The Matsu archipelago between China and Taiwan, for long an isolated outpost off southeast China, was suddenly transformed into a military frontline in 1949 by the Cold War and the Communist-Nationalist conflict. The army occupied the islands, commencing more than 40 long years of military rule. With the lifting of martial law in 1992, the people were confronted with the questi...(展开全部)

Minor Transnationalism moves beyond a binary model of minority cultural formations that often dominates contemporary cultural and postcolonial studies. Where that model presupposes that minorities necessarily and continuously engage with and against majority cultures in a vertical relationship of assimilation and opposition, this volume brings together case studies that reveal ...(展开全部)

In spare and haunting prose, MINOR DETAIL cuts to the heart of the Palestinian experience of dispossession, life under occupation, and the persistent difficulty of piecing together history in the face of ongoing displacement and disempowerment. Adania Shibli's third novel revolves around a brutal crime committed during the War of 1948, which led to the displacement and exile of...(展开全部)

This innovative collection moves beyond a binary model of minority cultural formations that often dominates contemporary cultural and postcolonial studies. Where that model presupposes that minorities necessarily and continuously engage with and against majority cultures in a vertical relationship of assimilation and opposition, this volume brings together case studies that rev...(展开全部)

Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn as the Nakba―the catastrophe that led to the displacement and exile of some 700,000 people―and the Israelis celebrate as the War of Independence. Israeli soldiers murder an encampment of Bedouin in the Negev desert, and among their victims they capture a Palestinian teenager and th...(展开全部)

Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn as the Nakba―the catastrophe that led to the displacement and exile of some 700,000 people―and the Israelis celebrate as the War of Independence. Israeli soldiers murder an encampment of Bedouin in the Negev desert, and among their victims they capture a Palestinian teenager and th...(展开全部)

In spare and haunting prose, MINOR DETAIL cuts to the heart of the Palestinian experience of dispossession, life under occupation, and the persistent difficulty of piecing together history in the face of ongoing displacement and disempowerment. Adania Shibli's third novel revolves around a brutal crime committed during the War of 1948, which led to the displacement and exile of...(展开全部)

简介：曲终人亦散，灯火意阑珊风雪留一人承担卷帘人未还，帘外花千万不愿看曲终人自叹，冷风吹花残星河无你皆黯淡浮生唯你是遗憾……——————————————————The smile on the mask masks my sadness. Who can see the tears under my mask?The smile on the mask masks my loneliness. Who can see my empty eyes under the mask？Intoxicating rhapsody became a scratching claw.

简介：曲终人亦散，灯火意阑珊风雪留一人承担卷帘人未还，帘外花千万不愿看曲终人自叹，冷风吹花残星河无你皆黯淡浮生唯你是遗憾……——————————————————The smile on the mask masks my sadness. Who can see the tears under my mask?The smile on the mask masks my loneliness. Who can see my empty eyes under the mask？Intoxicating rhapsody became a scratching claw.

Even the best cat in the world doesn't live forever, and Victor is very sad when his beloved cat, Charlie, dies. His mother suggests getting a new cat, but Victor isn't so sure. Finally, when the vet tells Victor she has another cat that really needs a home, Victor agrees to give the new cat a chance. But the new cat, Shelley, isn't like Charlie. She doesn't look like Charli...(展开全部)