Author: Jeannie Lin
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 1408905159
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 39
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Faced with a proposal from a man she despises, impetuous Mei Lin makes a daring declaration: she will only marry the man who can defeat her in a sword fight.
Author: Jeannie Lin
Publisher: HarperCollins Australia
ISBN: 1426852924
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 61
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Faced with a proposal from a man she despises, impetuous Mei Lin makes a daring declaration: she will only marry the man who can defeat her in a sword fight. She has bested everyone who has so far tried to teach her a lesson...until a handsome stranger comes to her village. In captivating swordsman Shen Leung , Mei Lin finally sees a man she wants to marry. A man she's willing to surrender to in every way....
Author: Jeannie Lin
Publisher: HarperCollins Australia
ISBN: 1489216294
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 199
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Be swept away to a land of silk and swords and take a journey to the Tang Dynasty China and join five unique heroines as they fight, seduce and steal their way into their heroes' hearts. Five interlinked stories of passion and surrender!
Author: Jeannie Lin
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 1408951045
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 72
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Tang Dynasty China, 759 A. D. Yao Ru Jiang, known as River, has woven many romantic dreams of honorable swordsman Wei Chen from her brother's stories. Their meeting should have been a happy event; instead, Chen arrives to tell River he is duty bound to kill her brother for rebelling against the warlord they both serve.
Author: Jeannie Lin
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 1408980878
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 80
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Tang Dynasty China, 823 A.D. Musician Jia needs a valuable book of poems by a famous courtesan to buy her freedom...and she believes Luo Cheng has taken it. Her attempt to steal the book from him fails, but the tall and powerful scholar unexpectedly offers to help her quest!
Author: Jeannie Lin
Publisher: HarperCollins Australia
ISBN: 1742923232
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 49
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Tang Dynasty China, 759 A.D. Yao Ru Jiang, known as River, has woven many romantic dreams of honourable swordsman Wei Chen from her brother's stories. Their meeting should have been a happy event; instead, Chen arrives to tell River he is duty bound to kill her brother for rebelling against the warlord they both serve. River would do anything to distract the handsome, conflicted warrior from his mission– even take him as a lover..
Author: Jeannie Lin
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 1408943255
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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JOURNEY TO THE VERY EDGE OF HONOUR, LOYALTY...AND LOVE
Author: Sir Reginald Fleming Johnston
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 566
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Author: Ricarda Wagner
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110645718
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 431
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What can stories of magical engraved rings or prophetic inscriptions on walls tell us about how writing was perceived before print transformed the world? Writing beyond Pen and Parchment introduces readers to a Middle Ages where writing is not confined to manuscripts but is inscribed in the broader material world, in textiles and tombs, on weapons or human skin. Drawing on the work done at the Collaborative Research Centre “Material Text Cultures,” (SFB 933) this volume presents a comparative overview of how and where text-bearing artefacts appear in medieval German, Old Norse, British, French, Italian and Iberian literary traditions, and also traces the paths inscribed objects chart across multiple linguistic and cultural traditions. The volume’s focus on the raw materials and practices that shaped artefacts both mundane or fantastical in medieval narratives offers a fresh perspective on the medieval world that takes seriously the vibrancy of matter as a vital aspect of textual culture often overlooked.
Author: Ivan Franceschini
Publisher: ANU Press
ISBN: 1760461997
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 273
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According to the Chinese zodiac, 2017 was the year of the 'fire rooster', an animal often associated with the mythical fenghuang, a magnificently beautiful bird whose appearance is believed to mark the beginning of a new era of peaceful flourishing. Considering the auspicious symbolism surrounding the fenghuang, it is fitting that on 18 October 2017, President Xi Jinping took to the stage of the Nineteenth Party Congress to proclaim the beginning of a 'new era' for Chinese socialism. However, in spite of such ecumenical proclamations, it became immediately evident that not all in China would be welcome to reap the rewards promised by the authorities. Migrant workers, for one, remain disposable. Lawyers, activists and even ordinary citizens who dare to express critical views also hardly find a place in Xi's brave new world. This Yearbook traces the stark new 'gilded age' inaugurated by the Chinese Communist Party. It does so through a collection of more than 40 original essays on labour, civil society and human rights in China and beyond, penned by leading scholars and practitioners from around the world.
