Download or read book The Four Treasures written by Wei Zhang and published by LONG RIVER PRESS. This book was released on 2004 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look inside the artistic treasures of a Chinese scholar's studio.
Download or read book Tao Stones written by Zhao Xiaomin and published by Eddison Books Limited. This book was released on 2009-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Box contains 2 sets of 8 oval meditation shapes with calligraphy, brocade drawstring bag and a 160-page illustrated book of readings.
Download or read book The Story of Stone written by Jing Wang and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this pathbreaking study of three of the most familiar texts in the Chinese tradition--all concerning stones endowed with magical properties--Jing Wang develops a monumental reconstruction of ancient Chinese stone lore. Wang's thorough and systematic comparison of these classic works illuminates the various tellings of the stone story and provides new insight into major topics in traditional Chinese literature. Bringing together Chinese myth, religion, folklore, art, and literature, this book is the first in any language to amass the sources of stone myth and stone lore in Chinese culture. Uniting classical Chinese studies with contemporary Western theoretical concerns, Wang examines these stone narratives by analyzing intertextuality within Chinese traditions. She offers revelatory interpretations to long-standing critical issues, such as the paradoxical character of the monkey in The Journey to the West, the circularity of narrative logic in The Dream of the Red Chamber, and the structural necessity of the stone tablet in Water Margin. By both challenging and incorporating traditional sinological scholarship, Wang's The Story of Stone reveals the ideological ramifications of these three literary works on Chinese cultural history and makes the past relevant to contemporary intellectual discourse. Specialists in Chinese literature and culture, comparative literature, literary theory, and religious studies will find much of interest in this outstanding work, which is sure to become a standard reference on the subject.
Download or read book Vocabulary and Handbook of the Chinese Language written by Justus Doolittle and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Born to Be Coceited Demon written by Wo ShiYiHaoChuang and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-04-08 with total page 804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Someone asked Long Yu, "If the people of the world bully, humiliate, destroy, slander, underestimate, and laugh at you, how should we deal with them?" The answer was simple: then beat him, scold him, mock him, wound him, make him kneel on the ground, scream in terror, and look at him again. Do you dare to continue being arrogant! [Close]
Download or read book Master of Ways of World written by Feng SuiYuan and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-05-19 with total page 605 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The entire world had changed. Demons, monsters, ghosts, monsters, monsters, and monsters were rampant! An ordinary youth had stepped onto the path of defying the heavens! The first natives were furious, and the gods left Shang! Who was the chess player and who was the chess piece? Looking at the tens of thousands of struggles, I wield the Heaven's Pride Dao! This is a novel with a new theme. Please enjoy it slowly.
Download or read book Twisted Web written by Tom Grace and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2003-03-13 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE KEY TO ALL LIFE HAS SUDDENLY BECOME WORTH KILLING FOR.... Deep in the frozen wasteland of Antarctica, a remote NASA research lab rests atop a two-mile thick glacier, covering a vast underground water reservoir. But the true discovery isn't the lake buried in ice -- it's what has been found within its boundaries. Something amazing. Something alive. And it may hold the answers to existence itself. When the lab is attacked and its scientists murdered, ex-Navy SEAL Nolan Kilkenny realizes that there's more than science at stake -- there's power, money, and what may be another step in evolution. Racing around the globe, Kilkenny must stop the machinations of a diabolical adversary and recover a priceless artifact of human existence -- or die trying....
Download or read book The Inscription of Things written by Thomas Kelly and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2023-11-14 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why would an inkstone have a poem inscribed on it? Early modern Chinese writers did not limit themselves to working with brushes and ink, and their texts were not confined to woodblock-printed books or the boundaries of the paper page. Poets carved lines of verse onto cups, ladles, animal horns, seashells, walking sticks, boxes, fans, daggers, teapots, and musical instruments. Calligraphers left messages on the implements ordinarily used for writing on paper. These inscriptions—terse compositions in verse or epigrammatic prose—relate in complex ways to the objects on which they are written. Thomas Kelly develops a new account of the relationship between Chinese literature and material culture by examining inscribed objects from the late Ming and early to mid-Qing dynasties. He considers how the literary qualities of inscriptions interact with the visual and physical properties of the things that bear them. Kelly argues that inscribing an object became a means for authors to grapple with the materiality and technologies of writing. Facing profound social upheavals, from volatility in the marketplace to the violence of dynastic transition, writers turned to inscriptions to reflect on their investments in and dependence on the permanence of the written word. Shedding new light on cultures of writing in early modern China, The Inscription of Things broadens understandings of the links between the literary and the material.
Download or read book History and Traditions of Niue written by Edwin Meyer Loeb and published by Corinthian Press. This book was released on 1926 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Super Talented Farmer in City written by Shen RuQianChu and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-08-11 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A disease broke out. Demonic beasts ran rampant throughout the city. A small farmer who had just entered the city had embarked on a heaven-defying journey.
Download or read book Bulletin written by Östasiatiska samlingarna (Stockholm, Sweden) and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book South of the Clouds written by John D. Kuhns and published by Post Hill Press. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great Recession of 2008 humbled many good men. Once featured on the front pages of New York’s business and society papers, Jack Davis had spiraled downward in the aftermath of the crisis. How far will someone go to get their reputation back? Jack is about to find out. Exiled to the last remnant of his investment empire—a rusty silicon smelter in the Chinese jungle north of the Burmese border—his comeback seems far-fetched. But it’s either take his best shot or crawl away from the world in shame. At first, his prospects appear grim. Asked when they could earn a profit, his general manager answered, “In China, no one make money in regular business. Make money other ways.” When Jack discovers his employees are using the company’s trucks to run jade from Burma over the border to China, his first instinct is to clean house—until he learns they’re making more money running jade than he is smelting silicon. Jack’s jade buyer tries to warn him. “The problem is, it’s never just running jade,” the man said. “Jade leads to other things way beyond your control. You’re a foreigner, for God’s sake.” Set in a dangerous, once-obscure corner of the world that has recently vaulted to prominence, South of the Clouds tells the story of an American forced to choose, not between right and wrong—“there’s no legal here”—but between the predictable and the unknown, between a stale life or one with Mei, the beautiful karaoke girl with a past, and the woman he loves. Wall Street isn’t only about greed and cynicism. There are heroes there too.
Download or read book Stepping stones to the Art of Typography written by Henry Guppy and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Introduction to the Study of Chinese Painting written by Arthur Waley and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Teller of Small Fortunes written by Julie Leong and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2024-11-05 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wandering fortune teller finds an unexpected family in this warm and wonderful debut fantasy, perfect for readers of Travis Baldree and Sangu Mandanna. Tao is an immigrant fortune teller, traveling between villages with just her trusty mule for company. She only tells "small" fortunes: whether it will hail next week; which boy the barmaid will kiss; when the cow will calve. She knows from bitter experience that big fortunes come with big consequences… Even if it’s a lonely life, it’s better than the one she left behind. But a small fortune unexpectedly becomes something more when a (semi) reformed thief and an ex-mercenary recruit her into their desperate search for a lost child. Soon, they’re joined by a baker with a "knead" for adventure, and—of course—a slightly magical cat. Tao starts down a new path with companions as big-hearted as her fortunes are small. But as she lowers her walls, the shadows of her past close in—and she’ll have to decide whether to risk everything to preserve the family she never thought she could have.
