Free Download The Cloudy Mirror: Tension and Conflict in the Writings of Sima Qian By Stephen W. Durrant
1995 | 226 Pages | ISBN: 0791426556 | PDF | 11 MB
Sima Qian's vast Records of the Historian is the first comprehensive history of China and has exerted an immense influence both upon our understanding of the Chinese past and also upon the style and structure of subsequent Chinese historiography. In addition to his contribution as a historian, Sima Qian is a highly significant literary figure whose writings are among the most elegant and powerful from the ancient world.Durrant's study approaches Sima Qian's work from a literary perspective and demonstrates the relationship between Sima's narrative of the past and his narrative of his own life. That life was a fascinating and complex one. Enjoined by his father to complete a comprehensive history of China, Sima Qian subsequently offended the great Emperor Wu and was sentenced to castration. Rather than take the "noble path" of suicide, he suffered this traumatic punishment and lived on to fulfill his father's injunction--but not without emotional scars, scars that influenced his portrayal of the Chinese past. In fact, the great Han historian's account of the Chinese past, this study argues, is as much his story as it is history.

Free Download Isabelle Saporta, Kate Deimling, "Vino Business: The Cloudy World of French Wine"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 0802125700, 0802124038 | EPUB | pages: 240 | 1.3 mb
Already provoking debate and garnering significant attention in France and within the wine world, Vino Business is a surprising and eye-opening book about the dark side of French wine by acclaimed investigative journalist Isabelle Saporta. While Bordeaux has been a bastion of winemaking tradition and excellence for centuries, in recent decades the industry has changed dramatically under the influence of large-scale international investors. French insurance companies, international fashion houses and Chinese businessmen are all speculating on the area's wines and land, some of whose value has increased tenfold in the last decade alone. Saporta investigates in detail the 2012 classification of the wines of Saint-Émilion, the most prestigious appellation of Bordeaux's right bank, which has come into disrepute, not least because the scoring system was changed in order to give points for a châteaux's lecture facilities and the size of its parking lot. The quality of the wine counts for just thirty percent of the total score for the wines of the top ranking, those deemed premier grand cru classé A. In other chapters, Saporta investigates issues of wine labeling and the use of pesticides, and draws comparisons to Champagne, Burgundy, and the rest of the wine world.

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Album: Cloudy Winter Day
Artist: VA
Genre: Pop, Rock
Date/Year: 2023

Cloudy with a Chance of Witchcraft by Mandy M Roth | 316.65 KB
English | 300 Pages

Title: Cloudy with a Chance of Witchcraft: A Paranormal Women's Fiction Romance Novel
Author: Roth, Mandy M.
Year: 2020

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Album: Cloudy Day Alternative
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Genre: Alternative
Date/Year: 2021-12-10