Book Description
A retelling of a traditional Korean tale in which a mirror brought from China causes confusion within a family as each member looks in it and sees a different stranger.
Author : Mirra Ginsburg
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 19,77 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780152175085
A retelling of a traditional Korean tale in which a mirror brought from China causes confusion within a family as each member looks in it and sees a different stranger.
Author : Henry Rosemont
Publisher : Open Court Publishing
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 42,76 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Business ethics
ISBN :
"Henry Rosemont raises hard questions, commonly overlooked, and does so with sensitivity, compassion, and broad understanding. The questions focus on modern China, but extend far beyond, to general problems of development, the moral foundations of civilization, and the nature of a just society. It is a challenging and thoughtful enquiry." --Noam Chomsky
Author : Florence Wheelock Ayscough
Publisher : London : J. Cape
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 25,28 MB
Release : 1925
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Laikwan Pang
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 20,74 MB
Release : 2007-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 0824830938
The Distorting Mirror analyzes the multiple and complex ways in which urban Chinese subjects saw themselves interacting with the new visual culture that emerged during the turbulent period between the 1880s and the 1930s. The media and visual forms examined include lithography, photography, advertising, film, and theatrical performances. Urbanites actively engaged with and enjoyed this visual culture, which was largely driven by the subjective desire for the empty promises of modernity—promises comprised of such abstract and fleeting concepts as new, exciting, and fashionable. Detailing and analyzing the trajectories of development of various visual representations, Laikwan Pang emphasizes their interactions. In doing so, she demonstrates that visual modernity was not only a combination of independent cultural phenomena, but also a partially coherent sociocultural discourse whose influences were seen in different and collective parts of the culture. The work begins with an overall historical account and theorization of a new lithographic pictorial culture developing at the end of the nineteenth century and an examination of modernity’s obsession with the investigation of the real. Subsequent chapters treat the fascination with the image of the female body in the new visual culture; entertainment venues in which this culture unfolded and was performed; how urbanites came to terms with and interacted with the new reality; and the production and reception of images, the dynamics between these two being a theme explored throughout the book. Modernity, as the author shows, can be seen as spectacle. At the same time, she demonstrates that, although the excessiveness of this spectacle captivated the modern subject, it did not completely overwhelm or immobilize those who engaged with it. After all, she argues, they participated in and performed with this ephemeral visual culture in an attempt to come to terms with their own new, modern self.
Author : Stephen W. Durrant
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 35,36 MB
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780791426555
Sima Qian's writings have influenced the Chinese for over 2,000 years and still serve as a fiscal source of historical information about China.
Author : Florence Ayscough
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 33,76 MB
Release : 1900
Category :
ISBN :
Author : William Boyd
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 21,75 MB
Release :
Category :
ISBN : 0359896200
Author : Florence Wheelock Ayscough
Publisher :
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 11,38 MB
Release : 1925
Category : China
ISBN : 9780879681678
Author : Friedrich Hirth
Publisher :
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 43,26 MB
Release : 1907
Category : Art
ISBN :
Author : Roland Michaud
Publisher : Flammarion-Pere Castor
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 35,3 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Art, Chinese
ISBN : 9782080300607
" ... Using the mirror as their motif, photographer-poets Roland and Sabrina Michaud pair traditional Chinese artworks with their own photographs taken over a period of nearly twenty years ..."--Back cover.