Author : Ranbir Vohra
Publisher : Harvard Univ Asia Center
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 29,31 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780674510753
By exhaustively analyzing Lao She's literary writings, Vohra traces the development of his political consciousness and convictions. Besides being an introduction to the life and works of Lao She, this book contributes to a greater understanding of the nature of the social and political change in twentieth-century China.
Author : Ranbir Vohra
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 49,77 MB
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1684171865
"By exhaustively analyzing Lao She’s literary writings, Vohra traces the development of his political consciousness and convictions. Answers are sought for crucial questions: Why did Lao She drift to a leftist position? Why did he return voluntarily to China? Why did he become disenchanted with the authoritarian regime? And why did he commit suicide? Besides being an introduction to the life and works of Lao She, this book contributes to a greater understanding of the nature of the social and political change in twentieth-century China."
Author : 老舍
Publisher : Chinese University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 13,89 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9789629961251
This play portrays the life of the owner of a Beijing teahouse and his customers through 50 years of upheaval in China. Spanning from 1898 to the late 1940s, scenes change from late Qing dynasty to the early days of the Republic, then after to post-1945 when Guomindang soldiers take over the city.
Author : She Lao
Publisher : Midland Books
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 35,8 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
This novel marks the peak of Lao She's career as a professional writer and registers a new approach to the representation of China in its absurdist situation. It can be read as an "epic" of modern China.
Author : Cheng Nien
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 14,63 MB
Release : 2010-12-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0802145167
A woman who spent more than six years in solitary confinement during Communist China's Cultural Revolution discusses her time in prison. Reissue. A New York Times Best Book of the Year.
Author : Gloria Davies
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 46,75 MB
Release : 2013-04-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0674073940
Recognized as modern China’s preeminent man of letters, Lu Xun (1881–1936) is revered as the nation’s conscience, a writer comparable to Shakespeare or Tolstoy. Gloria Davies’s vivid portrait gives readers a better sense of this influential author by situating the man Mao Zedong hailed as “the sage of modern China” in his turbulent time and place.
Author : Lao She
Publisher : Penguin Classics
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,44 MB
Release : 2014-08-07
Category : China
ISBN : 9780143208129
When a traveller from China crash-lands on Mars, he finds himself in a country inhabited entirely by Cat People. Befriended by a local cat-man, he becomes acquainted in all aspects of cat-life: he learns to speak Felinese, masters cat-poetry, and appreciates the narcotic effects of the reverie leaf - their food staple. But curiosity turns to despair when he ventures further into the heart of the country and the culture, and realizes that he is witnessing the bleak decline of a civilization. Cat Country, Lao She's only work of science fiction, is both a dark, dystopian tale of one man's close encounter with the feline kind and a scathing indictment of a country gone awry.
Author : Lao She
Publisher : Random House
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 27,7 MB
Release : 2022-10-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1802060510
A deliciously funny and moving comedy-of-manners about a Chinese father and son's experiences at the height of London's Jazz Age 'He was in London - why be bothered looking at it? Wasn't it bad enough just being there?' Newly arrived from China, Mr Ma and his son Ma Wei run an antiques shop nestled by St Paul's Cathedral, where they try to make a living amid the smog and bustle of 1920s London. As they struggle with money, misunderstandings and the ways of the English - from the overbearing patronage of missionary Reverend Ely to their well-meaning landlady Mrs Weddeburn and her carefree daughter - can understanding, even love, blossom? Both a moving story of the Chinese immigrant experience and a bitingly funny satire on the English, Mr Ma and Son delicately portrays the dreams and disappointments of those seeking a new life in a distant land. Translated by William Dolby, with an introduction by Julia Lovell
Author : Ran Chen
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 17,70 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Education
ISBN : 0231131968
Set against a backdrop of the decades that included the Cultural Revolution and the Tian'anmen Square Incident, A Private Life portrays the effect of that social change and political turbulence on the protagonists inner life as she moves from childhood to early maturity.
Author : Xiaomei Chen
Publisher :
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 13,86 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Biography
ISBN : 9780231166386
Introduction: Propaganda performance, history, and landscape -- The place of Chen Duxiu: political theater, dramatic history, and the question of representation -- Returning a people's hero: a "new" legacy in the plays of Mao -- Staging Deng Xiaoping: the "incorrigible capitalist roader" -- Performing the "red classics": three revolutionary music-and-dance epics and their peaceful restorations -- Epilogue: Where are the "founding mothers"?
