Floating Lives

Author : Stuart Cunningham
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742511361
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Floating Lives written by Stuart Cunningham and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2001 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an examination of media and communication within disaporic ethnic communities in Australia: the Chinese, Indian, Vietnamese and Thai communities. The study explores the ethnic community as a force in negotiating new hybrid identities and experiences common to disaporic groups worldwide.

Author : Stuart Cunningham
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0742580210
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Floating Lives written by Stuart Cunningham and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2001-06-06 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Floating Lives is a unique examination of media and communication within diasporic ethnic communities, using in-depth studies of some of Australia's main Asian diasporic groups: the Chinese, Indian, Vietnamese, and Thai communities. Going beyond conventional cross-cultural studies of mainstream media consumption, this book explores the ethnic community as a determining force in negotiating new hybrid identities and cultures—and demonstrates experiences common to diasporic communities worldwide.

Author : Shen Fu
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141920343
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Six Records of a Floating Life written by Shen Fu and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2004-09-30 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six Records of a Floating Life (1809) is an extraordinary blend of autobiography, love story and social document written by a man who was educated as a scholar but earned his living as a civil servant and art dealer. In this intimate memoir, Shen Fu recounts the domestic and romantic joys of his marriage to Yün, the beautiful and artistic girl he fell in love with as a child. He also describes other incidents of his life, including how his beloved wife obtained a courtesan for him and reflects on his travels through China. Shen Fu's exquisite memoir shows six parallel 'layers' of one man's life, loves and career, with revealing glimpses into Chinese society of the Ch'ing Dynasty.

Author : Tad Crawford
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1611457025
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Floating Life written by Tad Crawford and published by Skyhorse Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2012-09 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No longer certain about who he is, a nameless narrator meets a woman who proves to be his wife before finding himself enduring an abstract existence and bonding with a Dutch model maker who dreams of taming the forces of nature.

Author : Ngọc Tư Nguyễn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9786041150225
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Endless Field written by Ngọc Tư Nguyễn and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michelle Lovric
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 140884284X
Total Pages : 595 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Floating Book written by Michelle Lovric and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-06-03 with total page 595 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Venice, 1468. Sosia Simeon, a free-spirited sensualist, is the lover of many men in the fabled city, though married to one she despises. On the edge of the Grand Canal, Wendelin von Speyer sets up the first printing press in Venice and looks for the book that will make his fortune. When he tempts fate by publishing Catullus, the poet whose desperate and unrequited love inspired the most tender and erotic poems of antiquity, a scandal is set in motion that will change all their lives forever.

Author : Simon Elegant
Publisher : Ecco
ISBN 13 : 9780880015592
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Floating Life written by Simon Elegant and published by Ecco. This book was released on 1999-07-30 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The studious young son of a vintner takes down the life and exploits of Li Po, China's legendary poet, as the poet recalls his outlandish adventures

Author : Joe Minihane
Publisher : Prelude Books
ISBN 13 : 0715651811
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Floating written by Joe Minihane and published by Prelude Books. This book was released on 2017-04-18 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Lovely, lively, passionate... a celebration of nature's ability to inspire healing and joy' Robert MacFarlane In the breaststrokes of Roger Deakin's Waterlog, this is the story of one man's search for himself across the breadth of Britain's wild waters. Joe Minihane became obsessed with wild swimming and the way it soothed his anxiety, developing a new-found passion by following the example of naturalist Deakin in his own swimming memoir. While fighting the currents - sometimes treading water Minihane swims to explore, to forget, to find the path back to himself through nature, and in the water under an open sky he finally begins to find his peace. Floating is a remarkable memoir about a love of swimming and a deep appreciation for the British countryside: it captures Minihane's struggle to understand himself, and the healing properties of wild stretches of water. From Hampstead to Yorkshire, Dorset to Jura, the Isles of Scilly to Wales, Minihane uses Waterlog to trace his own path by diving right in.

Author : Moez Surani
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781894987639
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Floating Life written by Moez Surani and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Floating Life, Moez Surani's second collection of poetry, takes the reader on a dizzying tour of the world, stopping in Cairo, Muju, Madrid and Cape Breton. Interwoven through these evocative glimpses of places and the people that live in them are poems exploring relationships, reflecting on identity and considering the passing of time.

Author : Kam Louie
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134651236
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chinese Masculinities in a Globalizing World written by Kam Louie and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-11-20 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how the traditional ideal of Chinese manhood – the "wen" (cultural attainment) and "wu" (martial prowess) dyad – has been transformed by the increasing integration of China in the international scene. It discusses how increased travel and contact between China and the West are having a profound impact; showing how increased interchange with Western men, for whom "wu" is a more significant ideal, has shifted the balance in the classic Chinese dichotomy; and how the huge emphasis on wealth creation in contemporary China has changed the notion of "wen" itself to include business management skills and monetary power. The book also considers the implications of Chinese "soft power" outside China for the reconfigurations in masculinity ideals in the global setting. The rising significance of Chinese culture enables Chinese cultural norms, including ideals of manhood, to be increasingly integrated in the international sphere and to become hybridised. The book also examines the impact of the Japanese and Korean waves on popular conceptions of desirable manhood in China. Overall, it demonstrates that social constructions of Chinese masculinity have changed more fundamentally and become more global in the last three decades than any other time in the last three thousand years.