Harmony Usher

The Sing-song Girls of Shanghai

• Author(s): Bangqing Han

• Categories: Literary Criticism

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2007-11-30
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• Publisher: Columbia University Press

Desire, virtue, courtesans (also known as sing-song girls), and the denizens of Shanghai's pleasure quarters are just some of the elements that constitute Han Bangqing's extraordinary novel of late imperial China. Han's richly textured, panoramic view of late-nineteenth-century Shanghai follows a range of characters from beautiful sing-song girls to lower-class prostitutes and from men in positions of social authority to criminals and ambitious young men recently arrived from the country. Considered one of the greatest works of Chinese fiction, The Sing-song Girls of Shanghai is now available for the first time in English. Neither sentimental nor sensationalistic in its portrayal of courtesa...

Progress in the reigns of King William the Third and Queen Anne. Progress under the Hanoverian Kings

• Author(s): John Gorham Palfrey

• Categories: New England

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1873
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• Publisher: Unknown

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1689-1727

• Author(s): John Gorham Palfrey

• Categories: New England

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1883
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• Publisher: Unknown

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General redemption, and limited salvation. To which is added archbishop Usher's treatise on the true intent and extent of Christ's death and satisfaction

• Author(s): William Dodsworth

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1831
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Ushers in Ministry

• Author(s): Vernon J. Frank

• Categories: Religion

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2003-12
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• Publisher: Xulon Press

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