Dawn of the Yellow Earth
Dawn of the Yellow Earth

Author: Regina Krahl

Publisher: Art Media Resources

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13:

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This catalogue of pre-Han pottery presents a variety of regional ancient cultures and reveals China's early civilizations through 63 fine examples of ceramic artworks from the Neolithic period through the Western Zhou dynasty drawn from the renowned Meiyintang Collection. Clearly outlining the different regions and charateristics of the ceramic-producing cultures of ancient China, this volume includes information on newly excavated materials and discussion on how these Neolithic and Bronze age cultures laid the foundations for China's later artistic and cultural achievements.

Yellow Earth
Yellow Earth

Author: John Sayles

Publisher: Haymarket Books

Published: 2020-01-07

Total Pages: 414

ISBN-13: 1642590789

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In Yellow Earth, John Sayles introduces an epic cast of characters, weaving together narratives of competing agendas and worldviews with lyrical dexterity, insight, and wit. When rich layers of shale oil are discovered beneath the town of Yellow Earth, all hell breaks loose. Locals, oil workers, service workers, politicians, law enforcement, and get-rich-quick opportunists—along with an earnest wildlife biologist—commingle and collide as the population of the town triples overnight. Harleigh Killdeer, chairman of the tribal business council of the neighboring Three Nations reservation, entertains visions of "sovereignty by the barrel" and joins forces with a fast-talking entrepreneur. From casino dealers to activists and high school kids, everyone in the region is swept up in the unsparing wave of an oil boom. Sayles’s masterful storytelling draws an arc from the earliest exploitation of this land and its people all the way to twenty-first-century privatization schemes. Through the intertwining lives of its characters, Yellow Earth lays bare how the profit motive erodes human relationships, as well as our living planet. The fate of Yellow Earth serves as a parable for our times.

The Eastern Mysteries
The Eastern Mysteries

Author: David Allen Hulse

Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 662

ISBN-13: 9781567184280

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UNLOCK THE MEANING OF EASTERN MAGICK In scope and clarity, there is no book that can compare to The Eastern Mysteries. This reissue of David Allen Hulse's landmark work is the one book all students of the occult must own. It catalogs and distills, in hundreds of tables of secret symbolism, the true import of each ancient Eastern magickal tradition. Each chapter is a key that unlocks the meaning behind one of the magickal languages. Through painstaking research and analysis, Hulse has accomplished an unprecedented feat -- that of reconstructing the basic underlying systems that form the vast legacy of mystery traditions. The real genius of this accomplishment is that it is presented in a way that is immediately understandable and usable. Although the book deals with many foreign scripts, ancient tongues, and lost symbols, it is designed for the beginning student. Included is a wealth of cross references, excellent introductory material and overviews, an extensive annotated bibliography, and -- new to this edition -- a complete index.

Cinematic Landscapes
Cinematic Landscapes

Author: Linda C. Ehrlich

Publisher: University of Texas Press

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 9780292720879

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On Chinese and Japanese art and cinema.

Memoirs from the Beijing Film Academy
Memoirs from the Beijing Film Academy

Author: Zhen Ni

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2003-01-09

Total Pages: 253

ISBN-13: 0822384175

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After graduating from the Beijing Film Academy in 1982, directors like Chen Kaige and Zhang Yimou transformed Chinese cinema with Farewell My Concubine, Yellow Earth, Raise the Red Lantern, and other international successes. Memoirs from the Beijing Film Academy tells the riveting story of this class of 1982, China’s famous "Fifth Generation" of filmmakers. It is the first insider’s account of this renowned cohort to appear in English. Covering these directors’ formative experiences during China’s tumultuous Cultural Revolution and later at the Beijing Film Academy, Ni Zhen—who was both their screenwriter and teacher—provides unique insights into the origins of the Fifth Generation’s creativity. Drawing on his personal knowledge and interviews conducted especially for this volume, Ni Zhen demonstrates the diversity of the Fifth Generation. He comments on the breadth of styles and themes explored by its members and introduces a range of male and female directors, cinematographers, and production designers famous in China but less well-known internationally. The book contains vivid descriptions of the production processes of two pioneering films—One and Eight and Yellow Earth.

Cinema and Desire
Cinema and Desire

Author: Jinhua Dai

Publisher: Verso

Published: 2002-09-17

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 9781859842645

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Dai Jinhua is one of contemporary China's most influential cultural critics. This book presents a selection of her writings, with topics including Orientalism and the relationship between Mao Zedong and consumerism.

Beetlebrow the Thief
Beetlebrow the Thief

Author: Ben Parker

Publisher: eBook Partnership

Published: 2018-08-01

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 1912317672

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Two teenage girls, Beetlebrow and Pook, living in a desperate world, are trying to end the hunger aching in their streets.But first they must find their way through sinister palaces, dank dungeons, and winding mazes of alleyways, encountering kings, prostitutes, scholars and cut-throats, and delving deep into the centuries-spanning cult of the Unfinished Painting of Essum...'Beetlebrow the Thief' launches the epic adventure trilogy of their story.