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Shanghai Quartet
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Author : Min-Zhan Lu
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
Shanghai Quartet written by Min-Zhan Lu and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Steeped in the Chinese tradition of recording family tales and keeping the family register, Min-Zhan Lu gives us this moving and powerful memoir describing the lives of four women of China--her grandmother, her nanny, her mother, and herself. "I wrote these family stories hoping that you will someday want to read them," she writes to her daughter in the book's opening lines. "I offer them to you as beginnings: notes on a lifeline of crossings for you to take over and work on." The complex emotional landscape of this book centers around Min-Zhan Lu--both the immigrant who has crossed over to America and the tale-teller. In each of four sections, she tells us the intergenerational story of these women, each of whom crosses over time, history, custom and geography to come into her own. This overall frame is a vehicle for a woman trying to recite the family stories for her daughter--partly to heal the complex divisions between them, partly to understand her own past and how it has shaped her identity, partly as an act of the larger love she longs to represent, partly to sing the past into the future. But Shanghai Quartet, amazingly, is even more than such a vehicle for a mother-daughter dialogue and story. This book paints a less-than-familiar portrait of Chinese life in the last century. Here, as we come to know Min-Zhan Lu's family, we find credible lives, not propaganda or stereotypes. We see so much: a Chinese Catholic family in Shanghai; the events of the Cultural Revolution through a child's family experiences; the decision to come to America and be separated from family; and the next, postmodern generation of young Chinese abroad.
China And The West
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Author : Hon-Lun Yang
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2017-03
China And The West written by Hon-Lun Yang 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 2017-03 with Music categories.
A groundbreaking interdisciplinary volume exploring the phenomenon of the "Westernization" of contemporary Chinese music
The Cambridge Companion To The String Quartet
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Author : Robin Stowell
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2003-11-13
The Cambridge Companion To The String Quartet written by Robin Stowell 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 2003-11-13 with Music categories.
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New York Magazine
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992-09-14
New York 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 1992-09-14 with categories.
New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.
Music At Michigan
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: UM Libraries
Release Date : 1990
Music At Michigan written by and has been published by UM Libraries this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with categories.
Dancing Girl And The Turtle
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Author : Karen Kao
language : en
Publisher: Lynn Michell
Release Date : 2017-04-01
Dancing Girl And The Turtle written by Karen Kao and has been published by Lynn Michell this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-01 with Fiction categories.
A rape. A war. A society where women are bought and sold but no one can speak of shame. Shanghai 1937. Violence throbs at the heart of The Dancing Girl and the Turtle.Song Anyi is on the road to Shanghai and freedom when she is raped and left for dead. The silence and shamethat mark her courageous survival drive her to escalating self-harm and prostitution. From opium dens to high- class brothels, Anyi dances on the edge of destruction while China prepares for war with Japan. Hers is the voice of every woman who fights for independence against overwhelming odds.The Dancing Girl and the Turtle is one of four interlocking novels set in Shanghai from 1929 to 1954. Through the eyes of the dancer, Song Anyi, and her brother Kang, the Shanghai Quartet spans a tumultuous time in Chinese history: war with the Japanese, the influx of stateless Jews into Shanghai, civil war and revolution. How does the love of a sister destroy her brother and all those around him?
The Amadeus Book Of The Violin
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Author : Walter Kolneder
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2023-09-12
The Amadeus Book Of The Violin written by Walter Kolneder and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-12 with Music categories.
Available for the first time in English, this book has been considered the best single encyclopedia of the violin for 20 years. All aspects of the violin are covered: construction, history, and literature; violin playing and teaching; and violin virtuosos through the ages.
The Girl At The Baggage Claim
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Author : Gish Jen
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2017-02-28
The Girl At The Baggage Claim written by Gish Jen and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-28 with Psychology categories.
A provocative and important study of the different ideas Easterners and Westerners have about the self and society and what this means for current debates in art, education, geopolitics, and business. Never have East and West come as close as they are today, yet we are still baffled by one another. Is our mantra "To thine own self be true"? Or do we believe we belong to something larger than ourselves--a family, a religion, a troop--that claims our first allegiance? Gish Jen--drawing on a treasure trove of stories and personal anecdotes, as well as cutting-edge research in cultural psychology--reveals how this difference shapes what we perceive and remember, what we say and do and make--how it shapes everything from our ideas about copying and talking in class to the difference between Apple and Alibaba. As engaging as it is illuminating, this is a book that stands to profoundly enrich our understanding of ourselves and of our world.
Classical
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Author : Brad Hill
language : en
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Release Date : 2005
Classical written by Brad Hill and has been published by Infobase Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Music categories.
Presents brief entries covering the history, significant artists, styles and influence of classical music.
Jazz In China
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Author : Eugene Marlow
language : en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 2018-07-23
Jazz In China written by Eugene Marlow and has been published by Univ. Press of Mississippi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-23 with Music categories.
"Is there jazz in China?" This is the question that sent author Eugene Marlow on his quest to uncover the history of jazz in China. Marlow traces China's introduction to jazz in the early 1920s, its interruption by Chinese leadership under Mao in 1949, and its rejuvenation in the early 1980s with the start of China's opening to the world under Premier Deng Xiaoping. Covering a span of almost one hundred years, Marlow focuses on a variety of subjects--the musicians who initiated jazz performances in China, the means by which jazz was incorporated into Chinese culture, and the musicians and venues that now present jazz performances. Featuring unique, face-to-face interviews with leading indigenous jazz musicians in Beijing and Shanghai, plus interviews with club owners, promoters, expatriates, and even diplomats, Marlow marks the evolution of jazz in China as it parallels China's social, economic, and political evolution through the twentieth and into the twenty-first century. Also featured is an interview with one of the extant members of the Jimmy King Big Band of the 1940s, one of the first major all-Chinese jazz big bands in Shanghai. Ultimately, Jazz in China: From Dance Hall Music to Individual Freedom of Expression is a cultural history that reveals the inexorable evolution of a democratic form of music in a Communist state.