Stories about Literature in Beijing
Writers' festival offers insights into modern ChinaAgence-France Presse AFP - Global [28,188] 2009 International Literary Festival at the Beijing Bookworm.
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Film Review: Balzac and the Little Chinese SeamstressCeleste Heiter - cheiter [28,902] Music, literature, politics and a tender love triangle create a compelling dynamic in this charming, subtle, and picturesque memoir. Based on director Sijie Dai's autobiographical novel, two young...
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Celebrating Chinese New Year - A New Year's LegendTricia Morrissey - tricia_morrissey [2,507] One New Year's eve, local bandits played a trick on a nearby village. Using bamboo and scraps of cloth, the bandits disguised themselves as a strange and scary animal. Roaring and stomping, the wild...
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Film Review: Raise the Red LanternCeleste Heiter - cheiter [28,902] Rivalry, treachery and conspiracy abound when concubine number four joins the palatial household of a wealthy Chinese aristocrat, where his other three wives are already ensconced. Wife number one is...
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Bucking StereotypesKenneth Champeon - kchampeon [19,632] A review of Pearl S. Buck's novel of rural China, The Good Earth.
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An Incurable RomanticKenneth Champeon - kchampeon [19,632] Several centuries ago Western natural philosophers made a remarkable discovery. It is called the scientific method. Basically it says that hypotheses must be tested against experience to determine...
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China CondensedThingsAsian Booklist - tab [1,449] Title: China Condensed: 5000 Years of History & Culture. Author: Ong Siew Chey. Publisher: Marshall Cavendish/Times Editions (2005) ISBN: 9812610677. Details: paperback, 6" x 9", 210 pages, maps &...
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Review of Terrence Cheng's Sons of HeavenKenneth Champeon - kchampeon [19,632] National leaders occasionally decide that some of the nation's citizens must die so that the nation may live. This is true whether the citizens are soldiers sent off to war, murderers hung from the...
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Freedom of Information ActsKenneth Champeon - kchampeon [19,632] If you have never lived in a totalitarian state, you can barely begin to appreciate the freedoms you take for granted. Consider Laos, where I presently write. Its totalitarianism is a fairly gentle...
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Book Review: Six Records of a Floating Life by Shen FuCeleste Heiter - cheiter [28,902] Long revered as a classic work of Chinese literature, Six Records of a Floating Life is the autobiographical narrative of Shen Fu, a young poet and painter whose passion for life and devotion to his...
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