The Ai Chiang-nan fu by the sixth-century poet Yu Hsin is one of the most famous and difficult of all Chinese medieval poems. It relates in a highly allegorical and elliptical manner the fall of the Liang dynasty, which the poet served. The poem belongs to the genre of the fu; rhapsodical, elegiac works written in an irregular metre. It is, however not at all typical of the gen...(展开全部)

宗璞（1928- ），原名冯钟璞，笔名还有绿蘩、任小哲等。祖籍河南省唐河，生于北京，为哲学家冯友兰之女。儿时就读清华大学附属成志小学校。抗战爆发，随父赴昆明，就读西南联大附属中学。1945年回北京。1946年入南开大学外文系，1948年转入清华大学外文系，同年在《大公报》发表处女作《A.K.C》。1951年毕业分配在政务院宗教事务委员会工作。同年末调入中国文联研究部。1956年至1958年在《文艺报》任外国文学的编辑。1957年出版童话集《寻月集》，同年发表短篇小说《红豆》（《人民文学》1957年7期）引起文坛注目，在反右斗争中遭到批判。1959年下放河北省农村。1960年调入《世界文学》编辑部。主要撰写散文和小说。“文革”中被迫中断创作，1978年重新发表作品。后调人北京外国文学研究所。主要作品有散文集《丁香结》，长篇小说《南渡记》，翻译《缪塞诗选...(展开全部)

When his grandfather dies, a boy named Jay travels south with his family to the property he left them, a once flourishing farm that has fallen into disrepair. The trees are diseased, the fields parched from months of drought. Still, Jay’s father, Jack, sends him out to work the land, or whatever land is left. Over the course of these hot, dense days, Jay finds himself drawn to ...(展开全部)

Long-listed for the Booker Prize Named one of The New York Times’s Notable Books of the Year One of The Washington Post’s Best Fiction Books of the Year A radiant, intimate novel of the longing that blooms between two boys over the course of one summer―about family, desire, and what we inherit. When his grandfather dies, Jay travels south with his family to the property they’ve...(展开全部)

Longlisted for the Booker Prize A radiant, intimate novel of the longing that blooms between two boys over the course of one summer―about family, desire, and what we inherit. When his grandfather dies, Jay travels south with his family to the property they’ve inherited, a once flourishing farm that has fallen into disrepair. The trees are diseased, the fields parched from month...(展开全部)

China’s rise has upset the global balance of power, and the first place to feel the strain is Beijing’s back yard: the South China Sea. For decades tensions have smoldered in the region, but today the threat of a direct confrontation among superpowers grows ever more likely. This important book is the first to make clear sense of the South Sea disputes. Bill Hayton, a journalis...(展开全部)