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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 ]
The region of all countries bordering China is sometimes referred to by scholars as the China Rim, [3] [4] [5] or simply as China's periphery (Chinese: 中国周边). [6] The China Rim plays a significant role in competition between other countries and China, as is the case with America's China Containment Policy. [7]
Cat Country (simplified Chinese: 猫 城 记; traditional Chinese: 貓 城 記; pinyin: Māochéngjì, also translated as City of Cats [1]) is a dystopian satirical novel by Chinese writer Lao She (1899–1966), first published in 1933.
The Legacy of China. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. pp. 115– 143. Internet Archive free online HERE. A cogent summary, though superseded on some points. Hegel, Robert E. (1994). "Traditional Chinese Fiction—the State of the Field". The Journal of Asian Studies. 53 (2): 394– 426. doi:10.2307/2059840. JSTOR 2059840. S2CID 163011311.
Strange Beasts of China has been well received by critics, appearing on both The New York Times Book Review's list of 100 Notable Books of 2021 [13] and The Washington Post ' s list of Best science fiction, fantasy and horror of 2021. [12] It was also a runner-up for the 2021 Warwick Prize for Women in Translation. [14]
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 ...
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 ...
Stories Old and New (Chinese: 古今小說), also known by its later name Stories to Enlighten the World (喻世明言), is a collection of short stories by Feng Menglong during the Ming dynasty.