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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453178203321

Autore

Zhang Daye <1854->

Titolo

The world of a tiny insect : a memoir of the Taiping rebellion and its aftermath / / by Zhang Daye ; translated, with an introduction, by Xiaofei Tian

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Seattle : , : University of Washington Press, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

0-295-80491-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (224 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

TianXiaofei <1971->

Disciplina

951/.034092

Soggetti

Electronic books.

China History Taiping Rebellion, 1850-1864 Personal narratives

China History 1861-1912

China Biography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Map of Author's Travels""; ""Translator's Introduction""; ""Preface by Zhang Daye""; ""Part 1.""; ""Trip to Tiantai""; ""An Account of Taizhou Prefecture""; ""The Six Counties of Taizhou""; ""The "One-Headed Woman" at Huangyan""; ""Ten Poems on Xianju""; ""The Birds of Xianju""; ""Part 2.""; ""Birth and Early Childhood""; ""On the Run: 1861-1863""; """Flames of War," Ghost Troops, and Other Strange Happenings""; ""Epidemic, Greed, and the Woman Dismembered at Lu's Dyke""; ""The Occupation of Shaoxing and Its Aftermath""; ""Edible Flora and Fauna""

""The Pleasures and Horrors of Childhood""""Narrow Escapes on Water""; ""Reunion with Father and Father's Death""; ""Part 3.""; ""The Nian Uprising""; ""The Assassination of Governor Ma Xinyi""; ""Remembering Cousin Xuequan""; ""Travels for Livelihood after Father's Death""; ""Trip to Shaoxing for Father's Burial""; ""Return to Yuanjiang""; ""Trip to Hangzhou""; ""Sojourn at Songjiang""; ""Sojourn at Suzhou""; ""Trips to Hangzhou, Shaoxing, and Xianju""; ""Friends at Xianju""; ""The Bandits of Xianju""; ""Chronology""; ""Appendix: A List of the Author's Connections""; ""Works Cited""



""Index""

Sommario/riassunto

"From the cry of a tiny insect, one can hear the sound of a vast world. "So begins Zhang Daye's preface to The World of a Tiny Insect, his haunting memoir of war and its aftermath. In 1861, when China's devastating Taiping rebellion began, Zhang was seven years old. The Taiping rebel army occupied Shaoxing, his hometown, and for the next two years, he hid from Taiping soldiers, local bandits, and imperial troops and witnessed gruesome scenes of violence and death. He lost friends and family and nearly died himself from starvation, illness, and encounters with soldiers on rampages.Written thirty years later, The World of a Tiny Insect gives voice to this history. A rare premodern Chinese literary work depicting a child's perspective, Zhang's sophisticated text captures the macabre images, paranoia, and emotional excess that defined his wartime experience and echoed throughout his adult life. The structure, content, and imagery of The World of a Tiny Insect reveals a carefully crafted, fragmented narrative that skips in time and probes the relationships between trauma and memory, revealing both history and its psychic impact. Xiaofei Tian's annotated translation includes an introduction that situates The World of a Tiny Insect in Chinese history and literature and explores the relevance of the book to the workings of traumatic memory. Zhang Daye (b. 1854) is known only as the author of The World of a Tiny Insect. Xiaofei Tian is professor of Chinese literature at Harvard University. Among her recent publications is Visionary Journeys: Travel Writings from Early Medieval and Nineteenth-Century China."The author and narrator recounts his terrible experiences and miraculous survivals with a child's curiosity and in a vivid, straightforward way. But he also embeds what happened to him in a larger historical, philosophical, moral, and aesthetic context. No comparable primary source available in English does anything like this for the Taiping Rebellion." --Judith Zeitlin, University of Chicago"--



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778050103321

Autore

Betz Mark

Titolo

Beyond the subtitle [[electronic resource] ] : remapping European art cinema / / Mark Betz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, 2009

ISBN

0-8166-6778-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (362 p.)

Disciplina

791.43/0940904

Soggetti

Motion pictures - Europe - History - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Recovering European art cinema -- The name above the subtitle: language, coproduction, transnationalism -- Wandering women: decolonization, modernity, recolonization -- Exquisite corpses: art cinema, film studies, and the omnibus film.

Sommario/riassunto

A provocative rethinking of national cinema, authorship, and the discipline of film studies.Examining European art films of the 1950's and 1960's, Mark Betz argues that it is time for film analysis to move beyond prevailing New Wave historiography, mired in outdated notions of nationalism and dragged down by decades of auteurist criticism. Focusing on the cinemas of France and Italy, Betz reveals how the flowering of European art films in the postwar era is inseparable from the complex historical and political frameworks of the time.Remapping the practices and paradigms of film history, Beyond



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910544565603321

Autore

Connell John <1946->

Titolo

Medical tourism / / John Connell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Wallingford, Oxfordshire ; ; Cambridge, MA, : CABI, 2011

ISBN

1-283-06643-2

9786613066435

1-84593-709-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (221 p.)

Disciplina

362.1

Soggetti

Medical tourism

Health resorts

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 188-201) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Figures and Tables; List of Abbreviations; Preface; 1 Introduction: Patients without Borders; 2 The Antiquity of Health Tourism; 3 Mind and Matter: Health Tourism or Cosmetic Surgery?; 4 The Rise of Medical Tourism; 5 Medical Tourism and the New Asia; 6 Marketing Medical Tourism; 7 The Economics of Medical Tourism; 8 Extremes, Ethics and Inequality; 9 But is it Tourism?; 10 Global Health; Appendix I: Destinations and Delivery; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Although it may seem a recent phenomenon, tourism has long been associated with improved health and spa tourism has its roots in antiquity. With the emergence of activities such as bushwalking and meditation, and with increasing numbers of people travelling abroad for medical or cosmetic procedures, medical tourism is now a growing niche in the tourism market. This book looks at the background and rise of health tourism, new emerging facets of the sector, and examines how health related travel fits into a tourism framework. It is suitable for undergraduate and postgraduate students.



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910873771403321

Titolo

.. Colloquium in Information Science and Technology

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Piscataway, NJ : , : IEEE

ISSN

2327-1884

Disciplina

004

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico