Author: Ju-chen LiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Flowers in the Mirror
Author: Ju-chen LiFlowers in the Mirror
Author: Li Ju-chenPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Flowers in the Mirror
Author: Ruzhen LiFlowers in the mirror
Author: Ruzhen LiFlowers in the mirror
Author: Ju-chen LiGarden of Mirrored Flowers
Author: Hu FangPublisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1934105155
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Three Principles of Garden of Mirrored Flowers: 1 “The sensations that visitors to the theme park will experience are precisely those that classical Chinese literature has always wanted to convey: life as a bewildering maze. As such, we can better comprehend one of the key principles for the construction of the theme park: bewilder—the soul— intensely.” 2 “In the process of construction, I began to increasingly feel that the process should be an intermittent walk from one area to the next, like how a moving essay is extracted from a grand narrative—this is therefore the second principle of designing gardens: the form may disperse but not the spirit.” 3 "Just like the flower fairies, we have all fallen to earth, having lost our inner equilibrium. As such, no one would turn down the opportunity to enjoy the spiritual release and pleasure that this kind of theme park can offer. Garden of Mirrored Flowers is hence a psychodrama of an even higher class. Therefore, we should be able to understand the third principle for the construction of the park easily: the world's experiential center." Fang's novel tells the story of a man in the process of designing a theme park, called Garden of Mirrored Flowers, and is an adaptation and transformation of the classical Chinese novel Jin Hua Yuan, or Flowers in the Mirror, from the Qing Dynasty. Beginning as a pictorial journey through myriad advertisements and the way they allow for many different entries into reality, Fang depicts parallels between the park's actual construction and how it has been imagined, or how it has evolved out of history. For Garden of Mirrored Flowers is less the vision of one author (Fang) and more the result of reality writing itself through this author; that is, a script, or documentary, of life. “It's a book,” Fang states, “written by a ghost writer. Me? Just a traveler floating within the wave of globalization.” Culminating with the park's opening ceremony, Fang creates a space where history seems to have been completely consumed and absorbed by contemporary social movements. It is both a labyrinth to get lost in and a pavilion made of reflective glass. Hu Fang is a novelist, art critic, and the co-founder and artistic director of Vitamin Creative Space, a project and gallery space dedicated to contemporary art exploration and searching for an independent working mode, specifically geared to the contemporary Chinese context. He lives and works in Beijing and Guangzhou.
Flowers in the mirror, translated and edited by Lin Tai-yi. Berkeley, Univ. of Calif. Press, 1965
Author: Ruzhen LiFlowers of the Flesh
Author: Effy WinterPublisher:
ISBN: 9780998043227
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
A visceral, evocative collection of lucid poetry depicting love that has been lost but found again among the fallen petals that caress these pages, this novel has blossomed from a lover's pain and retribution to spawn something pure and beautiful. Effy Winter is recognized as a contemporary poet whose work secretes an erotic tenderness and vulnerability. The poems in her debut novel, Flowers of the Flesh, are addressed to her lost love and were written several years after their separation when a raw sincerity unrelentingly bloomed past guilt and rage. In them, Winter reveals the corroding chapel within her heart and a feverous passion for the man who once loved her.
Flowers in the Mirror. Translated and Edited by Lin Tai-yi
Author: Tai-yi LinFlowers In The Attic
Author: V.C. AndrewsPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451636946
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 411
Book Description
Celebrate the fortieth anniversary of the enduring gothic masterpiece Flowers in the Attic—the unforgettable forbidden love story that earned V.C. Andrews a fiercely devoted fan base and became an international cult classic. At the top of the stairs there are four secrets hidden—blond, innocent, and fighting for their lives… They were a perfect and beautiful family—until a heartbreaking tragedy shattered their happiness. Now, for the sake of an inheritance that will ensure their future, the children must be hidden away out of sight, as if they never existed. They are kept in the attic of their grandmother’s labyrinthine mansion, isolated and alone. As the visits from their seemingly unconcerned mother slowly dwindle, the four children grow ever closer and depend upon one another to survive both this cramped world and their cruel grandmother. A suspenseful and thrilling tale of family, greed, murder, and forbidden love, Flowers in the Attic is the unputdownable first novel of the epic Dollanganger family saga. The Dollanganger series includes: Flowers in the Attic, Petals in the Wind, If There Be Thorns, Seeds of Yesterday, Garden of Shadows, Beneath the Attic, and Out of the Attic.