Bøger af Hong Xiao

Xiao Hong was born on the day of the Dragon Boat Festival to a landowning family. Her mother died when she was young. In 1930 she ran away to Beijing to avoid a planned marriage, though was eventually followed by her fiance Wang Dianjia. In 1932, after she became pregnant her fiance abandoned her at a hotel in Harbin. She narrowly avoided being sold to a brothel by the hotel's owner by scraping together over six hundred yuan expenses. Wretched, alone, and pregnant, Xiao Hong looked to the local newspaper publisher for help. The newspaper's editor, Xiao Jun saved Xiao Hong during a flood of the Songhua river. They began to live together, during which time Xiao Hong started writing. In June 1934, Xiao Hong wrote a novel entitled The Field of Life and Death. The book was a gripping account of the tortured lives of several peasant women. In October, Xiao Hong moved to Shanghai's French concession. With Lu Xun's help, The Field of Life and Death was published in 1935, bringing Xiao Hong fame among Shanghai's modernist literary circle. At the time, Lu Xun declared that Xiao Hong would one day surpass Ding Ling as China's most celebrated female writer. In January 1940, Xiao Hong moved to Hong Kong, and took residence in Tsim Sha Tsui in Kowloon. While in Hong Kong, Xiao Hong wrote her most successful novel, The River of Hulan, based on her childhood memories, along with a number of short stories based on her childhood, such as Spring in a Small Town.

A practical guide for beginners learning Mandarin Chinese as a second language. With the busy reader in mind, each lesson aims to bring fast acquaintance to certain basic of the language to the readers and help them acquire ability in speaking the language.

A practical guide for learning and getting by in Mandarin Chinese for adult learners. With the busy reader in mind, each lesson works first to bring fast acquisition and build practical ability in speaking the language.

A complete resource on theory and computation, this book will be of interest to a range of practitioners, from mathematicians interested in prolate spheroidal wave functions as an analytical tool to electrical engineers designing filters and antennas.

An study of the link between social structure and child-rearing values in the USA and China. The author's objectives are to examine the underlying structure of child-rearing values, discover the dynamics of the determinants of child-rearing values, and compare the patterns of the two countries.

This collection carries some of Xiao Hong's most famous short stories such as ""On the Oxcart"", ""Spring in a Small Town"", ""The Family Outsider"", ""Flight from Danger"", ""Vague Expectations"", ""Hands"" and ""The Bridge"".