Six Records Of A Floating Life

Author : Shen Fu
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141920343
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Six Records of a Floating Life written by Shen Fu and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2004-09-30 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six Records of a Floating Life (1809) is an extraordinary blend of autobiography, love story and social document written by a man who was educated as a scholar but earned his living as a civil servant and art dealer. In this intimate memoir, Shen Fu recounts the domestic and romantic joys of his marriage to Yün, the beautiful and artistic girl he fell in love with as a child. He also describes other incidents of his life, including how his beloved wife obtained a courtesan for him and reflects on his travels through China. Shen Fu's exquisite memoir shows six parallel 'layers' of one man's life, loves and career, with revealing glimpses into Chinese society of the Ch'ing Dynasty.

Author : Congwen Shen
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061959235
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Border Town written by Congwen Shen and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-08-18 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New in the Harper Perennial Modern Chinese Classics series, Border Town is a classic Chinese novel—banned by Mao’s regime—that captures the ideals of rural China through the moving story of a young woman and her grandfather. Originally published in 1934 by author Shen Congwen, this beautifully written novel tells the story of Cuicui, a young country girl who is coming of age in rural China in the tumultuous time before the communist revolution.

Author : Jonathan D. Spence
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393307801
Total Pages : 1054 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Search for Modern China written by Jonathan D. Spence and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1990 with total page 1054 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this widely acclaimed history of modern China, Jonathan Spence achieves a fine blend of narrative richness and efficiency. The Search for Modern China offers a matchless introduction to China's history.

Author : Sky Lee
Publisher : Legacy Edition
ISBN 13 : 9781926455815
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Disappearing Moon Cafe written by Sky Lee and published by Legacy Edition. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the lives and passions of the women of the Wong family through four generations. Moving back and forth between past and present, between Canada and China, Sky Lee weaves fiction and historical fact into a memorable and moving picture of a people's struggle for identity.

Author : Ishikawa Tatsuzo
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824827540
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Soldiers Alive written by Ishikawa Tatsuzo and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2003-07-31 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the editors of Chûô kôron, Japan's leading liberal magazine, sent the prizewinning young novelist Ishikawa Tatsuzô to war-ravaged China in early 1938, they knew the independent-minded writer would produce a work wholly different from the lyrical and sanitized war reports then in circulation. They could not predict, however, that Ishikawa would write an unsettling novella so grimly realistic it would promptly be banned and lead to the author’s conviction on charges of "disturbing peace and order." Decades later, Soldiers Alive remains a deeply disturbing and eye-opening account of the Japanese march on Nanking and its aftermath. In its unforgettable depiction of an ostensibly altruistic war’s devastating effects on the soldiers who fought it and the civilians they presumed to "liberate," Ishikawa’s work retains its power to shock, inform, and provoke.

Author : Mark C. Elliott
Publisher : Pearson
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Emperor Qianlong written by Mark C. Elliott and published by Pearson. This book was released on 2009 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This accessible account describes the personal struggles and public drama surrounding one of the major political figures of the early modern age, with special consideration given to the emperor's efforts to rise above ethnic divisions and to encompass the political and religious traditions of Han Chinese, Mongols, Tibetans, Turks, and other peoples of his realm." From Amazon.

Author : Susan Mann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780520222748
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Under Confucian Eyes written by Susan Mann and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This important volume adds a significant number of new and unique materials for teachers at all levels of higher education to use in classroom and seminar discussion about the issues of gender, society, and religion in imperial China."--Benjamin Elman, author of A Cultural History of Civil Examinations in Late Imperial China "The eighteen primary documents in this anthology, all of them translated for the first time, provide a rich array of sources on the lives of women in China's past. The anthology is important not only for the selection of documents but for the ways it suggests we can think about, and find sources about, women in China. It is must reading for scholars and students alike."--Ann Waltner, author of The World of a Late Ming Visionary: T'an-Yang-Tzu and Her Followers

Author : Anonymous
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 162466525X
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Records of the Three Kingdoms in Plain Language written by Anonymous and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The saga of the Three Kingdoms—which recounts the dramatic story of the civil wars (ca. 180–220 CE) that divided the old Han Empire into the Shu, Wei, and Wu states—remains as popular as ever in China, having served as the basis of not only traditional operas and ballads, but also, in more recent years, of movies, television dramas, and video games. Translated into English for the first time here, the Sanguozhi pinghua (thirteenth century CE) provides a complete and fast-paced narrative account of the events of the period, from the beginning of the civil wars to the demise of the Three Kingdoms and the short-lived reunification of the realm by the Jin dynasty. Shorter, clearer, and more accessible to Western audiences than Luo Guanzhong’s later, greatly expanded Romance (Sanguo yanyi)—and beautifully rendered in this edition by two modern-day masters of the art of Chinese literary translation—the Records of the Three Kingdoms in Plain Language provides an ideal introduction to one of the foundational Chinese epic traditions. Tables of major Chinese dynasties and reigns, a guide to understanding formal Chinese naming conventions, a glossary of Chinese names and terms, and reproductions of some woodcuts from the original edition of the text are included.

Author : Myra Scovel
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786257912
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Chinese Ginger Jars written by Myra Scovel and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2016-01-18 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Chinese Ginger Jars is a bright and intimate portrait of the adventures, trials, and achievements of an American housewife who lived through dangerous days in modern China. When Myra Scovel arrived in Peking in 1930 with her medical missionary husband and infant son, China was a land steeped in an ancient culture, mellow as the smooth cream ivory of its curio shops, relaxed as the curves of a temple roof against the sky. Twenty-one years later—as the Scovels were forced to leave China by the Communists—it was a country of fear, of terror, of hatred toward the foreigner. The dramatic events that transformed China are recounted here from the fresh and poignant viewpoint of an extraordinary American wife and mother.

Author : Shen Fu
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0140444297
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Six Records of a Floating Life written by Shen Fu and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 1983-11-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six Records of a Floating Life (1809) is an extraordinary blend of autobiography, love story and social document written by a man who was educated as a scholar but earned his living as a civil servant and art dealer. In this intimate memoir, Shen Fu recounts the domestic and romantic joys of his marriage to Yun, the beautiful and artistic girl he fell in love with as a child. He also describes other incidents of his life, including how his beloved wife obtained a courtesan for him and reflects on his travels through China. Shen Fu's exquisite memoir shows six parallel "layers" of one man's life, loves and career, with revealing glimpses into Chinese society of the Ch'ing Dynasty. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.