Peking Express
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The Peking Express
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Author : James M Zimmerman
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2023-04-04
The Peking Express written by James M Zimmerman and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-04-04 with History categories.
The thrilling true story of train-robbing revolutionaries and passengers who got more than they paid for in this Murder on the Orient Express–style adventure, set in China’s republican era. In May 1923, when Shanghai publisher and reporter John Benjamin Powell bought a first-class ticket for the Peking Express, he pictured an idyllic overnight journey on a brand-new train of unprecedented luxury—exactly what the advertisements promised. Seeing his fellow passengers, including mysterious Italian lawyer Giuseppe Musso, a confidante of Mussolini and lawyer for the opium trade, and American heiress Lucy Aldrich, sister-in-law of John D. Rockefeller Jr., he knew it would be an unforgettable trip. Charismatic bandit leader and populist rabble rouser Sun Mei-yao had also taken notice of the new train from Shanghai to Peking. On the night of Powell’s trip of a lifetime, Sun launched his plan to make a brazen political statement: he and a thousand fellow bandits descended on the train, capturing dozens of hostages. Aided by local proxy authorities, the humiliated Peking government soon furiously gave chase. At the bandits’ mountain stronghold, a five-week siege began. Brilliantly written, with new and original research, The Peking Express tells the incredible true story of a clash that shocked the world—becoming so celebrated it inspired several Hollywood movies—and set the course for China’s two-decade civil war.
Summary Of James M Zimmerman S The Peking Express
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Author : Milkyway Media
language : en
Publisher: Milkyway Media
Release Date : 2024-01-29
Summary Of James M Zimmerman S The Peking Express written by Milkyway Media and has been published by Milkyway Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-01-29 with Transportation categories.
Get the Summary of James M Zimmerman's The Peking Express in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. John Benjamin Powell, a Missouri-born publisher, embarks on a journey aboard the Peking Express to document a river-reclamation project in Shantung Province. His six-year tenure in China has been marked by reporting on natural disasters and political turmoil, but this assignment focuses on the positive collaboration between China and America. As Powell travels through Shanghai to the train station, he reflects on the evolution of rail travel in China and the modern comforts of the Peking Express...
Shanghai Express
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Author : Zhang Henshui
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 1997-04-01
Shanghai Express written by Zhang Henshui and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-04-01 with Fiction categories.
In this suspenseful tale of seduction and deception, a wealthy banker is smitten by an alluring young woman while traveling aboard the express train from Beijing to Shanghai. A consummate storyteller and one of the most popular novelists of his day, Zhang Henshui sweeps us on board with them and takes us through train stations and back and forth between first, second, and third class cars, evoking the smells of this microcosm of the urban world. We see what various travelers wear; we hear their conversations; we feel the chill or the warmth of each car; we detect a trace of perfume in one, pickled vegetables and greasy meats in another. Here is popular Chinese fiction at its best. Shanghai Express was considered "entertainment" fiction and was enormously popular in the 1930s. William Lyell’s sparkling translation at last allows an English-reading audience to share in the fun.
Philosophical Letters Of David K Lewis
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Author : David K. Lewis
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2020-10-29
Philosophical Letters Of David K Lewis written by David K. Lewis and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-29 with Philosophy categories.
David Kellogg Lewis (1941-2001) was one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. He made significant contributions to almost every area of analytic philosophy including metaphysics, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of science, and set the agenda for various debates in these areas which carry on to this day. In several respects he remains a contemporary figure, yet enough time has now passed for historians of philosophy to begin to study his place in twentieth century thought. His philosophy was constructed and refined not just through his published writing, but also crucially through his life-long correspondence with fellow philosophers, including leading figures such as D.M. Armstrong, Saul Kripke, W.V. Quine, J.J.C. Smart, and Peter van Inwagen. His letters formed the undercurrent of his published work and became the medium through which he proposed many of his well-known theories and discussed a range of philosophical topics in depth. A selection of his vast correspondence over a 40-year period is presented here across two volumes. As metaphysics is arguably where Lewis made his greatest contribution, this forms the focus of Volume 1. Arranged under the broad areas of Causation, Modality, and Ontology, the letters offer an organic story of the origins, development, breadth, and depth of his metaphysics in its historical context, as well as a glimpse into the influence of his many interlocutors. This volume will be an indispensable resource for contemporary metaphysics and for those interested in the Lewisian perspective.
Missionaries In The Golden Age Of Hollywood
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Author : Douglas Carl Abrams
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2022-12-15
Missionaries In The Golden Age Of Hollywood written by Douglas Carl Abrams and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12-15 with History categories.
This book examines major British and American missionary films during the Golden Age of Hollywood to explore the significance of race, gender, and spirituality in relation to the lives of the missionaries portrayed in film during the middle third of the twentieth century. Film both influences and reflects culture, and racial, gender, and religious identities are some of the most debated issues globally today. In the movies explored in this book, missionary interactions with various people groups reflect the historical changes which took place during this time.
The Comacrib Directory Of China
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1925
The Comacrib Directory Of China written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1925 with China categories.
The Media In The Movies
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Author : Larry Langman
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2015-07-11
The Media In The Movies written by Larry Langman and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-11 with Performing Arts categories.
Cynical news hounds, grumbling editors, snooping television newscasters, inquisitive foreign correspondents, probing newsreel cameramen, and a host of others--all can be found in this reference work to Hollywood's version of journalism: from the early one-reelers to modern fare, over a thousand silent and sound films can be found. Each entry includes title, date of release, distributor, director, screenwriter, and major cast members. These credits are followed by a brief plot summary and analysis, cross-references and other information. The book is arranged alphabetically, and includes a preface, introduction, bibliography, a list of abbreviations, appendices, and an index of names. The detailed introduction covers an historical survey of the topic, with numerous film examples. The work also includes a selection of stills from various films.
Dwelling In The World
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Author : Elizabeth LaCouture
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2021-08-10
Dwelling In The World written by Elizabeth LaCouture 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 2021-08-10 with History categories.
By the early twentieth century, Chinese residents of the northern treaty-port city of Tianjin were dwelling in the world. Divided by nine foreign concessions, Tianjin was one of the world’s most colonized and cosmopolitan cities. Residents could circle the globe in an afternoon, strolling from a Chinese courtyard house through a Japanese garden past a French Beaux-Arts bank to dine at a German café and fall asleep in a British garden city-style semi-attached brick house. Dwelling in the World considers family, house, and home in Tianjin to explore how tempos and structures of everyday life changed with the fall of the Qing Empire and the rise of a colonized city. Elizabeth LaCouture argues that the intimate ideas and practices of the modern home were more important in shaping the gender and status identities of Tianjin’s urban elites than the new public ideology of the nation. Placing the Chinese home in a global context, she challenges Euro-American historical notions that the private sphere emerged from industrialization. She argues that concepts of individual property rights that emerged during the Republican era became foundational to state-society relations in early Communist housing reforms and in today’s middle-class real estate boom. Drawing on diverse sources from municipal archives, women’s magazines, and architectural field work to social surveys and colonial records, Dwelling in the World recasts Chinese social and cultural history, offering new perspectives on gender and class, colonialism and empire, visual and material culture, and technology and everyday life.
Encyclopedia Of Film Themes Settings And Series
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Author : Richard B. Armstrong
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2015-07-11
Encyclopedia Of Film Themes Settings And Series written by Richard B. Armstrong and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-11 with Performing Arts categories.
The first editon was called "the most valuable film reference in several years" by Library Journal. The new edition published in hardcover in 2001 includes more than 670 entries. The current work is a paperback reprint of that edition. Each entry contains a mini-essay that defines the topic, followed by a chronological list of representative films. From the Abominable Snowman to Zorro, this encyclopedia provides film scholars and fans with an easy-to-use reference for researching film themes or tracking down obscure movies on subjects such as suspended animation, viral epidemics, robots, submarines, reincarnation, ventriloquists and the Olympics ("Excellent" said Cult Movies). The volume also contains an extensive list of film characters and series, including B-movie detectives, Western heroes, made-for-television film series, and foreign film heroes and villains.
Islands Magazine
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1987-01
Islands Magazine written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987-01 with categories.