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Wish Lanterns
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Author : Alec Ash
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2017-03-07
Wish Lanterns written by Alec Ash 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 2017-03-07 with History categories.
“One of the best [books] I’ve read about the individuals who make up a country that is all too often regarded as a monolith.” —Jonathan Fenby, Financial Times If China will rule the world one day, who will rule China? There are more than 320 million Chinese between the ages of sixteen and thirty. Children of the one-child policy, born after Mao, with no memory of the Tiananmen Square massacre, they are the first net native generation to come of age in a market-driven, more international China. Their experiences and aspirations were formed in a radically different country from the one that shaped their elders, and their lives will decide the future of their nation and its place in the world. Wish Lanterns offers a deep dive into the life stories of six young Chinese. Dahai is a military child, netizen, and self-styled loser. Xiaoxiao is a hipster from the freezing north. “Fred,” born on the tropical southern island of Hainan, is the daughter of a Party official, while Lucifer is a would-be international rock star. Snail is a country boy and Internet gaming addict, and Mia is a fashionista rebel from far west Xinjiang. Following them as they grow up, go to college, find work and love, all the while navigating the pressure of their parents and society, Wish Lanterns paints a vivid portrait of Chinese youth culture and of a millennial generation whose struggles and dreams reflect the larger issues confronting China today.
Chinese Lanterns
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Author : Margie Hiermer
language : en
Publisher: Eigramm, LLC
Release Date : 2016-07-05
Chinese Lanterns written by Margie Hiermer and has been published by Eigramm, LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-05 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"She claimed her spot on the transplanter and laughed and bounced across the fields, an eighty--year-old Big Bird figure with hefty boobs and a potty mouth..." She was everyone's favorite. Get to know Ohio's most spirited firecracker, Leona "Loany" Rice, who splits her time on earth sampling life on both sides of the law. Her niece gives us an inside look at a notorious bookie and numbers racketeer, talk of the town, fireworks distributor, "Granny" to the mentally disabled, farmhand, loving mother--a perpetual "fart in a twister" who never seems to stand still. Even after a family tragedy threatens to destroy her, she finds a way to persevere. Loany lived as we all wish to, with abandon, humor, and just the right amount of sass; and she did it all with the love of her life by her side. Her legacy was to teach all who knew her a lesson: you only live once--and by God, once is enough if you give it all you've got. Margie Hiermer's love of adventure comes from country bike rides to Goldhardt's Grocery as a child to visit Aunt "Loany," a woman more grandmother than grand-aunt. Hiermer brings her passion for engaging with others to her writing and winds down by poking around farm fields in search of treasure.
Sky Lantern
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Author : Matt Mikalatos
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2016-11-15
Sky Lantern written by Matt Mikalatos 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 2016-11-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"Matt Mikalatos offers a poignant and compassionate look at a father's relationship with his children, the healing power of a small act of kindness, and the certainty that even death can't stop love in a deeply moving memoir inspired by a sky lantern with a scribbled note and the journey to find the child who wrote it: Love you, Daddy. Miss you so much. Steph. Steph scribbled those words on a sky lantern before sending it off to her father in heaven who had passed away from cancer. Halfway across the country, Steph's lantern landed in Matt Mikalatos's yard. As a father of three daughters, Matt could not let Steph's note go unanswered, so he posted an open letter to her on his blog. Matt never could have expected the viral response to his letter that led him on a journey to find Steph--and to bring healing to thousands of others in desperate need of the loving words of a father. Filled with paternal wisdom and reflections on the relationship between a father and his child, Sky Lantern shows how the miraculous events that followed Matt finding the sky lantern in his yard--and the widespread and lasting impact his letter had--prove that the bond between a parent and their child is everlasting"--
When You Wish Upon A Lantern
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Author : Gloria Chao
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2023-02-14
When You Wish Upon A Lantern written by Gloria Chao and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-02-14 with Young Adult Fiction categories.
Acclaimed author Gloria Chao creates real-world magic in this luminous romance about teens who devote themselves to granting other people's wishes but are too afraid to let themselves have their own hearts' desires—each other. Liya and Kai had been best friends since they were little kids, but all that changed when a humiliating incident sparked The Biggest Misunderstanding of All Time—and they haven’t spoken since. Then Liya discovers her family's wishing lantern store is struggling, and she decides to resume a tradition she had with her beloved late grandmother: secretly fulfilling the wishes people write on the lanterns they send into the sky. It may boost sales and save the store, but she can't do it alone . . . and Kai is the only one who cares enough to help. While working on their covert missions, Liya and Kai rekindle their friendship—and maybe more. But when their feuding families and changing futures threaten to tear them apart again, can they find a way to make their own wishes come true?
China S New Youth
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Author : Alec Ash
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2020-06-02
China S New Youth written by Alec Ash 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 2020-06-02 with History categories.
“Paints a telling portrait of this most restless generation raised in a system that has provided them with unprecedented personal opportunities while denying them political ones. . . . A gifted observer.”—Washington Post "Informative and often humorous . . . Presents a refreshing range of perspectives about being twenty-something in China."—Forbes “Masterfully crafted.”—Los Angeles Review of Books “A perceptive and quietly profound book.”—Booklist, starred review "Compelling and beautifully written."—Prospect China’s new youth are the generation that will change China. Offspring of the one-child policy, with no memory of Tiananmen, they are destined to transform both their nation and the world. Understanding their motivations, dreams, and attitudes is possibly the most important gauge of China’s future direction as it plays an increasingly important role in shaping this century. China’s New Youth follows the lives of six young Chinese as they navigate their aspirations, discontents, politics, and love lives. Their stories include a netizen nationalist, a country migrant, the daughter of a Party member, a rising pop star, and a feminist entrepreneur. With intimate access to this diverse generation, Alec Ash—a young writer based in China since 2012—gives a vivid, immersive, fascinating account of young China as it comes of age. China's New Youth was originally published in hardcover until the title Wish Lanterns: Young Lives in New China. The new paperback edition has been updated with a new preface and afterword by the author and a new foreword by Karoline Kan.
Playing With Lanterns
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Author : Wang Yage
language : en
Publisher: Amazon Crossing Kids
Release Date : 2021-12-07
Playing With Lanterns written by Wang Yage and has been published by Amazon Crossing Kids this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-07 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Zhao Di wishes the New Year would never end! Zhao Di and her friends are excited to go out at night with their paper lanterns and celebrate Chinese New Year. Each holding a unique colorful lantern with a lit candle inside, they admire the breathtaking colors while doing their best to avoid the wind and the sneaky boys in the village. Every night, until the fifteenth day of New Year, Zhao Di and her friends take part in this fun tradition, experiencing the thrill of nighttime in their village. And then--it's time to smash the lanterns! In this cheerful book first published in China, readers are invited along with Zhao Di and her friends as they experience all the joy and excitement of this folk Chinese custom. Details about the paper lantern tradition are also included in an author's note at the end of the book.
Celebrate Chinese New Year
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Author : Carolyn Otto
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Kids
Release Date : 2009
Celebrate Chinese New Year written by Carolyn Otto and has been published by National Geographic Kids this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with China categories.
Simple text and color images present various aspects of the Chinese New Year celebration, including red decorations, the exchange of poems, Festival of Lanterns, Dragon Dance, fireworks, parades, feasts, and the remembrance of ancestors.
Golden Domes And Silver Lanterns
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Author : Hena Khan
language : en
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Release Date : 2012-06-06
Golden Domes And Silver Lanterns written by Hena Khan and has been published by Chronicle Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-06 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
In simple rhyming text a young Muslim girl and her family guide the reader through the traditions and colors of Islam. Full color.
The Magic Lantern At Work
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Author : Martyn Jolly
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-01-20
The Magic Lantern At Work written by Martyn Jolly and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-20 with History categories.
For centuries, various new media technologies have provided individuals with a set of powerful tools to affect their audiences. Among these the magic lantern show was perhaps the most pervasive, and persuasive. Around the world audiences gathered together in darkened rooms to see a sequence of projected images transition one into another as they listened to personal stories or scripted narrations. Through the power of the magic lantern audiences, for the first time, became the direct witnesses to distant, often traumatic, political events; they visually learned new scientific and medical knowledge, virtually experienced distant places, and collectively experienced strange, often uncanny, phenomena. Although relatively neglected until recently, the apparatus of the magic lantern is now receiving the attention it deserves from historians, curators and artists. Through a set of case studies focusing on the use of the magic lantern by very different, but equally fascinating individuals, a team of international scholars analyses the emerging power of the lantern show in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries within politics, religion, travel, science, health, marketing and entertainment. The magic lantern’s connections to today’s multimedia environments are explored through the intertwined themes of connecting, experiencing, witnessing and persuading.
Moonlight
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Author : Nikki Chartier
language : en
Publisher: Nicole Chartier
Release Date : 2017-10-13
Moonlight written by Nikki Chartier and has been published by Nicole Chartier this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-13 with Young Adult Fiction categories.
Nowhere on Aralie Branson’s summer agenda did it say she would be hiding the most famous boy band in the world, Spaceships Around Saturn, in her house. But since her dad’s impromptu offer to hide the band after a shooting, that’s exactly what she’s doing. Instead of pool parties and punk rock concerts, she’s spending her days at war with the band’s “bad boy,” Julian Rossi. He’s everything she hates about the music industry with his lame piercing, lack of tattoos, and fake black hair. But even with their laundry fights and screamed profanities, Jules is intrigued about the girl behind the black nail polish and zombie activism posters. And while Aralie would never say the words out loud, she’s a little curious about the wannabe bad boy too. In this retelling of Starlight, experience the other side of lockdown from Aralie’s point of view! (Author’s note: This book was previously published as American Girl VS Saturn under the author’s maiden name, Nikki Godwin.) *Note: This book can be read as a stand alone novel.*