Tales of Hulan River

Tales of Hulan River PDF Author: 蕭紅
Publisher: Cheng & Tsui
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 312

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Tales of Hulan River

Tales of Hulan River PDF Author: 蕭紅
Publisher: Cheng & Tsui
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 312

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The Field of Life and Death & Tales of Hulan River

The Field of Life and Death & Tales of Hulan River PDF Author: Hong Xiao
Publisher: Cheng & Tsui
ISBN: 9780887273926
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308

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Xiao Hong is considered by many to be China's first feminist novelist.

Field of Life & Death/Tales of Hulan River, 2nd Edition

Field of Life & Death/Tales of Hulan River, 2nd Edition PDF Author: Xiao Hong
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781622915859
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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Ma Bo'le's Second Life

Ma Bo'le's Second Life PDF Author: Hong Xiao
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781940953809
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 280

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A Confederacy of Dunces-esque family story written by one of China's most beloved women writers.

Dragon Bones

Dragon Bones PDF Author: Lisa See
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1588362701
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 370

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When the body of an American archaeologist is found floating in the Yangzi River, Ministry of Public Security agent Liu Hulan and her husband, American attorney David Stark, are dispatched to Site 518 to investigate. As Hulan scrutinizes this death—or is it a murder?—David, on behalf of the National Relics Bureau, tries to discover who has stolen from the site an artifact that may prove to the world China’s claim that it is the oldest uninterrupted civilization on earth. This artifact is not only an object of great monetary value but one that is emblematic of the very soul of China. Everyone—from the Chinese government, to a religious cult, to an unscrupulous American art collector—wants this relic, and some, it seems, may be willing to kill to get it. At stake in this investigation is control of China’s history and national pride, and even stability between China and the United States. The troubled Hulan must overcome her own fears of failure, while David tries desperately to break through the shell that has built up around his wife. As Hulan and David are enmeshed in international schemes for power and the turbulence of their own relationship, these hunters after the truth become the hunted—in a fast-driving narrative set against the backdrop of the building of the Three Gorges Dam, the largest and most expensive project China has undertaken since the Great Wall and the subject of great international debate. It is here, in the heart of the Three Gorges, that David and Hulan will battle their enemies and their own natures to see who will win China’s dragon bones. Dragon Bones combines ancient myth with contemporary anxieties concerning religious fanaticism and terrorism to tell a story of love, betrayal, history, ecology, greed—and gory murder.

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan PDF Author: Lisa See
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408821621
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 353

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Lily is the daughter of a humble farmer, and to her family she is just another expensive mouth to feed. Then the local matchmaker delivers startling news: if Lily's feet are bound properly, they will be flawless. In nineteenth-century China, where a woman's eligibility is judged by the shape and size of her feet, this is extraordinary good luck. Lily now has the power to make a good marriage and change the fortunes of her family. To prepare for her new life, she must undergo the agonies of footbinding, learn nu shu, the famed secret women's writing, and make a very special friend, Snow Flower. But a bitter reversal of fortune is about to change everything.

Fortress Besieged (New Directions Classic)

Fortress Besieged (New Directions Classic) PDF Author: Qian Zhongshu
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 081122354X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 420

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The greatest Chinese novel of the twentieth century, Fortress Besieged is a classic of world literature, a masterpiece of parodic fiction that plays with Western literary traditions, philosophy, and middle-class Chinese society in the Republican era. Set on the eve of the Sino-Japanese War, our hapless hero Fang Hung-chien (á la Emma Bovary), with no particular goal in life and with a bogus degree from a fake American university in hand, returns home to Shanghai. On the French liner home, he meets two Chinese beauties, Miss Su and Miss Pao. Qian writes, "With Miss Pao it wasn't a matter of heart or soul. She hadn't any change of heart, since she didn't have a heart." In a sort of painful comedy, Fang obtains a teaching post at a newly established university where the effete pseudo-intellectuals he encounters in academia become the butt of Qian's merciless satire. Soon Fang is trapped into a marriage of Nabokovian proportions of distress and absurdity. Recalling Fielding's Tom Jones in its farcical litany of misadventures and Flaubert's "style indirect libre," Fortress Besieged is its own unique feast of delights.

Contending for the "Chinese Modern"

Contending for the Author: Xiaoping Wang
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004398635
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 616

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In Contending for the "Chinese Modern", Xiaoping Wang studies the writing of fiction in 1940s China. It makes critical reappraisements of some famed Chinese writers, and sheds fresh lights on the theoretical issues pertaining to the problematic of plural modernities.

A New Literary History of Modern China

A New Literary History of Modern China PDF Author: David Der-wei Wang
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674967917
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1033

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Featuring over 140 Chinese and non-Chinese contributors, this landmark volume, edited by David Der-wei Wang, explores unconventional forms as well as traditional genres, emphasizes Chinese authors’ influence on foreign writers as well as China’s receptivity to outside literary influences, and offers vibrant contrasting voices and points of view.

Flower Net

Flower Net PDF Author: Lisa See
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1588366677
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 354

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“Lisa See begins to do for Beijing what Sir Arthur Conan Doyle did for turn-of-the-century London or Dashiell Hammett did for 1920s San Francisco: She discerns the hidden city lurking beneath the public facade.” –The Washington Post Book World In the depths of a Beijing winter, during the waning days of Deng Xiaoping’s reign, the U.S. ambassador’s son is found dead–his body entombed in a frozen lake. Around the same time, aboard a ship adrift off the coast of Southern California, Assistant U.S. Attorney David Stark makes a startling discovery: the corpse of a Red Prince, a scion of China’s political elite. The Chinese and American governments suspect that the deaths are connected and, in an unprecedented move, they join forces to see justice done. In Beijing, David teams up with the unorthodox police detective Liu Hulan. In an investigation that brings them to every corner of China and sparks an intense attraction between the two, David and Hulan discover a web linking human trafficking to the drug trade to governmental treachery–a web reaching from the Forbidden City to the heart of Los Angeles and, like the wide flower net used by Chinese fishermen, threatening to ensnare all within its reach. “A graceful rendering of two different and complex cultures, within a highly intricate plot . . . The starkly beautiful landscapes of Beijing and its surrounding countryside are depicted with a lyrical precision.” –Los Angeles Times Book Review “Murder and intrigue splash across the canvas of modern Chinese life. . . . A vivid portrait of a vast Communist nation in the painful throes of a sea change.” –People “Fascinating . . . that rare thriller that enlightens as well as it entertains.” –San Diego Union-Tribune A Finalist for the Edgar Award for Best First Mystery A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK