The Silent Traveller In Edinburgh

Author : Yee Chiang
Publisher : Signal Books
ISBN 13 : 9781902669410
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 倫敦襍碎 written by Yee Chiang and published by Signal Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chiang Yee's account of London, first published in 1938, is original in more ways than one. Not only one of the first widely available books written by a Chinese author in English, it also reverses the conventions of travel writing. For here the "exotic" subject matter is none other than London and its people, quizzically observed as an alien culture by a foreign writer.

Author : Chiang Yee
Publisher : Polygon
ISBN 13 : 9781846974816
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Silent Traveller in Edinburgh written by Chiang Yee and published by Polygon. This book was released on 2019-06-06 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chiang Yee was, in his own words, 'dazzled' by the Scottish capital. From the Meadows to Princes Street, from Arthur's Seat to Calton Hill and Edinburgh Castle, he paints an unforgettable picture of the city and its people in the 1940s. Writing with wry humour, he broadens our perspective of familiar sights and customs, introduces us to Confucian philosophy and Chinese poetry, corrects cultural misconceptions, and encourages us to appreciate life.

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Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Author : Yee Chiang
Publisher : London Methuen [1948]
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Silent Traveller in Edinburgh, Written and Illustrated by Chiang Yee written by Yee Chiang and published by London Methuen [1948]. This book was released on 1948 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Chiang Yee
Publisher : Signal Books
ISBN 13 : 9781902669694
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Silent Traveller in Oxford written by Chiang Yee and published by Signal Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1940 the Chinese writer Chiang Yee arrived in Oxford as a refugee from the London Blitz, his lodgings having been bombed. He came to Oxford, he writes, in rather a turmoil. What was meant to be a brief escape turned into a five-year stay, an affectionate relationship with the city, and the fifth in the hugely successful Silent Traveller series. Looking at the city and its historic university with the curiosity and openness of a complete stranger, Chiang Yee paints a revealing picture of Oxford's particular atmosphere, its rituals and traditions. He mixes with undergraduates and dons, visits pubs and restaurants, witnesses Union debates and punting on the river, all with a gentle astonishment and perceptive eye for detail. Chiang Yee explores the colleges and other student haunts, but also the city and its surrounds, from Port Meadow to Headington and Hinksey. First published in 1944, The Silent Traveller in Oxford evokes a wartime city of shortages and blackouts. It also captures an earlier age of university life, when students drank sherry and scaled college walls to escape prowling Bulldogs. Throughout Chiang Yee draws parallels between Oxford and his native China, compari

Author : Da Zheng
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813549279
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chiang Yee written by Da Zheng and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2010-02-26 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young man arrives in England in the 1930s, knowing few words of the English language. Yet, two years later he writes a successful English book on Chinese art, and within the following decade publishes more than a dozen others. This is the true story of Chiang Yee, a renowned writer, artist, and worldwide traveler, best known for the Silent Traveller series--stories of England, the United States, Ireland, France, Japan, and Australia--all written in his humorous, delightfully refreshing, and enlightening literary style. This biography is more than a recounting of extraordinary accomplishments. It also embraces the transatlantic life experience of Yee who traveled from China to England and then on to the United States, where he taught at Columbia University, to his return to China in 1975, after a forty-two year absence. Interwoven is the history of the communist revolution in China; the battle to save England during World War II; the United States during the McCarthy red scare era; and, eventually, thawing Sino-American relations in the 1970s. Da Zheng uncovers Yee's encounters with racial exclusion and immigration laws, displacement, exile, and the pain and losses he endured hidden behind a popular public image.

Author : Yee Chiang
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Chinese Childhood written by Yee Chiang and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Elizabeth Crowens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781780929774
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Silent Meridian - Time Traveler Professor - written by Elizabeth Crowens and published by . This book was released on 2016-05-15 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is obsessed with a legendary red book. Its peculiar stories have come to life, and rumors claim that it has rewritten its own endings. Convinced that possessing this book will help him write his ever-popular Sherlock Holmes stories, he takes on an unlikely partner, John Patrick Scott, known to most as a concert musician and paranormal investigator. Although in his humble opinion, Scott considers himself more of an ethereal archeologist and a time traveler professor. Together they explore lost worlds and excavate realms beyond the knowledge of historians when they go back in time to find it. .... Silent Meridian reveals the alternative histories of Conan Doyle, H.G. Wells, Houdini, Jung and other notable liuminaries in the secret diaries of a new kind of Doctor Watson, John Patrick Scott, in an X Files for the 19th century. -- Cover, page [4]

Author : Yee Chiang
Publisher : Mercat Press Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Silent Traveller in Lakeland written by Yee Chiang and published by Mercat Press Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chiang Yee was exiled from his homeland of China for over 40 years, during which time he wrote and illustrated a number of travel classics. 'The Silent Traveller' series, which also includes titles on London and Edinburgh, began with this book about the Lake District.

Author : Yee Chiang
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Silent Traveller in Edinburgh, Etc. (Second Edition.). written by Yee Chiang and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: