Baptism By Yang Jiang

Author : 杨绛
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
ISBN 13 : 9789622098312
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Baptism by Yang Jiang written by 杨绛 and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The characters in this vivid, witty, and engrossing novel, set in a Beijing literary institute right after the revolution, are a group of intellectuals from the old society adjusting to a new reality. There is a love story, intrigue, back-biting, and deception, familiar circumstances of academic life.

Author : 杨绛
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
ISBN 13 : 9622098312
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Baptism by Yang Jiang written by 杨绛 and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The characters in this vivid, witty, and engrossing novel, set in a Beijing literary institute right after the revolution, are a group of intellectuals from the old society adjusting to a new reality. There is a love story, intrigue, back-biting, and deception, familiar circumstances of academic life.

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ISBN 13 : 9780869872529
Total Pages : 15 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Author : Kerry Brown
Publisher : Berkshire Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 161472900X
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Berkshire Dictionary of Chinese Biography Volume 4 written by Kerry Brown and published by Berkshire Publishing Group. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Berkshire Dictionary of Chinese Biography (1979-2015) provides a riveting new way to understand twenty-first-century China and a personal look at the changes that have taken place since the Reform and Opening Up era started in 1979. One hundred key individuals from this period were selected by an international group of experts, and the stories were written by more than 70 authors in 14 countries. The authors map the paths taken by these individuals-some rocky, some meandering, some fateful-and in telling their stories give contemporary Chinese history a human face. The editors have included-with the advice of myriad experts around the world-not only the life stories of politicians and government officials, who play a crucial role in the development of the country, but the stories of cultural figures including, film directors, activists, writers, and entrepreneurs from the mainland China, Hong Kong, and also from Taiwan. The "Greater China" that comes through in this volume has diverse ideas and identities. It is often contradictory, sometimes fractious, and always full of creative human complexity. Some of the lives rendered here are heroic. Some are tragic, and many are inspirational. Some figures come in for trenchant criticism, and others are celebrated with a sense of wonder and awe. Like previous volumes of the Berkshire Dictionary of Chinese Biography, this volume includes a range of appendices, including a pronunciation guide, a bibliography, and a timeline of key events.

Author : Christopher Rea
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004299971
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book China’s Literary Cosmopolitans written by Christopher Rea and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-07-28 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China’s Literary Cosmopolitans offers a comprehensive introduction to the intertwined literary careers of Qian Zhongshu (1910-98) and Yang Jiang (b. 1911) and explains why they have come to represent compelling models of Chinese-centric literary cosmopolitanism.

Author : Zhongshu Qian
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231152752
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Humans, Beasts, and Ghosts written by Zhongshu Qian and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together the essay collection "Written in the margins of life (Xie zai ren sheng bian shang)" and the short story collection "Human, beast, ghost (Ren shou gui)."

Author : Yang Jiang
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 9780295966441
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Six Chapters from My Life "Downunder" written by Yang Jiang and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 1988-05 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By now the world is familiar with the disastrous consequences of the ten year period (1966-1976) in China's history known as the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. The mistakes of Mao Zedong's later years have been officially acknowledged, and the infamous Gang of Four publicly tried and sentence for their crimes. But on the cultural front the thaw had no sooner come than gone. A campaign against what is regarded as "spiritual pollution" is being waged to inhibit free expression among creative writers. Thousands of scholars, authors, respected professors and academicians, who as a class were the most persecuted in what some observers called China's "holocaust," are back at their respective stations, bent over the task of modernization. For understandable reasons, few have written candidly about their experiences during the Cultural Revolution. Yang Jiang is an outstanding exception. In this memoir she give a poignant account of the more than two years she and her husband were sent "downunder" to the barren countryside for reeducation through labor. Yang Jiang touches upon any horrendous acts only in passing, or by indirection; mainly she relates in well-tempered tones the everyday incidents at their "cadre school" which add up to a harrowing tale. Patterned after Shen Fu's "Six Chapters of a Floating Life," a minor classic of the Qing dynasty,Six Chapters form My Life 'Downunder'is a testimony of remarkable sophistication, and at the same time a powerful indictment of the madness of ignorant, totalitarian rule.. The author writes in a subtle, almost allegorical style, letting the reader share in her skepticism, disappointment, and frustration with the people, or the system, responsible for what was done to her family and her fellow victims. More in sorrow than in anger, here and there with a touch of wry humor, she records the backwardness and distrust of the peasants who were their "masters"; the utter waste of human resources; the vicious nature of political campaigns and the people involved in them; and, above all, the devotion between husband and wife which kept them going throughout their ordeal. While describing a society in one of its darkest moments, Yang Jiang reaffirms the endurance of humanity. Although Yang Jiang lives in Beijing,Six Chapters from My Life 'Downunder'first appeared in a Hong Kong magazine in April 1981, and was published in book form there in the following month, attracting wide attention. it was published in the People's Republic of China later that year. The edition sold out quickly and no subsequent printings have been available. The present English translation, first published in the journal "Renditions," is issued here in slightly revised form and with the addition of footnotes and background notes.

Author : Li-Hua Ying
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0810876140
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The A to Z of Modern Chinese Literature written by Li-Hua Ying and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2010 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The A to Z of Modern Chinese Literature presents a broad perspective on the development and history of literature in modern China. It offers a chronology, introduction, bibliography, and over 300 cross-referenced dictionary entries on authors, literary and historical developments, trends, genres, and concepts that played a central role in the evolution of modern Chinese literature.

Author : Yu Li
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231113854
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Tower for the Summer Heat written by Yu Li and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Li Yu, considered a master of comedy in Chinese literature, was a novelist, playwright, and essayist in the 17th century. In this collection, Patrick Hanan translates six of the twelve stories in the Sh'ier lou collection, which is the most famous individual collection of vernacular stories from pre-modern China. "One of the funniest books ever written".--THE NEW YORKER.

Author : Jiang Yang
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780295961460
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Six Chapters from My Life "downunder" written by Jiang Yang and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: