This bestseller and winner of every major literary award in Taiwan is an elegiac novel about love and loss, broken dreams and desolate heartsand music: A delightful read.Ha Jin A widower grieving for his young wife. A piano tuner concealing a lifet...Loe edasi...
A man who has come from nothing, from poverty and loss, finds himself a beautiful wife, his dream love. When she vanishes without a trace, he sets up a small caf, in her favourite spot on the edge of the South China Sea, hoping shell return.Instead,...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Mar-2018, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Duke University Press, ISBN-13: 9780822371885)
Tofu peddler Yang Baishun is a man of few words and few friends. Unable to find meaningful companionship, he settles for a marriage of convenience. When his wife leaves him for another man he is left to care for his five-year-old stepdaughter Qiaolin...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 24-Nov-2015, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231540322)
The Lost Garden is an eloquent portrait of the losses incurred as we struggle to hold on to our passions. The novel begins with the family of Zhu Yinghong, whose father, Zhu Zuyan, was imprisoned in the early days of Chiang Kai-sheks rule. Zhu Zuyan...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 24-Nov-2015, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231540322)
The Lost Garden is an eloquent portrait of the losses incurred as we struggle to hold on to our passions. The novel begins with the family of Zhu Yinghong, whose father, Zhu Zuyan, was imprisoned in the early days of Chiang Kai-sheks rule. Zhu Zuyan...Loe edasi...
The Cook, the Crook, and the Real Estate Tycoon, by prize-winning Chinese novelist Liu Zhenyun is a novel of Beijing that paints a microcosm of contemporary China, dealing with classes at the two extremes: the super rich and the migrant workers who m...Loe edasi...
The first English translation of Tibets founding myth, written by the renowned Chinese poet, novelist, and winner of Chinas Mao Dun Prize.The Song of King Gesar is one of the worlds great epics, as significant for Tibetans as the Odyssey and Iliad...Loe edasi...
The Chinese Wonder Book contains some of the most beloved Chinese folktales. These stories include:The Golden Beetle or Why the Dog Hates the CatThe Great BellThe Strange Tale of Doctor DogThe Talking FishAnd many other classics Originally published...Loe edasi...
The Chinese Wonder Book contains some of the most beloved Chinese folktales. These stories include:The Golden Beetle or Why the Dog Hates the CatThe Great BellThe Strange Tale of Doctor DogThe Talking FishAnd many other classics Originally published...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 12-Mar-2012, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781136345432)
To date, there is but a handful of articles on documentary films from Taiwan. This volume seeks to remedy the paucity in this area of research and conduct a systematic analysis of the genre. Each contributor to the volume investigates the various asp...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 12-Mar-2012, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781136345449)
To date, there is but a handful of articles on documentary films from Taiwan. This volume seeks to remedy the paucity in this area of research and conduct a systematic analysis of the genre. Each contributor to the volume investigates the various asp...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 25-Sep-2003, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231508926)
Retribution opens with the raucous festivities surrounding the annual procession to honor the Bodhisattva Guanyin. Changsheng, the young wife of the local coffin maker Liu Laoshi, is raped while making an offering to Guanyin in the hope of increasing...Loe edasi...
This suspenseful saga of Tibet during the rise of Chinese Communism “conjures up a faraway world . . . panoramic and intimate at the same time” (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times). A lively and cinematic twentieth-c...Loe edasi...
