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The moving tale of a young girl with an indomitable spirit, wonderful humour and a thirsty intelligence. (For this item please quote stock ID 27969) ISBN: 9781844081806

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Fugui, the prodigal son of a wealthy country Chinese landowner, spends his days and nights in town drinking and whoring. He has little respect for his father and less for his father-in-law, whom he frequently mocks with impunity. He neglects his daughter and is abusive toward his wife. With no redeemable qualities whatsoever, Fugui seems an unlikely main character for Yu Hua’s best-selling novel, To Live. It is only in losing everything, that Fugui undergoes a profound psycho-spiritual transformation, and thereon gradually gains our sympathy and our interest. Yu Hua was born in 1960 in Hangzhou, the son of medical doctors destined to enter a career in dentistry. Constrained by that profession’s rigidity and unable to quell a need to create, Yu Hua started writing in 1983. Since that time he has published three novels, six collections of stories, and three collections of essays. To Live, his second novel published in 1994, was adapted for film by Zhang Yimou. The movie was banned in China, making the novel a bestseller instantly and Hua an overnight celebrity. To Live will be released this month for the first time in English translation. To Live is an epic and heartbreaking journey spanning four decades of recent Chinese history. It begins in the 1930s around the time of China’s second war with Japan and continues into the late 1970s reform era. In between, Hua weaves great sorrow and struggle for Fugui and his family through the tempestuous Chinese Civil War, The Great Leap Forward, and The Cultural Revolution. Fugui, whose life is one characterized by loss, remains constant in his will to live and his simple gratitude for what little he has: “As long as our family could be together everyday, who really cared about good fortune?” The history of the Xu family and of their terrible circumstances is too sad to repeat here, and anyway it would be a crime to hoard all the tears by telling it to you - Yu Hua does a better job at that than I ever could. With deceptively simple language, he weaves characters of great spirit and resilience who endure despite the appallingly bad hand fate continues to deal them. (For this item please quote stock ID 27478) ISBN: 9787532125944

The moving tale of a young girl with an indomitable spirit, wonderful humour and a thirsty intelligence. (For this item please quote stock ID 27932) ISBN: 9787530947784

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Fugui, the prodigal son of a wealthy country Chinese landowner, spends his days and nights in town drinking and whoring. He has little respect for his father and less for his father-in-law, whom he frequently mocks with impunity. He neglects his daughter and is abusive toward his wife. With no redeemable qualities whatsoever, Fugui seems an unlikely main character for Yu Hua’s best-selling novel, To Live. It is only in losing everything, that Fugui undergoes a profound psycho-spiritual transformation, and thereon gradually gains our sympathy and our interest. Yu Hua was born in 1960 in Hangzhou, the son of medical doctors destined to enter a career in dentistry. Constrained by that profession’s rigidity and unable to quell a need to create, Yu Hua started writing in 1983. Since that time he has published three novels, six collections of stories, and three collections of essays. To Live, his second novel published in 1994, was adapted for film by Zhang Yimou. The movie was banned in China, making the novel a bestseller instantly and Hua an overnight celebrity. To Live will be released this month for the first time in English translation. To Live is an epic and heartbreaking journey spanning four decades of recent Chinese history. It begins in the 1930s around the time of China’s second war with Japan and continues into the late 1970s reform era. In between, Hua weaves great sorrow and struggle for Fugui and his family through the tempestuous Chinese Civil War, The Great Leap Forward, and The Cultural Revolution. Fugui, whose life is one characterized by loss, remains constant in his will to live and his simple gratitude for what little he has: “As long as our family could be together everyday, who really cared about good fortune?” The history of the Xu family and of their terrible circumstances is too sad to repeat here, and anyway it would be a crime to hoard all the tears by telling it to you - Yu Hua does a better job at that than I ever could. With deceptively simple language, he weaves characters of great spirit and resilience who endure despite the appallingly bad hand fate continues to deal them. (For this item please quote stock ID 35291) ISBN: 9787506355957

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Features >Written for the VCE Study Design 2008-2010 >Chinese-English translation practice >Audio CD plus transcripts for Listening tasks >Solutions for practice exams, revision exercises and sample tasks Contents >Preparing for the Chinese Examinations >How to Approach the Oral Examination >How to Approach the Written Examination >Sample tasks with answers >Practice Exams with Answers >Quick Revision Exercises >Tear-out Daily Study Planner About the Author 'Author Tong Zhou has had over 10 years experience of teaching Chinese at Melbourne Grammar School. He is a graduate of Tianjin Foreign Studies University and went on to study education at Deakin Univeristy. He also has been an experienced oral and written assessor in the three categories of VCE Chinese First Language, Chinese Second Language Advance and Chinese Second Language in Victoria for many years. His successful and valuable experience contributes a lot to this book, The Leading Edge VCE Guide: Chinese Second Language.' (For this item please quote stock ID 30214) ISBN: 9781442502161

In a small, desperately poor village in north-east China, a young peasant boy sits at his rickety old school desk, interested more in the birds outside than in Chairman Mao's Red Book and the grand words it contains. But that day, some strange men come to his school - Madame Mao's cultural delegates. They are looking for young peasants to mould into faithful guards of Chairman Mao's great vision for China. The boy watches as one of his classmates is chosen and led away. His teacher hesitates. Will she or won't she? She very nearly doesn't. But at the last moment she taps the official on the shoulder and points to the small boy. 'What about that one?' she says. This is the true story of how that one moment in time, by the thinnest thread of a chance, changed the course of a small boy's life in some ways that are beyond description. One day he would dance with some of the greatest ballet companies of the world. One day he would be a friend to a president and first lady, movie stars and the most influential people in America. One day he would become a star: Mao's last dancer, and the darling of the West. (For this item please quote stock ID 27506) ISBN: 9787807411086