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"Ocean's Eleven meets The Farewell in Portrait of a Thief, a lush, lyrical heist novel inspired by the true story of Chinese art vanishing from Western museums, about diaspora, the colonization of art, and the complexity of the Chinese American identity"--
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This poetry collection was first published in 1987 when Jan Cole lived and worked in San Francisco, but the poems were written over the course of many years, beginning with her time in university at the Newcomb College of Tulane University and at the Sorbonne. Many of the poems are set in the town of Huntsville, Texas, (where Jan was raised and lived until her passing in the summer of 2019). Still others reference friends Jan knew and worked with...
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By following the stories of nine contemporary Chinese artists, The Phoenix Years shows how China's rise unleashed creativity, thwarted hopes, and sparked tensions between the individual and the state that continue to this day. It relates the heady years of hope and creativity in the 1980s, which ended in the disaster of the Tiananmen Square massacre. Following that tragedy comes China's meteoric economic rise, and the opportunities that emerged alongside...
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Recueil de poèmes autour du thé.
Au coucher du soleil sur la terrasse
Souffle un vent printanier ; prenons le thé
Du Fu
Pour que le moine reste là
Je vais lui préparer du thé
Chang Wan
J'aime ce lieu, je ne peux le quitter
Je casserai des rameaux pour préparer le thé
Yao He
Un recueil de poèmes issus de la tradition chinoise autour du thé.
EXTRAIT DE Le petit jardin
La lune claire et haut perchée rayonne sur ma terrasse
Jeune...
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'Feng Shui Made Simple' is the perfect starting point for anyone interested in this ancient practice.
The practice of Feng Shui brings a positive balance of energy to your home and your life.
Sabrina Godwin takes you through all of the basics like:
An introduction to Feng Shui,
Yin and Yang,
The Five Elements and what they mean,
The Bagua,
Feng Shui'ing your bedroom, kitchen, and every other room in your house
It's all here!
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Analyse du goût du vintage dans le cinéma sinophone.
Analyse du goût du vintage dans le cinéma sinophone. L'auteur fait la synthèse des grands travaux qui ont étudié ce mouvement, plus complexe qu'une simple nostalgie, et s'attache à cerner, en s'appuyant sur des analyses détaillées de films de Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Edward Yang ou Tsai Ming-Liang, ce que les Taïwanais, Hongkongais ou Chinois tentent d'exprimer.
Découvrez une réflexion qui...
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This book explains and illustrates as many varieties of Ming ceramics as possible. The text is based primarily on information obtained from Chinese sources and the occasional notes made by Europeans who visited China in Ming times. To these, Mr. Hobson has added his own penetrating deductions, made after careful study of well-authenticated specimens and of observation by earlier scholars. His presentation is not only clear and precise but also incontestably...
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Partez à la découverte de Wang Wei avec ce Grand Article Universalis !
Choyé par la noblesse, il est poète de cour. Lauréat des concours impériaux et haut fonctionnaire, il est poète lettré. Cependant, hors de la capitale, il aménage une résidence de campagne et se réserve des jours de loisir et de méditation. Il partage les goûts de son temps pour la musique, la calligraphie, la peinture et la poésie, et excelle dans chacun de ces...
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The ancient Chinese art of Feng-Shui, the basis of man's relationship with the land, has practitioners and followers throughout the Western world, from rural communities to big cities. Not just an Eastern practice any more, Feng-Shui can be found around the globe. Feng-Shui is an art that stresses the importance of living in harmony with nature. The Chinese believe that the earth has channels of energy known as 'dragon-lines', comparable with the...
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This Chinese art history book is a study of a single poet-artist-Wang Wei-perhaps the most influential of antiquity. This eighth-century genius, whose versatility is comparable to that of the great Italian Leonardo da Vinci, lived during the Tang Dynasty when the most brilliant cultural period in Chinese history was at its height. Whatever he attempted-as artist, poet, musician, doctor and official-he performed with a master's touch. As a poet he...
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