Download or read book Dear Chrysanthemums written by Fiona Sze-Lorrain and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-05-02 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A startling and vivid debut novel in stories from acclaimed poet and translator Fiona Sze-Lorrain featuring deeply compelling Asian women who reckon with the past, violence, and exileset in Shanghai, Beijing, Singapore, Paris, and New York.Cooking for Madame Chiang, 1946: Two cooks work for Madame Chiang Kai-shek and prepare a foreign dish craved by their mistress, which becomes a political weapon and leads to their tragic end. Death at the Wukang Mansion, 1966: Punished for her extramarital affair, a dancer is transferred to Shanghai during the Cultural Revolution and assigned to an ominous apartment in a building whose other residents often depart in coffins.The White Piano, 1996: A budding pianist from New York City settles down in Paris and is assaulted when a mysterious piano arrives from Singapore.The Invisible Window, 2016: After their exile following the Tiananmen Square massacre, three women gather in a French cathedral to renew their friendship and reunite in their grief and faith. Evocative, vivid, disturbing, and written with a masterly ear for language, Dear Chrysanthemumsrenders a devastating portrait of diasporic life and inhumanity, as well as a tender web of shared memory, artistic expression, and love.
Download or read book National Register of Names of Chrysanthemums written by National Chrysanthemum Society (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Special Publication written by American Association of Economic Entomologists and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Eyewitness Companions Film written by Anita Ganeri and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-10-16 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not just another film guide–this is a visual road map to the best cinema has to offer. A comprehensive, fun to browse, and easy-to-use source for everything you need to know about movies and the people behind them. From Hollywood to Bollywood, the unique approach will explore every aspect of film and provide pointers on how to watch and understand films of different types, styles, and periods.Covers the history of film, from celluloid to the virtual world of digital FXProfiles the most important historical and contemporary directors, actors, producers, studios, and moreHighlights the top 100 “cornerstone movies” and contains an extensive trivia sectionDetails the principles behind film making styles, from sci-fi to romantic comedy
Download or read book Bibliography of Agriculture written by and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 1124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Ruth Benedict written by Margaret M. Caffrey and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2013-11-04 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poet, anthropologist, feminist—Ruth Fulton Benedict was all of these and much more. Born into the last years of the Victorian era, she came of age during the Progressive years and participated in inaugurating the modern era of American life. Ruth Benedict: Stranger in This Land provides an intellectual and cultural history of the first half of the twentieth century through the life of an important and remarkable woman. As a Lyricist poet, Ruth Benedict helped define Modernism. As an anthropologist, she wrote the classic Patterns of Culture and at one point was considered the foremost anthropologist in the United States—the first woman ever to attain such status. She was an intellectual and an artist living in a time when women were not encouraged to be either. In this fascinating study, Margaret Caffrey attempts to place Benedict in the cultural matrix of her time and successfully shows the way in which Benedict was a product of and reacted to the era in which she lived. Caffrey goes far beyond providing simple biographical material in this well-written interdisciplinary study. Based on exhaustive research, including access for the first time to the papers of Margaret Mead, Benedict's student and friend, Caffrey is able to put Benedict's life clearly in perspective. By identifying the family and educational influences that so sharply influenced Benedict's psychological makeup, the author also closely analyzes the currents of thought that were strong when Victorianism paralleled the Modernism that figured in Benedict's life work. The result is a richly detailed study of a gifted woman. This important work will be of interest to students of Modernism, poetry, and women's studies, as well as to anthropologists.
Download or read book Directory of Professional Workers in State Agricultural Experiment Stations and Other Cooperating State Institutions written by Fred W. Blaisdell and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 1286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Index of Plant Virus Diseases written by Halbert Houston Thornberry and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set includes revised editions of some issues.
Download or read book An Index to Reproductions of Paintings by Twentieth Century Chinese Artists written by Ellen Johnston Laing and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2020-08-06 with total page 555 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the second half of the twentieth century, studies in Chinese painting history have been greatly aided by several major lists of Chinese artists and their works. Published between 1956 and 1980, these lists were limited to Imperial China. The current index covers the period from 1912 to around 1980. It includes the names of approximately 3,500 traditional-style artists along with lists of their works, reproduced in some 264 monographs, books, journals, and catalogs published from the 1920s to around 1980. With a few exceptions, artists working after 1949 outside continental China are excluded. Revised Edition, 1998; first published by the Asian Studies Program, University of Oregon, 1984.
Download or read book The Colonial Office List written by Great Britain. Colonial Office and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Anthropologists and the Rediscovery of America 1886 1965 written by John S. Gilkeson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-09-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the intersection of cultural anthropology and American cultural nationalism from 1886, when Franz Boas left Germany for the United States, until 1965, when the National Endowment for the Humanities was established. Five chapters trace the development within academic anthropology of the concepts of culture, social class, national character, value, and civilization, and their dissemination to non-anthropologists. As Americans came to think of culture anthropologically, as a 'complex whole' far broader and more inclusive than Matthew Arnold's 'the best which has been thought and said', so, too, did they come to see American communities as stratified into social classes distinguished by their subcultures; to attribute the making of the American character to socialization rather than birth; to locate the distinctiveness of American culture in its unconscious canons of choice; and to view American culture and civilization in a global perspective.
Download or read book Large White Butterfly written by J. Feltwell and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1982 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The literature is still one of our biggest frustrations to-day. There is, in one sense, too much of it, and in another not enough - for there are insufficient and inadequate published guidelines through this jungle. Last year two excellent books for students of ecological chemistry were published, one in France and one in England. The concordance of the references was a mere overall 3% rising to 7% in the chapters on pheromones. Even in the computer age, the channel remains a formidable barrier to the rapid exchange of biological information. At the present time we are in urgent need of compilations similar to John Feltwell's "The Large White Butterfly"; since the literature has become virtually unmanageable. This insect is now a demonstration object in the sixth form schoolroom; an experimental "rabbit" in the University laboratory; a test animal in virus and bacterial research projects; a tool for the study of flight mechanisms, migration, plant biochemistry, hormones, genetics, allergies, pigments, mimicry, etc. , etc. John Feltwell has, by this massive compilation, rendered us a great service - in fact he has given us a present of 4,000 hours of library time spent in 50 different libraries in seven countries. In the process he has collected 8000 references to the Large White. Of these, 4000 have been selected, and we are given a brief indication of their contents.
Download or read book Barr s Nursery Catalogs written by Barr & Sugden and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 1246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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