Author: LendermanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conduct of life
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
Lenderman's Thousand Characters and Ten Thousand Practical Facts from Common Life
Author: LendermanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conduct of life
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
千字文
Author: Xingsi ZhouPublisher: Burns & Oates
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
The Ten Thousand Things
Author: Maria DermoutPublisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1590178823
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Set between Holland and a remote Indonesian island, this intimate magical realism novel offers “an offbeat narrative that has the timeless tone of a legend” (Time). “Dermoût’s sentences came at me like a soft knowing dagger, depicting a far-off land that felt to me like the blood of all the places I used to love.” —Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild The Ten Thousand Things is at once novel of shimmering strangeness—and familiarity. It is the story of Felicia, who returns with her baby son from Holland to the Spice Islands of Indonesia, to the house and garden that were her birthplace, over which her powerful grandmother still presides. There Felicia finds herself wedded to an uncanny and dangerous world, full of mystery and violence, where objects tell tales, the dead come and go, and the past is as potent as the present. First published in Holland in 1955, Maria Dermoût's novel was immediately recognized as a magical work, like nothing else Dutch—or European—literature had seen before. The Ten Thousand Things is an entranced vision of a far-off place that is as convincingly real and intimate as it is exotic, a book that is at once a lament and an ecstatic ode to nature and life.
Lenderman's Thousand Characters and Ten Thousand Practical Facts from Common Life
Author: LendermanElements of Chinese Grammar, with a Preliminary Dissertation on the Characters and the Coloquial Medium of the Chinese and an Appendix Containing the Ta-Hyoh of Confucius with a Translation
Author: Marshman (Joshua)Eclectic Chinese-Japanese-English Dictionary of Eight Thousand Selected Chinese Characters
Author: Ambrose Daniel GringPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chinese language
Languages : en
Pages : 828
Book Description
Ten Thousand Characters
Author: G. Hugh CaseyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cantonese dialects
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Ten Thousand Things
Author: Lothar LedderosePublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691252882
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
An incomparable look at how Chinese artists have used mass production to assemble exquisite objects from standardized parts Chinese workers in the third century BC created seven thousand life-sized terracotta soldiers to guard the tomb of the First Emperor. In the eleventh century AD, Chinese builders constructed a pagoda from as many as thirty thousand separately carved wooden pieces. As these examples show, throughout history, Chinese artisans have produced works of art in astonishing quantities, and have done so without sacrificing quality, affordability, or speed of manufacture. In this book, Lothar Ledderose takes us on a remarkable tour of Chinese art and culture to explain how artists used complex systems of mass production to assemble extraordinary objects from standardized parts or modules. He reveals how these systems have deep roots in Chinese thought and reflect characteristically Chinese modes of social organization. Combining invaluable aesthetic and cultural insights with a rich variety of illustrations, Ten Thousand Things make a profound statement about Chinese art and society.
Chinese characters, their origin, etymology, history, classification and signification
Author: Léon WiegerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chinese language
Languages : en
Pages : 834
Book Description
The Ten Thousand Doors of January
Author: Alix E. HarrowPublisher: Redhook
ISBN: 0316421987
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
"A gorgeous, aching love letter to stories, storytellers and the doors they lead us through...absolutely enchanting."--Christina Henry, bestselling author of Alice and Lost Boys LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER! In the early 1900s, a young woman embarks on a fantastical journey of self-discovery after finding a mysterious book in this captivating and lyrical debut. In a sprawling mansion filled with peculiar treasures, January Scaller is a curiosity herself. As the ward of the wealthy Mr. Locke, she feels little different from the artifacts that decorate the halls: carefully maintained, largely ignored, and utterly out of place. Then she finds a strange book. A book that carries the scent of other worlds, and tells a tale of secret doors, of love, adventure and danger. Each page turn reveals impossible truths about the world and January discovers a story increasingly entwined with her own. Lush and richly imagined, a tale of impossible journeys, unforgettable love, and the enduring power of stories awaits in Alix E. Harrow's spellbinding debut--step inside and discover its magic.