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Feathered Serpent

A Novel

By: Xu Xiaobin

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ONE OF THE FOREMOST WORKS OF TWENTIETH-CENTURY CHINESE LITERATURE This beautifully portrayed epic family history spans one hundred years, from the 1890s during the later stages of the Qing Dynasty to the 1990s, traversing the experiences of five generations of women. Yu is the central character, whose life story is woven through the lives of her grandmother, mother, sisters, and niece. She loves her parents but at a tender age realizes they do not love her. After committing two unforgivable sins, she is sent away to live in the city but is soon abandoned. Yu's life becomes a quest for love; she is fragile but resilient, lonely but determined. Now, in the 1980s, Yu becomes caught up in the political storm and comes close to love but falls short. Her last chance at getting what she desires will ultimately come at a tragic cost. A political satirist in the guise of a mystical writer, Xu Xiaobin masterfully creates an atmosphere where distinctions are blurred; memories of the past and present are intertwined; realities and illusions are fused without a clear trace; and events occur in unspecified places but tinted with fairylike imaginations. Xu Xiaobin is a rare talent with a vast knowledge of history, religion, and culture, and occupies a unique place in modern Chinese literature. When Feathered Serpent won China's inaugural Creative Writing Award for women's literary fiction, it was described as "a breakthrough, a record-setting novel in China's women's literature" and "the best fiction at the end of the century in China.

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Simon and Schuster

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141658420X

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9781416584209

Crystal Wedding

By: Xiaobin Xu

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Crystal Wedding

By: Xiaobin Xu

Yang Tianyi is attractive and intelligent, finally makes a disastrous marriage to Wang Lian. At the Tiananmen Square, she meets her love Hua Zheng again. Hua Zheng is framed as one of the perpetrators of the disturbances, and is sentenced to prison. Crystal Wedding is a novel of searing emotional honesty. (Winner of English Pen Translates Award)

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1911221124

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9781911221128

Dunhuang Dream

By: Xu Xiaobin

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Dunhuang Dream

By: Xu Xiaobin

Named one of the Top Ten Novels of the Year in China, this award-winning novel is about three tourists who fall into a strange entanglement of love. Set against the magical backdrop of Dunhuang, China, home to thousands of painted cave murals, Dunhuang Dreams magically blends the stories of three protagonists: Xiao Xingxing, a talented young female artist, Zhang Shu, a laboratory technician from a Beijing research institute who recently quit his job, and Xiang Wuye, a medical student. These three individuals seek refuge in Dunhuang from their troubled lives, but soon find themselves in a love triangle and involved in a scandalous theft. Original and dynamic, Dunhuang Dreams harmoniously combines a contemporary story with ancient and modern Buddhist themes. It is a tale of searching, escaping from the past, and longing for true love.

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210

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Simon and Schuster

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1416584218

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9781416584216

Feathered Serpent

A Novel

By: Xu Xiaobin

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A Novel

By: Xu Xiaobin

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Dunhuang Dream

By: Xu Xiaobin

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Deleuze and Chinese "Pure Literature"

Literary Worlding from History to Becoming

By: Jian Xu

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Deleuze and Chinese "Pure Literature"

Literary Worlding from History to Becoming

By: Jian Xu

Xu brings together Deleuze's philosophy and contemporary Chinese "pure literature" to form an assemblage of theory and practice through which both the obscured edges of a complex literary practice and the future-oriented concepts of a creative philosophy are sharpened with the potentials of their becoming-event brought to light.

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235

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Lexington Books

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1498595502

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9781498595506

Crossing the Gate

Everyday Lives of Women in Song Fujian (960-1279)

By: Man Xu

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Crossing the Gate

Everyday Lives of Women in Song Fujian (960-1279)

By: Man Xu

In Crossing the Gate, Man Xu examines the lives of women in the Chinese province of Fujian during the Song dynasty. Tracking women's life experience across class lines, outside as well as inside the domestic realm, Xu challenges the accepted wisdom about women and gender roles in medieval China. She contextualizes women in a much broader physical space and social network, investigating the gaps between ideals and reality and examining women's own agency in gender construction. She argues that women's autonomy and mobility, conventionally attributed to Ming-Qing women of late imperial China, can be traced to the Song era. This thorough study of Song women's life experience connects women to the great political, economic, and social transitions of the time, and sheds light on the so-called "Song-Yuan-Ming transition" from the perspective of gender studies. By putting women at the center of analysis and by focusing on the local and the quotidian, Crossing the Gate offers a new and nuanced picture of the Song Confucian revival.

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State University of New York Press

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1438463227

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9781438463223

Regulatory Model for Digital Rights Management

Analysis of U.S., Europe and China

By: Cong Xu

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Regulatory Model for Digital Rights Management

Analysis of U.S., Europe and China

By: Cong Xu

This book highlights the shortcomings of the present Digital Rights Management (DRM) regulations in China. Using literature reviews and comparative analysis from theoretical and empirical perspectives, it appraises different DRM restriction regulations and practices as well as current advice on balance of interests to analyze the dilemma faced by the DRM system. This research intends to help China establish a comprehensive DRM regulatory model through comparative theoretical and empirical critiques of systems in America and Europe. A newly designed DRM regulatory model should be suitable for specific Chinese features, and should consist of government regulated, self-regulated, and even unregulated sections. The new regulation model might be an addition to existing legal structures, while self-regulations/social enforcement also would be as important as legislation based on case studies.

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257

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Springer Nature

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9811519951

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9789811519956

Feathered Serpent

A Novel

By: Xu Xiaobin

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Feathered Serpent

A Novel

By: Xu Xiaobin

Traces five generations of the family of Yu, a love-seeking Chinese woman who in young adulthood pursues redemption after committing a devastating act of rebellion and in her adult years is swept up in China's Cultural Revolution.

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Atria Books

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1416583807

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9781416583806

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