Emperors Pearl

Author : Robert van Gulik
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226849074
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Emperor's Pearl written by Robert van Gulik and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-10-15 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It all begins on the night of the Poo-yang dragonboat races in 699 A.D.: a drummer in the leading boat collapses, and the body of a beautiful young woman turns up in a deserted country mansion. There, Judge Dee—tribunal magistrate, inquisitor, and public avenger—steps in to investigate the murders and return order to the Tang Dynasty. In The Emperor’s Pearl, the judge discovers that these two deaths are connected by an ancient tragedy involving a near-legendary treasure stolen from the Imperial Harem one hundred years earlier. The terrifying figure of the White Lady, a river goddess enshrined on a bloodstained altar, looms in the background of the investigation. Clues are few and elusive, but under the expert hand of Robert van Gulik, this mythic jigsaw puzzle assembles itself into a taut mystery. “If you have not yet discovered Judge Dee and his faithful Sgt. Hoong, I envy you that initial pleasure which comes from the discovery of a great detective story. For the magistrate of Poo-yang belongs in that select group of fictional detectives headed by the renowned Sherlock Holmes.”—Robert Kirsch, Los AngelesTimes “The title of this book and the book itself have much in common. Each is a jewel, a rare and precious find.”—AtlantaTimes

Author : Robert Hans van Gulik
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780598631169
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Emperor's Pearl written by Robert Hans van Gulik and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Van Gulik
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Emperor's Pearl written by Robert Van Gulik and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Hans van Gulik
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Emperor's Pearl written by Robert Hans van Gulik and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Hiroshi Tasogawa
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 155783850X
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book All the Emperor's Men written by Hiroshi Tasogawa and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2012 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Applause Books). When 20th Century Fox planned its blockbuster portrayal of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, it looked to Akira Kurosawa a man whose mastery of the cinema led to his nickname "the Emperor" to direct the Japanese sequences. Yet a matter of three weeks after he began shooting the film in December 1968, Kurosawa was summarily dismissed and expelled from the studio. The tabloids trumpeted scandal: Kurosawa had himself gone mad; his associates had betrayed him; Hollywood was engaged in a conspiracy. Now, for the first time, the truth behind the downfall and humiliation of one of cinema's greatest perfectionists is revealed in All the Emperor's Men. Journalist Hiroshi Tasogawa probes the most sensitive questions about Kurosawa's thwarted ambition and the demons that drove him. His is a tale of a great clash of personalities, of differences in the ways of making movies, and ultimately of a clash between Japanese and American cultures.

Author : Robert van Gulik
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789971490621
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Emperor's Pearl written by Robert van Gulik and published by . This book was released on 1963-12 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Hans Gulik
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book The Emperor's Pearl written by Robert Hans Gulik and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Anne Birrell
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801861833
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chinese Mythology written by Anne Birrell and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1999-04-26 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Chinese Mythology, Anne Birrell provides English translations of some 300 representative myth narratives selected from over 100 classical texts, many of which have never before been translated into any Western language. Organizing the narratives according to themes and motifs common to world mythology, Birrell addresses issues of source, dating, attribution, textural variants, multiforms, and context. Drawing on exhaustive work in comparative mythology, she surveys the development of Chinese myth studies, summarizes the contribution of Chinese and Japanese scholars to the study of Chinese myth since the 1920s, and examines special aspects of traditional approaches to Chinese myth. The result is an unprecedented guide to the study of Chinese myth for specialists and nonspecialists alike.

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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 1631491520
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pearl: A New Verse Translation written by and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2016-04-11 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2017 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation From the acclaimed translator of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, a spellbinding new translation of this classic allegory of grief and consolation. One of our most ingenious interpreters of Middle English, Oxford Professor of Poetry Simon Armitage is celebrated for his “compulsively readable” translations (New York Times Book Review). A perfect complement to his historic translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl reanimates another beloved Medieval English masterpiece thought to be by the same anonymous author and housed in the same original fourteenth-century manuscript. Honoring the rhythms and alliterative music of the original, Armitage’s virtuosic translation describes a man mourning the loss of his Pearl—something that has “slipped away.” What follows is a tense, fascinating, and tender dialogue weaving through the throes of grief toward divine redemption. Intricate and endlessly connected, Armitage’s lyrical translation is a circular and perfected whole, much like the pearl itself.

Author : Van, Gent
Publisher : Warner Books (NY)
ISBN 13 : 9780446754521
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Emperors Pearl written by Van, Gent and published by Warner Books (NY). This book was released on 1974-05-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: