Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The book is a memoir of his experience in Fuling, told in first person. The language used is deliberately informal and aims to convey the beauty of the city and the poignancy of the stories. One of the features of the book is that most of its chapters can be read out of order without confusion.
Yao 1975: "The Case of the Gold Hairpins" [6] 陳御史巧勘金釵鈿 3 "Han the Fifth Sells Her Charms in New Bridge Town" Bishop 1956: [7] "Chin-nu Sells Love at Newbridge" Miller et al. 1978: "Han Wu-niang Sells Her Charms at the New Bridge Market" [8] 新橋市韓五賣春情 4 "Ruan San Redeems His Debt in Leisurely Clouds Nunnery"
[2] He explained that he needed two different characters so the reader can "see everything through". [2] Yang took six years to make the books. The first one or two years went into research. [2] He visited a library on a university campus to read books and compile notes. He visited the library once weekly for a period of one year. [6]
On a Chinese Screen, also known as On a Chinese Screen: Sketches of Life in China, is a travel book by W. Somerset Maugham, first published in 1922.It is a series of short sketches Maugham made during a trip along the Yangtze River in 1919–1920, and although ostensibly about China the book is equally focused on the various westerners he met during the trip and their struggles to accept or ...
Lao She then turned to a new project and started Cat Country, [4] which had been commissioned by Shi Zhecun. [3] The novel first appeared in serialised form between August 1932 and April 1933 in the journal Xiandai (現代 / "Les Contemporains") [5] [6] and then as a standalone book in August 1933, published by Xiandai Shuju (現代書局) in ...
Gao Juexin (traditional Chinese: 高覺新; simplified Chinese: 高觉新; pinyin: Gāo Juéxīn; Wade–Giles: Kao 1 Chüeh 2-hsin 1) - The eldest brother, who was forced into quitting his university studies and into marrying a woman other than the one he loved. Juexin obeys the Gao family, despite the disapproval from his two brothers.
17: 漢興以來諸侯王年表: Yearly Table of the Nobles of the Imperial Clan since the Han Dynasty's Founding: Nobles of the imperial family who held titles of nobility 18: 高祖功臣侯者年表: Yearly Table of the Officials who became Marquises in the Time of Gaozu: Officials who received marquis titles in the time of Emperor Gaozu of ...
Brothers (Chinese: 兄弟; pinyin: Xiōngdì) is the longest novel written by the Chinese novelist Yu Hua, in total of 76 chapters, separately published in 2005 for the part 1 (of the first 26 chapters) and in 2006 for part 2 (of the rest 50 chapters) by Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House. [1]