By December 1937, the Japanese Imperial Army had advanced into the heartland of China and reached toward their inevitable climax: Nanjing, China's capital and glorious ancient city nestled at the base of the Purple Mountain, was besieged. The government had fled, leaving several hundred thousand civilians and soldiers behind, among them a twelve-year-old girl. To face the unthinkable. An unprecedented historical novel, Purple Mountain presents a riveting, profoundly intimate portrait of Nanjing and its people during the first six days after its fall to the Japanese army. Within the city walls...
By December 1937, the Japanese Imperial Army had advanced into the heartland of China and reached toward their inevitable climax: Nanjing, China's cap...
The 14 stories collected in this book are about people caught in the unsettling dramas of Chinese society accelerating at a blistering pace in the decades after the Cultural Revolution, as can be evidenced by the titles of the stories: "The Evidence," "The Tenants," "Old Batteries," "Love Me, Love My Dog," "Buddha's Feet," "How Was Your Dance Today?," "Big Mama," "The Long March, Sort of," "The Girl in Blue Jeans," "Red Guard Fantasies..".. Love Me, Love My Dog and Other Stories is based on an earlier edition titled Red Guard Fantasies and Other Stories (Long River Press, 2007), which has won...
The 14 stories collected in this book are about people caught in the unsettling dramas of Chinese society accelerating at a blistering pace in the dec...
This book studies the reception history of Western literature in China from the 1840s to the present. Qi explores the socio-historical contexts and the contours of how Western literature was introduced, mostly through translation and assesses its transformative impact in the cultural, literary as well as sociopolitical life of modern China.
This book studies the reception history of Western literature in China from the 1840s to the present. Qi explores the socio-historical contexts and th...
"Turncoats" and "Diabolic Brainwashing" are among the headlines that met the 21 young American GIs who refused repatriation when the armistice was signed to end the Korean War (1950-53) and chose to go to Red China. Hollywood films such as "The Manchurian Candidate" (1962) didn't help ease the frenzy over the perceived Communist diabolism either. For a long time no one knows what life behind the "Bamboo Curtain" was really like for those "21 Turncoats" who had turned their backs on their motherland. "Twin-Sun River" tells the story of Pfc Simon Mackenzie who chooses to disappear in the...
"Turncoats" and "Diabolic Brainwashing" are among the headlines that met the 21 young American GIs who refused repatriation when the armistice was sig...
Looking at the works of the Bronte sisters through a translingual, transnational, and transcultural lens, this collection is the first book-length study of the Brontes as received and reimagined in languages and cultures outside of Europe and the United States.
Looking at the works of the Bronte sisters through a translingual, transnational, and transcultural lens, this collection is the first book-length stu...
This book studies the reception history of Western literature in China from the 1840s to the present. Qi explores the socio-historical contexts and the contours of how Western literature was introduced, mostly through translation and assesses its transformative impact in the cultural, literary as well as sociopolitical life of modern China.
This book studies the reception history of Western literature in China from the 1840s to the present. Qi explores the socio-historical contexts and th...
Looking at the works of the Bronte sisters through a translingual, transnational, and transcultural lens, this collection is the first book-length study of the Brontes as received and reimagined in languages and cultures outside of Europe and the United States.
Looking at the works of the Bronte sisters through a translingual, transnational, and transcultural lens, this collection is the first book-length stu...
