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Chairman Mao Would Not Be Amused
ISBN: 9780802134493 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Chairman Mao Would Not Be Amused is a showcase for 20 writers from the new literary generation in China. Hard-core realism, experimental prose, and black humor; exoticism and eroticism;shocking tales of brutality, tender evocations of love, and engrossing mysteries all coexist in an anthology that spans nearly a decade, ten years that have witnessed a dizzying array of societal and political changes. Almost all of the stories appear in English translation for the first time. Includes Shi Tiesheng, First Person; Hong Ying, The Field; Su Tong, The Brothers Shu; Wang Meng, A String of Choices;...
Chairman Mao Would Not Be Amused is a showcase for 20 writers from the new literary generation in China. Hard-core realism, experimental prose, and bl...
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74,26 zł |
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Fu Ping
ISBN: 9780231193238 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Fu Ping is a keenly observed portrait of the lives of lower-class women in Shanghai in the early years of the People's Republic of China. Wang Anyi, one of contemporary China's most acclaimed authors, explores the daily lives of migrants from rural areas and other people on the margins of urban life.
Fu Ping is a keenly observed portrait of the lives of lower-class women in Shanghai in the early years of the People's Republic of China. Wang Anyi, o...
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82,79 zł |
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Chinese Literature for the 1980s: The Fourth Congress of Writers and Artists
ISBN: 9781138187603 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Editor Howard Goldblatt explains that while most societies analyse and revere their literary trends in retrospect, post-Liberation China s literary trends tend to be announced beforehand allowing for critics to judge how close or far from the prescribed norms a piece of art is. In this volume, a collection of speeches and reports from the Fourth Congress of Writers and Artists, well-known Chinese writers (novels, poets, and dramatists alike) debate the future direction of Chinese literature for the 1980s. Originally published in 1982, the book lends a contemporary view into the state of... Editor Howard Goldblatt explains that while most societies analyse and revere their literary trends in retrospect, post-Liberation China s literary... |
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241,30 zł |
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Fu Ping
ISBN: 9780231193221 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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373,21 zł |
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Chinese Literature for the 1980s: The Fourth Congress of Writers and Artists
ISBN: 9781138187627 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Editor Howard Goldblatt explains that while most societies analyse and revere their literary trends in retrospect, post-Liberation China's literary trends tend to be announced beforehand allowing for critics to judge how close or far from the prescribed norms a piece of art is. In this volume, a collection of speeches and reports from the Fourth Congress of Writers and Artists, well-known Chinese writers (novels, poets, and dramatists alike) debate the future direction of Chinese literature for the 1980s. Originally published in 1982, the book lends a contemporary view into the state of... Editor Howard Goldblatt explains that while most societies analyse and revere their literary trends in retrospect, post-Liberation China's literary... |
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83,90 zł |
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Worlds Apart: Recent Chinese Writing and Its Audiences: Recent Chinese Writing and Its Audiences
ISBN: 9780873325028 / Angielski / Twarda / 1990 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Thirteen selected papers from an international conference on contemporary Chinese literature held near Gunzburg, Bavaria, in June-July 1986 constitute both a record of literary writings from the PRC, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, as well as an overview of the broader international role of Chinese writing i
Thirteen selected papers from an international conference on contemporary Chinese literature held near Gunzburg, Bavaria, in June-July 1986 constitute...
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708,33 zł |
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Green River Daydreams
ISBN: 9780802139047 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Liu Heng is one of contemporary China's most acclaimed and masterful writers, and with Green River Daydreams he has written "of the struggle between Western ideas and the old political system, all of it set against a supplely portrayed mountain and river landscape" (NPR's All Things Considered). Ears, the slave of a wealthy landowning family in the early twentieth century, bears witness to its spectacular corruption and decline. The family's prodigal son, Guanghan, returns from four years of study in Europe with a French engineer friend and a dream of starting a collectively run match...
Liu Heng is one of contemporary China's most acclaimed and masterful writers, and with Green River Daydreams he has written "of the struggle between W...
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78,62 zł |
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Beijing Doll
ISBN: 9781594480201 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 223 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Banned in China for its candid exploration of a young girl's sexual awakening yet widely acclaimed as being "the first novel of 'tough youth' in China" (Beijing Today), Beijing Doll cuts a daring path through China's rock-and-roll subculture. This cutting edge novel -- drawn from the diaries the author kept throughout her teenage years -- takes readers to the streets of Beijing where a disaffected generation spurns tradition for lives of self expression, passion, and rock-and-roll. Chun Sue's explicit sensuality, unflinching attitude towards sex, and raw, lyrical style break new...
Banned in China for its candid exploration of a young girl's sexual awakening yet widely acclaimed as being "the first novel of 'tough youth' in China...
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96,10 zł |
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Rose, Rose, I Love You
ISBN: 9780231112031 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) In this lively translation of Wang Chen-ho's ribald satire, a Taiwanese village loses all perspective--and common sense--at the prospect of fleecing a shipload of lusty and lonely American soldiers. A rotund, excitable high school English teacher receives word that 300 GIs are coming from Vietnam for a weekend of R and R. He persuades the owners of the Big 4 brothels that they will all take in more U.S. dollars if the pleasure girls can speak a little English; his plan is to train fifty specially selected prostitutes in a "Crash Course for Bar Girls." The teacher, Dong Siwen (his name...
In this lively translation of Wang Chen-ho's ribald satire, a Taiwanese village loses all perspective--and common sense--at the prospect of fleecing a...
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201,99 zł |
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A Son of Taiwan: Stories of Government Atrocity
ISBN: 9781621966937 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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161,40 zł |
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Red Sorghum: A Novel of China
ISBN: 9780140168549 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) The acclaimed novel of love and resistance during late 1930s China by Mo Yan, winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize in LiteratureSpanning three generations, this novel of family and myth is told through a series of flashbacks that depict events of staggering horror set against a landscape of gemlike beauty, as the Chinese battle both Japanese invaders and each other in the turbulent 1930s.
A legend in China, where it won major literary awards and inspired an Oscar-nominated film directed by Zhang Yimou, Red Sorghum is a book in which fable and history collide to produce fiction... The acclaimed novel of love and resistance during late 1930s China by Mo Yan, winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize in LiteratureSpanning three genera...
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82,99 zł |
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Red Ivy, Green Earth Mother
ISBN: 9780595006748 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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47,83 zł |
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The Execution of Mayor Yin and Other Stories from the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, Revised Edition
ISBN: 9780253216908 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Praise for the first edition: ..". in the great tradition of Orwell and Solzhenitsyn; its true subject is the survival--and sometimes the defeat--of the human spirit in its lonely quest for integrity." --Time "The almost childlike directness of Chen's tales... is captured in the very lightly revised translations of this new edition... Highly recommended." --Choice A classic of modern world literature, this collection of stories provides a vivid and poignant eyewitness view of everyday life in China during the Cultural Revolution. For this edition, Howard Goldblatt has... Praise for the first edition: ..". in the great tradition of Orwell and Solzhenitsyn; its true subject is the survival--and sometimes the de... |
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93,84 zł |
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Blood Red Sunset: A Memoir of the Chinese Cultural Revolution
ISBN: 9780140159424 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) First banned in its native land, this earthy, unflinching memoir has become one of the biggest bestsellers in the history of China.
In 1968, a fervent young Red Guard joined the army of hotheaded adolescents who trekked to Inner Mongolia to spread the Cultural Revolution. After gaining a reputation as a brutal abuser of the local herd owners and nomads, Ma Bo casually criticized a Party Leader. Denounced as an active counterrevolutionary and betrayed by his friends, the idealistic youth was brutally beaten and imprisoned. Charged with passion, never doctrinaire, Blood Red... First banned in its native land, this earthy, unflinching memoir has become one of the biggest bestsellers in the history of China.
In 1968, a fe... |
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104,83 zł |
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The Lost Garden
ISBN: 9780231175548 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The Lost Garden is an eloquent portrait of the losses incurred as we struggle to hold on to our passions. The novel begins with the family of Zhu Yinghong, whose father, Zhu Zuyan, was imprisoned in the early days of Chiang Kai-shek's rule. Zhu Zuyan spends his days luxuriating in his Lotus Garden, which he builds according to his own desires. Forever under suspicion, he indulges as much as he can in circumscribed pleasures, though they drain the family fortune. Eventually the entire household is sold, including the Lotus Garden. The novel then swings to modern-day Taipei, where Zhu...
The Lost Garden is an eloquent portrait of the losses incurred as we struggle to hold on to our passions. The novel begins with the family of Z...
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386,61 zł |
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The Lost Garden
ISBN: 9780231175555 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The Lost Garden is an eloquent portrait of the losses incurred as we struggle to hold on to our passions. The novel begins with the family of Zhu Yinghong, whose father, Zhu Zuyan, was imprisoned in the early days of Chiang Kai-shek's rule. Zhu Zuyan spends his days luxuriating in his Lotus Garden, which he builds according to his own desires. Forever under suspicion, he indulges as much as he can in circumscribed pleasures, though they drain the family fortune. Eventually the entire household is sold, including the Lotus Garden. The novel then swings to modern-day Taipei, where Zhu...
The Lost Garden is an eloquent portrait of the losses incurred as we struggle to hold on to our passions. The novel begins with the family of Z...
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121,51 zł |
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Wolf Totem
ISBN: 9780143115144 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) China's runaway bestseller and winner of the inaugural Man Asian Literary Prize
Published in China in 2004, Wolf Totem has broken all sales records, selling millions of copies (along with millions more on the black market). Part period epic, part fable for modern days, Wolf Totem depicts the dying culture of the Mongols--the ancestors of the Mongol hordes who at one time terrorized the world--and the parallel extinction of the animal they believe to be sacred: the fierce and otherworldly Mongolian wolf. Beautifully translated by Howard Goldblatt, the foremost... China's runaway bestseller and winner of the inaugural Man Asian Literary Prize
Published in China in 2004, Wolf Totem has broken a... |
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78,62 zł |
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Notes of a Desolate Man
ISBN: 9780231116084 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Winner of the coveted China Times Novel Prize, this postmodern, first-person tale of a contemporary Taiwanese gay man reflecting on his life, loves, and intellectual influences is among the most important recent novels in Taiwan. The narrator, Xiao Shao, recollects a series of friends and lovers, as he watches his childhood friend, Ah Yao, succumb to complications from AIDS. The brute fact of Ah Yao's death focuses Shao's simultaneously erudite and erotic reflections magnetically on the core theme of mortality. By turns humorous and despondent, the narrator struggles to come to...
Winner of the coveted China Times Novel Prize, this postmodern, first-person tale of a contemporary Taiwanese gay man reflecting on his life, l...
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287,20 zł |
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Market Street: A Chinese Woman in Harbin
ISBN: 9780295994239 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Back in print - Market Street Back in print - Market Street |
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104,88 zł |
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City of the Queen: A Novel of Colonial Hong Kong
ISBN: 9780231134569 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. From its beginnings as a pestilent port and colonial backwater, Hong Kong became the "pearl" of a declining British empire, and then ascended to its present status as a gleaming city of commerce. Throughout its history, Hong Kong has been steeped in drama, intrigue, and seismic social shifts. Shih Shu-ching, an acclaimed Taiwanese writer, sets her epic tale of one beautiful and determined woman's family amid this rich and colorful history, capturing in vivid, panoramic detail the unique tensions and atmosphere that characterize the city. Critically praised and long popular in the...
From its beginnings as a pestilent port and colonial backwater, Hong Kong became the "pearl" of a declining British empire, and then ascended to its p...
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347,68 zł |
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