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The story is told chronologically, with each chapter focusing on a different species of beast. [2] When she is not tracking down stories of beasts, the narrator is chain-smoking and drinking, alone or with company, at the Dolphin bar. [2] Throughout the novel, the narrator meets and, inevitably, becomes emotionally involved with each type of ...
The film The Last Emperor features the book. In the fourth impression, published in December 1934 by Victor Gollancz Ltd., additional information such as the fully spread fan (pp. 448–9) was developed and some important parts of the history, such as the confinement of Cao Kun (p. 381) and Kang Youwei 's escape from the country (p. 17), were ...
[4] The "current text" (今本 jīnběn) is a 2-scroll version of the text printed in the late 16th century. [5] [6] The first scroll contains a sparse narrative of the pre-dynastic emperors (beginning with the Yellow Emperor), the Xia dynasty and the Shang dynasty.
This chapter divides into three parts: two general judgements on Jehoshaphat's rule (17:1–6, 10–19) and one report on teaching the law to the people (17:7–9). [4] The first judgement (verses 1–6) focuses on domestic politics and religion, wheres the second (verses 10–19) concerns with foreign and military policy. [4] Both 1 Kings and ...
Often described as a book about language, Embassytown also employs fictional language, or neologisms, as a means of building its world. [1] [2] The author Ursula K. Le Guin describes this as follows: "When everything in a story is imaginary and much is unfamiliar, there's far too much to explain and describe, so one of the virtuosities of SF is the invention of box-words that the reader must ...
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 ...
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 ...
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"