Authors:Zhu Xiao Di, Xiao Di Zhu,
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Keywords: youth, communist, china, childhood, memoir, years, red, house, thirty
Number of Pages: 255
Published: 1998-02
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 1558491120
ISBN-13: 9781558491120

The wrenching saga of a patriotic Communist family in China. This is the personal account of Zhu Xiao Di, born in Nanjing in 1958, the son of idealistic, educated parents. At the heart of this narrative are the trials of a family caught in the crosscurrents of history--from the early attractions of the Communist revolution to the national disaster that followed and the subsequent odyssey of recovery. 24 illustrations.

Author: Donald Clark Hodges
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Keywords: socialism, bureaucratization
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1981-06
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0870231383
ISBN-13: 9780870231384

Author: Edward Vose Gulick
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Keywords: memoir, photo, china, wartime, teaching
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 1995-06
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 0870239120
ISBN-13: 9780870239120

After graduating from Yale in 1937, Gulick spent two years in China’s Hunan province teaching English at a mission school for Chinese boys. During this time, he travelled widely in the area and kept journals of his travels. He draws on both journals and photographs to create this memoir.

Author: Kathy Neustadt
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Keywords: american, folklore, society, publications, tradition, celebration, clambake, history
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 1992-08
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0870237993
ISBN-13: 9780870237997

Author: C. Barry Chabot
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Keywords: oritical, theory, psychoanalytic, schreber, freud
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 1982-02
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0870233483
ISBN-13: 9780870233487

Author:
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Keywords: ovid, metamorphoses
Number of Pages: 512
Published: 2003-05
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 1558493999
ISBN-13: 9781558493995

Composed in Latin in the early years of the 1st century by the Roman poet Ovid, the "Metamorphoses" presents a collection of tales of transformation based on Greek mythology and legend. Michael Simpson’s prose translation of Ovid’s masterpiece in the rapid and direct American idiom aims to catch the swiftness and clarity of the Latin original. His introduction sketches the poet’s life, describes his extant works, discusses his unusual exile to the west coast of the Black Sea (where he died) and provides a useful context for reading the "Metamorphoses". Simpson has also prepar

Author: Mary H. Blewett
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Keywords: century, new, england, nineteenth, life, turmoil, politics, industrial, constant
Number of Pages: 521
Published: 2000-08
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 1558492399
ISBN-13: 9781558492394

A part narrative, part analytical reconstruction of the history of the New England textile industry during the 19th century. The author examines industrialization from the point of view of both management and labour exploring their struggle in terms of class, culture and power.