The Great Flowing River

Author : Chi Pang-yuan
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231547811
Total Pages : 485 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great Flowing River written by Chi Pang-yuan and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-03 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heralded as a literary masterpiece and a best-seller in the Chinese-speaking world, The Great Flowing River is a personal account of the history of modern China and Taiwan unlike any other. In this eloquent autobiography, the noted scholar, writer, and teacher Chi Pang-yuan recounts her youth in mainland China and adulthood in Taiwan. Chi’s remarkable life, told in rich and striking detail, humanizes the eventful and turbulent times in which she lived. The Great Flowing River begins as a coming-of-age story set against the backdrop of China’s war with Japan. Chi depicts her childhood in pre-occupation Manchuria and gives an eyewitness account of life in China during the war with Japan. She tells the tale of her youthful romance with a dashing pilot that ends tragically when he is shot down in the last days of the war. The book describes the deepening political divide in China and her choice to take a job in Taiwan, where she would remain after the Communist victory. Chi details her growth as an educator, scholar, and promoter of Chinese literature in translation and her realization that despite her roots in China, she has found a home in Taiwan, giving an immersive account of the postwar history of Taiwan from a mainlander’s perspective. A novelistic, epoch-defining narrative, The Great Flowing River unites the personal and intimate with the grand sweep of history.

Author : Bangyuan Qi
Publisher : Penguin Books
ISBN 13 : 9789814867054
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great Flowing River written by Bangyuan Qi and published by Penguin Books. This book was released on 2019 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Paulo Coelho
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007379900
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Like the Flowing River written by Paulo Coelho and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2011-04-28 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A breathtaking collection of reflections from one of the world's best loved storytellers, Paulo Coelho.

Author : Marianne Berkes
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1584693320
Total Pages : 35 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Over in a River written by Marianne Berkes and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learning becomes fun for everyone in this book about the geography of north American rivers and about the animals that live in this habitat. The amazing artwork in this book will inspire kids in classrooms and at home to appreciate the world around us! The great rivers of North America are teeming with life and on the pages of Over in a River—from blue herons in the Hudson to salmon in the Columbia, and from dragonflies in the Rio Grande to mallards in the St. Lawrence. Children will "slither" like water snakes and "slide" like otters while singing to the tune of "Over in a Meadow." Read about the snake, beaver, frog, otter, dragonfly, and more that lives along the rivers! Kids love counting books, too! What a delightful way to learn about riparian habitats and geography at the same time! Backmatter Includes: Further information about rivers and the animals in this book! Music and song lyrics to "Over in the River" sung to the tune "Over in the Meadow"!

Author : Amy Chan Zhou
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781595801067
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flowing with the Pearl River: Autobiography of a Red China Girl written by Amy Chan Zhou and published by . This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flowing with the Pearl River: Autobiography of a Red China Girl is a young adult memoir about Amy Chan Zhou and her family's struggles to survive in China from the time the Communists took power in 1949 through the end of the Mao era in 1976. Narrated through the eyes and voice of Chan Zhou, Flowing with the Pearl River is an insightful, accurate, and in-depth look at the devastating impact the many political campaigns and revolutions had on multiple generations of her family. As the Communists take control of the country in 1949, we follow the harrowing experiences of Chan Zhou's great-grandparents, grandparents, father, and mother during the branding of landlords, business owners, and scholars as "bad elements" and "class enemies." The author and her family members were among those whose lives were shattered and who suffered from the political campaigns and revolutions. The struggles continue as the Communist political leaders pit people against people and breed fear and distrust by coercing informants to turn on innocent citizens, forcing re-education in labor camps and instigating the Cultural Revolution. Chan Zhou's personal observations and emotional experiences are at the heart of the story from her childhood and middle school years in China to her father's escape to Hong Kong and Chan Zhou's eventual immigration to the United States at age 14. Chan Zhou's childhood stories as a wild child growing up in the countryside with primitive conditions are marked by the family's everyday struggle to obtain food, the hardship that resulted when Chan Zhou's school became a child labor camp, and the horror of attending "public denouncing" meetings and witnessing relatives being tortured on a stage. However, Chan Zhou's childhood also featured rural beauty and the simple joys of raising farm animals or catching fish in a local river. When Chan Zhou sells vegetables in the black market, she is accused of being a "little capitalist trader"; the death of Mao ultimately saves her from being sent to a detention center, and her family's destiny is forever altered by Deng Xiaoping's reform that allowed Chan Zhou's family to reunite in Hong Kong and their subsequent immigration to the USA. A blend of Wild Swans and The Red Scarf Girl, Flowing with the Pearl River presents rich and detailed depictions of one family's painful experiences during Communism and the Cultural Revolution in China. It is a comprehensive and vividly accurate portrayal of the impact of those events on Chinese culture and society that remains largely unknown to modern readers and risks being forgotten. Flowing with the Pearl River aims to ensure that this history and the memories of millions of families similar to Chan Zhou's remain alive and remembered for eternity.

Author : Tim Palmer
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
ISBN 13 : 0847861732
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book America's Great River Journeys written by Tim Palmer and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2018-05-22 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inspirational bucket list for anyone interested in rafting, kayaking, or canoeing—from armchair traveler to recreational paddler to hard-core white-water enthusiast. From the Penobscot to the Potomac, the New to the Suwannee, the Colorado to the Snake, America’s Great River Journeys entices people to experience America from its free-flowing waterways. Vivid descriptions of our nation’s fifty finest river trips are complete with stunning photos of each leg of each journey, an engaging narrative, and practical tips about the length of trips, seasonal preferences, difficulty of white water, joys of camping along the shores, availability of professional outfitters, and other details. Through beautiful photography and compelling writing, America’s Great River Journeys is a celebration of the best rivers for canoeing, kayaking, and rafting—from Alaska to Florida—along 7,000 miles of our nation’s spectacular waterways in twenty-eight states.

Author : Kenneth Chastain
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781502442314
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ever-Flowing River written by Kenneth Chastain and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-11-02 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life was not easy on the farm in the forties and growing up is never easy. However, with the old man's support and the guidance of the "Good Book" the Boy did manage to overcome life's obstacles, to learn its valuable lessons, and to walk in faith believing through this vale of tears and laughter.

Author : Lidia Yuknavitch
Publisher : Hawthorne Books
ISBN 13 : 0983304904
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Chronology of Water written by Lidia Yuknavitch and published by Hawthorne Books. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is not your mother’s memoir. In The Chronology of Water, Lidia Yuknavitch, a lifelong swimmer and Olympic hopeful escapes her raging father and alcoholic and suicidal mother when she accepts a swimming scholarship which drug and alcohol addiction eventually cause her to lose. What follows is promiscuous sex with both men and women, some of them famous, and some of it S&M, and Lidia discovers the power of her sexuality to help her forget her pain. The forgetting doesn’t last, though, and it is her hard-earned career as a writer and a teacher, and the love of her husband and son, that ultimately create the life she needs to survive.

Author : Howard Frank Mosher
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 1611683440
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Where the Rivers Flow North written by Howard Frank Mosher and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2012-05-22 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Available again, six tales of Kingdom County, Vermont

Author : Thomas F. Waters
Publisher : Adventurekeen
ISBN 13 : 9780963761613
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wildstream written by Thomas F. Waters and published by Adventurekeen. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The people who seek out rivers range from scientists and sportspeople to artists and environmentalists. Wildstream is a book they can all learn from and enjoy As rivers are more heavily used for a multitude of purposes, it is important for us to truly comprehend their dynamics, biological diversity and richness. In Wildstream, author Thomas F. Waters puts into our hands a tool with which we come to know and understand rivers. With knowledge, we can better conserve and protect our living rivers.Sections include: The Search for Order, The Living Valley, The Dynamic River, Life at the Bottom, A Fine Kettle of Fish and By Clock and Calendar. Features black and white photos, illustrations, glossary and brief articles called RiverSketches at the end of each chapter.