1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910813685703321

Autore

Witchard Anne

Titolo

Lao She in London / / Anne Witchard

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hong Kong, : Hong Kong University Press, 2012

Hong Kong : , : Hong Kong University Press, , 2013

ISBN

988-220-864-9

1-283-62963-1

9786613942081

988-220-880-0

Edizione

[1st edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (176 pages)

Collana

China monographs from the Royal Asiatic Society Shanghai

Disciplina

895.135

Soggetti

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)

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; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

"London is blacker than lacquer." Lao She remains revered as one of China great modern writers. His life and work have been the subject of volumes of critique, analysis and study. However, the four years the young aspiring writer spent in London between 1924 and 1929 have largely been overlooked. Anne Witchard, a specialist in the modernist milieu of London between the wars, reveals Lao She's encounter with British high modernism and literature from Dickens to Conrad to Joyce. Lao She arrived from his native Peking to the whirl of London's West End scene - Bloomsburyites, Vorticists, avant-gardists of every stripe, Ezra Pound and the cabaret at the Cave of the Golden Calf. Immersed in the West End 1920s world of risque flappers, the tabloid sensation of England's "most infamous Chinaman Brilliant Chang" and Anna May Wong's scandalous film Piccadilly, simultaneously Lao She spent time in the notorious and much sensationalised East End Chinatown of Limehouse. Out of his experiences came his great novel of London Chinese life and tribulations - Ma & Son: Two Chinese in London. However, as Witchard reveals, Lao She's London years affected his



writing and ultimately the course of Chinese modernism in far more profound ways.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910967090703321

Autore

Rayman R. A.

Titolo

Accounting standards : true or false? / / R.A. Rayman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2006

ISBN

0-415-37781-1

1-134-18357-7

0-203-97017-9

1-134-18358-5

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Disciplina

657/.02/18

Soggetti

Accounting - Standards

Financial statements

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

part I. The noble art of counting beans -- part II. The measurement of income and value -- part III. A theoretical blind alley -- part IV. Back to basics -- part V. The segregation of funds and value -- part VI. Truth in accounting.

Sommario/riassunto

<P>Following a spate of high-profile financial scandals (including Enron, WorldCom, and Parmalat), the quality of financial information has come under increasing scrutiny. Many of the accounting standards being imposed on the profession by regulators and standard-setting bodies are now attracting criticism from the business community and the accountancy profession itself.</P><P></P><P>In this book, Anthony Rayman traces a fundamental flaw in the conventional academic wisdom back to the nineteenth century, and proposes an alternative conceptual framework. He argues that effective corporate gove