Dream of the Dragon Pool

Dream of the Dragon Pool
Author: Albert A. Dalia
Publisher: Pleasure Boat Studio: A Literary Pr
Total Pages: 341
Release: 2007
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1929355343

Fiction. DREAM OF THE DRAGON POOL: A DAOIST QUEST is a multifaceted novel woven around the historical fact of the death-sentence exile of China's best loved poet-adventurer, Li Bo (also Li Bai, 701-762 A.D.). This is an adventure story of magic, myth, and occult powers written as traditional Chinese-style wu-xia (heroic) fiction. Albert A. Dalia is a China scholar with four decades of study, research, and experience in medieval Chinese history and culture. Two decades ago, after earning two masters degrees and a Ph.D. in Chinese history and religion, he turned to fiction writing and produced a series of published short stories and, now, his first novel.

The Dragon Pool

The Dragon Pool
Author: Jason Pasch
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 199
Release: 2015-11
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 1329661907

Come experience mythic China in The Dragon Pool, a game of Wuxia Fantasy in the Middle Kingdom. The Dragon Pool includes: 1. An easy to use and quick resolution system 2. Action Cards for ease of play 3. Over 30 Martial Arts styles and rules for making your own 4. Much, much more!

Dreams That Can Save Your Life

Dreams That Can Save Your Life
Author: Larry Burk
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2018-04-17
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1844097560

An exploration of dreams as a spiritual source of healing and inner guidance for your health and well-being • 2018 Nautilus Silver Award • Shares stories--confirmed by pathology reports--from subjects in medical research projects whose dreams diagnosed illness and helped heal their lives • Explores medical studies and ongoing research on the diagnostic power of precognitive dreams, including Dr. Burk’s own medical research • Includes an introduction to dream journaling and interpretation techniques Your dreams can provide inner guidance filled with life-saving information. Since ancient Egypt and Greece, people have relied on the art of dreaming to diagnose illness and get answers to personal life challenges. Now, dreams are making a grand reappearance in the medical arena as recent scientific research and medical pathology reports validate the diagnostic abilities of precognitive dreams. Are we stepping back into the future as modern medical tests show dreams can be early warning signs of cancer and other diseases? Showcasing the important role of dreams and their power to detect and heal illness, Dr. Larry Burk and Kathleen O’Keefe-Kanavos share amazing research and true stories of physical and emotional healings triggered by dreams. The authors explore medical studies and ongoing research on the diagnostic power of precognitive dreams, including Dr. Burk’s own research on dreams that come true and can be medically validated. They share detailed stories--all confirmed by pathology reports--from subjects in medical research projects whose dreams diagnosed illness and helped heal their lives, including Kathleen’s own story as a three-time breast cancer survivor whose dreams diagnosed her cancer even when it was missed by her doctors. Alongside these stories of survival and faith, the authors also include an introduction to dream journaling and interpretation, allowing the reader to develop trust in their dreams as a spiritual source of healing and inner guidance.

The Many Faces of Ruan Dacheng

The Many Faces of Ruan Dacheng
Author: Alison Hardie
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Total Pages: 535
Release: 2022-03-11
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9888754076

The Many Faces of Ruan Dacheng: Poet, Playwright, Politician in Seventeenth-Century China is the first monograph in English on a controversial Ming dynasty literary figure. It examines and re-assesses the life and work of Ruan Dacheng (1587–1646), a poet, dramatist, and politician in the late Ming period. Ruan Dacheng was in his own time a highly regarded poet, but is best known as a dramatist, and his poetry is now largely unknown. He is most notorious as a ‘treacherous official’ of the Ming–Qing transition, and as a result his literary work—his plays as well as his poetry—has been neglected and undervalued. Hardie argues that Ruan’s literary work is of much greater significance in the history of Chinese literature than has generally been recognised since his own time. Ruan, rather than being a transgressive figure, is actually a very typical late Ming literatus, and as such his attitudes towards identity and authenticity can add to our understanding of these issues in late Ming intellectual history. These insights will impact on the cultural and intellectual history of late imperial China. ‘This work is exciting and reads almost like a novel. It has both a biographical and a literary component. It successively examines Ruan Dacheng’s biography in the context of his time, his complex relationships with his contemporaries, and the question of the judgment made on him in his time and by posterity.’ —Rainier Lanselle, École Pratique des Hautes Études, France ‘The author makes a persuasive argument that Ruan Dacheng deserves revaluation as a late Ming literatus and makes a contribution to the field of premodern Chinese literature and culture by presenting his life and work within a broader context, especially by examining examples of his poetry and discussing his plays.’ —Richard Strassberg, UCLA

Hoo Lee Jing (Fox Fairy)

Hoo Lee Jing (Fox Fairy)
Author: Margaret Zee
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 379
Release: 2019-03-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 154627264X

Everybody in Peking knew that the former palace of Prince Kong was haunted by a hulijing. Irreverent Americans were actually pleased to share their home with a fox fairy, especially on learning that the mysterious animal could transform itself into a beautiful woman, who had been glimpsed sauntering in the gardens of the Red Chamber Court by moonlight or gliding between the columns of the covered walk.

The Dragon's Treasure

The Dragon's Treasure
Author: R. J. Cole
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2009-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1440176922

The journey begins with the story of the Aborigine dreaming into being and continues with references to Native American, Asian, Christian, and Celtic cosmology as a means of uncovering the genesis of one's own creation story. What is The Dragon's Treasure? Walk with the author along a lifetime of twisting paths that weave a story through myth, poetry, dreams, thought experiments, personal reflection, and history to bring to light the underworld of the unconscious. The author tries to put the indescribable into words, so that the reader will learn the true meaning of magic in their life. They will also discover the formula for becoming a wizard in their universe through a thoughtful reading of waking and sleeping dream symbols. By the last page, the reader will have discovered the Treasure, and become an active participant in his or her own creation story.

Encyclopedia of Film Themes, Settings and Series

Encyclopedia of Film Themes, Settings and Series
Author: Richard B. Armstrong
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2015-07-11
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1476612307

The first editon was called "the most valuable film reference in several years" by Library Journal. The new edition published in hardcover in 2001 includes more than 670 entries. The current work is a paperback reprint of that edition. Each entry contains a mini-essay that defines the topic, followed by a chronological list of representative films. From the Abominable Snowman to Zorro, this encyclopedia provides film scholars and fans with an easy-to-use reference for researching film themes or tracking down obscure movies on subjects such as suspended animation, viral epidemics, robots, submarines, reincarnation, ventriloquists and the Olympics ("Excellent" said Cult Movies). The volume also contains an extensive list of film characters and series, including B-movie detectives, Western heroes, made-for-television film series, and foreign film heroes and villains.

Dragon Lad

Dragon Lad
Author: J. C. Stevens
Publisher: Dragon's Egg Books
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2017-10-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 099638393X

Magic and adventure abound in this second book in the Dragon Lad trilogy.The Tale of the Talisman follows our young dragon-hatched hero as he seeks his parents, his past and his destiny in Roman-ruled Britannia. A boy without a history¿at least one that he can remember¿Dirk turns to his shape-shifting friends for help. They launch him on a quest involving the one clue he has to his previous existence: a magic talisman.The wizard Beldor gives Dirk a ring that allows him to re-enter the realm he thought he'd left behind. Armed with this ring and a magic map, he travels a trail leading to a raging dragon, a slippery mermaid, two grasping sorcerers and a legion of Roman soldiers. He also discovers a long-lost friend and powers he never imagined.Fast-paced and funny, "Dragon Lad: Tale of the Talisman" is a modern classic that can be read alone or as a companion to the first novel in the trilogy, "Dragon Lad: The Thirteenth Egg."

Traitor's Moon

Traitor's Moon
Author: Lynn Flewelling
Publisher: Spectra
Total Pages: 561
Release: 2009-12-23
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307574113

Master spies Seregil and Alec are no strangers to peril. Their assignments, nightrunning for wizards and nobles, have led them into many deadly situations. But sometimes the greatest danger can lurk beneath a Traitor's Moon. . . . Wounded heroes of a cataclysmic battle, Seregil and Alec have spent the past two years in self-imposed exile, far from their adopted homeland, Skala, and the bitter memories there. But as the war rages on, their time of peace is shattered by a desperate summons from Queen Idralain, asking them to aid her daughter on a mission to Aurënen, the very land from which Seregil was exiled in his youth. Here, in this fabled realm of magic and honor, he must at last confront the demons of his dark past, even as Alec discovers an unimagined heritage. And caught between Skala's desperate need and the ancient intrigues of the Aurënfaie, they soon find themselves snared in a growing web of treachery and betrayal.