historical dictionary of baroque art and architecture by lillian h zirpolo

... courses on Renaissance art through the art of the 18th cen- tury. Obviously she has a specialization, which is Renaissance and Baroque art, on which she has written extensively. This is quite normal for ... types, and materials in world architecture. Allison Lee Palmer is professor of art history at the University of Oklahoma. ARTS • ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY Architecture Arc hitecture HD Architecture. indd ... Lee Palmer, who is an associate professor of art history at the University of Oklahoma, a place where ar- chitecture is particularly appreciated. There she teaches in the School of Art, giving...

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... Taiwan and China, The Theme of Exile in Chinese Poetry and Fiction, Chi- nese Theater, and others. Along with various articles and papers, she has written the book Cihai wenhui (Magic of the Word: ... Univer- sity of Texas, she reacquainted herself with the Chinese literary tradi- tion that she had grown up with and enrolled in a combined program of English and American literature and Chinese literature. ... Zhenyun.” In The Mouth That Begs: Hunger, Cannibalism, and the Politics of Eating in Modern China. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1999, 228–62. 466 • ABOUT THE AUTHOR phy and has taught...

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... and Chinese literature is much easier to fathom in the context of its historical and literary trends. Providing this context, and introducing the authors and their works, is the main task of ... consists of regions, some of which have their own traditions, such as Tibet, and also that Chinese writers not only live and create in the People’s Republic of China but also the Republic of China ... LITERATURE MODERN CHINESE LITERATURE LI-HUA YING HISTORICAL DICTIONARY OF Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts, No. 35 Modern Chinese literature has been flourishing for more than a century, with varying degrees of intensity...

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... informative than the few entries I have devoted to the genre. Finally, the unfailing love and support my husband, Charles Chao, and son, Kyle Chao, have shown me have sustained me throughout the years. ... xie she (Shanghai Theater Association), and the Chinese Communist Party founded. The first issue of Xiju (Theater Weekly) published. Yu Dafu’s Chenlun (Sinking), the first collection of short ... many au- thors in Southeast Asia, which has large Chinese communities still creat- ing and reading literature in the Chinese language. For that and many other reasons, this dictionary is by no means...

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... people who maintain their uniqueness while sharing an ethnic and the roots of their country’s plight in the Chinese traditions, particularly Con- fucianism, which, in their view, had run its ... grapple with the complexity of the field are Dominic Cheung, David Der-wei Wang, and Shu-mei Shih, who have proposed, each with his or her own empha- sis, a new conceptualizing framework and terminology: ... established by historians and saw the May Fourth Movement, which dominated Chinese intellectual discourse in the 20th century, as the force behind the emergence and development of China’s literary...

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... examinations of the human condition. The core of his poetry, however, has remained 10 • BEI DAO, PEN NAME OF ZHAO ZHENKAI sociation. He published Bai Lian cheng gang (The Tempering of Steel), and Nan ... For his depiction of Chinese country life and his examination of the psyche of the Chinese peasants, Bi is considered an important newcomer in the root-seeking movement, although he started his ... themselves when their village party secretary father falls from power as a result of sex scandals; Pingyuan (The Plain), which explores the mind-set of the peasants and their hard life in the...

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... tells how a psychologist maintains her professional authority when dealing with her patients who seek her advice while trying to sort out her own messy relationships with her husband and her ... and continued his work in the theater, leading and performing with troupes such as the Shanghai Film Troupe and the China Dramatic Arts Society. Many of the plays he wrote during this period denounced ... poetry and fiction in middle school. His first work, a short story, was published in 1925 in Xiaoshuo shijie (Fiction World). Chen attended the Shanghai Institute of Arts and the South China...

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... larger-than-life heroes such as those portrayed in such novels as Ouyang Hai zhi ge (The Song of Ouyang Hai) and Huanghai hong shao (The Red Sentry of the Yellow Sea) were the only mode of expression. ... Prospects) and Chen zhong xiangche huanghun (Morning Bells Ring through Dusk) are some examples. Wei Manzhouguo (The Puppet State of Manchuria), on the other hand, marks a radical departure from her ... against the high-handed policies of the Nationalist government, Chen became an ardent supporter of Maoist China. At Johns Hopkins University, she met her future husband, Duan Shiyao, a Ph.D. student...

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... camera, book, and other daily goods have been invented and made and their relationship with the individual, the family, and the city. Through the portrayal of the life and work of the writer/protagonist, ... fought oftentimes violently for the hearts and minds of the locals in the first half of the 20th century. The novel unfolds a multiethnic, multicultural history hitherto unknown to many Chinese. ... zhen (The Beginning of Things: The True Life of Xuxu) and Shijian fan shi: Yaci zhi guang (A Complex History of Time: Yaci’s Light), parts one and two of his Ziran shi sanbuqu (Trilogy of a Natu- ral...

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... amount of writings on the people and cultures of the region, most notable of which is Zuihou yige Xiongnu (The Last Huns), part 1 of his Trilogy of the Great Northwest, which also includes Zuihou ... Shunda Builds a House) and “Chen Huansheng shangcheng” (Chen Huansheng’s Adventure in Town), both dealing with the changes brought about by Deng Xiaoping’s economic reforms in the Chinese countryside. ... practice of foot-binding. Shen bian is a mixture of the picaresque and the realist modes and it has the characteristics of the classical Chinese historical novels with a Robin Hood–type hero....

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... auspices of Mao’s wife Jiang Qing and her associates. Since the fall of the Gang of Four, Hao has published a number of short story collections and two novels, Shanshui qing (Love of the Land) and ... red-light district of Tangxi. Through the individual stories of three generations of cour- tesans and prostitutes, the author re-creates the history of Hong Kong. The influential Hao men han men ... phi- losophies of life. Using her voice to represent the authorial perspective, Hai Xin passes moral judgment on the values that permeate the Hong Kong society. HAI ZI, PEN NAME OF CHA HAISHENG...

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... poetry had to start with form and language. The fixed rhyming schemes, which had once been revolutionary, had gone stale and fossilized. Likewise, he told his readers, classical Chinese, which had ... distinguished career as a scholar of Chinese philosophy, literature, and intellectual history. His scholarly publications, including Zhongguo zhexue shi dagang (An Outline of the History of Chinese ... member of Nan guo she (South China Society) led by Tian Han, Ouyang Yuqian, and painter Xu Beihong, and the Left-wing Association of Chinese Writers. In the Chinese theater of the 1920s and 1930s,...

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... a ghost, seeing and hearing everything. Through the madman’s grievances against his rival, the husband of the actress, the author accentuates the contrast between the values of the city and ... Among these, Shangzhou is the most innovative. The book consists of eight chapters and each chapter contains three episodes. The first episode of each chapter deals exclusively with local history, ... romantic dream is shattered by the Bolshe- vik victory, which took away her privileged lifestyle and sent her and her once dashing husband into exile in Shanghai. In the Chinese city, economic...

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... the other. Lihun (Divorce) exposes the injustice of the bureaucratic system through the portrayal of two office clerks, the old-fashioned Big Brother Zhang and the crafty Little Zhao. Lao She ... occupation highlights the plight of the Chinese people. After the war, Lao She and the playwright Cao Yu went to America on a lecture tour as guests of the U.S. State Department. When his year- 90 ... indifference and their complete abandonment of culture in favor of perpetual revolution. The novel conveys his deep concern for the Chinese society plagued by xenophobia, on the one hand, and the rush...

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... villagers. At the end of the story, he floats to the middle of the river in his small boat, content in the thought that he will die in the embrace of the river he calls his “mistress.” He is the last ... in the Henan dialect, which is the author’s native tongue, invoking the allusion that the story of Ge Ren is the story of every individual who has gone through the social and political upheav- als ... until the 1990s, even though he was already a published author in the mid-1970s. Houtu (The Solid Earth) is a series of short stories about poor peasants whose character traits contain both shrewd- ness...

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