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Vessel
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 238

Vessel

“Essential reading for anyone interested in contemporary life in China, and highly recommended for memoir enthusiasts in general.” -- Library Journal (starred review) "Chongda paints a tantalizing portrait of a changing China in his dazzling English-language debut. [Vessel] shines with the bright talent of an excellent storyteller." -- Publishers Weekly An unprecedented and heartfelt memoir that illuminates the lives of rural Chinese workers, offering a portrait of generational strife, family, love, and loss that crosses cultures and time. Cai Chongda spent his childhood in a rural fishing village in Fujian province. When his father—a former communist gang leader turned gas station own...

Unearthing
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 416

Unearthing

An unforgettable memoir about a family secret revealed by a DNA test, the lessons learned in its aftermath, and the indelible power of love—for readers of Dani Shapiro’s Inheritance and Katherine May’s Wintering. “Magnificent...I will never forget it.” —Dani Shapiro, author of Inheritance “A mind-altering and supremely generous exploration of kinship, selfhood, memory, and the roots we share across time, space and species.” —Naomi Klein, author of This Changes Everything Three months after Kyo Maclear’s father dies in December 2018, she gets the results of a DNA test showing that she and the father who raised her are not biologically related. Suddenly Maclear becomes a de...

A History of Shaolin
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 305

A History of Shaolin

Shaolin Monastery at Mount Song is considered the epicentre of the Chan school of Buddhism. It is also well known for its martial arts tradition and has long been regarded as a special cultural heritage site and an important symbol of the Chinese nation. This book is the first scholarly work in English to comprehensively examine the full history of Shaolin Monastery from 496 to 2016. More importantly, it offers a clear grasp of the origins and development of Chan Buddhism through an examination of Shaolin, and highlights the role of Shaolin and Shaolin kung fu in the construction of a national identity among the Chinese people in the past two centuries.

Engendering Difference
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 319

Engendering Difference

Constructing difference where there should be none is the main subject of this collection of essays about gender and its cultural manifestations and representations. From the pronouns we use, through the titles and positions we hold in our workplaces, to the more salient issues concerning abuse of power and exertion of violence, gender runs as a seemingly inevitable divide. This volume addresses the continuing relevance of the quest to diminish that gap, from the perspectives of literature, language, film, law, employment, aging and agency, both social and political.

命運
  • Language: zh-CN

命運

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2023
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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皮囊
  • Language: zh-CN

皮囊

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2023
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Из кожи вон
  • Language: ru
  • Pages: 249

Из кожи вон

«Из кожи вон» - это 14 душераздирающих глав о совершеннолетии, уходе из дома, семье и поиске своего места в мире от человека, который родился в провинции, в бедной семье, но к 35 годам смог достичь вершины.

命运
  • Language: zh-CN

命运

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2022
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Ben shu shi guan yu"gen"de,Nai xin de,Qian hui bai zhuan de jiang shu,Shi yi ci yuan xing xiang zhe wo men de gen,Xiang zhe wo men jing shen de gu xiang he yuan fang.

아버지에게 보내는 작은 배
  • Language: ko
  • Pages: 352

아버지에게 보내는 작은 배

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020-11-27
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Zhipan’s Account of the History of Buddhism in China
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 357

Zhipan’s Account of the History of Buddhism in China

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2023-09-14
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  • Publisher: BRILL

The Fozu tongji by Zhipan (ca. 1220–1275) is a key text of Chinese Buddhist historiography. The core of the work is formed by the “Fayun tongsai zhi,” an annalistic history of Buddhism in China, which extends through Fozu tongji, juan 34–48. Thomas Jülch now presents a translation of the “Fayun tongsai zhi” in three volumes. This third volume covers the annalistic display concerning the Song dynasty. Offering elaborate annotations, Jülch succeeds in clarifying the backgrounds to the historiographic contents, which Zhipan presents in highly essentialized style. Regarding the historical matters addressed in the material translated for the present volume, the Fozu tongji is often the earliest source. In several cases, inaccuracies in Zhipan’s account can however still be discerned, and Jülch succeeds in employing other sources to reveal and correct those errors.