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Shanghai Shadows
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Author : Lois Ruby
language : en
Publisher: Open Road Media
Release Date : 2015-07-21
Shanghai Shadows written by Lois Ruby and has been published by Open Road Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-21 with Young Adult Fiction categories.
A young girl fleeing Hitler takes refuge in Shanghai, where she learns that she must fight to survive Throughout tomboy Ilse’s childhood, her mother has tried to force her to behave like a proper Austrian lady. But when Hitler annexes their country, the family flees, boarding a packed freighter and sailing around the world in search of a safe harbor. The United States refuses to take them, so they proceed to China and make a new home in steamy, mysterious Shanghai. Their lodgings are cramped, money is tight, and Ilse’s father cannot find work—but Ilse is enchanted by the city’s international flavor. In Shanghai’s shadows she finds the adventure of a lifetime. When the Japanese occupy the city, Ilse and her brother begin working in an underground resistance cell. Each day, the city grows more dangerous, and Ilse must lie, cheat, and steal in order for her family to eat. She is a long way from Austria, but she will do whatever it takes to survive.
Shanghai Shadows
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Author : Joy Hart
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2008-07
Shanghai Shadows written by Joy Hart and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-07 with History categories.
Marine Alex survives the 1937 Battle of Shanghai, receives a battlefield commission on Guadalcanal, and tries unsuccessfully to find 'Milla, his Shanghai love, who, with their daughter Alexandra, spent 20 years in intern camps. In 2000 Alexandra found her father.
Electric Shadows Of Shanghai
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Author : Clare Kane
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-04
Electric Shadows Of Shanghai written by Clare Kane and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04 with Diplomats categories.
It's 1931 and British diplomat William Graves and his wife, Amelia, are flung headfirst into the enticing, neon lit streets of Shanghai. As Will helps to maintain the fragile peace between China and Japan, Amelia, alone in a foreign city, seeks solace with a Russian ballet troupe that are more than they seem. Whispers of protest, revolt, even war, buzz through the city as Will is tasked with rooting out Communist propaganda that could push tensions over the edge into war. But the city's streets hold other intoxicating allures. Will falls into a deep obsession with Feifei, a beautiful silent film star, who is desperate to escape the volatile city and sees Will as her only chance at freedom. As Amelia starts to sense Will's betrayal and the personal and the political begin to blur, will they lose themselves in the electric shadows of Shanghai?
Shadow Modernism
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Author : William Schaefer
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2017-08-04
Shadow Modernism written by William Schaefer and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-04 with Photography categories.
During the early twentieth century, Shanghai was the center of China's new media culture. Described by the modernist writer Mu Shiying as "transplanted from Europe" and “paved with shadows,” for many of its residents Shanghai was a city without a past paradoxically haunted by the absent past’s traces. In Shadow Modernism William Schaefer traces how photographic practices in Shanghai provided a forum within which to debate culture, ethnicity, history, and the very nature of images. The central modernist form in China, photography was neither understood nor practiced as primarily a medium for realist representation; rather, photo layouts, shadow photography, and photomontage rearranged and recomposed time and space, cutting apart and stitching places, people, and periods together in novel and surreal ways. Analyzing unknown and overlooked photographs, photomontages, cartoons, paintings, and experimental fiction and poetry, Schaefer shows how artists and writers used such fragmentation and juxtaposition to make visible the shadows of modernity in Shanghai: the violence, the past, the ethnic and cultural multiplicity excluded and repressed by the prevailing cultural politics of the era and yet hidden in plain sight.
City Of Shadows An Inspector Danilov Historical Thriller Book 2
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Author : M J Lee
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Release Date : 2016-03-11
City Of Shadows An Inspector Danilov Historical Thriller Book 2 written by M J Lee and has been published by HarperCollins UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-11 with Fiction categories.
A family has been found murdered in the heart of 1920s Shanghai. But what could have compelled them to open the door to their killer?
Chinese Shadow Theatre
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Author : Fan Pen Li Chen
language : en
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Release Date : 2007-06-21
Chinese Shadow Theatre written by Fan Pen Li Chen and has been published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-06-21 with Performing Arts categories.
In her study of Chinese shadow theatre Fan Pen Li Chen documents and corrects misconceptions about this once-popular art form. Drawing on extensive research and fieldwork, she argues that these plays served a mainly religious function during the Qing dynasty and that the appeal of women warrior characters reflected the lower classes' high tolerance for the unorthodox and subversive. Chinese Shadow Theatre includes several rare transcriptions of oral performances, including a didactic play on the eighteen levels of Hell, and Investiture of the Gods, a sacred saga, and translations of three rare, hand-copied shadow plays featuring religious themes and women warrior characters. Chen examines the relationship between historical and fictional women warriors and those in military romances and shadow plays to demonstrate the significance of both printed works and oral transmission in the diffusion of popular culture. She also shows that traditional folk theatre is a subject for serious academic study by linking it to recent scholarship on drama, popular religion, and popular culture.
Ghosts Of Shanghai
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Author : Julian Sedgwick
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2015-07-02
Ghosts Of Shanghai written by Julian Sedgwick and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-02 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
A powerful teen thriller with echoes of J G Ballard's Empire of the Sun and Miracles of Life ... Obsessed with martial arts and ghost stories, Ruby is part of a gang of Chinese and ex-pat children who hide out in ruined White Cloud Temple. But the world of Shanghai in the late 1920s is driven with danger: disease, crime, espionage and revolution are sweeping the streets. And since the death of her younger brother Thomas, Ruby is stalked by another anxiety and fear. Faced with a series of local hauntings, and armed with a lucky bookshop find - The Almanac of Distant Realms - Ruby forms the Shanghai Ghost Club to hunt down restless spirits. When best friend Faye is kidnapped by the Green Hand, Ruby must trust a mysterious stranger - and face her worst fears - in order to save her friends, and her own life. And in the ensuing fight she will catch a glimpse of the one spirit she has longed to see ... The secrets that Ruby's father and friends have kept from her are coming back to haunt them all.
Encyclopedia Of Contemporary Chinese Culture
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Author : Edward Lawrence Davis
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2005
Encyclopedia Of Contemporary Chinese Culture written by Edward Lawrence Davis and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with China categories.
First Published in 2009. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Chinese Shadows
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Author : Simon Leys
language : en
Publisher: Penguin Group
Release Date : 1978
Chinese Shadows written by Simon Leys and has been published by Penguin Group this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with History categories.
Chinese Shakespeares
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Author : Alexander Cheng-Yuan Huang
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2009
Chinese Shakespeares written by Alexander Cheng-Yuan Huang 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 2009 with History categories.
This work concentrates on both Shakespearean performance and Shakespeare's appearance in Sinophone culture in relation to the postcolonial question.