Download or read book The Two Weddings of Zhao Ping written by Patricia Ann Williams and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-01-02 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How far would you go to help your husband realize his dream? Would you abandon family and friends and move to a foreign country? Would you sleep with another man? These are questions Ping-a beautiful, young Chinese newlywed-must ask herself. Her husband, the ruthless Jianbo, is determined to become a US citizen. When the couple meets David, a wealthy New York businessman in Beijing, Ping becomes the reluctant pawn in Jianbo's scheme-a scheme that requires her to divorce him, wed David, and move to the United States. Once a US citizen, Ping would divorce David and remarry Jianbo so he could become a citizen, too. The plan backfires. Ping wants to spend the rest of her life with David, but the ambitious and treacherous Jianbo is determined to ruin her happily ever after. Will Ping find the courage to stand up to Jianbo and finally take control of her own life? At the novel's core is a love story complicated by loyalty to family and tradition. On another level the growth of Ping from a shy, obedient girl into a strong and independent woman mirrors the changes occurring in China today. "Get ready to fall in love with Zhao Ping, the plucky heroine of this moving and affecting cross-cultural novel." -Wendy Tokunaga, Love in Translation and Postcards From Tokyo ..".the vivid depictions of Beijing and New York help bolster the contrasts between characters and cultures and a perfectly-suited wistful ending befits the ultimately likeable players." -Reviewer, Publishers Weekly .."..the reader is hooked right from the beginning...I love it." -ABNA Expert Reviewer

Download or read book Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China written by Ezra F. Vogel and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-14 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Lionel Gelber Prize National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist An Economist Best Book of the Year | A Financial Times Book of the Year | A Wall Street Journal Book of the Year | A Washington Post Book of the Year | A Bloomberg News Book of the Year | An Esquire China Book of the Year | A Gates Notes Top Read of the Year Perhaps no one in the twentieth century had a greater long-term impact on world history than Deng Xiaoping. And no scholar of contemporary East Asian history and culture is better qualified than Ezra Vogel to disentangle the many contradictions embodied in the life and legacy of China’s boldest strategist. Once described by Mao Zedong as a “needle inside a ball of cotton,” Deng was the pragmatic yet disciplined driving force behind China’s radical transformation in the late twentieth century. He confronted the damage wrought by the Cultural Revolution, dissolved Mao’s cult of personality, and loosened the economic and social policies that had stunted China’s growth. Obsessed with modernization and technology, Deng opened trade relations with the West, which lifted hundreds of millions of his countrymen out of poverty. Yet at the same time he answered to his authoritarian roots, most notably when he ordered the crackdown in June 1989 at Tiananmen Square. Deng’s youthful commitment to the Communist Party was cemented in Paris in the early 1920s, among a group of Chinese student-workers that also included Zhou Enlai. Deng returned home in 1927 to join the Chinese Revolution on the ground floor. In the fifty years of his tumultuous rise to power, he endured accusations, purges, and even exile before becoming China’s preeminent leader from 1978 to 1989 and again in 1992. When he reached the top, Deng saw an opportunity to creatively destroy much of the economic system he had helped build for five decades as a loyal follower of Mao—and he did not hesitate.

Download or read book Screen World 2003 written by John Willis and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2004-02-01 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Screen World). Movie fans eagerly await each year's new edition of Screen World , the definitive record of the cinema since 1949. Volume 54 provides an illustrated listing of every American and foreign film released in the United States in 2002, all documented with more than 1000 photographs. The 2003 edition of Screen World features such notable films as Chicago , the Academy Award winner for Best Picture; Martin Scorsese's Academy Award-nominated Gangs of New York ; The Pianist , featuring the surprise Academy Award winners Adrien Brody for Best Actor and Roman Polanski for Best Director; Spider-Man , the highest grossing film of 2002; The Hours with Academy Award winner for Best Actress Nicole Kidman; and About Schmidt starring Academy Award nominees Jack Nicholson and Kathy Bates. As always, Screen World's outstanding features include: photographic stills and shots of the four Academy Award-winning actors as well as all acting nominees; a look at the year's most promising new screen personalities; complete filmographies cast and characters, credits, production company, date released, rating and running time; and biographical entries a priceless reference for over 2,400 living stars, including real name, school, and date and place of birth. Includes over 1,000 photos! "The enduring film classic." Variety

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Download or read book Understanding Vision written by Li Zhaoping and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vision science has grown hugely in the past decades, but there have been few books showing readers how to adopt a computional approach to understanding visual perception, along with the underlying mechanisms in the brain. This book explains the computational principles and models of biological visual processing, and in particular, primate vision.

Download or read book Phantom Variations written by Ann C. Hall and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2009-08-11 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the themes and variations of Phantom of the Opera, exploring the story's appeal to multiple generations through numerous incarnations. After discussing Gaston Leroux's original 1910 novel, the work turns first to Phantom on film from Lon Chaney's 1925 Phantom through Dario Argento's 1998 film. Stage versions of Phantom are then covered in detail, including Webber's spectacular 1986 production and its lesser-known predecessors and competitors, and those that followed. A final section looks at novels and miscellaneous adaptations ranging from erotic fiction to a Donald Barthelme short story.

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Download or read book A Biographical Dictionary of the Qin Former Han and Xin Periods 221 BC AD 24 written by Michael Loewe and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2000-04-18 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a unique and conclusive reference work about the 6,000 individual men and women known to us from China’s formative first empires. Over decennia Michael Loewe (Cambridge, UK) has painstakingly collected all biographical information available. Not only those are dealt with who set the literary forms and intellectual background of traditional China, such as writers, scholars, historians and philosophers, but also those officials who administered the empire, and the military leaders who fought in civil warfare or with China’s neighbours. The work draws on primary historical sources as interpreted by Chinese, Japanese and Western scholars and as supplemented by archaeological finds and inscriptions. By devoting extensive entries to each of the emperors the author provides the reader with the necessary historical context and gives insight into the dynastic disputes and their far-reaching consequences. No comparable work exists for this important period of Chinese history. Without exaggeration a real must for historians of both China and other cultures.

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Download or read book Women Gender and Sexuality in China written by Ping Yao and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-30 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women, Gender and Sexuality in China: A Brief History serves as a focal textbook for undergraduate courses on women, gender, and sexuality in Chinese history. Thematically structured, it surveys important aspects of gender systems and gender practices throughout Chinese history, from the earliest period to the modern era. Topics include the concept of yin-yang, life course and gender roles, kinship systems and family structure, marriage practices, sexuality, women’s work and daily life, as well as gender in Chinese mythology, religions, medicine, art, and literature. In narrating how various traditions and practices were formed and evolved throughout Chinese history, this textbook draws heavily on personal stories and historical records. Features in this textbook include: Primary source sections for each chapter, introducing students to types of documents that have been used by scholars in conducting research Thirty-three translated texts of various genres, including epitaph, bronze inscription, medical text, imperial edict, legal case, family letter, ghost story, divorce paper, poetry, autobiography, etc. Dedicated biography sections for five distinguished women Offering richly layered accounts of women, gender, and sexuality, this textbook is essential reading for students of Chinese history, gender in world history, or the comparative history of gender.

Download or read book Transmigration 1966 written by , Gaosping and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-03-29 with total page 1171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was an extraordinary era, a period of ordinary transmigration. That era was fiery and sad. Life was not good, yet accidents happened frequently. She was reborn in such a red age, Shen Peiyin had no regrets. This was the era her parents had lived through, and it was the era where they could meet him!

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