Download or read book Emperor s Domineering Love in Palace written by Qu Huoshui and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-01-24 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 238 BC, the First Emperor was nine years old and Ying Zheng was 22 years old. Someone accused Lao Ai of being a fake eunuch, having an affair with the empress dowager, having Er Zi and plotting with the empress dowager, "The king is Chen, with his son at the back." A richly dressed woman stood on top of a tall building with Xianyang. Although it was already the year with yellow hair, she ...
Download or read book The Emperor Is So Gullible written by Xin Yue and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-01-16 with total page 1281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Valentine's Day, Xiao Lan planned to sell some roses in the Street to earn some living. He never thought that he would actually meet his boss who was picking up girls.Xiao Lan initially wanted to chase after the gossip, but he was caught red-handed, he rushed into the elevator in panic, he did not expect the elevator to malfunction, and rushed straight down from the 18th floor.Xiao Lan hid into the darkness while reciting the name of Guan Yin Bodhisattva.When he woke up, he found himself surrounded by a group of people. When he looked at himself again, he actually wanted to start from a baby.Even though she was an orphan in the modern world, after she transmigrated, she was still an unknown father. Her mother was actually the most despised brothel girl.
Download or read book A General History of Chinese Art written by Xifan Li and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-10-03 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume investigates the artistic development during the Qing Dynasty, the last of imperial Chinese dynasties, and shows the importance of opera and playwriting during this time period. Further analysis is dedicated to the development of scroll painting and the revival of calligraphy and seal carving. A General History of Chinese Art comprises six volumes with a total of nine parts spanning from the Prehistoric Era until the 3rd year of Xuantong during the Qing Dynasty (1911). The work provides a comprehensive compilation of in-depth studies of the development of art throughout the subsequent reign of Chinese dynasties and explores the emergence of a wide range of artistic categories such as but not limited to music, dance, acrobatics, singing, story telling, painting, calligraphy, sculpture, architecture, and crafts. Unlike previous reference books, A General History of Chinese Art offers a broader overview of the notion of Chinese art by asserting a more diverse and less material understanding of arts, as has often been the case in Western scholarship.
Download or read book Emperor s Sweetheart written by Di Meiliuguang and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2019-12-06 with total page 1061 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The pitiful girl had transmigrated to become a commoner without a backer or power. Her fate allowed her to meet someone who was in love with her, but a powerful monarch had appeared in the middle of her path. He had tyrannically taken her into the palace, making her the king's favorite pet.
Download or read book Women s Tanci Fiction in Late Imperial and Early Twentieth Century China written by Li Guo and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Women’s Tanci Fiction in Late Imperial and Early Modern China, Li Guo presents the first book-length study in English of women’s tanci fiction, the distinctive Chinese form of narrative written in rhymed lines during the late imperial to early modern period (related to, but different from, the orally performed version also called tanci) She explores the tradition through a comparative analysis of five seminal texts. Guo argues that Chinese women writers of the period position the personal within the diegesis in order to reconfigure their moral commitments and personal desires. By fashioning a “feminine” representation of subjectivity, tanci writers found a habitable space of self-expression in the male-dominated literary tradition.Through her discussion of the emergence, evolution, and impact of women’s tanci, Guo shows how historical forces acting on the formation of the genre serve as the background for an investigation of cross-dressing, self-portraiture, and authorial self-representation. Further, Guo approaches anew the concept of “woman-oriented perspective” and argues that this perspective conceptualizes a narrative framework in which the heroine (s) are endowed with mobility to exercise their talent and power as social beings as men’s equals. Such a woman-oriented perspective redefines normalized gender roles with an eye to exposing women’s potentialities to transform historical and social customs in order to engender a world with better prospects for women.
Download or read book The Peak Time of Entertainment in China written by Li (Ally) Wang and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-07-20 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the most detailed study to date on the entertainment system in the Tang Dynasty (618-907AD) of China. It discusses entertainment institutions not only of the local and central governments, but also of city commoners. There are many kinds of performers mentioned in the stories and historical materials of the Tang, which has led to some confusion with institutions left over from the Song Dynasty (960-1279AD). This book clarifies such issues, in addition to resolving the question of the origin of Ci in ancient Chinese art and literature.
Download or read book Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion written by Jack Zipes and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2006 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description
Download or read book Far Memory written by Sannie Patch and published by America Star Books. This book was released on 2003-06-23 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She is an archaeologist. While digging in the ruins of Pompeii, Italy, she dreams...? imagines...? remembers...? a 29-year period in ancient Rome where they were husband and wife and were killed in the horrendous eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 AD. He is a photographer. While taking pictures of Tibetan monasteries, he remembers a twelfth century life in Tibet where they were young lovers whose relationship ended tragically when she died in an Alpine landslide. They were fourteenth century Anasazi Indian cliff dwellers who were separated when famine and drought forced the people to leave their sacred land. They are back again as lovers in twenty-first century Los Angeles, but there are monumental problems to be overcome before they can be together. As this thriller unfolds, readers learn that sexual peccadilloes, lies, corruption, and financial extravagance by leaders of church and state were much the same in yesteryear as they are today.
Download or read book Emperor s Command Bring Queen Back written by Song FuRen and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-04-17 with total page 1366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five years ago, she had fallen from the sky and landed on a pretty boy.Five years later, he set up the largest mysterious organization in the capital with his son.A certain little girl said, "Mother, Prince An has come to propose and grant you the position of wangfei."A certain woman painted her nails as she waved her hand, saying, "If you want to marry me, first sell yourself to me."A certain little girl said, "Mother, Prince Chibang has come to propose marriage, allowing you half a mountain."The woman took a bite of her grape, her face expressionless.
Download or read book Baoan martial arts novels Southern Frontier Dragon Tale written by Baoan Liu and published by Baoan Liu. This book was released on with total page 976 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book His Majesty is Scheming written by Tian Qin and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2019-12-24 with total page 893 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HE: What? I will be south for two months. Mu Fei is pregnant with Yi Yue? Someone! Send this disloyal woman into the cold palace!SHE: When I woke up, I was sent to live with crazy women in the Cold Palace for no reason. What? Was she ugly? She couldn't keep the baby? Even if she wanted to hang herself? What kind of emperor was this?!When she raised her head, she was stunned. It was him? That cold and bloodthirsty man! Very good, a new round of war had begun!He was going to send her to the Valley of Death to reflect on her for a year? Just go! A year later, she said, It's fun here. I'm not going back to the palace.He:% #%...*He doesn't want a child? Humph! It doesn't matter, at most This Miss will secretly raise it.Xiao Bao Bao: Mother, why are you dressing me up like a pet dog?SHE: Because. Because you are a child that no one wants, everyone wants to beat you up.Xiao Bao Bao: I really miss Royal Father. Got it! He sneaked into the palace to ask Royal Father for some sweets.He: Damn it, where did this weird dog come from!
Download or read book The Philosophy of History written by Augustus Schade and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book A Dictionary of the Roman Empire written by Matthew Bunson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The extraordinarily rich cultural legacy of the Roman world has had a profound affect world civilization. Roman achievements in architecture, law, politics, literature, war, and philosophy serve as the foundation of modern Western society. Now, for the first time in an A-Z format, A Dictionary of the Roman Empire assembles the people, places, events, and ideas of this remarkable period in one easy-to-use source. With over 1,900 entries covering more than five hundred years of Roman history, from Julius Caesar and the Gallic Wars (59-51 B.C.) to the fall of Romulus Augustus, the last Roman emperor (476 A.D.), this accessible guide provides quick reference to one of the most studied periods of all antiquity. Every aspect of Roman life is included. Here are profiles of the great emperors, such as Marcus Aurelius, one of the most profoundly intellectual monarchs in western civilization, and the aberrant Gaius Caligula, who, after draining the Roman treasury with his eccentric behavior, made it a capital crime for citizens not to bequeath him their estates. Informative entries describe the complex workings of Roman government, such as census taking, the creation of civil service, coinage, and the venerable institution of the Senate, and offer insight into the various trends and cultural tastes that developed throughout Roman history. For example, a discussion on baths, the most common type of building in the Roman Empire, demonstrates the unique intermingling of luxury, community, recreation, and, in the provinces, an association with Rome, that served as the focus of any city aspiring to greatness. Other entries describe the practice of paganism, marriage and divorce, ludi (public games held to entertain the Roman populace), festivals of the Roman year, and gluttony (epitomized by famous gourmands such as the emperor Vitellius, who according to the historian Suetonius, lived for food, banqueting three or four times a day, routinely vomiting up his meal and starting over). Also featured are longer essays on such topics as art and architecture, gods and goddesses, and the military, as well as a chronology, a short glossary of Roman terms, and appendices listing the emperors of the Empire and diagram the often intertwined family trees of ruling dynasties. Comprehensive, authoritative, and illustrated with over sixty illustrations and maps, A Dictionary of the Roman Empire provides easy access to the remarkable civilization upon which Western society was built.
Download or read book The Palaces of South East Asia written by Jacques Dumarçay and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1991 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dealing in turn with the major palaces of the different countries in Southeast Asia, Dumarçay covers both their architectural forms and the court ceremonials to which they were adapted. In spite of dissimilarities in the varying concepts of royal power, as well as differences of religion, there emerge common factors and themes in the residences of the monarchs and the elaborate rituals over which they presided. In addition to photographic illustrations, the book is enhanced by sixty-two original architectural drawings of the palaces and their decoration.
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