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The Ten Thousand Things
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Author : Maria Dermoût
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1983
The Ten Thousand Things written by Maria Dermoût and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Grief categories.
After her son is murdered by the natives, Felicia "expresses her grief in a personal ritual of remembering her son and others who have died violently on the island, including those she 'knows' only through the island's oral history. Each year she marks the deaths in an act of commemoration that becomes, finally, a celebration of life."--Jacket.
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Author : Maria Dermout
language : en
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Release Date : 2014-11-25
The Ten Thousand Things written by Maria Dermout and has been published by New York Review of Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-25 with Fiction categories.
In Wild, Cheryl Strayed writes of The Ten Thousand Things: "Each of Dermoût’s sentences came at me like a soft knowing dagger, depicting a far-off land that felt to me like the blood of all the places I used to love.” And it's true, The Ten Thousand Things is at once novel of shimmering strangeness—and familiarity. It is the story of Felicia, who returns with her baby son from Holland to the Spice Islands of Indonesia, to the house and garden that were her birthplace, over which her powerful grandmother still presides. There Felicia finds herself wedded to an uncanny and dangerous world, full of mystery and violence, where objects tell tales, the dead come and go, and the past is as potent as the present. First published in Holland in 1955, Maria Dermoût's novel was immediately recognized as a magical work, like nothing else Dutch—or European—literature had seen before. The Ten Thousand Things is an entranced vision of a far-off place that is as convincingly real and intimate as it is exotic, a book that is at once a lament and an ecstatic ode to nature and life.
The Ten Thousand Things Winner Of The Walter Scott Prize For Historical Fiction
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Author : John Spurling
language : en
Publisher: Prelude Books
Release Date : 2014-04-24
The Ten Thousand Things Winner Of The Walter Scott Prize For Historical Fiction written by John Spurling and has been published by Prelude Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-24 with Fiction categories.
Winner of the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction (2015), The Ten Thousand Things takes us on a journey across fated meetings, grand battles and riveting drama. In the turbulent final years of the Yuan Dynasty, Wang Meng is a low-level bureaucrat employed by the government of Mongol conquerors established by the Kublai Khan. Though he wonders about his own complicity with this regime he prefers not to dwell on his official duties, choosing instead to live the life of the mind. Wang is an extraordinarily gifted artist and his paintings are at once delicate and confident; in them one can see the wind blowing through the trees, the water rushing through rocky valleys, the infinite expanse of China's natural beauty. But this is not a time for sitting still as Wang must soon travel through an empire in turmoil. In his wanderings he encounters master painters, a fierce female warrior known as the White Tigress who will recruit him as a military strategist, and an ugly young Buddhist monk who rises from beggary to extraordinary heights. The Ten Thousand Things seamlessly fuses the epic and the intimate with the precision and depth that the real-life Wang Meng brought to his painting. ***PRAISE FOR THE TEN THOUSAND THINGS*** 'It has the sort of sensual prose that makes the reader purr with delight and is surely destined to be one of the books of the year.' The Daily Mail 'Spurling has mastered many aspects of Chinese history and legend.' Times Literary Supplement 'Told by Wang from the cell into which he has been thrust in his old age, the story of his career becomes an intelligent, graceful meditation on the difficulties of reconciling spiritual life with the material world.' The Sunday Times 'I've never read anything like it... great feats of scholarship and imagination have gone into making these people, so distant from us in space and time' Literary Review 'This intricately wrought study of medieval Chinese scholar-artists is wonderfully well imagined.' The Spectator 'It is ostensibly a historical novel, but Spurling has in fact written a love letter to Chinese art.' New Statesman This is a remarkable novel that deserves to be read slowly and savoured as one would a stunning landscape or a beautiful painting.' Herald Scotland 'Those who appreciate a subtle, thoughtful narrative, and are willing to engage with the kind of philosophical questions that are as relevant today as they were in 14th-century China, will relish every page of it.' BBC History magazine 'In this immersive tale of a landscape artist's life, written with restrained lyricism, John Spurling has also given us an entertaining and insightful study about the art of nature, and the nature of art.' Tan Twan Eng, author of The Garden of Evening Mists
Ten Thousand Things
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Author : Judith Farquhar
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2012-04-17
Ten Thousand Things written by Judith Farquhar and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-17 with History categories.
Examines the myriad ways contemporary residents of Beijing understand and nurture the good life, practice the embodied arts of everyday well-being, and in doing so draw on cultural resources ranging from ancient metaphysics to modern media.
Ten Thousand Things
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Author : Lothar Ledderose
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2023-10-17
Ten Thousand Things written by Lothar Ledderose 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 2023-10-17 with Art categories.
An incomparable look at how Chinese artists have used mass production to assemble exquisite objects from standardized parts Chinese workers in the third century BC created seven thousand life-sized terracotta soldiers to guard the tomb of the First Emperor. In the eleventh century AD, Chinese builders constructed a pagoda from as many as thirty thousand separately carved wooden pieces. As these examples show, throughout history, Chinese artisans have produced works of art in astonishing quantities, and have done so without sacrificing quality, affordability, or speed of manufacture. In this book, Lothar Ledderose takes us on a remarkable tour of Chinese art and culture to explain how artists used complex systems of mass production to assemble extraordinary objects from standardized parts or modules. He reveals how these systems have deep roots in Chinese thought and reflect characteristically Chinese modes of social organization. Combining invaluable aesthetic and cultural insights with a rich variety of illustrations, Ten Thousand Things make a profound statement about Chinese art and society.
The Ten Thousand Things
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Author : Maria Dermoût
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1958
The Ten Thousand Things written by Maria Dermoût and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1958 with Dutch fiction categories.
In Wild, Cheryl Strayed writes of The Ten Thousand Things: "Each of Dermoût's sentences came at me like a soft knowing dagger, depicting a far-off land that felt to me like the blood of all the places I used to love." And it's true, The Ten Thousand Things is at once novel of shimmering strangeness -- and familiarity. It is the story of Felicia, who returns with her baby son from Holland to the Spice Islands of Indonesia, to the house and garden that were her birthplace, over which her powerful grandmother still presides. There Felicia finds herself wedded to an uncanny and dangerous world, full of mystery and violence, where objects tell tales, the dead come and go, and the past is as potent as the present. First published in Holland in 1955, Maria Dermoût's novel was immediately recognized as a magical work, like nothing else Dutch -- or European -- literature had seen before. The Ten Thousand Things is an entranced vision of a far-off place that is as convincingly real and intimate as it is exotic, a book that is at once a lament and an ecstatic ode to nature and life.
The Ten Thousand Things
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Author : Glenn Martin
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2011-03-01
The Ten Thousand Things written by Glenn Martin and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-01 with Fiction categories.
Glenn Martin's first novel tells the story of a man's journey towards leadership, a story that takes us into the heart of the I Ching and its universal values. A man comes to a leadership position after a series of life-shaping experiences. He brings with him as a companion the I Ching, the ancient Chinese book of changes. He faces an immediate crisis, when the president is arrested for embezzling all the funds, but he brings the organisation back from collapse, building it up even as he learns how to be a good leader and manager. However, enemies arrive with a destructive agenda and it suddenly seems as if he and everything he has built up will be destroyed. In the midst of it all, the I Ching offers its wisdom and calls him to be his best self. So he strives to lead effectively and ethically, and find the joy that lies at the heart of all things. And along the way there is love.
The Crafting Of The 10 000 Things
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Author : Dagmar Schäfer
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2011-05-15
The Crafting Of The 10 000 Things written by Dagmar Schäfer and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-15 with History categories.
The chapters in this book cover 'Asian Studies: East Asia' 'Biography and Letters', 'History: Asian History', 'History European History', 'History of Science', 'Literature and Literary Criticism: Asian Languages', and much more.
Depending On No Thing
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Author : Robert Saltzman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-11-09
Depending On No Thing written by Robert Saltzman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-09 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
Continuing conversations with Robert Saltzman, an extensive follow-up to his first book, The Ten Thousand Things. Robert writes: "I find myself astounded by the unexpected nature of this aliveness, astonished by this apparently ceaseless bubbling up of phenomena as one moment flows into the next. To feel this aliveness directly puts the lie to any metaphysics that claims to separate real from unreal or otherwise to define this."
The Mother Of Ten Thousand Things
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Author : Alexander Roussel
language : en
Publisher: Booktango
Release Date : 2014-01-20
The Mother Of Ten Thousand Things written by Alexander Roussel and has been published by Booktango this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-20 with Fiction categories.
Evelyn Doorn is a young girl lost in a world of magic and dark secrets. She is thrust into the middle of a land where good and evil have long battled over control. The few remaining rebels for the cause of the rightful ruler fight against powerful oppressors. Evelyn is caught in the middle of an age-old feud, one that's only hope for any end are rumors and promises of coming revolution. Experience the magical, the vile, and the truly extraordinary as Evelyn searches for a way back home from this place called Orvia, in The Mother of Ten Thousand Things.