wyszukanych pozycji: 8
Short Stories in Chinese: New Penguin Parallel Text
ISBN: 9780143118350 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. A dual-language edition of Chinese stories--many appearing in English for the first time
This new volume of eight short stories, with parallel translations, offers students at all levels the opportunity to enjoy a wide range of contemporary literature from the world's most spoken language, without having to constantly to refer back to a dictionary. The stories--many of which appear here in English for the first time--are by well-known writers as well as emerging voices. From a story by Li Rui about the honest simplicity of a Shanxi farmer to one by Ma Yuan exposing the seamy... A dual-language edition of Chinese stories--many appearing in English for the first time
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50,87 zł |
Indigenous Writers of Taiwan: An Anthology of Stories, Essays, and Poems
ISBN: 9780231136501 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Few people beyond the shores of Taiwan are aware that it is home to a population of indigenous peoples who for more than fifteen thousand years have lived on the island. Over the years, through the Chinese imperial period, the Japanese occupation, and for most of the twentieth century, the indigenous peoples of Taiwan were marginalized and deprived of rights. However, with the lifting of martial law in 1987, new government policies regarding ethnic groups, and growing interest in Taiwan's aboriginal peoples, indigenous writing began to blossom. With its intense and lyrical explorations of a...
Few people beyond the shores of Taiwan are aware that it is home to a population of indigenous peoples who for more than fifteen thousand years have l...
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494,34 zł |
Zero and Other Fictions
ISBN: 9780231157407 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Huang Fan burst onto Taiwan's literary scene in the 1980s, publishing pointed urban portraits and political satires that captured the reading public's attention. After decades of innovative work, he is now one of Asia's most celebrated authors, crucial to understanding the development of Taiwanese literature over the past fifty years. The first collection of Huang Fan's work to appear in English, this anthology includes Zero, a prize-winning dystopian novella echoing George Orwell's chilling 1984. Set in a postapocalyptic world, Zero features Xi De, a young man raised in an elite...
Huang Fan burst onto Taiwan's literary scene in the 1980s, publishing pointed urban portraits and political satires that captured the reading public's...
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120,12 zł |
Memories of Mount Qilai: The Education of a Young Poet
ISBN: 9780231169967 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Hualien, on the Pacific coast of eastern Taiwan, and its mountains, especially Mount Qilai, were deeply inspirational for the young poet Yang Mu. A place of immense natural beauty and cultural heterogeneity, the city was also a site of extensive social, political, and cultural change in the twentieth century, from the Japanese occupation and the American bombings of World War II to the Chinese civil war, the White Terror, and the Cold War. Taken as a whole, these evocative and allusive autobiographical essays provide a personal response to history as Taiwan transitioned from a Japanese...
Hualien, on the Pacific coast of eastern Taiwan, and its mountains, especially Mount Qilai, were deeply inspirational for the young poet Yang Mu. A pl...
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245,70 zł |
The All-Seeing Eye: Collected Poems
ISBN: 9781621966210 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 110 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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78,04 zł |
The Great Flowing River: A Memoir of China, from Manchuria to Taiwan
ISBN: 9780231188401 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Heralded as a literary masterpiece and a best-seller in the Chinese-speaking world, The Great Flowing River is a personal account of the history of modern China and Taiwan unlike any other. The noted scholar, writer, and teacher Chi Pang-yuan recounts her youth in mainland China and adulthood in Taiwan in a novelistic, epoch-defining narrative.
Heralded as a literary masterpiece and a best-seller in the Chinese-speaking world, The Great Flowing River is a personal account of the history of mo...
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163,80 zł |
Wintry Night
ISBN: 9780231122009 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. An epic spanning more than half a century of Taiwan's history, this breathtaking historical novel traces the fortunes of the Pengs, a family of Hakka Chinese settlers, across three generations from the 1890s, just before Taiwan was ceded to Japan as a result of the Sino-Japanese war, through World War II. Li Qiao brilliantly re-creates the dramatic world of these pioneers--and the colonization of Taiwan itself--exploring their relationships with the aboriginal peoples of Taiwan and their struggle to establish their own ethnic and political identities. This carefully researched work of...
An epic spanning more than half a century of Taiwan's history, this breathtaking historical novel traces the fortunes of the Pengs, a family of Hakka ...
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480,48 zł |
There's Nothing I Can Do When I Think of You Late at Night
ISBN: 9780231148108 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Set among a remote cluster of cave dwellings in Shanxi province, There's Nothing I Can Do When I Think of You Late at Night is a genre-defying expose of rural communism. In a series of vivid, interlocking vignettes, several narrators speak of adultery, bestiality, incest, and vice, revealing the consequences of desire in a world of necessity. The Wen Clan Caves are based on an isolated village where the author, Cao Naiqian, lived during the Cultural Revolution. The land is hard and unforgiving and the people suffer in poverty and ignorance. Through the individual perspectives of...
Set among a remote cluster of cave dwellings in Shanxi province, There's Nothing I Can Do When I Think of You Late at Night is a genre-defying ...
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191,10 zł |