Download or read book Chinese Short Stories Part 26 God of Wood Gou Mang Learn Ancient Chinese Myths Folktales Shenhua Gushi Easy Mandarin Lessons for Beginners Simplified Chinese Characters and Pinyin Edition written by XIXI Zhang and published by . This book was released on 2024-05-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient Chinese literature is full of myths (神话故事). In the "Chinese Short Stories" series, let's discover Chinese mythologies. These books are designed for the students of Mandarin Chinese. The books include numerous lessons in simplified Chinese characters.
Download or read book Chinese Short Stories 10 written by Sk Mishra and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-20 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Devil of Nezha is Born" (哪咤传奇之魔童降世) is a famous folktale adapted from the Chinese mythology and tells the story of Nezha's growing experience of "being born to be a devil" but "fighting against the sky to the end". Nezha (哪咤) is the reincarnation of Mo Wan (魔丸), son of Li Jing (李靖). Because of his reincarnation status, he faced discrimination, exclusion, ridicule, and hostility by the people of Chen Tangguan (陈塘关). As a result, he felt lonely, indifferent, rebellious, stubborn, cynical, and he created trouble for the people of Chen Tangguan, so that no one could live peacefully. Under the cynical appearance, Nezha is more lonely than anyone else is, and he is constantly eager for social approval. As such, Nezha was supposed to be a hero. However, he became the great demon king of the world. Kindle Edition: www.amazon.com/dp/B087C6C7H3 Paperback Edition: www.amazon.com/dp/B087FF97NL The book has 11 chapters in the following order: Chapter 1: The Birth of Lingzhu (第一章：灵珠出世) Chapter 2: Li Jing and Wife (第二章：初见李靖夫妇) Chapter 3: Reincarnation of Mo Wan (第三章：魔丸转世) Chapter 4: Reincarnation of Lingzhu (第四章：灵珠转世) Chapter 5: Nezha in Trouble (第五章：哪吒到处惹祸) Chapter 6: Apprentice Nezha (第六章：哪吒拜师) Chapter 7: The Immortal Path (第七章：哪吒学仙法) Chapter 8: Nezha and Ao Bing (第八章：哪吒出图，认识敖丙) Chapter 9: Nezha and Ao Bing Become Friends (第九章：哪吒和敖丙成为朋友) Chapter 10: Nezha Invited Ao Bing to Birthday Feast (第十章：哪吒邀请敖丙参加生辰宴) Chapter 11: Changed Life of Nezha (第十一章：哪吒逆天改命) The current book volume, Chinese Short Stories 10, is a Level 1 Chinese reading practice book. It would introduce you to the famous Chinese story, The Devil of Nezha is Born (哪吒之魔童降世). The 10th volume in the Selected Chinese Short Story Series (中国短篇小说精选) includes both the Chinese text (simplified characters) and pinyin Romanization. With about over 500 unique Chinese characters, the volume would be suitable for the beginners, lower intermediate and advanced level Chinese language learners (HSK 1-6). Overall, the reading series offers you a variety of elementary level books (Level 1/2/3/4/5/6) to understand China as well as practice Chinese reading fast. More books are available on the author's homepage: https: //amzn.to/2ZnR4cg
Download or read book Chinese Short Stories 10 The Devil of Nezha is Born Learn Mandarin Fast Improve Vocabulary with Epic Fairy Tales Folklore Mythology Simplified Characters Pinyin Graded Reader Level 1 written by Sam Karthik and published by . This book was released on 2022-12-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Chinese Bestiary written by Richard E. Strassberg and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-03 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Chinese Bestiary presents a fascinating pageant of mythical creatures from a unique and enduring cosmography written in ancient China. The Guideways through Mountains and Seas, compiled between the fourth and first centuries b.c.e., contains descriptions of hundreds of fantastic denizens of mountains, rivers, islands, and seas, along with minerals, flora, and medicine. The text also represents a wide range of beliefs held by the ancient Chinese. Richard Strassberg brings the Guideways to life for modern readers by weaving together translations from the work itself with information from other texts and recent archaeological finds to create a lavishly illustrated guide to the imaginative world of early China. Unlike the bestiaries of the late medieval period in Europe, the Guideways was not interpreted allegorically; the strange creatures described in it were regarded as actual entities found throughout the landscape. The work was originally used as a sacred geography, as a guidebook for travelers, and as a book of omens. Today, it is regarded as the richest repository of ancient Chinese mythology and shamanistic wisdom. The Guideways may have been illustrated from the start, but the earliest surviving illustrations are woodblock engravings from a rare 1597 edition. Seventy-six of those plates are reproduced here for the first time, and they provide a fine example of the Chinese engraver's art during the late Ming dynasty. This beautiful volume, compiled by a well-known specialist in the field, provides a fascinating window on the thoughts and beliefs of an ancient people, and will delight specialists and general readers alike.
Download or read book Chinese Short Stories 6 written by Sam Karthik and published by . This book was released on 2022-12-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Island Fantasia written by Wei-Ping Lin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-07 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Matsu archipelago between China and Taiwan, for long an isolated outpost off southeast China, was suddenly transformed into a military frontline in 1949 by the Cold War and the Communist-Nationalist conflict. The army occupied the islands, commencing more than 40 long years of military rule. With the lifting of martial law in 1992, the people were confronted with the question of how to move forward. This in-depth ethnography and social history of the islands focuses on how individual citizens redefined themselves and reimagined their society. Drawing on long-term fieldwork, Wei-Ping Lin shows how islanders used both traditional and new media to cope with the conflicts and trauma of harsh military rule. She discusses the formation of new social imaginaries through the appearance of 'imagining subjects', interrogating their subjectification processes and varied uses of mediating technologies as they seek to answer existential questions. This title is Open Access.
Download or read book The Ch u Silk Manuscript written by Noel Barnard and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Divination Mythology and Monarchy in Han China written by Michael Loewe and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-09-15 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chinese empires were established by force of arms, but sustained by religious rites and intellectual theory. The four centuries from 206 BC to AD 220 witnessed major changes in the state cults and the concepts of monarchy, while various techniques of divination were used to forecast the future or to solve immediate problems. Michael Loewe examines these changes and the links between religion and statecraft. While both mythology and the traditions nurtured by the learned affected the concept and practice of monarchy throughout the period, the political and social weaknesses of the last century of Han rule bring into question the success that was achieved by the imperial ideal. Nevertheless, that ideal and its institutions were of prime importance for the understanding of Han times and for the influence they exercised on China's later dynasties.
Download or read book Sources of Western Zhou History written by Edward L. Shaughnessy and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1992-01-08 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The thousands of ritual bronze vessels discovered by China's archaeologists serve as the major documentary source for the Western Zhou dynasty (1045-771 B.C.). These vessels contain long inscriptions full of detail on subjects as diverse as the military history of the period, the bureaucratic structure of the royal court, and lawsuits among the gentry. Moreover, being cast in bronze, the inscriptions preserve exactly the contemporary script and language. Shaughnessy has written a meticulous and detailed work on the historiography and interpretation of these objects. By demonstrating how the inscriptions are read and interpreted, Shaughnessy makes accessible in English some of the most important evidence about life in ancient China.
Download or read book Before Confucius written by Edward L. Shaughnessy and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the original composition of China's oldest books, the Classic of Changes, the Venerated Documents, and the Classic of Poetry, and attempts to restore their original meanings.
Download or read book Cold War Island written by Michael Szonyi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-07-17 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A discussion of the history of the island of Quemoy during the Cold War.
Download or read book Journal of the Peking Oriental Society written by Peking Oriental Society and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ways to Paradise written by Michael Loewe and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-04-30 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1979, in Ways to Paradise Michael Loewe, an internationally recognised authority on Han China, assesses a wealth of an archaeological evidence in an attempt to uncover the attitudes of the pre-Buddhist Chinese to matters relating to death and hereafter. Dr Loewe examines in particular three major subjects of Han art and iconography: a recently found silk painting from Central China dating from around 168 BC; the numerous bronze mirrors of the so-called TLV pattern that came into fashion at the beginning of the Christian era, and which are especially rich in cosmological symbolism; and the representations of the Queen Mother of the West which appear as a leading motif of Chinese art from perhaps a century later. These Dr Loewe sets within a framework of contemporary literature and historical incident to create a wonderfully vivid picture of religious life and thought in this early and fascinating period of Chinese history which was to contribute so much to later developments in Far Eastern Philosophy, religion and art.
Download or read book The Cambridge History of China written by John King Fairbank and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International scholars and sinologists discuss culture, economic growth, social change, political processes, and foreign influences in China since the earliest pre-dynastic period.
Download or read book Les M moires Historiques de Se Ma Ts ien written by Edouard Chavannes and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2019-02-21 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book The University Library Cambridge written by Cambridge University Library and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
