De son enfance passée à l'Académie d'études du théâtre chinois à sa reconnaissance de la part d’Hollywood, en passant par son ascension dans le cinéma de Hong Kong, ses nombreux accrochages avec la mort (pendant et en dehors des tournages) ou encore sa vie d’époux et de père considérée à regrets comme imparfaite... Au fil des 35 chapitres de cette autobiographie, incluant une t...(展开全部)

De son enfance passée à l'Académie d'études du théâtre chinois à sa reconnaissance de la part d’Hollywood, en passant par son ascension dans le cinéma de Hong Kong, ses nombreux accrochages avec la mort (pendant et en dehors des tournages) ou encore sa vie d’époux et de père considérée à regrets comme imparfaite... Au fil des 35 chapitres de cette autobiographie, incluant une t...(展开全部)

"IN THE PANTHEON OF MOVIE ACTION HEROES, THERE IS ONLY ONE TRUE GOD, AND HIS NAME IS JACKIE CHAN." --The Washington Post "JACKIE CHAN'S LIFE STORY READS LIKE A JACKIE CHAN MOVIE: LOTS OF ACTION." --Entertainment Weekly "Chan is the most inventively kinetic movie star since Fred Astaire--his martial arts/acrobatic/stunt riding virtuosity is matched only by a comic ability to c...(展开全部)

From Wall Street to Main Street, John Brooks, longtime contributor to the New Yorker, brings to life in vivid fashion twelve classic and timeless tales of corporate and financial life in America What do the $350 million Ford Motor Company disaster known as the Edsel, the fast and incredible rise of Xerox, and the unbelievable scandals at GE and Texas Gulf Sulphur have in common...(展开全部)

What is Buddhist meditation? What is going on—and what should be going on—behind the closed or lowered eyelids of the Buddha or Buddhist adept seated in meditation? And in what ways and to what ends have the answers to these questions mattered for Buddhists themselves? Focusing on early medieval China, this book takes up these questions through a cultural history of the earlies...(展开全部)

Bernard Faure examines the study of Chan / Zen from the standpoint of postmodern human sciences and literary criticism, challenging this inversion of traditional 'Orientalist' discourse: whether the Other is caricatured or idealized, ethnocentric premises marginalize important parts of Chan thought.

What is Buddhist meditation? What is going on—and what should be going on—behind the closed or lowered eyelids of the Buddha or Buddhist adept seated in meditation? And in what ways and to what ends have the answers to these questions mattered for Buddhists themselves? Focusing on early medieval China, this book takes up these questions through a cultural history of the earlies...(展开全部)

Bernard Faure examines the study of Chan / Zen from the standpoint of postmodern human sciences and literary criticism, challenging this inversion of traditional 'Orientalist' discourse: whether the Other is caricatured or idealized, ethnocentric premises marginalize important parts of Chan thought.