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Literature & Literary StudiesSix stories of Floating Life
by Shen Fu
"Six stories of Floating Life" takes the life of the author Shen Fu and his wife as the main line, and narrates what they saw and heard about the ordinary and interesting life at home. The work describes the life of the author and his wife Chen Yun, who want to live a kind of cloth clothes and vegetarianism and engage in art. Because of the oppression of feudal ethics and the suffering of poor life, their ideals are finally broken.The whole article is nearly 40000 words, saying that the world is sweet and sour.
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January 2020Six Records of a Floating Life
by Shen Fu
It is an account of the life of Shen Fu and his wife, which is a story of their ordinary but interesting home life and their travels around the world. The work describes the author and his wife Chen Yun's love for each other and their desire to lead a life of art while being clothed and fed, but the oppression of feudal rituals and the torment of a life of poverty eventually led to the destruction of their ideals. The book is written in a fresh and honest manner, without any trace of ornamentation, and the plot is about a couple who love each other to death; it begins with joy and ends with sorrow, and it is sad and moving as they drift away from home.
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2017Study on Literary Anthropology in Shen Congwen's Works
by He Xiaoping
This book takes the homogeneous, isomorphic, and mutual relationship of Shen Congwen's aesthetic thoughts, artistic thoughts and cultural anthropological thoughts as the starting point, and then explores the anthropological characteristics of Shen Congwen's works from the perspective of anthropological ontology, methodology and axiology. The following analyses focusing on the expression form, ideological root, and value and significance to literary creation and cultural construction are an extended study of Shen Congwen's cultural thought, aesthetic thought, artistic creation thought and value.
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August 2014My Predestined Love with High Rail
the Oral Autobiography of Zhiyun Shen
by Zhiyun SHEN, Tianming ZHANG,etc
This book is the oral autobiography of Zhiyun Shen,the senior fellow member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and the Chinese Academy of Sciences. By the recall of his science study life on the railway motors, communication and transportation, it veritably reflects the development of the Chinese railway vehicles, especially the high rail.
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Children's & YAJuly 2017Shen Nong’s Miracle Herbs
by Feng Jiannan
Shen Nong’s Miracle Herbs is adapted from an ancient Chinese legend that Shen Nong (the Yan Emperor) taught people to grow crops to feed themselves when food was in short due to the reproduction of human being after Nüwa repaired the sky. Later he tasted many kinds of herbal medicines to help cure people’s diseases.
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July 2016Fu Ping
by Wang Anyi
This is a story set in 1964 and 1965, the so-called pre-Cultural Revolution period, when Shanghai was still characterized by strict social organization. Wang Anyi has chosen a very interesting topic – immigrants, and describes why people of different social strata came to this metropolis and how they arrived and managed to live here.
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The ArtsApril 2015Shen Congwen and Me
by Huang Yongyu
The heartfelt recalling of his uncle Shen Congwen as the mentor in his lifetime and the cultivation, encouragement and help for him by the modern artistic master Huang Yongyu.
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FictionJuly 2015The Craftsman
by Shen Fuyu
It tells the story of the craftsmen and their families. They all come from the Shen Village, the hometown of the writer. They are gardeners, tailors and blacksmiths. From the story, we can see the change of northern Suzhou. And the writer reminisces about her hometown. The prosperity or decline of Shen Village not only shows the changes of the time, but also tells about the fate of karma.
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FictionOctober 2009Library of Chinese Classics :The Selected Poems of Du Fu
by Hua Zisheng
Du Fu (712-770), China's great poet in the Tang Dynasty. After experiencing the decline of the Tang dynasty, he witnessed the changes of the current situation, created poems that reflect the difficult and livelihood problems of the people with his extraordinary artistic talents, and was later praised for his "history of poetry." Poetry also content of the works, such as singing natural scenery, reviews of ancient and modern personnel, laments his talent description skills, portrayals of birds and animals, all have celebrated the famous works. To more than 1,400 Du Fu, greatly enriched and developed the artistic techniques of ancient Chinese poetry. Du Fu's character and poem have an extremely far-reaching impact on future generations. He is one of the most outstanding representatives of Chinese traditional culture. The book includes 135 Du Fu poetry translated by the famous American house Burton Watson.
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)2010Friend Li Bo, Brother Du Fu..
by Oleh Lysheha
Friend Li Bo, Brother Du Fu.. is a collection of prose by the Ukrainian poet Oleh Lysheha, which was on the BBC Ukraine Book of the Year award long list in 2010. According to the author, this book took him about thirty years to write. It includes, for instance, fragments of his lost fantasy novel "Peacock".
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January 2013Homecoming Travel
by Shen Cong Wen
To saw his sick mother, Shen Congwen started his journey to home and wrote down what he saw and heard and his perceptions along the journey on the letters to his wife in Beijing. Later, basing on these letters, he collated and published this prose work. Besides the natural sceneries of western Hunan he saw while sailing towards upstream of Yuan River, he mainly focused on the scenes of life, work and multiplying of the people from all walks of life in the land of western Hunan, including sailors, soldiers, miners, merchants, ordinary masses he had met. On reading the book, the hints of his concerns about the changes of Western Hunan under the influence of the age can be felt, which reflects Shen’s deep love and strong sense of responsibility for his hometown.
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These "arts" aren't too cold!
by Shen Si
"How to appreciate a painting", "How to understand art", "this painting can also be seen here", "XX Art History"... Similar books are emerging on the Internet, and homogenization is too serious. How to break out of this phenomenon, and not only talk about art history, but also blindly follow the trend and make a topic that no one else has? Cold knowledge of art seems to be "cold", but in fact it is not cold. Although it contains a lot of background knowledge of art history, it can make them "hot", so that readers who are interested in understanding art history can explore the more inner way of art history under the clues of large art history in a relaxed and pleasant reading experience. "These" Arts "Are Not Too Cold! ", aimed at breaking the general cognition and misunderstanding of the public on the art of the cold knowledge, to express a writer's attitude. Let's see what Shen says about art!
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Biography & True StoriesAugust 2014My Predestined Love with High Rail: the Oral Autobiography of SHEN Zhiyun
by SHEN Zhiyun, ZHANG Tianming, etc.
This book is the oral autobiography of SHEN Zhiyun, the senior fellow member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and the Chinese Academy of Sciences. By the recall of his science study life on the railway motors, communications and transportations, it veritably reflects the development of the Chinese railway vehicles, especially the high rail.
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April 2017Appreciation of DU Fu’s Works
by Written by DU Fu Edited by WANG Zhuo Read by ZHANG Jiasheng
This book incorporates 29 well-known poems and articles by DU Fu—a poet of China’s Tang Dynasty. Each article is equipped with notes, appreciation and translation in modern Chinese. Readers can also listen to the recordings by scanning the two-dimension code of each article or poem.
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January 1982Kung Fu
Heilgymnastik und Fitnesstraining für Körper, Geist und Seele
by Minick, Michael
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The Story of Liu Tianzuo
by Shi Zhongshan
The story takes place in the early 1980s. Liu Tianzuo has a talent for playing suona, so he was recruited into a certain art propaganda team. In the army, Liu Tianzuo's talent in playing attracted Fu Yao, a nurse in the medical department of the military department. The two fell in love, but after Fu Yao's mother objected and failed, Fu Yao also married others. A few years later, Tianzuo married before the reduction and demobilization of the army, and transferred to work in a company affiliated to the Foreign Trade Bureau. After that, he resigned and went to the sea to do feed business and earned his first pot of gold. The band was recalled and the performance was very popular. Later, a performance company was formed and became the "home of veterans" for demobilized soldiers. The business became more prosperous...
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Understanding Children for Better Communication
by Shen Lihong, Shen Like
Written by an experienced head teacher who is also a Chinese language and psychology teacher, this book addresses the psychological reasons behind children's problematic behaviors such as crying, lying, running away, and pessimism. It explores the developmental characteristics and growth rhythms of school-age and adolescent children and offers practical principles and methods for effective parent-child communication. The book aims to help parents connect with their children, identify their issues, and effectively overcome communication barriers and challenges.
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Correct Methods Make Children Study Efficiently
by Shen Lihong, Shen Like
This book provides parents with effective and practical guidance from current school teachers. It helps parents scientifically learn about children's learning and cognitive systems, and effectively improves children's learning ability and eliminates the anxiety and difficulties parents face in accompanying their children's school life.
