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  • Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited

    A Reader's Companion

    by Ronald R. Gray ...
    This is a comprehensive and detailed encyclopedia for readers of Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited, one of the most popular and critically acclaimed novels of the twentieth century. It contains 175 entries on all aspects of the novel, covering such topics as the novel's main characters; cultural, literary, and political references; themes; organization; homosexuality; the novel's critical ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • Reading Dream of the Red Chamber

    A Companion to Cao Xueqin's Masterpiece

    by Ronald R. Gray ...
    A masterpiece of world literature, Honglou Meng (Dream of the Red Chamber) by Cao Xueqin (1715-1763) is widely considered China's greatest novel and serves as a compendium of traditional Chinese life and culture during the Qing Dynasty. This guide offers a comprehensive introduction and overview to Honglou Meng, providing more than 200 alphabetical entries describing characters, key events and a ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • American Gadfly

    The Intellectual Odyssey of Paul Fussell

    by Ronald R. Gray ...
    The American cultural historian, literary and social critic and college professor Paul Fussell (1924-2012) is primarily noted for his famous work The Great War and Modern Memory, but he also wrote and edited 21 books on a wide variety of topics, ranging from 18th century British literature to works on World War II and sardonic critiques of American society and culture. This book offers a thorough ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

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    Short Story Collection Vol. 096 (Unabridged)

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    by et al. James Joyce ...
    Narrated by Wendy Burnette, Lamont Hunter, Ronald Gray, Timothy Xayasith ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 40 min

    Slip into hidden worlds with "Short Story Collection Vol. 096," a captivating journey beyond the ordinary. This unique audiobook features not just one master of storytelling, but a chorus of voices, including the iconic James Joyce. Prepare to be transported by tales both familiar and unexpected. Will you delve into the labyrinthine streets of Dublin with Joyce, or lose yourself in a fantastical ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Wandering Between Two Worlds

    The Formative Years of Cao Xueqin 1715–1745

    by Ronald R. Gray ...
    Series Book 68 - Asian Thought and Culture
    Wandering Between Two Worlds: The Formative Years of Cao Xueqin 1715–1745 is a biographical account of the first 30 years of the life of the eighteenth-century Chinese novelist who wrote Honglou meng (Dream of the Red Chamber). It covers Cao Xueqin’s life from his birth in Nanjing in 1715 to the time when it is roughly estimated he began to seriously write his massive work. The book attempts to ... Read more

    $100.29 USD

  • A Handbook of Food Crime

    Immoral and Illegal Practices in the Food Industry and What to Do About Them

    by Sugandi del Canto, Kora Liegh Glatt, Camilla Barbarossa, Dominique Paturel, Coveney John, Sue Booth, Ricardo Cesar Barbosa Junior, Estevan Leopoldo De Freitas Coca, Michael Lynch, Michael Long, Rob White, Stephanie Baran, Jan Deckers, Linnea Laestadius, Xiaocen Liu, Juanjuan Sun, Reece Walters, Eileen Davenport, Ashley Savage, Richard Hyde, Wesley Tourangeau, Amy Fitzgerald, Hongming Cheng, Joseph Asomah, Paul Leighton, Bernd Van Der Meulen, Antonia Corini, Rachel Engler-Stringer, Jan Mei Soon, Louise Manning, Robert Phillips, Judith Schrempf-Stirling, Jinky Leilani Del Prado-Lu, Harvey James, Tiziana Pagnani, Ferro Trabalzi, Marcello De Rosa, Martha McMahon ...
    Food today is over-corporatized and under-regulated. It is involved in many immoral, harmful, and illegal practices along production, distribution, and consumption systems. These problematic conditions have significant consequences on public health and well-being, nonhuman animals, and the environment, often simultaneously.In this insightful book, Gray and Hinch explore the phenomenon of food ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

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  • The Quest for Gentility in China

    Negotiations Beyond Gender and Class

    Edited by Daria Berg, Chloe Starr ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
    The quest for gentility has shaped Chinese civilization and the formation of culture in China until the present day. This book analyzes social aspirations and cultural practices in China from 1550 to 1999, showing how the notion of gentility has evolved and retained its relevance in China from late imperial times until the modern day. Gentility denotes the way of the gentleman and gentlewoman. The ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Four Sisters of Hofei

    A History

    by Annping Chin ...
    Four Sisters of Hofei is an intimate encounter with Chinese history, told through the collective memory and stories of four sisters born between 1908 and 1924, and with the benefit of the extraordinary knowledge of Yale historian Annping Chin.Now in their late eighties and early nineties, the Chang sisters lived through a century of historic change in China. In this extraordinary work, assembled ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Columbia History of Chinese Literature

    Edited by Victor Mair ...
    The Columbia History of Chinese Literature is a comprehensive yet portable guide to China's vast literary traditions. Stretching from earliest times to the present, the text features original contributions by leading specialists working in all genres and periods. Chapters cover poetry, prose, fiction, and drama, and consider such contextual subjects as popular culture, the impact of religion, the ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Masculinities in Chinese History

    by Bret Hinsch ...
    Series series Asia/Pacific/Perspectives
    Masculinities in Chinese History is the first historical survey of the many ways men have acted, thought, and behaved throughout China’s long past. Bret Hinsch introduces readers to the basic characteristics of historical Chinese masculinity while highlighting the dynamic changes in male identity over the centuries. He covers the full span of Chinese history, from the Zhou dynasty in distant ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

  • Women in Imperial China

    by Bret Hinsch ...
    Series series Asian Voices
    This accessible text offers a comprehensive survey of women’s history in China from the Neolithic period through the end of the Qing dynasty in the early twentieth century. Rather than providing an exhaustive chronicle of this vast subject, Bret Hinsch pinpoints the themes that characterized distinct periods in Chinese women’s history and delves into the perception of female identity in each era. ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Chinese History and Culture

    Sixth Century B.C.E. to Seventeenth Century

    by Ying-shih Yü ...
    Series series Masters of Chinese Studies
    The recipient of the Kluge Prize for lifetime achievement in the humanities and the Tang Prize for "revolutionary research" in Sinology, Ying-shih Yü is a premier scholar of Chinese studies. Chinese History and Culture volumes 1 and 2 bring his extraordinary oeuvre to English-speaking readers. Spanning two thousand years of social, intellectual, and political change, the essays in these volumes ... Read more

    $67.49 USD