White Snake and Other Stories
Author: Geling Yan
Publisher: Aunt Lute Books
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →First collection published in English by major, multiple award-winning Chinese writer Yan Geling.
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The Global White Snake
Author: Liang Luo
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2021-08-09
Total Pages: 403
ISBN-13: 0472038605
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Tracing the history and adaptation of one of China's foundational texts
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Publisher: Pan Asian Publications (USA)
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781572270749
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A picture book, focusing on the Asia Paciflic region.
The Global White Snake
Author: Liang Luo
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2021-08-09
Total Pages: 403
ISBN-13: 0472129155
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Global White Snake examines the Chinese White Snake legends and their extensive, multidirectional travels within Asia and across the globe. Such travels across linguistic and cultural boundaries have generated distinctive traditions as the White Snake has been reinvented in the Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and English-speaking worlds, among others. Moreover, the inter-Asian voyages and global circulations of the White Snake legends have enabled them to become repositories of diverse and complex meanings for a great number of people, serving as reservoirs for polyphonic expressions ranging from the attempts to consolidate authoritarian power to the celebrations of minority rights and activism. The Global White Snake uncovers how the White Snake legend often acts as an unsettling narrative of radical tolerance for hybrid sexualities, loving across traditional boundaries, subverting authority, and valuing the strange and the uncanny. A timely mediation and reflection on our contemporary moment of continued struggle for minority rights and social justice, The Global White Snake revives the radical anti-authoritarian spirit slithering under the tales of monsters and demons, love and lust, and reminds us of the power of the fantastic and the fabulous in inspiring and empowering personal and social transformations.
The White Snake and Other Stories
Author: Sigrid Mordi
Publisher:
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9789781671685
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The White Snake and Her Son
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Publisher: Hackett Publishing
Published: 2009-09-01
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 1603842144
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A cornerstone of Chinese popular culture, the legend of the White Snake--the admirable demon who loves her victim--has been continually rewritten, reinterpreted, and readapted for over five hundred years. The Precious Scroll of Thunder Peak was one of the most popular nineteenth-century versions of the legend. In bringing together translations of the Scroll, four anonymous youth books, and other texts related to the development of the White Snake legend, this volume opens a window into the richness and variety of premodern Chinese popular literature. It also illustrates the ways in which traditional and modern Chinese societies have treated a host of vital cultural issues, including the role of women in society, perceptions of sexuality, and folk religion. Wilt L. Idema's Introduction traces the evolution of the legend and places the translated texts in the history of Chinese popular literature and culture. Annotations explaining terms and references that may be unfamiliar to Western readers, a glossary, and a thorough bibliography further enhance the value of this book for both scholars and students.
Snake Sisters and Ghost Daughters
Author: Cathy Yue Wang
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 2023-08-29
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 0814348645
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Politics and paradigm shifts underlying contemporary retellings of fantastic traditional Chinese tales.
Rethinking Chinese Socialist Theaters of Reform
Author: Xiaomei Chen
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2021-03-01
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 0472128515
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The profound political, economic, and social changes in China in the second half of the twentieth century have produced a wealth of scholarship; less studied however is how cultural events, and theater reforms in particular, contributed to the dynamic landscape of contemporary Chinese society. Rethinking Chinese Socialist Theaters of Reform fills this gap by investigating the theories and practice of socialist theater and their effects on a diverse range of genres, including Western-style spoken drama, Chinese folk opera, dance drama, Shanghai opera, Beijing opera, and rural theater. Focusing on the 1950s and ’60s, when theater art occupied a prominent political and cultural role in Maoist China, this book examines the efforts to remake theater in a socialist image. It explores the unique dynamics between official discourse, local politics, performance practice, and audience reception that emerged under the pressures of highly politicized cultural reform as well as the off-stage, lived impact of rapid policy change on individuals and troupes obscured by the public record. This multidisciplinary collection by leading scholars covers a wide range of perspectives, geographical locations, specific research methods, genres of performance, and individual knowledge and experience. The richly diverse approach leads readers through a nuanced and complex cultural landscape as it contributes significantly to our understanding of a crucial period in the development of modern Chinese theater and performance.
The Gold of the Sunbeams
Author: Tito Rajarshi Mukhopadhyay
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2011-11-01
Total Pages: 163
ISBN-13: 1628722207
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Diagnosed as severely autistic at the age of three, Tito, nearly nonverbal, was brought up by his loving moth-er Soma, who taught him to read English and challenged him to write his own stories. The initial result was The Mind Tree, published in 2003, which Tito wrote between the ages of eight and eleven. The Gold of the Sunbeams is an equally impressive, beautiful collection of stories, each prefaced by a charming note from Tito explaining how the story came into being. Above all, this is the work of a true poet.
THE WHITE SNAKE - A Dutch Fairy Tale
Author: Anon E. Mouse
Publisher: Abela Publishing Ltd
Published: 2018-11-17
Total Pages: 29
ISBN-13: 882837750X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 453 In this 453rd issue of the Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the Eastern Fairy Tale of “The White Snake.” A long, long time ago and far, far away, lived a king who had a secret, but no one knew what the secret was. One servant, curious about the secret plotted to find out what it was. One day the Queen last her wedding ring and using his new-found knowledge recovered it for her. The king decided to reward the young man and asked him what he wanted. The young man replied a horse and some money as he wished to travel the world. But then what happened you may ask? Was the servant’s wish granted? How far did he travel and was he kind to the people he met along the way. How did everything turn out in the end? Well, you’ll have to download and read this story to find out for yourself. =========== Baba Indaba is a fictitious Zulu storyteller who narrates children's stories from around the world. Baba Indaba translates as "Father of Stories". Each issue also has a "WHERE IN THE WORLD - LOOK IT UP" section, where young readers are challenged to look up a place on a map somewhere in the world. The place, town or city is relevant to the story. HINT - all places can be found using Google maps. In looking up these place names, using Google Maps, it is our hope that young people will click on the images and do further investigations about the people who live in these towns in order to gain an understanding of the many and varied cultures from around the world. Through such an exercise, it is also our hope that young people will not only increase their knowledge of world geography but also increase their appreciation and tolerance of other peoples and cultures. BUY ANY of the 460+ BABA INDABA CHILDREN’S STORIES here on Google Play or at https://goo.gl/65LXNM INCLUDES LINKS TO DOWNLOAD 8 FREE STORIES 10% of the profit from the sale of this book will be donated to charities. ============ KEYWORDS/TAGS: Baba Indaba, Children’s stories, Childrens, Folklore, Fairy, Folk, Tales, bedtime story, legends, storyteller, fables, moral tales, myths, happiness, laughter, The White snake, King, Queen, Princess, servant, , Ant-King, Apple, beautiful, chatter, conquer, creatures, Daughter, dish, feathers, fish, fishes, forfeit, garden, gold, Golden, good, good-for-nothing, great, heard, heart, hop, horse, horseback, innocent, King, kingdom, lament, Life, listen, millet-seed, overcome, Princess, Prince. Queen, ravens, ring, rustle, sacks, sea, Snake, sparrows, succeed, swim, three, tomorrow, travel, whisper, window, woods, young, youth, journey, secret, hear, Childrens Book
