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The Emergence of Chinese Avant-Garde Art

by Min'an Wang, Xiaoping Song ...

Translated by Michael Dutton, Deborah Kessler ...

Series series History (R0)
This book provides a historical analysis of the avant-garde art movement in China in the 1980s. This art movement is the product of China's reform and opening up, during which time a small number of Chinese artists understood the western modernist art movement, and they started their avant-garde art experiment in combination with the actual situation of China. This avant-garde art experiment ... Read more

$125.09 USD

This book provides a historical analysis of the avant-garde art movement in China in the 1980s. This art movement is the product of China's reform and opening up, during which time a small number of Chinese artists understood the western modernist art movement, and they started their avant-garde art experiment in combination with the actual situation of China. This avant-garde art experiment
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Domestic Spaces in Post-Mao China

On Electronic Household Appliances

by Wang Min’an ...

Series series Postcolonial Politics
Unconventional, creative, and highly original, Wang Min’an’s work centres on the assemblage of household machines that create the space of contemporary domesticity. It offers pathways to a new understanding of how the sudden commodification of domestic space in China beginning in the late 1980s has transformed Chinese domestic life beyond recognition. In terms of modern urban Chinese family life, ... Read more

$59.99 USD

Unconventional, creative, and highly original, Wang Min’an’s work centres on the assemblage of household machines that create the space of contemporary domesticity. It offers pathways to a new understanding of how the sudden commodification of domestic space in China beginning in the late 1980s has transformed Chinese domestic life beyond recognition. In terms of modern urban Chinese family life,
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The Last Empress

A Novel

by Anchee Min ...

"Admirers of Empress Orchid will be interested in this sequel. Others may find the introduction to relatively modern Chinese history a revelation" ( Rocky Mountain News).During the tumultuous end of the nineteenth century in China, the only constant was the power wielded by one person: the resilient, ever-resourceful Tzu Hsi, Lady Yehonala—or Empress Orchid—as readers came to know her in Anchee ... Read more

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"Admirers of Empress Orchid will be interested in this sequel. Others may find the introduction to relatively modern Chinese history a revelation" ( Rocky Mountain News).During the tumultuous end of the nineteenth century in China, the only constant was the power wielded by one person: the resilient, ever-resourceful Tzu Hsi, Lady Yehonala—or Empress Orchid—as readers came to know her in Anchee
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Becoming Madame Mao

A Novel

by Anchee Min ...

From the national bestselling author of Red Azalea: "Extraordinary . . . Min lets [Madame Mao] be seen as never before. Bottom line: riveting" ( People).In a sweeping, erotically charged story, Anchee Min creates a finely nuanced portrait of one of the most fascinating, and vilified, women of the twentieth century.Madame Mao is almost universally known as the "white-boned demon"—ambitious, ... Read more

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From the national bestselling author of Red Azalea: "Extraordinary . . . Min lets [Madame Mao] be seen as never before. Bottom line: riveting" ( People).In a sweeping, erotically charged story, Anchee Min creates a finely nuanced portrait of one of the most fascinating, and vilified, women of the twentieth century.Madame Mao is almost universally known as the "white-boned demon"—ambitious,
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Empress Orchid

A Novel

by Anchee Min ...

"A fascinating novel, similar to Arthur Golden's Memoirs of a Geisha . . . A revisionist portrait of a beautiful and strong-willed woman" ( Houston Chronicle ).A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the YearFrom Anchee Min, a master of the historical novel, Empress Orchid sweeps readers into the heart of the Forbidden City to tell the fascinating story ... ... Read more

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"A fascinating novel, similar to Arthur Golden's Memoirs of a Geisha . . . A revisionist portrait of a beautiful and strong-willed woman" ( Houston Chronicle ).A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the YearFrom Anchee Min, a master of the historical novel, Empress Orchid sweeps readers into the heart of the Forbidden City to tell the fascinating story ...
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Wild Ginger

A Novel

by Anchee Min ...

Two girls come of age during the horrors of China's Cultural Revolution in this novel by the national bestselling author of Empress Orchid.The young and beautiful Wild Ginger is only in elementary school, but has already survived hell through her sheer iron will. Singled out by the Red Guards for her "foreign-colored eyes," she has seen her deceased father branded a traitor and her mother commit ... Read more

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Two girls come of age during the horrors of China's Cultural Revolution in this novel by the national bestselling author of Empress Orchid.The young and beautiful Wild Ginger is only in elementary school, but has already survived hell through her sheer iron will. Singled out by the Red Guards for her "foreign-colored eyes," she has seen her deceased father branded a traitor and her mother commit
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Pachinko (National Book Award Finalist)

by Min Jin Lee ...

**One of the New York Times’ 100 Best Books of the 21st Century.In this New York Times bestseller, four generations of a poor Korean immigrant family fight to control their destiny in 20th-century Japan.“Stunning.” —New York Times Book Review**In the early 1900s, teenaged Sunja, the adored daughter of a crippled fisherman, falls for a wealthy stranger. When she discovers she is pregnant—and that ... Read more

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**One of the New York Times’ 100 Best Books of the 21st Century.In this New York Times bestseller, four generations of a poor Korean immigrant family fight to control their destiny in 20th-century Japan.“Stunning.” —New York Times Book Review**In the early 1900s, teenaged Sunja, the adored daughter of a crippled fisherman, falls for a wealthy stranger. When she discovers she is pregnant—and that
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Walking Practice

A Novel

by Dolki Min ...

Translated by Victoria Caudle ...

“Min’s novel is shocking and horrifying and hilarious and intimate. A real antidote.” – Bryan Washington, bestselling author of Memorial and PalaverSquid Game meets The Left Hand of Darkness meets Under the Skin in this radical literary sensation from South Korea about an alien's hunt for food that transforms into an existential crisis about what it means to be human.After crashing their spacecra. ... Read more

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“Min’s novel is shocking and horrifying and hilarious and intimate. A real antidote.” – Bryan Washington, bestselling author of Memorial and PalaverSquid Game meets The Left Hand of Darkness meets Under the Skin in this radical literary sensation from South Korea about an alien's hunt for food that transforms into an existential crisis about what it means to be human.After crashing their spacecra.
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Pearl of China

A Novel

by Anchee Min ...

The National bestselling author's historical novel "creates a fanciful yet believable world for the Nobel laureate Pearl Buck" ( San Francisco Chronicle ).It is the end of the nineteenth century and China is riding on the crest of great change, but for nine-year-old Willow, the only child of a destitute family in the small southern town of Chin-kiang, nothing ever seems to change. Until the day ... Read more

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The National bestselling author's historical novel "creates a fanciful yet believable world for the Nobel laureate Pearl Buck" ( San Francisco Chronicle ).It is the end of the nineteenth century and China is riding on the crest of great change, but for nine-year-old Willow, the only child of a destitute family in the small southern town of Chin-kiang, nothing ever seems to change. Until the day
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The Fetishist

by Katherine Min ...

Narrated by Eunice Wong, Kayla Min Andrews ...

Unabridged

8 hours 46 min

**An Indie Next PickIn this hilariously savage, poignant novel by acclaimed author Katherine Min, a grieving daughter’s revenge on the man who caused her mother’s death sets off a series of unexpected reckonings.**On a cold, gloomy night, twenty-three-year-old Kyoko stands in the rain with a knife in her hoodie’s pocket. Her target is Daniel, who seduced Kyoko’s mother then callously dropped her, ... Read more

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**An Indie Next PickIn this hilariously savage, poignant novel by acclaimed author Katherine Min, a grieving daughter’s revenge on the man who caused her mother’s death sets off a series of unexpected reckonings.**On a cold, gloomy night, twenty-three-year-old Kyoko stands in the rain with a knife in her hoodie’s pocket. Her target is Daniel, who seduced Kyoko’s mother then callously dropped her,
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Shanghailanders

A Novel

by Juli Min ...

Narrated by Mei Mei Macleod ...

Unabridged

8 hours 43 min

A dazzling and ambitious debut novel that follows a cosmopolitan Shanghai household backward in time—beginning in 2040 and moving through our present and the recent past—exploring their secrets, their losses, and the ways a family makes and remakes itself across the years.2040: Wealthy real estate investor Leo Yang—handsome, distinguished, a real Shanghai man—is on the train back to the city after ... Read more

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A dazzling and ambitious debut novel that follows a cosmopolitan Shanghai household backward in time—beginning in 2040 and moving through our present and the recent past—exploring their secrets, their losses, and the ways a family makes and remakes itself across the years.2040: Wealthy real estate investor Leo Yang—handsome, distinguished, a real Shanghai man—is on the train back to the city after
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How to Make Money with Ebooks

Your Step-by-Step Guide to Create and Sell Your Ebook on Kindle, Nook, and iBookstore

by BJ Min ...

Narrated by Ron Welch ...

Unabridged

2 hours 7 min

If you want to know how to write, make, and publish your e-book, then get How to Make Money with Ebooks.Here's what you get inside How to Make Money with Ebooks:Discover how to find the right topic that can help sell your e-book.Uncover how to find the best title so your e-book can stand out in the marketplace.Find out how to create great content whether you write it yourself or hire someone else ... Read more

$19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

If you want to know how to write, make, and publish your e-book, then get How to Make Money with Ebooks.Here's what you get inside How to Make Money with Ebooks:Discover how to find the right topic that can help sell your e-book.Uncover how to find the best title so your e-book can stand out in the marketplace.Find out how to create great content whether you write it yourself or hire someone else
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