A Romantic Rape of Nanking

A Romantic Rape of Nanking
Author: Jennifer Suzuki
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 118
Release: 2016-06-03
Genre:
ISBN: 9781533615060

The life and love story of a young Chinese woman: She was sold to a noble Japanese master during World War II. She was saved. She was beaten, humiliated, and tortured. She was trained and disciplined to become the perfect slave-wife.

Nanjing 1937

Nanjing 1937
Author: Zhaoyan Ye
Publisher:
Total Pages: 404
Release: 2004
Genre: Adultery
ISBN: 9780571218110

Set on the eve of the Rape of Nanjing - when Japanese troops invaded this historical capital city, massacred hundreds of thousands, and committed thousands of rapes - Nanjing 1937 is a tender and humorous story of an impossible love and a lively, detailed historical portrait of a people on the verge of destruction.'A treasure. The author has plundered public libraries and private archives so that the reader is treated to lists of theatre productions, popular songs, the building of housing developments, fashions for both men and women. Dozens of historical notables make cameo appearances, as in E. L. Doctorow's Ragtime. As a historical novel, Nanjing 1937 is impeccable and fascinating.' Washington Post

Nanjing 1937

Nanjing 1937
Author: Ye Zhaoyan
Publisher: Anchor
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2004-06-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1400034272

A masterpiece by one of China’s bestselling contemporary novelists, Nanjing 1937 tells the epic story of a passionate courtship played out against the backdrop of one of the century’s most harrowing scenes of war. Ding Wenyu is a philandering professor famous for storming out of class if there aren’t enough pretty girls to teach. When he attends the wedding of the beautiful Ren Yuyuan, he falls hopelessly in love with her. Embarking with single-minded resolve to win her heart, he writes daily love letters and makes unabashed overtures to no avail, all the while blissfully unaware of the mounting threat of the Japanese, whose siege of the historic capital city will result in the rape of thousands and murder on an unimaginable scale. A love story devastatingly linked to a nation’s inexorable fate, this swirling tempest of a novel moves us from antic heights to tragic depths while vividly evoking a prosperous China on the brink of political upheaval.

Aspiring to Inspiring Before Expiring

Aspiring to Inspiring Before Expiring
Author: Paul Chong
Publisher: Balboa Press
Total Pages: 702
Release: 2022-09-14
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1982295783

You would remember an old school poem “What is life if full of care, We have no time to stand & stare . . . “ which led on the author’s mind to the notion of sharing & caring in life. Out of this thought, this book is appropriately called “Aspiring to Inspiring before Expiring.” With most books, fiction or non-fiction, you’d read continuously from beginning to end. Here in this case, you can pick & choose to read with ease & pleasure the articles, over 600 of them,on “whatever interests you.” The titles of articles are presented in a non-categorised manner, independent & complete by themselves individually. The book is very readable, easy to comprehend. It can well be your personal bible, a good travelling companion or indeed suitable as a gift for all occasions. Collectively when they first appeared in Paul’s blog https://paulchong.net, they attracted over a million views and Paul has been acknowledged as a very inspiring blogger. Readers will have both the leisure & pleasure of savouring a wide range of subjects in: • love & romance • arts & science • facts & fiction • reminiscences & presence • greed & creed • economics & politics • fantasy & reality • nature & venture • spiritual & secular • life & travel • poems

Doubt, Time and Violence in Philosophical and Cultural Thought

Doubt, Time and Violence in Philosophical and Cultural Thought
Author: Artur K. Wardega
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2012-11-16
Genre: History
ISBN: 1443843059

As the title of the present publication suggests, the ten essays of this book try to approach an inconvenient trauma of global human reality and the uniformity of media and cyberspace in which human lives suffer harm, loss of inner identity and of broader meaning. Indeed, our postmodern and post-identity times are characterized by a flux of rapid social changes, uncertainty, vague and shaking moral values, by violence and frightening information with its contradictory truths and genuine ambiguity; finally by the violence of unpredictable climate change resulting in various and frequent calamities and devastation of life. Doubt and time are the central concern of modern philosophy and remind us that violence is inherent in the human condition and that reflection on it, regardless of different cultural sensibilities, is ipso facto part of the mainstream of our individual and global concerns. These, and many other fascinating topics from Western and Chinese history, were explored and brought to light by a learned forum of distinguished scholars and experts whose contributions are contained in this publication.

Eroticisms

Eroticisms
Author: Jerry S. Piven
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2003
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 059527448X

Eroticisms: Love, Sex, and Perversion explores the elusiveness of human sensuality. In an era of conflicting moral relativism, political correctness, validation of lifestyle choices, liberation, hedonism, and postmodern pansexualism, versus resurgent puritanism, conservatism, fundamentalism, and theological anti-sexualism, this fifth volume of Psychological Undercurrents of History penetrates current debates and delves into the past to grasp the viscous ambiguities of sexuality, and reassess the question of whether the erotic can be perverse.

Narratives of Diaspora

Narratives of Diaspora
Author: W. Lim
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 166
Release: 2013-12-17
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1137055545

Chinese American authors often find it necessary to represent Asian history in their literary works. Tracing the development of the literary production of Maxine Hong Kingston, Amy Tan, Lisa See, and Russell Leong, among others, this book captures the effects of international politics and globalization on Chinese American diasporic consciousness.

Finding Iris Chang

Finding Iris Chang
Author: Paula Kamen
Publisher: Hachette+ORM
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2007-12-10
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 030681725X

Iris Chang's mysterious suicide in 2004, at age thirty-six, didn't seem to make any sense. She had more to live for than anyone, including fame, fortune, beauty, a husband, and child. Some even wondered if the controversial author of the Rape of Nanking had been murdered. Long-time friend Paula Kamen was among those left wondering what had gone so wrong. Seeking to reconcile the suicide with the image of Chang's “perfect” life, Kamen searched her own memory and scoured Chang's letters, diaries, and archival material to fill in the gaps of Chang's personal transformation-from awkward teen to homecoming princess in college, from “ex-shy person” to world-class speaker and international human rights pioneer-and later decline into mental illness and paranoia. A literary investigation of an important writer's journey, Finding Iris is a tribute to a lost heroine, a portrait of the real and vulnerable woman who inspired so many around the world.

The Life and Death of Yukio Mishima

The Life and Death of Yukio Mishima
Author: Henry Scott Stokes
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2000
Genre: Actors
ISBN: 0815410743

This incisive biography begins with the spectacularly tragic last day of the militant Japanese novelist, perhaps best known for his monumental four-book masterpiece The Sea of Fertility.