Changing Stories In The Chinese World
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Changing Stories In The Chinese World
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Author : Mark Elvin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022
Changing Stories In The Chinese World written by Mark Elvin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with HISTORY categories.
This book is an innovative attempt to convey something of how it has felt since the early nineteenth century to be Chinese. It is based on the assumption that people live their lives in stories, or as if they themselves were in stories--stories that are largely a social inheritance but are also in some measure self-created or at least continually adapted, edited, or extended. The author describes and interprets some of the most important stories through which the Chinese have lived their lives in the last two hundred years and their understanding of them. He shows how largely forgotten works of popular literature, novels and poems in particular, can admit the reader to a number of different emotional worlds. Together they suggest that there is no such thing as the Chinese story, let alone mind, but rather a historical palimpsest of extraordinary and often internally contradictory complexity. The book begins with an examination of Li Ruzhen's Destinies of the Flowers in the Mirror, which reveals a microcosm of the educated Chinese world predating major Western influences. Balancing this emphasis on the elite are the poems collected by Zhang Yingchang in Our Dynasty's Bell of Poesy, which portray the universe of peasants, women, artisans, soldiers, and prisoners. A bestseller of the 1930's, Tides in the Human Sea, shows the 'crisis of absurdity' that arises when feelings no longer coincide with inherited patterns of behavior as modernization begins to take hold. Hao Ran's Children of the Western Sands, a popular Communist work of the early 1970's, allows us to be drawn into at least a momentary empathy with the idealism of the Maoist faithful. Almost as different as can be imagined is The Bastard, by Sima Zhongyuan, one of Taiwan's most widely read writers. Its characters interpret the Communist revolution in terms derived from traditional Chinese religion, as a deserved punishment inflicted on the Chinese for the filthy impropriety of their sexual conduct. The final work considered is a book of essays, A Commonplace Fellow, by Yuan Ze'nan, a Chinese-American writer who has reached the point where his Chineseness has all but vanished, and who is consciously exploring its disappearance.
Changing Stories In The Chinese World
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Author : Mark Elvin
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 1997
Changing Stories In The Chinese World written by Mark Elvin and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Literary Collections categories.
This is an imaginative evocation and analysis—through the medium of translations (the author’s own) of once popular but now forgotten literature—of the variety of “stories” in terms of which the Chinese have interpreted their lives since the early years of the 19th century.
China In One Village
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Author : Liang Hong
language : en
Publisher: Verso Books
Release Date : 2021-06-22
China In One Village written by Liang Hong and has been published by Verso Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-22 with History categories.
A global future in the history of a single village After a decade away from her ancestral family village, during which she became a writer and literary scholar in Beijing, Liang Hong started visiting her rural hometown in landlocked Henan Province. What she found was an extended family riven by the seismic changes in Chinese society and a village turned inside out by emigration, neglect, and environmental despoliation. Combining family memoir, literary observation, and social commentary, Liang’s by turns lyrically poetic and movingly raw investigation into the fate of her village became a bestselling book in China and brought her fame. For many months, Liang walked the roads and fields of her village, recording the stories of her relatives—especially her irascible, unforgettable father—and talking to everyone from high government officials to the lowest of village outcasts. Across China, many saw in Liang’s riveting interviews with family members and childhood acquaintances a mirror of their own lives, and her observations about the way the greatest rural-to-urban migration of modern times has twisted the country resonated deeply. China in One Village tells the story of contemporary China through one clear-eyed, literary observer, one family, and one village.
Chinese Stories In Times Of Change
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Author : David T. K. Wong
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Chinese Stories In Times Of Change written by David T. K. Wong and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with China categories.
China And Eurasia
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Author : Mher D Sahakyan
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-09-23
China And Eurasia written by Mher D Sahakyan and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-23 with Political Science categories.
This book facilitates exchanges between scholars and researchers from around the world on China-Eurasia relations. Comparing perspectives and methodologies, it promotes interdisciplinary dialogue on China’s pivot towards Eurasia, the Belt and Road initiative, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, Beijing’s cooperation and arguments with India, the EU, Western Balkans and South Caucasus states and the Sino-Russian struggle for multipolarity and multilateralism in Eurasia. It also researches digitalization processes in Eurasia, notably it focuses on China's Silk Road and Digital Agenda of Eurasian Economic Union. Multipolarity without multilateralism is a dangerous mix. Great power competitions will remain. In the Asian regional system more multilateral cushions have to be developed. Scholars from different nations including China, India, Russia, Austria, Armenia, Georgia, United Arab Emirates and Montenegro introduce their own, independent research, making recommendations on the developments in China-Eurasia relations, and demonstrating that through joint discussions it is possible to find ways for cooperation and for ensuring peaceful coexistence. The book will appeal to policymakers and scholars and students in Chinese, Eurasian, International and Oriental Studies.
Let 100 Voices Speak
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Author : Liz Carter
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2015-07-16
Let 100 Voices Speak written by Liz Carter and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-16 with History categories.
From the Occupy movement in the Western world to the Arab Spring and the role of Twitter in the Middle East, the internet and social media is changing the global landscape. China is next. Despite being a heavily-censored society, China has over 560 million active internet users, more than double that of the USA. In this book, social media expert and China-watcher Liz Carter tells the story of how the internet in China is leading to a coming together of activists, ordinary people and cultural trendsetters on a scale unknown in modern history. News about protests and natural disasters, or gossip and satirical jokes, are practically uncensorable and spread quickly through Weibo - the Chinese Twitter - and the Chinese internet underground. More than that, a grassroots, foundational shift of assumptions and expectations is taking place, as Chinese men and women cast off the communistera 'stability at all costs' mantra and find new forms of selfexpression, creativity and communication with the world.
China Dispatches
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Author : Hatty Liu
language : en
Publisher: Royal Collins Publishing Company
Release Date : 2022-05
China Dispatches written by Hatty Liu and has been published by Royal Collins Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05 with Social Science categories.
A rising superpower. A billion customers. The factory of the world. China is rarely out of the international spotlight, but seldom does anyone hear from the human actors that live out its incredible modern transformations. For over a decade, The World of Chinese magazine has been providing long-form, people-driven storytelling in English on the characters and communities behind the headlines. This anthology collects 20 recent features on the lives of China's relocated villagers, the wit of its stand-up comedians, the dreams of its small-town live streamers, and more, delivered with the incisiveness and humor that will be familiar to longtime magazine readers--and will surely enchant the new.
A Brave New China The Big Change
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Author : Francesco Sisci
language : en
Publisher: goWare
Release Date : 2014-09-17
A Brave New China The Big Change written by Francesco Sisci and has been published by goWare this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-17 with History categories.
How the Chinese look at themselves, the world, and the challenges of the future. Where is China, What is China: Where are the traditional pigtails of the old mandarins, the Mao’s bicycles and his suits? Where are the large families with the many concubines? The stuff that made China for centuries in all the stories Chinese and foreigners told of this huge country is gone. China now is skyscrapers, limousines, fast trains, science fiction airports, bright neon lights that explode in the night more than fireworks. Chinese are changing and have changed beyond recognition. In fact, they have changed so much that they do not see themselves in their present shape, just like an animal going through a metamorphosis. We are in the middle of this huge transformation and we don’t know if and when the new shape will stabilize and what impact it will have on the conscience of the Chinese and of the people of the world looking at China. This book is an exploration into this huge revolution that is affecting the whole planet in the biggest way possibly since the fall of the Roman Empire.
China In One Village The History Of One Town And The Future Of Theworld
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Author : Liang Hong
language : en
Publisher: Verso Trade
Release Date : 2021-08-31
China In One Village The History Of One Town And The Future Of Theworld written by Liang Hong and has been published by Verso Trade this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-31 with categories.
Chinese Characters
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Author : Angilee Shah
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2012-09-28
Chinese Characters written by Angilee Shah and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-28 with Social Science categories.
Poignant, humorous and confusing stories of utterly ordinary people living through China's extraordinary transformations. The collection of essays creates a multifaceted portrait of a country in motion, and is an introduction to some of the best writing on China today.