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Hua Yu
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
x, 225 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Uses a framework of ten common phrases in the Chinese vernacular to offer insight into China's modern economic gaps, cultural transformations, and ubiquitous practices of deception.
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
213 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Yang Fei was born on a moving train. Lost by his mother, adopted by a young switchman, raised with simplicity and love, he is utterly unprepared for the tempestuous changes that await him and his country. As a young man, he searches for a place to belong in a nation that is ceaselessly reinventing itself, but he remains on the edges of society. At age forty-one, he meets an accidental and unceremonious death. Lacking the money for a burial plot, he...
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (133 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
中文（繁體）
Description
In a smoky gambling den in 1940s China, a drunken young man runs through his family's fortune, losing their ancestral home and all their possessions. This staggering loss proves to be their salvation and the first step in an odyssey of survival that will take them through war and revolution, love and loss, tragedy and triumph. Through the terrors of China's civil war, the passions of the communist takeover, the betrayals of Chairman Mao's Great Leap...
