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Author: Luo Guanzhong Publisher: The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press ISBN: 9622017517 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 456
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The Tiger Killers is the second volume of a new translation of the Chinese classical novel generally known as The Water Margin. Like the first volume, The Broken Seals, it follows the fortunes of various outlaw heroes as they move through a world of treacherous officials, jealous toadies, bullying gaolers, hired assassins, foolhardy generals and cannibalistic innkeepers. This volume contains some of the most famous scenes in the novel, starting with the episode in which Wu Song gets drunk at the tavern, ascends the pass in late evening and kills a notorious man-eating tiger with his bare hands. His subsequent encounter with his midget brother's flirtatious wife, Jinlian or Golden Lotus, and her vain attempt to seduce him lead into a tale of adultery, callous murder and bloody vengeance. The second half of the book is concerned with Song Jiang's attempts to serve out his prison sentence honourably and avoid becoming an outlaw, until he is unjustly condemned to death for a misconstrued poem. Towards the end of this volume we meet the violent Li Kui, variously known as Iron Ox or Black Whirlwind, who also turns out to have a way with tigers. This volume consists of chapters 23 to 43 of the full 120-chapter version of the novel by Shi Nai'an and Luo Guanzhong. It is the first English translation based on this version.
Author: Luo Guanzhong Publisher: The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press ISBN: 9622017517 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 456
Book Description
The Tiger Killers is the second volume of a new translation of the Chinese classical novel generally known as The Water Margin. Like the first volume, The Broken Seals, it follows the fortunes of various outlaw heroes as they move through a world of treacherous officials, jealous toadies, bullying gaolers, hired assassins, foolhardy generals and cannibalistic innkeepers. This volume contains some of the most famous scenes in the novel, starting with the episode in which Wu Song gets drunk at the tavern, ascends the pass in late evening and kills a notorious man-eating tiger with his bare hands. His subsequent encounter with his midget brother's flirtatious wife, Jinlian or Golden Lotus, and her vain attempt to seduce him lead into a tale of adultery, callous murder and bloody vengeance. The second half of the book is concerned with Song Jiang's attempts to serve out his prison sentence honourably and avoid becoming an outlaw, until he is unjustly condemned to death for a misconstrued poem. Towards the end of this volume we meet the violent Li Kui, variously known as Iron Ox or Black Whirlwind, who also turns out to have a way with tigers. This volume consists of chapters 23 to 43 of the full 120-chapter version of the novel by Shi Nai'an and Luo Guanzhong. It is the first English translation based on this version.
Author: Chia-yee Yung Teng Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 9780887101205 Category : Foreign Language Study Languages : en Pages : 33
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One of the most famous episodes from Water Margin, a traditional Chinese novel, is here retold in simple Chinese. This text is the fifth volume designed to supplement the Intermediate Chinese Reader by John DeFrancis. It is presented in simplified characters, with pinyin romanization, and an accompanying audio program is available.
Author: Douglas Kerr Publisher: Hong Kong University Press ISBN: 9622098576 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 243
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Despite globalizing forces, whether economic, political, or cultural, there remain conspicuous differences that divide scholarly communities. How should we understand and respond to those discursive gaps among different traditions and systems of knowledge production? Critical Zone is a book series in cultural and literary studies that is concerned with current critical debates and intellectual preoccupations in the humanities. The series aims to improve understanding across cultures, traditions, discourses, and disciplines, and to produce international critical knowledge. Critical Zone is an expression of timely collaboration among scholars from Hong Kong, mainland China, the United States, and Europe, and conceived as an intellectual bridge between China and the rest of the world. The second volume of Critical Zone, as does its predecessor, consists of two parts. The first part includes original essays that deal with the concept and practice of "empire," as a collective response to the question of how imperial formations and operations, in the past and at present, should be examined in a larger context of international politics and how historical imperialism may be considered in relation to the conditions of our time. Part II includes two sets of translations of essays, first published in Chinese, about two recent debates in China: one on the canonicity of Lu Xun and the other on the problem of how to reform Peking University in the context of globalization. These two groups of translations are led by review essays that contextualize the debates.
Author: Vibeke Boerdahl Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1136108505 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 379
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Chinese storytelling has survived through more than a millennium into our own time, while similar oral arts have fallen into oblivion in the West. Under the main heading of 'The Eternal Storyteller', in August 1996 the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies hosted an International Workshop on Oral Literature in Modern China. To this meeting, the first of its kind in Europe, five special guests were invited - master tellers from Yangzhou: Wang Xizotang, Li Xintang, Fei Zhengliang, Dai Buzhang and Hui Zhaolong. The volume derived from this meeting includes an introductory article written by John Miles Foley entitled 'A Comparative View on Oral Traditions'. Thereafter, a wide range of topics relating to Chinese oral literature is covered under the headings: 'Historical Lines', 'A Spectrium of Genres', 'Studies of Yangzhou and Suzhou Story- telling' and 'Performances of Yangzhou Storytelling'. However, the present volume does more than include papers derived from the meeting. It is also lavishly illustrated in word and picture from performances by the guest-storytellers. In so doing, the world of Chinese story telling is not just described and analysed - it is also brought to life.
Author: Vibeke Børdahl Publisher: Cheng & Tsui ISBN: 9780887273568 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 436
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Chinese Storytellers takes us to the teahouses and hidden corners of Yangzhou to explore the ancient art of Chinese storytelling (shuoshu).
Author: Richard M. Barnhart Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 0300094477 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 422
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Written by a team of eminent international scholars, this book is the first to recount the history of Chinese painting over a span of some 3000 years.
Author: Shi Nai'an Publisher: Asiapac Books Pte Ltd ISBN: 9812294589 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 176
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Water Margin is well-known as one of the four greatest Chinese literary classics*. It tells the stories of a group of heroes, who stand for different classes of people daring to struggle against the corruption and oppression of the times. Altogether there are 105 men and three women among the notable characters in the Liangshan band. These stories take place at the end of the Northern Song period and describe vividly the people??s lives of love and hate, ties of friendship, loyalty and enmity, etc. This book relives the most stirring chapters in the novel which have become the subject of numerous dramas and films, and are the most popular episodes in Chinese fiction. They include Lin Chong killing the unworthy chief of Liangshan Marsh, Wu Song slaying a tiger with his bare fists and avenging injustices, and Song Jiang??s attacks on the Zhu Family Village. With artistic skills and wit, cartoonist Huang Qingrong presents vivid scenes in this drama of valour and brings alive the heroic legend.
Author: LIXIA WEI Publisher: American Academic Press ISBN: 1631819062 Category : Foreign Language Study Languages : en Pages : 279
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English Writing Development: 4MAT Learning Style and Thinking Visualization Strategies is designed as an introductory course in English writing for students, teachers and all those who consider writing is important and fun. It is based on the author’s own experience of teaching English writing to undergraduates who major in English, and training students to participate in provincial and national English writing contests. Instead of showing the skeleton of writing to readers directly, the author integrates the 4MAT Process Approach that she has developed on the basis of the 4MAT learning style and the Process Approach into the design of the book, aiming to increase learners’ motivation by answering why they should learn, what they should learn, how they should apply what they have learnt and what if the situation changes in each chapter. With corpora, news and students’ work as resources to collect sample sentences, paragraphs and essays, the author elaborates eight main aspects which are writing process, writing a paragraph, writing an essay, methods of paragraph development, types of clause, types of sentence, rhetorical devices, paraphrase and summary. English Writing Development: 4MAT Learning Style and Thinking Visualization Strategies is not only the ideal English writing textbook for students at different levels but also functions equally well as a self-tutoring textbook. The simple reader-friendly explanations coupled with interesting and meaningful examples, figures, tables and the checklists are of great help for the learners to make progress on their own. Armed with the strategies elaborated in the book, learners most probably will find that WRITING IS FUN!
Author: Rene Bernard Publisher: epubli ISBN: 3756501795 Category : Foreign Language Study Languages : en Pages : 380
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You are learning Chinese and wondering how you could improve your language skills in a fun way while boosting your Chinese to a sky-high level? Or you are interested in what is one of the most popular Chinese indigenous instruments? This book can help you not only to improve your Chinese language skills in a playful way via the Chinese bamboo clappers Kuaiban. It can also teach you how to play the instrument and can give you valuable information about the art scene from an industry insider. Living and working in Beijing, China for more than ten years Rene Bernard is a performer of Chinese Kuaiban: In this popular Chinese oral story-telling art form a rhythm is created by bamboo clappers. On that rhythm the performer tells the story in rhymes. Based on his story as the thread, Rene's book gives an introduction of the instrument, its playing technique and the show business industry in China. Another focus is the related Chinese-foreign exchange via Kuaiban as well as its advantages for learning Chinese. In this context the work is a mixture of a monograph, a textbook and a non-fiction book. As his target groups are foreigners and Chinese alike, the book is written in English and Chinese, includes a lot of pictures and graphics with a total of 330 A5 pages. After his first contact with Kuaiban in 2007 and after graduating with a major in Chinese Studies Rene has lived in China since 2011 and constantly developed his Kuaiban performing skills. He regularly plays Kuaiban on stage in different theaters all over China and on TV including state television CCTV. Aside from being featured in numerous articles (for instance in the renowned "Quyi magazine" and "China Contact" magazine), he is an honourary member of the China Quyi Artists Association.
Author: Luo Guanzhong
Author: Luo Guanzhong
Author: Chia-yee Yung Teng
Author: Douglas Kerr
Author: Vibeke Boerdahl
Author: Nai'an Shi
Author: Vibeke Børdahl
Author: Richard M. Barnhart
Author: Shi Nai'an
Author: LIXIA WEI
Author: Rene Bernard