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Author: Muramatsu Shōfu Publisher: Zakuro Books ISBN: Category : Travel Languages : en Pages : 71
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When the Japanese writer Muramatsu Shōfu visited Shanghai in the spring of 1923 he found a city of stark contrasts. There was the glamour and modernity of its nightclubs and European architecture, the vice and sedition of its brothels and gambling dens. He named his bestselling travelogue “魔都” (Mato), Japanese for “Demon City”. In Chinese, “魔都” translates as “Magic City”, which remains a popular nickname for the metropolis to this day. Muramatsu wrote with humour and pathos about his time in Shanghai, his drinking sessions with poets and prostitutes, his trips to the racetrack and the amusement parks, and his turbulent relationship with a Japanese dance instructor who he shared a room with in the house of a Russian émigré. He would return to China many times and become a respected authority on the country. Alexis J Brown is a translator living in London. (Note on the text - Original work published in 1924 by Konishi Shoten, digital copy available here: https://dl.ndl.go.jp/en/pid/972136/1/1 at the National Diet Library Digital Collections. This translated work only includes the chapters “魔都” and “南京”)
Author: Muramatsu Shōfu Publisher: Zakuro Books ISBN: Category : Travel Languages : en Pages : 71
Book Description
When the Japanese writer Muramatsu Shōfu visited Shanghai in the spring of 1923 he found a city of stark contrasts. There was the glamour and modernity of its nightclubs and European architecture, the vice and sedition of its brothels and gambling dens. He named his bestselling travelogue “魔都” (Mato), Japanese for “Demon City”. In Chinese, “魔都” translates as “Magic City”, which remains a popular nickname for the metropolis to this day. Muramatsu wrote with humour and pathos about his time in Shanghai, his drinking sessions with poets and prostitutes, his trips to the racetrack and the amusement parks, and his turbulent relationship with a Japanese dance instructor who he shared a room with in the house of a Russian émigré. He would return to China many times and become a respected authority on the country. Alexis J Brown is a translator living in London. (Note on the text - Original work published in 1924 by Konishi Shoten, digital copy available here: https://dl.ndl.go.jp/en/pid/972136/1/1 at the National Diet Library Digital Collections. This translated work only includes the chapters “魔都” and “南京”)
Author: Dayna S. Kalleres Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520276477 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 392
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Although it would appear in studies of late antique ecclesiastical authority and power that scholars have covered everything, an important aspect of the urban bishop has long been neglected: his role as demonologist and exorcist. When the emperor Constantine made Christianity the official religion of the realm, bishops and priests everywhere struggledÊ to ÒChristianizeÓ the urban spaces still dominated by Greco-Roman monuments and festivals. During this period of upheaval, when congregants seemingly attended everything but their own ÒorthodoxÓ church, many ecclesiastical leaders began simultaneously to promote aggressive and insidious depictions of the demonic. In City of Demons, Dayna S. Kalleres investigates this developing discourse and the church-sponsored rituals that went along with it, showing how shifting ecclesiastical demonologies and evolving practices of exorcism profoundly shaped Christian life in the fourth century.
Author: Gregory Pappas Publisher: Cornell University Press ISBN: 150172469X Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 227
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Thirty-two million Americans have lost jobs because of permanent factory closings since 1970. Gregory Pappas here provides an intimate account of the economic, social, psychological, and medical consequences of one such closing. Once known as "the magic city" of economic opportunity, Barberton, Ohio, is an industrial working-class town of second- and third-generation factory workers. When the Seiberling tire plant in Barberton was closed in 1980, over 1200 jobs were eliminated. Drawing on extensive research, including surveys and interviews with workers laid off by the closing, Pappas offers an incisive analysis of their responses to unemployment. Pappas first details the ways in which the unemployed rubber workers have met their economic needs in the face of declining income. He next evaluates their success in reentering the labor market, as he examines the job-hunting process, the unemployment insurance system, and workers' initiatives toward retraining and relocation. Turning to the psychological effects of the shutdown on workers and their families, Pappas describes unemployed workers' responses to the loss of status, identity, participation in the community, and sense of time. He next considers central historical questions, offering an explanation of the contemporary rise in unemployment and analyzing the prior development of this community that must now bear the burden of change. Two detailed portraits document the adaptations of individuals to the shutdown and explore the complex relationship between social change and personality.
Author: Han ZiYunYu Publisher: Funstory ISBN: 1648849776 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 1377
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After being surrounded by tens of thousands of flowers and leaves touching his body. The King of Assassins, the legend of a life in the sea of flowers ...
Author: Kevin Harkness Publisher: ISBN: 9780987824844 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 364
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Demons are invading the midlands for the first time in centuries and the farmers have no defences against the murderous creatures. Garet's life is changed the night his Midlands family is attacked and is discovered to have a rare talent for resisting demon fear and taken to the city of Shirath to become a Demonbane.
Author: Ryou Yuuki Publisher: J-Novel Club ISBN: 1718389612 Category : Young Adult Fiction Languages : en Pages : 220
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While serving as the king’s proxy in Euro, Ein unexpectedly crosses paths with Glint and discovers that Heim’s third prince has been desperately searching for Krone! Then after a startling incident devastates the Ishtarican royal family, Ein must face the true nature of his power. With his loyal allies alongside him, Ein ventures to Magic City Ist for answers, but soon learns that all is not well within the city’s streets; a rash of kidnapped orphans has Ist’s citizens cowering in fear. The prince starts working with chief researcher Professor Oz in exchange for information in hopes of finding the culprit. Can Ein solve the case behind the kidnappings? And will he discover that there may be more to Professor Oz than first impressions imply?
Author: Hideyuki Kikuchi Publisher: Digital Manga, Inc. ISBN: 1613132379 Category : Comics & Graphic Novels Languages : en Pages : 502
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Demon City Shinjuku is in desperate trouble. The vampire invasion begun by evil Chinese vampire Princess and her followers is now threatening the life of every citizen, human and otherwise, in the haunted city. The Prime Minister of Japan is now under her influence. Countless people in Shinjuku are being converted into vampires each hour. Meanwhile, Mayor Kajiwara travels outside Demon City to seek the help of national leaders. Setsura Aki, Doctor Mephisto and Yakou meet again in an uneasy reunion in Princess’s kingdom. Once staunch allies, each man now harbors a different agenda. Setsura, surrounded by enemies, now must face down the greatest enemy Shinjuku has ever seen on his own. Meanwhile, the outside world has concocted its own secret plan for containing the vampire outbreak to Demon City—once and for all. As Princess devises her own wicked plan to ensure Setsura, the world’s leaders begin the countdown to Demon City Shinjuku’s destruction… From the acclaimed Japanese horror writer Hideyuki Kikuchi (Vampire Hunter D, The Wicked City series) comes his next big novel series for the English audience; Yashakiden: The Demon Princess. With over two million copies sold in Japan and set in the popular Wicked City universe, this four-volume series is not to be missed by followers of Kikuchi’s works as well as fans of horror and the macabre.
Author: Hideyuki Kikuchi Publisher: Digital Manga, Inc. ISBN: 1613132360 Category : Comics & Graphic Novels Languages : en Pages : 494
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In Demon City Shinjuku, the evil influence of Chinese vampire Princess and her followers has begun to penetrate and poison every corner of the haunted city. Now accompanied by General Kazikli Bey—a 500-year-old Eastern European vampire of legendary evil—the deadly Princess seeks to destroy manhunter Setsura Aki. Setsura enters the lair of the Demon Princess—the same lair that Yakou disappeared into and never returned from. What horrors await Shinjuku’s beautiful demon hunter in the uncharted depths of Princess’s mansion? And what is the significance of Doctor Mephisto’s mysterious activities in the secret underground “Resurrection Room” of Mephisto Hospital? The crisis in Shinjuku forces the outside world to take action. Now, supernatural specialists from Japan’s Self-Defense Forces “Foreign Legion” division begin covert operations—with their own agenda. The conflicting forces in Demon City are set to explode! From the acclaimed Japanese horror writer Hideyuki Kikuchi (Vampire Hunter D, The Wicked City series) comes his next big novel series for the English audience; Yashakiden: The Demon Princess. With over two million copies sold in Japan and set in the popular Wicked City universe, this four-volume series is not to be missed by followers of Kikuchi’s works as well as fans of horror and the macabre.
Author: Muramatsu Shōfu
Author: Muramatsu Shōfu
Author: Dayna S. Kalleres
Author: Gregory Pappas
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Author: Kevin Harkness
Author: Ryou Yuuki
Author: Hideyuki Kikuchi
Author: Hideyuki Kikuchi