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Category : Methodist Church
Languages : en
Pages : 442
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World Outlook
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Category : Methodist Church
Languages : en
Pages : 442
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Category : Methodist Church
Languages : en
Pages : 442
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The Book of Days
Author: Robert Chambers
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Category : Anecdotes
Languages : en
Pages : 890
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Category : Anecdotes
Languages : en
Pages : 890
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The Book of Days ; A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in Connection with the Calendar, Including Anecdote, Biography, and History, Curiosities of Literature and Oddities of Human Life and Character
Author: Robert Chambers
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Languages : en
Pages : 858
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Pages : 858
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Rats, Cats, Rogues, and Heroes
Author: Robert J. Antony
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1538169347
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 379
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History has many untold stories. In Rats, Cats, Rogues, and Heroes the author provides glimpses into China’s hidden past through the native’s point of view. Rather than simply writing about ordinary people, this book is written from the perspective of ordinary people, how they told their own stories about themselves, their communities, and their pasts. The author examines historical consciousness as revealed in people’s everyday lives and as expressed through customary rituals, sociocultural conventions, language, and the complex symbolism of common human experiences. The focus is on ethnic groups and individuals who have been routinely discriminated against in mainstream society and treated by officials as rogues and criminals. They were denizens of the underworld of “rivers and lakes” (jianghu), a sociocultural category that includes bandits, sorcerers, conmen, and prostitutes. To get at their silent history the author spent decades conducting field research in rural areas of southern China, collecting rarely used unconventional sources—folklore, legends, myths, rumors, and hearsay—that reveal nuggets of new information and insights not found in the conventional sources in libraries and archives. This book challenges many commonplace assumptions about how academics write history by offering alternative possibilities for China’s past.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1538169347
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 379
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History has many untold stories. In Rats, Cats, Rogues, and Heroes the author provides glimpses into China’s hidden past through the native’s point of view. Rather than simply writing about ordinary people, this book is written from the perspective of ordinary people, how they told their own stories about themselves, their communities, and their pasts. The author examines historical consciousness as revealed in people’s everyday lives and as expressed through customary rituals, sociocultural conventions, language, and the complex symbolism of common human experiences. The focus is on ethnic groups and individuals who have been routinely discriminated against in mainstream society and treated by officials as rogues and criminals. They were denizens of the underworld of “rivers and lakes” (jianghu), a sociocultural category that includes bandits, sorcerers, conmen, and prostitutes. To get at their silent history the author spent decades conducting field research in rural areas of southern China, collecting rarely used unconventional sources—folklore, legends, myths, rumors, and hearsay—that reveal nuggets of new information and insights not found in the conventional sources in libraries and archives. This book challenges many commonplace assumptions about how academics write history by offering alternative possibilities for China’s past.
The Knight Thieves
Author: Jenn Bennett
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1665930349
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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Thirteen-year-old Ruthless Rose, once a fair maiden turned outlaw leader, faces a dilemma when her gang accidentally attacks a carriage carrying Prince Timo, a young royal fleeing the Firebrands, forcing her to choose between revenge and aiding the kingdom.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1665930349
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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Thirteen-year-old Ruthless Rose, once a fair maiden turned outlaw leader, faces a dilemma when her gang accidentally attacks a carriage carrying Prince Timo, a young royal fleeing the Firebrands, forcing her to choose between revenge and aiding the kingdom.
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh
Author: Robert C. O'Brien
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1665911611
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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Some extraordinary rats come to the aid of a mouse family in this Newbery Medal Award–winning classic by notable children’s author Robert C. O’Brien. Mrs. Frisby, a widowed mouse with four small children, is faced with a terrible problem. She must move her family to their summer quarters immediately, or face almost certain death. But her youngest son, Timothy, lies ill with pneumonia and must not be moved. Fortunately, she encounters the rats of NIMH, an extraordinary breed of highly intelligent creatures, who come up with a brilliant solution to her dilemma. And Mrs. Frisby in turn renders them a great service.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1665911611
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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Some extraordinary rats come to the aid of a mouse family in this Newbery Medal Award–winning classic by notable children’s author Robert C. O’Brien. Mrs. Frisby, a widowed mouse with four small children, is faced with a terrible problem. She must move her family to their summer quarters immediately, or face almost certain death. But her youngest son, Timothy, lies ill with pneumonia and must not be moved. Fortunately, she encounters the rats of NIMH, an extraordinary breed of highly intelligent creatures, who come up with a brilliant solution to her dilemma. And Mrs. Frisby in turn renders them a great service.
The Book of Days. A Miscellany of Popular Antiquties, in Connection with the Calendar ... Edited by R. Chambers
Author: Robert Chambers
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Languages : en
Pages : 914
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Languages : en
Pages : 914
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Chambers's supplementary reader, selected from Miscellany of instructive and entertaining tracts
Author: Chambers W. and R., ltd
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Languages : en
Pages : 134
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Languages : en
Pages : 134
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Journal of the North China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society
Author: North China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society
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Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 618
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Contains list of members.
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Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 618
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Contains list of members.
Catalogue of the Library of the China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society
Author: Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. North-China Branch. Library
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Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 660
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Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 660
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