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Author |
: Joy Hart |
Publisher |
: Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages |
: 260 |
Release |
: 2008-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781436337946 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1436337941 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (46 Downloads) |
Synopsis Shanghai Shadows by : Joy Hart
Marine Alex survives the 1937 Battle of Shanghai, receives a battlefield commission on Guadalcanal, and tries unsuccessfully to find 'Milla, his Shanghai love, who, with their daughter Alexandra, spent 20 years in intern camps. In 2000 Alexandra found her father.
Author |
: Lois Ruby |
Publisher |
: Open Road Media |
Total Pages |
: 235 |
Release |
: 2015-11-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781504028011 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1504028015 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (11 Downloads) |
Synopsis Shanghai Shadows by : Lois Ruby
A young girl fleeing Hitler takes refuge in Shanghai, where she learns that she must fight to survive Throughout tomboy Ilse’s childhood, her mother has tried to force her to behave like a proper Austrian lady. But when Hitler annexes their country, the family flees, boarding a packed freighter and sailing around the world in search of a safe harbor. The United States refuses to take them, so they proceed to China and make a new home in steamy, mysterious Shanghai. Their lodgings are cramped, money is tight, and Ilse’s father cannot find work—but Ilse is enchanted by the city’s international flavor. In Shanghai’s shadows she finds the adventure of a lifetime. When the Japanese occupy the city, Ilse and her brother begin working in an underground resistance cell. Each day, the city grows more dangerous, and Ilse must lie, cheat, and steal in order for her family to eat. She is a long way from Austria, but she will do whatever it takes to survive.
Author |
: Lois Ruby |
Publisher |
: Open Road Media |
Total Pages |
: 190 |
Release |
: 2015-07-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781504013659 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1504013654 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (59 Downloads) |
Synopsis Shanghai Shadows by : Lois Ruby
A young girl fleeing Hitler takes refuge in Shanghai, where she learns that she must fight to survive Throughout tomboy Ilse’s childhood, her mother has tried to force her to behave like a proper Austrian lady. But when Hitler annexes their country, the family flees, boarding a packed freighter and sailing around the world in search of a safe harbor. The United States refuses to take them, so they proceed to China and make a new home in steamy, mysterious Shanghai. Their lodgings are cramped, money is tight, and Ilse’s father cannot find work—but Ilse is enchanted by the city’s international flavor. In Shanghai’s shadows she finds the adventure of a lifetime. When the Japanese occupy the city, Ilse and her brother begin working in an underground resistance cell. Each day, the city grows more dangerous, and Ilse must lie, cheat, and steal in order for her family to eat. She is a long way from Austria, but she will do whatever it takes to survive.
Author |
: Fan Pen Li Chen |
Publisher |
: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages |
: 366 |
Release |
: 2007-06-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780773575998 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0773575995 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (98 Downloads) |
Synopsis Chinese Shadow Theatre by : Fan Pen Li Chen
In her study of Chinese shadow theatre Fan Pen Li Chen documents and corrects misconceptions about this once-popular art form. Drawing on extensive research and fieldwork, she argues that these plays served a mainly religious function during the Qing dynasty and that the appeal of women warrior characters reflected the lower classes' high tolerance for the unorthodox and subversive. Chinese Shadow Theatre includes several rare transcriptions of oral performances, including a didactic play on the eighteen levels of Hell, and Investiture of the Gods, a sacred saga, and translations of three rare, hand-copied shadow plays featuring religious themes and women warrior characters. Chen examines the relationship between historical and fictional women warriors and those in military romances and shadow plays to demonstrate the significance of both printed works and oral transmission in the diffusion of popular culture. She also shows that traditional folk theatre is a subject for serious academic study by linking it to recent scholarship on drama, popular religion, and popular culture.
Author |
: Edward Lawrence Davis |
Publisher |
: Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages |
: 1158 |
Release |
: 2005 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780415777162 |
ISBN-13 |
: 041577716X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (62 Downloads) |
Synopsis Encyclopedia of Contemporary Chinese Culture by : Edward Lawrence Davis
First Published in 2009. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author |
: William Schaefer |
Publisher |
: Duke University Press |
Total Pages |
: 322 |
Release |
: 2017-09-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780822372523 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0822372525 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (23 Downloads) |
Synopsis Shadow Modernism by : William Schaefer
During the early twentieth century, Shanghai was the center of China's new media culture. Described by the modernist writer Mu Shiying as "transplanted from Europe" and “paved with shadows,” for many of its residents Shanghai was a city without a past paradoxically haunted by the absent past’s traces. In Shadow Modernism William Schaefer traces how photographic practices in Shanghai provided a forum within which to debate culture, ethnicity, history, and the very nature of images. The central modernist form in China, photography was neither understood nor practiced as primarily a medium for realist representation; rather, photo layouts, shadow photography, and photomontage rearranged and recomposed time and space, cutting apart and stitching places, people, and periods together in novel and surreal ways. Analyzing unknown and overlooked photographs, photomontages, cartoons, paintings, and experimental fiction and poetry, Schaefer shows how artists and writers used such fragmentation and juxtaposition to make visible the shadows of modernity in Shanghai: the violence, the past, the ethnic and cultural multiplicity excluded and repressed by the prevailing cultural politics of the era and yet hidden in plain sight.
Author |
: Simon Leys |
Publisher |
: Penguin Group |
Total Pages |
: 244 |
Release |
: 1978 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0140047875 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780140047875 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (75 Downloads) |
Synopsis Chinese Shadows by : Simon Leys
Author |
: Philip P. Pan |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 371 |
Release |
: 2008 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781416537052 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1416537058 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (52 Downloads) |
Synopsis Out of Mao's Shadow by : Philip P. Pan
An inside analysis of modern cultural and political upheavals in China by a fluent Beijing correspondent describes the power struggles currently taking place between the party elite and supporters of democracy, the outcome of which the author predicts will significantly affect China's rise to a world super-power. 125,000 first printing.
Author |
: Stuart Craigie |
Publisher |
: Neil Stuart Craigie |
Total Pages |
: 314 |
Release |
: 2009 |
ISBN-10 |
: 3000266682 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9783000266683 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (82 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Chinese Shadow Game by : Stuart Craigie
Author |
: Yingjin Zhang |
Publisher |
: Stanford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 396 |
Release |
: 1999 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0804735727 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780804735728 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (27 Downloads) |
Synopsis Cinema and Urban Culture in Shanghai, 1922-1943 by : Yingjin Zhang
This volume establishes cinema as a vital force in Shanghai culture, focusing on early Chinese cinema. It surveys the history and historiography of Chinese cinema and examines the development of the various aspects affecting the film culture.