Ink And Tears

How does an extended family, bound by shared history, affection, and duty but divided by generation, gender, status, and personality, memorialize its dead? This fascinating study shows how members of the prominent Yu family passed down their personal and familial memories over five generations, through the traumatic transition from imperial to modern China and amidst the radical change and destruction of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Their memory writing is unusual and compelling for its quantity, variety, and resonance of themes across generations. It reflects a particular cultural moment and family, yet offers insight into universal practices of writing and remembrance. Ink and Tears begins and ends with the Yu family’s two most famous members: the late Qing writer Yu Yue and his great-great grandson Yu Pingbo, each among the most famous and prolific scholars of their respective generations. Over a span of one and a half centuries, they and their lesser-known female and male kin made use of an impressive diversity of genres—poetry, prefaces, biographies, diaries, correspondence, and strange tales—to preserve their family’s memories. During the times in which they wrote, the technologies of printing and the institutions of publication and book distribution were being transformed, and by the time of the great-grandchildren the language of education and governance, definitions of scholarship and literature, and the map of literary genres had all been remade. The Yus’ memory writing thus reveals not just how different family members remembered and mourned, but the changing tools they had with which to convey their loss. Drawing on a wealth of archival material, Rania Huntington focuses on questions of how memory was crafted, preserved, and transmitted as much as on what was remembered, tracing common tropes and shared strategies. Her beautifully observed study will interest scholars of late imperial and early Republican literature and history, as well as readers more broadly concerned with the family, women’s writing, themes of memory and bereavement, and the personal functions of literature.

I have one rule: Never sleep with someone twice. No apology, no explanation. Life has taught me to be on my toes, always on my guard. Until now. Elijah Fairclough, the aristocrat's son with the big heart and even bigger dreams, has asked me to work on an exclusive art project. It's an offer I'd be crazy to refuse. There's just one problem. Elijah tests me, challenges me, questions me, and there's a chance I might not be able to stick to the rules that have always protected me. Everything about him is the opposite to who I am. Everything about us is utterly forbidden. If we explore this chemistry it could ruin both our futures. If we don't, it might just destroy us. Can you make something right, from something so very wrong?

Dry Tears Wet Ink is a window to my soul. It is a collection of poems. words, thoughts and feelings. As you read them, you will hold my hands through painful memories, wipe my tears and celebrate my re-birth and new found sense of self. I hope that through my words, I can transport you to a land full of raw emotions to help you tap into yours. I hope that Dry Tears Wet Ink inspires you to fight for yourself, find yourself and stay true to yourself.

"What happens when rhetoric about immigrants escalates to an institutionalized population control system? Ink opens as a biometric tattoo is approved for use to mark temporary workers, permanent residents and citizens with recent immigration history--collectively known as inks"--Page 4 of cover.

Dry Tears Wet Ink is a window to my soul. It is a collection of poems, words, thoughts and feelings. As you read them, you will hold my hands through painful memories, wipe my tears and celebrate my re-birth and new found sense of self. I hope that through my words, I can transport you to a land full of raw emotions to help you tap into yours. I hope that Dry Tears Wet Ink inspires you to fight for yourself, find yourself and stay true to yourself.

A searing indictment of capitalism by one of the greats of contemporary comics.

300 Tears is a collection of poems about my life from 2005 thru 2011. These poems are dedicated to a special person and my inner circle of my closest friends. There is about 15 or so poems that are dedicated to my father, Harold F. Hoppe, Jr. who passed February 21,2011. These poems are about my relationship with my father. I deeply miss him. All 300 poems are tears of happiness, anger, moments, and times that I shed tears for each moment of my life. These poems will show my emotions and feelings of life. You will be reading my moments and memories of my life's Journey.

A crucial period for the birth of the modern subject, France's 'long eighteenth century' (approximately 1650-1820) was an era marked by the formulation of a new aesthetic and ethical code revolving around the intensification of emotions and the hyperbolic use of weeping. Precisely because tears are not a simple biological fact but rather hang suspended between natural immediacy, on one side, and cultural artifice, on the other, the analysis of crying came to represent an exemplary testing ground for investigations into the enigmatic relations binding the realm of physiology to that of psychology. Thinking About Tears explores how the link between tears and sensibility in France's long eighteenth century helps shed light on the process through which the European emotional lexicon has been built: from viewing tears as governed by the sphere of 'passions' and 'feelings', thinkers began to view crying as first a matter of sensibility and then of sensiblerie (a pathological excess of sensibility), thereby presupposing an intimate connection with the category of 'sentiments'. For this reason, this volume examines not only or even primarily the actual emotion of crying, but also the attempt to think about and explain this feeling. Drawing on a wide range of early modern philosophical, medical, religious, and literary texts-including moral treatises on the passions, medical textbooks, letters, life-writings, novels, and stage-plays-Thinking About Tears reveals another side to a period that has too often been saddled with the cursory label of 'the age of reason'.