The Mustachioed Woman Of Shanghai
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The Mustachioed Woman Of Shanghai
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Author : Isham Cook
language : en
Publisher: Isham Cook
Release Date : 2020-10-19
The Mustachioed Woman Of Shanghai written by Isham Cook and has been published by Isham Cook this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-19 with categories.
Want to know what's really going on with relationships in China today? It is the Shanghai of courtesans and concubines, danger and decadence, updated to 2020. American expat author Isham Cook has disappeared. His last known history is chronicled by an exotic woman who seems right out of 1930s Shanghai herself, Marguerite, a mustachioed Afghan-American who weaves Persian rugs and deals in psychedelics. As she tells it, Isham's story all began with Luna, a beguiling but troubled Chinese woman who happens to have a mustache herself. Also vying for Isham's affection is the charismatic Kitty, who conspires to entrap him in a cyberweb of obsession and betrayal. Fans of Cook's fiction will recognize in this psychological thriller set in modern China his signature world of startling plot turns in an unsettling yet compelling landscape of ideas.
Farewell Shanghai
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Author : Angel Wagenstein
language : en
Publisher: Other Press, LLC
Release Date : 2023-04-25
Farewell Shanghai written by Angel Wagenstein and has been published by Other Press, LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-04-25 with Fiction categories.
Elisabeth and Theodore Weissberg, famous musicians, Hilde, a young film extra, and Vladek, an Eastern European adventurer wanted by the police on political charges, flee Nazi Germany for Shanghai at the onset of World War II. A magnet for every human ambition and vice, Shanghai is a city of extremes–of dazzling wealth and wretched poverty, suffering and pleasure, and, for the four refugees, exile and safety. There, they enter the world of Jewish refugees, many of them artists and intellectuals, who must either starve or eke out an impoverished and sometimes degraded living, but they are determined to live intelligently, upholding the high culture, humor, and even, insofar as they can, the elegance of their former lives. Master storyteller Angel Wagenstein crafts an intense narrative of life and death, passionate love, and profound courage against the backdrop of the war and the millions of lives caught up in it.
The Adventures Of Ma Suzhen
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Author : Paul Bevan
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2022-01-01
The Adventures Of Ma Suzhen written by Paul Bevan and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-01 with Social Science categories.
The comic novel, The Adventures of Ma Suzhen, was written during a highpoint in the popularity of xia “knight-errant” fiction. It is an action-packed tale of a young woman who takes revenge for her brother, Ma Yongzhen, a gangster and performing strongman, who has been murdered by a rival gang in China’s most cosmopolitan city, Shanghai. After publication of the book in 1923, the character of Ma Suzhen appeared on stage, and subsequently in a film made by the Mingxing Film Company. The book version translated here, displays a delightful combination of the xia and popular“Mandarin Ducks and Butterflies” genres, with additional elements of Gong’an “court case” fiction. The translation is followed by an essay that explores the background to the legend of Ma Suzhen – a fictional figure, whose exhilarating escapades reflect some of the new possibilities and freedoms available to women following the founding of the Chinese Republic.
The Concubine Of Shanghai
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Author : Ying Hong
language : en
Publisher: Marion Boyars Publishers
Release Date : 2008
The Concubine Of Shanghai written by Ying Hong and has been published by Marion Boyars Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Fiction categories.
"Like all Hong Ying's work, K is written with a wonderfully intense simplicity--it's tough, uncompromising, direct and tense with strong emotion, but also full of poetry and grace."--Andrew Motion Sold by her uncle in 1907 to the First Salon of Gifted Girls, a reputable brothel, sixteen-year-old Cassia is plucked from the ranks of servant girl by a powerful client. Power Chang is the boss of the fearsome Shanghai Triad. In spite of her large feet and pendulous breasts, both unbound, Cassia swiftly becomes his favorite mistress and enjoys her first passionate encounters as well as her first taste of luxurious living. The story follows Cassia after the violent death of Power Chang and her subsequent rise to "godmother" of Shanghai. She not only seduces the next Triad boss, Huang, after he hears her opera troupe, but also his lacky, Yu, who replaces the murdered Huang as the next Triad leader. This novel will appeal to anyone interested in China, triad politics and history, and the position of women as sexual slaves to men in Shanghai's houses of ill repute. Hong Ying grew up in the 1960s in the slums of Chongquing on the Yangtze River in China. An author and poetess, she is best known in the English-speaking world for her novels K: The Art of Love, Peacock Cries, Summer of Betrayal, and her autobiography, Daughter of the River.
Shanghai Girls Uncensored Unsentimental
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Author : Lan Lan
language : en
Publisher: Make Do Publishing
Release Date : 2010
Shanghai Girls Uncensored Unsentimental written by Lan Lan and has been published by Make Do Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Man-woman relationships categories.
In the book, Shanghai-based American Mina Hanbury-Tenison learns from her friend Lan Lan the secrets of how Shanghai ladies use their feminine wiles to nab the desirable and wealthy. A classic example of a Shanghai Girl who has reached stellar heights from humble beginnings, Lan Lan has been married three times, each time to a husband who was "richer than the previous," (she would like to point out), but is currently single.
Sherlock In Shanghai
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Author : Xiaoqing Cheng
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 2006-10-31
Sherlock In Shanghai written by Xiaoqing Cheng 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 2006-10-31 with Literary Collections categories.
Shanghai in the 1920s and 1930s—"the Paris of the Orient"—was both a glittering metropolis and a shadowy world of crime and social injustice. It was also home to Huo Sang and Bao Lang, fictional Chinese counterparts to Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. The duo lived in a spacious apartment on Aiwen Road, where Huo Sang played the violin (badly) and smoked Golden Dragon cigarettes as he mulled over his cases. Cheng Xiaoqing (1893–1976), "The Grand Master" of twentieth-century Chinese detective fiction, had first encountered Conan Doyle’s highly popular stories as an adolescent. In the ensuing years he played a major role in rendering them first into classical and later into vernacular Chinese. In the late 1910s, Cheng began writing detective fiction very much in Conan Doyle’s style, with Bao as the Watson-like-I narrator—a still rare instance of so direct an appropriation from foreign fiction. Cheng Xiaoqing wrote detective stories to introduce the advantages of critical thinking to his readers, to encourage them to be skeptical and think deeply, because truth often lies beneath surface appearances. His attraction to the detective fiction genre can be traced to its reconciliation of the traditional and the modern. In "The Shoe," Huo Sang solves the case with careful reasoning, while "The Other Photograph" and "On the Huangpu" blend this reasoning with a sensationalism reminiscent of traditional Chinese fiction. "The Odd Tenant" and "The Examination Paper" also demonstrate the folly of first impressions. "At the Ball" and "Cat’s-Eye" feature the South-China Swallow, a master thief who, like other outlaws in traditional tales, steals only from the rich and powerful. "One Summer Night" clearly shows Cheng’s strategy of captivating his Chinese readers with recognizably native elements even as he espouses more globalized views of truth and justice.
Women Playing Men
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Author : Jin Jiang
language : en
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Release Date : 2009-04-01
Women Playing Men written by Jin Jiang and has been published by University of Washington Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-04-01 with History categories.
This ground-breaking volume documents women's influence on popular culture in twentieth-century China by examining Yue opera. A subgenre of Chinese opera, it migrated from the countryside to urban Shanghai and morphed from its traditional all-male form into an all-female one, with women cross-dressing as male characters for a largely female audience.
Muscles In The Movies
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Author : John D. Fair
language : en
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Release Date : 2020-11-16
Muscles In The Movies written by John D. Fair and has been published by University of Missouri Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-16 with Art categories.
John Fair and David Chapman tell the story of how filmmakers use and manipulate the appearance and performances of muscular men and women to enhance the appeal of their productions. The authors show how this practice, deeply rooted in western epistemological traditions, evolved from the art of photography through magic lantern and stage shows into the motion picture industry, arguing that the sight of muscles in action induced a higher degree of viewer entertainment. From Eugen Sandow to Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, muscular actors appear capable of performing the miraculous, and with the aid of stuntmen and filming contrivances, they do. By such means, muscles are used to perfect the art of illusion, inherent in movie-making from its earliest days.
Journal Of The Shanghai Literary And Scientific Society
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1919
Journal Of The Shanghai Literary And Scientific Society written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1919 with China categories.
Film Year Book
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1938
Film Year Book written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1938 with Motion pictures categories.