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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 |
: David Kidd |
Publisher |
: New York Review of Books |
Total Pages |
: 212 |
Release |
: 2003-07-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1590170407 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781590170403 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (07 Downloads) |
Synopsis Peking Story by : David Kidd
For two years before and after the 1948 Communist Revolution, David Kidd lived in Peking, where he married the daughter of an aristocratic Chinese family. "I used to hope," he writes, "that some bright young scholar on a research grant would write about us and our Chinese friends before it was too late and we were all dead and gone, folding into the darkness the wonder that had been our lives." Here Kidd himself brings that wonder to life.
Author |
: David Kidd |
Publisher |
: New York Review of Books |
Total Pages |
: 212 |
Release |
: 2011-04-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781590174296 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1590174291 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (96 Downloads) |
Synopsis Peking Story by : David Kidd
For two years before and after the 1948 Communist Revolution, David Kidd lived in Peking, where he married the daughter of an aristocratic Chinese family. "I used to hope," he writes, "that some bright young scholar on a research grant would write about us and our Chinese friends before it was too late and we were all dead and gone, folding into the darkness the wonder that had been our lives." Here Kidd himself brings that wonder to life.
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 |
: 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 |
: Lin Hai-yin |
Publisher |
: The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press |
Total Pages |
: 228 |
Release |
: 2020-03-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789882371293 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9882371299 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (93 Downloads) |
Synopsis Memories of Peking by : Lin Hai-yin
Through the keen eyes and curious mind of a young girl, Ying-tzu, we are given a glimpse into the adult world of Peking in the 1920s. The five sequential stories in this collection can be read as either stand-alone pieces, or as a novel, due to the cleverly constructed themes and character development. Exploring ideas of loss and bewilderment, Lin Hai-yin carefully captures the transition from childhood to adulthood. Shielded by a child's innocence, we are taken on a journey of discovery as Ying-tzu grapples with the uncertainties of human relationships as well as her developing awareness of the world around her. Poignant and poetic, it is hard not to be moved by Memories of Peking: South Side Stories."
Author |
: Jasper Becker |
Publisher |
: eBook Partnership |
Total Pages |
: 460 |
Release |
: 2015-08-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781783017850 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1783017856 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (50 Downloads) |
Synopsis City of Heavenly Tranquility by : Jasper Becker
A startling, eye-opening account of a fascinating and decisive moment in Chinese history, packed with evocative stories. Jasper Becker tells the story of why and how China's leaders set about to destroy and rebuild one of the world's greatest cities and how many of the residents tried to stop it and protect their great architectural legacy.
Author |
: Marjorie Flack |
Publisher |
: Penguin |
Total Pages |
: 33 |
Release |
: 2014-09-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780448482330 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0448482339 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (30 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Story About Ping by : Marjorie Flack
The Story About Ping covers the concepts Family and Problem Solving. This classic children’s book was first published in 1933 and is still as delightful and relevant as ever. Ping’s owner takes him and his siblings to the river for dinner. When it’s time to go, Ping is the last duck in the water and, as such, will receive a spanking. To avoid punishment, he hides—only to be captured the next morning by a young boy for his family’s dinner. Finally Ping is set free, and when he sees his master’s boat, the last thing he fears is a spanking—he’s just thankful to be home!
Author |
: Sigrid Schmalzer |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 368 |
Release |
: 2009-05-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226738611 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0226738612 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (11 Downloads) |
Synopsis The People's Peking Man by : Sigrid Schmalzer
In the 1920s an international team of scientists and miners unearthed the richest evidence of human evolution the world had ever seen: Peking Man. After the communist revolution of 1949, Peking Man became a prominent figure in the movement to bring science to the people. In a new state with twin goals of crushing “superstition” and establishing a socialist society, the story of human evolution was the first lesson in Marxist philosophy offered to the masses. At the same time, even Mao’s populist commitment to mass participation in science failed to account for the power of popular culture—represented most strikingly in legends about the Bigfoot-like Wild Man—to reshape ideas about human nature. The People’s Peking Man is a skilled social history of twentieth-century Chinese paleoanthropology and a compelling cultural—and at times comparative—history of assumptions and debates about what it means to be human. By focusing on issues that push against the boundaries of science and politics, The People’s Peking Man offers an innovative approach to modern Chinese history and the history of science.
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