Author: Myra Scovel
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1786257912
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
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.
The Chinese Ginger Jars
Author: Myra Scovel
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1786257912
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1786257912
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
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.
The Chinese Jar
Author: Fergus Hume
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
The Chinese Jar is a detective mystery by Fergus Hume. Hume was a prolific English novelist, known for his detective fiction, thrillers and mysteries. Excerpt: "After glancing at the cryptographs, Crate resumed his breakfast with a grunt of discontent, being genuinely disappointed at the success achieved by Fanks. Much as he would have liked to have disbelieved the information, he could not doubt the evidence of his own eyes. The ciphers were assuredly there, set forth in the same characters as were in the book of Poe's, shown to him by Fanks on the previous day."
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
The Chinese Jar is a detective mystery by Fergus Hume. Hume was a prolific English novelist, known for his detective fiction, thrillers and mysteries. Excerpt: "After glancing at the cryptographs, Crate resumed his breakfast with a grunt of discontent, being genuinely disappointed at the success achieved by Fanks. Much as he would have liked to have disbelieved the information, he could not doubt the evidence of his own eyes. The ciphers were assuredly there, set forth in the same characters as were in the book of Poe's, shown to him by Fanks on the previous day."
A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics
Author: Suzanne G. Valenstein
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0810911701
Category : Porcelain
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0810911701
Category : Porcelain
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
The Chinese Jar Mystery
Author: John Stephen Strange
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1605430153
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Hardback. "John Stephen Strange" was the pseudonym of Dorothy Stockbridge Tillett (1896-1983), who wrote several classic mystery novels. 'The Chinese Jar Mystery', originally published in 1934, is an intriguing whodunit involving the descendants of a buccaneering opium trader, a family curse, and a strange antique Chinese jar. Ramble House is pleased to be able to bring this old mystery back for the delectation of modern readers.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1605430153
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Hardback. "John Stephen Strange" was the pseudonym of Dorothy Stockbridge Tillett (1896-1983), who wrote several classic mystery novels. 'The Chinese Jar Mystery', originally published in 1934, is an intriguing whodunit involving the descendants of a buccaneering opium trader, a family curse, and a strange antique Chinese jar. Ramble House is pleased to be able to bring this old mystery back for the delectation of modern readers.
Four Quartets in the Light of the Chinese Jar
Author: Shudong Chen
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1793631662
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
Titled Four Quartets in the Light of the Chinese Jar, this is the first book that discusses how Four Quartets should be explored afresh with a prosodic-philosophically sustained interdisciplinary and cross-cultural literary approach in ways as the often overlooked pivotal image of the Chinese jar so indicates in the great sequence; the pivotal image suggests the subtle but vital elixir from both “The ‘shores of Asia and the Edgware Road’ [which] are brought together as they had been brought together to The Waste Land.” With a steady focus on the function words-mediated and phonemes-facilitated, and “autochthonously” void-suggesting verbal transformation, the book shows how the verbal transformation, especially of the cases with “parts of speech” in the live context, makes Four Quartets truly a “rhythmical creation of [meaningful] beauty”; it demonstrates how the meaningful poetic beauty culminates in a quintessential state or being of poetry not merely being “poetic” particularly in terms of its prosodically sustained philosophical tenets, which are often so serendipitously transformed into “virtuoso mastery of verbal music.” As genuine poetry, the great sequence flows freely from inside out at once in accordance with and in spirt of any given rhythmical form or rhyming pattern.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1793631662
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
Titled Four Quartets in the Light of the Chinese Jar, this is the first book that discusses how Four Quartets should be explored afresh with a prosodic-philosophically sustained interdisciplinary and cross-cultural literary approach in ways as the often overlooked pivotal image of the Chinese jar so indicates in the great sequence; the pivotal image suggests the subtle but vital elixir from both “The ‘shores of Asia and the Edgware Road’ [which] are brought together as they had been brought together to The Waste Land.” With a steady focus on the function words-mediated and phonemes-facilitated, and “autochthonously” void-suggesting verbal transformation, the book shows how the verbal transformation, especially of the cases with “parts of speech” in the live context, makes Four Quartets truly a “rhythmical creation of [meaningful] beauty”; it demonstrates how the meaningful poetic beauty culminates in a quintessential state or being of poetry not merely being “poetic” particularly in terms of its prosodically sustained philosophical tenets, which are often so serendipitously transformed into “virtuoso mastery of verbal music.” As genuine poetry, the great sequence flows freely from inside out at once in accordance with and in spirt of any given rhythmical form or rhyming pattern.
The Chinese Jars
Author: William Gordon
Publisher: Bay Tree Pub
ISBN: 9780981957784
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
A noir mystery set in San Francisco, The Chinese Jars follows Samuel Hamilton, an ad salesman for the local newspaper, as he investigate the suspicious death of a casual acquaintance. The unraveling evidence leads him through a maze of traffickers in Chinese antiquities to Mister Song's Many Chinese Herbs store. Mr. Song is a powerful man in his neighborhood, and his vessels are a safe place for Chinatown residents to deposit money and documents.
Publisher: Bay Tree Pub
ISBN: 9780981957784
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
A noir mystery set in San Francisco, The Chinese Jars follows Samuel Hamilton, an ad salesman for the local newspaper, as he investigate the suspicious death of a casual acquaintance. The unraveling evidence leads him through a maze of traffickers in Chinese antiquities to Mister Song's Many Chinese Herbs store. Mr. Song is a powerful man in his neighborhood, and his vessels are a safe place for Chinatown residents to deposit money and documents.
Great & Noble Jar
Author: Cinda K. Baldwin
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820346160
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
First published in 1993, this was the first authoritative study of South Carolina stoneware and its history, including he methods used to throw, glaze, decorate, and fire the vessels. Illustrated with nearly two hundred photographs (including fifteen color plates), maps, and drawings, plus an index of potters.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820346160
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
First published in 1993, this was the first authoritative study of South Carolina stoneware and its history, including he methods used to throw, glaze, decorate, and fire the vessels. Illustrated with nearly two hundred photographs (including fifteen color plates), maps, and drawings, plus an index of potters.
The Green Ginger Jar
Author: Clara Ingram Judson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Ai-mei gives a strange girl an old ginger jar belonging to her grandmother, believing it has no value. When she finds out how important it is to her family, she and her brother Lu Chen search throughout Chicago in an attempt to recover the jar.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Ai-mei gives a strange girl an old ginger jar belonging to her grandmother, believing it has no value. When she finds out how important it is to her family, she and her brother Lu Chen search throughout Chicago in an attempt to recover the jar.
The Chinese Economic Bulletin
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 724
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 724
Book Description
Chinese Glazes
Author: Nigel Wood
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812234763
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Chinese pottery has long been esteemed not only for its beauty and delicacy but also for the utility and efficiency evident in the potter's skill.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812234763
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Chinese pottery has long been esteemed not only for its beauty and delicacy but also for the utility and efficiency evident in the potter's skill.