The Boy Detectives, Or, The Young Californians in Shanghai
Author : Thomas Chalmers Harbaugh
Publisher :
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 37,33 MB
Release : 1882
Category : Adventure stories
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Author : Thomas Chalmers Harbaugh
Publisher :
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 37,33 MB
Release : 1882
Category : Adventure stories
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Author : Albert Johannsen
Publisher :
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 10,23 MB
Release : 1950
Category : American fiction
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Publisher :
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 44,61 MB
Release : 1952
Category : Books
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Author : Library of Congress. Union Catalog Division
Publisher :
Page : 798 pages
File Size : 42,51 MB
Release : 1951
Category : Books
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Author : Bo Caldwell
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 18,54 MB
Release : 2011-04-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0811875210
An ambitious man and his adoring daughter are separated and estranged by an ocean and by the tides of history in this “marvelous” novel (Los Angeles Times). For Anna Schoene, growing up in the magical world of Shanghai in the 1930s creates a special bond between her and her father. He is the son of missionaries, a smuggler, and a millionaire who leads a charmed but secretive life. When the family flees to Los Angeles in the face of the Japanese occupation, he chooses to stay, believing his connections and luck will keep him safe. He’s wrong—but he survives, only to again choose Shanghai over his family during the Second World War. Anna and her father reconnect late in his life, when she finally has a family of her own, but it is only when she discovers his extensive journals that she is able to fully understand him and the reasons for his absences. The Distant Land of My Father is a “beautiful” novel “for everyone who has ever felt himself in exile from any beloved place, or a time that can never return” (The Washington Post Book World). “Seamlessly weaves together Anna’s own memories with those of her father, gleaned from the journals . . . An elegant, refined story of families, wartime, and the mystique of memory.” —Kirkus Reviews “Vivid with details of prewar Shanghai and Los Angeles.” —Publishers Weekly “Lush and epic.” —San Jose Mercury News “Remarkable . . . A moving tale of love and the possibility of forgiveness.” —Library Journal
Author : Albert Johannsen
Publisher :
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 36,68 MB
Release : 1950
Category : Dime novels
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Author : Alan Gevinson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 1588 pages
File Size : 32,79 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Minorities in motion pictures
ISBN : 9780520209640
"[These volumes] are endlessly absorbing as an excursion into cultural history and national memory."--Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
Author : Kazuo Ishiguro
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 47,80 MB
Release : 2001-01-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0375412654
From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of the Booker Prize–winning novel The Remains of the Day comes this stunning work of soaring imagination. Born in early twentieth-century Shanghai, Banks was orphaned at the age of nine after the separate disappearances of his parents. Now, more than twenty years later, he is a celebrated figure in London society; yet the investigative expertise that has garnered him fame has done little to illuminate the circumstances of his parents' alleged kidnappings. Banks travels to the seething, labyrinthine city of his memory in hopes of solving the mystery of his own painful past, only to find that war is ravaging Shanghai beyond recognition—and that his own recollections are proving as difficult to trust as the people around him. Masterful, suspenseful and psychologically acute, When We Were Orphans offers a profound meditation on the shifting quality of memory, and the possibility of avenging one’s past.
Author : Xiaoqing Cheng
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 25,18 MB
Release : 2006-10-31
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0824830997
Shanghai in the 1920s and 1930s—"the Paris of the Orient"—was both a glittering metropolis and a shadowy world of crime and social injustice. It was also home to Huo Sang and Bao Lang, fictional Chinese counterparts to Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. The duo lived in a spacious apartment on Aiwen Road, where Huo Sang played the violin (badly) and smoked Golden Dragon cigarettes as he mulled over his cases. Cheng Xiaoqing (1893–1976), "The Grand Master" of twentieth-century Chinese detective fiction, had first encountered Conan Doyle’s highly popular stories as an adolescent. In the ensuing years he played a major role in rendering them first into classical and later into vernacular Chinese. In the late 1910s, Cheng began writing detective fiction very much in Conan Doyle’s style, with Bao as the Watson-like-I narrator—a still rare instance of so direct an appropriation from foreign fiction. Cheng Xiaoqing wrote detective stories to introduce the advantages of critical thinking to his readers, to encourage them to be skeptical and think deeply, because truth often lies beneath surface appearances. His attraction to the detective fiction genre can be traced to its reconciliation of the traditional and the modern. In "The Shoe," Huo Sang solves the case with careful reasoning, while "The Other Photograph" and "On the Huangpu" blend this reasoning with a sensationalism reminiscent of traditional Chinese fiction. "The Odd Tenant" and "The Examination Paper" also demonstrate the folly of first impressions. "At the Ball" and "Cat’s-Eye" feature the South-China Swallow, a master thief who, like other outlaws in traditional tales, steals only from the rich and powerful. "One Summer Night" clearly shows Cheng’s strategy of captivating his Chinese readers with recognizably native elements even as he espouses more globalized views of truth and justice.
Author : Michael Denning
Publisher : Verso
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 17,36 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781859848159
Denning illuminates the radical movement of artists and intellectuals, activists and workers, which strove to create a genuinely democratic popular culture in America during the 1930s.