LIBROS DEL AUTOR: xinran

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  • Transformative Hotels of the Future
    Henri Kuokkanen / Ksenia Kirillova / Xinran Lehto
    This timely and innovative book offers an inspirational and thought-provoking journey into the future world of hospitality by conceptualizing an innovative future where hotels transcend traditional boundaries and evolve into dynamic hubs of innovation, environmental stewardship, community engagement, and personal growth.. ...
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    268,43 €

  • A Poetics of Minds and Madness
    XINRAN YANG
    ​This monograph aims to explore the mind-narrative nexus by conducting a cognitive narratological study on the mad minds in fictional narratives. Set on the interface of narrative and cognitive science (cognitive linguistics, cognitive psychology and cognitive neuropsychology), it adopts an indirect empirical approach to the fictional representation of madness. The American wri...
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    144,47 €

  • Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother
    Xinran / Nicky Harman
    Ten chapters ten women and many stories of heartbreak including her own: Xinran once again takes us right into the lives of Chinese women and their lost daughters. Whether as a consequence of the single-child policy destructive age-old traditions or hideous economic necessity these women had to give up their daughters for adoption others were forced to abandon them - on ci...
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    23,64 €

  • China Witness
    Xinran / Esther Tyldesley / Nicky Harman
    China Witness is the personal testimony of a generation whose stories have not yet been told. Here the grandparents and great-grandparents of today sum up in their own words - for the first and perhaps the last time - the vast changes that have overtaken China’s people over a century. The book is at once a journey by the author through time and place and a memorial to those wh...
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    22,98 €

  • Miss Chopsticks
    Xinran / Esther Tyldesley
    Sisters Three Five and Six don’t have much education but they know two things for certain: their mother is a failure because she hasn’t produced a son and they only merit a number as a name. Women their father tells them are like chopsticks: utilitarian and easily broken. But when they leave their home in the countryside to seek their fortune in the big city their eyes ar...
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    19,04 €

  • What the Chinese Dont Eat
    Xinran
    Since June 2003 Xinran has been writing about China in her weekly column in the Guardian. She has covered a vast range of topics from food to sex education and from the experiences of British mothers who have adopted Chinese daughters to whether Chinese people do Christmas shopping or have swimming pools. Each of her columns inspired letters and questions and more opportuniti...
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    22,78 €