Lao She In London
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Author | : Anne Witchard |
Publisher | : Hong Kong University Press |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 2012-08-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9888139606 |
Download Lao She in London Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Lao She remains revered as one of China's great modern writers. His life and work have been the subject of volumes of critique, analysis and study. This book covers the four years the young aspiring writer spent in London between 1924 and 1929.
Author | : Lao She |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 2022-10-06 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1802060510 |
Download Mr Ma and Son Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
A deliciously funny and moving comedy-of-manners about a Chinese father and son's experiences at the height of London's Jazz Age 'He was in London - why be bothered looking at it? Wasn't it bad enough just being there?' Newly arrived from China, Mr Ma and his son Ma Wei run an antiques shop nestled by St Paul's Cathedral, where they try to make a living amid the smog and bustle of 1920s London. As they struggle with money, misunderstandings and the ways of the English - from the overbearing patronage of missionary Reverend Ely to their well-meaning landlady Mrs Weddeburn and her carefree daughter - can understanding, even love, blossom? Both a moving story of the Chinese immigrant experience and a bitingly funny satire on the English, Mr Ma and Son delicately portrays the dreams and disappointments of those seeking a new life in a distant land. Translated by William Dolby, with an introduction by Julia Lovell
Author | : She Lao |
Publisher | : Midland Books |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
Download Camel Xiangzi Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This novel marks the peak of Lao She's career as a professional writer and registers a new approach to the representation of China in its absurdist situation. It can be read as an "epic" of modern China.
Author | : Lao She |
Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1999-10-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780824818036 |
Download Blades of Grass Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
"If you want to write good short stories," Lao She once observed, "you have to give it everything you’ve got. The world will allow the existence of a very imperfect novel, but it won’t be that polite with a short story. Art, after all, is not like a pig—the fatter the better." Lao She’s stories proved to be very good indeed, moving and delighting readers for many years and establishing him as a master of classic modern fiction. Thankfully we now have access to a rich collection of his short stories in superb English translations. These stories showcase the varied facets of Lao She’s impressive talent and draw us effortlessly into his world-and we emerge the better for it. This is a writer eternally immersed in and fascinated by the kaleidoscope of humankind. The stories are characterized by humor and by intensely sympathetic explorations of human relationships. Some of them are unsettling. Many are poignant. Most of them make us laugh. All evoke the color and energy of life, for Lao She is also a connoisseur of the everyday with a keen appreciation of the concrete detail. A plate of steaming dumplings, the gleam of gold-capped front teeth, rickshaws dragging along alleys, punishing winter winds, rolls of bright silk, a pair of chopsticks—these things are the stuff of Lao She’s fiction and the essence of his metaphors, and he cherishes such little details of life more than the abstractions of politics or philosophy.
Author | : She Lao |
Publisher | : Beijing : Foreign Languages Press |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Chinese |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : 老舍 |
Publisher | : Chinese University Press |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9789629961251 |
Download 茶館 Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This play portrays the life of the owner of a Beijing teahouse and his customers through 50 years of upheaval in China. Spanning from 1898 to the late 1940s, scenes change from late Qing dynasty to the early days of the Republic, then after to post-1945 when Guomindang soldiers take over the city.
Author | : Anne Veronica Witchard |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 512 |
Release | : 2017-03-02 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 135187943X |
Download Thomas Burke's Dark Chinoiserie Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Focusing on Thomas Burke's bestselling collection of short stories, Limehouse Nights (1916), this book contextualises the burgeoning cult of Chinatown in turn-of-the-century London. London's 'Chinese Quarter' owed its notoriety to the Yellow Perilism that circulated in Britain at the fin-de-siècle, a demonology of race and vice masked by outward concerns about degenerative metropolitan blight and imperial decline. Anne Witchard's interdisciplinary approach enables her to displace the boundaries that have marked Chinese studies, literary studies, critiques of Orientalism and empire, gender studies, and diasporic research, as she reassesses this critical moment in London's history. In doing so, she brings attention to Burke's hold on popular and critical audiences on both sides of the Atlantic. A much-admired and successful author in his time, Burke in his Chinatown stories destabilizes social orthodoxies in highly complex and contradictory ways. For example, his writing was formative in establishing the 'queer spell' that the very mention of Limehouse would exert on the public imagination, and circulating libraries responded to Burke's portrayal of a hybrid East End where young Cockney girls eat Chow Mein with chopsticks in the local cafés and blithely gamble their housekeeping money at Fan Tan by banning Limehouse Nights. Witchard's book forces us to rethink Burke's influence and shows that China and chinoiserie served as mirrors that reveal the cultural disquietudes of western art and culture.
Author | : Lao She |
Publisher | : Penguin Classics |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2014-08-07 |
Genre | : China |
ISBN | : 9780143208129 |
Download Cat Country Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
When a traveller from China crash-lands on Mars, he finds himself in a country inhabited entirely by Cat People. Befriended by a local cat-man, he becomes acquainted in all aspects of cat-life: he learns to speak Felinese, masters cat-poetry, and appreciates the narcotic effects of the reverie leaf - their food staple. But curiosity turns to despair when he ventures further into the heart of the country and the culture, and realizes that he is witnessing the bleak decline of a civilization. Cat Country, Lao She's only work of science fiction, is both a dark, dystopian tale of one man's close encounter with the feline kind and a scathing indictment of a country gone awry.
Author | : She Lao |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : China |
ISBN | : |
Download The Two Mas Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Author | : Lawrence Phillips |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2010-09-23 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1441159975 |
Download London Gothic Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
London has taken a central role in urban Gothic, from key canonic texts like Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, The Picture of Dorian Gray and Dracula through modern Gothic texts to the 'tourist gothic' of rebranded gastropubs and ghost tours.As a specific category, London Gothic is becoming as important for understanding ourselves today as it has been for thinking about the cultural productions of the late-nineteenth century. This is the first book to focus on Gothic representations of London, offering a range of essays from established and new scholars reading London Gothic as it is manifested in a variety of media and through varied critical approaches.