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In honour of Chinese New Year, we offer you some Chinese-themed recommended reading.
May the year of the rabbit bring you many happy tidings!
Chinese Shadow Theatre: History, Popular Religion, and Women Warriors
by Fan Pen Li Chen
In her study of Chinese shadow theatre Fan Pen Li Chen documents and corrects misconceptions about this once-popular art form. Drawing on extensive research and fieldwork, she argues that these plays served a mainly religious function during the Qing dynasty and that the appeal of women warrior characters reflected the lower classes' high tolerance for the unorthodox and subversive.
Phoenix: The Life of Norman Bethune
by Roderick Stewart and Sharon Stewart
Restless, dynamic, conflicted, a surgeon, an artist, and a writer, Norman Bethune was an extraordinary Canadian. Brilliant, yet erratic, Bethune's life was characterized by cycles of achievement and self-destruction and his adventurous spirit led him from the operating rooms of Montreal to the battlegrounds of Spain and China.
In Phoenix: The Life of Norman Bethune Roderick and Sharon Stewart provide the intriguing details of Bethune's controversial career as a surgeon, his turbulent personal life, his passionate crusade to eradicate tuberculosis, and his pioneering commitment to the establishment of medicare in Canada.
Phoenix (May 2011 publication) is available for pre-order.
In the Eye of the China Storm: A Life Between East and West
by Paul T.K. Lin with Eileen Chen Lin
Paul T.K. Lin was a Chinese Canadian scholar and unofficial intermediary between China and Canada during the most turbulent decades of the twentieth century. The memoir he began late in life remained unfinished after his death until his wife, Eileen Chen Lin, completed the manuscript.
In the Eye of the China Storm is the story of Paul Lin's life and of his efforts – as a scholar, teacher, business consultant, and community leader – to overcome the mutual suspicion that distanced China from the West. A proud patriot, he was devastated by the Chinese government's violent suppression of student protestors at Tiananmen Square in June 1989, but never lost faith in the Chinese people, nor hope for China's bright future.
In the Eye of the China Storm (June 2011 publication) is available for pre-order.
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