East Wind West Wind

Author : Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781559210867
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book East Wind, West Wind written by Pearl Sydenstricker Buck and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pearl Buck tells the heart-seaching and tender story of a young Chinese girl's troubled acceptance of an alien way of life, with all its sorrows and rewards.

Author : Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book East Wind: West Wind written by Pearl Sydenstricker Buck and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eastern and Western ways conflict when the daughter of a conventional noble family marries a Chinese man of the new era; a doctor who has trained in America. Only by adopting the Western habits which her husband admires can the bride find love and happiness.

Author : Pearl S. Buck
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453263462
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book East Wind: West Wind written by Pearl S. Buck and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2012-08-21 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic coming-of-age novel about a young Chinese woman torn between Eastern and Western cultures by the Nobel Prize–winning author of The Good Earth. Kwei-lan is a traditional Chinese girl—taught by her mother to submit in all things, “as a flower submits to sun and rain alike.” Her marriage was arranged before she was born. As she approaches her wedding day, she’s surprised by one aspect of her anticipated life: Her husband-to-be has been educated abroad and follows many Western ideas that Kwei-lan was raised to reject. When circumstances push the couple out of the family home, Kwei-lan finds her assumptions about tradition and modernity tested even further. East Wind: West Wind is a sensitive, early exploration of the cross-cultural themes that went on to become a hallmark of Buck’s acclaimed novels. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Pearl S. Buck including rare images from the author’s estate.

Author : Gail Caldwell
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0307430472
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Strong West Wind written by Gail Caldwell and published by Random House. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this exquisitely rendered memoir set on the high plains of Texas, Pulitzer Prize winner Gail Caldwell transforms into art what it is like to come of age in a particular time and place. A Strong West Wind begins in the 1950s in the wilds of the Texas Panhandle–a place of both boredom and beauty, its flat horizons broken only by oil derricks, grain elevators, and church steeples. Its story belongs to a girl who grew up surrounded by dust storms and cattle ranches and summer lightning, who took refuge from the vastness of the land and the ever-present wind by retreating into books. What she found there, from renegade women to men who lit out for the territory, turned out to offer a blueprint for her own future. Caldwell would grow up to become a writer, but first she would have to fall in love with a man who was every mother’s nightmare, live through the anguish and fire of the Vietnam years, and defy the father she adored, who had served as a master sergeant in the Second World War. A Strong West Wind is a memoir of culture and history–of fathers and daughters, of two world wars and the passionate rebellions of the sixties. But it is also about the mythology of place and the evolution of a sensibility: about how literature can shape and even anticipate a life. Caldwell possesses the extraordinary ability to illuminate the desires, stories, and lives of ordinary people. Written with humanity, urgency, and beautiful restraint, A Strong West Wind is a magical and unforgettable book, destined to become an American classic.

Author : Barbara H. Martin
Publisher : Jawbone Publishing Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780966805406
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When the East Wind Blows written by Barbara H. Martin and published by Jawbone Publishing Corporation. This book was released on 1998-12-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When The East Wind Blows is a fictional account of WWII. This story takes over where the history books stop -- with the human side of the civilian struggle. Elisabeth, a German mother of four young children and her maid, Helga, flee the incoming Russian front. As they move toward the west, they find themselves in the center of the most devastating carpet bombings of the war. The women and children, along with an escaped Jew from a concentration camp, must overcome death, destruction, and hunger during the final days of the collapse of the Nazi Regime.

Author : Liza Dalby
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520259911
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book East Wind Melts the Ice written by Liza Dalby and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2009-02-17 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "To read East Wind Melts the Ice is to slip into a time stream that is both as long and sinuous as history and as ephemeral as the present moment. Drawing inspiration from the thousand year old history of Japanese poetic diaries, and form from the ancient Chinese almanac that she uses to contain her musings, Liza Dalby has accomplished the seemingly impossible task of translating the sensibility of the Heian Court of 11th century Japan into the context of contemporary America. The result is a stunning chronicle of the beauty of time passing and an evocation of the transient and whimsical nature of all things."—Ruth Ozeki, author of My Year of Meats and All Over Creation "I imagine Liza Dalby writing this book in an ancient library, a lion sleeping at her side, as in the paintings of Saint Jerome. As she collects and layers arcane and fascinating pieces of knowledge, she builds her own very personal almanac packed with the wonder of loving two cultures, the intense inner life of each season, and boundless curiosity of the scholar/child. This is a book to dip in and out of throughout the year."—Frances Mayes, author of Under the Tuscan Sun "Liza Dalby's memoir of the seasons is as fresh and captivating as springtime. A very special book."—Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore's Dilemma "This beautiful book awakens the senses. A journal, an almanac of the seasons, and a series of reflections on ancient Eastern Chinese and Japanese cultures, here you will find subtle observations of rain and heat, tangerines, mulberries and paulownia trees, crickets and doves forming a rich tapestry as they are woven with evocative fragments of history—stories of geishas, of salesmen who sold bulk fireflies, of the wood that was used for kimono chests, of emptiness in the tea ceremony. Like a lush garden, this book is meant to savor."—Susan Griffin, author of The Book of the Courtesans

Author : R.b.j. Walker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429725604
Total Pages : 485 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Culture, Ideology, And World Order written by R.b.j. Walker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-08-16 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary discourse about human affairs is largely grounded in the specific historical experience and interests of a few dominant societies. This poses an important challenge to all those who urge that we need to adopt a global perspective on modern political life, whether in terms of international relations, comparative and developmental politi

Author : Richard Wolin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691178232
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wind From the East written by Richard Wolin and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-11-14 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michel Foucault, Jean-Paul Sartre, Julia Kristeva, Phillipe Sollers, and Jean-Luc Godard. During the 1960s, a who’s who of French thinkers, writers, and artists, spurred by China’s Cultural Revolution, were seized with a fascination for Maoism. Combining a merciless exposé of left-wing political folly and cross-cultural misunderstanding with a spirited defense of the 1960s, The Wind from the East tells the colorful story of this legendary period in France. Richard Wolin shows how French students and intellectuals, inspired by their perceptions of the Cultural Revolution, and motivated by utopian hopes, incited grassroots social movements and reinvigorated French civic and cultural life. Wolin’s riveting narrative reveals that Maoism’s allure among France’s best and brightest actually had little to do with a real understanding of Chinese politics. Instead, it paradoxically served as a vehicle for an emancipatory transformation of French society. Recounting the cultural and political odyssey of French students and intellectuals in the 1960s, The Wind from the East illustrates how the Maoist phenomenon unexpectedly sparked a democratic political sea change in France.

Author : Pearl S. Buck
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book East Wind: West Wind written by Pearl S. Buck and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Claire Elizabeth Campbell
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 9780774810999
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shaped by the West Wind written by Claire Elizabeth Campbell and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Claire Campbell draws from recent work in cultural history, landscape studies in geography and art history, and environmental history to explore what happens when external agendas confront local realities - a story central to the Canadian experience. Explorers, fishers, artists, and park planners all were forced to respond to the unique contours of this inland sea; their encounters defined a regional identity even as they constructed a popular image for the Bay in the national imagination."--Jacket.