Download or read book The Jade Jewel Box written by Virginia Laudeman and published by . This book was released on 2007-03 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Courtesan s Jewel Box written by Menglong Feng and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Klappentext: "This is a selection of popular Chinese stories from the 10th to the 17th centuries. These stories were written in the spoken language that developed as a literary medium after the emergence of an urban commercial economy in the Song Dynasty (A.D. 960-1279). Originally the manuscripts of ordinary street story-tellers, this genre of fiction - deriving its material from the life and times of the period, with vivid writing and intricate plots, descriptions that are natural and vivacious - has now attained a lofty place as literature. The twenty stories in this book are selected from over two hundred in several collections published at the beginning of the 17th century. The illustrations included in this volume are taken from contemporary editions." - Enthält: Introduction. - The jade worker. - The honest clerk. - Fifteen strings of cash. - The monk's billet-doux. - The foxes' revenge. - The hidden will. - The two brothers. - The beggar chief's daughter. - A just man avengd. - The tattered felt hat. - The courtesan's jewel box. - The oil vendor and the courtesan. - The old gardener. - Marriage by proxy. - The proud scholar. - The tangerines and the tortoise shell. - The story of a breggart. - The alchemist and his concubine. - A prefectship bought and lost. - The merry adventures of Lazy Dragon. - Die Erzählungen sind drei Sammlungen des Feng Menglong (Yushi mingyan, Jingshi tongyan und Xingshi hengyan) sowie der Sammlung "Paian jingqi" des Lin Mengchu entnommen. Insbesondere Erzählungen in den Sammlungen des Feng Menglong lassen sich vielfach auf ältere Quellen zurückführen.

Download or read book The Case of the Jade Jewelry written by Caitlind L. Alexander and published by Learning Island. This book was released on with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “In China, it is very important to give a young girl jade. A family will even go into debt to get a very good piece of jade jewelry. But usually they don’t have to buy a bracelet. Jade is passed down in families from generation to generation, just like my bracelet was passed down to me.” The Brodericks could tell that the jade was important to Shing Lee. But why wouldn’t the shop keeper return her bracelet to her? See if you can solve this 15-minute mystery before the Brodericks do. Similar to the old Encyclopedia Brown mysteries, these short mysteries give kids all the clues they need to solve the mystery, before revealing the answer on the last page, helping kids learn common sense and attention to detail. Ages 8 and up. LearningIsland.com believes in the value of children practicing reading for 15 minutes every day. Our 15-Minute Books give children lots of fun, exciting choices to read, from classic stories, to mysteries, to books of knowledge. Many books also work well as hi-lo readers. Open the world of reading to a child by having them read for 15 minutes a day.

Download or read book The Substance of Fiction written by Sophie Volpp and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-28 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do the portrayals of objects in literary texts represent historical evidence about the material culture of the past? Or are things in books more than things in the world? Sophie Volpp considers fictional objects of the late Ming and Qing that defy being read as illustrative of historical things. Instead, she argues, fictional objects are often signs of fictionality themselves, calling attention to the nature of the relationship between literature and materiality. Volpp examines a series of objects—a robe, a box and a shell, a telescope, a plate-glass mirror, and a painting—drawn from the canonical works frequently mined for information about late imperial material culture, including the novels The Plum in the Golden Vase and The Story of the Stone as well as the short fiction of Feng Menglong, Ling Mengchu, and Li Yu. She argues that although fictional objects invite readers to think of them as illustrative, in fact, inconsistent and discontinuous representation disconnects the literary object from potential historical analogues. The historical resonances of literary objects illuminate the rhetorical strategies of individual works of fiction and, more broadly, conceptions of fictionality in the Ming and Qing. Rather than offering a transparent lens on the past, fictional objects train the reader to be aware of the fallibility of perception. A deeply insightful analysis of late Ming and Qing texts and reading practices, The Substance of Fiction has important implications for Chinese literary studies, history, and art history, as well as the material turn in the humanities.

Download or read book The Chinese Vernacular Story written by Patrick Hanan and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Back to Song Dynasty Love Zhan Zhao written by Huang Nv and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-01-13 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zhan zhao i am born again for you in the northern song dynasty you are a man with a lot of fate i just want to be a small star beside you guarding you i want you to be happy this is i owe you this is a northern song full of demons this is an unknown northern song see how i subvert the tradition to let the heroine in this northern song full of demons to capture the exhibition zhao that lonely heart

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Download or read book Endless Love From Her Mysterious Husband written by An XiaoYu and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-06-05 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her previous life, her family members were taken away and she lost her family members. That lowly man, Sis Fen, burned her to death. Mu Lele swore that if there was an afterlife, she would definitely send all of these people to hell! After her rebirth, she made money from gambling with stones to open a company. However, who could tell her who the heck was this arrogant man with a venomous mouth? She just accidentally met him, and ...

Download or read book Popular Mechanics written by and published by . This book was released on 1951-09 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular Mechanics inspires, instructs and influences readers to help them master the modern world. Whether it’s practical DIY home-improvement tips, gadgets and digital technology, information on the newest cars or the latest breakthroughs in science -- PM is the ultimate guide to our high-tech lifestyle.

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Download or read book Boxes written by William C. Ketchum (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with some of the earliest examples available to us, William Ketchum describes splendid boxes of ivory, ebony, gold and alabaster from the tomb of Tutankhamun; a gold-leaf box inlaid with mother-of-pearl and lapis lazuli.

Download or read book Popular Mechanics written by and published by . This book was released on 1951-09 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular Mechanics inspires, instructs and influences readers to help them master the modern world. Whether it’s practical DIY home-improvement tips, gadgets and digital technology, information on the newest cars or the latest breakthroughs in science -- PM is the ultimate guide to our high-tech lifestyle.

Download or read book Ming Dynasty Tales written by Victor H. Mair and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-03-10 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With commentary and annotations throughout, Ming Dynasty Tales: A Guided Reader presents for the first time in English 10 key stories from China's Ming Dynasty era. Casting new light on this significant period in Chinese literary history, these tales bring Ming era China vividly to life, from its chaotic beginnings to its imperial heyday. As well as bearing witness to social change across the 100-year life of the Yuan Dynasty from 1260 to 1368, these tales tackle key themes of war and peace and Confucian values of loyalty, filiality, chastity, and righteousness.

Download or read book Adopted the Chinese Way written by Marguerite Chien Church and published by Infinity Publishing. This book was released on 2002-09 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Far Cry From The Turquoise Room written by Kate Rigby and published by Kate Rigby. This book was released on 2011-04-16 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 0 0 0 Leila is the eight-year-old daughter of Hassan Nassiri, a wealthy Iranian property owner, and younger sister to the adored Fayruz, her father's favourite daughter. Then tragedy strikes in a holiday narrowboat accident having far-reaching consequences for the surviving family and so follows a tale of adventure, danger and romance - and further anguish for Leila's parents. Far Cry From The Turquoise Room is a coming-of-age, riches-to-rags tale of loss, resilience, and self-discovery. It is also about the passage of childhood into puberty. The family also appear in Seaview Terrace although both novels are self-contained. Also available in paperback: https://www.createspace.com/3634041