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The book is a collection of fifteen introductory essays excerpted from the Annual of Contemporary Art in China, covering the…
years from 2005 to 2019, showcasing the development and changing landscapes of contemporary art in China. The Annual documents exhibitions, events, creative practices, and critical literature concerning contemporary art in China since 2005. Based on archival documentation and statistics data from these annuals, notable phenomena, events, and discourses from a given year, as well as key works and artists are reviewed in each introduction, with no ideological or market-driven undertone. The author unravels industrial and institutional factors, while also broaching important issues of abstract art, new media art and so on, and probing the historical and socio-cultural context as well. In this regard, the book offers a panorama of contemporary Chinese art and critically engages with the art scene in China, including Hongkong, Taiwan, and among the Chinese diaspora. The title will appeal to scholars, students and general readers interested in contemporary art history, art criticism, contemporary Chinese art, iconography, and contemporary art theory.
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For many years, the oral performing and dramatic literatures of China from 1200 to 1600 CE were considered some of…
the most difficult texts in the Chinese corpus. They included ballad medleys, comic farces, Yuan music dramas, Ming music dramas, and the novel Shuihu zhuan. The Japanese scholars who first dedicated themselves to study these works in the mid-twentieth century were considered daring. As late as 1981, no comprehensive dictionary or glossary for this literature existed in any language, Asian or Western. A Glossary of Words and Phrases fills this gap for Western readers, allowing even a relative novice who has resonable command of Chinese to read, translate, and appreciate this great body of literature with an ease undreamed of even two decades ago. The Glossary is organized into approximately 8,000 entries based on the reading notes and glosses found in various dictionaries, thesauruses, glossaries, and editions of works from the period. Main entries are listed alphabetically in the pinyin romanization system. In addition to glosses, entries include symbolic annotations, guides to pronunciation, and text citations. The result is a broadly useful glossary serving the needs of students of this literature as well as scholars researching Jin and Yuan language and its usage.
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Two Twelfth-Century Texts on Chinese Painting presents two texts in translation that provide dual insight into the Painting Academy of…
Emperor Hui-tsung and the literati school of painting. The Shan-shui ch’un-ch’uan chi is a treatise for beginning landscape painters dated to the Hsüan-ho era. The treatise was written by Han Cho, a reputed member of the Academy, but the text was not specifically directed at Academicians. The treatise collects and orders previous writings on landscape painting; one of Han Cho’s main goals is to list all landscape definitions and their practical application in painting. Yet his view is more detached and analytical than a stereotypical Academy painter, revealing an approach reminiscent of Confucian scholarship and literati painting as well. The Hua-chi by Teng Ch’un is a history of painting that was written as a sequel to two earlier painting histories. In ten chapters, Teng Ch’un compiles facts and critical evaluations of painters from 1075 to 1167, as well as listings of selected masterpieces. Teng Ch’un provides more specific information about the Academy than Han Cho, discussing its organization and examination system, and noting that “form-likeness” and adherence to rules were leading standards for painting in the Academy. On the other hand, he thinks that painting should transmit “soul,” not just “form.” Thus, Teng Ch’un writes the history of both the establishment values of the Academy and the intellectual tendencies of the literati.
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The interplay between the external world (ching) and the poet’s inner world (ch’ing) lies at the heart of Chinese poetry,…
and understanding the interaction of the two is crucial to understanding this work from within its own tradition. Closely coordinating her discussions of poetry and criticism so that practice and theory become mutually enriching and illuminating, Sun offers sensitive and original readings of poems and a wealth of insights into Chinese poetics.
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The relationships, both historical and philosophical, among the Zhuangzi’s Inner, Outer, and Miscellaneous chapters are the subject of ancient and…
enduring controversy. Liu marshals linguistic, intertextual, intratextual, and historical evidence to establish an objectively demonstrable chronology and determine the philosophical affiliations among the various chapters. This major advance in Zhuangzi scholarship furnishes indispensable data for all students of the great Daoist text. In a lengthy afterword, Liu compares his conclusions with those of A. C. Graham and addresses the relationship between the Zhuangzi and the Laozi.
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Pentasyllabic poetry has been a focus of critical study since the appearance of the earliest works of Chinese literary criticism…
in the Six Dynasties period. Throughout the subsequent dynasties, traditional Chinese critics continued to examine pentasyllabic poetry as a leading poetic type and to compile various comprehensive anthologies of it. The Matrix of Lyric Transformation enriches this tradition, using modern analytical methods to explore issues of self-expression and to trace the early formal, thematic, and generic developments of this poetic form. Beginning with a discussion of the Yüeh-fu and ku-shih genres of the Han period, Cai Zong-qi introdues the analytical framework of modes from Western literary criticism to show how the pentasyllabic poetry changed over time. He argues that changing practices of poetic composition effected a shift from a dramatic mode typical of folk compositions to a narrative mode and finally to lyric and symbolic modes developed in literati circles.
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Book description: 内容简介 In this story of "The Junglies" the friends discover there are many other places in the world…
beside their home which they would like see. 在故事中 这群"丛林里的朋友"发现世上还有许多令他们向往的地方 When they realise that they cannot travel outside their home in the jungle they decide to find a way to see other places. They subsequently realise that sometimes we just need to look at things from a different perspective to appreciate what we have. 当他们意识到他们无法离家出外旅游后 他们就决定想个法子看看其他地方 他们最终领悟到有时我们更应该珍惜我们所拥有的
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In just thirteen brief, accessible chapters, this engaging little book takes "absolute beginners" from the most basic questions about the…
language (e.g., what does a classical Chinese character look like?) to reading and understanding selections from classical Chinese philosophical texts and Tang dynasty poetry. "An outstanding introduction to reading classical Chinese. Van Norden does a wonderful job of clearly explaining the basics of classical Chinese, and he carefully takes the reader through beautifully chosen examples from the textual tradition. An invaluable work." —Michael Puett, Harvard University
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The autobiography of the first woman president in Korea 朴槿惠以最平实的笔触 娓娓道出她的过往人生 处处可见她对父母的追慕与怀念之情,对韩国人民怀抱的使命感 以及历经大起大落后的省思与坚韧 全书自朴槿惠的少女时代始 描述了总统府青瓦台中的"第一家庭"如何过着寻常的生活 母亲遇刺后 朴槿惠担当起"第一夫人"的角色 其间得以了解政治的基本议题和国家的基本状况 父亲也遭暗杀后 她与弟妹黯然离开青瓦台 面对种种不堪现实与外界批判 她对人性和权力有了更深入的认识 决心远离政治 1997年韩国陷入经济萧条 朴槿惠眼见民生多艰,国家危殆 毅然重返政坛 书中详细描写了在加入大国家党之后 朴槿惠如何以原则和信念立身 带领大国家党踏上破除陈年积弊,夺取国会议席的征程
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如果一切都按照上帝的心意而行，今天的教会会是什么样子？ 这是陈恩藩牧师迄今为止最有力量的一本 书，他深深扎根于圣经真理，回顾自己牧会历程 中的失败经历，展望教会的愿景，透过很多真实 的故事，让人看到上帝如何使用 普通的人来改 变这个世界。 正如陈牧师所说： 我们已经离上帝最初设 立教会的心意太远了。我们当前所经历的，与圣 经所描绘的教会生活有着天壤之别。多年来，教 会领袖们将教会超凡的奥秘束之高阁，把会众训 练成一群对次要事物上瘾的人。是时候悔改了。 当耶稣再来的时候，我们是忙着照顾他的新 妇还是我们自己的生活？本书提醒我们，教会原 来是如此的充满能力和荣耀，并呼召我们再一次 回到上帝最初设立教会的心意当中。
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Police Commissioner John Anderton finds himself at the mercy of his own crime-prevention system when the prescient precogs he's hired…
to stop crime before it starts peg him as a soon-to-be murderer in Philip K. Dick's masterful short story The Minority Report. This slim volume is top-bound like an office account and perfectly timed, the movie version, directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Tom Cruise, is due out this summer but whether fans will shell out the dough for a single short story that's available in various collections remains to be seen. 本书结集科幻鬼才菲利普*迪克最具代表性的九个短篇 第二代 , 冒名顶替 , 规划小组 , 少数派报告 , 战争游戏 , 啊 当个布洛贝尔人 , 死者的话 , 全面回忆 和 电子蚂蚁 菲利普*迪克以其独特的文风和光怪陆离的想象在美国科幻黄金时代独树一帜 他的短篇小说情节跌宕 很多故事的架构都勘称一绝 菲利普*迪克的小说主人公往往是困在极不寻常情镜中的小人物 他们被自己扭曲的感知误导 进退维谷 找不到出路
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After almost fifty years as a wife and mother, Enid Lambert is ready to have some fun. Unfortunately, her husband…
is losing his sanity to Parkinson's disease, and their children have long since flown the family nest to the catastrophes of their own lives. Desperate for some pleasure to look forward to, Enid has set her heart on an elusive goal: bringing her family together for one last Christmas at home 伊妮德·兰伯特 当了五十年的妻子和母亲之后 准备让自己享受一下快乐 不幸的是 她的丈夫 艾尔弗雷德罹患帕金森症 逐渐精神失常 他们的孩子也早已飞出了家庭的小巢 奔向各自生活的悲剧 大儿子加里 银行的投资经理,居家男人 正努力说服自己和家人他没有临床抑郁症----尽管各方面证据相反 二儿子奇普 因性丑闻失去了高校的稳定工作 处于半失业状态 指望着靠手头的剧本赚钱 三女儿丹妮丝年轻美貌 逃离了惨淡的婚姻 成了纽约高级餐厅的主厨 却与一位已婚男性有染----至少她母亲如此怀疑 尽管情势看起来无比绝望 伊妮德却意志坚定 她要纠正一切的错误 享受全家人的最后一次圣诞欢聚
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In his second collection of stories, as in his first, Carver's characters are peripheral people--people without education, insight or prospects,…
people too unimaginative to even give up. Carver celebrates these men and women. 当我们谈论爱情时我们在谈论什么 是雷蒙德·卡佛优秀的短篇小说集 由17篇短篇小说组成 讲述了如餐馆女招待,锯木厂工人,修车工,推销员和汽车旅馆管理员等社会底层的体力劳动者的生活 这些普通人有着普通人的愿望 做着再普通不过的事情 但他们发现自己在为生存而挣扎 无法达到在常人看来并不远大的人生目标 他们的生活中充满了窘困和不如意 婚姻破裂 失业 酗酒 破产 卡佛用"极简"的遣词,冷静疏离的叙事 表现了现代社会中人的边缘性以及现代人脆弱的自我意识 本书的出版 为美国短篇小说写作注入了新的生命 并为卡佛赢得了"美国的契诃夫"的称号 使他成为美国继海明威之后受到模仿最多的作家
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It is an elegy for all our century's promises of prosperity, civic order, and domestic bliss. Swede Levov, a legendary…
athlete at his Newark high school, who grows up in the booming postwar years to marry a former Miss New Jersey, inherit his father's glove factory, and move into a stone house in the idyllic hamlet of Old Rimrock. And then one day in 1968, Swede's beautiful American luck deserts him. "美国三部曲"之首的 美国牧歌 体现了美国社会中由来已久的冲突 相信"美国梦"的人 以为只要努力和正派 就可美梦成真 然而历史的悲剧性常常和个人是否努力和正派无关
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The autobiography of the first woman president in Korea 朴槿惠以最平实的笔触 娓娓道出她的过往人生 处处可见她对父母的追慕与怀念之情,对韩国人民怀抱的使命感 以及历经大起大落后的省思与坚韧 全书自朴槿惠的少女时代始 描述了总统府青瓦台中的"第一家庭"如何过着寻常的生活 母亲遇刺后 朴槿惠担当起"第一夫人"的角色 其间得以了解政治的基本议题和国家的基本状况 父亲也遭暗杀后 她与弟妹黯然离开青瓦台 面对种种不堪现实与外界批判 她对人性和权力有了更深入的认识 决心远离政治 1997年韩国陷入经济萧条 朴槿惠眼见民生多艰,国家危殆 毅然重返政坛 书中详细描写了在加入大国家党之后 朴槿惠如何以原则和信念立身 带领大国家党踏上破除陈年积弊,夺取国会议席的征程
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The Borrowers--the Clock family: Homily, Pod, and their fourteen-year-old daughter, Arrietty, to be precise--are tiny people who live underneath the…
kitchen floor of an old English country manor. All their minuscule home furnishings, from postage stamp paintings to champagne cork chairs, are "borrowed" from the "human beans" who tromp around loudly above them. All is well until Pod is spotted upstairs by a human boy! Can the Clocks stay nested safely in their beloved hidden home, or will they be forced to flee? The British author Mary Norton won the Carnegie Medal for The Borrowers in 1952, the year it was first published in England. 一个患病的英国小男孩被送往乡间姑婆的老宅中休养 寂静中他发现了在古宅里的一个秘密 借东西的小人 借东西的小人只有铅笔一般高 他们把家安在房子的地板下 靠从楼上的"巨人"那里"借"东西为生 他们最害怕的就是被"看见" 借东西的小女孩阿瑞埃蒂在门外草丛里被小男孩看见 好心的小男孩开始帮助这一家小人借东西 还充当信使 为他们和住在别处的亲戚送信 但好景不长 女管家也发现了小人一家 她关住小男孩 找来警察,猫和捕鼠专家对付小人 万分危急之际 小人一家是如何成功逃脱人类的追捕的呢
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Ikal is a student at the poorest village school, which is under constant threat of closure. Ikal and his friends--a…
group nicknamed the Rainbow Troops--face threats from every angle: skeptical government officials, greedy corporations hardly distinguishable from the colonialism they've replaced, deepening poverty and crumbling infrastructure, and their own low self-confidence.But the students also have hope. 天虹战队小学 讲述了一个励志故事 在南太平洋上 有专为穷人而建的学校 条件简陋 资源匮乏 破洞比砖瓦还多 下雨天 老师要撑着香蕉叶上课 校长要卖菜为学生买课本 天才学生每天得游过鳄鱼栖息地上学 最有艺术细胞的孩子用零成本打造狂欢节演出......但他们的老师 拒绝了"前途美好"的工作 到这里教书 没有工资 靠做针线活赚取生活费 孩子们和老师一起 为了理想向命运宣战 亲身践行那句古老的格言 "那些没把你击垮的 最终只会让你更强大 "
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Cathedral is a collection of short stories that overflow with the danger, excitement, mystery and possibility of life. These similar…
stories, very skillful within their narrow limits, were written with a dry intensity, and moving, at their climaxes, from the commonplace to the unnerving.雷蒙德·卡弗是近年美国杰出的短篇小说家 六七十年代的美国社会动荡,思潮澎湃 作者从忧患困顿中脱颖而出 十年间发表了好几部集子 都属畅销 他的作品写的几乎全是社会中下阶层 失业无告 婚变心碎 贫病自弃之人 写作手法也颇为独特 人称"极简派"或"峻削派" 其作品曾多次获奖 屡屡被选做经典语文读本 并被译成二十多种文字 大教堂 是卡佛的短篇小说集 1983年出版后,日文版和英国版随即出版并被提名普利策奖 本书中文译本是首次授权出版,由青年作家,芝加哥大学文学博士肖铁倾心翻译
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With this, his first collection of stories, Raymond Carver breathed new life into the American short story. Carver shows us…
the humor and tragedy that dwell in the hearts of ordinary people; his stories are the classics of our time. 请你安静些,好吗? 是卡佛文学创作的处女作 是卡氏风格的奠基之作 为其一生的创作主旨设定了基调 同时也是其第一本具有广泛影响力的短篇小说集 它于1976年在美国甫一出版即获好评 并于1977年被题名国家图书奖 卡佛曾说过 "对大多数人而言 人生不是什么冒险 而是一股莫之能御的洪流 "在这本短篇小说集里 我们所看到的 就是这样的人生片段 它写的完全不是冒险奋战的英雄人物 而是我们身边毫不起眼却终日陷在生活琐事,人际关系难题里的小人物 卡佛以极简的文字 将生活中最不起眼的时刻写得朴实而暗含张力 他的风格影响了当今许多名家
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CHINA CEO: Voices of Experience From 20 International Business Leaders is based on interviews with 20 top executives and eight…
experienced consultants based in China. The book is packed with first-hand, front-line advice from veterans of the China market. Hear directly from the top executives heading up the China operations of Bayer, British Petroleum, Coca-Cola, General Electric, General Motors, Philips, Microsoft, Siemens, Sony and Unilever, plus expert China-based consultants at Boston Consulting Group, Korn/Ferry International, McKinsey & Company, and many more. Each chapter provides practical tips and easy to grasp models that will help new managers in China to be effective. In CHINA CEO, we deliver what other Western authors can't - first-hand reflections based on over 100 years' collective experience in China. The book presents this rich knowledge in a readable, conversational style suitable for time-constrained executives. Each chapter gives specific advice on how to manage Chinese employees, work with Chinese business partners, communicate with headquarters, face competitors, battle intellectual property rights infringers, win-over Chinese consumers, negotiate with the Chinese government, and adapt yourself (and your family) to life in China.关系指人和人或人和事物之间的某种性质的联系 比如拉关系,社会关系等 事实上 "关系"并不像西方人有时想象的那样 本身就是不道德的 "关系"体制也并不意味着 公司在行贿或者达成私下交易后就可以为所欲为 不过 与西方国家相比 中国的商业伙伴往往会发展出更加密切和深入的关系 国际经理人常常会发现自己在中国开展正常业务时 往往是在一个充满人情且依靠个人 而非职业 能力的环境中行事