人文書庫 (Books by Renwen Speakers)

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爱新觉罗 恒懿

我的皇室家族

2013年1月 安徽出版社出版

      愛新覺羅•恆懿，中國末代王朝清朝皇室的直系後裔，她的曾祖父為端王，她的二祖父為慈禧太后冊立的皇儲大阿哥——本是光緒皇帝的繼位人。溥儀皇帝及其弟溥杰是她的堂祖父。
      本書以主戰派王宮貴族端郡王愛新覺羅•載漪一係為中心，生動並具體的展現了100多年前的中國歷史之滄桑。書中講述了許多不為人知的晚清歷史面貌，真實的表現了端王及其子孫後代在歷經各種巨變的歷史長河中的榮與辱，及子孫後代怎樣與全國人民一同抵制外來侵略。

本書價格：30美金(上下集)+運費

購書電話：732-951-0931

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Eva Shan CHOU

Memory, Violence, Queues: Lu Xun Interprets China

ISBN: 978-0-924304-68-2. 346 pages. Paperback

Through extensive usage of visual materials and contemporary photographs, Eva Shan Chou identifies key moments in Lu Xun's creative development and places them in the context of the turbulent era in which China became a republic. The result is a fresh and nuanced interpretation of a range of works, from fiction and essays to classical poems, that help restore historical complexity to the literary conscience of modern China.

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Claire CONCEISON

ISBN: 978-0-742555-55-6. 286 pages. Paperback

One of twentieth-century China's most prominent citizens, Ying Ruocheng was imprisoned during the Cultural Revolution and devised unique strategies for survival, including playing pranks on guards and keeping a clandestine notebook. Collaborating with Claire Concision, prior to his death in 2003, Ying takes the reader on an exhilarating journey from his boyhood growing up in a prince's palace as a member of a progressive Manchu Catholic intellectual family to his years as a university student during the heady days when the People's Republic was being founded, from his time behind prison bars to his subsequent experiences on stage, in film, and in politics. Simultaneously a 'spy' for his own government and a cultural ambassador for countless foreigners and fellow countrymen, Yin lived out his life as a bridge between China and the West, gaining a singular perspective on matters related to culture and politics.

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Beginner's Chinese

ISBN-13: 978-0781812573. 326 pages. Paperback

This book makes easier to learn to speak, read, and write Mandarin Chinese.It includes the following: ten practical lessons with dialogues, vocabulary, and exercises; new audio CDs featuring professional actors from Beijing; updated cultural and language notes; an attractive, easy-to-read presentation of the Chinese characters; additional exercises for teaching stroke order and writing skills; an index providing traditional character equivalents; and, new technology sections on how to read and write Chinese characters on a computer.

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Chaozhu JI

The Man on Mao's Right: From Harvard Yard to Tiananmen Square, My Life Inside China's Foreign Ministry

ISBN: 978-1-400065-84-4. 384 pages. Hardcover

No other narrative from within the corridors of power has offered as frank and intimate an account of the making of the modern Chinese nation as Ji Chaozhu's The Man on Mao's Right. Having served Chairman Mao Zedong and the Communist leadership for two decades, and having become a key figure in China's foreign policy, Ji now provides an honest, detailed account of the personalities and events that shaped today's People's Republic.

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Danke LI

Echoes of Chongqing: Women's Experience during China's War of Resistance against Japan and Beyond

ISBN: 978-0-252034-89-3. 232 pages. Hardcover

The author examines the interplay between public discourse and private memory while presenting the experiences of ordinary women during China's War of Resistance in the wartime capital of Chongqing. Although women and girls suffered disproportionately during the war, they were not passive victims, a part of "the problem", they were in fact the solution. A reliance on their strong will, resourcefulness and incredible skills of survival helped keep the nation alive and the phrase "women are the solution" is still a key point in understanding the 20th and 21st centuries in modern Chinese history.

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Veronica LI

Journey across the Four Seas: A Chinese Woman's Search for Home

ISBN: 978-1-931907-43-9. 298 pages. Paperback

This is the true and touching story of one Chinese woman's search for home and yearning for a better life. To escape poverty, Flora Li fought her way through the education system and became on of the few women to get into the prestigious Hong Kong University. When the Japanese invaded, she fled to unoccupied China, where she met her future husband, the son of China's finance minister (later deputy prime minister). She though she had found the ideal husband, but soon discovered that he suffered from emotional disorders caused by family conflicts and the wars he had grown up in. Whenever he had a breakdown, Flora would move the family to another city, from Shanghai to Nanking to Hong Kong to Bangkok to Taipei and finally across the four seas to the US. Throughout her migrations, Flora kept her sight on one goal: providing her children with eh best possible education.

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Ping NI

姥姥语录

ISBN: 9787101077476, 7101077471. 210 pages. Paperback

         来自倪萍心底的一则则姥姥与外孙女之间爱的故事，令人为之动容。清澈质朴、真挚感人的文字，温暖人心。倪萍带领读者走进她99岁姥姥的平凡生活，追忆作者与姥姥一起走过的有泪有笑、有滋有味的日子，细述这位纯朴、善良的山东老人生命中的最后乐章。分享她那些看似平常却让人终生受用的生活大智慧。感怀物质贫乏、但精神富有的童年生活，五十年的风雨岁月中至真、至纯的守望，无不使人深深感动，身心沐浴温暖。

       姥姥走的时候99岁。用姥姥自己的话说是“一辈子没有大幸福，小幸福一天一个。”姥姥很平凡，她的“不知道”成全了她的幸福。

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Charlotte REES

The Asiatic Fathers of America

ISBN: 978-0-978636-90-6. 148 pages. Hardcover

In 1972 the late Dr. Hendon M. Harris, Jr. made a startling discovery, While searching for Chinese collectibles he came across an ancient Asian map book containing a world map showing a land mass labeled "Fu Sang" to the east of China, land that we today call America. After years of research and his discovery of the existence of twenty-nine other supporting maps, Dr. Harris published a 796 page book titled The Asiatic Fathers of America. Recent research support what Dr. Harris taught - Chinese came early and they came by sea. This abridged version of Dr. Harris' book contains several never before released pictures of the Harris map collection. The book also contains a brief biography about Dr. Harris' unusual life written by this daughter Charlotte.

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Morris ROSSABI

China and Inner Asia: From 1368 to the Present Day

ISBN: 978-0-500900-01-7. 320 pages. Hardcover

The year 1368 marks an important juncture in Chinese history. It was not only the year when the Ming Dynasty was founded; it was also the year that ushered in a period of economic reconstruction, the installation of new institutions and diplomatic and military expansion. It was during the ensuing decades that China came into close contact with the outside world that resulted in the second Chinese "Renaissance", a period marked by a series of economic, social and intellectual changes that historians believe ushered in the modern era.

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Modern Mongolia: From Khans to Commissars to Capitalists

ISBN: 978-0-520244-19-1. 418 pages. Paperback

Land-locked between its giant neighbors, Russia and China, Mongolia was the first Asian country to adopt Communism and the first to abandon it. As he details the painful transition from a collective to a capitalist economy and the deterioration in the education, health, and well-being of Mongolian society, Professor Rossabi looks at the broader implications of Mongolia's international situation and considers its future, particularly in relation to China.

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Ben WANG

Laughter and Tears

ISBN: 978-7-119057-29-3. 420 pages. Paperback

Kunqu opera boasts a 600-year history and is known as the "parental force" of a hundred operas because of its influence on other Chinese theatre forms, including Peking Opera. However, by the early twentieth century it had nearly disappeared. These operas have rarely been translated into English, with the exception of Peony Pavilion and a few others based on literary works. Laughter and Tears is the first translation of kunqu based on performance texts, poetically translated with the original Chinese alongside the English.

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【子夜行】 They Cage the Animals at Night

ISBN: 978-9-861216-85-0. 415 pages. Paperback

They Cage the Animals at Night 是美國作家 Jennings Michael Birch 的自傳，敘述他八歲至十一歲時，由於父親拋家離去，家境極為貧窮，母親多病，無法照顧他兄弟六人，致使他飽受身體精神的折磨，備嘗人世滄桑的苦楚。Birch 以自然簡練，樸實無華的文筆，不溫不火地描繪出一個孩子求生的本能與他追尋友情、親情的歷程。最可貴的是即使在最最痛苦的時候，他的生命中還是有一點一滴的愛，在絕望與淚水中得到一線生趣。【子夜行】使譯者汪班想到了生存的悲歡，人性的光輝，以及「愛」在人類生存中扮演的重要角色。從 Birch 的經歷中得到了啟示，就是宇宙間真正的推動力，永遠是真情與希望！

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Chi WANG

ISBN: 978-0-761853-85-5. 210 pages. Paperback

The son of a prominent Chinese government official and general in the Nationalist government, Chi Wang shares his extraordinary childhood and experiences living through one of the most turbulent periods in Chinese history, including the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong and mainland China and the Chinese civil war. As one of the first Americans allowed to visit China after Nixon’s historic trip ended twenty-five years of isolation, a professor of History and China-US Relations at Georgetown University, the founder of the US-China Policy Foundation, and head of the Chinese section at the Library of Congress, Wang continues to work on what has been a lifelong goal to bring China and America closer together.

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Kathleen YANG

Through a Chinese Connoisseur's Eye: Private Notes of C.C. Wang

ISBN: 978-7-101076-08-0. 432 pages. Hardcover

C.C. Wang's collection of private notes was written over a period of 40 years and refer to numerous paintings in the Palace Museum in Taipei, as well as other collections he has studied. Those included in this book cover paintings in museums and from his own collection, along with a record of their provenance and a background of 19th and 20th century Chinese collections, and open the door to the inner thoughts of a formidable collector, demonstrating his expertise and thought process in the connoisseurship of Chinese literati paintings.

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Mingmei YIP

The Art of Qin Music

ISBN: Unavailable. Unknown pages. Unknown

Intended for self-cultivation, the qin is basically a quiet instrument with subtly-nuanced tones. In old China, it was regarded as "elegant" music, favored by the elite and played as a means to nurture virtue and longevity. As a show of respect for this revered instrument, rituals were practiced before playing, including bathing, putting on modest clothes, adopting a respectful countenance and burning incense to purify in the mind and air. While the timber is pure, simple, and tranquil, close to the spirit of Zen, its complex fingerings and many-nuanced tones can depict diverse events and emotions such as vigorous flowing water, passion and patriotism.

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中国文脉

ISBN: 7535461964, 9787535461964。432 pages. Hardcover

   《中國文脈》是繼《文化苦旅》之後，余秋雨教授最重要的作品，也是當今中國當代文史領域最重要的作品之一。余秋雨教授感嘆當前“文脈既隱，小丘稱峰；健翅已遠，殘羽稱鵬”，因此以這部重大的開創性著作來提醒和彌補。
      中國文脈，就是指中國文學幾千年發展中最高等級的生命潛流和審美潛流。《中國文脈》以中國文字起源為引，從《詩經》講起，到春秋戰國時期的“百家爭鳴”及楚辭，再到秦漢時期的大一統與書同文對文學的影響，漢賦及“無韻離騷”《史記》，魏晉時期的三曹及“竹林七賢”等文人雅士的詩作文采，再到唐宋詩詞，元曲及明清小說，一氣呵成，使歷史與現實相溝通，文理與形象相交融，為廣大讀者解讀了中國文化的演化過程。

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