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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 ...
China in Ten Words (simplified Chinese: 十个词汇里的中国; traditional Chinese: 十個詞彙裡的中國; pinyin: shí gè cíhuì lǐ de zhōngguó) is an essay collection by the contemporary Chinese author Yu Hua, who is known for his novels To Live, Chronicle of a Blood Merchant, and Brothers.
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.
Kwan-Terry 1978: "Wu Pao-an Ransoms His Friend" [10] 吳保安棄家贖友 9 "Duke Pei of Jin Returns a Concubine to Her Rightful Husband" 裴晉公義還原配: 10 "Magistrate Teng Settles the Case of Inheritance with Ghostly Cleverness" Yang & Yang 1957: [11] "The Hidden Will" Zonana et al. 1978: "Magistrate T'eng and the Case of Inheritance ...
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 ...
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 ]
In a 1987 piece for the New York Times Books Review, J.M. Coetzee said the memoir provided "fascinating insights into thought reform in Mao's China" and that it tells "an absorbing story of resourcefulness and courage, spoiled only by a touch of self-righteousness: Mrs. Cheng is always right, her persecutors always wrong." [8]
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 ...