LEADER 03561nam 22005894a 450 001 9910784045703321 005 20230617010047.0 010 $a1-281-37262-5 010 $a9786611372620 010 $a981-270-090-0 035 $a(CKB)1000000000334218 035 $a(EBL)296213 035 $a(OCoLC)748527886 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000221945 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11199234 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000221945 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10162605 035 $a(PQKB)10312188 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC296213 035 $a(WSP)00001898 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL296213 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10173923 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL137262 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000334218 100 $a20050906d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aPioneers of modern China$b[electronic resource] $eunderstanding the inscrutable Chinese /$fLee Khoon Choy 210 $aRiver Edge, NJ $cWorld Scientific Pub.$dc2005 215 $a1 online resource (574 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a981-256-464-0 311 $a981-256-618-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 519-525) and indexes. 327 $aForeword; Acknowledgments; CONTENTS; Introduction; Chapter 1 Fujian Ren & Lin Ze Xu: The Fuzhou Hero Who Destroyed Opium; Chapter 2 Guangdong Ren & Sun Yat Sen: The Founder of the Republic of China; Chapter 3 Zhejiang Ren & Chiang Kai Shek: The Christian President Who Ruled China with an Iron Hand; Chapter 4 Hunan Ren & Mao Ze Dong: Leader and God; Chapter 5 Hubei Ren & Lin Biao: Mao's Named Successor; Chapter 6 Sichuan Ren & Deng Xiao Ping: The Hero of China's Modernization; Chapter 7 Jiangsu Ren & Jiang Ze Min: Former President of the People's Republic of China 327 $aChapter 8 Henan Ren & Zhao Zi Yang: The Pioneer of China's Market EconomyChapter 9 Shandong Ren: Wan Li and Gang of Four; Chapter 10 Jiangxi Ren: Hu Yao Bang's Grand Tomb; Chapter 11 Anhui Ren & Hu Jin Tao: The New Star in Communist China; Chapter 12 Tianjin: Birthplace of the New Prime Minister, Wen Jia Bao; Chapter 13 Beijing: Mei Lan Fang, Poets, Writers & Painters; Chapter 14 Shanghai: Du Yue Sheng, the Gangster Chief; Chapter 15 Taiwan & The Dream for an Independent State; Chapter 16 Hong Kong in the Experiment of "One Country, Two Systems"; Chapter 17 Macau: The Las Vegas of the East 327 $aBibliographyIndex: People; Index: Places + Landmarks; Index: Ethnic Groups; Index: Miscellaneous 330 $aAmongst the Chinese exists great cultural variety and diversity. The Cantonese care more for profit than face and are good businessmen, whereas Fujian Re?n are frank, blunt and outspoken but daring and generous. Beijing Re?n are more aristocratic and well-mannered, having stayed in a city ruled by emperors of different dynasties. Shanghai Re?n are more enterprising, adventurous and materialistic but less aristocratic, having been at the center of pre-war gangsterism. Hainan Re?n are straightforward, blunt and stubborn. 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Holloway and Jennifer A. Palmgren 205 $a1st ed. 2005. 210 $aNew York $cPalgrave Macmillan$d2005 215 $a1 online resource (267 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-349-53006-9 311 $a1-4039-6735-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [233]-248) and index. 327 $aCover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; One: "Standing Proof of the Degeneracy of Modern Times": Architecture, Society, and the Medievalism of A.W.N. Pugin; Two: "Knight, Bard, Gallant": The Troubadour as a Critique of Romanticism in Browning's Sordello; Three: Charlotte Yonge's Victorian Normans in The Little Duke; Four: "And the golden halls were dumb": Norse Fatalism and Mourning in Matthew Arnold's Balder Dead; Five: Lessons from the Medieval Convent: Adelaide Procter's "A Legend of Provence" 327 $aSix: "The Worship of Courage": William Morris's Sigurd the Volsung and Victorian MedievalismSeven: The Gallows Nightingale: Swinburne's Translations of Villon; Eight: Counter-Medievalism: Or, Protestants Rewrite the Middle Ages; Nine: Where Medieval Romance Meets Victorian Reality: The "Woman Question" in William Morris's The Wood Beyond the World; Ten: The Performance of Victorian Medievalism; Eleven: What is a Man?: The Refuting of the Chivalric Ideal at the Turn of the Century; Bibliography; Index 330 $aLeaving the traditional focus on Arthurian romance and Gothic tales, the essays in this collection address how the Victorians looked back to the Middle Ages to create a sense of authority for their own ideas in areas such as art, religion, gender expectations, and social services. 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