Growing Up under a Red Flag
Growing Up under a Red Flag

Author: Ying Chang Compestine

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2024-05-07

Total Pages: 41

ISBN-13: 0593533984

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A stirring and magnificently illustrated picture-book memoir of the author’s childhood during the Chinese Cultural Revolution Ying Chang Compestine was a young girl in 1966 when Mao launched his Cultural Revolution to reclaim power and eliminate non-communist values in the country. His army began punishing and arresting people who didn’t agree with him, foreign reading material was banned, and children were all required to dress in uniform and carry the Little Red Book of Mao’s teachings. It was a time of fear, mayhem, and scarcity that lasted until Mao’s death ten years later, when Ying was thirteen. Through those ten harrowing years, Ying’s parents found ways to secretly educate her and allow her dreams of visiting America to stay vibrant. Now she brings her childhood story and China’s history to life in this absorbing and beautiful picture book.

Growing up with the Gauleiter
Growing up with the Gauleiter

Author: Richard Lord

Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd

Published: 2017-02-07

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 1788036719

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He thinks in time-lines and relates whatever he comes across to its origins in the past. So while readers will discover what happened to the Lord family between 1939 and 1945 - not much really, they had it dead cushy - the narrative is interspersed with interpretation and discussion about how the war changed things. Although Richard inevitably became a history teacher, his lifelong passion for retrospection was triggered, long before he could even read, by three things - the pictures in an old schoolbook, wartime news bulletins read by the BBC’s Alvar Liddell, and what his Dad told him about how it had been in the trenches in 1918. Although the author takes his history seriously he is typically irreverent and usually up for a laugh. There is also a poignant element in a memoir that sometimes takes a confessional turn.

Growing Up in the People’s Republic
Growing Up in the People’s Republic

Author: W. Ye

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2005-12-10

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13: 1403982074

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In a conversational style and in chronological sequence, Ye Weili and Ma Xiaodong recount their earlier lives in China from the 1950s to the 1980s, a particularly eventful period that included the catastrophic Cultural Revolution. Using their own stories as two case studies, they examine the making of a significant yet barely understood generation in recent Chinese history. They also reflect upon the mixed legacy of the early decades of the People's Republic of China (PRC). In doing so, the book strives for a balance between critical scrutiny of a complex era and the sweeping rejection of that era that recent victim literature embraces. Ultimately Ye and Ma intend to reconnect themselves to a piece of land and a period of history that have given them a sense of who they are. Their stories contain intertwining layers of personal, generational, and historical experiences. Unlike other memoirs that were written soon after the events of the Cultural Revolution, Ye and Ma's narratives have been put together some twenty years later, allowing for more critical distance. The passage of time has allowed them to consider important issues that other accounts omit, such as the impact of gender during this period of radical change in Chinese women's lives.

When Will My Grown-up Kid Grow Up?
When Will My Grown-up Kid Grow Up?

Author: Jeffrey Jensen Arnett

Publisher: Workman Publishing

Published: 2013-01-01

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 0761162410

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Helps parents of adult children understand the stage of development called "emerging adulthood" and explains how to lead young adults who are going through a period of self-focus and instability into successful adulthood.

Growing Up Evangelical
Growing Up Evangelical

Author: Peter Ward

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2013-04-29

Total Pages: 253

ISBN-13: 1620329816

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This groundbreaking and provocative book charts the recent history and impact of Christian youth work. It argues that the extraordinary growth of the evangelical movement in the UK can be attributed to its work among young people, and demonstrates how the youth work of one generation shapes the adult church of a later one. Peter Ward opens up vital areas of debate - has youth work become primarily defensive, rather than evangelical? Are we afraid to engage creatively with modern culture? What hope is there for the church of the future?

Red Flags
Red Flags

Author: Gary S. Aumiller

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 1999-09-01

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 110111908X

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Sure, he's gorgeous, funny, and charming—but early in any doomed relationship there are warning signals foretelling the bad news to come. Studies show that most women will try to justify these signs, excusing them so they don't interfere with their fantasy of having met the perfect man. Unfortunately, such signs are usually all too prophetic—they are the essence of what Gary Aumiller and Daniel Goldfarb call "Red Flags." The question then becomes how to detect and respond to a Red Flag before it's too late. This first-of-its-kind book will help readers determine a man's all-important "loser potential" within the first three dates. Each chapter includes a profile of a different loser, a post-date quiz to help you determine if Mr. Right is Mr. Wrong, and important information about the best way to break up with him. Red Flags has all the fun of a magazine quiz combined with the expertise of psychologists who specialize in the techniques used by the police to profile criminals. They know how to spot the rejects—and now you will, too!

Critical Zone 2
Critical Zone 2

Author: Q.S. Tong

Publisher: Hong Kong University Press

Published: 2007-02-01

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 9789622097995

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Despite globalizing forces, whether economic, political, or cultural, there remain conspicuous differences that divide scholarly communities. How should we understand and respond to those discursive gaps among different traditions and systems of knowledge production? Critical Zone is a book series in cultural and literary studies that is concerned with current critical debates and intellectual preoccupations in the humanities. The series aims to improve understanding across cultures, traditions, discourses, and disciplines, and to produce international critical knowledge. Critical Zone is an expression of timely collaboration among scholars from Hong Kong, mainland China, the United States, and Europe, and conceived as an intellectual bridge between China and the rest of the world. The second volume of Critical Zone, as does its predecessor, consists of two parts. The first part includes original essays that deal with the concept and practice of "empire," as a collective response to the question of how imperial formations and operations, in the past and at present, should be examined in a larger context of international politics and how historical imperialism may be considered in relation to the conditions of our time. Part II includes two sets of translations of essays, first published in Chinese, about two recent debates in China: one on the canonicity of Lu Xun and the other on the problem of how to reform Peking University in the context of globalization. These two groups of translations are led by review essays that contextualize the debates.

Red Flag Relationships
Red Flag Relationships

Author: Debra S. Cole MEd LPC

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2013-06-11

Total Pages: 190

ISBN-13: 1475990731

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In Red Flag Relationships, author Debra S. Cole, MEd, LPC addresses the issue of warning signs in personal relationships, business relationships, and several other types of relationships in a straightforward manner. Cole offers the ultimate red flags that pose the most threat, as well as a four-step strategy to help the reader learn how to respond to red flags. Weve all either asked ourselves or heard another ask How could this have happened? There must have been a sign, how did I miss it? Learning to recognize the warning signs helps, but one must also have a strategy of how to respond once a warning sign has been acknowledged. In a sense, learning what red flags to watch for on ones journey through life is a form of emotional emergency preparedness. In addition, there is a lot of practical information in this book about how we interact with the world around us. Cole explains what constitutes healthy vs. unhealthy relationships to help the reader improve all of his or her relationships. Having healthy relationships is the most reward-ing experience in life.

Raising Kids Who Blossom
Raising Kids Who Blossom

Author: Kathy Slattengren

Publisher:

Published: 2018-09-04

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 9781984205766

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In this practical book, Kathy Slattengren, parenting expert and author of award-winning Priceless Parenting's online parenting classes, offers healthy parenting strategies. Using these ideas will help your children blossom - growing into their best selves. You will learn parenting approaches that work well based on research and use in actual families. Key elements for guiding and encouraging your kids are explained using real-life stories. You'll also discover parenting techniques to avoid - tempting though they may be! When you put in place these best practices, you can expect a lot more joy and a lot less yelling and nagging. Raising Kids Who Blossom covers a wide range of topics. You'll find parenting advice for things like: getting your kids to respond the first time you ask guiding your children to solve their own problems standing firm without arguing helping your kids develop habits to succeed in school setting limits on digital media usage giving your children appropriate responsibility noticing red flag behaviors that indicate serious problems defining and practicing your family's top moral values practicing essential, stress reducing self-care following your parenting intuition Questions at the end of each section help you determine how to use the ideas with your own family. The book includes 20 positive approaches for responding to your children's misbehavior. Since each child is different, you'll be able to find a response that works best for you. You'll also learn how to help your kids build life skills. These skills will allow them to successfully launch as capable young adults. Whether your kids are toddlers or teens, you'll be helping them grow into responsible, caring people. Parenting can be a pleasure or a pain. When you have the right tools, you will experience more pleasure. Raising Kids Who Blossom gives you tools for effectively handling day-to-day struggles. This book will help you guide your kids to blossom into their own beautiful, brilliance!