Shadow Dancing: $elling $urvival in China

by Kathryn Waddell Takara

Overview

Award winning author Dr Kathryn Waddell Takara provides a compelling and intimate traveling stage through her pictorial poems that witness her impressions of the waking of a sleeping dragon - the New China, including the startling successes and disquieting obstacles and corruption. She likewise illuminates the reader of Chinese spiritual qualities, history, and their continuing reverence for knowledge, ancestors, and nature. Most strikingly, Takara experienced the historically raicially unfamiliar climate for many Black people who have sojoured in China.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780986075544
Publisher:	Pacific Raven Press, LLC
Publication date:	11/15/2016
Series:	Trilogy: , #3
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	236
File size:	9 MB

Table of Contents

I MAGENTA MOMENTS: Teas and Tasty Delights 1 Blue Moon in Rising China 3 Muted Lakeside 4 No Stranger 5 Qi Dong Lu 8 Sipping Beer 9 Father Chef Artist 10 Mother Leader Friend 12 The Video Man 13 Jostling Marketplace 15 Favorite Foods 17 Aesthetic of Tea 19 The Butcher 22 The Evening Street 24 Home (wo de jia) 26 Language Is We 28 Huadong Winery 29 Playtime 30 Good Friends and Peony Memories 32 Old Performers in the Morning 33 Phoenix in Flight 34 Riddles 35 Monsoon Dinner and Business 36 II TRAVEL GUANXI: Trans-cultural Explorations 37 Road to the Great Wall at Badaling 39 Hidden Gardens 41 Chengyang Park 43 City Walls and Quiet Remnants 45 Train Station 46 The Train 47 Leaving Beijing 48 Train Culture 50 Triptychs 51 The Hard Sleeper 52 Jinan Sprawl and Sparkle 53 Blossoming Beauty 54 51 Dong Hai Road 55 Badaguan Neighborhood 56 Skygate: Mount Lao 57 Shrouded in Silence 59 Apricot Picking 61 The New Daxue 63 Lancun 66 Golfing at Jimo on Saturday 67 Visiting Hangzhou 69 Hangzhou Lullaby 70 All Because of a Cigarette 71 III MAZE HAZE GAZE: A Rush to the Top 75 Standing Out While in China 77 Under Beijing Skies 79 The Double Glory Pavilion and the Communist Party 80 Morning Public Announcement 82 Strength in a Gray City 86 Selling Survival 87 Hot Like a Wok! 88 Towering Beijing Cranes 89 Architecture Extravaganza 91 Masters of Allurement 93 Modernization Projects 94 The Art of Survival 96 Power and Prestige 97 Industrial Zones 98 Red Flags 99 China's Food Supply 100 Executive Office 101 Jingcha: The Policeman 102 Beware the Flash 103 Where Were You Last Night? 104 Saturn with a Red Scarf 106 IV VEILED TIME: Visions, Spirits, Loss 107 Another Language 109 Dragonflies 110 Mystical Pagoda 112 Seasonal Resonance 113 A Day 115 Not Enough Time 116 Longtan Lake Park 117 Oracle Bones and the 1998 Taiwan Earthquake 118 Deleterious Time 124 Close Quarters 125 Yearning for Sally's Gifts 126 Disappearances 142 Painful Separation 143 Heat Wave at Midnight 144 V OPAL MOON SHADOWS: Lotus Traditions and Generations 145 Bell Culture 147 Gates of China 149 At the Pearl Moon Pavilion 151 The Great Wall 153 Retreat at the Summer Palace 155 Imperial Steps and Stones 157 At Qufu, Home of Confucius 160 Revelation at Mount Tai 161 Beida (Peking University) 162 Stillness and Movement 163 Hidden Splendor 165 Fragrance in Moonlight 166 Stymied in Sunlight 167 Yu Garden 168 Festival of Lanterns 169 Tea, Taiji, and Tradition 171 Knowledge for Millennia 175 Glossary 177 About the Author 209