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The Laughing Sutra
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Author : Mark Salzman
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2012-02-08
The Laughing Sutra written by Mark Salzman and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-08 with Fiction categories.
Iron & Silk, Mark Salzman's bestselling account of his adventures as an English teacher and martial arts student in China, introduced a writer of enormous charm and keen insight into the cultural chasm between East and West. Now Salzman returns to China in his first novel, which follows the adventures of Hsun-ching, a naive but courageous orphan, and the formidable and mysterious Colonel Sun, who together travel from mainland China to San Francisco, risking everything to track down an elusive Buddhist scripture called The Laughing Sutra. Part Tom Sawyer, part Tom Jones, The Laughing Sutra draws us into an irresistible narrative of danger and comedy that speaks volumes about the nature of freedom and the meaning of loyalty.
Laughing Sutra
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Author : Mark Salzman
language : en
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Release Date : 1992-01-01
Laughing Sutra written by Mark Salzman and has been published by Turtleback Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-01-01 with Fiction categories.
The author of Iron and Silk returns to China in this highly original novel which follows the adventures of a naive but courageous orphan and the formidable Colonel Sun, who risk everything to track down an elusive Buddhist scripture. "Lovingly drawn . . . very promising and often funny".--Time.
You Are Not Here And Other Works Of Buddhist Fiction
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Author : Keith Kachtick
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2006-04-24
You Are Not Here And Other Works Of Buddhist Fiction written by Keith Kachtick and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-04-24 with Fiction categories.
2004's Nixon Under the Bodhi Tree and Other Works of Buddhist Fiction was hailed as "a milestone" and "an embarrassment of literary riches." Its sequel proves that this new genre is here to stay. Edited by Keith Kachtick-the author of Hungry Ghost: A Novel (A New York Times Notable Book)-You Are Not Here and Other Works of Buddhist Fiction offers even more sparkling and transcendent work from some of fiction's famous names, alongside names you've never heard before-but surely will again. Book jacket.
The Laughing Buddha
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Author : Conrad Hyers
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2004-01-26
The Laughing Buddha written by Conrad Hyers and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-01-26 with Religion categories.
This book has been highly acclaimed both as an imaginative way of introducing the Zen tradition to Western readers, and as an important contribution to understanding the fullness of the Zen perspective and way of life.
Iron And Silk
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Author : Mark Salzman
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2011-12-21
Iron And Silk written by Mark Salzman and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12-21 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Salzman captures post-cultural revolution China through his adventures as a young American English teacher in China and his shifu-tudi (master-student) relationship with China's foremost martial arts teacher.
Lost In Place
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Author : Mark Salzman
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2011-12-14
Lost In Place written by Mark Salzman and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12-14 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
From the author of Iron & Silk comes a charming and frequently uproarious account of an American adolescence in the age of Bruce Lee, Ozzy Osborne, and Kung Fu. As Salzman recalls coming of age with one foot in Connecticut and the other in China (he wanted to become a wandering Zen monk), he tells the story of a teenager trying to attain enlightenment before he's learned to drive.
Reading Programs For Young Adults
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Author : Martha Seif Simpson
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2015-11-16
Reading Programs For Young Adults written by Martha Seif Simpson and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-16 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
School and public libraries often provide programs and activities for children in preschool through the sixth grade, but there is little available to young adults. For them, libraries become a place for work—the place to research an assignment or find a book for a report—but the thought of the library as a place for enjoyment is lost. So how do librarians recapture the interest of teenagers? This just might be the answer. Here you will find theme-based units (such as Cartoon Cavalcade, Log On at the Library, Go in Style, Cruising the Mall, Space Shots, Teens on TV, and 44 others) that are designed for young adults. Each includes a display idea, suggestions for local sponsorship of prizes, a program game to encourage participation, 10 theme-related activities, curriculum tie-in activities, sample questions for use in trivia games or scavenger hunts, ideas for activity sheets, a bibliography of related works, and a list of theme-related films. The units are highly flexible, allowing any public or school library to adapt them to their particular needs.
Racial Ambiguity In Asian American Culture
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Author : Jennifer Ann Ho
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2015-05-12
Racial Ambiguity In Asian American Culture written by Jennifer Ann Ho and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-12 with History categories.
The sheer diversity of the Asian American populace makes them an ambiguous racial category. Indeed, the 2010 U.S. Census lists twenty-four Asian-ethnic groups, lumping together under one heading people with dramatically different historical backgrounds and cultures. In Racial Ambiguity in Asian American Culture, Jennifer Ann Ho shines a light on the hybrid and indeterminate aspects of race, revealing ambiguity to be paramount to a more nuanced understanding both of race and of what it means to be Asian American. Exploring a variety of subjects and cultural artifacts, Ho reveals how Asian American subjects evince a deep racial ambiguity that unmoors the concept of race from any fixed or finite understanding. For example, the book examines the racial ambiguity of Japanese American nisei Yoshiko Nakamura deLeon, who during World War II underwent an abrupt transition from being an enemy alien to an assimilating American, via the Mixed Marriage Policy of 1942. It looks at the blogs of Korean, Taiwanese, and Vietnamese Americans who were adopted as children by white American families and have conflicted feelings about their “honorary white” status. And it discusses Tiger Woods, the most famous mixed-race Asian American, whose description of himself as “Cablinasian”—reflecting his background as Black, Asian, Caucasian, and Native American—perfectly captures the ambiguity of racial classifications. Race is an abstraction that we treat as concrete, a construct that reflects only our desires, fears, and anxieties. Jennifer Ho demonstrates in Racial Ambiguity in Asian American Culture that seeing race as ambiguous puts us one step closer to a potential antidote to racism.
Lying Awake
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Author : Mark Salzman
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2003-12-16
Lying Awake written by Mark Salzman and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-12-16 with Fiction categories.
Mark Salzman's Lying Awake is a finely wrought gem that plumbs the depths of one woman's soul, and in so doing raises salient questions about the power-and price-of faith. Sister John's cloistered life of peace and prayer has been electrified by ever more frequent visions of God's radiance, leading her toward a deep religious ecstasy. Her life and writings have become examples of devotion. Yet her visions are accompanied by shattering headaches that compel Sister John to seek medical help. When her doctor tells her an illness may be responsible for her gift, Sister John faces a wrenching choice: to risk her intimate glimpses of the divine in favor of a cure, or to continue her visions with the knowledge that they might be false-and might even cost her her life.
Myth And Violence In The Contemporary Female Text
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Author : V.G. Julie Rajan
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-12-05
Myth And Violence In The Contemporary Female Text written by V.G. Julie Rajan and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-05 with Social Science categories.
How various mythologies challenge, enable, and inspire women artists and activists across the globe to communicate personal and historical experiences of violence is the central concern of this collection. Beginning with the observation that twentieth- and twenty-first century female writers and artists often use myth to represent their social and artistic struggles, the distinguished international scholars and writers consider mythic fabulations as spaces for contested meanings and resistant readings. The identified resistance of the mythic material to repression-working, as it were, in opposition to another celebrated drive/role of myth, that of containment-makes the use of myth particularly stimulating for twentieth-century and contemporary female artists; and it is an interest in the aesthetic and political consequences of such resistances that animates this book. Exemplifying the diverse types of engagement with myth and femininity, literary criticism, discussions of film and art, artwork, as well as original creative writing, could all be found within the boundaries of this innovative volume. Femininity, myth, and violence are here explored in contexts such as female mythopoiesis in the early twentieth century; the politics of representation in contemporary writing; revision of old myths; and creation of new myths in multicultural female experiences. Keeping the focus on the actual works of art, the editors and contributors offer scholars and teachers an inclusive way to approach literature and the arts that avoids the limits imposed by genre or national and regional boundaries.