The Rouge Of The North

Author : Eileen Chang
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520341538
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rouge of the North written by Eileen Chang and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rouge of the North is the story of Yindi, a beautiful young bride who marries the blind, bedridden son of a rich and noble family. Captive to household ritual, to the strategies and contempt of her sisters-in-law, and to the exacting dictates of her husband's mother, Yindi is pressed beneath the weight of an existence that offers no hope of change. Dramatic events in the outside world fail to make their way into this insular society. Chang's brilliant portrayal of the slow suffocation of passion, moral strength, and physical vitality—together with her masterful evocation of the sights, smells, and sounds of daily existence—make The Rouge of the North a remarkable chronicle of a vanished way of life.

Author : Ailing Zhang
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520210875
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rouge of the North written by Ailing Zhang and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1998-08-10 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relates the events in the life of a Chinese lower-class woman trapped within the confines of an unhappy arranged marriage, resulting in her gradual descent into madness.

Author : Eileen Chang
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1681375761
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Written on Water written by Eileen Chang and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2023-05-02 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now back in print, these witty, insightful ssays on fashion, cinema, wartime, and everyday life demonstrate why Eileen Chang was and is a major icon of twentieth-century Chinese literature. Eileen Chang is one of the most celebrated and influential modern Chinese novelists and cultural critics of the twentieth century. First published in 1944, and just as beloved as her fiction in the Chinese-speaking world, Written on Water collects Chang’s reflections on art, literature, war, urban culture, and her own life as a writer and woman, set amid the sights and sounds of wartime Shanghai and Hong Kong. In a style at once meditative and vibrant, Chang writes of friends, colleagues, and teachers turned soldiers or wartime volunteers, and her own experiences as a part-time nurse. She also reflects on Chinese cinema, the aims of the writer, and the popularity of the Peking Opera. Chang engages the reader with her sly and sophisticated humor, conversational voice, and intense fascination with the subtleties of everyday life. In her examination of Shanghainese food, culture, and fashions, she not only reveals but also upends prevalent attitudes toward women, presenting a portrait of a daring and cosmopolitan woman bent on questioning pieties and enjoying the pleasures of modernity, even as the world convulses in war and a revolution looms.

Author : Jasper Becker
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019517044X
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rogue Regime written by Jasper Becker and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-05 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An eye-opening look at North Korea, a brutal Stalinist country that has become one of the most volatile hot spots in the world.

Author : James E. Garratt
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1554882818
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rouge River Valley written by James E. Garratt and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2000-04-15 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rouge River Valley, eleven thousand acres of urban wilderness, is a unique, yet very fragile and transient natural phenomenon existing within the confines of a major North American city, Toronto. Fed by the Oak Ridges Moraine, the Rouge river system has, over generations of time, cut its identity into the land, shaping the habitat for a multitude of lifeforms, many of which are now either threatened or gone. Author James E. Garratt, a seasoned environmentalist, shares two decades of personal observation and ecological study to reveal the richness and flow of seasonal changes in this exceptional urban park. This "portrait" of a year in the Rouge Valley explores not only the diversity of life in its natural habitat but also the impact of urban sprawl and the inevitable conflict with development. Is it possible to be a true naturalist "grounded" in a modern city? The words of Ian McHarg, an urban planner, hold true: "We need nature as much in the city as in the country."

Author : Jing Tsu
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674060547
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sound and Script in Chinese Diaspora written by Jing Tsu and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-15 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when language wars are not about hurling insults or quibbling over meanings, but are waged in the physical sounds and shapes of language itself? Native and foreign speakers, mother tongues and national languages, have jostled for distinction throughout the modern period. The fight for global dominance between the English and Chinese languages opens into historical battles over the control of the medium through standardization, technology, bilingualism, pronunciation, and literature in the Sinophone world. Encounters between global languages, as well as the internal tensions between Mandarin and other Chinese dialects, present a dynamic, interconnected picture of languages on the move. In Sound and Script in Chinese Diaspora, Jing Tsu explores the new global language trade, arguing that it aims at more sophisticated ways of exerting influence besides simply wielding knuckles of power. Through an analysis of the different relationships between language standardization, technologies of writing, and modern Chinese literature around the world from the nineteenth century to the present, this study transforms how we understand the power of language in migration and how that is changing the terms of cultural dominance. Drawing from an unusual array of archival sources, this study cuts across the usual China-West divide and puts its finger on the pulse of a pending supranational world under “literary governance.”

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Author : Albert Baxter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1108 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of the City of Grand Rapids, Michigan ... written by Albert Baxter and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 1108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Army. Corps of Engineers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Old Channel of Rouge River, Mich written by United States. Army. Corps of Engineers and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Olaf Kühne
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3658307161
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Multivillage-Metropolis Baton Rouge written by Olaf Kühne and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-01-24 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The capital of Louisiana, Baton Rouge, has been the scene of fundamental changes in recent decades. In the context of the tripole of petrochemistry, Louisiana State University (LSU) and public administration (especially of the state of Louisiana), which has been fully developed since the end of the 1920s, general processes (such as the transition from modern to post-modern spatial development) mix with specific local and regional characteristics and logics, also in dealing with spaces (such as the eccentric location of the downtown area, the limited influence of spatial planning). The result is a social-spatial formation of a 'multivillage metropolis'. The investigation of this 'multivillage metropolis' follows a neopragmatic approach that triangulates different theories, methods, data and researcher perspectives. Videos per App: Laden Sie die Springer Nature More Media kostenlos herunter - Abbildungen im Buch per App mit Handy oder Tablet scannen, um Videos zu streamen.