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The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams and the Making of China (Libro)

Julia Lovell (Autore)

In October 1839, Britain entered the first Opium War with China. Its brutality notwithstanding, the conflict was also threaded with tragicomedy: with Victorian hypocrisy, bureaucratic fumblings, military missteps, political opportunism and collaboration. Yet over the past [...]

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The Opium War and its Afterlives (Libro)

Julia Lovell (Autore)

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The Matchmaker (Libro)

Julia Lovell (Autore), Zhu Wen (Autore), Wen Zhu (Autore)

The Matchmaker, the Apprentice, and the Football Fan moves between anarchic campuses, infuriating communist factories, and the victims of China's economic miracle to showcase the absurdity, injustice, and socialist Gothic of everyday Chinese life. This new collection of [...]

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The Opium War (Libro)

Julia Lovell (Autore)

A comprehensive and compelling account of the causes and consequences of the Opium War

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The Real Story of Ah-Q and Other Tales of China (Libro)

Julia Lovell (Autore), Lu Xun (Autore), Lu Xun (Autore)

Lu Xun (Lu Hsun) is arguably the greatest writer of modern China, and is considered by many to be the founder of modern Chinese literature. This book presents translations of Lu Xun's stories, including "The Real Story of Ah-Q', "Diary of a Madman", "A Comedy of Ducks", [...]

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China witness (Libro)

Xinran (Autore), Xinran Xinran (Autore)

An oral history of modern Chinese life views the last 100 years of Chinese history from the perspective of members of the older generations of every tier of Chinese society, who recall their experiences and eyewitness to the Long March, Mao, war, the Cultural Revolution and [...]

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Neobychaino-voshititelno: Architektura I vlast' v Kitae (E-book)

Julia Lovell (Autore), Strelka Press (Editore)

China has undergone urbanisation on a scale never seen before - much of it speculative, some of it a brazen display of power. In this incisive analysis by the acclaimed Sinologist Julia Lovell, we get inside the politics of architecture and city-making in China. There is a [...]

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Splendidly Fantastic: Architecture and Power Games in China (E-book)

Julia Lovell (Autore), Strelka Press (Editore)

Mao once called the Chinese "a blank sheet of paper", and the modernising that came with the Cultural Revolution treated cities much the same. But Mao's destructive impulses were as nothing compared to the liberalised policies of his recent successors. China [...]

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China Witness (Libro)

Xinran (Autore)

Includes grandparents and great-grandparents who sum up in their own words the vast changes that have overtaken China's people over a century. This book is also at once a journey by the author through time and place, and a memorial to those who have lived through war and [...]

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Serve the People! (Libro)

Yan Lianke (Autore)

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Sky Burial (Libro)

Xinran (Autore)

An epic story of Tibet from the author of The Good Women of China As a young girl in China Xinran heard a rumour about a soldier in Tibet who had been brutally fed to the vultures in a ritual known as a sky burial: the tale frightened and fascinated her.

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Sky Burial (Libro)

Xinran Xue (Autore)

In 1958, notified that her husband, a doctor in the Chinese army, has been killed in Tibet, Shu Wen joins the army to go to Tibet to uncover the truth, only to find herself alone in Tibet, embarking on a thirty-year nomadic odyssey.

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Lovell: Politics of Cult Capt CL (Libro)

Julia Lovell (Autore)

In the 1980s Chinas politicians, writers, and academics began to raise an increasingly urgent question: why had a Chinese writer never won a Nobel Prize for literature? Promoted to the level of official policy issue and national complex, Nobel anxiety generated articles, [...]

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The Politics of Cultural Capital (Libro)

Julia Lovell (Autore)

In the 1980s Chinas politicians, writers, and academics began to raise an increasingly urgent question: why had a Chinese writer never won a Nobel Prize for literature? Promoted to the level of official policy issue and national complex, Nobel anxiety generated articles, [...]

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I Love Dollars: And Other Stories of China (Libro)

Wen Zhu (Autore)

In five richly imaginative novellas and a short story, Zhu Wen depicts the violence, chaos, and dark comedy of China in the post-Mao era. A frank reflection of the seamier side of his nations increasingly capitalist society, Zhu Wens fiction offers an audaciously [...]

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