Author: Ronald C. Iverson Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781548160807 Category : Languages : en Pages : 288
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Description of Red Cliff Red Cliff is an exciting new historical novel based on the famous battle of Red Cliff as told in the Chinese classic, Three Kingdoms, complete with helpful footnotes. It is written to read like a modern action novel in an easy to read version of the story and will appeal to modern readers. Its list of main characters in the front of the book and their role in the tale is considered very helpful by all readers. Rich in dialog, the reader will feel like a fly on the wall, seeing and hearing the plans, strategies and events by the people who actually had a role in implementing them. Red Cliff is an epic Chinese historical novel. Red Cliff is the historical account of a great battle and the events leading up to it, for domain over China by warlords almost 2,000 years ago. It recounts in vivid historical detail the turbulent years at the close of the Han Dynasty, when China broke into three competing kingdoms and over half the population were either killed or driven from their homes. The strategies discussed and implemented throughout Red Cliff by its leaders and advisors such as Zhuge Liang, are marvels of the imagination. Part myth, part fact, part legend, readers will experience the loyalty and treachery, the brotherhood and rivalry of China's legendary heroes and villains during the most tumultuous period in Chinese history. The story of Red Cliff is considered a classic in Chinese literature. Red Cliff is well known by millions throughout Asia today. And people love the story even more since the movie "Red Cliff" was shown in Asian movie houses and it became the most watched movie in China. Red Cliff is not just great literature, many Chinese view the story as a guide to success in life and business as well as a work that offers great moral clarity-while many foreigners read it to gain insights into Chinese society and culture. From this saga readers will learn how great warriors motivate their troops and enhance their influence, while disguising their weaknesses and turning the strengths of others against them. The story introduces Liu Bei and his sworn brothers-in-arms Zhang Fei and Guan Yu, whose allegiance is sorely tested in a society that is in flux where each group is fighting for its survival against the other. On this book's cover is an image of Liu Bei's senior advisor, Zhuge Liang, regarded as a genius of military strategy. He was known as Master Sleeping Dragon.
Author: Xiaofei Tian Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 1684170923 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 472
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"The turn of the third century CE—known as the Jian’an era or Three Kingdoms period—holds double significance for the Chinese cultural tradition. Its writings laid the foundation of classical poetry and literary criticism. Its historical personages and events have also inspired works of poetry, fiction, drama, film, and art throughout Chinese history, including Internet fantasy literature today. There is a vast body of secondary literature on these two subjects individually, but very little on their interface.The image of the Jian’an era, with its feasting, drinking, heroism, and literary panache, as well as intense male friendship, was to return time and again in the romanticized narrative of the Three Kingdoms. How did Jian’an bifurcate into two distinct nostalgias, one of which was the first paradigmatic embodiment of wen (literary graces, cultural patterning), and the other of wu (heroic martial virtue)? How did these largely segregated nostalgias negotiate with one another? And how is the predominantly male world of the Three Kingdoms appropriated by young women in contemporary China? The Halberd at Red Cliff investigates how these associations were closely related in their complex origins and then came to be divergent in their later metamorphoses."
Author: Mardi Oakley Medawar Publisher: Worldwide Library ISBN: 9780373264933 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 260
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When murder happens on the Red Cliff Reservation, Police Chief David Lameraux hires Karen "Tracker" Charboneau, a Chippewa native and ceramics artist whose tracking skills are legendary. But soon, the ruthless killer is pursuing Tracker, determined to silence her permanently. Martin's Press.
Author: Yeo Hong Eng Publisher: Partridge Singapore ISBN: 1482894211 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 463
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The Little Red Cliff portrays life in the 1950s and 1960s in Tanah Merah Kechil (Little Red Cliff) in a corner of Bedok District along the eastern coast of Singapore. Author Yeo Hong Eng chronicles the story of his family, the Yeo family, as they struggled to make a living during the lean years after the Japanese Occupation. He describes in detail how his parents developed the land for farming and exploited other available resources, such as sand mining during rainy seasons, until they were forced to leave the land in 1963. He also explains how they processed coconuts into cooking oil and bamboo into food, materials for building trellises, farming accessories, and basic toys. Whether they were working in animal husbandry or in vegetable cultivation, his grandmother and parents used the age-old methods passed down from their parents and grandparents to work with the land and their animals. What's more, they made sure to take time from their work to celebrate important festivals, entertainment, and the joys and sorrows of everyday life. They attended wayangs (street plays), flew kites, and made their own playthings-shuttles, spinners, sling shots, and musical instruments-with whatever raw materials they had on hand. In The Little Red Cliff, Yeo Hong Eng shares a description of family life in Singapore in the mid-twentieth century-its lows and highs, its struggles and joys.
Author: Bernard Beckett Publisher: ISBN: 9781877135422 Category : Young adult fiction, New Zealand Languages : en Pages : 143
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There is a new feeling now when I wake in the morning. A feeling I am moving forward. I can tell I am growing stronger, and it's not just physical. Soon, when people think of Carissa, the most popular girl at Stanway, they will think of me too. Samuel and Carissa. Nothing can ruin it. Not the stupid new house, not the designer valley that surrounds it. If I am patient, if I work to a plan, this will be my year. But plans have a way of falling over, and other people have a bad habit of getting in the way. People like Kurt, with his made-to-order smile, or Leon, bigger than any teenager has a right to be. People like Carissa, who has her own nightmare to live. Then there's Samuel himself, and all the trouble he attracts. He'll need to be even stronger than he imagines. This is some year. Whether or not it's Samuel's won't be decided until the very end. Here is a remarkable new novel from Wellington teacher and writer, Bernard Beckett, to follow his stand-out debut, Lester. Red Cliff explores themes of revenge and the unveiling of secrets through the eyes of a teenage boy. Unlike the tragic Lester, this novel ends on a high note, in which the best of human nature wins out. The themes and incorporation of different narrative styles should appeal to teachers while the authentic voice and powerful climax - in which families and friendships and the force of nature erupt imultaneously - ensure it's a genuine page-turner for its target readership.
Author: Robert Burgoyne Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1135855358 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 404
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With the recent release of spectacular blockbuster films from Gladiator to The Lord of the Rings trilogy, the epic has once again become a major form in contemporary cinema. This new volume in the AFI Film Readers series explores the rebirth of the epic film genre in the contemporary period, a period marked by heightened and conflicting appeals to national, ethnic, and religious belonging.The orginal essays in this volume explore the tension between the evolving global context of film production and reception and the particular provenance of the epic as an expression of national mythology and aspirations, challenging our understanding of epics produced in the present as well as our perception of epic films from the past. The contributors will explore new critical approaches to contemporary as well as older epic films, drawing on ideas from cultural studies, historiography, classics, and film studies.
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Parks and Recreation Publisher: ISBN: Category : Apostle Islands National Lakeshore (Wis. : Proposed) Languages : en Pages : 356
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Considers S. 778, to establish the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore, Wis. June 1 and June 2 hearings were held in Ashland, Wis.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Publisher: ISBN: Category : United States Languages : en Pages : 1208
Author: Ronald C. Iverson
Author: Xiaofei Tian
Author: Mardi Oakley Medawar
Author: Yeo Hong Eng
Author: Anthony Godfrey
Author: Bernard Beckett
Author: Robert Burgoyne
Author: Colorado. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Parks and Recreation
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies