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Cries in the Drizzle

2008-11-26 Fiction
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Release : 2008-11-26
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 401/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Cries in the Drizzle by : Yu Hua

Download or read book Cries in the Drizzle written by Yu Hua. This book was released on 2008-11-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yu Hua’s beautiful, heartbreaking novel Cries in the Drizzle follows a young Chinese boy throughout his childhood and adolescence during the reign of Chairman Mao. The middle son of three, Sun Guanglin is constantly neglected ignored by his parents and his younger and older brother. Sent away at age six to live with another family, he returns to his parents’ house six years later on the same night that their home burns to the ground, making him even more a black sheep. Yet Sun Guanglin’s status as an outcast, both at home and in his village, places him in a unique position to observe the changing nature of Chinese society, as social dynamics — and his very own family — are changed forever under Communist rule. With its moving, thoughtful prose, Cries in the Drizzle is a stunning addition to the wide-ranging work of one of China’s most distinguished contemporary writers.

Contemporary Chinese Fiction by Su Tong and Yu Hua

2011-02-18 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2011-02-18
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 133/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Contemporary Chinese Fiction by Su Tong and Yu Hua by : Hua Li

Download or read book Contemporary Chinese Fiction by Su Tong and Yu Hua written by Hua Li. This book was released on 2011-02-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book explores the coming-of-age fiction of two of the most critically acclaimed and frequently translated contemporary Chinese authors, Yu Hua and Su Tong; it is the first in-depth book-length treatise in English about the contemporary Chinese Bildungsroman. Although various individual contemporary Chinese novelists and individual works of Chinese fiction have previously been discussed under the rubric of the Bildungsroman, none of these efforts has approached the level of comprehensive and comparative analysis that this book brings to the genre and its social contexts in contemporary China. This book will pique the interests not only of scholars and students of Chinese and comparative literature, but also of historians and social scientists with an interest in the region.

Drizzle

2010-03-04 Juvenile Fiction
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Release : 2010-03-04
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
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Book Rating : 633/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Drizzle by : Kathleen Van Cleve

Download or read book Drizzle written by Kathleen Van Cleve. This book was released on 2010-03-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eleven-year-old Polly Peabody knows her family?s world-famous rhubarb farm is magical. The plants taste like chocolate, jewels appear in the soil, bugs talk to her, and her best friend is a rhubarb plant named Harry. But the most magical thing is that every single Monday, at exactly 1:00, it rains. Until the Monday when the rain just stops. Now it?s up to Polly to figure out why?and whether her brother?s mysterious illness and her glamorous aunt Edith?s sudden desire to sell the farm have anything to do with it. Most of all, Polly has to make it start raining again before it?s too late. Her brother?s life, the plants? survival, and her family?s future all depend on it. Kathleen Van Cleve has woven an unforgettable comingof- age tale with all the heart and wonder of a Roald Dahl novel.

China in Ten Words

2012-08-21 History
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Release : 2012-08-21
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 791/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis China in Ten Words by : Yu Hua

Download or read book China in Ten Words written by Yu Hua. This book was released on 2012-08-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of China’s most acclaimed writers: a unique, intimate look at the Chinese experience over the last several decades. Framed by ten phrases common in the Chinese vernacular, China in Ten Words uses personal stories and astute analysis to reveal as never before the world’s most populous yet oft-misunderstood nation. In "Disparity," for example, Yu Hua illustrates the expanding gaps that separate citizens of the country. In "Copycat," he depicts the escalating trend of piracy and imitation as a creative new form of revolutionary action. And in "Bamboozle," he describes the increasingly brazen practices of trickery, fraud, and chicanery that are, he suggests, becoming a way of life at every level of society. Witty, insightful, and courageous, this is a refreshingly candid vision of the "Chinese miracle" and all of its consequences.

Proust, China and Intertextual Engagement

2017-08-25 Language Arts & Disciplines
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Release : 2017-08-25
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Rating : 546/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Proust, China and Intertextual Engagement by : Shuangyi Li

Download or read book Proust, China and Intertextual Engagement written by Shuangyi Li. This book was released on 2017-08-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book traces the literary journey that Proust’s work made to China and back by means of translation, intertextual engagement, and the creation of a transcultural dialogue through migrant literature. It begins with a translation history of Proust’s work in China and studies the different (re)translations and editions of La Recherche highlighting their culturally conditioned thematic emphases and negligence, such as time and memory over anti-Semitism and homosexuality. The book then moves on to explore three contemporary mainland Chinese writers’ creative intertextual engagement with Proust against the backdrop of China's explosive development from modernity to post-modernity in the 1990s. Finally, back to France, the book examines the multifarious literary relations between Proust and the Franco-Chinese migrant writer François Cheng. It demonstrates how the cultural heritages of China and the West can be re-negotiated and put into dialogue through the fictional and creative medium of literature, as well as providing a means of understanding the economic, political, and cultural exchanges in our current global context.

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