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Author: Nathaniel G. Sutton Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 1434378411 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 66
Book Description
Kai and his mother were sitting on an Air China 747 in San Francisco International Airport, waiting impatiently for take-off. Kai's father had passed away a year before in the spring of 1988. He was taking his mother home to visit his elder brother in China. The take-off had been delayed because one of the Chinese passengers failed to show up even though he had already checked his luggage. He had decided to remain in the US illegally. This incident took Kai back in time to his own painful and courageous decisions. . A 12 year old Kai was sitting on the train waiting to leave Beijing for Manchuria. Young Kai was confused about why he was leaving, not knowing he and his brothers were being forced to join their exiled parents in the small city of Tonghua. He had spent the past five years with an abusive grandmother and Big Brother in Beijing. Life in Tonghua wasn't any easier for Kai who grew into a teenager with a different accent and a unique physical appearance - 6'7" by the age 15. But the most mind-boggling torment for Kai and his family was still to come. In 1966, the Cultural Revolution began. With half of his relatives in Taiwan, Kai and his family endured political persecution and discrimination. He and his brothers were again forced to leave the city to go to the countryside. Kai set out to overcome these obstacles. He used his basketball skills to land a job in a Liuhe grain depot while playing for the depot's team. Soon after, with China's return to professional sports, two basketball coaches from the National Sports and Athletics Commission recruited him for the National Basketball Team's training camp in Beijing. At the camp, Kai met his best friend Xiao, a track team member, who was later expelled because his father had worked for Kuomintang's army. Kai remained a little longer and then was also expelled for the similar reason. Determined not to return to the isolation of the small town factory, he escaped to Canton. He was caught and then forced back to Beijing, placed in solitary confinement and put under investigation. The authorities suspected him of trying to defect to Hong Kong. Little do they understand, his goal was not to escape the country, but to escape the shackles of the Big Family, that undefined "everyone" that represents generations of tradition. He was nevertheless escorted back to the Liuhe grain depot. After yet another attempt to escape, Kai was drafted by the Shenyang army team and sent to a combat unit for reeducati
Author: Nathaniel G. Sutton Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 1434378411 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 66
Book Description
Kai and his mother were sitting on an Air China 747 in San Francisco International Airport, waiting impatiently for take-off. Kai's father had passed away a year before in the spring of 1988. He was taking his mother home to visit his elder brother in China. The take-off had been delayed because one of the Chinese passengers failed to show up even though he had already checked his luggage. He had decided to remain in the US illegally. This incident took Kai back in time to his own painful and courageous decisions. . A 12 year old Kai was sitting on the train waiting to leave Beijing for Manchuria. Young Kai was confused about why he was leaving, not knowing he and his brothers were being forced to join their exiled parents in the small city of Tonghua. He had spent the past five years with an abusive grandmother and Big Brother in Beijing. Life in Tonghua wasn't any easier for Kai who grew into a teenager with a different accent and a unique physical appearance - 6'7" by the age 15. But the most mind-boggling torment for Kai and his family was still to come. In 1966, the Cultural Revolution began. With half of his relatives in Taiwan, Kai and his family endured political persecution and discrimination. He and his brothers were again forced to leave the city to go to the countryside. Kai set out to overcome these obstacles. He used his basketball skills to land a job in a Liuhe grain depot while playing for the depot's team. Soon after, with China's return to professional sports, two basketball coaches from the National Sports and Athletics Commission recruited him for the National Basketball Team's training camp in Beijing. At the camp, Kai met his best friend Xiao, a track team member, who was later expelled because his father had worked for Kuomintang's army. Kai remained a little longer and then was also expelled for the similar reason. Determined not to return to the isolation of the small town factory, he escaped to Canton. He was caught and then forced back to Beijing, placed in solitary confinement and put under investigation. The authorities suspected him of trying to defect to Hong Kong. Little do they understand, his goal was not to escape the country, but to escape the shackles of the Big Family, that undefined "everyone" that represents generations of tradition. He was nevertheless escorted back to the Liuhe grain depot. After yet another attempt to escape, Kai was drafted by the Shenyang army team and sent to a combat unit for reeducati
Author: DDE NBU Publisher: Directorate of Distance Education, University of North Bengal ISBN: Category : Foreign Language Study Languages : en Pages : 172
Author: George Augustus Simcox Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1682991938 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 278
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Sir Gawain is without a doubt the greatest of King Arthur's English Knights: fiercely loyal, hot-headed, and fearlessly brave. Collected here in this edition are 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' translated by Jessie Weston; 'Gawain and the Lady of Avalon' by George Augustus Simcox; 'Sir Gawaine's Quest for the White Hart' by Sir Thomas Malory; 'Sir Gawain Meets Sir Prianius' by Sir James Knowles; 'Sir Gawain and the Maid with the Narrow Sleeves' by Rupert S. Holland; 'Sir Gawain and the Lady of Lys' translated by Jessie L. Weston; 'Sir Gawain and the Lady' by Beatrice Clay; 'The Marriage of Sir Gawaine' by Bishop Thomas Percy; 'The Last Love of Gawaine' by Richard Hovey; 'Of Sir Gawaine's Hatred, and the War with Sir Lancelot' by Henry Gilbert; 'Castle Orguellous' translated by Jessie L. Weston; and 'Gawayne and the Green Knight: A Fairy Tale' by Charlton Miner Lewis. Return to a time when chivalry and bravery reigned.
Author: Ad Putter Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317893115 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 263
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The late 14th century produced a crop of brilliant writers: Chaucer, Langland and Gower. Their achievement was rivalled only by a series of four works generally agreed to have been written by a single northern author, known as the Gawain-Poet. This book introduces the reader to the Gawain-poet's four surviving works: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Patience, Pearl and Cleanness. The four poems are made accessible to the student by setting them in their relevant historical and cultural context and by developing some lines of critical argument. All studies are based on the author's own research and translations.
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