Author : Jeff Yang
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 21,56 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : 9780743448178
From Jackie Chan to Ang Lee, from "Supercop" to "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," Chinese cinema has truly arrived in the U.S. Filled with photos and tidbits, this is the definitive book for anyone who has already fallen in love with Chinese cinema--and all those who are looking to learn more about it.
Author : CJ Lim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 37,62 MB
Release : 2021-04-16
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1315402521
Once Upon a China is an unconventional architectural story of great beauty, empathy, honour and sadness. The chapters are ingenious reimaginations of ‘Dream of the Red Mansion’, ‘Journey to the West ’, ‘The Water Margin’, and ‘Romance of the Three Kingdoms’, and are conceived as specific themes of Chinese identity: domesticity, consumerism, democracy and adaptability. These four seminal pre-modern fictions contain diverse voices and philosophical perspectives on history as well as satires that have defined past developments of Chinese societies, politics and the built environment. Comics is an unorthodox but extraordinary medium for architectural speculations. The eccentric characteristics of comic-inspired drawings in this book enrich the processes of conception and conceptualisation of design – their fragmented yet sequential nature proves versatile in the imagination of spatial experiences, enabling the complex stories of place, brief and building to materialise. At the same time, the politicisation of architecture through comics engenders a sense of optimism to reappraise Chinese design futures and critical thinking beyond the exuberance of non-contextual Western capitalist models.
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Publisher :
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 26,15 MB
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781942084747
China is poised to become the world's largest film market, fed by an expansive state-supported movie and television industry. These photographs document the many larger-than-life outdoor film sets and the tourist industry that has developed around them.
Author : Xiaolu Guo
Publisher : Random House
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 24,9 MB
Release : 2017-01-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 147352430X
*Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award* *Shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award* *Shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize* *Shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize 2018* *A Sunday Times Book of the Year* Xiaolu Guo meets her parents for the first time when she is almost seven. They are strangers to her. When she is born in 1973, her parents hand her over to a childless peasant couple in the mountains. Aged two, and suffering from malnutrition on a diet of yam leaves, they leave Xiaolu with her illiterate grandparents in a fishing village on the East China Sea. Once Upon a Time in the East takes Xiaolu from a run-down shack to film school in a rapidly changing Beijing, navigating the everyday peculiarity of modern China: censorship, underground art, Western boyfriends. In 2002 she leaves Beijing on a scholarship to study in Britain. Now, after a decade in Europe, her tale of East to West resonates with the insight that can only come from someone who is both an outsider and at home. 'This generation's Wild Swans' Daily Telegraph
Author : Eugenie Buchan
Publisher : Brandeis University Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 39,51 MB
Release : 2017-11-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1611688663
A new history of the genesis of the legendary Flying Tigers
Author : Gordana Savic
Publisher : Gordana Savic
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 21,62 MB
Release : 2023-04-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
"Once Upon a Time in China" is a captivating children's book that transports readers to a world of magic and wonder. The story follows a dragon named Long, and a little girl named Mei who paints pictures that could bring happiness to the world. The dragon saves her from an evil sorcerer and together they set out on a journey to spread happiness throughout the land. With its beautiful illustrations and timeless message about the power of friendship, courage, and creativity, "Once Upon a Time in China" is a delightful adventure that will inspire young readers to believe in themselves and their abilities. Join Long and Mei on their magical journey and discover the joy of spreading happiness wherever you go.
Author : Xiaolu Guo
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 28,46 MB
Release : 2017-10-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0802189326
The acclaimed novelist’s award-winning memoir of growing up in a remote Chinese fishing village is “a rich and insightful coming-of-age story” (Kirkus). The acclaimed author of A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers and I Am China, Xiaolu Guo grew up an unwanted child in a poor fishing village on the East China Sea. But a Taoist monk made a startling prediction to her grandmother: that Guo would prove herself to be a peasant warrior and grow up to travel the nine continents. In Nine Continents, Guo tells the story of a curious mind coming of age in an inhospitable country, and her determination to seek a life beyond the limits of its borders. From her family’s village to a rapidly changing Beijing, to a life beyond China, Nine Continents presents a fascinating portrait of how the Cultural Revolution shaped families, and how the country’s economic ambitions have given rise to great change. This “moving and often exhilarating” memoir confirms Xiaolu Guo as one of world literature’s most urgent voices (Financial Times, UK).
Author : Rena Krasno
Publisher :
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 22,13 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Jews
ISBN : 9787508513447
Author : Adrian Martin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 22,33 MB
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 183871751X
Detailing the genesis, production history and different versions of 'Once Upon a Time in America', this study considers the film within the context of Leone's evolution as a grand cinema stylist. It illuminates his themes, method and aesthetic, and judges his impact upon subsequent filmmakers.
Author : Quentin Tarantino
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 50,99 MB
Release : 2021-06-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0063112531
Quentin Tarantino’s long-awaited first work of fiction—at once hilarious, delicious and brutal—is the always surprising, sometimes shocking, novelization of his Academy Award winning film. RICK DALTON—Once he had his own TV series, but now Rick’s a washed-up villain-of-the week drowning his sorrows in whiskey sours. Will a phone call from Rome save his fate or seal it? CLIFF BOOTH—Rick’s stunt double, and the most infamous man on any movie set because he’s the only one there who might have got away with murder. . . . SHARON TATE—She left Texas to chase a movie-star dream, and found it. Sharon’s salad days are now spent on Cielo Drive, high in the Hollywood Hills. CHARLES MANSON—The ex-con’s got a bunch of zonked-out hippies thinking he’s their spiritual leader, but he’d trade it all to be a rock ‘n’ roll star.
