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Author | : Stuart Cunningham |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2001-06-06 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0742580210 |
Floating Lives is a unique examination of media and communication within diasporic ethnic communities, using in-depth studies of some of Australia's main Asian diasporic groups: the Chinese, Indian, Vietnamese, and Thai communities. Going beyond conventional cross-cultural studies of mainstream media consumption, this book explores the ethnic community as a determining force in negotiating new hybrid identities and cultures—and demonstrates experiences common to diasporic communities worldwide.
Author | : Shen Fu |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 197 |
Release | : 2004-09-30 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0141920343 |
Six Records of a Floating Life (1809) is an extraordinary blend of autobiography, love story and social document written by a man who was educated as a scholar but earned his living as a civil servant and art dealer. In this intimate memoir, Shen Fu recounts the domestic and romantic joys of his marriage to Yün, the beautiful and artistic girl he fell in love with as a child. He also describes other incidents of his life, including how his beloved wife obtained a courtesan for him and reflects on his travels through China. Shen Fu's exquisite memoir shows six parallel 'layers' of one man's life, loves and career, with revealing glimpses into Chinese society of the Ch'ing Dynasty.
Author | : Tad Crawford |
Publisher | : Skyhorse Publishing Inc. |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2012-09 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1611457025 |
Realizing that he is no longer certain about who or what he is, a middle-aged narrator attends a party and talks with an unknown woman who proves to be his wife before finding himself separated and enduring an abstract existence of mercurial boundaries before bonding with an elderly Dutch model maker who dreams of taming nature's destructive forces.
Author | : Ngọc Tư Nguyễn |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 102 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Boat people |
ISBN | : 9786041150225 |
Author | : Michelle Lovric |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 595 |
Release | : 2013-06-03 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 140884284X |
Venice, 1468. Sosia Simeon, a free-spirited sensualist, is the lover of many men in the fabled city, though married to one she despises. On the edge of the Grand Canal, Wendelin von Speyer sets up the first printing press in Venice and looks for the book that will make his fortune. When he tempts fate by publishing Catullus, the poet whose desperate and unrequited love inspired the most tender and erotic poems of antiquity, a scandal is set in motion that will change all their lives forever.
Author | : Simon Elegant |
Publisher | : Ecco |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1999-07-30 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780880015592 |
The studious young son of a vintner takes down the life and exploits of Li Po, China's legendary poet, as the poet recalls his outlandish adventures
Author | : Scott Riley |
Publisher | : Millbrook Press ™ |
Total Pages | : 43 |
Release | : 2021-03-02 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1728427371 |
On the island of Koh Panyee, in a village built on stilts, there is no open space. How will a group of Thai boys play soccer? After watching the World Cup on television, a group of Thai boys is inspired to form their own team. But on the island of Koh Panyee, in a village built on stilts, there is no open space. The boys can play only twice a month on a sandbar when the tide is low enough. Everything changes when the teens join together to build their very own floating soccer field. This inspiring true story by debut author Scott Riley is gorgeously illustrated by Nguyen Quang and Kim Lien. Perfect for fans of stories about sports, beating seemingly impossible odds, and places and cultures not often shown in picture books. "A compelling book for football [soccer] fans and readers seeking examples of ingenuity."—starred, Publishers Weekly
Author | : Kazuo Ishiguro |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2012-09-05 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0307829065 |
From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of the Booker Prize–winning novel The Remains of the Day In the face of the misery in his homeland, the artist Masuji Ono was unwilling to devote his art solely to the celebration of physical beauty. Instead, he put his work in the service of the imperialist movement that led Japan into World War II. Now, as the mature Ono struggles through the aftermath of that war, his memories of his youth and of the "floating world"—the nocturnal world of pleasure, entertainment, and drink—offer him both escape and redemption, even as they punish him for betraying his early promise. Indicted by society for its defeat and reviled for his past aesthetics, he relives the passage through his personal history that makes him both a hero and a coward but, above all, a human being.
Author | : C. Morgan Babst |
Publisher | : Algonquin Books |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2017-10-17 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1616207639 |
“Set in New Orleans, this important and powerful novel follows the Boisdoré family . . . in the months after Katrina. A profound, moving and authentically detailed picture of the storm’s emotional impact on those who lived through it.” —People In this dazzling debut about family, home, and grief, C. Morgan Babst takes readers into the heart of Hurricane Katrina and the life of a great city. As the storm is fast approaching the Louisiana coast, Cora Boisdoré refuses to leave the city. Her parents, Joe Boisdoré, an artist descended from freed slaves who became the city’s preeminent furniture makers, and his white “Uptown” wife, Dr. Tess Eshleman, are forced to evacuate without her, setting off a chain of events that leaves their marriage in shambles and Cora catatonic—the victim or perpetrator of some violence mysterious even to herself. This mystery is at the center of Babst’s haunting and profound novel. Cora’s sister, Del, returns to New Orleans from the successful life she built in New York City to find her hometown in ruins and her family deeply alienated from one another. As Del attempts to figure out what happened to her sister, she must also reckon with the racial history of the city and the trauma of a disaster that was not, in fact, some random act of God but an avoidable tragedy visited on New Orleans’s most vulnerable citizens. Separately and together, each member of the Boisdoré clan must find the strength to remake home in a city forever changed. The Floating World is the Katrina story that needed to be told—one with a piercing, unforgettable loveliness and a vivid, intimate understanding of this particular place and its tangled past.
Author | : Glenn Perry |
Publisher | : Consciousness Classics |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 2020-04-30 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780895562920 |
Glenn Perry had a life changing experience when he floated in the tank invented by Dr. John C. Lilly. Lee and Glenn Perry created a new product, a new company and triggered a global industry. They have changed not only their lives but the lives of many of those who float. Included in the book are a selection of vivid personal narratives and photos from floaters showing the depth and breadth of these experiences.