Let One Hundred Flowers Bloom

Author : Jicai Feng
Publisher : Viking Juvenile
ISBN 13 : 9780670858057
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Let One Hundred Flowers Bloom written by Jicai Feng and published by Viking Juvenile. This book was released on 1995 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hua, a talented young Chinese artist, falls victim to the Cultural Revolution in 1960's Communist China, when his talents lead him to be sent to an isolated factory, humiliated, deprived, tortured, and finally exiled.

Author : Gail Tsukiyama
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312274815
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Hundred Flowers written by Gail Tsukiyama and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-08-07 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It is Tokyo in 1939. On the Street of a Thousand Blossoms, two orphaned brothers are growing up with their loving grandparents, who inspire them to dream of a future firmly rooted in tradition. The older boy, Hiroshi, shows unusual skill at the national obsession of sumo wrestling, while Kenji is fascinated by the art of creating hand-carved masks for actors in the Noh theater." "Across town, a renowned sumo master, Sho Tanaka, lives with his wife and their two young daughters: the delicate, daydreaming Aki and her independent sister, Haru. Life seems full of promise as Kenji begins an informal apprenticeship with the most famous maskmaker in Japan and Hiroshi receives a coveted invitation to train with Tanaka. But then Pearl Harbor changes everything. As the ripples of war spread to both families' quiet neighborhoods, all of the generations must put their dreams on hold - and then find their way in a new Japan."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Peter Seibel
Publisher : Apress
ISBN 13 : 1430200170
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Practical Common Lisp written by Peter Seibel and published by Apress. This book was released on 2006-11-01 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * Treats LISP as a language for commercial applications, not a language for academic AI concerns. This could be considered to be a secondary text for the Lisp course that most schools teach . This would appeal to students who sat through a LISP course in college without quite getting it – so a "nostalgia" approach, as in "wow-lisp can be practical..." * Discusses the Lisp programming model and environment. Contains an introduction to the language and gives a thorough overview of all of Common Lisp’s main features. * Designed for experienced programmers no matter what languages they may be coming from and written for a modern audience—programmers who are familiar with languages like Java, Python, and Perl. * Includes several examples of working code that actually does something useful like Web programming and database access.

Author : Gail Tsukiyama
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1429961694
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Hundred Flowers written by Gail Tsukiyama and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2012-08-07 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gail Tsukiyama's A Hundred Flowers is powerful novel about an ordinary family facing extraordinary times at the start of the Chinese Cultural Revolution China, 1957. Chairman Mao has declared a new openness in society: "Let a hundred flowers bloom; let a hundred schools of thought contend." Many intellectuals fear it is only a trick, and Kai Ying's husband, Sheng, a teacher, has promised not to jeopardize their safety or that of their young son, Tao. But one July morning, just before his sixth birthday, Tao watches helplessly as Sheng is dragged away for writing a letter criticizing the Communist Party and sent to a labor camp for "reeducation." A year later, still missing his father desperately, Tao climbs to the top of the hundred-year-old kapok tree in front of their home, wanting to see the mountain peaks in the distance. But Tao slips and tumbles thirty feet to the courtyard below, badly breaking his leg. As Kai Ying struggles to hold her small family together in the face of this shattering reminder of her husband's absence, other members of the household must face their own guilty secrets and strive to find peace in a world where the old sense of order is falling. Once again, Tsukiyama brings us a powerfully moving story of ordinary people facing extraordinary circumstances with grace and courage.

Author : Anselm Kiefer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781906072650
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anselm Kiefer written by Anselm Kiefer and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: German-born and France-based artist, Anselm Kiefer, presents 'il mistero delle cattedrali', a 11,000 square foot installation at the White Cube Bermondsey Gallery in London. The exhibition includes works from various times within the artist's four decades as a creative force and explores the idea of alchemy. The show is given the name 'il mistero delle cattedrali' due to the closely linked subject matter with that of a book in the 1920's by a French alchemist and esoteric author under the pseudonym Fulcanelli by the same title.

Author : Ban Wang
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004188614
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Words and Their Stories written by Ban Wang and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-10-05 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In spite of dislocations and ruptures in China’s revolutionary language, to rethink this discourse is to revisit a history in terms of sedimented layers of linguistic meanings and political aspirations. Earlier meanings of revolutionary words may persist or coexist with non-revolutionary rivals. Recovery of the vital uses of key revolutionary words projects critical alternatives in which contemporary capitalist myths can be contested.

Author : Philip P. Pan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416537058
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Out of Mao's Shadow written by Philip P. Pan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inside analysis of modern cultural and political upheavals in China by a fluent Beijing correspondent describes the power struggles currently taking place between the party elite and supporters of democracy, the outcome of which the author predicts will significantly affect China's rise to a world super-power. 125,000 first printing.

Author : Kent Wong
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1647001862
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Swimming to Freedom written by Kent Wong and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2021-04-27 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Kent Wong was a young boy, his father, a patriotic Chinese official in the customs office in Hong Kong, joined an insurrection at work and returned with the family to the newly established People’s Republic of China. Hailed as heroes, they settled in the southern city of Canton. But Mao’s China was dangerous and unstable, with landlords executed en-masse and millions dying of starvation during the Great Leap Forward.

Author : Zedong Mao
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung written by Zedong Mao and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals the man and the aims of the Cultural Revolution.

Author : Andrew G. Walder
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674286707
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book China Under Mao written by Andrew G. Walder and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-06 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China’s Communist Party seized power in 1949 after a long period of guerrilla insurgency followed by full-scale war, but the Chinese revolution was just beginning. China Under Mao narrates the rise and fall of the Maoist revolutionary state from 1949 to 1976—an epoch of startling accomplishments and disastrous failures, steered by many forces but dominated above all by Mao Zedong. “Walder convincingly shows that the effect of Maoist inequalities still distorts China today...[It] will be a mind-opening book for many (and is a depressing reminder for others).” —Jonathan Mirsky, The Spectator “Andrew Walder’s account of Mao’s time in power is detailed, sophisticated and powerful...Walder takes on many pieces of conventional wisdom about Mao’s China and pulls them apart...What was it that led so much of China’s population to follow Mao’s orders, in effect to launch a civil war against his own party? There is still much more to understand about the bond between Mao and the wider population. As we try to understand that bond, there will be few better guides than Andrew Walder’s book. Sober, measured, meticulous in every deadly detail, it is an essential assessment of one of the world’s most important revolutions.” —Rana Mitter, Times Literary Supplement