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The book recounts the author's experience in Fuling and describes stories of Fuling residents, including the priest of the Fuling Catholic Church, 李海若 (Li Hǎiruò). [4] His students came from deprived peasant homes in Sichuan countryside and tried to deal with a tough schooling system.
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 ...
In China, Strange Beasts of China was adapted into a TV series. [3] The author commented in an interview she was aware that Chinese censorship laws would change some elements of her story in the series, and had come to terms with it as she had written and published the book more than a decade before the TV series began. [3]
Dragon Seed: A Novel of China Today is a novel by Pearl S. Buck first published in 1942. It describes the lives of Chinese peasants in a village outside Nanjing, China, immediately prior to and during the Japanese invasion in 1937. Some characters seek protection in the city while others become collaborators.
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 ...
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Hungry Ghosts: Mao's Secret Famine is a book about the Great Chinese Famine by British author Jasper Becker, the former Beijing bureau chief for the South China Morning Post. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Becker interviewed peasants in Henan Province and Anhui Province , both of which were significantly affected by the famine. [ 3 ]
As the 35th anniversary of Beijing’s Tiananmen Square crackdown neared, Rowena He, a prominent scholar of that bloody chapter of modern China's history, was busy flying between the United States ...