The Shadow Book Of Ji Yun
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The Shadow Book Of Ji Yun
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Author : Ji Yun
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-12-08
The Shadow Book Of Ji Yun written by Ji Yun and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-08 with categories.
Imagine if H.P. Lovecraft were Chinese and his tales were true. Or if a national, political figure like Benjamin Franklin was also a paranormal investigator, one who wrote up his investigations with a chilling, story-telling flair that reads like a combination of Franz Kafka and Zhuangzi. In China, a figure existed in the eighteenth century who was a little bit of both these things. Special Advisor to the emperor, Head of the Department of War, Imperial Librarian, and one of the most celebrated scholars and poets of his time, his name was Ji Yun. Beginning in 1789, Ji Yun published five volumes of weird tales that combined supernatural and frequently moving autobiographical accounts with early speculative fictions. By turns darkly comic, terrifying, and transcendentally mystical, they revolutionized Chinese speculative and horror fiction AND nonfiction, and portrayed a China never before depicted: one poised between old ways and new, where repeating rifles shared the world with Tibetan black-magic, Jesuit astronomers rubbed elbows with cosmic horrors, and a vibrant sex trade of the reanimated dead was conducted in the night. Combining insights into Chinese magic and metaphysics with tales of cannibal villages, sentient fogs, and alien encounters; as well as nightmarish narratives of soul swapping, haunted cities, and fox spirits; no other work compares to Ji Yun's. Designed as both entertainment and an occult technology that awakens readers to new dimensions of reality, one cannot walk away from his stories unchanged. The Shadow Book of Ji Yun is a literary translation of Ji Yun's most masterful tales. Awards and Honors of Individual Pieces: *Finalist for the 2020 [Gabriel García Márquez] "Gabo" Award for Literature in Translation *Selected for New England Review's 2020 Haunting and Haunted Issue *Selected for Strange Horizon's "Samovar" quarterly special issue *Nominated as "Best Microfiction" by Cincinnati Review *Nominated as "Best of the Net" by Passages North *Nominated as "Best of the Net" by Cincinnati Review
Zhiguai
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-07-05
Zhiguai written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-05 with categories.
Discover the China that before now was only whispered about in the dark. In this collection, award-winning writers and translators Yi Izzy Yu and John Yu Branscum share paranormal and glitch in the matrix tales from across present-day China. Confided by eyewitnesses, these true stories uncannily echo Western encounters with chilling dimensions of reality and supernatural entities. At the same time, they thrillingly immerse the reader in everyday Chinese life and occult beliefs. Zhiguai: Chinese True Tales of the Paranormal and Glitches in the Matrix includes such accounts as: *The reincarnation of a teenager whose fate eerily mimics his predecessor's *A girl who dies in the womb but nevertheless continues to communicate with her twin *Terrifying shifts into demonic parallel universes *Walls desperately painted with blood to save a family from tragedy *Huge populations that disappear into thin air *The revenge-seeking ghosts of murdered cats *Weird temporal shifts *Occult murders From the terrifying to the uncanny, this collection will not only change your understanding of China but of reality itself.
A Chinese Bestiary
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Author : Richard E. Strassberg
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2018-03-05
A Chinese Bestiary written by Richard E. Strassberg 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 2018-03-05 with Art categories.
A Chinese Bestiary presents a fascinating pageant of mythical creatures from a unique and enduring cosmography written in ancient China. The Guideways through Mountains and Seas, compiled between the fourth and first centuries B.C.E., contains descriptions of hundreds of fantastic denizens of mountains, rivers, islands, and seas, along with minerals, flora, and medicine. The text also represents a wide range of beliefs held by the ancient Chinese. Richard Strassberg brings the Guideways to life for modern readers by weaving together translations from the work itself with information from other texts and recent archaeological finds to create a lavishly illustrated guide to the imaginative world of early China. Unlike the bestiaries of the late medieval period in Europe, the Guideways was not interpreted allegorically; the strange creatures described in it were regarded as actual entities found throughout the landscape. The work was originally used as a sacred geography, as a guidebook for travelers, and as a book of omens. Today, it is regarded as the richest repository of ancient Chinese mythology and shamanistic wisdom. The Guideways may have been illustrated from the start, but the earliest surviving illustrations are woodblock engravings from a rare 1597 edition. Seventy-six of those plates are reproduced here for the first time, and they provide a fine example of the Chinese engraver's art during the late Ming dynasty. This beautiful volume, compiled by a well-known specialist in the field, provides a fascinating window on the thoughts and beliefs of an ancient people, and will delight specialists and general readers alike.
Indian Lust Stories 11
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Author : Constantino Fernandes
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-07-26
Indian Lust Stories 11 written by Constantino Fernandes and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-26 with categories.
Indian lust stories are a collection of erotica stories. Wife cheating encounters with her boss, husband friend, Neighbor, Friend's husband. These complete or incomplete short stories will surely want you crave for more. We are proud to be able to offer a large and fine selection of erotic sex stories. With each written in erotic literature, we're able to provide you with a beautiful collection of hot, erotic, and tasteful erotic sex stories. We ensure that each and every line and word within each sexy story is packed with beautiful, sensual and erotic lovemaking so we know there's something for absolutely everyone. Take your time to read through our finest and most celebrated works of erotica stories today.
A Japanese Mirror
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Author : Ian Buruma
language : en
Publisher: Atlantic Books Ltd
Release Date : 2015-08-06
A Japanese Mirror written by Ian Buruma and has been published by Atlantic Books Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-06 with History categories.
In this scintillating book, Ian Buruma peels away the myths that surround Japanese culture. With piercing analysis of cinema, theatre, television, art and legend, he shows the Japanese both 'as they imagine themselves to be, and as they would like themselves to be.' A Japanese Mirror examines samurai and gangsters, transvestites and goddesses to paint an eloquent picture of life in Japan. This is a country long shrouded in enigma and in his compelling book, Buruma reveals a culture rich in with poetry, beauty and wonder.
When China Rules The World
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Author : Martin Jacques
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2009-11-12
When China Rules The World written by Martin Jacques and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-11-12 with History categories.
Greatly revised and expanded, with a new afterword, this update to Martin Jacques’s global bestseller is an essential guide to understanding a world increasingly shaped by Chinese power Soon, China will rule the world. But in doing so, it will not become more Western. Since the first publication of When China Rules the World, the landscape of world power has shifted dramatically. In the three years since the first edition was published, When China Rules the World has proved to be a remarkably prescient book, transforming the nature of the debate on China. Now, in this greatly expanded and fully updated edition, boasting nearly 300 pages of new material, and backed up by the latest statistical data, Martin Jacques renews his assault on conventional thinking about China’s ascendancy, showing how its impact will be as much political and cultural as economic, changing the world as we know it. First published in 2009 to widespread critical acclaim - and controversy - When China Rules the World: The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order has sold a quarter of a million copies, been translated into eleven languages, nominated for two major literary awards, and is the subject of an immensely popular TED talk.
A Tiger Roars
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Author : Michael Shackelford
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2017-06-17
A Tiger Roars written by Michael Shackelford and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-17 with categories.
Celebrate 50 years of Tae Kwon Do in America, with the life story of Grand Master Jhoon Rhee, the man who brought Tae Kwon Do to America.
Queering Gender Sexuality And Becoming Human In Qing Dynasty Zhiguai
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Author : Thomas William Whyke
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2023-08-23
Queering Gender Sexuality And Becoming Human In Qing Dynasty Zhiguai written by Thomas William Whyke and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-23 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book offers queer readings of Chinese Qing Dynasty zhiguai, ‘strange tales’, a genre featuring supernatural characters and events. In a unique approach interweaving Chinese philosophies alongside critical theories, this book explores tales which speak to contemporary debates around identity and power. Depictions of porous boundaries between humans and animals, transformations between genders, diverse sexualities, and contextually unusual masculinities and femininities, lend such tales to queer readings. Unlike previous scholarship on characters as allegorical figures or stories as morality tales, this book draws on queer theory, animal studies, feminism, and Deleuzian philosophy, to explore the ‘strange’ and its potential for social critique. Examining such tales enriches the scope of historic queer world literatures, offering culturally situated stories of relationships, desires, and ways of being, that both speak to and challenge contemporary debates.
Killing The Dead
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Author : John Blair
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2025-09-09
Killing The Dead written by John Blair and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-09-09 with History categories.
A riveting history of vampire panics across cultures and down through the millennia—and why killing the dead is better than killing the living Killing the Dead provides the first in-depth, global account of one of the world’s most widespread yet misunderstood forms of mass hysteria—the vampire epidemic. In a spellbinding narrative, John Blair takes readers from ancient Mesopotamia to present-day Haiti to explore a macabre frontier of life and death where corpses are believed to wander or do harm from the grave, and where the vampire is a physical expression of society’s inexplicable terrors and anxieties. In 1732, the British public opened their morning papers to read of lurid happenings in eastern Europe. Serbian villagers had dug up several corpses and had found them to be undecayed and bloated with blood. Recognizing the marks of vampirism, they mutilated and burned them. Centuries earlier, the English themselves engaged in the same behavior. In fact, vampire epidemics have flared up throughout history—in ancient Assyria, China, and Rome, medieval and early modern Europe, and the Americas. Blair blends the latest findings in archaeology, anthropology, and psychology with vampire lore from literature and popular culture to show how these episodes occur at traumatic moments in societies that upend all sense of security, and how the European vampire is just one species in a larger family of predatory supernatural entities that includes the female flying demons of Southeast Asia and the lustful yoginīs of India. Richly illustrated, Killing the Dead provocatively argues that corpse-killing, far from being pathological or unhealthy, served as a therapeutic and largely harmless outlet for fear, hatred, and paranoia that would otherwise result in violence against marginalized groups and individuals.
Unquiet Spirits
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Author : Lee Murray
language : en
Publisher: Black Spot Books
Release Date : 2023-02-14
Unquiet Spirits written by Lee Murray and has been published by Black Spot Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-02-14 with Social Science categories.
From hungry ghosts, vampiric babies, and shapeshifting fox spirits to the avenging White Lady of urban legend, for generations, Asian women's roles have been shaped and defined through myth and story. In Unquiet Spirits, Asian writers of horror reflect on the impact of superstition, spirits, and the supernatural in this unique collection of 21 personal essays exploring themes of otherness, identity, expectation, duty, and loss, and leading, ultimately, to understanding and empowerment.