Download or read book The Manchurian Tales written by Nick Hahn and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-01-25 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Manchurian Tales is a sprawling, multi-generational family saga that starts in mid 19th century and ends with the closing of the 20th century. It is a story of an uhl mao zeh (Russian Korean) family that begins when a 17 year old Korean boy swims across the Tuman River to the Russian side to seek adventure and start a new life. He meets and marries a beautiful daughter of a Manchu chief and the couple is baptized and become Russian as Luka Vasilievich and Maria Ivanovna. Thus begins the incredible journey of the family that was started by Luka and Maria. Luka becomes an important figure in the Asian community in the area known as Primorsky Krai, the region around Vladivostok. He launches a successful business empire which his two sons, Elisei and Vasili take over and move to Manchuria, making it even bigger. The family saga continues with the second generation through Russian Revolution and civil war, and the decline of the family business empire. The third generation's incredible adventures and tragedies are seen through the Second World War, the Korean War, and the aftermath. It ends with the fourth generation which disappears as uhl mao zeh, becoming absorbed into the culture and society where they are living. The Manchurian Tales is not written in a traditional novel form, rather it is a collection of independent stories, chronologically arranged to describe the family saga. Throughout, there are stories sprinkled within that are not about family members, tales that are about those who were only distantly or peripherally related to the family. However, all of them are important, for they describe Manchuria of that time period, and tell the story of the uhl mao zeh. This book is a fascinating account of the region, time period, and people that is very little known, even by those living in East Asia. It is no doubt one of the first if not the first time that the name uhl mao zeh appears in print.
Download or read book Tales of Manchuria written by Caitlin Elizabeth McCain and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Awesome Tales 4 written by R. Leider and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-10-24 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1942, Manchuria finds The Devil Doctor and his sinister daughter in a race with Allied and Axis agents to find as Chinese physicist who has the secret of the atomic bomb. Also in this issue, the Pink Reaper tracks a serial killer, conquistadores face certain death at the hands of Mayan cultists and detective Raphael Jones returns to find the missing parents of a very special child.
Download or read book In Manchuria written by Michael Meyer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-02-17 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the change most of rural China is undergoing via the story of a privately held rice company that has built new roads, introduced organic farming, and constructed apartments for farmers in exchange for their land rights.
Download or read book Awesome Tales 4 The Manchurian Menace written by R. Allen Leider and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-03-24 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Manchurian Menace is on the prowl again! 1942 - the Japanese occupation of China. The Devil Doctor and his equally sinister daughter race OSS, MI-6, Gestapo and Kempeitai agents to find a missing Chinese scientist. His discovery, the secret to the Atomic Bomb, is the prize!Also in this issue: A stranded conquistador and his crew faces certain death at the hands of Mayan cultists; The Pink Reaper hunts a serial killer; Detective Raphael Jones investigates the case of "The Golden Curl" when a mysterious child searches for his lost parents. More original thrills and adventure, written especially for this issue!New illustrations by Ed Coutts. Cover design by Rich Harvey.
Download or read book Japan s Total Empire written by Louise Young and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the heart of the empire Japan won and then lost in the Pacific War was Manchukuo, a puppet state created in Northeast China in 1932. Not unlike India for the British, Manchukuo was the crucible and symbol of empire for the Japanese. In this book, the first social and cultural history of Japan's construction of Manchuria, Louise Young studies how people at home imagined, experienced, and built the empire that so threatened the world.
Download or read book Tales of Adventure written by Richard Savage and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Manchurian Adventure written by Sylvain Mangeot and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Untold Tale written by Will Phillip Hooper and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tales of Imperial Russia written by Francis W. Wcislo and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2011-03-17 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History and biography meet in Tales of Imperial Russia, a study of the late-Romanov Russian Empire, told through the figure of Sergei Witte. Like Bismarck or Gorbachev, Witte was a European statesman serving an empire. He was the most important statesman of pre-revolutionary Russia. In the Georgia, Odessa, Kyiv, and St. Petersburg of the nineteenth century, he inhabited the worlds of the Victorian Age, as young boy, student, railway executive, lover of divorcees and Jews, monarchist, and technocrat. His political career saw him construct the Tran-Siberian Railway, propel Russia towards Far Eastern war with Japan, visit America in 1905 to negotiate the Treaty of Portsmouth concluding that war, and return home to confront revolutionary disorder with the State Duma, the first Russian parliament. The book is based on two memoir manuscripts that Witte wrote between 1906 and 1912, and includes his account of Nicholas II, the Empress Alexandra, and the machinations of a Russian imperial court that he believed were leading the country to revolution. Telling the story both of a life and of the last days of the Tsarist empire, Tales of Imperial Russia will delight and inform all those interested in biography, literature, and history, as well as readers interested in the history of modern Russia.
Download or read book The Manchurian Candidate written by Richard Condon and published by RosettaBooks. This book was released on 2013-11-25 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic thriller about a hostile foreign power infiltrating American politics: “Brilliant . . . wild and exhilarating.” —The New Yorker A war hero and the recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor, Sgt. Raymond Shaw is keeping a deadly secret—even from himself. During his time as a prisoner of war in North Korea, he was brainwashed by his Communist captors and transformed into a deadly weapon—a sleeper assassin, programmed to kill without question or mercy at his captors’ signal. Now he’s been returned to the United States with a covert mission: to kill a candidate running for US president . . . This “shocking, tense” and sharply satirical novel has become a modern classic, and was the basis for two film adaptations (San Francisco Chronicle). “Crammed with suspense.” —Chicago Tribune “Condon is wickedly skillful.” —Time
Download or read book Chinese Folktales written by Richard Wilhelm and published by Dalriada Books ltd. This book was released on 2016-01-11 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally Published as Chinesische Märchen (Chinese Fairy Tales) Translated into German by Richard Wilhelm, 1958. This English Selection Translated from the German by Ewald Osers, and Published by G. Bell & Sons Ltd., 1971.
Download or read book The Reporter s Tale written by Tom Davies and published by Berwyn Mountain Press. This book was released on 2009-10 with total page 707 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Reporter’s Tale is an adventure story about Tom Davies, a young Welsh writer who travels the world looking for the truth and, in a few days of blistering revelation in Malaya, finds it in a series of visions. Thereafter, he takes his new insights on a journey through the media, becoming a reporter for top Sunday newspapers – and later an award-winning author of many books – and realising he has a fresh understanding of the causes of the violence which is so blighting the modern world. His odyssey of discovery begins in Northern Ireland at the height of the Troubles where he finds that the media – with its persistent pursuit of violence – is the cause of much of the disorder there. The global media, which specialises in reporting the worst of everything from everywhere, has become the mother and father of modern terrorism, he says, giving the IRA disproportionate power and importance merely because they offer violence. Television in particular is the catalyst for the growing disorder in our streets: becoming the very leader of street riot while also giving motive and reward to suicide bombers. The many revolutions of the Arab Spring are fully explained by his visions, he shows. Here the world’s media first began feeding on the self-immolation of a Tunisian trader before spawning revolution after revolution in neighbouring countries. They all wanted freedom and democracy, we were told, but all that seemed to be happening was that they were deranged by watching too much television news as each service, particularly Al Jazeera, spooled out violent imagery on an almost twenty four hour loop mostly from footage downloaded from their viewers’ mobile phones. All outlets of the media have come together and conspired to set loose a tide of evil which is turning violence into the very oxygen we are all now breathing, Davies shows in this book which may well be the most powerful and trenchant attack ever mounted on the tyranny of the modern media.
Download or read book Tales of the Dancing Dragon written by Eva Wong and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2007-11-13 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here, Taoist practitioner Eva Wong offers a colorful treatment of the history and evolution of Taoism, told through traditional teaching tales. These tales, which Wong first heard as a child growing up in Hong Kong, are gleaned from the local storytellers and the uncensored chronicles known as yeshi—the wild history of China, not monitored by the official imperial scholars and historians. The stories are by turns mysterious and intriguing, passionate and violent, and they are peppered with colorful characters, including hermits, politicians, social activists, revolutionaries, scholars, scientists, and mystics. Arranged chronologically from prehistory through the early twentieth century, these stories introduce the schools in the Taoist lineages, and capture the defeats and victories of Taoism, its periods of decadence and decay, and its renewal, maturation, and spiritual triumph. Wong puts these stories into context, and shows that Taoism is a dynamic spiritual tradition, constantly changing—and being influenced by—history.
Download or read book Tales From the ER and Other Places written by Jeff Wade MD and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2019-10-22 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After being an ER doctor for over twenty years, traveling all over, running international medical missions, and working at a cancer hospital, Jeff Wade has collected many stories. Some of these he has been telling for decades. In Tales from the ER and Other Places, Dr. Wade shares a lifetime of interesting, funny, educational, and sometimes disgusting stories, with medicine being at the center of most. And whether the stories are incredible and humorous or touching and sad, they offer a compelling and engaging window into the life and times of a doctor and his passions --and his patients.
Download or read book Fairy Tale written by Stephen King and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-06-25 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Legendary storyteller Stephen King goes into the deepest well of his imagination in this spellbinding novel about a seventeen-year-old boy who inherits the keys to a parallel world where good and evil are at war, and the stakes could not be higher--for that world or ours." --
Download or read book The Spy Story written by John G. Cawelti and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1987-05 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why has the spy story become such a popular form of entertainment in our time? In this fascinating account of the genre's evolution, John G. Cawelti and Bruce A. Rosenberg explore the social, political, and artistic sources of the spy story's wide appeal. They show how, in a time of bewildering political and corporate organization, the spy story has become increasingly relevant, the secret agent hero expressing the feelings of divided and ambiguous loyalties with which many individuals face the modern world. In addition to a general history of the genre, Cawelti and Rosenberg present in-depth analyses of the work of certain writers who have given the spy story its shape, among them John Buchan, Eric Ambler, Graham Greene, Ian Fleming, and John le Carré. The Spy Story also includes an extensive appendix, featuring a literary and historical bibliography of espionage and clandestinity, a list of the best spy novels and films, a catalog of major spy writers and their heroes, and a selection of novels on espionage themes written by major twentieth-century authors and public figures. Written in a lively style that reflects the authors' enthusiasm for this intriguing form, The Spy Story will be read with pleasure by devotees of the genre as well as students of popular culture.
