The Irish and China
Author : Jerusha Hull McCormack
Publisher :
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 14,62 MB
Release : 2019
Category : China
ISBN : 9781848407206
Author : Jerusha Hull McCormack
Publisher :
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 14,62 MB
Release : 2019
Category : China
ISBN : 9781848407206
Author : Gish Jen
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 31,21 MB
Release : 2012-08-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307826546
In this dazzling collection of short stories, the award-winning author of the acclaimed novels Thank You, Mr. Nixon and Mona in the Promised Land—presents a "sparkling ... gently satiric look at the American Dream and its fallout on those who pursue it" (The New York Times). The stories in Who's Irish? show us the children of immigrants looking wonderingly at their parents' efforts to assimilate, while the older generation asks how so much selfless hard work on their part can have yielded them offspring who'd sooner drop out of life than succeed at it. With dazzling wit and compassion, Gish Jen looks at ambition and compromise at century's end and finds that much of the action is as familiar—and as strange—as the things we know to be most deeply true about ourselves.
Author : Lan Li
Publisher : Oak Tree Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 41,76 MB
Release : 2016-09-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781781192498
DOING BUSINESS WITH CHINA: THE IRISH ADVANTAGE AND CHALLENGE emphasises Ireland's favourable conditions for developing business links with China. Located in the European Union, Ireland is the only English-speaking country in the Eurozone, with a well-educated workforce and a low corporate tax rate of 12.5%. It is also a militarily neutral country. Less well-known is that Ireland is highly regarded in China because of the Shannon free trade zone, which as the first of its kind set the model for China to establish its special economic zones, significantly contributing to its economic boom. To an extent, Ireland and China share similar socio-cultural traditions, which has made understanding and communication between both nations easier in comparison to many other Western countries. Irish people also appear to have the ability to negotiate between Western and Chinese cultures, which helps them to overcome inter-cultural challenges, and so Irish business people have tended to succeed in China more than might be expected. However, there are some barriers that may prevent Irish business people from taking advantage of the opportunities to achieve greater success in China. The authors identify the issues that need to be considered by the Irish government and civil servants - in particular, a China-focused national strategy and policy, as well as high quality public services - and propose recommendations to overcome these challenges. DOING BUSINESS WITH CHINA is based on a survey involving more than 500 Irish companies and individuals, as well as 47 in-depth interviews, by a research team composed of both Irish and Chinese scholars with different research backgrounds.
Author : Simone O’Malley-Sutton
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 36,30 MB
Release : 2023-11-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9819952697
This book examines how the early twentieth-century Irish Renaissance (Irish Literary Revival) inspired the Chinese Renaissance (the May Fourth generation) of writers to make agentic choices and translingual exchanges. It sheds a new light on “May Fourth” and on the Irish Renaissance by establishing that the Irish Literary Revival (1900-1922) provided an alternative decolonizing model of resistance for the Chinese Renaissance to that provided by the western imperial center. The book also argues that Chinese May Fourth intellectuals translated Irish Revivalist plays by W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory, Seán O’Casey and Synge and that Chinese peasants performed these plays throughout China during the 1920s and 1930s as a form of anti-imperial resistance. Yet this literary exchange was not simply going one way, since Yeats, Lady Gregory, Synge and O’Casey were also influenced by Chinese developments in literature and politics. Therefore this was a reciprocal encounter based on the circulation of Anti-colonial ideals and mutual transformation.
Author : Stephen R. MacKinnon
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 39,86 MB
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9780804755092
This book describes, in vivid detail, the history of the Japanese invasion and occupation and of different parts of China, from the viewpoints of scholars in China, Japan, and the West
Author : Mary Costello
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 15,52 MB
Release : 2015-05-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1782116028
An elderly schoolteacher recalls the single act of youthful passion that changed her life forever. A young gardener has an unsettling encounter with a suburban housewife. A teenage girl strikes up an unlikely friendship with a lonely bachelor. In these twelve haunting stories award-winning writer Mary Costello examines the passions and perils of everyday life with startling insight, casting a light into the darkest corners of the human heart.
Author : Rob Young
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 25,31 MB
Release : 2013-09-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1491812931
This is the story of entrepeneur Rob Youngs twenty years doing business in Shanghai. Anecdotes ranging from the sad to the hilarious to the outright perplexing - including fi ring an employee because she could see ghosts, wrestling with a corrupt policeman, and hiding a frozen body part from the Sanitary Bureau. This book is a wonderful commentary on China and the Chinese. Essential reading for anybody with an interest in China or looking to do business in China.
Author : Jerusha Hull McCormack
Publisher : New Island Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 32,69 MB
Release : 2009
Category : China
ISBN : 9781848400429
China and the Irish is a pioneering work, exploring the relations between the Chinese and Irish peoples. The book's essays cover a wide range of topics, from diplomatic history to music, from business to botanical exchanges and literary connections. What the book makes clear is that, although formal diplomatic relations began only 30 years ago, interactions between the people of China and those of Ireland have a long and complex history, going back well before the actual founding of either Republic. The book includes a welcoming letter from the President of Ireland, Mary McAleese, and an afterword by the current Irish Ambassador to China, Declan Kelleher.
Author : Jung Chang
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 32,19 MB
Release : 2008-06-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1439106495
The story of three generations in twentieth-century China that blends the intimacy of memoir and the panoramic sweep of eyewitness history—a bestselling classic in thirty languages with more than ten million copies sold around the world, now with a new introduction from the author. An engrossing record of Mao’s impact on China, an unusual window on the female experience in the modern world, and an inspiring tale of courage and love, Jung Chang describes the extraordinary lives and experiences of her family members: her grandmother, a warlord’s concubine; her mother’s struggles as a young idealistic Communist; and her parents’ experience as members of the Communist elite and their ordeal during the Cultural Revolution. Chang was a Red Guard briefly at the age of fourteen, then worked as a peasant, a “barefoot doctor,” a steelworker, and an electrician. As the story of each generation unfolds, Chang captures in gripping, moving—and ultimately uplifting—detail the cycles of violent drama visited on her own family and millions of others caught in the whirlwind of history.
Author : Joe Cleary
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 36,45 MB
Release : 2021-11-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108833578
The first monograph-length study of Irish expatriate fiction in an era of transition from American to East Asian global hegemony.