Imperfect Understanding
Author | : Yuan-ning Wen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY |
ISBN | : 9781621964032 |
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Author | : Yuan-ning Wen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY |
ISBN | : 9781621964032 |
Author | : Yüan-ning Wen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 115 |
Release | : 1935 |
Genre | : Authors, Chinese |
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Author | : Yuan-Ning Wen |
Publisher | : Cambria Sinophone World |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 2018-03-15 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781604979435 |
This Silver E-Book Edition for institutional buyers provides web reader and PDF access. An abridged version can be downloaded in PDF and device formats.
Author | : Zhuodai Xu |
Publisher | : Cornell East Asia Series |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781939161048 |
Contains a selection of Xu's best stories and stage plays --
Author | : Jonathan Henshaw |
Publisher | : UBC Press |
Total Pages | : 481 |
Release | : 2021-02-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0774864494 |
From 1931 to 1945, Chinese citizens were subjugated to Japanese imperialism. Despite the enduring historical importance of the occupation, Translating the Occupation is the first English-language volume to provide such a diverse selection of important primary sources from this period. Contributors have translated Chinese, Japanese, and Korean texts on a wide range of subjects, focusing on writers who have long been considered problematic or outright traitorous. This volume offers a practical, accessible sourcebook from which to challenge standard narratives. It deepens our understanding of the myriad tensions and transformations at work in Chinese wartime society.
Author | : Christopher Rea |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2015-09-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520959590 |
The Age of Irreverence tells the story of why China’s entry into the modern age was not just traumatic, but uproarious. As the Qing dynasty slumped toward extinction, prominent writers compiled jokes into collections they called "histories of laughter." In the first years of the Republic, novelists, essayists and illustrators alike used humorous allegories to make veiled critiques of the new government. But, again and again, political and cultural discussion erupted into invective, as critics gleefully jeered and derided rivals in public. Farceurs drew followings in the popular press, promoting a culture of practical joking and buffoonery. Eventually, these various expressions of hilarity proved so offensive to high-brow writers that they launched a concerted campaign to transform the tone of public discourse, hoping to displace the old forms of mirth with a new one they called youmo (humor). Christopher Rea argues that this period—from the 1890s to the 1930s—transformed how Chinese people thought and talked about what is funny. Focusing on five cultural expressions of laughter—jokes, play, mockery, farce, and humor—he reveals the textures of comedy that were a part of everyday life during modern China’s first "age of irreverence." This new history of laughter not only offers an unprecedented and up-close look at a neglected facet of Chinese cultural modernity, but also reveals its lasting legacy in the Chinese language of the comic today and its implications for our understanding of humor as a part of human culture.
Author | : Cynthia Freeland |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 2010-06-17 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0199234981 |
`A boundary-breaking book, mobilizing art for philosophical purposes with exciting and enlightening results.' Ivan Gaskell, Harvard University --
Author | : Christopher G. Rea |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 454 |
Release | : 2021-06-01 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0231547676 |
Winner, 2023 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Chinese Film Classics, 1922–1949 is an essential guide to the first golden age of Chinese cinema. Offering detailed introductions to fourteen films, this study highlights the creative achievements of Chinese filmmakers in the decades leading up to 1949, when the Communists won the civil war and began nationalizing cultural industries. Christopher Rea reveals the uniqueness and complexity of Republican China’s cinematic masterworks, from the comedies and melodramas of the silent era to the talkies and musicals of the 1930s and 1940s. Each chapter appraises the artistry of a single film, highlighting its outstanding formal elements, from cinematography to editing to sound design. Examples include the slapstick gags of Laborer’s Love (1922), Ruan Lingyu’s star turn in Goddess (1934), Zhou Xuan’s mesmerizing performance in Street Angels (1937), Eileen Chang’s urbane comedy of manners Long Live the Missus! (1947), the wartime epic Spring River Flows East (1947), and Fei Mu’s acclaimed work of cinematic lyricism, Spring in a Small Town (1948). Rea shares new insights and archival discoveries about famous films, while explaining their significance in relation to politics, society, and global cinema. Lavishly illustrated and featuring extensive guides to further viewings and readings, Chinese Film Classics, 1922–1949 offers an accessible tour of China’s early contributions to the cinematic arts.
Author | : Zhongshu Qian |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2010-12-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0231526547 |
Qian Zhongshu was one of twentieth-century China's most ingenious literary stylists, one whose insights into the ironies and travesties of modern China remain stunningly fresh. Between the early years of the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945) and the Communist takeover in 1949, Qian wrote a brilliant series of short stories, essays, and a comedic novel that continue to inspire generations of Chinese readers. With this long-awaited translation, English-language readers can immerse themselves in the invention and satirical wit of one of the world's great literary cosmopolitans. This collection brings together Qian's best short works, combining his iconoclastic essays on the "book of life" from Written in the Margins of Life (1941) with the four masterful short stories of Human, Beast, Ghost (1946). His essays elucidate substantive issues through deceptively simple subjects-the significance of windows versus doors, for example, or the blind spots of literary critics and assert the primacy of critical and creative independence. His stories blur the boundaries between humans, beasts, and ghosts as they struggle through life, death, and resurrection. Christopher G. Rea situates these works within China's wartime politics and Qian's literary vision, highlighting significant changes that Qian Zhongshu made to different editions of his writings and providing unprecedented insight into the author's creative process.
Author | : Huan Hsu |
Publisher | : Crown |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 2015-03-24 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0307986314 |
A journalist travels throughout mainland China and Taiwan in search of his family’s hidden treasure and comes to understand his ancestry as he never has before. In 1938, when the Japanese arrived in Huan Hsu’s great-great-grandfather Liu’s Yangtze River hometown of Xingang, Liu was forced to bury his valuables, including a vast collection of prized antique porcelain, and undertake a decades-long trek that would splinter the family over thousands of miles. Many years and upheavals later, Hsu, raised in Salt Lake City and armed only with curiosity, moves to China to work in his uncle’s semiconductor chip business. Once there, a conversation with his grandmother, his last living link to dynastic China, ignites a desire to learn more about not only his lost ancestral heirlooms but also porcelain itself. Mastering the language enough to venture into the countryside, Hsu sets out to separate the layers of fact and fiction that have obscured both China and his heritage and finally complete his family’s long march back home. Melding memoir, travelogue, and social and political history, The Porcelain Thief offers an intimate and unforgettable way to understand the complicated events that have defined China over the past two hundred years and provides a revealing, lively perspective on contemporary Chinese society from the point of view of a Chinese American coming to terms with his hyphenated identity.