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Rebellious Beloved Consort
Author | : Di Meiliuguang |
Publsiher | : Funstory |
Total Pages | : 1257 |
Release | : 2019-12-06 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781647679279 |
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I leaned on a few small, green, green five fingers, slender and delicate. I turned the palm, but because of the excessive calligraphy, it became slightly calluses. The veins intertwined on his palm and shattered into tiny pieces. The judge said, "My life will be difficult."I have never believed in these things, the fate of men, three days preordained, seven by myself.
Women in Tang China
Author | : Bret Hinsch |
Publsiher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2019-11-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781538134900 |
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This important book provides the first comprehensive survey of women in China during the Sui and Tang dynasties from the sixth through tenth centuries CE. Bret Hinsch provides rich insight into female life in the medieval era, ranging from political power, wealth, and work to family, religious roles, and virtues. He explores women’s lived experiences but also delves into the subjective side of their emotional life and the ideals they pursued. Deeply researched, the book draws on a wide range of sources, including standard histories, poetry, prose literature, and epigraphic sources such as epitaphs, commemorative religious inscriptions, and Dunhuang documents. Building on the best Western and Japanese scholarship, Hinsch also draws heavily on Chinese scholarship, most of which is unknown outside China. As the first study in English about women in the medieval era, this groundbreaking work will open a new window into Chinese history for Western readers.
Matilda of Flanders Eleanora of Aquitaine
Author | : Agnes Strickland |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 1841 |
Genre | : Queens |
ISBN | : HARVARD:HW22Q9 |
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The Song of Everlasting Sorrow
Author | : Wang Anyi |
Publsiher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 451 |
Release | : 2008-02-22 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780231513098 |
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The classic story of a woman in post-World War II China. “[A] complex and penetrating portrayal . . . that best displays [Anyi’s] gifts as a novelist.”—The New York Times Infatuated with the glitz and glamour of 1940s Hollywood, Wang Qiyao—a girl born of the longtang, the crowded, labyrinthine alleys of Shanghai’s working-class neighborhoods—seeks fame in the Miss Shanghai beauty pageant. This fleeting moment of stardom becomes the pinnacle of her life. During the next four decades, Wang Qiyao indulges in the decadent pleasures of pre-liberation Shanghai, secretly playing mahjong during the Anti-Rightist Movement and exchanging lovers on the eve of the Cultural Revolution. Surviving the vicissitudes of modern Chinese history, Wang Qiyao emerges in the 1980s as a purveyor of “old Shanghai”—a living incarnation of a new, commodified nostalgia that prizes splendor and sophistication—only to become embroiled in a tragedy that echoes the pulpy Hollywood noirs of her youth. From the violent persecution of communism to the liberalism and openness of the age of reform, this sorrowful tale of old China versus new, of perseverance in the face of adversity, is a timeless rendering of our never-ending quest for transformation and beauty. “A beautifully constructed cyclical narrative . . . ingenious . . . As the novel builds to its tragic conclusion, the manner in which character types and events recur against the city’s shifting backdrop is impossible to forget.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) “[A] literary masterpiece . . . The story is spellbinding, colorful, and sad; the writing is dense and thoughtful . . . a page-turner right up to the end.”—Historical Novel Society
Day of Empire
Author | : Amy Chua |
Publsiher | : Anchor |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 2009-01-06 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780307472458 |
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In this sweeping history, bestselling author Amy Chua explains how globally dominant empires—or hyperpowers—rise and why they fall. In a series of brilliant chapter-length studies, she examines the most powerful cultures in history—from the ancient empires of Persia and China to the recent global empires of England and the United States—and reveals the reasons behind their success, as well as the roots of their ultimate demise. Chua's analysis uncovers a fascinating historical pattern: while policies of tolerance and assimilation toward conquered peoples are essential for an empire to succeed, the multicultural society that results introduces new tensions and instabilities, threatening to pull the empire apart from within. What this means for the United States' uncertain future is the subject of Chua's provocative and surprising conclusion.
The Taiping Rebellion
Author | : Shunshin Chin,Joshua A. Fogel |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 642 |
Release | : 2018-10-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781317454304 |
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Written by one of Japan' most popular modern authors, this is a lively, readable, and immensely entertaining fictional portrayal of one of the epochal events of the nineteenth century.
Lives of the Queens of England from the Norman Conquest
Author | : Agnes Strickland,Elisabeth Strickland |
Publsiher | : London : H. Colburn |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 1840 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : UOM:39015065404942 |
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Lives of the Queens of England from the Norman Conquest By Agnes Strickland A New Edition Carefully Revised and Augmented In Six Volumes
Author | : Agnes STRICKLAND |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 680 |
Release | : 1864 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : BL:A0024401226 |
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