Author: James SummersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chinese philology
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
Lecture on the Chinese Language and Literature
Author: James SummersLecture on the chinese language and literature
Author: James SummersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chinese philology
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
Lecture on the Chinese language and literature, delivered in King's College, London, April 13, 1853
Author: James SummersLecture on the Nature and Structure of the Chinese Language, Delivered at University College
Author: Samuel KiddPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chinese characters
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Lecture on the Chinese Language and Literature Delivered in King's College April 13, 1853
Author: James SummersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chinese language
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
Lecture on the Chinese Language and Literature, Delivered in King's College, London, April 13, 1853
Author: James SummersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chinese philology
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Seventh Day
Author: Yu HuaPublisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0804197873
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
From the acclaimed author of Brothers and To Live: a major new novel that limns the joys and sorrows of life in contemporary China. Yang Fei was born on a moving train. Lost by his mother, adopted by a young switchman, raised with simplicity and love, he is utterly unprepared for the tempestuous changes that await him and his country. As a young man, he searches for a place to belong in a nation that is ceaselessly reinventing itself, but he remains on the edges of society. At age forty-one, he meets an accidental and unceremonious death. Lacking the money for a burial plot, he must roam the afterworld aimlessly, without rest. Over the course of seven days, he encounters the souls of the people he’s lost. As Yang Fei retraces the path of his life, we meet an extraordinary cast of characters: his adoptive father, his beautiful ex-wife, his neighbors who perished in the demolition of their homes. Traveling on, he sees that the afterworld encompasses all the casualties of today’s China—the organ sellers, the young suicides, the innocent convicts—as well as the hope for a better life to come. Yang Fei’s passage maps the contours of this vast nation—its absurdities, its sorrows, and its soul. Vivid, urgent, and panoramic, The Seventh Day affirms Yu Hua’s place as the standard-bearer of modern Chinese fiction.
Inaugural Lecture on the Constituting of a Chinese Chair in the University of Oxford
Author: James LeggeFlowering Tales
Author: Takeshi WatanabePublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 1684176093
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Telling stories: that sounds innocuous enough. But for the first chronicle in the Japanese vernacular, A Tale of Flowering Fortunes (Eiga monogatari), there was more to worry about than a good yarn. The health of the community was at stake. Flowering Tales is the first extensive literary study of this historical tale, which covers about 150 years of births, deaths, and happenings in late Heian society, a golden age of court literature in women’s hands. Takeshi Watanabe contends that the blossoming of tales, marked by The Tale of Genji, inspired Eiga’s new affective history: an exorcism of embittered spirits whose stories needed to be retold to ensure peace. Tracing the narrative arcs of politically marginalized figures, Watanabe shows how Eiga’s female authors adapted the discourse and strategies of The Tale of Genji to rechannel wayward ghosts into the community through genealogies that relied not on blood but on literary resonances. These reverberations, highlighted through comparisons to contemporaneous accounts in courtiers’ journals, echo through shared details of funerary practices, political life, and characterization. Flowering Tales reanimates these eleventh-century voices to trouble conceptions of history: how it ought to be recounted, who got to record it, and why remembering mattered.
Author: Essex Institute