The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye is a biography showcasing the life and work of Chan Hock Chye, a pioneering but largely forgotten comics artist in Singapore. With a career spanning more than five decades, from pre-independent Singapore through its three Prime Ministers, Chan’s work reflects the changing political and economic environment in Singapore. Containing Chan’s origin...(展开全部)

"Meet Charlie Chan Hock Chye, the greatest comic book artist you've probably never heard of. When he started making comics in Singapore as a boy of 16 in 1954, Chan expected fame and fortune to quickly follow. But just as Singapore's road to independence would be full of twists and turns, so too would Chan's own journey as an artist. Splicing together a dizzying array of art st...(展开全部)

Charlie Chan Hock Chye, né en 1938 à Singapour où il vit toujours, est auteur de bande dessinée depuis l'âge de 16 ans. À 70 ans passés, il revient sur ses 50 ans de carrière. Ses récits se déroulent sous nos yeux en un éblouissant éventail de genres et de styles graphiques dont l'évolution reflète à la fois celle de la bande dessinée mais aussi celle du paysage politique et so...(展开全部)

Shortlisted for the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography and the 2011 Edgar Award for Best Critical/Biographical Book: “An ingenious and absorbing book. . . . It will permanently change the way we tell this troubled yet gripping story.”—Jonathan Spence Hailed as “irrepressibly spirited and entertaining” (Pico Iyer, Time ) and “a fascinating cultural survey” (...(展开全部)

This is the first biography of the cinematic hero Charlie Chan, whose character was inspired by the real-life story of Chang Apana, a bullwhip-wielding, five-foot-tall Chinese-American immigrant detective whose raids on opium dens and gambling parlours made him a legend. Emerging against the backdrop of racially riven early-twentieth-century Hawaii, Apana's bravado inspired mys...(展开全部)

This is the first biography of the cinematic hero Charlie Chan, whose character was inspired by the real-life story of Chang Apana, a bullwhip-wielding, five-foot-tall Chinese-American immigrant detective whose raids on opium dens and gambling parlours made him a legend. Emerging against the backdrop of racially riven early-twentieth-century Hawaii, Apana's bravado inspired mys...(展开全部)

Shortlisted for the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography and the 2011 Edgar Award for Best Critical/Biographical Book: “An ingenious and absorbing book. . . . It will permanently change the way we tell this troubled yet gripping story.”—Jonathan Spence Hailed as “irrepressibly spirited and entertaining” (Pico Iyer, Time ) and “a fascinating cultural survey” (...(展开全部)

Every novelist's work contains an implicit vision of the history of the novel, an idea of what the novel is. I have tried to express here the idea of the novel that is inherent in my own novels. -- Milan Kundera Kundera brilliantly examines the work of such important and diverse figures as Rabelais, Cervantes, Sterne, Diderot, Flaubert, Tolstoy, and Musil. He is especially pe...(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.

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.