Download or read book Gardening at the Dragon s Gate written by Wendy Johnson and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2008 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Johnson and Te Salle deliver a meditative, beautifully illustrated yet profoundly practical book that takes readers deep into the natural world and into a new understanding of the art of gardening.

Download or read book Dragon s Gate written by Vivian Bi and published by Hybrid Publishers. This book was released on 2020-02-01 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Dragon's Gate is a superb book, a fascinating story written from the heart and woven into a complex cultural and historical tapestry - a modern classic in the making." - Robert Macklin, author of Dragon and Kangaroo Shi Ding is seventeen. In an attempt to impress a girl, he joins a local Red Guard unit and succeeds in having a nine-year-old boy arrested and a widowed professor of foreign literature driven to a shameful suicide. But when his father's death is also revealed as suicide, Shi Ding is expelled from the gang. He suspects there was more to the relationship between his father and the professor than friendship and he moves into her empty house. There he discovers a library of translations of forbidden Western classics. Himself a born storyteller, he is transfixed by the stories in these books by the likes of Dostoevsky, Stendhal, Hugo, Dickens, and Dumas … Set in China in the mid-60s, Dragon's Gate is about the power of storytelling. Within its overarching narrative, there are stories of little-known worlds: river logging in remote mountains, armed fighting between Red Guard factions, fortune telling on long train journeys, community life in the courtyards of Beijing hutong. Memorable characters abound in this rich and varied tale - characters like Sun Lanfen, the nosy, tough but decent residential compound leader; the blind singer who was struck dumb when he had to sing songs set to Chairman Mao's quotations; and the Buffalo Boy who was reputed to have fathered a hundred children in a Tibetan village. "The unique interweaving of fascinating tales set in exotic places with familiar and much loved western classics makes this book a page turner from beginning to end." - Jane Sydenham-Kwiet, German teacher and translator

Download or read book Opening the Dragon Gate written by Chen Kaiguo and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2011-12-20 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This authorized biography of the contemporary Taoist expert Wang Liping (1949 -) tells the true story of his apprenticeship in Taoist wizardry, as well as Taoist principles and secrets of inner transformation. The 18th-generation transmitter of Dragon Gate Taoism, Wang Liping is heir to a tradition of esoteric knowledge and practice accumulated and refined over eleven centuries. This is the first English translation by noted writer Thomas Cleary of the authorized biography by two longtime disciples of this living master of the Dragon Gate branch of the Complete Reality school of Taoism, which integrated Buddhism and Confucianism into a comprehensive new form of Taoism.

Download or read book Spirit Gate written by Kate Elliott and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-10-02 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fantasy-roman.

Download or read book Dragonsgate Spirits written by James Maxey and published by James Maxey. This book was released on 2024-05-13 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are realms beyond the living world... lands of shadows and spirits. Dragonsgate: Spirits continues the epic saga that began in Dragonsgate: Devils! Searching for his daughter, Zeeky, Bitterwood travels through underspace to an enchanted forest known as the Tangle. To bring Zeeky home, he must battle the Night Queen and her undead minions. But not even Bitterwood is a match for the godlike entity the Night Queen serves — the Waste-Wyrm, a cosmic dragon that devours worlds! Meanwhile, Anza continues her quest through the western wilderness to find a hidden arsenal from the Human Age. Can she survive when the powerful weapons that she seeks are turned against her?

Download or read book Through The Dragon s Gate written by Jean O'Hara and published by Mereo Books, mereobook, mereobooks. This book was released on 2017-03-20 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jean O'Hara is now a prominent psychiatrist in London, but she grew up in a humble tenement flat in Hong Kong in the 1960s, the daughter of an Anglo- Burmese librarian (later a senior civil servant) and his Chinese wife. Her childhood was a simple one, sleeping on a straw mat in a tiny bedroom which she at first shared with both her grandmother and sister. As Jean grew up she developed a fascination for medicine and moved to the UK to attend medical school, eventually becoming a consultant psychiatrist. This book is her account of a childhood steeped in the culture of China, and first steps in a career in medicine. Central to the story is the character of Jean's Chinese grandmother, a charismatic matriarch who gave her a rich understanding of Chinese culture and an oriental outlook which has never left her.ÿ

Download or read book The Dragon s Gate written by Barry Wolverton and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engrossing fantasy, a high-seas adventure, an alternate history epic—this is the richly imagined and gorgeously realized second book in acclaimed author Barry Wolverton’s Chronicles of the Black Tulip, perfect for fans of The Glass Sentence and the Books of Beginning series. A magical white jade stone and a map inscribed in bone that may be the key to an even greater mystery—this is the treasure Bren and Mouse have found buried on the Vanishing Island. Mouse is determined to follow the map to a place called the Dragon’s Gate, convinced it will explain who she really is and the powers she possesses. Bren has had enough adventure for one lifetime and would like nothing more than to return to his father in Map. But nothing goes according to plan when the survivors of the Albatross are rescued by Lady Jean Barrett, a charismatic archaeologist with a sense of destiny. Barrett is on a quest for the Eight Immortals, ancient artifacts she believes are buried in the tomb of China’s first emperor—the location of which has been hidden for nearly two thousand years. The only way for Bren, Mouse, and Barrett to all get what they want is to work together on a dangerous journey into the heart of China, a kingdom long closed to outsiders, where the greatest secrets about Mouse and Bren are waiting to be unveiled.

Download or read book written by Teresa Canepa and published by Ad Ilissvm. This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book celebrates the most important collection of 17th-century Chinese porcelain in the world, assembled by the distinguished British diplomat Sir Michael Butler. His passion for porcelain is clearly reflected in the over eight hundred pieces he collected and lived with at his home and private museum in Dorset. The pots (as Sir Michael called them), many of extreme rarity or exquisite quality, give testimony to the incredible depth of knowledge he acquired over five decades and his outstanding contribution to research and education in this previously neglected field of study. This lavish and comprehensive collection covers most types of porcelain produced at Jingdezhen, in Jiangxi province, during the 17th century. The variety of the pieces carefully acquired by Sir Michael reflects the great innovative spirit of the highly skilled Jingdezhen potters and painters at a time when they were released from the controls of Imperial patronage, between the end of the reign of the Ming Emperor Wanli in 1620 and the re-establishment of the Imperial kilns by the Qing Emperor Kangxi in 1683. It is a study collection of porcelain unrivalled in its breath and rarity that demonstrates the stylistic and qualitative evolution which occurred in Chinese porcelain production during the 17th century. An introduction written by Katharine Butler tells the fascinating story of the circumstances that encouraged her father to acquire, collect and passionately study Chinese porcelain of the 17th century; how he found rare pieces with dates, interesting inscriptions, seal marksor narrative scenes; and how the collection and his scholarly publications came to be internationally renowned. The core of the book is composed of nine sections presenting the main categories of porcelains in the collection: Late Ming, High Transitional, Shunzhi, Early Kangxi, Mid-Late Kangxi, Monochromes and Famille Verte, as well as disputed pieces. Some of the highlights are the extremely rare High Transitional pieces painted only in overglaze enamels dating to the Chongzhen reign, c.1640-43; the first piece acquired by Sir Michael, a green enamel winepot, dating to the early Kangxi reign, c.1665-70; a group of rare dated Zhonghe Tang pieces painted in underglaze blue and red, and an early Kangxi basin finely painted in underglaze blue and red with a Master of the Rocks landscape, dating to c.1670-75. Leaping the Dragon Gate refers to the symbolic metamorphosis from a humble carp to a mighty dragon - the most powerful of the Four Divine Creatures - that a student would undergo on succeeding in the Jinshi or Imperial civil service examinations. Passing these examinations required years, sometimes decades, of enormous effort to acquire the requisite educational merit and success was very rare. It is a worthy metaphor for Sir Michael's scholarly achievement. This 384-page book with over 600 colour illustrations is a catalogue raisonné of almost his entire 17th century porcelain collection, including many previously unpublished pieces. In the spirit of keeping the family legacy of acquisition and scholarship alive, the authors have included a few important, recently purchased pieces and also have revised and expanded the list of all known dated pieces of 17th Century Chinese porcelain in the world that Sir Michael compiled in his 1992 USA exhibition catalogue.

Download or read book Serpent Mage written by Margaret Weis and published by Spectra. This book was released on 1993-03-01 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the four worlds Alfred has at last found his people on Chelstra, the realm of sea. But his travels have taught him to be cautious... and Alfred soon realizes his caution is justified, even among his own kind. The one person Alfred can trust is, strangely, Haplo the Patryn. But Haplo's lord has decreed all Sartan to be the enemy, and Haplo dares not go against his lord. Now the companions have arrived in a land where humans, elves, and dwarves have learned to live in peace. Unaware of an even greater threat to all the realms, it is Sartan and Patryn who will disrupt this alliance of the lesser races in their struggle to gain control of all four worlds. Only Alfred and Haplo realize that they have a much older -- and more powerful -- enemy than each other...

Download or read book The Spirit of Missions written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 878 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the proceedings of the annual meeting of the Society.

Download or read book Dragon Gate written by Kangmin Zeng and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text examines the enormous pressure placed on University students in Japan, Korea and Taiwan which have led to the rapid expansion of the "cramming" industry and to a growing number of students looking to religion and spirituality for guidance. The book examines the issue of the rise in youth suicides, and the dramatic rise in levels of cheating; both raising fundamental questions about the education system in the late 1990s.

Download or read book The Valley Spirit written by Lindsey Wei and published by Singing Dragon. This book was released on 2013-01-15 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young woman, Lindsey Wei, graduates from high school in America and sets out to find her roots in China, questing for who she is and where her life path belongs. She discovers in herself a skill for martial arts and seeks the hidden knowledge of meditation. After three years of study in various martial styles and unveiling false teachers, she is finally led to the ancient Wudang Mountains. Here she meets a Daoist recluse, Li Shi Fu, who has renounced the world of the 'red dust' and long since retired into an isolated temple to cast oracles and read the stars. The coming together of these two extraordinary characters, master and disciple, begins a spiritual relationship taking the young adept on an unforgettable journey through the light and dark sides of modern China and deep into herself. Battling between earthly desires and heavenly knowledge, she makes the transformation into a dynamic and complete woman. A coming-of-age, personal account, the book describes the lived experiences of a profoundly sincere, bitter yet ultimately liberating female quest. It is written for anyone who ponders the true meaning of Chinese wisdom and the way of the Dao in the hope of discovering a deeper strength within themselves.

Download or read book Unlocking the Chinese Gate written by Galia Dor and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2024-05-01 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlocking the Chinese Gate offers an innovative analysis of gates in early Chinese thought and material culture. Observing gates from various perspectives—including philosophy, architecture, and psychology—and through the conceptual lens of Chinese correlative thinking, Galia Dor conceptualizes the Chinese gate as a membrane-like apparatus that, from the space "in-between," efficaciously manifests (de) the Way (dao) into the "ten thousand" forms of actualized life. This methodology exposes an open-to-closed gradation between pairs of inside/outside (wai/nei) that resonates throughout the Chinese model of psychocosmic concentric circles. The consequential strategies (e.g., continuity/break, chaos/order) demonstrate how early Chinese cosmological, philosophical, and political idealities, as well as afterlife religious beliefs, were applied—including the various approaches to and practices of self-cultivation. The book sheds new light on ancient Chinese thought and material culture and offers points of comparison to Western thought and modern science, including a model of "decision-gating" that carries relevant implications and insights to our current lives.

Download or read book At the Dragon s Gate written by Charles Fenn and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early days of World War II, a young Marine named Charles Fenn was recruited by the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) for undercover operations in the China-Burma-India theatre. Fenn knew exactly what it took to get the job done. His wartime exploits are the stuff of legend, but not even his OSS compatriots knew the full extent of his espionage activities. Fenn's skill as a spy is matched by his talent as a storyteller, and this witty, elegantly written account of his OSS days not only adds to the historical record, it makes for a compelling read.

Download or read book Dragon Blood God King written by Gong Zi and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2019-12-18 with total page 987 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Legend has it that dragons dominated the Celestial Dragon Continent billion years ago. However, dragons had already flown up to heaven, leaving people to imagine the world under the rule of dragons. People on the continent claimed descent from dragons. After the extinction of dragons, the land entered an era of the way of martial arts, which witnessed the rise of rare talents. Lin Tian, a teenager of natural endowment, was known as the top one talent of the Celestial Dragon City. But misfortune befell him. Attacked by someone jealous of his talent, his cinnabar field and meridians, which were the foundations of cultivation, were all destroyed. However, there was always a way out and misfortune turned out to be a blessing in disguise. On the edge of death, the teenager was accidentally endowed with a drop of blood of ancestral dragons, becoming the heir of it so that he could learn the mysterious martial arts of dragons. A dragon would never be restricted to a little pond and would fly up to heaven once it encountered winds and clouds. Come and join the epic adventures about how the teenager swept away the powerful cultivators and became the unrivaled cultivator on the land. ☆About the Author☆ Gong Zi (公子) is a Chinese web novel writer, who is good at the novels in the fantasy genre. By using his sparkling words, he is skilled in creating imaginative yet logical world, in which readers could immerse themselves.

Download or read book The Search for a Vanishing Beijing written by M.A. Aldrich and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2008-03-01 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Search for a Vanishing Beijing weaves the genres of travel essays and travel guides into a comprehensive narrative about the cultural mosaic of the capital of China.

Download or read book Rebirth God Master of Myriad Realms written by Jiang NanQiYin and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-05-10 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wang Zheng, as the most unremarkable diaosi among the diaosi, was instantly smashed by the Myriad Realm Emperor Spirit System into becoming a demon possessing the Myriad Realm Divine Spark. You have money, don't you? Acting cool is it? Your father's God of Fortune has taken control of the fortunes of a country, seizing the fortunes of all eighteen generations of your ancestors. Stealing a national goddess from me? Yue Lao had tied several tens of thousands of red strings, while the First Lady had come to buy me tea. An expert from a pirate country had come to provoke him? Possess the body of a wargod until you cry for your father and calling for your mother. With the activation of the Celestial Emperor Divine Spark, every single God would support it!