The Sword Or the Needle

The Sword Or the Needle PDF

Author: Roland Altenburger

Publisher: Peter Lang

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 9783034300360

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Focusing on narratives about female knights-errant (xia) along thematic lines in Chinese literacy history, this text provides an overview of the narrative subgenre, the literary representation of gender and the particularities of the Chinese knight-errantry narrative.

Heritage in the Digital Era

Heritage in the Digital Era PDF

Author: Rodanthi Tzanelli

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 0415643805

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What happens to traditional conceptions of heritage in the era of fluid media spaces? Contemporary media allow digital environments to function as transnational classrooms, creating virtual spaces of debate for people with access to televised, cinematic and Internet ideas and networks. This book examines a range of popular cinematic interventions that are reshaping national and global heritage, across Europe, Asia, the Americas and Australasia.

Mulberry and Peach

Mulberry and Peach PDF

Author: Hualing Nie

Publisher: Feminist Press at CUNY

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9781558611825

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A brilliantly crafted picaresque novel, sensual, harrowing and even comic, of an Asian-American woman's exile

The Eleventh Son

The Eleventh Son PDF

Author: Long Gu

Publisher: Homa & Sekey Books

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 1931907161

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On one of his missions, Xiao Shiyi Lang (the Eleventh Son, known as the Great Bandit) meets Shen, the fairest woman in the martial world. By the will of fate, he rescues Shen several times, which plants the seed of love in both of them. However, Shen is married to a rich young man who is also an outstanding martial artist. As if things were not complicated enough, Xiao has his own secret admirer, Feng, an attractive swordswoman with a quick temper. Xiao is drawn into a messy fight for a legendary saber, the Deer Carver, and is accused of stealing it. Xiao finds out that the person who has set him up is a mysterious young man with an angel's face and a devil's heart. Before he can pursue any further, Shen's grandmother is murdered, and Xiao is named the killer. It appears that things are spinning out of control....

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