He was in a desperate situation and had fortuitous encounters. From then on, his life was on the line! His brain was well-developed, equipped with superpowers, photographic memory, and extremely intelligent. The students who were at the bottom in the past had entered the university with the status of top scholar. Singing would allow him to become a Heavenly Emperor's superstar, play basketball would allow him to surpass the Hall of Fame, and play games would allow him to defeat the professional tyrants ... All the way back to the sect, glory and wealth came in one body!
Under an Imperial Sun examines literary, linguistic, and cultural representations of Japan's colonial South (nanpô). Building on the most recent scholarship from Japan, Taiwan, and the West, it takes a cross-cultural, multidisciplinary, comparative approach that considers the views of both colonizer and colonized as expressed in travel accounts and popular writing as well as scholarly treatments of the area's cultures and customs. Readers are introduced to the work of Japanese writers Hayashi Fumiko and Nakajima Atsushi, who spent time in the colonial South, and expatriate Nishikawa Mitsuru, who was raised and educated in Taiwan and tried to capture the essence of Taiwanese culture in his fictional and ethnographic writing. The effects of colonial language policy on the multilingual environment of Taiwan are discussed, as well as the role of language as a tool of imperialism and as a vehicle through which Japan's southern subjects expressed their identity--one that bridged Taiwanese and Japanese views of self. Struggling with these often conflicting views, Taiwanese authors, including the Nativists Yang Kui and Lü Heruo and Imperial Subject writers Zhou Jinpo and Chen Huoquan, expressed personal and societal differences in their writing. This volume looks closely at their lives and works and considers the reception of this literature--the Japanese language literature of Japan's colonies--both in Japan and in the former colonies. Finally, it asks: What do these works tell us about the specific example of cultural hybridity that arose in Japanese-occupied Taiwan and what relevance does this have to the global phenomenon of cultural hybridity viewed through a postcolonial lens?
Drawing on historiography of the Japanese occupation in the Chinese, Japanese, and English languages, this book examines the politics of the Manchukuo puppet state from the angle of notable Chinese who cooperated with the Japanese military and headed its government institutions. The war in Asia between 1931 and 1945, and particularly the early years of the conflict from 1931 to 1937, is a topic of world history that is often glossed over or misinterpreted. Much of the research and public opinion on this period in China, Japan, and the West deem these Chinese figures to be traitors, particles of Japanese colonialism, and collaborators under occupation. In contrast, this book highlights the importance of analyzing the national ideas of Manchukuo’s Chinese government leaders as a method of understanding Manchukuo’s operating mechanisms, Sino-Japanese interactions, and China’s turbulent history in the early twentieth century. Chinese Government Leaders in Manchukuo, 1931-1937 fills a gap in this research and is an ideal resource for scholars studying wartime Asia and Europe, as well as non-specialist readers who are interested in collaboration in general.
The pity of the heavens had allowed her to return to the age of sixteen. In her previous life, she had been a weak and lowly person that everyone could bully. In this world, no one dared to not fear her. The life that she owed her in was one in which she would pay back twice as much. Scoundrel would not show any mercy. The trap was still as secretive as ever: he thought he could see through everyone's hearts, but he had accidentally lost his heart in the transaction with the guy in front of him. The man in front of him was definitely a disaster.
She was a Taobao appraiser who had met with a car accident on her way to an interview, and she had mysteriously teleported to the Hong Gu Continent to become a princess. However, all of this wasn't just a coincidence.
After travelling for 5 years, Jiang Yu felt a headache coming on when faced with this husband that came from who knows where.And this husband was actually going to settle the score with her?Young Master: According to the market price, if you don't have sex with a woman, you can get at most 100,000 yuan in one night. I'm not satisfied with your services, so the price is halved. Divorce.Thus, she said, "If you call me father, I promise to get a divorce."The young master: ...However, Mo Yan had never expected that this shameless woman would one day sign a divorce agreement and leave!Jiang Yu, who was being pressed down, kindly reminded, "We're divorced, this is rape!
If I were a god, there would be no evil under the heavens!If I become a demon, I'll slaughter all the gods!I am a Fiendgod. There is no longer any difference between the heavens and the earth!Stepping into the sky to become a god, purgatory to become a devil, all within a single thought!
This book contains two stories: A Monks Affairs and Two Predestined Flesh Relationships. A Monk's Affairs tells a story that happened in the Yuan Dynasty in China, which was nearly seven hundred years ago. A Taoist witch gave a retired officials wife a monk made from wick, who could be as small as ten centimeters and as big as or taller than two meters. He seduced the wife and had sex with her a lot. He also seduced the wifes slave girl, Nuan Yu, and had sex with her a lot. And he seduced the retired officials daughter, Chang Gu, and had sex with her a lot as well, who was his wife by the first marriage five hundred years ago. He declared that he would take Chang Gu away with him two years later. Nuan Yu had sex with Chang Gus husband in Chang Gus current life and gave birth to a son. Chang Gu was caught by her husband when she was having sex with the monk. Her husband became angry and divorced her. Finally Chang Gu died from too much sex with the monk. The monk took Chang Gus spirit away with him after she died, which happened just two years after his declaration. The witchs daughter came to seduce the retired official and Chang Gus husband as well. They had a lot of sex together. Finally the retired official was shocked to death by the monk. Nuan Yu stole a lot of money and ran away with a slave boy, her son, abandoned. The widow began to have sex with a young Taoist priest and finally married him. The story has a lot of detailed descriptions of sex and propagates the idea of karma as well. Two Predestined Flesh Relationships tells a story that happened in a dynasty that was later than the Yuan Dynasty in China. A rich man, Fengs wife, Liu, was grabbed away from his home by a richer man, Bian. Liu didn't commit suicide because she was pregnant with Fengs child. Later, Bian was killed by one of his slaves when he was having sex with the slaves wife. Liu and Feng reunited and inherited all Bians money and led a happy life with their son after Bians death. Like A Monks Affairs, this story also propagates the idea of karma.
This volume focuses on Sun Yat-sen's social, political, and economic ideas as seen in his major work, The Three Principles of the People, which discusses nationalism, democracy, and people's welfare, examining his doctrines as well as a his ideas with other contemporary ideologies.
The Sinitic Civilization A Factual History through the Lens of Archaeology, Bronzeware, Astronomy, Divination, Calendar and the Annals The book covered the time span of history of the Sinitic civilization from antiquity, to the 3rd millennium B.C. to A.D. 85. A comprehensive review of history related to the Sinitic cosmological, astronomical, astrological, historical, divinatory, and geographical developments was given. All ancient Chinese calendars had been examined, with the ancient thearchs’ dates examined from the perspective how they were forged or made up. The book provides the indisputable evidence regarding the fingerprint of the forger for the 3rd century A.D. book Shang-shu (remotely ancient history), and close to 50 fingerprints of the forger of the contemporary version of The Bamboo Annals. Using the watershed line of Qin Emperor Shihuangdi’s book burning of 213 B.C., the book rectified what was the original history before the book burning, filtered out what was forged after the book burning, sorted out the sophistry and fables that were rampant just prior to the book burning, and validated the history against the records in the oracle bones, bronzeware, and bamboo slips. The book covers 95-98% and more of the contents in the two ancient history annals of The Spring Autumn Annals and The Bamboo Annals. There are dedicated chapters devoted to interpreting Qu Yuan’s poem Asking Heaven (Tian Wen), the mythical book The Legends of Mountains & Seas (Shan Hai Jing), geography book Lord Yu’s Tributes (Yu Gong), and Zhou King Muwang’s Travelogue (Mu-tian-zi Zhuan). The book has appendices of two calendars: the first anterior quarter remainder calendar (247 B.C.-104 B.C./247 B.C.-85 A.D.) of the Qin Empire, as well as a conversion table of the sexagenary years of the virtual Yin-li (Shang dynasty) quarter remainder calendar versus the Gregorian calendar, that covers the years 2698 B.C. to 2018 A.D. Book I stops about the midpoint of the 242 years covered in Confucius’ abridged book The Spring & Autumn Annals (722-481 B.C.). Book II stops at Han Emperor Zhangdi (Liu Da, reign A.D. 76-88; actual reign Aug of A.D. 75-Feb of A.D. 88), with the A.D. 85 adoption of the Sifen-li posterior quarter remainder calendar premised on reverting to the sexagenary years of the virtual Yin-li (Shang dynasty) quarter remainder calendar, a calendar disconnected from the Jupiter’s chronogram, that was purportedly invented by the Confucians on basis of Confucius’ identifying the ‘qi-lin’ divine giraffe animal and wrapping up the masterpiece The Spring & Autumn Annals two years prior to death.
A discharged official in mid-Ming China faced significant changes in his life. This book explores three such officials in the sixteenth century—Wang Jiusi, Kang Hai, and Li Kaixian—who turned to literary endeavors when forced to retire. Instead of the formal writing expected of scholar-officials, however, they chose to engage in the stigmatized genre ofqu (songs), a collective term for drama and sanqu. As their efforts reveal, a disappointing end to an official career and a physical move away from the center led to their embrace of qu and the pursuit of a marginalized literary genre. This book also attempts to sketch the largely unknown literary landscape of mid-Ming north China. After their retirements, these three writers became cultural leaders in their native regions. Wang, Kang, and Li are studied here not as solitary writers but as central figures in the “qu communities” that formed around them. Using such communities as the basic unit in the study of qu allows us to see how sanqu and drama were produced, transmitted, and “used” among these writers, things less evident when we focus on the individual.
A personal account of life in the orbit of Mao and Zhao En-Lai and one woman's effort to tell what it was like to be at the center of the storm.The history of China in the twentieth century is comprised of a long series of shocks: the 1911 revolution, the civil war between the communists and the nationalists, the Japanese invasion, the revolution, the various catastrophic campaigns initiated by Chairman Mao between 1949 and 1976, its greatopening to the world under Deng, and the Tiananmen Square Massacre.Yuan-tsung Chen, who is now 90, lived through most of it, and at certain points in close proximity to the seat of communist power. Born in Shanghai in 1929, she came to know Zhou En-Lai - second only to Mao in importance - as a young woman while living in Chungking, where Chiang Kai-Shek'sgovernment had relocated to, during the war against Japan. That connection to Zhou helped her advance after the communists took power, and she obtained a job in one of the culture ministries after the revolution. While there, she frequently engaged with the upper echelon of the party and was afirst-hand witness to some of the purges that the regime regularly initiated. Eventually, the commissar she worked under was denounced in 1956, and she barely escaped being purged herself for exhibiting bourgeois tendencies. Sent to the countryside to further the revolution during the Great LeapForward of the late 1950s, she witnessed the mass starvation that ensued. Later, during Cultural Revolution, she and her husband were purged and sent to live in a rough, poor area-a common fate for many intellectuals. She finally escaped to Hong Kong in 1971.A first-hand account of what life was like in the period before the revolution and in Mao's China, The Secret Listener gives a unique perspective on the era, and Chen's vantage point provides us with a new perspective on the Maoist regime-one of the most radical political experiments in modernhistory and a force that genuinely changed the world.
Proverbs are an important and characteristic feature of Chinese language and culture. There is a Chinese proverb for almost any situation, and judicious use of proverbs is regarded as a sign of good education. Proverbs are often derived from classical stories or historical events, and offer a multi-dimensional resource for learning Chinese. Becoming a Dragon: Forty Chinese Proverbs for Lifelong Learning and Classroom Study, is a bilingual (English-Chinese) collection of proverbs, popular phrases, and two-part allegorical sayings. Each proverb is set out with all the materials needed for self-study and classroom teaching: the story behind the proverb and its source in both English and Chinese, a literal translation, the figurative meaning, English equivalents, a vocabulary list, and examples of how the proverb is used in modern written and spoken Chinese. Illustrations and vocabulary lists are also available online for use in classroom presentations.
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