Download or read book Imperial Consort Has An Affair written by Qiang Fei and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-01-05 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was a fortuitous encounter, in which the most affectionate king of the Kingdom died and was exiled from the harem for the sole purpose of protecting the beauty of the river and the mountains. The most liberal prince of the Kingdom was loyal to his family and loyal to his love. He, Murong Yuning, was a different emperor, but could he give Feng Yiran a complete set of love? He, Murong Cangfeng, was a different prince, but could he give Lou Lan an unswerving love? Who would remember their vows, who would still remember their love? Her eyebrows were like a faraway beauty, elegant and graceful. If she were to carefully protect her heart, would she still end up dying in that phoenix's pleas? Autumn water cut eyes, strange spirit, Lou Lan's love will become the love of her life, or become an unerasable pain?"
Download or read book The Legend of Imperial Concubine Rong written by Yue Tong and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2019-12-21 with total page 695 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She did not have an illustrious family background, nor did she have an impeccable appearance. However, she climbed step by step up to the position of concubine. She had given birth to six children for Emperor Kang Xi, and had once pampered the harem! She had had the simplest of loves, had experienced the most complicated plans of a palace, had wanted to see through the walls of the palace cold and lonely, and had also shocked the imperial harem. She was the only one!
Download or read book The Disaster of the Third Princess written by Royall Tyler and published by ANU E Press. This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These seven essays by the most recent English translator of The Tale of Genji emphasize three major interpretive issues. What is the place of the hero (Hikaru Genji) in the work? What story gives the narrative underlying continuity and form? And how does the closing section of the tale (especially the ten 'Uji chapters') relate to what precedes it? Written over a period of nine years, the essays suggest fresh, thought-provoking perspectives on Japan¿s greatest literary classic.
Download or read book Empress Xiaozhao written by Yi Dianxingdong and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2019-10-21 with total page 869 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Empress Xiao Zhao had been in the palace for thirteen years, and had been a queen for four years. After dying, the Queen was still unwilling to be reincarnated. In the end, Hades could not stand it any longer and gave the Empress a chance. Rebirth, change the fate of your heart that you are unwilling to accept.
Download or read book Evil Consort Can t Afford to Offend written by Tian Guogan and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 649 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She was the direct daughter of the House of the Marquis. She was raped and colluded, and her entire family died horribly. She was poisoned to death in the cold court of the Palace. A wisp of wronged soul had yet to disperse, carrying with it a heart full of hatred at the time before she was reborn. In this life, she would not repeat the same mistakes again and again. She casually caught a grandson of the Black Emperor and found him pleasing to the eye, so she decided to help you ascend to the throne. In this life, to be gentle and virtuous, to be kind, to hell with it! In a conspiracy, what could be wrong with being ruthless and merciless! Anyone who dares to provoke this lady will absolutely not take revenge overnight!
Download or read book Writing Margins written by Terry Kawashima and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-10-26 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In texts from the mid-Heian to the early Kamakura periods, certain figures appear to be “marginal” or removed from “centers” of power. But why do we see these figures in this way? This study first seeks to answer this question by examining the details of the marginalizing discourse found in these texts. Who is portraying whom as marginal? For what reason? Is the discourse consistent? The author next considers these texts in terms of the predilection of modern scholarship, both Japanese and Western, to label certain figures "marginal." She then poses the question: Is this predilection a helpful tool or does it inscribe modern biases and misconceptions onto these texts?
Download or read book The Last Manchu written by Puyi and published by Skyhorse Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2010-03 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1908 at the age of two, Henry Pu Yi ascended to become the last emperor of the centuries-old Manchu dynasty. After revolutionaries forced Pu Yi to abdicate in 1911, the young emperor lived for thirteen years in Peking’s Forbidden City, but with none of the power his birth afforded him. The remainder of Pu Yi’s life was lived out in a topsy-turvy fashion: fleeing from a Chinese warlord, becoming head of a Japanese puppet state, being confined to a Russian prison in Siberia, and enduring taxing labor. The Last Manchu is a unique, enthralling record of China’s most turbulent, dramatic years.
Download or read book Women Shall Not Rule written by Keith McMahon and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2013-06-06 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chinese emperors guaranteed male successors by taking multiple wives, in some cases hundreds and even thousands. Women Shall Not Rule offers a fascinating history of imperial wives and concubines, especially in light of the greatest challenges to polygamous harmony—rivalry between women and their attempts to engage in politics. Besides ambitious empresses and concubines, these vivid stories of the imperial polygamous family are also populated with prolific emperors, wanton women, libertine men, cunning eunuchs, and bizarre cases of intrigue and scandal among rival wives. Keith McMahon, a leading expert on the history of gender in China, draws upon decades of research to describe the values and ideals of imperial polygamy and the ways in which it worked and did not work in real life. His rich sources are both historical and fictional, including poetic accounts and sensational stories told in pornographic detail. Displaying rare historical breadth, his lively and fascinating study will be invaluable as a comprehensive and authoritative resource for all readers interested in the domestic life of royal palaces across the world.
Download or read book Traditional Japanese Literature written by Haruo Shirane and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 1292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditional Japanese Literature features a rich array of works dating from the very beginnings of the Japanese written language through the noted age of aristocratic court life into the period of warrior culture. The anthology contains new translations of such canonical texts as The Tales of the Heike and generous selections from Man'yoshu, The Tale of Genji, The Pillow Book, and Kokinshu. It includes a stunning range of folk literature, war epics, poetry, and n? drama, and an impressive collection of dramatic, poetic, and fictional works from both elite and popular cultures. Also represented are religious and secular anecdotes, literary criticism, essays, and works written in Chinese by Japanese writers. Arranged by chronology and genre, the readings are carefully introduced and placed into a larger political, cultural, and literary context, and the extensive bibliographies offer further study. Intended as a companion to Columbia University Press's Early Modern Japanese Literature: An Anthology, 1600-1900, Traditional Japanese Literature significantly deepens our understanding of Japanese literature as well as of ancient, classical, and medieval Japanese culture.
Download or read book Beautiful Medical Princess written by Liu QiQi and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-07-30 with total page 687 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He was a prince, and he held great power within his grasp. With a flip of his hand, he turned the clouds into rain, and an ancient jade allowed them to walk together. With one killing, the other saving, who would be the final winner?
Download or read book Enchanting Substitute Consort written by Di Meiliuguang and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2019-12-10 with total page 1610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the passing Special Forces sisters came across the narcissistic young emperor, it was just a chance for them to be together like chickens flying and dogs dancing. She had militarized his concubine and his father-in-law, and he had to leave whether he was in bed or not. The little emperor was furious, and when the emperor was able to wash his face and dress by himself and use the five girls in the empty rooms, everyone in the palace respected her. She was even more impressive than he was, and he hated her to death.He wanted revenge, he wanted to poison, he wanted to make them ... But if she made a mistake, she would become her man.
Download or read book Ambiguous Bodies written by Michelle Osterfeld Li and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2009-03-10 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ambiguous Bodies draws from theories of the grotesque to examine many of the strange and extraordinary creatures and phenomena in the premodern Japanese tales called setsuwa. Grotesque representations in general typically direct our attention to unfinished and unrefined things; they are marked by an earthy sense of the body and an interest in the physical. Because they have many meanings, they can both sustain and undermine authority. This book aims to make sense of grotesque representations in setsuwa—animated detached body parts, unusual sexual encounters, demons and shape-shifting or otherwise wondrous animals—and, in a broader sense, to show what this type of critical focus can reveal about the mentality of Japanese people in the ancient, classical, and early medieval periods. It is the first study to place Japanese tales of this nature, which have received little critical attention in English, within a sophisticated theoretical framework. Li masterfully and rigorously focuses on these fascinating tales in the context of the historical periods in which they were created and compiled.
Download or read book Transmigration Flirt With You written by Bei BeiLuo and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-05-25 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One was a transcender with a carefree and unrestrained personality while the other was an ancient king with an unusually cold and astute personality. Because they had met by accident and shared the same goal and the same thoughts, the two of them had come together. Slowly, their relationship was no longer purely about making use of. It was no longer about purely working together. He doted on him to the bone. He did everything he could for him. He wanted to see how the two of them would break through the barriers of this complicated battle between palaces. In the end, love was everything!
Download or read book Leisurely Transmigration Life written by Bai YuYingTao and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-06-09 with total page 827 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He had transmigrated, and as a result, he was dressed as a servant girl. Although the salary was high and the benefits were good, what if he wasn't free? It was a good thing that the original owner's mother and brother had come to redeem her after hanging around the manor for a few years. After two years of idyllic life at home, he married a perfect husband. He had thought that life would continue on like this, blandly and warmly. Who would have thought that his husband would actually be a black-skinned man pretending to be a pig to eat the tiger. Thus, under the push of her active hubby and lackeys, she eventually became a first class celebrity that everyone envied. However, who knew of the twists and turns involved?
Download or read book Zibuyu What The Master Would Not Discuss according to Yuan Mei 1716 1798 A Collection of Supernatural Stories 2 vols written by Paolo Santangelo and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 1312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the preface says that the tales in this collection of supernatural stories should not be taken seriously and just aim to dispel boredom, Zibuyu is a work with different reading levels, which allows to uncover several deep trends, taboos and fantasies of late imperial intellectual circles. Disgust, surprise and laughter are constantly evoked, by continually attracting and repulsing the reader. Yuan Mei’s approach guides the reader to an adventure in the dangerous recesses of the self. It is a sort of allegoric fantastic reflection on the relative and polyphonic essence of human beings, the multiplicity of selves from psychological perception, and a challenge to the traditional biographical and historical perspective for the unreliability of destiny. Dreams, madness, delusions and other extreme cognitive and affective conditions, abnormal events, gods and spirits, and the dark world of death lead to a reversal of perspective and destroy the Apollonian vision of the social-centered Confucian orthodoxy. With introduction, translation and comments.
Download or read book Beautiful Conceited Doctor written by Zise Liusu and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 877 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asking what emotions were in this world was but one thing subverting another! She, the surgeon of the twenty-first century, with one knife in her hand, she left the world! He, the Great Qin Empire's King of Ironblood Pointy, was a wild and untamed individual with a vicious name! She — met him. Was it her stunning talent that caused the sword light to dazzle in his eyes? Or had he been so cold and charming that he had truly won her favor? Baili Liangge: "Arrogant and conceited. How dare you marry me like this?" Feng Chi Po continued, "Your evil reputation is widespread; my evil reputation is widespread; a vicious god and a fiendish devil are absolutely compatible!" And see how strong and united they were, how they twisted the universe, how they used Stellar Transposition, and how they held their hands in front of the world!
Download or read book London Society written by James Hogg and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 810 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
