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ia/garlicballadschi0000unse.pdf

Tian tang suan tai zhi ge = The garlic ballads Mo Yan, Howard Goldblatt Zhejiang wen yi chu ban she = Zhejiang literature & art publishing house, 1995

The peasants of Paradise County have been living a hardscrabble existence virtually unchanged for hundreds of years, until a 1987 glut on the garlic market forces them to watch the crop that is their lifeblood wilt, rot, and blacken in the fields - leading them to storm the seat of corrupt Communist officialdom in an apocalyptic riot. Against this epic backdrop unfold three intricately intertwined tales of love, loyalty, and retribution: between man and woman, father and child, friend and friend. Railing against the chaos and destruction is the blind, almost Homeric bard, the street singer Zhang Kou, whose insistent raised voice is the conscience of his beloved land - and whose fate will mirror the country's. Bawdy, mystical, and brawling, The Garlic Ballads portrays a landscape at once strange and utterly compelling, a people whose fierce passions overflow the rigid confines of their traditions. With this novel, China's most courageous and eloquent writer powerfully confirms his place in world literature.

Chinese [zh] · English [en] · PDF · 15.0MB · 1995 · 📗 Book (unknown) · 🚀/ia · Save

ia/concubineofshang0000hong.pdf

The Concubine of Shanghai Hong Ying; Ying Hong Penguin Books, Limited (UK), London, England, 2011

It's China, 1907. Sixteen-year-old orphan Cassia is sold by her aunt to a brothel. There, she works as a lowly maid for Madame Emerald until a powerful and dangerous client plucks her from obscurity. Master Chang is the boss of the fearsome Shanghai Triad and he always gets what he wants.

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ia/ganqingdongwu00008800.pdf

Gan qing dong wu Yang Dongming zhu Shenyang Shi: Chun feng wen yi chu ban she, Di 1 ban, Shenyang Shi, China, 2003

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ia/ilovedollarsothe0000zhuw_m0m1.pdf

An Immediate Sensation Upon Publication In China, I Love Dollars Makes High Comedy Out Of Modern Everyday Life In China. In The Title Story, A Young Man, Acutely Aware Of His Filial Duty, Sets Out To Secure A Prostitute For His Father, Only To Haggle His Old Man Out Of A Good Time. This And Other Stories Amplify China�s Identity Crisis In Post-mao Settings Ranging From An Old Yangtze River Vessel To Failing Factories, Cheap Diners, And A For-profit Hospital Run According To Dated Socialist Norms. Through A Cast Of Brilliantly Drawn Characters, Zhu Wen�s Stories Create A Vivid Portrait Of Contemporary China � Its Wealth And Poverty, Humour And Chaos.

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ia/maidenhome00ting.pdf

Maidenhome Ding Xiaoqi; translated by Chris Berry, Cathy Silber San Francisco: Aunt Lute Books, 1st ed., San Francisco, California, 1994

"An Aunt Lute Foundation book"--Cover

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ia/butcherswifeot00lian.pdf

The Butcher's Wife and Other Stories by Li Ang; edited and translated by Howard Goldblatt Boston, MA: Cheng & Tsui Co., Boston, MA, Massachusetts, 1995

Li Ang's highly charged fiction has made her one of the most widely known Taiwanese authors of her time. This new anthology begins with the internationally acclaimed "The Butcher's Wife," a novella that evoked shock and outrage in Taiwan when it first appeared in 1983. The shorter stories that follow range from Li Ang's first story, "Flower Season" (1968), through "A Love Letter Never Sent" (1986), and include stories that are erotic, thought provoking, and cautionary.

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ia/translationofchi00chia.pdf

A Translation of the Chinese Novel Chung-Yang (Rival Suns) by Chiang Kuei (1908-1980 (Chinese Studies , Vol 8) translated from the Chinese by Timothy A. Ross Edwin Mellen Press, Chinese studies ;, v. 8, Lewiston, N.Y, New York State, 1999

The second of three novels Wang I-chien wrote under the pen name Ciang Kuei while living in poverty in Taiwan after taking the wrong side in the Chinese civil war. It depicts the pull of the Nationalist and Communist parties on the men and women caught in the Northern Expedition of 1927. Drawing on his own experiences, he focuses on men in their late teens and twenties who fomented and directed mass activities in the city of Wuhan for the two parties. However, he says almost nothing about the actual business of making revolution or functioning in a party. The double spacing makes it as weighty and expensive as the Russian models. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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ia/beijingerinnewyo0000tsao.pdf

Beijinger in New York by Glen Cao; translated by Ted Wang China Books and Periodicals, San Francisco, California, 1993

Story Of Wang Qiming, A Poor Musician Who Arrives With His Wife In New York, Full Of Hope For A New Life. Numerous Setbacks Fail To Discourage Them, And It Appears The American Dream Will Become Reality For Them. But With Their Success Comes Tragedy, As Their Wealth Comes At A High Cost For Their Family Life--p. [4] Of Cover. By Glen Cao ; Translated By Ted Wang. Translation Of: Pei-ching Jen Tsai Niu-yüeh.

English [en] · PDF · 12.2MB · 1993 · 📗 Book (unknown) · 🚀/ia · Save

ia/isbn_9787506032452.pdf

狼性 Yin Quansheng zhu Dong fang chu ban she, Zui ju zhong xue sheng ren qi de wei xing xiao shuo ming zuo xuan, Di 1 ban., Beijing, China, 2008

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ia/blacksnow0000liuh.pdf

Black Snow Liu Heng; translated from the Chinese by Howard Goldblatt Atlantic Monthly Press, Grove Press pbk. ed, New York, 1994

black Snow Is The Stunning Portrait Of A Dissatisfied And Emotionally Illiterate Young Man’s Search For Meaning And Companionship In The Gray World Of Totalitarianism. After Serving A Three-year Sentence In A Prison Labor Camp For His Involvement In A Juvenile Street Fight, Li Huiquan Returns To Beijing And Begins Work As A Street Peddler. At Night, He Frequents A Karaoke Bar, Where He Enters Into The Shadowy World Of The Black Market And Meets A Beautiful, Naive Young Singer Who Becomes The Object Of His Dangerous And Overwhelming Obsession. Riveting And Relentless, Black Snow Offers An Extraordinary Glimpse Into The Psyche And Lifestyle Of The Young Generation In Contemporary Beijing. <h3>publishers Weekly</h3>despite Some Fine, Unnerving Descriptions Of Violence In Contemporary Bei Jing, This Gritty Second Novel By The Author Of Ju Dou Ultimately Disappoints. Recently Released After A Three-year Detention In A Labor Camp, 25-year-old Li Huiquan Struggles For Survival And Self-awareness. His Peddler's Cart, His Painful Memories And His Profoundly Misanthropic Outlook Accompany Him As He Mulls Over His Past And Tries To Find A Future In The Seedy Bars Near His House On Spirit Run Street. Simultaneously Detesting And Yearning For Human Contact, He Becomes Obsessed With Zhao Yaqiu, A Lounge Singer He Sets Up As His Virtuous Ideal In A Dark World Peopled With Slippery Friends And Supposed Enemies. However, A Relationship With Any Human Being, Especially A Woman, Proves Almost Impossibly Difficult For The Intensely Bitter Li. While His Acerbic Misogyny Remains Largely Unexamined, Existential Questions--about The Meaning Of Life, The Definition Of Happiness, Etc.--are Endlessly And Repetitively Discussed, Usually In Cliches. Heng Tends To Pontificate--regrettably, Since The Novel's More Engaging Sections Feature Imaginative, Telling Details And A Skillful Intermingling Of Action And Dialogue. At Its Best, Black Snow Is A Disturbing, Richly Alive Portrait Of A Disillusioned Young Man Trying To Gain Control Over A Chaotic Society; At Its Worst, The Narrative Is Preachy And Static. ( Apr. )

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ia/shanghaibaby00weih.pdf

Shanghai Baby Wei Hui; translated from the Chinese by Bruce Humes Pocket Books / Simon & Schuster, New York, New York State, 2001-09

"Publicly burned in China for its sensual nature and irreverent style, this novel is the semi-autobiographical story of Coco, a cafe waitress, who is full of enthusiasm and impatience for life. She meets a young man, Tian Tian, for whom she feels tenderness and love, but he is reclusive, impotent and an increasing user of drugs. Despite parental objections, Coco moves in with him, leaves her job and throws herself into writing.". "Shortly afterwards she meets Mark, a married Westerner. The two are uncontrollably attracted and begin a highly charged, physical affair. Torn between her two lovers, and tormented by her deceit, her unfinished novel and the conflicting feelings involved in love and betrayal, Coco begins to find out who she really is."--BOOK JACKET.

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ia/blacksnownovelof00liuh.pdf

Black snow : a novel of the Beijing demimonde by Liu Heng; translated from the Chinese by Howard Goldblatt Atlantic Monthly Press; Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated, New York, N.Y, New York State, 1993

In 1989 a remarkable film, Ju Dou, banned in China for depicting adultery, was released to worldwide acclaim and nominated for an Academy Award. The film was adapted from the first novel by Liu Heng, one of China's most important young writers. Black Snow is Liu Heng's second novel, and it will prove to be equally unsettling. Li Huiquan returns to Beijing after serving a three-year sentence in a prison labor camp for his involvement in a juvenile street fight. Both his foster parents, who raised him after he was discovered abandoned in a train station, are dead, and Huiquan is left with nothing but his mother's small life's savings and the attentions of his Auntie Luo, who arranges for his livelihood. Huiquan agrees, with his aunt's urgings, to sell clothing from a peddler's cart. It is joyless, tiring work, and Huiquan can barely contain his disdain for the crowds of people eager to snatch up foreign goods. At night, Huiquan frequents a karaoke bar, where he meets a bearded stranger with connections to the shady world of the black market, a world Huiquan finds both seductive and repulsive. He also meets Zhao Yaqiu, a naive and silly young singer who becomes the object of his overwhelming obsession and the focus of his previously diffuse anxiety. As his surroundings turn increasingly bleak and meaningless, Huiquan's attraction to Yaqiu, who, in his mind, may provide the only connection to the society around him, grows dangerously strong. Black Snow is a stunning psychological portrait of a dissatisfied and emotionally illiterate young man's desperate search for meaning and companionship in the gray world under totalitarianism. It combines the existential angst of writers such as Camus and Sartre with the disaffection of the American urban novels of the 1980s. Liu Heng's voice is one of the first of his generation to be heard outside of China, and this novel offers an extraordinary glimpse into the psyche and life-style of the young generation in contemporary Be

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ia/pleasedontcallme00wang.pdf

Please Don't Call Me Human Wang Shuo; translated by Howard Goldblatt Hyperion East, 1st ed., New York, New York State, 2000

After A Shattering Defeat For China In An International Wrestling Competition, A Group Of Profiteers Seeks Out A Young Athletic Hero To Restore The Country's Damaged Pride. In Search Of A Living Practitioner Of A Legendary Fighting Technique, The Scouts Find Their Man. Ironically, He Is No Warrior, But Rather A Slacker Pedicab Driver. What Follows Is A Surreal, Comic Journey That Includes A Sex-change Operation, An Encounter With Buddha Himself, And A Humiliation Competition Where Nations Vie By Performing Feats Of Self-degradation. Please Don't Call Me Human Is A Fellini-esque Satire Of Nationalism, The Olympics, And The Cult Of Celebrity.--jacket. Wang Shuo ; Translated By Howard Goldblatt.

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ia/bathingwomen0000tien.pdf

The Bathing Women (Thorndike Reviewers' Choice) Tie Ning; translated by Hongling Zhang and Jason Sommer Waterville, Maine: Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning, Thorndike Press Large Print Reviewers' Choice, Thorndike Press large print reviewers' choice, Large Print edition., Maine, 2013

655 pages (large print) ; 23 cm A stunningly original book that follows the lives of four young professional women in contemporary China - Tiao, a children's book editor, her sister Fan, who thinks escaping to America might solve her problems, hedonistic and self-destructive Fei, and Youyou, a chef - from childhood during the Cultural Revolution to adulthood in the new market economy A stunningly original book that follows the lives of four young professional women in contemporary China - Tiao, a children's book editor, her sister Fan, who thinks escaping to America might solve her problems, hedonistic and self-destructive Fei, and Youyou, a chef - from childhood during the Cultural Revolution to adulthood in the new market economy

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ia/republicofwineno00moya.pdf

The republic of wine : a novel Mo Yan; translated from the Chinese by Howard Goldblatt New York: Arcade Pub.: Distributed by Time Warner Trade Publishing, 1st North American ed., New York, New York State, 2000

When special investigator Ding Gou'er hears persistent rumors that there is cannibalism in the province called the Republic of Wine, he goes to learn the truth. Beginning at the Mount Luo Coal Mine, he meets Diamond Jin, legendary for his capacity to hold his liquor and fondness for young human flesh. A banquet is served during which the special investigator, by meal's end in an alcohol-induced stupor, loses all sense of reality. Interspersed are stories sent to Mo Yan himself by Li Yidou (aka Doctor of Liquor Studies), each one more mad than the next. Wild and politically explosive, The Republic of Wine proves that no regime can stifle creative imagination.

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Big Breasts and Wide Hips: A Novel (Arcade Classics) Mo Yan; translated from the Chinese by Howard Goldblatt Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated, Simon & Schuster, New York, 2011

China's most important contemporary literary voice delivers a portrait of twentieth-century China full of historical sweep and earthy exuberance. In his latest novel, Mo Yan--arguably China's most important contemporary literary voice--recreates the historical sweep and earthy exuberance of his much acclaimed novel Red Sorghum. In a country where patriarchal favoritism and the primacy of sons survived multiple revolutions and an ideological earthquake, this epic novel is first and foremost about women, with the female body serving as the book's central metaphor. The protagonist, Mother, is born in 1900 and married at seventeen into the Shangguan family. She has nine children, only one of whom is a boy--the narrator of the book. A spoiled and ineffectual child, he stands in stark contrast to his eight strong and forceful female siblings. Mother, a survivor, is the quintessential strong woman who risks her life to save several of her children and grandchildren. The writing is picturesque, bawdy, shocking, and imaginative. The structure draws on the essentials of classical Chinese formalism and injects them with extraordinarily raw and surprising prose. Each of the seven chapters represents a different time period, from the end of the Qing dynasty up through the Japanese invasion in the 1930s, the civil war, the Cultural Revolution, and the post-Mao years. Now in a beautifully bound collectors edition, this stunning novel is Mo Yan's searing vision of twentieth-century China

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ia/howlongisforever0000tien.pdf

How long is forever : two novellas Tie Ning; [translation: Qiu Maoru, Wu Yanting] Reader's Digest Association; Shanghai Book Traders, Pleasantville, N.Y, New York State, 2010

The author of The Gate of Roses offers two poetic novellas, including "How Long Is Forever?," in which a woman who is always willing to make a compromise wonders how long she can go giving into the demands of others, and "The Woman Opposite."

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ia/rice00sutu.pdf

Rice: A Novel Su Tong; translated by Howard Goldblatt William Morrow & Co, 1st ed., New York, New York State, 1995

Set in famine-stricken 1930's China, Rice chronicles the complete debasement of a city family after it takes in a young man named Five Dragons, a starving wanderer from the provinces whose desire for power and sex is insatiable. In this riveting novel, Su Tong explores connections between hunger, sexuality, and brutality. Rice is used as food and currency, as an aphrodisiac and an implement of sexual torture, as a weapon for murder and a symbol of everything good.

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ia/concubineofshang0000hong_g2z1.pdf

The concubine of Shanghai Hong Ying; translated from the Mandarin by Liu Hong Marion Boyars Publishers; Marion Boyars, 1st ed., London, New York, England, 2008

Sold by her uncle in 1907 to the First Salon of Gifted Girls, a reputable brothel, sixteen-year-old Cassia is plucked from the ranks of servant girl by a powerful client. Power Chang is the boss of the fearsome Shanghai Triad. In spite of her large feet and pendulous breasts, both unbound, Cassia swiftly becomes his favorite mistress and enjoys her first passionate encounters as well as her first taste of luxurious living. The story follows Cassia after the violent death of Power Chang and her subsequent rise to godmother of Shanghai. She not only seduces the next Triad boss, Huang, after he hears her opera troupe, but also his lacky, Yu, who replaces the murdered Huang as the next Triad leader. This novel will appeal to anyone interested in China, triad politics and history, and the position of women as sexual slaves to men in Shanghais houses of ill repute. Hong Ying grew up in the 1960s in the slums of Chongquing on the Yangtze River in China. An author and poetess, she is best known in the English-speaking world for her novels K: The Art of Love , Peacock Cries , Summer of Betrayal , and her autobiography, Daughter of the River .

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ia/loveinsmalltown00wang.pdf

Love in Small Town (Renditions paperbacks) by Wang Anyi; translated by Eva Hung Research Centre for Translation, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Renditions paperbacks, Hong Kong, China, 1988

One of the first Chinese works "... to gently broach the subject of sex. Wang Anyi is credited with creating fiction from a woman's point of view." - Choice One of the first Chinese works "... to gently broach the subject of sex. Wang Anyi is credited with creating fiction from a woman's point of view." - Choice

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ia/shanghaibaby00zhou.pdf

Shanghai Baby Wei Hui; translated from the Chinese by Bruce Humes Pocket Books / Simon & Schuster, New York, New York State, 2001-09

"Publicly burned in China for its sensual nature and irreverent style, this novel is the semi-autobiographical story of Coco, a cafe waitress, who is full of enthusiasm and impatience for life. She meets a young man, Tian Tian, for whom she feels tenderness and love, but he is reclusive, impotent and an increasing user of drugs. Despite parental objections, Coco moves in with him, leaves her job and throws herself into writing.". "Shortly afterwards she meets Mark, a married Westerner. The two are uncontrollably attracted and begin a highly charged, physical affair. Torn between her two lovers, and tormented by her deceit, her unfinished novel and the conflicting feelings involved in love and betrayal, Coco begins to find out who she really is."--BOOK JACKET.

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Trees Without Wind: A Novel (Weatherhead Books on Asia) Rui Li Columbia University Press, Lightning Source Inc. (Tier 3), New York, 2013

Unfolding in the tense years of the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976), Trees Without Wind takes place in a remote Shanxi village in which a rare affliction has left the residents physically stunted. Director Liu, an older revolutionary and local commune head, becomes embroiled in a power struggle with Zhang Weiguo, a young ideologue who believes he is the model of a true revolutionary. Complicating matters is a woman named Nuanyu, who, like Zhang Weiguo and Director Liu, is an outsider untouched by the village's disease.'Wedded'to all of the male villagers, Nuanyu lives a polyandrous lifestyle based on necessity and at odds with the puritanical idealism of the Cultural Revolution. The deformed villagers, representing the manipulated masses of China, become pawns in the Party representatives'factional infighting. Director Liu and Zhang Weiguo's explosive tug-of-war is part of a larger battle among politics, self-interest, and passion gripping a world undone by ideological extremism. A collectively told narrative powered by distinctive subjectivities, Trees Without Wind is a milestone in the fictional treatment of a horrific event.

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ia/womanfromshangha0000yang.pdf

Woman from Shanghai : tales of survival from a Chinese labor camp Xianhui Yang; translated from the Chinese and with an introduction by Wen Huang Anchor, Penguin Random House LLC, New York, 2009

In Woman from Shanghai, Xianhui Yang, one of China's most celebrated and controversial writers, gives us a work of fact-based fiction that reveals firsthand--and for the first time in English--what life was like in one of Mao's most notorious labor camps.Between 1957 and 1960, nearly three thousand Chinese citizens were labeled "Rightists" by the Communist Part and banished to Jianiangou in China's northwestern desert region of Gansu to undergo "reeducation" through hard labor. These exiles men and women were subjected to horrific conditions, and by 1961 the camp was closed because of the stench of death: of the rougly three thousand inmates, only about five hundred survived.In 1997, Xianhui Yang traveled to Gansu and spent the next five years interviewing more than one hundred survivors of the camp. In Woman from Shanghai he presents thirteen of their stories, which have been crafted into fiction in order to evade Chinese censorship but which lose none of their fierce power. These are tales of ordinary people facing extraordinary tribulations, time and again securing their humanity against those who were intent on taking it away.Xianhui Yang gives us a remarkable synthesis of journalism and fiction--a timely, important and uncommonly moving book.From the Hardcover edition.

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ia/brocadevalley00wang.pdf

Brocade Valley Wang Anyi; translated by Bonnie S. McDougall & Chen Maiping New Directions Publishing Corporation, New York, New York State, 1992

"One of a trilogy of novellas addressing the theme of women in extramarital affairs, Brocade Valley shocked China when it appeared in 1987, becoming a bestseller and effectively dynamiting the sexual puritanism of official Chinese writing. It is only in Brocade Valley, the third and most controversial of the series, that the sexually adventurous woman is not punished for her activities. On the contrary, she is awarded a highly modern prize: a new sense of self which enables her to author her own story, the story of a young married editor who has a passing but liberating affair with a famous writer. Wang Anyi brings to her heroine the device of a triple perspective - narrator, protagonist, projection. The special interior tone which results, pitched to Wang Anyi's delicately circling style, allows the reader an intimate, insider's eye-view of a surprising China and creates a resonant novella of unusual beauty."--BOOK JACKET.

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The Eleventh Son: A Novel of Martial Arts and Tangled Love (February 15, 2005) Gu Long; translated from the Chinese by Rebecca S. Tai Homa & Sekey Books, First Edition, FR, 2005

On one of his missions, Xiao Shiyi Lang (the Eleventh Son, known as the Great Bandit) meets Shen, the fairest woman in the martial world. By the will of fate, he rescues Shen several times, which plants the seed of love in both of them. However, Shen is married to a rich young man who is also an outstanding martial artist. As if things were not complicated enough, Xiao has his own secret admirer, Feng, an attractive swordswoman with a quick temper. Xiao is drawn into a messy fight for a legendary saber, the Deer Carver, and is accused of stealing it. Xiao finds out that the person who has set him up is a mysterious young man with an angel's face and a devil's heart. Before he can pursue any further, Shen's grandmother is murdered, and Xiao is named the killer. It appears that things are spinning out of control....

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兴奋直到死 = Tingle until death Xing fen zhi dao si = Tingle until death 许伟才著; 许伟才中国画报出版社 Zhong guo hua bao chu ban she, Xuan yi zhi xi lie -- San, Xuan yi zhi xi lie -- San., Di 1 ban, Beijing, China, 2008

6 (p1): 前言 8 (p2): 楔子 1 (p3): 第一章噩梦降临 15 (p4): 第二章马凯的推理 31 (p5): 第三章勒索电话 47 (p6): 第四章离奇的举重比赛 63 (p7): 第五章九次问话 79 (p8): 第六章马凯和普伊莎的夜谈 89 (p9): 第七章吴士明的反击 107 (p10): 第八章冰场惨剧 121 (p11): 第九章药物的骗局 131 (p12): 第十章闹剧和温情 147 (p13): 第十一章第二个死者 161 (p14): 第十二章录像带里的故事 175 (p15): 第十三章尸体解剖 181 (p16): 第十四章美女的大脑 191 (p17): 第十五章嫌疑人的秘密 205 (p18): 第十六章小白鼠的证词 213 (p19): 第十七章夜宴 219 (p20): 第十八章真相大白 251 (p21): 后记

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ia/roseroseiloveyou00wang.pdf

Rose, Rose, I Love You Wang Chen-ho; translated by Howard Goldblatt New York: Columbia University Press, Modern Chinese literature from Taiwan, New York, New York State, 1998

In this lively translation of Wang Chen-ho's ribald satire, a Taiwanese village loses all perspective - and common sense - at the prospect of fleecing a shipload of lusty and lonely American soldiers. A rotund, excitable high school English teacher receives word that 300 GIs are coming from Vietnam for a weekend of R & R. He persuades the owners of the Big 4 brothels that they will all take in more U.S. dollars if the pleasure girls can speak a little English; his plan is to train fifty specially selected prostitutes in a "Crash Course for Bar Girls." But what begins as a simple plan to teach a few English phrases quickly becomes absurdly elaborate: courses will include an "Introduction to American Culture," a crash course on global etiquette, and a workshop in personal hygiene taught by Dr. "Venereal" Wang.

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The Money Demon (Fiction from Modern China) (Fiction from Modern China, 9) Chen Diexian; translated from the Chinese by Patrick Hanan; general editor, Howard Goldblatt University of Hawai'i Press; University of Hawaii Press, University of Hawai'i, Honolulu, 1999

Its such a pity! I, too used to think of money and love as entirely separate things. So begins this popular autobiographical novel, written by litterateur, inventor, and business tycoon Chen Diexian (1879–1940), a remarkable intellectual whose life spanned the old China and the new. Chens novel is the story of his youth, and in it he chooses to focus on his amorous and erotic development—a rare subject in Chinese literature—revealing his passage from innocent boy, surrounded by females, to young man, armed with a new attitude toward money, business, and the women in his life. Chens unusual narrative, intimately combining romance and exhibitionism, unfolds to us an intriguing material reality as well as a powerful emotional world and may well be the first extended account of Chinese childhood and youth. The novel is built on our narrators relationships with the central women in his life: his mother; an affectionate nanny; his devoted wife by an arranged marriage; a tragic peasant girl; and above all, the girl next door and his most enduring love, known—after the instrument she plays—as Koto. Patrick Hanans graceful translation brings us Chens story at its disarming best, a popular romance that is at the same time original and distinctive in both voice and theme. First serialized in Shanghai in 1913, The Money Demon appears in English for the first time; included in an appendix is The Koto Story, a short epilogue to the novel.

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China's most important contemporary literary voice delivers a portrait of twentieth-century China full of historical sweep and earthy exuberance. In his latest novel, Mo Yan--arguably China's most important contemporary literary voice--recreates the historical sweep and earthy exuberance of his much acclaimed novel Red Sorghum. In a country where patriarchal favoritism and the primacy of sons survived multiple revolutions and an ideological earthquake, this epic novel is first and foremost about women, with the female body serving as the book's central metaphor. The protagonist, Mother, is born in 1900 and married at seventeen into the Shangguan family. She has nine children, only one of whom is a boy--the narrator of the book. A spoiled and ineffectual child, he stands in stark contrast to his eight strong and forceful female siblings. Mother, a survivor, is the quintessential strong woman who risks her life to save several of her children and grandchildren. The writing is picturesque, bawdy, shocking, and imaginative. The structure draws on the essentials of classical Chinese formalism and injects them with extraordinarily raw and surprising prose. Each of the seven chapters represents a different time period, from the end of the Qing dynasty up through the Japanese invasion in the 1930s, the civil war, the Cultural Revolution, and the post-Mao years. Now in a beautifully bound collectors edition, this stunning novel is Mo Yan's searing vision of twentieth-century China

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The embroidered shoes : stories Can Xue; translated by Ronald R. Janssen and Jian Zhang Henry Holt & Co, 1st ed., New York, New York State, 1997

Can Xue (pronounced "tsan shway") is considered by many to be the most spirited, fearless, radical fiction writer to come out of contemporary China. Even her name is marked by tenacity (it's a pen name referring to dirty, leftover snow that refuses to melt). Her most important work to date, The Embroidered Shoes is a collection of lyrical, irreverent, sassy, wise, maddening, celebratory tales in which she explores the themes central to our contemporary lives: mortality, memory, imagination, and alienation. At times constructed like a set of graduated Chinese boxes, these New Gothic ghost stories build into philosophical and psychological conundrums that we ponder long after reading the final page. A doctor-detective-warrior who sleeps like a hippo in a cistern! A homicidal maniac housewife whose husband winds up in the hospital with a stomach full of very fine needles! These and many more strange, yet strangely recognizable, characters populate Can Xue's dream-ridden, transcendental territories. Written between 1986 and 1994, ten years after the death of Chairman Mao and during and following the 1989 Tiananmen massacre, The Embroidered Shoes is a life-affirming testament to the creative spirit.

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Silver City : a novel Li Rui; translated by Howard Goldblatt New York: Metropolitan Books, 1st American ed., New York, New York State, 1997

Li Rui breathes life into China's monumental modern history in this vibrant saga of the Li and Bai clans - their romances, betrayals, intrigues, and power struggles. Set in Silver City, a provincial salt-mining town, the narrative takes us from the pre-Communist 1920s - a courtly era of sedan chairs and teahouses, white gardens and poetic scrolls - to the student farmers and high-born tractor drivers of the Communist takeover, to the violent liberations of the Cultural Revolution and beyond. Silver City is populated by a striking array of characters, among them Bai Ruide, the challenger to the Li salt empire, who wields such Western weapons as corporate raids and bank mergers; Lady Yang, his scheming wife, who imports a concubine to bear him a son; Li Naizhi, the unwilling salt heir, who abandons his family for Communism; and his sister, Li Zihen, whose self-sacrifice, loyalty, and endurance ultimately express both the suffering and the strength of China itself. For all the characters who come to life in this sweeping epic - Buddhist ascetics and spoiled schoolgirls, revolutionary martyrs and corrupt militarists - future and fortune are prey to China's relentless cycle of revolutions, counterrevolutions, massacres, and bloodbaths.

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The Boat to Redemption : A Novel Su Tong; translated from the Chinese by Howard Goldblatt The Overlook Press, Open Road Integrated Media, Inc., [N.p.], 2011

A tragicomic novel of a father and son coping with China's Cultural Revolution, from “a true literary talent” (Anchee Min, author of Empress Orchid). Winner of the Man Asian Literary Prize In a peaceful village, it has been officially proven that Ku is not, as was once believed, the son of a revolutionary martyr, but the issue of a river pirate and a prostitute. Mocked by his neighbors, Ku leaves the shore for a new life among the boat people. But refusing to renounce his high status, he—along with his teenage son—keeps his distance from the gossipy lowlifes who surround him. Then one day a feral girl, Huixian, arrives looking for her mother. The boat people, and especially Ku's son, take her into their hearts. But Huixian sows conflict wherever she goes, and soon the boy is in the grip of an obsession. Raw, emotional, and unerringly funny, this is a story of a people caught in the stranglehold not only of their own desires and needs, but also of a Party that sees everything and forgives nothing.

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张居正. 卷三, 金缕曲 Zhang ju zheng. Juan san, Jin lü qu 熊召政 & chenjin5.com [Unknown & Unknown] chenjin5.com 海量电子书免费下载, Di 1 ban, Wuhan Shi, China, 2003

v. 1. Mu lan ge v. 2. Shui long yin v. 3. Jin lou qu v. 4. Huo feng huang. 880-05

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The Money Demon: An Autobiographical Romance (Fiction from Modern China) Chen Diexian; translated from the Chinese by Patrick Hanan; general editor, Howard Goldblatt University of Hawai'i Press; University of Hawaii Press, Fiction from modern China, Honolulu, Hawaii, ©1999

A popular autobiographical novel focusing on the author's amorous and erotic development.

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Dunhuang dream : a novel Xiaobin, Xu Atria Books; Atria, Simon & Schuster, [N.p.], 2011

Named one of the Top Ten Novels of the Year in China, this award-winning novel is about three tourists who fall into a strange entanglement of love. Set against the magical backdrop of Dunhuang, China, home to thousands of painted cave murals, Dunhuang Dreams magically blends the stories of three protagonists: Xiao Xingxing, a talented young female artist, Zhang Shu, a laboratory technician from a Beijing research institute who recently quit his job, and Xiang Wuye, a medical student. These three individuals seek refuge in Dunhuang from their troubled lives, but soon find themselves in a love triangle and involved in a scandalous theft. Original and dynamic, Dunhuang Dreams harmoniously combines a contemporary story with ancient and modern Buddhist themes. It is a tale of searching, escaping from the past, and longing for true love.

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The Flowers of War (Movie Tie-in Edition) : A Novel Geling Yan; translated from the Chinese by Nicky Harman Other Press, LLC, Penguin Random House LLC (Publisher Services), New York, 2012

It is December 1937 and the Japanese Imperial Army has just entered Nanking. Unable to reach the Safety Zone in Pokou, a group of schoolgirls are hiding out in the compound of the St. Mary Magdalene mission. They are looked after by Father Engelmann, an American priest who has made China his home for many years. The church is supposed to be neutral ground in the war between China and Japan, but eyewitness reports from the outside make it clear the Japanese are not obeying the international rules of engagement. As the soldiers pour through the streets of Nanking, committing unspeakable atrocities on civilians, thirteen Chinese courtesans from a nearby brothel climb over the church compound's walls seeking refuge. Their presence further jeopardizes the children's safety and what happens next will change all of their lives.A haunting, passionate story inspired by true life events during the Nanking Massacre, this novel shows how war challenges our prejudices and that love can flourish amidst death and destruction. The Flowers of War is an unforgettable journey through the depths of the human heart.Review“I have long been a fan of Geling Yan’s fiction for its power to disturb us out of our ordinary worlds...The Flowers of War is [a] riveting tale that touches us at the center of our being.” —Amy Tan, New York Times bestselling author of *The Joy Luck Club“I will never forget some of the characters in this short novel for their amazing acceptance of their destiny and their dignity throughout. That [Yan] was able to convey this with so much authority, yet so simply, is testament to [her] splendid talent.” –The Arts Fuse*About the AuthorBorn in Shanghai in 1959, GELING YAN served with the People's Liberation Army during the Cultural Revolution, starting aged 12 as a dancer in an entertainment troupe. She published her first novel in 1985 and has now written over 20 books and won 30 awards. Her works have been translated into twelve languages, several have been adapted for film, and she also writes film scripts (including that for Zhang Yimou's adaptation of 13 Flowers of Nanjing). She may be the only person in the world who is concurrently a member of China's Writers' Association and Hollywood's Writers' Guild of America. She currently lives in Berlin.

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Shifu, You'll Do Anything for a Laugh : A Novel Mo Yan; translated from the Chinese by Howard Goldblatt Arcade Publishing, 2012

****WINNER OF THE 2012 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE**** Mo Yan, China’s most critically acclaimed author, has changed the face of his country’s contemporary literature with such daring and masterly novels as Red Sorghum, The Garlic Ballads, and The Republic of Wine. In this collection of eight astonishing stories—the title story of which has been adapted to film by the award-winning director of Red Sorghum Zhang Yimou—Mo Yan shows why he is also China’s leading writer of short fiction.His passion for writing shaped by his own experience of almost unimaginable poverty as a child, Mo Yan uses his talent to expose the harsh abuses of an oppressive society. In these stories he writes of those who suffer, physically and spiritually, under its yoke: the newly unemployed factory worker who hits upon an ingenious financial opportunity; two former lovers revisiting their passion fleetingly before returning to their spouses; young couples willing to pay for a place to share their love in private; the abandoned baby brought home by a soldier to his unsympathetic wife; the impoverished child who must subsist on a diet of iron and steel; the young bride willing to go to any length to escape an odious, arranged marriage. Never didactic, Mo’s fiction ranges from tragedy to wicked satire, rage to whimsy, magical fable to harsh realism, from impassioned pleas on behalf of struggling workers to paeans to romantic love.

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White snake and other stories =: [Pai she] by Geling Yan; translated by Lawrence A. Walker San Francisco: Aunte Lute Books, 1st ed., San Francisco, California, 1999

Short Fiction. Asian Studies. Translated from the Chinese by Lawrence A. Walker. In this collection of five short stories and one novella, set mostly in China during and after the Cultural Revolution, Geling Yan presents us with the unforgettable characters who have all, in one way or another, left home. Taking as her territory the disorienting space between home and away, Yan charts the unexpected and illuminating transformation of her characters hearts and minds as they find themselves thrust into unlikely intimacy with strangers. [Yan's] stories are very sensuous. One experiences and becomes immersed in her works instead of simply reading them. In my opinion, Geling Yan is the most exquisite fiction writer in the Chinese language today— Joan Chen. Includes Celestial Bath, the basis for Joan Chen's film Xiu Xiu, The Sent Down Girl. Geling was awarded a Golden Horse in 1998 for her screen adaption.

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Turbulence : a novel by Jia Pingwa; translated by Howard Goldblatt Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 1991

By Jia Pingwa ; Translated By Howard Goldblatt. Translation Of: Fu Tsao.

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The King of Trees: Three Novellas: The King of Trees, The King of Chess, The King of Children Ah Cheng; translated from the Chinese by Bonnie S. McDougall New York: New Directions Books, A New directions paperbook, New York, cop. 2010

Three classic novellas The King of Trees , The King of Chess , The King of Childre nthat completely altered the landscape of contemporary Chinese fiction. When the three novellas in The King of Trees were published separately in China in the 1980s, Ah Cheng fever spread across the country. Never before had a fiction writer dealt with the Cultural Revolution in such Daoist-Confucian terms, discarding Mao-speak, and mixing both traditional and vernacular elements with an aesthetic that emphasized not the hardships and miseries of those years, but the joys of close, meaningful friendships. In The King of Chess , a students obsession with finding worthy chess opponents symbolizes his pursuit of the dao; in The King of Children made into an award-winning film by Chen Kaige, the director of Farewell My Concubine an educated youth is sent to teach at an impoverished village school where one boys devotion to learning is so great he is ready to spend 500 days copying his teachers dictionary; and in the title novella a peasants innate connection to a giant primeval tree takes a tragic turn when a group of educated youth arrive to clear the mountain forest. The King of Trees is a masterpiece of world literature, full of passion and noble emotions that stir the inner chambers of the heart.

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The Republic of Wine : A Novel Mo Yan; translated from the Chinese by Howard Goldblatt Arcade Pub. : Distributed by Time Warner Trade Publishing, Simon & Schuster, New York, 2012

WINNER OF THE 2012 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE In this hypnotic epic novel, Mo Yan, the most critically acclaimed Chinese writer of this generation, takes us on a journey to a conjured province of contemporary China known as the Republic of Wine—a corrupt and hallucinatory world filled with superstitions, gargantuan appetites, and surrealistic events. When rumors reach the authorities that strange and excessive gourmandise is being practiced in the city of Liquorland (so named for the staggering amount of alcohol produced and consumed there), veteran special investigator Ding Gou'er is dispatched from the capital to discover the truth. His mission begins at the Mount Lou Coal Mine, where he encounters the prime suspect—Deputy Head Diamond Jin, legendary for his capacity to hold his liquor. During the ensuing drinking duel at a banquet served in Ding's honor, the investigator loses all sense of reality, and can no longer tell whether the roast suckling served is of the animal or human variety. When he finally wakes up from his stupor, he has still found no answers to his rapidly mounting questions. Worse yet, he soon finds that his trusty gun is missing. Interspersed throughout the narrative—and Ding's faltering investigation—are letters sent to Mo Yan by one Li Yidou, a doctoral candidate in Liquor Studies and an aspiring writer. Each letter contains a story that Li would like the renowned author's help in getting published. However, Li's tales, each more fantastic and malevolent than the last, soon begin alarmingly to resemble the story of Ding's continuing travails in Liquorland. Peopled by extraordinary characters—a dwarf, a scaly demon, a troupe of plump, delectable boys raised in captivity, a cookery teacher who primes her students with monstrous recipes—Mo Yan's revolutionary tour de force reaffirms his reputation as a writer of world standing. Wild, bawdy, politically explosive, and subversive, The Republic of Wine is both mesmerizing and exhilarating, proving that no repressive regime can stifle true creative imagination.

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#x98;The#x9C; moon opera Bi Feiyu; translated from the Chinese by Howard Goldblatt and Sylvia Li-chun Lin Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston, Massachusetts, 2009

the Debut Novel Of One Of China S Rising Young Literary Talents A Gem Of A Book That Takes A Piercing Look Into The World Of Chinese Opera And Its Female Stars. In A Fit Of Diva Jealousy, Xiao Yanqiu, Star Of the Moon Opera, Disfigures Her Understudy With Boiling Water. Spurned By The Troupe, She Turns To Teaching. Twenty Years Later, A Rich Cigarette-factory Boss Offers To Underwrite A Restaging Of The Cursed Opera, But Only On The Condition That Xiao Yanqiu Return To The Role Of Chang E. So She Does, This Time Believing She Has Fully Become The Immortal Moon Goddess. Set Against The Drama, Intrigue, Jealousy, Retribution, And Redemption Of Backstage Peking Opera, the Moon Opera Is A Stunning Portrait Of Women In A World That Simultaneously Reveres And Restricts Them. Bi Feiyu, One Of China S Young Literary Stars, Re-creates All The Temptations And Triumphs Of The Stage The World Over In This Gem Of A Novel.<h3>publishers Weekly</h3>a Peerless Singer In The Peking Opera Is Ruined By Her Jealousy Of Her Understudy In This Vividly Sketched Tale Of Art And Money By Chinese Screenwriter (shanghai Triad) And Novelist Feiyu. In 1979, 20 Years Before The Novel Takes Place, The Actress Xiao Yanqiu Debuted Brilliantly And Memorably As The Lead In the Moon Opera, Although She Soon Wrecked Her Career When She Attacked Her Understudy's Teacher In A Fit Of Rage At Sharing The Spotlight. Now 40, Unhappily Married And Overweight, Xiao Is Offered The Chance To Reprise Her Role In A New Production Bankrolled By A Factory Owner And Former Fan. Xiao, Who Assumes The Role To Perfection, Chooses As Her Understudy A Gifted Student, Chunlai, Who Postpones A Tv Career For The Promise Of The Stage. The Scene Is Set For A Terrible Showdown, Naturally, Complicated By The Clash Between Art And Money, As Exemplified By The Crass Interests Of The Factory Owner. The Novel's Slimness, Simple Storytelling And Overarching Morality Lend It A Fable-like Air, With Xiao Filling The Role Of Its Tormented Star. (jan.)copyright © Reed Business Information, A Division Of Reed Elsevier Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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Red sorghum : a novel of China Mo Yan; translated from the Chinese by Howard Goldblatt Penguin Books, New York, New York State, 1993

This file is missing one or two pages near the end of the book--the second- and maybe third-to-last page. Couldn't find anywhere else to make this note.

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The Boat to Redemption : A Novel Su Tong; translated from the Chinese by Howard Goldblatt The Overlook Press, Open Road Integrated Media, Inc., [N.p.], 2011

A tragicomic novel of a father and son coping with China's Cultural Revolution, from “a true literary talent” (Anchee Min, author of Empress Orchid). Winner of the Man Asian Literary Prize In a peaceful village, it has been officially proven that Ku is not, as was once believed, the son of a revolutionary martyr, but the issue of a river pirate and a prostitute. Mocked by his neighbors, Ku leaves the shore for a new life among the boat people. But refusing to renounce his high status, he—along with his teenage son—keeps his distance from the gossipy lowlifes who surround him. Then one day a feral girl, Huixian, arrives looking for her mother. The boat people, and especially Ku's son, take her into their hearts. But Huixian sows conflict wherever she goes, and soon the boy is in the grip of an obsession. Raw, emotional, and unerringly funny, this is a story of a people caught in the stranglehold not only of their own desires and needs, but also of a Party that sees everything and forgives nothing.

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The Garlic Ballads Mo Yan; translated from the Chinese by Howard Goldblatt Viking Penguin, New York, London, Ringwood, England, 1996

The peasants of Paradise County have been living a hardscrabble existence virtually unchanged for hundreds of years, until a 1987 glut on the garlic market forces them to watch the crop that is their lifeblood wilt, rot, and blacken in the fields - leading them to storm the seat of corrupt Communist officialdom in an apocalyptic riot. Against this epic backdrop unfold three intricately intertwined tales of love, loyalty, and retribution: between man and woman, father and child, friend and friend. Railing against the chaos and destruction is the blind, almost Homeric bard, the street singer Zhang Kou, whose insistent raised voice is the conscience of his beloved land - and whose fate will mirror the country's. Bawdy, mystical, and brawling, The Garlic Ballads portrays a landscape at once strange and utterly compelling, a people whose fierce passions overflow the rigid confines of their traditions. With this novel, China's most courageous and eloquent writer powerfully confirms his place in world literature.

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Brothers : A Novel Hua Yu; Eileen Cheng-yin Chow; Carlos Rojas Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Penguin Random House LLC, New York, 2009

A bestseller in China, Brothers is an epic and wildly unhinged black comedy of modern Chinese society running amok. Here is China as we've never seen it before, in a sweeping, Rabelaisian panorama of forty years of rough-and-rumble Chinese history, from the madness of the Cultural Revolution to the equally rabid madness of extreme materialism. Yu Hua, award-winning author of To Live , gives us a surreal tale of two comically mismatched stepbrothers, Baldy Li, a sex-obsessed ne'er-do-well, and the bookish, sensitive Song Gang, who vow that they will always be brothers—a bond they will struggle to maintain over the years as they weather the ups and downs of rivalry in love and making and losing millions in the new China. Both tragic and absurd by turns, Brothers is a fascinating vision of an extraordinary place and time.

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Homecoming? and other stories an authorized collection by Han Shaogong; translated by Martha Cheung Hong Kong: Research Centre for Translations, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Renditions paperbacks, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 1992

Homecoming? -- The Blue Bottle-cap -- Pa Pa Pa -- Woman Woman Woman. By Han Shaogong ; Translated By Martha Cheung. Spine Title: Homecoming?

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The Flowers of War (Movie Tie-in Edition) : A Novel Geling Yan; translated from the Chinese by Nicky Harman Other Press, LLC, Penguin Random House LLC (Publisher Services), New York, 2012

It is December 1937 and the Japanese Imperial Army has just entered Nanking. Unable to reach the Safety Zone in Pokou, a group of schoolgirls are hiding out in the compound of the St. Mary Magdalene mission. They are looked after by Father Engelmann, an American priest who has made China his home for many years. The church is supposed to be neutral ground in the war between China and Japan, but eyewitness reports from the outside make it clear the Japanese are not obeying the international rules of engagement. As the soldiers pour through the streets of Nanking, committing unspeakable atrocities on civilians, thirteen Chinese courtesans from a nearby brothel climb over the church compound's walls seeking refuge. Their presence further jeopardizes the children's safety and what happens next will change all of their lives.A haunting, passionate story inspired by true life events during the Nanking Massacre, this novel shows how war challenges our prejudices and that love can flourish amidst death and destruction. The Flowers of War is an unforgettable journey through the depths of the human heart.

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Gao Xingjian: Aesthetics and Creation (Cambria Sinophone World) Xingjian Gao, Mabel Lee Cambria Press, Cambria Sinophone world series, Amherst, New York, New York State, 2012

Nobel Laureate Gao Xingjian is amongst the most challenging writers of the present era. He has probed the dynamics of Chinese and European literature and developed unique strategies for the writing of seventeen plays, two novels, a collection of short stories and a collection of poems. He has also written two collections of criticism. The present collection takes the title Aesthetics and Creation from the name of the Chinese collection from which most of these essays are drawn, but it also includes some of Gao's most recent unpublished essays. University of Sydney academic Mabel Lee is the translator, and the book also includes her authoritative introductory essay that contextualizes Gao's significant position as an independent and uncompromising voice in the noisy hype of the globalized world of the present in which creative writers and artists are forced to conform with the demands of political and other group agendas, or with market forces, in order to survive. In incisive and cogently argued essays, he exposes the political dynamics of so-called "modernity" in Western literature and art, and how this has been enthusiastically embraced in China since the 1980s. In other essays he analyses traditional and modern European and Chinese notions of fiction, theatre and art, and elaborates on what aspects of writers and artists from both cultures have informed him in developing his own aesthetics in narration, performance and the visual arts. These essays testify to the extent of the cosmopolitanism of his aesthetics that both informs and are manifested in his literary and art creations. This book has importance and relevance to the general reader with an interest in literature and art as a creative human pursuit that is not demarcated by national or cultural boundaries. This book is both indispensable and inspiring reading for intellectuals and informed readers who regard themselves as citizen of the world. For academics, researchers and students engaged in the disciplines of literature and visual art studies, world literature studies, comparative literature studies, performance studies, theatre studies, cultural studies, narrative fiction studies, and studies in the history of literature and the visual arts in modern times, this book is essential and thought-provoking reading that will have many positive outcomes.This book is in the Cambria Sinophone World Series (General Editor: Victor H. Mair).

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The Deer and The Cauldron: The First Book (Bk. 1) Jin Yong; John Minford Oxford University Press, USA, New York, New York State, 1997

On the Dragon Throne of China sits the young Manchu Emperor Kang Xi. Back in 1644, his great-uncle Dorgon broke through the Great Wall from Manchuria in the north-east and took the Imperial capital, Peking. Now twenty years later, the Manchus are quelling the last sparks of Chinese resistance, hounding down members of the underground movement known as the Triad Secret Society. But deep in the innermost recesses of the Forbidden City, with its maze of countless eunuchs, and the redoubtable troops of the Imperial Guard, a sinister conspiracy is brewing. Into this historical setting bursts a young teenage scamp by the name of Trinket. Born in a whorehouse in the southern Chinese city of Yangzhou, Trinket is an unlikely (and reluctant) kungfu practitioner, whose underhand tricks earn him many a harsh word from his masters. Foul-mouthed, lazy, opportunistic, but ultimately likeable and unforgettable, it is Trinket who holds together the picaresque episodes of this last (and many say best) Martial Arts novel by Hong Kong's master storyteller, Louis Cha. As the poet and critic Stephen Soong has said, this is 'a roller-coaster of a novel, packed with thrills, with fun, rage, humour, and abuse, written in a style that flows and flashes like quicksilver.'

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