Shanghai Surprise
Author: Tony Kenrick
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 1986-10-07
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780140094053
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The Shanghai Madonna
Author: Daniel Dundon
Publisher: Exposed
Published: 2010-07
Total Pages: 1
ISBN-13: 1936400065
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"The Shanghai Madonna" is a story on two levels. It is a romance inspired by a true story and a work of historical fiction reflecting decades of Chinese exploitation by foreign nations. Set primarily in China between 1930 and 1949, readers follow the lives of a stubborn Italian marine and a resourceful Russian exile who fall love amid war, economic upheaval and ethnic tension. When the two lovers in this improbable romance are separated, they struggle for survival amid ruthless Japanese aggression followed by a violent Communist revolution. Unwittingly they become central characters in an international incident pitting the United States against the Chinese Communist government bringing both countries to the brink of war. "The Shanghai Madonna," which won first place in the 2009 Florida Writers Association competition for historical fiction, is a graphic reminder of the turbulent history that shaped the China of today. For other books by Daniel Dundon go to www.dundonbooks.com
Goose and Tomtom
Author: David Rabe
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9780573662317
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Author: Roman Malek
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2022-11-12
Total Pages: 442
ISBN-13: 1351545647
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This collection in five volumes tries to realize the desideratum of a comprehensive interdisciplinary work on the manifold faces and images of Jesus in China, which unites the Sinological, mission-historical, theological, art-historical, and other aspects. The first three volumes (vols. L/1-3) contain articles and texts which discuss the faces and images of Jesus Christ from the Tang dynasty to the present time. In a separate volume (vol. L/4) follows an annotated bibliography of the Western and Chinese writings on Jesus Christ in China and a general index with glossary. The iconography, i.e., the attempts of the Western missionaries and the Chinese to portray Jesus in an artistic way, will be presented in the fifth volume of this collection (vol. L/5).
Life with My Sister Madonna
Author: Christopher Ciccone
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2008-07-14
Total Pages: 355
ISBN-13: 1439109265
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Madonna up close, by the brother who knows her better than anyone. Christopher Ciccone's extraordinary memoir is based on his forty-seven years of growing up with, working with, and understanding the most famous woman of our time, who has intrigued, scandalized, and entertained millions for half a century. Through most of the iconic star's kaleidoscopic career, Christopher played an important role in her life: as her backup dancer, her personal assistant, her dresser, her decorator, her art director, her tour director. If you think you know everything there is to know about Madonna, you are wrong. Only Christopher can tell the full scale, riveting untold story behind Madonna's carefully constructed mythology, and the real woman behind the glittering façade. From their shared Michigan childhood, which Madonna transcended, then whisked Christopher to Manhattan with her in the early eighties, where he slept on her roach-infested floor and danced with her in clubs all over town -- Christopher was with her every step of the way, experiencing her first hand in all her incarnations. The spoiled daddy's girl, the punk drummer, the raunchy Boy Toy, Material Girl, Mrs. Sean Penn, Warren Beatty's glamorous Hollywood paramour, loving mother, Mrs. Guy Ritchie, English grande dame -- Christopher witnessed and understood all of them, as his own life was inexorably entwined with that of his chameleon sister. He tangled with a cast of characters from artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, to Gwyneth Paltrow, Kate Moss, Demi Moore, and, of course, Guy Ritchie, whose advent in Madonna's life splintered the loving relationship Christopher once had with her. The mirror image of his legendary sister, with his acid Ciccone tongue, Christopher pulls no punches as he tells his astonishing story. Life with My Sister Madonna is the juicy, can't-put-it-down story you've always wanted to hear, as told by Madonna's younger brother.
Madonna
Author: Andrew Morton
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 0312287860
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The explosive "New York Times" bestseller, written by the biographer of Princess Diana, chronicles the life of one of the most remarkable women of the century. This unauthorized biography spans two decades of Madonna's life and ranges from the scandalous to the transcendent, revealing the private woman behind the public image. of photos. Martin's Press. (May) Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Fiasco
Author: James Robert Parish
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
Published: 2008-05-02
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13: 0470358645
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Raising China's Revolutionaries
Author: Margaret Mih Tillman
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2018-10-02
Total Pages: 375
ISBN-13: 023154622X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A widespread conviction in the need to rescue China’s children took hold in the early twentieth century. Amid political upheaval and natural disasters, neglected or abandoned children became a humanitarian focal point for Sino-Western cooperation and intervention in family life. Chinese academics and officials sought new scientific measures, educational institutions, and social reforms to improve children’s welfare. Successive regimes encouraged teachers to shape children into Qing subjects, Nationalist citizens, or Communist comrades. In Raising China’s Revolutionaries, Margaret Mih Tillman offers a novel perspective on the political and scientific dimensions of experiments with early childhood education from the early Republican period through the first decade of the People’s Republic. She traces transnational advocacy for child welfare and education, examining Christian missionaries, philanthropists, and the role of international relief during World War II. Tillman provides in-depth analysis of similarities and differences between Nationalist and Communist policy and cultural notions of childhood. While both Nationalist and Communist regimes drew on preschool institutions to mobilize the workforce and shape children’s political subjectivity, the Communist regime rejected the Nationalists’ commitment to the modern, bourgeois family. With new insights into the roles of experts, the cultural politics of fundraising, and child welfare as a form of international exchange, Raising China’s Revolutionaries is an important work of institutional and transnational history that illuminates the evolution of modern concepts of childhood in China.
Madonna
Author: Mark Bego
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2000-07-18
Total Pages: 424
ISBN-13: 1461741521
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Faraday's Flowers
Author: Tony Kenrick
Publisher:
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780340402733
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