The old dilemma that if a person, by causing the death of someone that he doesn't know can get wealth and power, will do it, is the story of this brilliant novel by the portuguese eca de queiroz.

The old dilemma that if a person, by causing the death of someone that he doesn't know can get wealth and power, will do it, is the story of this brilliant novel by the portuguese eca de queiroz.

Eca de Queiroz's sharply satirical work aimed to expose the hypocrisies of his age. In The Mandarin his lascivious anti-heroes Teodoro and Teodorico,are dragged from their narrow Lisbon lives into exotic encounters with Chinese mandarins, the Devil (in the guise of a dark-suited civil servant)and Jesus Christ Himself. This short novel is accompanied by the short stories Jose Ma...(展开全部)

Eca de Queiroz's sharply satirical work aimed to expose the hypocrisies of his age. In The Mandarin his lascivious anti-heroes Teodoro and Teodorico,are dragged from their narrow Lisbon lives into exotic encounters with Chinese mandarins, the Devil (in the guise of a dark-suited civil servant)and Jesus Christ Himself. This short novel is accompanied by the short stories Jose Ma...(展开全部)

A serial killer is stalking the young women of Shanghai. The killer's calling card is to leave the victims' bodies in well trafficked locations, each of them redressed in a red mandarin dress. With the newspapers screaming about Shanghai's first serial killer, Party officials anxious for a quick resolution, and the police under pressure from all sides, something has to give. Se...(展开全部)

Why has the West for so long and in so many different ways expressed the idea that the Chinese have a special relationship to cruelty and to physical pain? What can the history of that idea and its expressions teach us about the politics of the West's contemporary relation to China? And what does it tell us about the philosophy of modernity? The Hypothetical Mandarin is, in som...(展开全部)

韩瑞（Eric Hayot） 1972年生，1999年获得威斯康辛大学英语与比较文学博士学位，现为宾夕法尼亚州立大学比较文学与亚洲研究特聘教授。他的研究领域主要涉及中西现当代文学比较研究、文化研究、医疗史研究等领域，在国际学界正崭露头角。

This reference grammar provides, for the first time, a description of the grammar of "Mandarin Chinese", the official spoken language of China's mainland and Taiwan, in functional terms, focusing on the role and meanings of word-level and sentence-level structures in actual conversations.

This reference grammar provides, for the first time, a description of the grammar of Mandarin Chinese, the official spoken language of China and Taiwan, in functional terms, focusing on the role and meanings of word-level and sentence-level structures in actual conversations.

This reference grammar provides, for the first time, a description of the grammar of Mandarin Chinese, the official spoken language of China and Taiwan, in functional terms, focusing on the role and meanings of word-level and sentence-level structures in actual conversations.