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World Heritage Craze in China Universal Discourse, National Culture, and Local Memory


Free Download Haiming Yan, "World Heritage Craze in China: Universal Discourse, National Culture, and Local Memory"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 1800734468, 1785338048 | EPUB | pages: 242 | 4.5 mb
There is a World Heritage Craze in China. China claims to have the longest continuous civilization in the world and is seeking recognition from UNESCO. This book explores three dimensions of the UNESCO World Heritage initiative with particular relevance for China: the universal agenda, the national practices, and the local responses. With a sociological lens, this book offers comprehensive insights into World Heritage, as well as China’s deep social, cultural, and political structures.

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Goldfish in the Parlour The Victorian Craze for Marine Life


Free Download Goldfish in the Parlour: The Victorian Craze for Marine Life by John Simons
English | January 3rd, 2023 | ISBN: 1743328729 | 320 pages | True EPUB | 3.06 MB
For the first time, fish became our companions and a corner of many a Victorian parlour was given over to housing tiny fragments of their world enclosed in glass.’

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The Dan Brown Craze


Free Download Aiping Zhang Zhenwu Zhu, "The Dan Brown Craze"
English | ISBN: 144389026X | 2016 | 400 pages | PDF | 5 MB
Since the Chinese translation of The Da Vinci Code was released in China in 2004, the Dan Brown Craze has swept across the country. All of Browns novels have subsequently been translated into Chinese and sold millions of copies. No living foreign writer has generated so much media coverage and scholarship in China within such a short period of time; not even Toni Morrison or J.K. Rowling. Browns rendering of dichotomies, such as science and religion, humanity and divinity, good and evil, and liberty and privacy, resonates well with his Chinese readers because they feel that these issues are no longer irrelevant to them. They see an urgent need for a revision, if not an entire redefinition, of their existing beliefs and values. This book examines the Description, characterization, themes, setting, codes, knowledge, institutions, and techniques in his novels, and delivers a careful textual analysis, a selective dissemination of relevant information on different subjects, and a perceptive comparison between Brown and other Chinese and Western writers. As such, it shows how his thrillers have been appreciated and studied in China, and what kinds of discoveries, challenges, controversies, and insights have surfaced in the Chinese appreciation of Browns novels. Furthermore, the book explores why the Dan Brown Craze has lasted this long and exerted a broad and far-reaching impact upon the reading, writing, studying, translating, publishing, and marketing of fiction in China.

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