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  • The Anaconda in the Chandelier: Writings on China

    af Perry Link ...
    "This book is a manifestation of Perry Link’s deep love for the Chinese people, their humor, struggles, and courage. The Anaconda in the Chandelier is packed with a deep understanding of China, astute observations of Chinese society, and unrelenting criticism of the Communist Party, all stemming from Link’s devotion to one thing: truth. If you want to understand why the West got China wrong and ... Læs mere

    78,52 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Wittgenstein, A One-way Ticket, and Other Unforeseen Benefits of Studying Chinese

    Redigeret af Perry Link ...
    …. to imagine a language means to imagine a form of life.--Ludwig Wittgenstein(Philosophical Investigation, 1953)Whatever specific goal motivated people who study Chinese at first eventually dissolves into the larger Chinese world, and that world—its loves and joys, its stings and frustrations, in any case its incapability of being boring—takes over.This is a fascinating, insightful collection of ... Læs mere

    144,78 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • 我沒有敵人

    劉曉波的生平與遺產

    人權鬥士‧諾貝爾和平獎得主 劉曉波生平最為出色的傳記「我無罪。歷史會對這判決做出其判決。我會上訴。」「我沒有敵人,也沒有仇恨。所有監控過我,捉捕過我、審訊過我的員警,起訴過我的檢察官,判決過我的法官,都不是我的敵人。」——劉曉波劉曉波(1955.12.28-2017.07.13),中國頭號異議人士、《零八憲章》這份民主宣言的關鍵人物之一。二○○八年十二月某個深夜,警察來到他家,將他帶走。二○○九年遭遇判刑前夕,劉曉波撰文長達五頁的〈我沒有敵人——我的最後陳述〉(二○○九年十二月二十三日),替自己所作所為做最後辯解。二○一○年劉曉波以政治犯身分獲頒諾貝爾和平獎,但無緣前去領獎,此獎於是頒給一張空椅子。在中國國內,中共政權致力於抹除他存在的一切痕跡。二○一七年死於肝癌時,甚至未獲准返家。《我沒有敵人:劉曉波的生平與遺產》被公認是最出色的劉曉波傳記,以鉅細靡遺的研究為本,講述他曲折且不凡的人生 ... Læs mere

    112,23 kr.

  • An Anatomy of Chinese

    Rhythm, Metaphor, Politics

    af Perry Link ...
    During the Cultural Revolution, Mao exhorted the Chinese people to “smash the four olds”: old customs, old culture, old habits, and old ideas. Yet when the Red Guards in Tiananmen Square chanted “We want to see Chairman Mao,” they unknowingly used a classical rhythm that dates back to the Han period and is the very embodiment of the four olds. An Anatomy of Chinese reveals how rhythms, conceptual ... Læs mere

    416,60 kr.

  • I Have No Enemies

    The Life and Legacy of Liu Xiaobo

    Late one night in December 2008, police arrived at the home of Liu Xiaobo—China’s leading dissident, a key figure in the prodemocracy manifesto Charter 08—and took him away. When Liu won the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize as a political prisoner, the award was bestowed on an empty chair. Inside China, the regime sought to erase every trace of his existence. Liu died of liver cancer in 2017 without ever ... Læs mere

    187,11 kr.

  • The Uses of Literature

    Life in the Socialist Chinese Literary System

    af Perry Link ...
    Why do people in socialist China read and write literary works? Earlier studies in Western Sinology have approached Chinese texts from the socialist era as portraits of society, as keys to the tug-of-war of dissent, or, more recently, as pursuit of "pure art." The Uses of Literature looks broadly and empirically at these and many other "uses" of literature from the points of view of authors, ... Læs mere

    384,86 kr.

  • Naked Earth

    af Eileen Chang ...
    An NYRB Classics OriginalSet in the early years of Mao’s China, Naked Earth is the story of two earnest young people confronting the grim realities of revolutionary change. Liu Ch’üan and Su Nan meet in the countryside after volunteering to assist in the new land reform program. Eager to build a more just society, they are puzzled and shocked by the brutality, barely disguised corruption, and ... Læs mere

    120,36 kr.

  • Wittgenstein, A One-way Ticket, and Other Unforeseen Benefits of Studying Chinese

    af Perry Link ...
    This is a fascinating, insightful collection of essays by some of the world's most renowned China experts, who share personal recollections of their time in China-often beginning in the 1970s, when foreigners were just beginning to navigate the linguistic and cultural terrain of that country-and reflect on what learning Chinese has meant to them in their careers and lives. Ian Johnson, the ... Læs mere

    216,30 kr.

  • Unofficial China

    Popular Culture And Thought In The People's Republic

    af Perry Link ...
    This book presents a view of social life in China and discusses different methods for studying contemporary China as a tool for introducing students to the study of popular culture. Through a diverse set of case studies, it introduces readers to a wide range of issues facing Chinese society. ... Læs mere

    482,70 kr.

  • China Tripping

    Encountering the Everyday in the People’s Republic

    This unique book is the first to bring together a group of influential China experts to reflect on their cultural and social encounters while travelling and living in the People’s Republic. Filling an important gap, it allows scholars, journalists, and businesspeople to reflect on their personal memories of China. Private experiences—vivid and often entirely unanticipated—often teach more about ... Læs mere

    181,11 kr.

  • No Enemies, No Hatred

    Selected Essays and Poems

    af Xiaobo Liu ...
    When the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded on December 10, 2010, its recipient, Liu Xiaobo, was in Jinzhou Prison, serving an eleven-year sentence for what Beijing called “incitement to subvert state power.” In Oslo, actress Liv Ullmann read a long statement the activist had prepared for his 2009 trial. It read in part: “I stand by the convictions I expressed in my ‘June Second Hunger Strike ... Læs mere

    160,36 kr.

  • The Most Wanted Man in China

    My Journey from Scientist to Enemy of the State

    af Fang Lizhi ...
    Oversat af Perry Link ...
    The celebrated physicist and political dissident recounts his clashes with the Chinese regime in this "fascinating and insightful" memoir of science under siege ( The Washington Post ).Fang Lizhi was one of the most prominent scientists of the People's Republic of China. He worked on the country's first nuclear program and became one of the world's leading astrophysicists. But his devotion to ... Læs mere

    94,11 kr.