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Everyone in Yunzhou City knew that no one would like to marry Su Ziyue, the notorious second lady of the Su Clan. Therefore, she had to try her best to find someone to marry her all by herself. But when she finally succeeded, her husband was, sadly, a man with nothing, no property, no car, not to mention any savings; it would be a too embarrassing topic to talk about. Yet out of everyone's expectation, all of a sudden, her husband turned out to be the CEO of L. K Group, a famous European financial tycoon and an absolute big shot with great fortune and power... Su Ziyue was totally shocked by this. "Didn't you say you have no house?" "I don't have one in Yunzhou City." "You said your car was borrowed!" "Oh, later I had given it to a man who worked for me." She got so angry, "You liar! I want to divorce you!" Qin Muchen squinted his eyes as he threatened, "How dare you be irresponsible…" Su Ziyue immediately yielded, "No, …I dare not."…
Reading the Right Text introduces six new plays from contemporary China, five of which are translated here into English for the first time. Chosen from a wide variety of well-received dramas of the period, each play represents the traditions and changes in a particular subgenre: regional theater, proletarian theater, women's theater, history plays, and experimental theater. Xiaomei Chen's wide-ranging and perceptive introduction locates the plays in the political and cultural history of modern China to demonstrate the interrelationship between theater, history, society, and everyday experience. She highlights the origin and development of the different sub-genres and outlines critical approaches from numerous fields, including gender studies, performance studies, subaltern studies, and comparative cultural studies. Quite apart from their importance as theater, these plays are crucial for a fully rounded understanding of the cultural dynamics involved in the transition from Maoist to post-Mao China, from socialist realist drama to the post-socialist response to a market economy and a society in flux.
This book examines the military collapse of China’s Ming Dynasty to a combination of foreign and domestic foes. The Ming’s defeat was a highly surprising development, not least because as recently as in the 1590s the Ming had managed to defeat a Japanese force considered to be perhaps the most formidable of its day when the latter attempted to subjugate Korea en-route to a planned invasion of China. In contrast to conventional explanations for the Ming’s collapse, which focus upon political and socio-economic factors, this book shows how the military collapse of the Ming state was intimately connected to the deterioration of the personal relationship between the Ming throne and the mil...
In many parts of the world the "white man" is perceived to be an instigator of globalization and an embodiment of modernity. However, so far anthropologists have paid little attention to the actual heterogeneity and complexity of "whiteness" in specific ethnographic contexts. This study examines cultural perceptions of other and self as expressed in cargo cults and masked dances in Papua New Guinea. Indigenous terms, images, and concepts are being contrasted with their western counterparts, the latter partly deriving from the publications and field notes of Charles Valentine. After having done his first fieldwork more than fifty years ago, this "anthropological ancestor" has now become part of the local tradition and has thus turned into a kind of mythical figure. Based on anthropological fieldwork as well as on archival studies, this book addresses the relation between western and indigenous perceptions of self and other, between "tradition" and "modernity," and between anthropological "ancestors" and "descendants." In this way the work contributes to the study of "whiteness," "cargo cults" and masked dances in Papua New Guinea.
"Your father already has a son, even if he doesn't want to admit it, he can't!""Fuck, what happened to the Son?" So what if he had a son? I just won't admit it! ""Brat, you're still a bit too inexperienced. When you grow up in the future, go find your wife! Your mother is your father's! "Powerful women were more powerful, beautiful men were many, and there was a dark family with a perverted genius in each family. They were a bunch of eccentrics. One old and one young, watching how they fought for a woman ...
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Bai yudie was a simple and lovely girl in Wuyou valley. She never went down the mountain and saved the emperor yeyi who was visited by Weifu. They spent a carefree life in Wuyou valley. However, the reality is always helpless. Night Yi is in a hurry to go back to the palace to deal with the assassination, while Bai yudie cannot leave the valley. Then an accident happened. Bai yudie's master lived in the valley of no worries because of her grudge a few years ago. The sudden disaster forced her to entrust Bai yudie to Ye Yi, so Bai yudie went back to the palace with Ye Yi. But the life in the palace is not suitable for Bai yudie. After a fierce ideological struggle, she finally adapted to the life in the palace. The women in the palace are already covetous for the latter. Can Bai yudie use her kind heart to influence the women in the shadow, and can she change the fate of those women?
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Mi Lan University was a school for nobles. There were countless rich people there, and there was leisure whenever there was money. Countless bored youths were looking for ways to amuse themselves. There was such a group of youngsters who were dedicated to sending out the girls' loneliness to kill time. This was also a paradise for girls. Here, they could ask the type of boys they liked to solve their own problems, enjoy an afternoon of leisure and, more importantly, take a look at the god in their hearts.
On the day of registration, Lin Mo was furious after being ditched by his boyfriend. He swore to break off all ties with the man who played him, and perhaps the heavens were behind her, after being reneged on by the scum of a man, she met a handsome military brother at the entrance of the Civil Affairs Bureau. Lin Mo laughed out loud, hahaha! There is one as old as I am. But, Big Brother Jun, your wife doesn't want you anymore. There was no worst off, only worse off. At the new husband's friend banquet, who was going to be the one to break the engagement with? What? The scum man was Cang Qing's eldest nephew! A mouthful of blood gushed out from Lin Mu's mouth, but he still could not spit it out. "Leave everything to me." Cang Qing pulled Lin Mo into his embrace and swore the oath he made for his entire life. With just four words, he moved Second Young Master Lin to tears. He was willing to follow Cang Qing home and give birth to a bun for him ...