China Mirror
Author: William Boyd
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published:
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 0359896200
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: William Boyd
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published:
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 0359896200
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Roland Michaud
Publisher: Flammarion-Pere Castor
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9782080300607
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →" ... Using the mirror as their motif, photographer-poets Roland and Sabrina Michaud pair traditional Chinese artworks with their own photographs taken over a period of nearly twenty years ..."--Back cover.
Author: Laikwan Pang
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 2007-10-31
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 0824830938
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Distorting Mirror analyzes the multiple and complex ways in which urban Chinese subjects saw themselves interacting with the new visual culture that emerged during the turbulent period between the 1880s and the 1930s. The media and visual forms examined include lithography, photography, advertising, film, and theatrical performances. Urbanites actively engaged with and enjoyed this visual culture, which was largely driven by the subjective desire for the empty promises of modernity—promises comprised of such abstract and fleeting concepts as new, exciting, and fashionable. Detailing and analyzing the trajectories of development of various visual representations, Laikwan Pang emphasizes their interactions. In doing so, she demonstrates that visual modernity was not only a combination of independent cultural phenomena, but also a partially coherent sociocultural discourse whose influences were seen in different and collective parts of the culture. The work begins with an overall historical account and theorization of a new lithographic pictorial culture developing at the end of the nineteenth century and an examination of modernity’s obsession with the investigation of the real. Subsequent chapters treat the fascination with the image of the female body in the new visual culture; entertainment venues in which this culture unfolded and was performed; how urbanites came to terms with and interacted with the new reality; and the production and reception of images, the dynamics between these two being a theme explored throughout the book. Modernity, as the author shows, can be seen as spectacle. At the same time, she demonstrates that, although the excessiveness of this spectacle captivated the modern subject, it did not completely overwhelm or immobilize those who engaged with it. After all, she argues, they participated in and performed with this ephemeral visual culture in an attempt to come to terms with their own new, modern self.
Author: Pamela Kyle Crossley
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2002-04-16
Total Pages: 423
ISBN-13: 0520234243
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A Translucent Mirror explores the origins of nationalism and cultural identity in China, revealing how the Qing dynasty incorporated neighbouring but disparate political traditions into a new style of imperialism.
Author: Michael Farman
Publisher: White Pine Press (NY)
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781935210498
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"A delectable selection of poems by China's greatest women poets in translations of exquisite beauty. A rare achievement!"--Red Pine "Jade Mirror's particular strength comes from the fact that all of its fine translators bring to the work different senses of where poetry is to be found in the originals as well present some of the finest poetic translation of the last twenty years."--Jerome Seaton This anthology spans twenty-five hundred years of writing by women. These are voices that were most often left out of the official anthologies and represent a hidden tradition that deserves a wider audience.
Author: Chihua Wen
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-02-12
Total Pages: 190
ISBN-13: 0429972369
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →These evocative stories bring to life the tragic personal impact of the Cultural Revolution on the families of China's intellectuals. Now adults, survivors recall their childhood during the tumultuous years between 1965 and 1976, when Mao's death finally drew a curtain on a bitterly failed social and political experiment.A series of first-person narratives eloquently describes the life-long influence of this seminal period on China's children. Those who were teenagers in the late 1960s joined the Red Guards and the revolutionary rebel groups, following Mao's directives to make revolution, often to their own undoing. Those who were too young to participate directly were even more vulnerable. Although they had little understanding of the political firestorm that engulfed their parents, they were old enough to understand and feel the terror it brought. Vividly capturing the emotional intensity of the time, these stories explore what it was like to be caught up in revolutionary fervor, to be sent to the countryside, to be separated,either ideologically or physically,from one's parents, often forever.By undermining families and family structure, the Cultural Revolution created a generation of Chinese who view politics, the Communist Party, and life itself with deep cynicism. Presenting a spectrum of individual stories of people who saw the Cultural Revolution through the eyes of a child, The Red Mirror offers rare insights for understanding the crippling legacy of the Cultural Revolution.
Author: Mirra Ginsburg
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 9780152175085
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A retelling of a traditional Korean tale in which a mirror brought from China causes confusion within a family as each member looks in it and sees a different stranger.
Author: Julia K. Murray
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 2007-01-31
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13: 0824830016
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Author: Stephen W. Durrant
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 1995-01-01
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780791426555
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Sima Qian's writings have influenced the Chinese for over 2,000 years and still serve as a fiscal source of historical information about China.