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Chinese Lives
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Author : Xinxin Zhang
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989
Chinese Lives written by Xinxin Zhang and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with China categories.
In 1984 the authors travelled around China interviewing people to form a composite picture of the modern descendents of the Peking Man -- hence the original Chinese title of the collection, Peking Man (Beijingren). The interviews which were always intended to form a book, started to appear in 1984 as a regular column in the New York Chinese-language newspaper China daily news. At the beginning of 1985 the first 58 pieces were republished simultaneously in 5 different literary magazines in China. A round hundred of the pieces appeared in book form in China in August 1986.
Chinese Lives An Oral History Of Contemporary China
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Author : Davin, Delia
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1987
Chinese Lives An Oral History Of Contemporary China written by Davin, Delia and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with China categories.
Chinese Lives
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Author : Zhang Xinxin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990-10-01
Chinese Lives written by Zhang Xinxin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990-10-01 with categories.
Chinese Lives
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Author : Victor H Mair
language : en
Publisher: Thames and Hudson
Release Date : 2013-05-07
Chinese Lives written by Victor H Mair and has been published by Thames and Hudson this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-07 with History categories.
3000 years of Chinese history presented through the lives of ninety-six illustrious participants from all periods and all parts of the country China is the most populous country on earth, with the longest history of any modern nation. Here, the full range of Chinese cultural and scientific achievements, as well as its military conquests, wars, rebellions, and political and philosophical movements, are told through the eyes of real people who created or were involved in them. The subjects include emperors and empresses, concubines, officials and political figures, rebels, exiles, philosophers, writers and poets, artists, musicians, scientists, military leaders, and committed pacifists. From Fu Hao, an early warrior lady of the thirteenth century BC, to the late twentieth-century leader Deng Xiaoping, their careers, achievements, misdeeds, disasters, punishments, ideas and love stories make this an unforgettable read. Illustrated with portraits, paintings, written documents, bronzes, sculptures, and location maps, and written in an authoritative yet accessible style, Chinese Lives provides the perfect introduction to China’s history and her peoples.
Changing Qualities Of Chinese Life
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Author : Dennis J. Duncanson
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 1982-06-18
Changing Qualities Of Chinese Life written by Dennis J. Duncanson and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982-06-18 with History categories.
The Lives Of Chinese Objects
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Author : Louise Tythacott
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2011-06-01
The Lives Of Chinese Objects written by Louise Tythacott and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-01 with Art categories.
This is the biography of a set of rare Buddhist statues from China. Their extraordinary adventures take them from the Buddhist temples of fifteenth-century Putuo – China’s most important pilgrimage island – to their seizure by a British soldier in the First Opium War in the early 1840s, and on to a starring role in the Great Exhibition of 1851. In the 1850s, they moved in and out of dealers’ and antiquarian collections, arriving in 1867 at Liverpool Museum. Here they were re-conceptualized as specimens of the ‘Mongolian race’ and, later, as examples of Oriental art. The statues escaped the bombing of the Museum during the Second World War and lived out their existence for the next sixty years, dismembered, corroding and neglected in the stores, their histories lost and origins unknown. As the curator of Asian collections at Liverpool Museum, the author became fascinated by these bronzes, and selected them for display in the Buddhism section of the World Cultures gallery. In 2005, quite by chance, the discovery of a lithograph of the figures on prominent display in the Great Exhibition enabled the remarkable lives of these statues to be reconstructed.
The Way That Lives In The Heart
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Author : Jean Elizabeth DeBernardi
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2006
The Way That Lives In The Heart written by Jean Elizabeth DeBernardi 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 2006 with Religion categories.
The Way That Lives in the Heart is a richly detailed ethnographic analysis of the practice of Chinese religion in the modern, multicultural Southeast Asian city of Penang, Malaysia. The book conveys both an understanding of shared religious practices and orientations and a sense of how individual men and women imagine, represent, and transform popular religious practices within the time and space of their own lives. This work is original in three ways. First, the author investigates Penang Chinese religious practice as a total field of religious practice, suggesting ways in which the religious culture, including spirit-mediumship, has been transformed in the conjuncture with modernity. Second, the book emphasizes the way in which socially marginal spirit mediums use a religious anti-language and unique religious rituals to set themselves apart from mainstream society. Third, the study investigates Penang Chinese religion as the product of a specific history, rather than presenting an overgeneralized overview that claims to represent a single "Chinese religion."
Kosher Chinese
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Author : Michael Levy
language : en
Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
Release Date : 2011-07-05
Kosher Chinese written by Michael Levy and has been published by Holt Paperbacks this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-05 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
An irreverent tale of an American Jew serving in the Peace Corps in rural China, which reveals the absurdities, joys, and pathos of a traditional society in flux In September of 2005, the Peace Corps sent Michael Levy to teach English in the heart of China's heartland. His hosts in the city of Guiyang found additional uses for him: resident expert on Judaism, romantic adviser, and provincial basketball star, to name a few. His account of overcoming vast cultural differences to befriend his students and fellow teachers is by turns poignant and laugh-out-loud funny. While reveling in the peculiarities of life in China's interior, the author also discovered that the "other billion" (people living far from the coastal cities covered by the American media) have a complex relationship with both their own traditions and the rapid changes of modernization. Lagging behind in China's economic boom, they experience the darker side of "capitalism with Chinese characteristics," daily facing the schizophrenia of conflicting ideologies. Kosher Chinese is an illuminating account of the lives of the residents of Guiyang, particularly the young people who will soon control the fate of the world.
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 History 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.
Chinese Working Class Lives
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Author : Hill Gates
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2018-03-15
Chinese Working Class Lives written by Hill Gates and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-15 with History categories.
Taiwan’s working class has been shaped by Chinese tradition, by colonialism, and by rapid industrialization. This book defines that class, explores that history, and presents with sensitive honesty the life experiences of some of its women and men. Hill Gates first provides a solid and informative introduction to Taiwan’s history, showing how mainland China, Japan, the convulsions of twentieth-century wars, and the East Asian economic expansion interacted in forming Taiwanese urban life. She introduces nine individuals from Taiwan’s three major ethnic groups to tell the stories of their lives in their own words. The narrators include a fortuneteller, a woman laborer, and a retired air force mechanic. A former spirit medium and a janitor are among the others who speak.