Author : Earl Derr Biggers
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 40,23 MB
Release : 2023-01-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1667660586
The second of the Charlie Chan mysteries bring the Honolulu detective to mainland California, where he investigates crime whose exposure is hastened by the death of a parrot.
Author : Earl Biggers
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Page : 238 pages
File Size : 35,11 MB
Release : 2020-12-27
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The Chinese Parrot (1926) is the second novel in the Charlie Chan series of mystery novels Earl Derr Biggers. It is the first in which Chan travels from Hawaii to mainland California, and involves a crime...
Author : Earl Derr Biggers
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Page : 240 pages
File Size : 24,14 MB
Release : 2020-03-04
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The Chinese Parrot (1926) is the second novel in the Charlie Chan series of mystery novels Earl Derr Biggers. It is the first in which Chan travels from Hawaii to mainland California, and involves a crime...
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Page : 66 pages
File Size : 44,53 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Vietnam
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Author : Zhou Yanxian
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 26,50 MB
Release : 2016-11-24
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1453918922
China is home to one of the largest and oldest societies in the world, and presently contains fifty-six ethnic groups. Among them is the Zhuang, the largest of the minority populations, which partakes in a very long history of preliterate oral traditions. This volume presents an introduction to Zhuang language and culture in Zhuang proverbs. The two thousand proverbs explored in this text bear the weight of Zhuang history and culture, and embody the wisdom collected from publications, manuscripts, and the speeches of the people who live in Zhuang villages. These proverbs are grouped into nine sections: Truths; Morality; Family; Everyday Life; Social Life; Labor; Nature; Customs; and Politics. Together, they form an essential distillation of the Zhuang history, tradition, philosophy, and most importantly, its legacy. This accessible introduction – which includes translations in Zhuang Pinyin letters, Mandarin, and American English for each proverb – provides an important corpus for the study of the Zhuang ethnic group by scholars, students, and others who are interested in Zhuang language, culture, folklore and oral traditions, and proverbs.
Author : Earl D. Biggers
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Page : 243 pages
File Size : 27,2 MB
Release : 2020-09-12
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The Chinese Parrot (1926) is the second novel in the Charlie Chan series of mystery novels by Earl Derr Biggers. It is the first in which Chan travels from Hawaii to mainland California, and involves a crime whose exposure is hastened by the death of a parrot.The story concerns a valuable string of pearls which is purchased by a wealthy and eccentric financier. The handsome young son of the jeweller is assigned to shepherd the transfer of the pearls to the financier's vacation home in a desert area of California. Because of his long association with the owner of the pearls--before joining the police force, he was her houseboy--Charlie Chan travels from Hawaii to California with the pearls. After two mysterious deaths, first of a Chinese-speaking parrot and then of the household's Chinese man-of-all-work, Charlie Chan masquerades as a pidgin-speaking cook named Ah Kim and works undercover to solve a number of crimes. Along the way, the jeweller's son meets a beautiful young woman who works as a location scout and decides to stay in the California desert.
Author : James H. Cole
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 999 pages
File Size : 23,67 MB
Release : 2019-07-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 1317453220
This bibliography of reference works from Chinese, Japanese and Western language sources covers: the 1911 Revolution; the Republic of China (1912-1949); the People's Republic of China (1949 onwards); post-1911 Hong Kong and Macau; and post-1911 overseas Chinese. Filled with helpful checklists, charts, and suggestions for further reading, this practical, comprehensive, and multidisciplinary guide takes readers through the entire case-writing process, including skills for writing both teaching cases and research cases. This edition includes new discussions of students as case writers, and how to interpret and respond to reviews, as well as updated and expanded material on video, multimedia and Internet cases.
Author : Newton D. Baird
Publisher : Georgetown, Calif : Talisman Literary Research
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 20,39 MB
Release : 1971
Category : American fiction
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Page : 1290 pages
File Size : 42,59 MB
Release : 1918
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
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Author : George Gordon Byron Baron Byron
Publisher : Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday
Page : 1208 pages
File Size : 42,56 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
Byron's exuberant masterpiece tells of the adventures of Don Juan, beginning with his illicit love affair at the age of sixteen in his native Spain and his subsequent exile to Italy. Following a dramatic shipwreck, his exploits take him to Greece, where he is sold as a slave, and to Russia, where he becomes a favourite of the Empress Catherine who sends him on to England. Written entirely in ottava rima stanza form, Byron's Don Juan blends high drama with earthy humour, outrageous satire of his contemporaries (in particular Wordsworth and Southey) and sharp mockery of Western societies, with England coming under particular attack.
