chinese vernacular - Books, journals, articles @ The Questia Online Library

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Cantonese as Written Language: The Growth of a Written Chinese Vernacular

Book by Don Snow; Hong Kong University Press, 2004

Subjects:

Cantonese Dialects--China--Hong Kong--Rhetoric, Chinese Language--Dialects--China--Guangdong Sheng, Chinese Language--Dialects--China--Hong Kong

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...Language The Growth of a Written Chinese Vernacular Don Snow HONG KONG UNIVERSITY...popular literature written in vernacular Chinese developed, and in the early...over the succeeding centuries vernacular Chinese came to be used in religious...
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China's Vernacular Architecture: House Form and Culture

Book by Ronald G. Knapp; University of Hawaii Press, 1989

Subjects:

Architecture, Domestic--China, Vernacular Architecture--China

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...the subtitle of this book on Chinese vernacular architecture is an acknowledgment...portion of the rich patrimony of Chinese vernacular architecture. A Note on Chinese...the households aspirations. Chinese vernacular and monumental buildings are...
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The Columbia History of Chinese Literature

Book by Victor H. Mair; Columbia University Press, 2001

Subjects:

Chinese Literature--History And Criticism

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

Comprehensive yet portable, this account of the development of Chinese literature from the very beginning up to the present brings the riches of this august literary tradition into focus for the general reader. Organized chronologically with thematic chapters interspersed, the fifty-five original ...
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Comprehensive yet portable, this account of the development of Chinese literature from the very beginning up to the present brings the riches of this august literary tradition into focus for the general reader. Organized chronologically with thematic chapters interspersed, the fifty-five original chapters by leading specialists cover all genres and periods of poetry, prose, fiction, and drama. A special feature of The Columbia History of Chinese Literature is the focus on such subjects as popular culture, the impact of religion upon literature, the role of women, and relationships with non-Sinitic languages and peoples.
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Traditional Chinese Fiction and Fiction Commentary: Reading and Writing between the Lines

Book by David L. Rolston; Stanford University, 1997

Subjects:

Chinese Fiction--Book Reviews, Chinese Fiction--History And Criticism

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

In the Ming and Qing periods, the Chinese read fiction in editions with extensive commentary printed on the same page as the fiction itself. This book analyses how that tradition affected the development of Chinese fiction.
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Political Participation and Ethnic Minorities: Chinese Overseas in Malaysia, Indonesia, and the United States

Book by Amy L. Freedman; Routledge, 2000

Subjects:

Chinese--Asia, Southeastern, Chinese--Foreign Countries--Politics And Government, Chinese--United States, Minorities--Political Activity

Collections: History, Entire Library

From New York City's Chinatown to urban Indonesia, there are fifty-million ethnic Chinese living outside of China. Their strong sense of community, along with their considerable economic clout, makes them a compelling group with which to study immigrant political participation. Amy Freedman's ...
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From New York City's Chinatown to urban Indonesia, there are fifty-million ethnic Chinese living outside of China. Their strong sense of community, along with their considerable economic clout, makes them a compelling group with which to study immigrant political participation. Amy Freedman's empirical study examines the hows and whys of Chinese overseas political activity in these three diverse countries.
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Shuhui Yang. Appropriation and Representation: Feng Menglong and the Chinese Vernacular Story

Journal article by Philip F. Williams; China Review International, Vol. 10, 2003

Subjects:

Appropriation and Representation: Feng Menglong and the Chinese Vernacular Story (Book)

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...Representation: Feng Menglong and the Chinese Vernacular Story. by Philip F...analysis and thematic patterns in vernacular Chinese fiction have characterized...context for understanding the Chinese vernacular story, he actually adopts a...
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Ge Liangyan, out of the Margins: The Rise of Chinese Vernacular Fiction

Journal article by Hiroshi Naka; Asian Folklore Studies, Vol. 63, 2004

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Out of the Margins: the Rise of Chinese Vernacular Fiction (Book)--Book reviews

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...Margins: The Rise of Chinese Vernacular Fiction. by...Margins: The Rise of Chinese Vernacular Fiction. Honolulu...zhuan and the rise of vernacular fiction against the...vernacularization of premodern Chinese literature as a whole...
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Liangyan Ge. out of the Margins: The Rise of Chinese Vernacular Fiction

Journal article by Qiancheng Li; China Review International, Vol. 10, 2003

Subjects:

Out of the Margins: The Rise of Chinese Vernacular Fiction (Book)

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...Margins: The Rise of Chinese Vernacular Fiction...ascendancy of the vernacular in the literary...classical or literary Chinese), are sound. Here...understanding of the vernacular-novel genre. It...assistant professor of Chinese at Louisiana State...
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The Man-Hunting Tiger: From "Wu Song Fights the Tiger" in Chinese Traditions

Journal article by Vibeke Bordahl; Asian Folklore Studies, Vol. 66, 2007

Subjects:

China--History, China--Social aspects, Chinese folklore--Criticism and interpretation, Wu Song Fights the Tiger (Folk tale)--Criticism and interpretation

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...chubanshe. IDEMA, Wilt 1974 Chinese Vernacular Fiction: The Formative...storytellers manner" in Chinese vernacular fiction, cf. IDEMA...The standard for old vernacular, baihua, is generally based on North Chinese; cf. NORMAN 1988, 112...
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The Last Classic Chinese Novel: Vision and Design in the Travels of Laocan

Journal article by Shuen-Fu Lin; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 121, 2001

Subjects:

China--Literature, Chinese literature--Analysis, Classical literature--China

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

...41) This is itself an important innovation in Chinese vernacular fiction, which had heretofore relied on the mode...traditional Chinese drama and fiction. In traditional Chinese vernacular fiction, a frame-story is usually provided in the...

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No Ordinary Days: After a Century of Internationalism, Chinese Spoken Drama Goes Global in a New Way

Magazine article by Claire Conceison; American Theatre, Vol. 19, May 2002

Subjects:

China--Relations with the United States, Theater--China

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...the country looks toward hosting the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Chinese theatre is also opening itself to the world in a new way...adopted as part of the New Culture Movements effort to use vernacular forms in literature and art in order to address pressing social...
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Humanism in China

Magazine article by David Lawson; The Humanist, Vol. 53, May-June 1993

Subjects:

China--History, Chinese history, Communism--Influence, Humanism--China, Pragmatism--Influence

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...and Western culture. Chen Tu-hsiu, the first chair of the Chinese Communist Party, an intellectual and former editor of the...became a leader of the New Culture movement, which espoused the vernacular as part of a program of literary reform. As a pragmatist and...
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Keeping Faith: Jin Luxian's 50-Year Struggle to Keep Catholicism Alive in China, Balance Rome and Beijing, and Build a Church for "100 Million Catholics"

Magazine article by Adam Minter; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 300, July 2007

Subjects:

Aloysius Jin Luxian--Religious aspects, Catholicism--Political aspects, Chinese Communist Party--Political activity, Chinese foreign relations--Political aspects, Chinese foreign relations--Religious aspects, Church buildings--Planning, Churches--Planning

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...translated the Mass into the vernacular and elevated the role of...Christian believers hidden in Chinese catacombs would suggest...seminarians to say Mass in the vernacular, and on September 30, 1989, the first Chinese-language Mass was celebrated...
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A Kind of True Living: Philip Tinari on the Art of AI Weiwei

Magazine article by Philip Tinari; Artforum International, Vol. 45, Summer 2007

Subjects:

Ai Weiwei--Criticism and interpretation, Ai Weiwei--Works, Art, Chinese--Criticism and interpretation, Chinese art--Criticism and interpretation

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...They are at once witty applications of vernacular materials and implicit indictments of...to the inescapable double influence of Chinese tradition and Western modernism feels...More precisely, a fine line separates Chinese intellectuals and professors from the...
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Bridget Jones with Blow Jobs

Magazine article by Jason Cowley; New Statesman, Vol. 130, July 23, 2001

Subjects:

Authors, Chinese--Interviews, Zhou Wei Hui--Interviews

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...Wei Hui, the daughter of an army officer, studied classical Chinese literature at the elite Fudon University in Shanghai. She...she attempts to invent her own idiom, rich in allusion and vernacular energy, and find new ways of writing about Shanghai, which...

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THEATRE: Thoroughly Modern Millie in the Vernacular; CULTURE

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), April 18, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Thoroughly Modern Millie in the Vernacular; CULTURE. Byline: John...tradition of having the shows two Chinese characters, Ching Ho and Bun...non-Orientals. After all, the citys Chinese Quarter is on all sides of...I decided I would get two Chinese actors to play the parts. I...
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Beijing's Spies Gain Access to Secrets

Newspaper article by Bill Gertz; The Washington Times, November 13, 2000

Subjects:

China

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...thunderbolt. - Sun Tzu Ancient Chinese strategist In the early 1990s...several "assets" - spies, in the vernacular - who operated clandestinely...communications intercepts between the Chinese Embassy in Washington and Chinese intelligence officers in Beijing...
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Beijing Bling; BYLN:Corinne Julius

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), February 27, 2008

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...strikingpresence in the city. Tradition: there is also a revival of vernacular building. Developers, such asSOHO, build new villas using...proposed byLondon-based CJ Lim, is growing. . ANY influential Chinese architects and designers were trained abroad but, with550...
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Inside the Ring

Newspaper article by Bill Gertz, Rowan Scarborough; The Washington Times, January 25, 2002

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...sentences in tightly written policy memos. But he often receives bureaucratic-style memos crammed with the militarys favorite vernacular - acronyms. "They want to see things written clearly," said one source, referring to Mr. Rumsfeld and Deputy Defense Secretary...
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Practice a Few Language Secrets

Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), January 1, 2006

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Report During my travels, I try to use a few words of the vernacular no matter how difficult they are to learn. Sometimes this...wrong. This happened because I was not adept at verbalizing Chinese tones. So, when I said to a sales girl what I thought was...

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Chinese Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...c. The early Chinese books originally...other in the vernacular. Both strands...their model. Chinese lexicography...manuscript copies. Vernacular Style While...the baihua vernacular. The change in Chinese education from...
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Language

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...in approximate descending order) all languages spoken natively by groups of more than 100 million people: North Chinese vernacular (Mandarin), English, Spanish, Arabic, Hindi or Urdu, Portuguese, Bengali or Bangla, Russian, French, Japanese...
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Asian Drama

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...literary language, it is used only by important characters; inferior characters speak in the vernacular known as Prakrit. Chinese Drama The classical Chinese theater developed during the Yuan dynasty (1260 1328). Springing from story cycles made...
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Hu Shih

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...important contribution was promotion of vernacular literature to replace writing in the...leading critic and analyst of traditional Chinese culture and thought. He was ambassador...See J. B. Grieder, Hu Shih and the Chinese Renaissance (1970...
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May Fourth Movement

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...political action. The movement also popularized vernacular literature, promoted political participation...educational reforms. See Hu Shih, The Chinese Renaissance (2d ed. 1964); V. Schwarcz, Chinese Enlightenment Intellectuals and the Legacy...

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