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All the rage in the 1920s, the art of pique assiette is back in vogue all over the world. Literally translated in French as "broken plate," pique assiette uses bits and pieces of a variety of materials from broken china to stones and shells to create mosaic-like works of art.
Pique Assiette is the only book artists and crafters of all ability levels will need to master this fun and exciting technique. The first section of the book walks readers step-by-step through choosing and collecting materials, creating designs and patterns, perfecting bonding and grouting techniques, and polishing and displaying finished pieces. Part two features beautiful pique assiette pieces from the simply made to the more elaborate, and lists the techniques and materials used for each along with full-color, step-by-step instructional photos.
From furniture pieces to accessories and gifts to murals and art, these pique assiette pieces will be admired by high-end collectors and flea-market aficionados alike.
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Very dissapointed.......2005-05-02
I bought this book because I was interested in Pique Assiette and the only other review said it was very good. Now after buying it I see that every single project has exactly the same instructions! Basically you are reading the same text over and over again and all thats changing is the photos. Take my word, save your money and buy something else.
A great "how-to" book, great gallery.......2003-11-05
This book does a really great job of teaching you how to create really fun projects. Simple, easy to follow instructions. The gallery section is very cool, with all kinds of great art that will spark new ideas for stuff you can create for your house and garden.
Loved it!
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- A classic study of life in the modern Chinese countryside
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Broken Earth: The Rural Chinese
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Good for its time, but has outlived its usefulness........2002-10-08
This sociological study of rural SE China was important for its time (the early 1980s). After 1972, the PRC started letting in journalists and academics on carefully scripted tours of model villages. For the next 8 years, countless books and articles were produced from these tours presenting naive glowing reports of peasants whistling while they work (though, there was one legitimate village study, based on exile interviews--William Parish and Martin Whyte's "Village and Family in Contemporary China"). Mosher's book provided a necessary corrective to that uncritical tidal wave, pointing out the darker side of rural life under the PRC dictatorship.
However, in the 1980s and 1990s, there have been numerous book length village studies by top scholars and locals (see my list), and numerous articles (see Jonathan Unger "The Transformation of Rural China" for a collection of outstanding articles by someone who has traveled all over rural China for 20 years). These village studies and articles, unlike the 1970s claptrap, present a balanced view of rural China under the PRC. In this new context, Mosher's book is one sided in the negative direction.
Another reason this book is dated is that the one child policy, which gets ample attention in this book, was much more rigid and brutal in the 1979-85 period than it is now (peasant resistance forced the regime to ease up somewhat). So, while it's important to document the abuses in this period for history's sake, to know what's going on regarding population control today, one has to look elsewhere. A particularly good place is the article "Implementation of State Family Planning Programmes in a Northern Chinese Village" by Zhang Weiguo, found in the journal China Quarterly March 1999. As Zhang's article makes clear, there are plenty of abuses today as well, but quite different from the early 1980s.
Personal review.......1999-11-30
While I received this book as a second-hand gift consequent to a library sale, I enthusiastically recommend its purchase to anyone interested in China and day to day life events. Mr. Mosher provides detailed descriptions of villagers in southern China in the early 1980's. Through his writings, one is able to visualize events of daily life which may be far different than the images noted during a tourist visit to China. His comments are thoughtful and sometimes provocative. I yearned to learn more. Detailed narratives are provided from villagers reguarding some of the more controversial aspects of rural life in China in the 1980's (ie. birth control, the one-child policy etc.).
A classic study of life in the modern Chinese countryside.......1999-08-11
This book is simply one of the best books about China ever written. Professor Mosher actually lived in a farm village in the southern Chinese province of Kwangtung for several years before writing this book summing up his research (he is fluent in Cantonese). The result is elegantly written, sharply observant and richly compassionate towards the good, simple country folk he lived among. Thanks to Prof. Mosher's heretical conclusion (based partly on the testimony of his village correspondents themselves) that life for the Chinese peasant was actually better before their so-called "liberation" by the Communists, Prof. Mosher is now persona non grata in mainland China, but that hasn't stopped him from continuing to be the most insightful commentator on Chinese life--especially the lives of ordinary Chinese--in the West today. An absolutely essential book for those interested in contemporary China!
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"Chea, how come good doesn't win over evil?" young Chanrithy Him asks her sister, after the brutal Khmer Rouge have seized power in Cambodia, but before hunger makes them too weak for philosophy. Chea answers only with a proverb: When good and evil are thrown together into the river of life, first the klok or squash (representing good) will sink, and the armbaeg or broken glass (representing evil) will float. But the broken glass, Chea assures her, never floats for long: "When good appears to lose, it is an opportunity for one to be patient, and become like God."
Before this proverb could come true, Chanrithy had to watch her mother, father, and five of her brothers and sisters die, murdered by the Khmer Rouge or fatally weakened by malnutrition, disease, and overwork. Now living in Oregon, where she studies posttraumatic stress disorder among Cambodian survivors, Chanrithy has written a first-person account of the killing fields that's remarkable for both its unflinching honesty and its refusal to despair. In wrenchingly immediate prose, she describes atrocities the rest of the world might prefer to ignore: her sick yet still breathing mother, thrown along with corpses into a well; a pregnant woman beaten to death with a spade, the baby struggling inside her; a sister impossibly swollen with edema, her starving body leaking fluid from the webbing between her toes.
The mind retreats from horrors like these--and yet what emerges most strongly from this memoir is the triumph of life. Chanrithy is determined to honor her pledge to the dying Chea, to study medicine so she can help others live. When Broken Glass Floats accomplishes the same goal in a different way. "As a survivor, I want to be worthy of the suffering that I endured," Chanrithy writes; by giving such eloquent voice to her dead, she has proven herself more than worthy of her suffering--and theirs. --Chloe Byrne
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In this mesmerizing story, finalist for the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize, Chanrithy Him vividly recounts her trek through the hell of the "killing fields." She gives us a child's-eye view of a Cambodia where rudimentary labor camps for both adults and children are the norm and modern technology no longer exists. Death becomes a companion in the camps, along with illness. Yet through the terror, the members of Chanrithy's family remain loyal to one another, and she and her siblings who survive will find redeemed lives in America. 15 b/w photographs.
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A Trek to the Past.......2007-08-18
When Broken Glass Floats is the author's journey to find the magic of a world lost as a result of the Khmer Rouge. This book, as a personal account of the Khmer Rouge regime, is also my personal journey as a reader and a Khmer person. Through this magical journey, my own forgotten memories are awakened and many traditional beliefs that I have pushed to the back of my mind resurface.
I was too young to have memories of the Killing Fields, but I have heard enough stories to feel connected to it. There were gaps missing in my memory and this book filled those gaps. When Broken Glass Floats is poetic and touching, a book rooted in the author's desire to let the world know about the tragic death of her family. It begins when her memories are awakened as a result of her work as an interpreter and interviewer for the Khmer Adolescent Project, studying post-traumatic stress disorder among Cambodian survivors. This is a story of triumph, survival, and hope written from the Khmer soul of a Cambodian-American woman.
When Broken Glass Floats is a book with two moving and powerful purposes: one, as a therapeutic tool for the author, and, two, as a reminder of an event that should never have occurred. The author describes her book as a way "to use the power of words to caution the world, and in the process to heal myself" (p. 23). The process of writing the book became a trek to the Himalayas, "a search to recapture the long-lost magic in [her] life" (p. 23). My travels have taken me to the Himalayas. I have been seeking magic for my own healing like the author of When Broken Glass Floats. The process of reading her book and other autobiographies has provided much healing. I recommend this book for everyone who is interested in this subject, but in particular to Cambodian-Americans, because this book can take you on a journey into yourself, your soul, memories, and past.
Good reading in preparation for Cambodia trip.......2007-03-15
I read this first and then Pol Pot, by Philip Short, in preparation for a trip to Cambodia. The combination was excellent. Short's historical, researched book helped me analyze what had happened and why. Him's book gave a personal story to go with it. While I traveled in Cambodia, I thought back to her comments as often as I remembered Short's history. Together, they gave me a much better travel experience.
Heart-Wrenching.......2006-11-05
this is one of the most heart-wrenching stories I've ever heard told, and it well illustrates what can happen when such a ridiculous, unrealistic political ideology as fanatical socialism/communism - and its well-armed proponents - cause a country to self-destruct. I read this book while in Cambodia, so it had all that much more impact, and I constantly found myself looking at older people - and there seemed to be disporportionately very few people over the age of about 50, which in itself is probably part of the story - and wondering what they went through, or what they inflicted on others, back in those horrible Khmer Rouge days.
Should be required reading.......2006-07-01
I met Ms. Him at a book signing and have a hardcover signed by her. She is a beautiful, gentle woman with one of the most musical voices I have ever heard. To listen to the stories of unspeakable horror that issued from her lips as she read a passage chilled me. She is my age; while I was struggling with Algebra, she was struggling with pure evil. I promised her that I would do my best to never let her story be forgotten. My children will be required to read this when they reach the age she was in the book.
Evil exists, and it will only grow stronger if we ignore it.
A Must Read.......2006-04-07
This is a great biography of a Child's perspective of the Khamer Rougue take over in Cambodia in the 1970's. Chanrithy's story will stir up every emotion in you. This is a real story about survival during a very dark time in history. Her escapes from labor death camps, while nearly dying from starvation and sickness. The constant fear of military attack, or excecution by the Khamer Rouge soldiers. The loss of innocence, freedom, family, Friends, a life she once knew and culture she once cherished.
This is a must read for all. Chanrithy's story really breaks through all the "static" of media coverage that we hear about on the news everyday regarding similar things going on all over the world and opens the eyes of the reader to see the PEOPLE who live through these horrific experiences, and how their lives are forever changed. What I realized from reading this story is how little we as a culture are aware of what horrors have existed in the past, and the horrors that exist now. It is a travesty that we are so blind.
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- Original and Poetic comparison of Chinese & Jewish memory
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Bridge Across Broken Time: Chinese and Jewish Cultural Memory
Vera Schwarcz
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The daughter of Holocaust survivors, China scholar Vera Schwarcz explores the meaning of cultural memory in the vastly different Chinese and Jewish traditions. She finds a bridge between the two civilizations-a shared commitment to the transmission of remembrance and to witnessing to the significance of the past-and brings to life the struggles of Chinese and Jewish survivors who managed to preserve the continuity of their long traditions.
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Original and Poetic comparison of Chinese & Jewish memory.......1998-09-08
No, this is not about the strength of Chinese cuisine in the American Jewish community. It is about memory and metaphor. How do Jews and Chinese preserve and transmit their cultures. Should we begin to speak of Judeo-Confucian values rather than Judeo-Christian? What did Chinese culture do without the wrath of the god-inspired prophets? This is an original, thoughtful, poetic study from Wesleyan Professor of East Asian Studies Vera Schwarcz. In October 1979, Schwarcz, the daughter of Transylvanian Holocaust survivors, was studying in Beijing. It was Yom Kippur. Inside her dorm room, she was fasting and reading Wiesel's Les Chants des Morte." Outside, the authorities were closing the Democracy Wall. She was struck by the way both Jewish and Chinese cultures act to preserve and transmit fragments of cultural memories, in light of the powers that attempt to eradicate them, namely the Shoah and the Cultural Revolution. Amnesia is a relief from recollection. But both Jewish (if I forget thee..) and Chinese (If you lose the past, the will easily crumbles) cultures reward people for remembrance. This book enlightened me to the Judeo-Confucian tradition; the rabbi and the scholar; Halakha and Li; Rabbi Hillel and Confucius' disciple Mencius; the role of the Jewish prophets; and the lack of the socially just god in China with which one could fight imperial power. Did you know that the metaphoric poetry of Yehudah Amichai is used in China to remember Tiananmen Square? How do the concept of gesher (bridge) and kesher (tying knot) in the Midrash and Bratslaver-Hasidism compare to qiaoliang (bridge) and ren (endurance) and the writings of Yeng Shen? What can be learned from the midrash on god blessing Adam and Eve with the gift of amnesia and the Chinese tale of Old Lady Meng's Soup, which is a broth of amnesia? These are just a few of the questions she explores. I found this book fascinating.
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I always did right by Amina even though it was sometimes major difficult to take care of a daughter that I loved with all my heart, but never wanted in the first place.
China Cup Cameron might miss school or fall asleep in class sometimes, but she's trying hard to be a good mother to Amina, her two-year-old daughter. When tragedy befalls the small family, China must quit school and work full-time to make ends meet. But the only place in town that's willing to hire a fourteen-year-old high-school dropout is Obsidian Queens, a strip club, and China is forced to make some difficult and potentially self-destructive decisions.
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Growing up too Fast!.......2005-12-09
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When some families don't discipline there children they end up in predicaments or situations that you many have never thought could have happened. When it gets to this point it can be difficult to try to gain control back of those children. So many people are lucky to have good caring parents who care enough about them to worry about them or to have a say so in what they do or where they go and don't let them run wild is great thing to have. This book is around the fact of growing up to fast, and having to learn with no one there teaching you.
China grew up in a middle class part of town not the best in the city around gangs, drugs, and violence. China came from a single parent family and she never knew her father, and her mother was all she had. When china was younger her mother got cancer and ended up dyeing and Chinas uncle Simon had to come and live and help take care of her. Chinas uncle Simon was handicap in a wheel chair and not to much help to china except to be there for her. She mostly had to survive on her own and make her own decisions. When china got caught up in the wrong situation and doing stuff that a young girl her age shouldn't do china ends up pregnant at the age of twelve. China does every thing in her power to be the best mom that she can be for her daughter and does the best she can so her child doesn't go without.
When china was doing her best by her and her child and going to school the worst possible thing that could happen happened. Her precious daughter Amina suddenly dies. China is devastated and doesn't want to believe that this has happened to her child after she had tried so hard to make it work even though she was so young. After feeling guilty about going to school and leaving her baby with a sitter and her suddenly dieing she can't help but blame herself. So in a pursuit to give back to Amina for feeling guilty about her dieing she tries her best to give her the best funeral that money can buy. Seeing as China doesn't work and doesn't have a job it's hard to buy without money. China only being fourteen when this tragedy happened she really was to young to get a job that paid the amount that she needed to pay back the funeral home. So trying and not getting very far she turns to the last resource a strip club called Obisidian Queens.
When china starts working at Obisidian Queens she just worked as a hostess at the front desk. China thought it was weird that when she started working there that the managers were never there and they never asked to see her papers saying that she was aloud to work. But with china receiving the money that she's receiving and knowing that she is getting her daughters funeral home bill paid off it didn't bother her to work there as long as it's for her daughter. China being the only one not to go see Aminas's grave depressed Aminas father Trip. China never really pressured Trip to be apart of Aminas life because she didn't want to take away any of his childhood and didn't want him to feel tied down. China never went to see her daughter because she remember going to see her mother's grave and just imaging her mother being devoured by maggots and worms and she didn't want to imagine her daughters beautiful body in that condition. So when Aminas father didn't approve of her working at Obisidian Queens she just disregarded what he wanted and reassured him that she was just a hostess, and he continued to let her work there. When all of a sudden the stone that China paid so much money for ended up being abolished and destroyed. So when brother Agee, the funeral home owner told her there was no insurance on the stone, China had to replace it. When she had to replace the stone it added the same price to the current bill she already had. So China was now working tons more hours and when she figured out she's wasn't getting the money fast enough to pay the bill off by being a hostess she decided to try stripping. When the time came for china to strip she got nervous and chickened out of dancing. When she got off the stage she left Obsidian Queens and quit. She finally realized that the person that got her the job up at Obsidian Queens was the same person form the funeral home. Brother Agee was a part manager of the club and he was also owner of the funeral home. He lied to her about the stone needing to be replaced,it was the same stone he just wanted her to continue to work at the club. So in the end she quit Obsidian Queens and almost visited her daughter's grave.
The lesson that can be learned from this story is to not take advantage of your parents and never give up just when things get ruff. If there is a situation you get in to don't feel guilty to ask for help. Broken China is a great lesson-learning book and teaches respect and morals.
If anyone is looking for a book about things not always being a piece of cake or a walk in the park Broken China is perfect. For Teenage girls this book shows how you have to work at the things you want and not everyone is going to be on your side and that not everyone is honest. Mothers of teenage daughters would respect and love to share this book with there girls.
China's Broken Bits.......2005-05-27
Ages 14 and up. From the author of When Kambia Elaine Flew in From Neptune, Lori Aurelia Williams brings a novel dealing with a young mother's struggles and much more. China is 14 balancing going to school full time just barely hanging on and trying to raise her 2 year old daughter almost single handedly, until death is brought upon the family. China is forced to find a job that will require her to make lots of money to make ends meet. Unfortunately, her only option is Obsidian Queens, the local gentlemen's club, which is the only job they will allow a 14 year old high school dropout and that will pay big. Thus, begins her journey down a path filled with detours along the way. Will she break free from her trailing problems or will she collide head on with them?
Complete with lessons on courage, determination, youth, love, and motherhood, Ms. Williams captures China as a person every mother or daughter can relate to. Broken China is for everyone that knows a mother's love has no boundaries, a theory China proves time and time again. This tear jerking novel is sure to touch a place in the hearts of all who believe courage can mend a broken heart.
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The Broken Wave: The Chinese Communist Peasant Movement, 1922-1928
Roy Hofheinz Jr.
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This book is a sophisticated and deeply researched volume on Mao Tse-tung's early leadership and on the formative years of the Chinese Communist Peasant movement. It has been axiomatic in Asian studies that knowledge of the early years of Chinese communism would throw the most light on modern happenings. In this landmark volume, Hofheinz provides the much-needed map for understanding.
Hofheinz shows how the rural revolution began, dissects with exquisite care the mentalities of the first leaders, and assesses the early gropings of peasant revolutionaries toward class struggle. He explains why Mao and others came to believe that the huge rural population was the most powerful force in China and that warfare against any visible enemies constituted progress for the Communist cause. Yet the first Chinese Communists failed miserably both as members of the Kuomintang coalition and on their own.
The reasons for the great debacle of the 1920s are set out in this book for the first time in all their complexity. As important as this history is, Hofheinz declares, the lessons Mao learned from his defeats are of even greater significance. Mao and his followers shaped every decision in later years to avoid the errors of the past. The author demonstrates how Mao used ruralism, militarization, worship of numbers and not territory, and a fierce autonomy from other political groups to gain his ends.
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Since the publication of The Woman Warrior more than a quarter century ago, author Maxine Hong Kingston has enjoyed a phenomenal rise in popularity and literary importance, earning a place in the American canon as the living author most frequently taught at U.S. universities. The numerous studies of this touchstone work, however, fail to take into account the stories in China Men, which were largely written together with those in The Woman Warrior but later published separately. Although Hong Kingston's decision to separate the male and female narratives enabled readers to see the strength of the resulting feminist point of view in The Woman Warrior, this division also made it easier to overlook the literary and cultural significance of the material that was taken out and moved to China Men. Indeed in the face of the growing and disproportionate attention to the mother-daughter relationship in The Woman Warrior, Hong Kingston steadily maintained that to understand the book fully it was necessary to read its male companion text.
Maureen Sabine's ambitious study of The Woman Warrior and China Men aims to bring these divided texts back together with a close reading that looks for the textual traces of the father in The Woman Warrior and shows how the daughter narrator tracks down his history in China Men. She considers theories of intertextuality that open up the possibility of a dynamic interplay between the two books and suggests that the Hong family women and men may be struggling for dialogue with each other even when they appear textually silent or apart.
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