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The Sentimental in Chinese Cinema
This book explores manifestations and perpetuations of the sentimental in Mainland Chinese cinema from the 1990s to the 2000s. A sentimental Chinese cinema – one that articulates notions of homecoming and belonging – emerged in the 1990s with its distinctive styles. The representations and configurations of this evolving style of Chinese cinematic expression are not only thought provoking in their own right, but also in the way they contrast with past forms of Chinese sentimental cinema and with sentimental aesthetics elsewhere in the world. These new representations have transformed established family centred expressions of the sentimental in Chinese cinema. The new sentimental emphasises togetherness and a yearning for belonging which often appear in the themes of homecoming and home-longing. This also forms a cultural resistance towards the increasingly alienating and isolating forces of globalisation and urbanisation. This book analyses the sociocultural conditions that have allowed for a renewed understanding of the sentimental and the cultural identity markers that are perpetually under contestation.
Information Fantasies
Winner of the Science Fiction Research Association Book Award A groundbreaking, alternate history of information technology and information discourses Although the scale of the information economy and the impact of digital media on social life in China today could pale that of any other country, the story of their emergence in the post-Mao sociopolitical environment remains untold. Information Fantasies offers a revisionist account of the emergence of the “information society,” arguing that it was not determined by the technology of digitization alone but developed out of a set of techno-cultural imaginations and practices that arrived alongside postsocialism. Anticipating discussions...
THE ART OF BALANCE
The Art of Balance is a beloved bestseller that has sold over 2 million copies in China and is now proudly available in English on Google Books. This insightful book delves into timeless Chinese wisdom, offering valuable principles for cultivating thriving relationships in our fast-paced world. Through practical advice and engaging stories, the author guides readers on how to achieve harmony in their personal and professional lives. An accompanying audiobook is also available, allowing you to absorb these transformative insights anytime, anywhere. Whether you’re looking to enhance your connections or find greater peace in your interactions, The Art of Balance is your essential guide. Download it now and embark on a journey toward more fulfilling relationships!
Migrant Workers and the City
Fascinating…a must-read for academics, students and a general public interested in the situation of rural migrants in China. - Raúl Delgado Wise Today China has the second largest economy in the world. The largest human migration in history has fueled this rapid growth as people move from the countryside to work in China’s fast growing industrial cities. But China is changing. Today’s migrants from the countryside are a world apart from their fathers and grandfathers who made the same journeys to the metropolis in search of work decades before them. The older generation made the journey with every expectation of returning to the countryside once they had made some money. Todays generation, better educated and connected by technology, expects higher wages from working in cities than is the reality. These workers do not want to return home to work on the farm, so they frequently take employment that is precarious and poorly paid. In this refreshingly open and enlightening book we hear the stories and hopes for the future from the people who live in the basements of cities across China.
The Matchmaker, the Apprentice, and the Football Fan
The Matchmaker, the Apprentice, and the Football Fan moves between anarchic campuses, maddening communist factories, and the victims of China's economic miracle to showcase the absurdity, injustice, and socialist Gothic of everyday Chinese life. In "The Football Fan," readers fall in with an intriguingly unreliable narrator who may or may not have killed his elderly neighbor for a few hundred yuan. The bemused antihero of "Reeducation" is appalled to discover that, ten years after graduating during the pro-democracy protests of 1989, his alma mater has summoned him back for a punitive bout of political reeducation with a troublesome ex-girlfriend. "Da Ma's Way of Talking" is a fast, funny re...
The Dragon's Flower: Ambiguous Pink
Le Xiao Ting knew that the Third Prince treated her especially well because of the 'original' Xiao Hua. The Third Prince knew of the original Xiao Hua because he was a time traveler, going back to the past to prevent the apocalypse from happening again in the future. It was a coincidence that the timeline he entered was where she transmigrated into. Feeling gratitude for the original Xiao Hua that had sacrificed her life for him, the Third Prince decided to treat her well in this round of life. But he never expected that Le Xiao Ting had taken over his benefactor’s body. He wanted to distance himself from the transmigration girl, but it was too late. This weird thinking young girl that was blooming into a flower had already caught his heart, leading him into a trap known as love. But how could a servant and a prince get together? His parents will never agree. “I will find a way. Wait for me.”
The Art of Communication
Many people have a misunderstanding about social interaction, thinking that being able to speak means being able to communicate. In fact, the strength of communication ability is not determined by how well you can speak, but by whether you can say it just right, so that people can admire and feel comfortable, and so that people can accept it with conviction. Being able to speak, opening the chatterbox and not being able to shut it off, and speaking fluently and endlessly, is not necessarily useful. People who really know how to communicate may not say much, but every word is like gold, touching the other person's heart, and they can easily get the results they want. This is the art of communication with high emotional intelligence.
A Question of Intent
In A Question of Intent: Homicide Law and Criminal Justice in Qing and Republican China, Jennifer M. Neighbors uses legal cases from the local, provincial and central levels to explore both the complexity with which Qing law addressed abstract concepts and the process of adoption, adaptation, and resistance as late imperial law gave way to criminal law of the Republican period. This study reveals a Chinese justice system, both before and after 1911, that defies assignment to binary categories of modern and pre-modern law that have influenced much of past scholarship.
Cruel CEO's Hot Love
In Liu Qingxia's world, she had always protected Situ Mo Chen as her "little brother". For eleven years, it had been hard work.However, this' little brother 'was too difficult to serve. He had treated her well today, so he would change his girlfriend in a few minutes tomorrow. It didn't matter, as the 'big sister', she had to endure it.However, Aunt Chen was too 'unruly'. She had actually joined hands with her mother and married her off to Situ Mo Chen without her consent. She clearly had a real girlfriend.Also, shouldn't Situ Mo Chen be angry? Why was he so good to her?Liu Qingxia felt that her brain was obviously not enough. It didn't matter, after getting married, she could still properly protect her big "brother".
Shi Cheng
**Selected as one of the Financial Times Best Books of 2012** 'Shi Cheng is a sort of mind map of both modern China, and also of what it’s like to be human.' - Asian Books Blog To the West, China may appear an unstoppable economic unity, a single high-performing whole, but for the inhabitants of this vast, complex and contradictory nation, it is the cities that hold the secret to such economic success. From the affluent, Westernised Hong Kong to the ice-cold Harbin in the north, from the Islamic quarters of Xi’an to the manufacturing powerhouse of Guangzhou - China’s cities thrum with promise and aspiration, playing host to the myriad hopes, frustrations and tensions that define China ...
