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Mr Ma and Son
A deliciously funny and moving comedy-of-manners about a Chinese father and son's experiences at the height of London's Jazz Age 'He was in London - why be bothered looking at it? Wasn't it bad enough just being there?' Newly arrived from China, Mr Ma and his son Ma Wei run an antiques shop nestled by St Paul's Cathedral, where they try to make a living amid the smog and bustle of 1920s London. As they struggle with money, misunderstandings and the ways of the English - from the overbearing patronage of missionary Reverend Ely to their well-meaning landlady Mrs Weddeburn and her carefree daughter - can understanding, even love, blossom? Both a moving story of the Chinese immigrant experience and a bitingly funny satire on the English, Mr Ma and Son delicately portrays the dreams and disappointments of those seeking a new life in a distant land. Translated by William Dolby, with an introduction by Julia Lovell
Chinese Idioms, Proverbs and Sayings
This comprehensive dictionary of defined and connected idioms, proverbs and sayings contains well over 2000 in-depth translations spanning more than 1000-year Chinese language journey to modern times. The book is introduced and translated by the well-known Sinologist and Classical Chinese researcher, William Dolby, former professor and lecturer at the University of Edinburgh. A great abundance of vivid idioms flourishes in the Chinese language.The principal and most typical form of them is the Ready-made Sayings (ch'eng-y�), mainly four-syllable set expressions, including both proverbial and descriptive ones. The idioms derive from a vast variety of sources, including literature, historiog...
Chinese Folk-Tales
Folk traditions in China have been rich thriving and varied. Here is a selection of tales that are sometimes lusty, sometimes delicate and exquisite, their lively themes involving wit, adventure, ingenious why-so stories, monsters, magic, music, moon-cakes, shape-shifting, dragons, ogres, a catastrophically high-jumping silk-worm, and a bride-snatching maple-leaf demon. This book presents a selection of folk stories from the Chinese domain. A wealth of Chinese folk-stories exists, and these are but a small glimpse of the rang of such tales, recorded in no doubt very varying degrees of sensitivity and fidelity, some woodenly, some over-laconically, some verbosely and some conveying more fully...
Chinese Theater
This volume is the first concise introduction to the splendid variety of the Chinese theatrical tradition. It presents a rounded perspective on the development of Chinese theater by considering all of its major aspects—history and social context, performance, costume, makeup, actors, playwrights, and theaters—and by discussing all the major forms of Chinese theater, including the Beijing opera, which arose in the eighteenth century, and the spoken play, an entirely twentieth-century form. Its contributors are uniquely qualified to write about the Chinese theater. They have enjoyed an intimate relationship with their subject, both as academics and as theater workers, and they have combined a deep knowledge of Chinese theater with a high regard for its long tradition and continuing vitality. The book is intended for general as well as more specialized readers. Those with an interest in theater as a worldwide phenomenon and those wanting a new light on Chinese culture and society will find it equally useful. To those with a particular interest in Chinese theater, it will be a rich and important resource.
Chinese Allusions
Chinese literature, ancient and modern, is often rich with allusions, which can give its texts a compact weight, depth and resonance not otherwise available, and are one of the crowning glories of Chinese civilisation. This dictionary, No28 in the Chinese Culture Series, has been collated and translated by William Dolby. It enters into and explains a large sampling of well-known allusions, and provides an extensive index to facilitate the active use of these allusions for writers, and indeed speakers, of Chinese. This work is a 'must have' volume for the writer's collection!
