"Locating China" explores the political economy of place, space and popular culture in contemporary China. This multidisciplinary volume examines the mutual articulations between cultural imaginary and China's continuing drive toward urbanization. The consequences of this relationship are shown to be the development of new space and places, and new forms of spatial practices, thus weakening old concepts of the "local" and "locality." The international group of scholars incorporate theoretical inquiries of space with grounded empirical work on multiple locals throughout China. From village...
"Locating China" explores the political economy of place, space and popular culture in contemporary China. This multidisciplinary volume examines the ...
In this pathbreaking study of three of the most familiar texts in the Chinese tradition--all concerning stones endowed with magical properties--Jing Wang develops a monumental reconstruction of ancient Chinese stone lore. Wang's thorough and systematic comparison of these classic works illuminates the various tellings of the stone story and provides new insight into major topics in traditional Chinese literature. Bringing together Chinese myth, religion, folklore, art, and literature, this book is the first in any language to amass the sources of stone myth and stone lore in Chinese...
In this pathbreaking study of three of the most familiar texts in the Chinese tradition--all concerning stones endowed with magical properties--Jing W...
Filled with mirages, hallucinations, myths, mental puzzles, and the fantastic, the contemporary experimental fiction of the Chinese avant-garde represents a genre of storytelling unlike any other. Whether engaging the worn spectacle of history, expressing seemingly unmotivated violence, or reinventing outlandish Tibetan myths, these stories are defined by their devotion to theatrics and their willful apathy toward everything held sacred by the generation that witnessed the Cultural Revolution. Jing Wang has selected provocative examples of this new school of writing, which gained...
Filled with mirages, hallucinations, myths, mental puzzles, and the fantastic, the contemporary experimental fiction of the Chinese avant-garde repres...
Filled with mirages, hallucinations, myths, mental puzzles, and the fantastic, the contemporary experimental fiction of the Chinese avant-garde represents a genre of storytelling unlike any other. Whether engaging the worn spectacle of history, expressing seemingly unmotivated violence, or reinventing outlandish Tibetan myths, these stories are defined by their devotion to theatrics and their willful apathy toward everything held sacred by the generation that witnessed the Cultural Revolution. Jing Wang has selected provocative examples of this new school of writing, which gained...
Filled with mirages, hallucinations, myths, mental puzzles, and the fantastic, the contemporary experimental fiction of the Chinese avant-garde repres...
This book is mostly about the real funny stories, all of were the author had met in the nearly two years after he setted foot at the England. These funny stories it wasn't just for joking, laughing. As a Chinese author, he want build up a bridge between the English and Chinese through his stories, of course doesn't matter the bridge was a English style or Chinese style.As the author said: 'Under the morden condition, the globe became a small village, the human became a big family'. We need know each other as well, these stories maybe could help you a bit. Anyway, as a Chinese saying:...
This book is mostly about the real funny stories, all of were the author had met in the nearly two years after he setted foot at the England. These fu...
Under the Same Blue Sky is the author's second book, the most part of the stories were suffered by the author himself, part of the stories were suffered by the auhtor's friends or heard, but all of them were true mostly. As author's main opinion in the book, as members of the big human family, everybody should understand each other much better, help each other more. Under the same blue sky, of course there are shinning, shadow, raining, snowing, thunder...Every body maybe easily to suffer all of the different, But the different mind maybe caused different feelings, so doing everything depend...
Under the Same Blue Sky is the author's second book, the most part of the stories were suffered by the author himself, part of the stories were suffer...
One part riveting account of fieldwork and one part rigorous academic study, Brand New China offers a unique perspective on the advertising and marketing culture of China. Jing Wang's experiences in the disparate worlds of Beijing advertising agencies and the U.S. academy allow her to share a unique perspective on China during its accelerated reintegration into the global market system.
Brand New China offers a detailed, penetrating, and up-to-date portrayal of branding and advertising in contemporary China. Wang takes us inside an advertising agency to show the...
One part riveting account of fieldwork and one part rigorous academic study, Brand New China offers a unique perspective on the advertising ...
This workbook is a companion volume to First Step, the elementary Chinese textbook. Featuring both traditional and simplified characters along with pinyin and English translation, the workbook includes comprehensive exercises and character writing sheets with information on the stroke orders of newly introduced characters. Perforated pages facilitate student use and easy handling of homework, and the workbook also includes more than 120 color illustrations. Listening exercises that help students learn to identify and pronounce the tones used in contemporary spoken Chinese are paired...
This workbook is a companion volume to First Step, the elementary Chinese textbook. Featuring both traditional and simplified characters alo...
Rochelle O'Neal Thorpe Katy Loutzenhiser Jing Wang
A Dragon Valentine is a story about two friends who get their wires crossed. When Mia is invited to Ling's house for a party two weeks before Valentine's Day, she begins dreaming of her first big girl party with lots of candy shaped hearts, wonderful treats, and lots of fun. Oh boy, she is in for a BIG SURPRISE Enjoy reading just how they eventually make a cross cultural connection.
A Dragon Valentine is a story about two friends who get their wires crossed. When Mia is invited to Ling's house for a party two weeks before Valentin...
