The Chinese Looking Glass
Title | The Chinese Looking Glass PDF eBook |
Author | Dennis Bloodworth |
Publisher | Farrar Straus & Giroux |
Pages | 448 |
Release | 1980 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780374122416 |
The author interweaves his personal experiences in China with a discussion of the history, culture, and present situation of the Chinese people and the factors that have formed the Chinese character
China
Title | China PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Bolton |
Publisher | Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Pages | 298 |
Release | 2015-05-04 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0300211120 |
For centuries China has fueled the creative imagination and inspired fashion. This stunning publication explores the influence of Chinese art, film, and aesthetics on international fashion designers, including Christian Dior, Jean Paul Gaultier, Karl Lagerfeld, Alexander McQueen, and Yves Saint Laurent.
Through the Looking Glass
Title | Through the Looking Glass PDF eBook |
Author | Paul French |
Publisher | Hong Kong University Press |
Pages | 329 |
Release | 2009-05-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9622099823 |
The convulsive history of foreign journalists in China starts with newspapers printed in the European factories of Canton in the 1820s. It also starts with a duel between two editors over the future of China and ends with a fistfight in Shanghai over therevolution. This book tells the story of China's foreign journalists.
The Chinese Looking Glass
Title | The Chinese Looking Glass PDF eBook |
Author | Dennis Bloodworth |
Publisher | |
Pages | 460 |
Release | 1969 |
Genre | China |
ISBN |
The Looking Glass
Title | The Looking Glass PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Paul Evans |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 344 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Christian fiction |
ISBN | 0684867818 |
Hunter Bell, a minister turned gambler, rescues Quaye McGandley from a blizzard and nurses her back to health in his Utah cabin.
Japan Through the Looking Glass
Title | Japan Through the Looking Glass PDF eBook |
Author | Alan MacFarlane |
Publisher | Profile Books |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 2010-08-06 |
Genre | Travel |
ISBN | 1847650589 |
This entertaining and endlessly surprising book takes us on an exploration into every aspect of Japanese society from the most public to the most intimate. A series of meticulous investigations gradually uncovers the multi-faceted nature of a country and people who are even more extraordinary than they seem. Our journey encompasses religion, ritual, martial arts, manners, eating, drinking, hot baths, geishas, family, home, singing, wrestling, dancing, performing, clans, education, aspiration, sexes, generations, race, crime, gangs, terror, war, kindness, cruelty, money, art, imperialism, emperor, countryside, city, politics, government, law and a language that varies according to whom you are speaking. Clear-sighted, persistent, affectionate, unsentimental and honest - Alan Macfarlane shows us Japan as it has never been seen before.
Chinese looking glass
Title | Chinese looking glass PDF eBook |
Author | Dennis Bloodworth |
Publisher | |
Pages | 378 |
Release | 1969 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780436052002 |