China Ghosts
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China Ghosts
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Author : Jeff Gammage
language : en
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Release Date : 2008-06-24
China Ghosts written by Jeff Gammage and has been published by Harper Perennial this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-06-24 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Aching to expand from a couple to a family, Jeff Gammage—a reporter for the Philadelphia Inquirer—and his wife, Christine, embarked upon a journey that would carry them across a shifting landscape of emotion and through miles of red tape and bureaucratic protocol. On the other side of the world—in the smog-choked city of Changsha in Hunan Province—a silent, stoic little girl was waiting for them: Jin Yu, their new daughter. Now they would have to learn how to fully embrace a life altered beyond recognition by new concerns and responsibilities—and by a love unlike any they'd ever felt before. Alive with insight and feeling, China Ghosts is an eye-opening depiction of the foreign adoption process and a remarkable glimpse into a different culture. Most important, it is a poignant, heartfelt, and intensely intimate chronicle of the making of a family.
Ghosts And Religious Life In Early China
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Author : Mu-Chou Poo
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2022-01-27
Ghosts And Religious Life In Early China written by Mu-Chou Poo and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-27 with History categories.
What did ghosts look like, what did they do, and what can they tell us about Chinese culture and society?
Some Chinese Ghosts
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Author : Lafcadio Hearn
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1887
Some Chinese Ghosts written by Lafcadio Hearn and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1887 with Fiction categories.
I think that my best apology for the insignificant size of this volume is the very character of the material composing it. In preparing the legends I sought especially for "weird beauty"; and I could not forget this striking observation in Sir Walter Scott's "Essay on Imitations of the Ancient Ballad" "The supernatural, though appealing to certain powerful emotions very widely and deeply sown amongst the human race, is, nevertheless, a "spring which is peculiarly apt to lose its elasticity by being too much pressed upon."" -- Lafcadio Hearn
Mooncakes And Hungry Ghosts
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Author : Carol Stepanchuk
language : en
Publisher: China Books
Release Date : 1991
Mooncakes And Hungry Ghosts written by Carol Stepanchuk and has been published by China Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Education categories.
By Lt. General William E. Odom
Chinese Ghosts And Esp
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Author : Charles F. Emmons
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1982
Chinese Ghosts And Esp written by Charles F. Emmons and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
Hungry Ghosts
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Author : Jasper Becker
language : en
Publisher: John Murray
Release Date : 1996
Hungry Ghosts written by Jasper Becker and has been published by John Murray this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with History categories.
This story aims to unravel the story behind the ten-year-old estimate that at least 30 million people had starved to death in China between 1958 and 1962. It is based on many interviews and unpublished documents, showing how Mao Zedong created a man-made famine throughout China.
Humans Beasts And Ghosts
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Author : Zhongshu Qian
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2010-12-15
Humans Beasts And Ghosts written by Zhongshu Qian and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-12-15 with Social Science categories.
Qian Zhongshu was one of twentieth-century China's most ingenious literary stylists, one whose insights into the ironies and travesties of modern China remain stunningly fresh. Between the early years of the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945) and the Communist takeover in 1949, Qian wrote a brilliant series of short stories, essays, and a comedic novel that continue to inspire generations of Chinese readers. With this long-awaited translation, English-language readers can immerse themselves in the invention and satirical wit of one of the world's great literary cosmopolitans. This collection brings together Qian's best short works, combining his iconoclastic essays on the "book of life" from Written in the Margins of Life (1941) with the four masterful short stories of Human, Beast, Ghost (1946). His essays elucidate substantive issues through deceptively simple subjects-the significance of windows versus doors, for example, or the blind spots of literary critics and assert the primacy of critical and creative independence. His stories blur the boundaries between humans, beasts, and ghosts as they struggle through life, death, and resurrection. Christopher G. Rea situates these works within China's wartime politics and Qian's literary vision, highlighting significant changes that Qian Zhongshu made to different editions of his writings and providing unprecedented insight into the author's creative process.
White Ghost
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Author : Gary Kellmann
language : en
Publisher: Ghost China Journey Destiny
Release Date : 2007-10
White Ghost written by Gary Kellmann and has been published by Ghost China Journey Destiny this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-10 with Fiction categories.
Resisting Spirits
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Author : Maggie Greene
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2019-08-09
Resisting Spirits written by Maggie Greene and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-09 with Performing Arts categories.
Resisting Spirits is a reconsideration of the significance and periodization of literary production in the high socialist era, roughly 1953 through 1966, specifically focused on Mao-era culture workers’ experiments with ghosts and ghost plays. Maggie Greene combines rare manuscript materials—such as theatre troupes’ annotated practice scripts—with archival documents, memoirs, newspapers, and films to track key debates over the direction of socialist aesthetics. Through arguments over the role of ghosts in literature, Greene illuminates the ways in which culture workers were able to make space for aesthetic innovation and contestation both despite and because of the constantly shifting political demands of the Mao era. Ghosts were caught up in the broader discourse of superstition, modernization, and China’s social and cultural future. Yet, as Greene demonstrates, the ramifications of those concerns as manifested in the actual craft of writing and performing plays led to further debates in the realm of literature itself: If we remove the ghost from a ghost play, does it remain a ghost play? Does it lose its artistic value, its didactic value, or both? At the heart of Greene’s intervention is “just reading”: the book regards literature first as literature, rather than searching immediately for its political subtext, and the voices of dramatists themselves finally upstage those of Mao’s inner circle. Ironically, this surface reading reveals layers of history that scholars of the Mao era have often ignored, including the ways in which social relations and artistic commitments continued to inform the world of art. Resisting Spirits thus illuminates the origins of more famous literary inquisitions, showing how the arguments surrounding ghost plays and the fates of their authors place the origins of the Cultural Revolution several years earlier, with a radical new shift in the discourse of theatre.
The Folk Lore Of China
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Author : Nicholas Belfield Dennys
language : en
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2024-06-08
The Folk Lore Of China written by Nicholas Belfield Dennys and has been published by BoD – Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-06-08 with Fiction categories.
Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.