
Author : Shih S. Liu
Publisher : Chinese University Press
ISBN 13 : 9789622010154
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Vignettes from the Late Ch'ing written by Shih S. Liu and published by Chinese University Press. This book was released on 1976-01-22 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few aspects of American military history have been as vigorously debated as Harry Truman's decision to use atomic bombs against Japan. In this carefully crafted volume, Michael Kort describes the wartime circumstances and thinking that form the context for the decision to use these weapons, surveys the major debates related to that decision, and provides a comprehensive collection of key primary source documents that illuminate the behavior of the United States and Japan during the closing days of World War II. Kort opens with a summary of the debate over Hiroshima as it has evolved since 1945. He then provides a historical overview of thye events in question, beginning with the decision and program to build the atomic bomb. Detailing the sequence of events leading to Japan's surrender, he revisits the decisive battles of the Pacific War and the motivations of American and Japanese leaders. Finally, Kort examines ten key issues in the discussion of Hiroshima and guides readers to relevant primary source documents, scholarly books, and articles.
Author : Ernest Richard Hughes
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400879434
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Two Chinese Poets written by Ernest Richard Hughes and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The half-dozen generations from 100 B.C. to A.D. 100 were epoch-making in Chinese history, and there is a real need for "vignetting sketches of manner, character, and thought" based on documents identifiable as to date and authorship. Fortunately such documents are available in the fu (Chinese literary form) on the Two Capitals by Pan Ku and Chang Heng. Insights into Han life and beliefs are offered through the translation and paraphrase of the fu, with extensive critique and commentary. Originally published in 1960. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Sister Beatrice Fleischbein (S.M.I.C.)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (363 download)
Download or read book Chinese Vignettes written by Sister Beatrice Fleischbein (S.M.I.C.) and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dominic Barton
Publisher : Thorogood Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9810580916
Total Pages : 714 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (15 download)
Download or read book China Vignettes written by Dominic Barton and published by Thorogood Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to understand the changes sweeping China. The texture of life at a household level is captured in this new book, which seeks to understand lived experience in China, from coast to interior, city to countryside, and across the widening income divide. The book interviews 30 Chinese men and women from different walks of life, and from different regions. Interviewees provide their household budget, a typical daily chronology and they share a sense of each day's pressures and priorities. In addition, 13 well-known Chinese writers, commissioned by editors at Rongshu Publishing, have contributed short stories presenting daily life from the points of view of different ages, genders, professions, income levels and life situations. It contains essays by well-known Chinese sociologist Deng Weizhi and political scientist Cao Peilin which complete the book.
Author : Kuang-ming Wu
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781617280214
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (82 download)
Download or read book Chinese Wisdom Alive written by Kuang-ming Wu and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kuang-ming Wu
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ISBN 13 : 9781608768714
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (687 download)
Download or read book Chinese Wisdom Alive written by Kuang-ming Wu and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China deeply enters "here now" to make sense of life's ongoing millennia fresh. China thinks as it tropes along myriad things in life world, their opposites and levels interpenetrating. China thinks story-way to express all things inter-weaving into history, an "open system" that keeps growing. Chinese wisdom is alive today millennia young. The West is objective; China is intersubjective. The West is logically systematic; China coherently story-thinks to compose history. Western philosophy is analytically abstract; Chinese wisdom is actually sensible. As existence is inter-existence, so China welcomes the West to interculture equally, globally. Filled with concrete stories in depth, this volume has four parts. Part I depicts Chinese wisdom as not prudence or theories but "vignettes of life-thinking", to present thinking in shifting actuality. Part II sketches heart-logic pulsing in seasons, to cyclone-breathe things as music-historic reason in Chinese Wisdom Alive. Part III depicts such story-thinking that musically includes all, melodious and dissonant, to undergo pain to comprehend all, factual, historical, futuristic, and imagined. Part IV shows how Chinese wisdom is alive today, rooted in its tradition millennia fresh, in ten abiding features cosmic-concrete, making sense intercultural. Such Chinese wisdom is so alive today as to be resiliently comical, chanting odes to the ultimate joy of heartbeat alive, thriving precisely on joys and bloody tragedies of days and ages. No usual logic can parse such "musical reason" singing through pain and death through time, birthing without ceasing.
Author : E. R. HUGHES
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780483821873
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (218 download)
Download or read book Two Chinese Poets written by E. R. HUGHES and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Two Chinese Poets: Vignettes of Han Life and Thought In order to check on these various impressions I made a special study of Lu Chi's Wen F n (prose-poem on the Art of Letters) written in ad. 301-302. That study proved highly illuminating as to methods of approach to the classi cal literature: first, find a document of manageable propor tions, of certain authorship, certain date, and practically in dubitable text, and then follow where it leads. This conclu sion lies behind my book on the Wen F it published in 1951 (bollingen Series, No. Xx1x, New York, Pantheon Press). The next step was then clear. Two acknowledged masters of double-harness description of objects (m) were Pan Ku and Chang Heng, and within twenty to thirty years of each other they had composed their respective F n on the Two Capitals. Here were dateable documents by well-known au thors, the extant texts in most admirable condition. Further, the two authors had under contemplation the previous Han regime in contrast to their own. What more could an ideo logical historian want in the way of reliable and illuminating data? In this fashion I came to these special studies, came to write this book. Three considerations dominate its method: (1) to get at the texture of the minds of the two authors and their contemporaries; (2) placing the authors in the witness box as to Han beliefs and institutions, to estimate their reliability; (3) to explicate the particular matters on which they gave evidence. 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.
Author : Jennifer W. Jay
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (469 download)
Download or read book Vignettes of Chinese Women in Tang Xi'an (618-906) written by Jennifer W. Jay and published by . This book was released on 1990* with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : E. R. Hughes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (112 download)
Download or read book Two Chinese Poets written by E. R. Hughes and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sunamita Lim
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
ISBN 13 : 9781423600213
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Chinese Style written by Sunamita Lim and published by Gibbs Smith. This book was released on 2006 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take the popular decorating concept of Feng Shui to a whole new level with authentic information on how to create a Chinese aesthetic. Learn how to alleviate clutter and increase the flow of chi, the universal life force; discover ways of integrating Chinese furniture and decorative arts to decorating styles; and stroll through a rich collection of images from homes, museums, and galleries.
Author : Agnes Smedley
Publisher : Feminist Press at CUNY
ISBN 13 : 9780912670447
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Portraits of Chinese Women in Revolution written by Agnes Smedley and published by Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 1976 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agnes Smedley worked in and wrote about China from 1928 until 1941. Her journalism and fiction capture the massacre of short-haired feminists in the Canton commune, the lives of silk workers of Canton charged with being lesbians, and the story of Mother Tsai, a peasant who leads village women in smashing an opium den. The Village Voice praised the volume for having "captured brilliantly... the forces of the old and new China struggling in each person she describes."
Author : Jianren Wu
Publisher : Chinese University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780870751257
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (512 download)
Download or read book Vignettes from the Late Chʻing written by Jianren Wu and published by Chinese University Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Chun Yu
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1442460318
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (424 download)
Download or read book Little Green written by Chun Yu and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-04-07 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In China in 1966, Chun Yu was born as the Great Cultural Revolution began under Chairman Mao. Here, she recalls her childhood as a witness to a country in turmoil and struggle--the only life she knew.
Author : Joshua Samuel Brown
Publisher : ThingsAsian Press
ISBN 13 : 9780971594081
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (94 download)
Download or read book Vignettes of Taiwan written by Joshua Samuel Brown and published by ThingsAsian Press. This book was released on 2006-04 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Joshua Samuel Brown first stepped out of the passenger terminal at Chiang Kai-shek International Airport in Taiwan, he was a stranger in a humid land with insufficient funds, zero job prospects and an over-packed suitcase. Like much else in his life up to that point, his decision to move to Taiwan was based largely on random occurrence and cosmic coincidence. He was twenty-four years old, thousands of miles away from home, and at that moment the happiest man alive. This anthology of short stories, travel essays, photographs, random meditations, and political meanderings grew out of his years on the island formerly known as Formosa.
Author : Dodie Johnston
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781523337521
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (375 download)
Download or read book How Was China? written by Dodie Johnston and published by . This book was released on 2016-03-23 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feeling bored and counting her losses, Dodie is eager for a new kind of adventure as she enters her 7th decade. When she answers an ad inviting people to teach English in China, she finds the adventure she sought and much, much more. Dodie discovers that her destination, Hwa Nan College for Women, has been resurrected from the ashes of two revolutions by a handful of elderly Chinese matriarchs in hopes of preparing capable young women for vocations in the new China. The "Old Ladies" are feisty, determined and running the school on a shoestring. Her young adult students are idealistic and naive...full of dreams for their families and optimistic about their futures. Who are these girls and what are their stories? And how does Dodie, a retired school psychologist with no ESL training, muddle through a decade of teaching them English only to discover that she has been a student herself?How Was China? answers these questions with intelligence, humor and honesty. The book weaves together tales of travel, social commentary, personal stories of Chinese women and the author's observations as she explores her home in this very foreign land. Dodie returns again and again through the first decade of the 21st century watching her students blossom into graduates, workers, wives and mothers...journeys that illustrate the amazing turns and twists of Chinese life. When not in class, Dodie wanders. Stroll through the streets and alleys of the old neighborhood with her, delight in the vibrant street life, laugh at market and clinic shenanigans, and grapple with the cultural differences inherent in every encounter. She watches in dismay as old buildings are torn down and replaced by new, but often dehumanizing, condos and shopping malls. She takes you on forays back into the lively history of the people fatefully connected to this rare private college, illuminating the events that led to China's rise to power and affluence and sweeping Hwa Nan and its women along with it onto a new campus 100 years from its inception.After reading How Was China? you will never look at life in this mysterious country the same way again.
