Download or read book Tales from the Taiwanese written by Gary M. Davison and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2004-08-30 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although there are many collections of Chinese folktales, few if any focus specifically on the tales of Taiwan, which have evolved in a tradition separate and distinct from that of mainland China. This wonderful sampling of more than 20 Taiwanese tales will appeal to all ages, illuminating Taiwanese culture and demonstrating Taiwanese values and ethics. In addition, readers will find a brief history of the island, discussion questions, and activity ideas to extend learning and enjoyment, as well as simple Taiwanese recipes, color photos, and traditional drawings. Stories can be read aloud to younger students, while older children will enjoy reading and performing them on their own. This delightful introduction to Taiwanese traditions is a superb educational tool, and a great addition to the storytelling shelf. Grades K-12.
Download or read book Transitions in Taiwan written by and published by . This book was released on 2021-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Taiwan's peaceful and democratic society is built upon on decades of authoritarian state violence that it is still coming to terms with. Following 50 years of Japanese colonization, Taiwan was occupied by the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) at the close of World War II in 1945. The party massacred thousands of Taiwanese while it established a military dictatorship on the island with the tacit support of the United States. Although early episodes of state violence (such as the 228 Incident in 1947) and post-1980s democratization in Taiwan have received a significant amount of literary and scholarly attention, relatively less has been written or translated about the White Terror and martial law period, which began in 1949. The White Terror was aimed at alleged proponents of Taiwanese independence as well as supposed communist collaborators wiped out an entire generation of intellectuals. Both native-born Taiwanese as well as mainland Chinese exiles were subject to imprisonment, torture, and execution. During this time, the KMT institutionally favored mainland Chinese over native-born Taiwanese and reserved most military, educational, and police positions for the former. Taiwanese were forcibly "re-educated" as Chinese subjects. China-centric national history curricula, forced Mandarin-language pedagogy and media, and the re-naming of streets and public spaces after places in China further enforced a representational regime of Chineseness to legitimize the authority of the KMT, which did not lift martial law until 1987. Taiwan's contemporary commitment to transitional justice and democracy hinges on this history of violence, for which this volume provides a literary treatment as essential as it is varied. This is among the first collection of stories to comprehensively address the social, political, and economic aspects of White Terror, and to do so with deep attention to their transnational character. Featuring contributions from many of Taiwan's most celebrated authors, and written in genres that range between realism, satire, and allegory, it examines the modes and mechanisms of the White Terror and party-state exploitation in prisons, farming villages, slums, military bases, and professional communities. Transitions in Taiwan: Stories of the White Terror is an important book for Taiwan studies, Asian Studies, literature, and social justice collections. This book is part of the Literature from Taiwan Series, in collaboration with the National Museum of Taiwan Literature and National Taiwan Normal University"--
Download or read book Studies in Taiwanese Folktales written by Wolfram Eberhard and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Vignettes of Taiwan written by Joshua Samuel Brown and published by ThingsAsian Press. This book was released on 2006-04 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Joshua Samuel Brown first stepped out of the passenger terminal at Chiang Kai-shek International Airport in Taiwan, he was a stranger in a humid land with insufficient funds, zero job prospects and an over-packed suitcase. Like much else in his life up to that point, his decision to move to Taiwan was based largely on random occurrence and cosmic coincidence. He was twenty-four years old, thousands of miles away from home, and at that moment the happiest man alive. This anthology of short stories, travel essays, photographs, random meditations, and political meanderings grew out of his years on the island formerly known as Formosa.
Download or read book Taiwan Tales written by Patrick Wayland and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-12 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of eight short stories about different aspects of life in Taiwan.
Download or read book Wandering in the Garden Waking from a Dream written by Xianyong Bai and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fourteen short stories by one of the major figures in modern Chinese literature.
Download or read book Tales from a Taiwan Kitchen written by Cora Cheney and published by Dodd Mead. This book was released on 1976-01-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of traditional Taiwanese tales that reflect the varied cultural heritage of the island.
Download or read book Three for Free A Folktale from Taiwan written by Greystroke and published by Pratham Books. This book was released on with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once upon a time, in a little village by a mountain, an old man came to sell his dumplings. He sold one for one cent, two for two cents and three for free! As the villagers started gobbling up the dumplings three at a time, strange things started happening around them. Read this tantalising tale from Taiwan to see what happened in this village by the Ban Pin Shan Mountain! Story Attribution: ‘Three for Free - A Folktale from Taiwan’ is written by Greystroke. © Pratham Books, 2006. Some rights reserved. Released under CC BY 4.0 license. (http://creativecommons. org/licenses/by/4.0/) Other Credits: This book has been published on StoryWeaver by Pratham Books. Pratham Books is a not-for-profit organization that publishes books in multiple Indian languages to promote reading among children. www.prathambooks.org
Download or read book Stories of the Sahara written by Sanmao, and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-14 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book that has captivated millions of Chinese readers, translated into English for the very first time. 'Hypnotic . . . A record of one person's fierce refusal to follow a path laid down for her by the rest of the world' Tash Aw, Paris Review Books of the Year Sanmao: author, adventurer, pioneer. Born in China in 1943, she moved from Chongqing to Taiwan, Spain to Germany, the Canary Islands to Central America, and, for several years in the 1970s, to the Sahara. Stories of the Sahara invites us into Sanmao's extraordinary life in the desert: her experiences of love and loss, freedom and peril, all told with a voice as spirited as it is timeless. At a period when China was beginning to look beyond its borders, Sanmao fired the imagination of millions and inspired a new generation. With an introduction by Sharlene Teo, author of Ponti, this is an essential collection from one of the twentieth century's most iconic figures. 'Every story conveys Sanmao's infectious capacity for wonder' Sharlene Teo, author of Ponti 'Has endured for generations of young Taiwanese and Chinese women' New York Times 'Ground-breaking' Geographical 'A remarkable and brave book. Sanmao was a freewheeling feminist who broke all the rules and did so with a gleeful, mischievous smile' David Eimer, South China Morning Post
Download or read book From the Old Country written by Lihe Zhong and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2014-02-11 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though he lived mostly in rural South Taiwan, Zhong Lihe (1915–1960) spent several years in Manchuria and Peking, moving among an eclectic mix of ethnicities, classes, and cultures. His fictional portraits unfold on Japanese battlefields and in Peking slums, as well as in the remote, impoverished hill-country villages and farms of Zhong Lihe’s native Hakka districts. His scenic descriptions are deft and atmospheric, and his psychological explorations are acute. The first anthology to present his work in English, this volume features two novellas, ten short stories, and four short prose works.
Download or read book Taiwan Tales written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than merely stepping through the streets and trails of a land, the narrated word allows one to learn about ideas, sense passions and glimpse dreams of a place and its people. Here are eight short stories about Taiwan: an island, a manufacturing powerhouse, a nation of Buddhism and Capitalism, a land straddling a geographical ring of fire as well as a political one, a country colored by both ancient traditions and high-tech modernity. Written by authors who have called Taiwan home, each tale offers an absorbing perspective on this unique country.
Download or read book Taiwanese Folktales Read Our Taiwan New Edition written by Feng Che Bian Ji Qun and published by . This book was released on 2021-12-08 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read about this beautiful island and read our story. Folk tales are stories with a wide range of subjects that have been passed down orally by people since ancient times. Like many excellent novels and fables, folk tales start from life itself, but the layout is limited to the actual situation and the reasonable range that people think, and it is full of legendary imagination and wisdom of life.
Download or read book Tales from China written by and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2000 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of Chinese stories begins with the great legends of how Earth and Heaven came into being. There are folk-tales too, about ghosts, rain-makers, students and magicians, and a man who is nearly made into fishpaste.
Download or read book Whisper written by Yu-Ko Chang and published by Honford Star. This book was released on 2021-10-15 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Victims all describe hearing a voice before they die gruesomely. Sometimes it's singing an old Taiwanese song, sometimes it's in Japanese, and sometimes it's an anguished call for help from a loved one. Can Wu Shih-Sheng, a degenerate taxi driver in Taipei, hunt down the source of the voice that killed his wife before he becomes the next victim? Whisper is a plot-driven, Taiwanese horror story. As well as being a chilling read, Chang Yu-Ko cleverly combines Taiwanese folklore, the Japanese occupation of Taiwan, and the long-term mistreatment of the country's aboriginal people into a story of how the past can still kill.
Download or read book Household Stories from the Collection of Grimm Brothers written by Jacob Grimm and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Renegade Rhymes written by Meredith Schweig and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-09-14 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Like many states emerging from oppressive political rule, Taiwan saw a cultural explosion in the late 1980s, when four decades of martial law under the Chinese National Party ended. As a multicultural, multilingual society with a complicated history of migration and colonization, Taiwanese people met their political transformation and newfound freedom with a host of stories waiting to be told and identities longing for expression. In Renegade Rhymes, ethnomusicologist Meredith Schweig shows how rap music has become a powerful outlet for exploring the complicated ethnic, cultural, and political history of Taiwan. Schweig draws on extensive ethnographic fieldwork to explain how rap's storytelling component became such a vital tool for working out Taiwanese identity and grappling with cultural history. She takes readers to rap festivals, music video sets, hip-hop clubs, and creative collectives in which members participate in rap battles and study under an experienced teacher. As Schweig shows, MCs from marginalized ethnic groups in Taiwan seized on this music of resistance, infusing it with important aspects of their own local identities, languages, and storytelling traditions. We see how these musicians localize rap as a way to challenge longstanding political mythologies and redeem individual and community narratives from the totalizing influence of government and commercial interests. Working against holes in the educational system and a neoliberal economy, new generations of rappers have used the artform to nurture associational bonds and rehearse rituals of democratic citizenship, making a new kind of sense out of their complicated present"--
Download or read book Taiwan Fables written by DAVID YAO and published by Legoo Mandarin. This book was released on with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the Chinese and Foreign Cultural Reading Series! - Taiwan Fables 台湾民间故事 This bilingual collection is tailor-made for advanced-level Chinese learners in HKS, IB, IGCSE, and AP programs. Dive into a treasury of diverse Chinese and foreign fables, mythologies, folk legends, and children's stories that transcend cultural boundaries. Taiwan, an island brimming with unique allure and a diverse tapestry of cultures, houses a treasure trove of rich and vibrant folk tales that form an integral part of Chinese heritage. These narratives are deeply intertwined with the lives, beliefs, and traditions of the islanders, preserving the invaluable legacy of Chinese culture while showcasing Taiwan's rich history and distinctive cultural landscape. The purpose of compiling "Folk Stories of Taiwan" is to preserve and promote these precious story legacies. May these tales be guiding lights, infusing this land with vitality and vigor, forever shining in the brilliance of Taiwanese culture.
