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Author |
: Paul French |
Publisher |
: Penguin |
Total Pages |
: 263 |
Release |
: 2012-04-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781101580387 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1101580380 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (87 Downloads) |
Synopsis Midnight in Peking by : Paul French
Winner of the both the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime and the CWA Non-Fiction Dagger from the author of City of Devils Chronicling an incredible unsolved murder, Midnight in Peking captures the aftermath of the brutal killing of a British schoolgirl in January 1937. The mutilated body of Pamela Werner was found at the base of the Fox Tower, which, according to local superstition, is home to the maliciously seductive fox spirits. As British detective Dennis and Chinese detective Han investigate, the mystery only deepens and, in a city on the verge of invasion, rumor and superstition run rampant. Based on seven years of research by historian and China expert Paul French, this true-crime thriller presents readers with a rare and unique portrait of the last days of colonial Peking.
Author |
: David Kidd |
Publisher |
: Eland Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 180 |
Release |
: 2008 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015082670020 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (20 Downloads) |
Synopsis Peking Story by : David Kidd
A haunting and delicately observed description of the last days of Mandarin culture before the revolution, 'Peking Story' is a testimony to a way of life, a culture, an aesthetic and a civilisation which has since completely disappeared.
Author |
: Richard Baum |
Publisher |
: University of Washington Press |
Total Pages |
: 343 |
Release |
: 2011-03-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780295800219 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0295800216 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (19 Downloads) |
Synopsis China Watcher by : Richard Baum
This audacious and illuminating memoir by Richard Baum, a senior China scholar and sometime policy advisor, reflects on forty years of learning about and interacting with the People’s Republic of China, from the height of Maoism during the author’s UC Berkeley student days in the volatile 1960s through globalization. Anecdotes from Baum’s professional life illustrate the alternately peculiar, frustrating, fascinating, and risky activity of China watching — the process by which outsiders gather and decipher official and unofficial information to figure out what’s really going on behind China’s veil of political secrecy and propaganda. Baum writes entertainingly, telling his narrative with witty stories about people, places, and eras. China Watcher will appeal to scholars and followers of international events who lived through the era of profound political and academic change described in the book, as well as to younger, post-Mao generations, who will enjoy its descriptions of the personalities and political forces that shaped the modern field of China studies.
Author |
: Tan See Kam |
Publisher |
: Hong Kong University Press |
Total Pages |
: 248 |
Release |
: 2016-05-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789888208869 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9888208861 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (69 Downloads) |
Synopsis Tsui Hark's Peking Opera Blues by : Tan See Kam
Part historical drama, part thriller, and part comedy, Tsui Hark's Peking Opera Blues (1986) invites--if not demands--examinations from multiple perspectives. Tan See Kam rises to the challenge in this study by first situating Tsui in a Sinophone context. The diasporic director explores different dimensions of "Chineseness" in the film by depicting competing versions of Chinese nationalism and presenting characters speaking two Chinese languages, Cantonese and Mandarin. In the process he compels viewers to recognize the multiplicities of the Chinese identity and rethink what constitutes cultural Chineseness. The challenge to a single definition of "Chinese" is also embodied by the playful pastiches of diverse materials. In a series of intertextual readings, Tan reveals the full complexity of Peking Opera Blues by placing it at the center of a web of texts consisting of Tsui's earlier film Shanghai Blues (1984), Hong Kong's Mandarin Canto-pop songs, the "three-women" films in Chinese-language cinemas, and of course, traditional Peking opera, whose role-types, makeup, and dress code enrich the meaning of the film. In Tan's portrayal, Tsui Hark is a filmmaker who makes masterly use of postmodernist techniques to address postcolonial concerns. More than a quarter of a century after its release, Tan shows, Peking Opera Blues still reverberates in the present time.
Author |
: Frances Wood |
Publisher |
: John Murray Pubs Limited |
Total Pages |
: 224 |
Release |
: 2000 |
ISBN-10 |
: 071955781X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780719557811 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (1X Downloads) |
Synopsis Hand-grenade Practice in Peking by : Frances Wood
In 1975 I went to Peking for a year, together with nine other British students who had been exchanged by the British Council for ten Chinese students. The latter knew exactly what they were doing: learning English in order to further the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. We were less sure. From 1966, China had been turned upside down by young Red Guards who were encouraged to Bombard the Headquarters'. Professors, surgeons, artists, pianists, novelists and film directors were attacked for their bourgeois pursuit of excellence or their attachment to decadent Western ideas. Though by 1975 there were no longer violent street battles or badly beaten bodies floating down the Pearl River, we found Peking University governed by a Revolutionary Committee of workers, peasants and Party members determined that we should not learn too much and become experts divorced from the masses. With our Chinese classmates, we spent half our time in factories, getting in the way of workers making railway engines, or in the fields, learning from peasants how to bundle cabbage or plant rice seedlings in muddy water. Heroically, we stayed up half the night to dig rather shallow underground shelter
Author |
: Luigi Barzini |
Publisher |
: Demontreville Press |
Total Pages |
: 401 |
Release |
: 2007-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0978956311 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780978956318 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (11 Downloads) |
Synopsis Peking to Paris by : Luigi Barzini
Author |
: Yutang Lin |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 815 |
Release |
: 1942 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:17820642 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (42 Downloads) |
Synopsis Moment in Peking by : Yutang Lin
Author |
: Dan C. Pinck |
Publisher |
: US Naval Institute Press |
Total Pages |
: 256 |
Release |
: 2003 |
ISBN-10 |
: IND:30000087078733 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (33 Downloads) |
Synopsis Journey to Peking by : Dan C. Pinck
Japanese coastal emplacements in the area where an American invasion was scheduled.
Author |
: Paul French |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 320 |
Release |
: 2021-06-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9887963968 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9789887963967 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (68 Downloads) |
Synopsis Destination Peking by : Paul French
Bestselling author Paul French (Midnight in Peking) returns to China's capital to tell 18 true stories of fascinating people - many Americans among them - who visited the city in the first half of the 20th century. From wealthy Woolworths heiress Barbara Hutton to the poor Mona Monteith, who worked as a prostitute; from socialite Wallis Simpson to the 1930s 'It' couple Edgar and Helen Foster Snow; Destination Peking brings a lost pre-communist era back to life.
Author |
: Ann Bridge |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 1936 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:1016304140 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (40 Downloads) |
Synopsis Peking Picnic by : Ann Bridge