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Macfarquhar: the Origins of the Cultural Revolution Vol 1 (Cloth) (Studies of the East Asian Institute)
This is the final volume in a trilogy which examines the politics, personalities, economics, culture, and international relations of China from the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s. Roderick MacFarquhar is the first to use a multitude of new Chinese sources to answer the question: Why did Chairman Mao Zedong launch the Cultural Revolution which plunged China into chaos and almost destroyed its Communist Party? Volume 3 begins with the great famine of the early 1960s which resulted in tens of millions
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The Lost Daughters of China: Adopted Girls, Their Journey to America, and the Search fora Missing Past
In 1997 journalist Karin Evans walked into an orphanage in southern China and met her new daughter, a beautiful one-year-old baby girl. In this fateful moment Evans became part of a profound, increasingly common human drama that links abandoned Chinese girls with foreigners who have traveled many miles to complete their families.
At once a compelling personal narrative and an evocative portrait of contemporary China, The Lost Daughters of China has also served as an invaluable guide f
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Sitti and the Cats: A Tale of Friendship
A beautiful Palestinian folktale teaches the golden rule. Ages 6-10
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Boy Who Drew Cats and Other Japanese Fairy Tales (Dover Children’s Thrift Classics)
Talking tea kettles, a monstrous goblin-spider, miniature warriors, and other fanciful creatures abound in exotic tales brimming with warmth and whimsy. Eleven excellently translated fables include “The Fountain of Youth,” “The Old Woman Who Lost Her Dumplings,” “The Wooden Bowl,” “My Lord Bag-o’-Rice,” and more. 21 original illustrations by Yuko Green.
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Rashoumon and In a Grove (with linked TOC)
This ebook is complete with linked Table of Content making navigation quicker and easier.
“In a Grove” (藪の中, Yabu no Naka?) is a short story by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, first appearing in the January 1922 edition of the Japanese literature monthly Shinchō. Akira Kurosawa used this story as the basis for his award-winning movie Rashōmon.
“In a Grove” is an early modernist short story consisting of seven varying accounts of the murder of a samurai, Kanazawa no Takehiro,
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An Anthology of Chinese Literature: Beginnings to 1911
Hailed as a groundbreaking text in Chinese Studies, An Anthology of Chinese Literature brings together representative works from the first millenium B.C. to the end of the imperial system in 1911.This collection of over 600 pieces, translated with great clarity and sense of the original, presents the tradition in historical and aesthetic context. Moving roughly chronologically through the tradition, An Anthology of Chinese Literature gathers texts in a variety of genres—songs, letters, anecd
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