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The Origins Of The Boxer Uprising
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Author : Joseph W. Esherick
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1988-08-18
The Origins Of The Boxer Uprising written by Joseph W. Esherick 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 1988-08-18 with History categories.
In the summer of 1900, bands of peasant youths from the villages of north China streamed into Beijing to besiege the foreign legations, attracting the attention of the entire world. Joseph Esherick reconstructs the early history of the Boxers, challenging the traditional view that they grew from earlier anti-dynastic sects, and stressing instead the impact of social ecology and popular culture.
The Boxer
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Author : Steven Strong
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990-09-01
The Boxer written by Steven Strong and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990-09-01 with Boxing categories.
Knockout
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Author : Leger Grindon
language : en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 2011-05-10
Knockout written by Leger Grindon 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 2011-05-10 with Performing Arts categories.
Knockout: The Boxer and Boxing in American Cinema is the first book-length study of the Hollywood boxing film, a popular movie entertainment since the 1930s, that includes such classics as Million Dollar Baby, Rocky, and Raging Bull. The boxer stands alongside the cowboy, the gangster, and the detective as a character that shaped America's ideas of manhood. Leger Grindon relates the Hollywood boxing film to the literature of Jack London, Ernest Hemingway, and Clifford Odets; the influence of ring champions, particularly Joe Louis and Muhammad Ali; and controversies surrounding masculinity, race, and sports. Knockout breaks new ground in film genre study by focusing on the fundamental dramatic conflicts uniting both documentary and fictional films with compelling social concerns. The boxing film portrays more than the rise and fall of a champion; it exposes the body in order to reveal the spirit. Not simply a brute, the screen boxer dramatizes conflicts and aspirations central to an American audience's experience. This book features chapters on the conventions of the boxing film, the history of the genre and its relationship to famous ring champions, and self-contained treatments of thirty-two individual films including a chapter devoted to Raging Bull.
The Boxer
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Author : Christopher Conley
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2015-02-07
The Boxer written by Christopher Conley and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-07 with categories.
Christian and Shawn started out as opposite ends of the tracks; Christian being the good child from a good family in the suburbs, while Shawn, on the other hand, came from the wrong side of the tracks. As their lives became intertwined over the next 30 years, their strained relationship went from mere acquaintances to best friends to adopted brothers to coworkers to finally heat rivals in the world of boxing. Whatever one achieved, the other would have an equal, but opposite, achievement of their own. Each would have their own successes and failures, heartbreak and despair, love and loss. Family lost, championships gained, money, fame, drugs, alcohol, and jealous rivalry all play a part in their three decade relationship with each other. However, in the end, what was the determining, underlining factor to their relationship to each other? Is it their shared profession? Their shared family? Or is it something more? Something deeper? In a world that's all about advertisement, money, glory, and the next big fight, they soon learn that there's something more important and somethings are actually worth fighting for. But is it too late once they find out what it is? And can love really overcome all?
The Boxer
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Author : Jurek Becker
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2012-01-31
The Boxer written by Jurek Becker 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 2012-01-31 with Fiction categories.
Released from a concentration camp after the war, Aron Blank looks for and eventually finds the only other surviving member of his family, his son Mark, whom he was forced to abandon when Mark was only two years old. Working first in the black market and later as a Russian interpreter, Aron tries to rebuild a normal life for himself and his son in East Berlin. Decades later, with Mark lost in the Six-Day War, Aron tells his story to a young interviewer—the flow of his poignant narrative occasionally interrupted by their brief exchanges, which are peppered with humor. Written with the understated elegance that brought Becker worldwide acclaim for Jacob the Liar, this is a rare portrait of Jewish life in postwar Germany and a profoundly human story of survival, friendship, and fatherly love.
The Boxer S Heart
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Author : Kate Sekules
language : en
Publisher: ABRAMS
Release Date : 2012-05-29
The Boxer S Heart written by Kate Sekules and has been published by ABRAMS this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-29 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
“Brave and ballsy . . . the internal chaos that prompts Sekules’ rage and desire to retaliate is a more original, fascinating place to visit than any gym.” —Salon.com The Boxer’s Heart is a brilliantly candid memoir of the world of women’s boxing, now updated and with a new afterword. Written in raw and vivid style, it tells the story of how a young everywoman moves to New York City to write and, through struggles and disappointments in her personal life, rises through the ranks at the famed Gleason’s Gym to box professionally. Sekules’s account unfolds with the pace and depth of a great novel, crammed with larger-than-life characters and piercing observations. Any woman who has grappled with anger and trust in her relationships, been nagged by insecurity at the gym, or wondered what it feels like to throw a punch will identify with this witty and honest account of “ the sweet science of bruising.” “It’s a knockout, folks . . . The Boxer’s Heart is a winner, on all cards.” —Newsweek “What is most captivating about Sekules’ love letter to boxing is how she reconciles the feminine proclivity for tenderness and nurturing with their simultaneous ability to knock one another out, to unleash fury in a controlled and respectful way.” —Oprah.com “Sekules . . . is appealingly self-aware . . . [and] gives us a sense of women’s boxing as a thriving movement.” —The New York Times Book Review “This is a story of self-discovery, about finding out what you love, and then doing it—with passion, with a boxer’s heart.” —Kirkus Reviews
The Boxer
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Author : Kathleen Karr
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Release Date : 2004-09-10
The Boxer written by Kathleen Karr and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-09-10 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Hard-hitting historical fiction Ever since his father ran off two years before, fifteen-year-old Johnny Woods has struggled to help support his ma and five siblings, sacrificing his own schooling in the process. Still, there's been hardly enough money each month to make the rent, and Johnny's dream of a house in Brooklyn, away from the tenement slums, is out of reach. Then Johnny discovers boxing. He is a natural-born fighter, with street smarts, determination, and an explosive uppercut. Although boxing is illegal in 1885 New York, Johnny powers his way through every obstacle, believing he has found the means to raise himself and his family out of poverty. But as he moves closer to his biggest fight yet, Johnny must reconcile his need to help his loved ones with a sharpening desire to achieve something outside the ring, starting with his education. In bringing to life Johnny's struggle and ultimate success, Kathleen Karr offers readers a compelling portrait of an appealing young champion.
The Boxer Uprising
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Author : Victor Purcell
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2010-06-03
The Boxer Uprising written by Victor Purcell 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 2010-06-03 with History categories.
Dr Prucell examines the origin and development of the Boxer Uprising of 1900.
The Boxer Rising
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Author : Shanghai Mercury
language : en
Publisher: New York : Paragon Book Reprint Corporation
Release Date : 1967
The Boxer Rising written by Shanghai Mercury and has been published by New York : Paragon Book Reprint Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1967 with Boxers (Sports) categories.
Collected newspaper articles regarding the Box Rebellion, text is as they originally appeared.
The Sweetest Thing
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Author : Mischa Merz
language : en
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Release Date : 2011-01-04
The Sweetest Thing written by Mischa Merz and has been published by Seven Stories Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-04 with Sports & Recreation categories.
Journalist and amateur boxer Mischa Merz fulfills a long-held ambition to travel across the United States and compete in a series of amateur boxing tournaments. On this wild and fascinating journey she meets her idols, including Lucia Rijker of Million Dollar Baby fame, and some other truly extraordinary characters. Merz discovers the horrors and delights of the world of women's boxing and gains insights into this eccentric subculture's place in American life. She also meets some of the pioneers and trailblazers of the contemporary rise in women's boxing as well as some of the younger stars now hoping to make it onto the first women’s boxing team in the 2012 Olympic Games. Written in a compelling and highly entertaining narrative style, Mischa Merz takes us right into the ring and reports, with a rare insider’s view, on a sport that has for centuries defined our ideas about masculinity.