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    <![CDATA[Green Mountain, White Cloud: A Novel of Love in the Ming Dynasty]]>
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    <![CDATA[In a medieval abbey near Paris, in a room piled high with old Chinese texts, lies a manuscript gathering dust. Though ordinary in appearance, it first captures the eye of the narrator of Franccedil;ois Cheng's novel. Then, once he begins to read, it captures his imagination and his heart. The book dates from the mid-seventeenth century, during the twilight of the Ming Dynasty. Barbarian armies are massing along the Empire's Northern borders, and a vast and sophisticated civilization-during whose heyday China had begun to emerge from its long isolation and undergone an explosion in the arts equal in its way to Europe's Renaissance-teeters on the brink of monumental and perhaps catastrophic change. Yet rather than filled with lore of military heroism, or with tales of palace intrigue, or with nostalgic memories of better days, the book tells a simple and very powerful love story.It opens to a spring day, when a middle-aged doctor named Dao-sheng leaves the mountaintop Taoist monastery where he has been living and sets out for the Region of the South, to the city he had once visited thirty years earlier and where his life had been irrevocably changed. He had then been a strapping but poor young musician traveling with theater troupe. One evening, during a performance, he caught the eye of well-born young woman named Lan-ying. Their contact lasted but a minute, but to them it felt like an eternity. For this act of audacity he was banished to hard labor by the girl's jealous fianceacute;e, the dissipated scion of a powerful family, who had witnessed their exchange and grasped its significance. Across the decades of a life spent either on the run or hiding out in monasteries, where he mastered medicine and divination, Dao-sheng never forgot Lan-ying. One exchange of glances had sealed something forever, something whose enduring power would decide their fates.Written with radiant simplicity and wisdom, simultaneously heartbreaking and heart-warming, Green Mountain, White Cloud is a suspenseful tale of passion and revenge set against the backdrop of a great empire's last days. Franccedil;ois Cheng gives us star-crossed lovers whose rekindled passion makes the pages of this novel glow. More than a love story, it takes us on a quest as much spiritual as physical, exploring the very essence of love's ageless and transformative power.]]>
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  </authors>  <published>2004</published>
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    <![CDATA[L' eternite n'est pas de trop.]]>
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  </authors>  <published>2001</published>
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    <![CDATA[Le Dit De Tianyi]]>
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    <![CDATA[François Cheng est un spécialiste incontesté de la poésie et surtout de la peinture chinoise à laquelle il a consacré depuis une trentaine d'années des essais qui font autorité. Son premier roman, Le Dit de Tianyi est nourri de cette connaissance intime de la culture chinoise, confrontée au regard d'un occidental. Il évoque la vie de Tianyi, un peintre qui a connu les bouleversements de la société chinoise dans les années trente et quarante avant de venir à Paris où il mène une existence précaire mais découvre une conception radicalement différente non seulement de l'art mais de la vie. Il repart en Chine alors en proie à la révolution pour tenter d'y retrouver les deux êtres à qui il tient le plus, Haolang son ami, et Yumei qui fut son amante. Mais l'époque n'est guère favorable aux retrouvailles et Tianyi se retrouve entraîné dans des drames qu'il ne peut maîtriser. Au-delà d'une aventure romanesque captivante et tragique, le roman offre une excellente approche de la civilisation chinoise par un de ses meilleurs spécialistes. Il a obtenu le prix Femina en 1998. <em>--Gérard Meudal</em>  ]]>
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    <average_rating>3.76</average_rating>
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        <name><![CDATA[Francois Cheng]]></name>
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    <average_rating>3.70</average_rating>
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  </authors>  <published>1998</published>
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        <book>
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    <![CDATA[Vacío y plenitud]]>
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    <![CDATA[Vacío y plenitud es una de esas obras fundamentales que permiten acceder a la comprensión de la pintura china. Su autor, François Cheng, conocido especialista en poesía y pintura chinas, expone el desarrollo que, a lo largo de quince siglos, ha tenido la pintura en China, pero su estudio no es de carácter histórico sino filosófico.<br/>La primera parte explora el sistema de la pintura en relación con la filosofía taoísta a partir de la noción de vacío que todo artista debe conocer, eje fundamental de la concepción china del universo y su comprensión del mundo objetivo, ligado a la idea del aliento vital y al estado supremo al que el hombre debe tender. La segunda parte concreta ese sistema en la pintura a través de los escritos teóricos del célebre pintor Shitao (1641-1707).<br/>Cheng explica también al lector occidental la adscripción de este arte a la concepción taoísta, incorporando fragmentos de pintores y tratadistas chinos sobre elementos y momentos de la actividad pictórica.]]>
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        <name><![CDATA[Francois Cheng]]></name>
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  </authors>  <published>1979</published>
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    <![CDATA[The River Below]]>
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    <![CDATA[In this work of startling lyricism and beauty, a bestseller and winner of a major prize in France, Francois Cheng delivers a piece of art to be cherished and treasured.]]>
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  </authors>  <published>2002</published>
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        <book>
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    <![CDATA[Cinco meditaciones sobre la belleza/ Five Meditations about Beauty]]>
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        <name><![CDATA[Francois Cheng]]></name>
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    <average_rating>3.70</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>37</ratings_count>
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  </authors>  <published>2007</published>
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        <book>
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    <![CDATA[Jean-Louis Dumas: Photographer]]>
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    <![CDATA[Jean-Louis Dumas always carries two things: a small red notebook and an old Leica. He has taken photographs all his life--mostly black-and-white--cataloguing significant moments and trivial asides on his extensive travels with work, family and friends. Dumas works in that finest of photographic traditions, the sophisticated nonprofessional. However, as the Creative Director of Hermes for 30 years, his professional milieu and his friendships with masters of the medium like Edouard Boubat have instilled in his photography an elegant and discreet sensibility. This collection brings together a life's work and reflects a longtime love affair with photography.<br/><strong>Jean-Louis Dumas</strong>, born in 1938, son of one of the four daughters of Emile Hermes, entered the reputed Maison Hermes in 1964. He started as a salesman and went on to become the Chairman and Creative Director in 1978, boosting annual sales ninefold to $460 million and opening more than 80 new shops before his retirement in 2006.]]>
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    <average_rating>3.70</average_rating>
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        <name><![CDATA[Sandrine Dumas-Brekke]]></name>
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    <id>379781</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Patrick Remy]]></name>
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    <id>2827943</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Fred Rawyler]]></name>
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    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2827943.Fred_Rawyler]]></link>
    <average_rating>0.0</average_rating>
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    <author>
    <id>682611</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Jean-Louis Dumas]]></name>
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    <average_rating>5.00</average_rating>
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  </authors>  <published>2009</published>
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        <book>
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  <isbn13>9780253313584</isbn13>
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  <title>
    <![CDATA[Chinese Poetic Writing: With an Anthology of T'ang Poetry]]>
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    <![CDATA[Loin de composer une anthologie exhaustive résumant trois mille ans d'art poétique, François Cheng en a simplement réuni les plus purs joyaux, véritables &quot;pierres de rêve&quot; illustrées par les magnifiques calligraphies de Fabienne Verdier, dans un petit livre qui semble conçu pour se glisser dans une poche et accompagner les rêveries du promeneur solitaire. Les audaces métaphysiques de Li Po, ses envolées aériennes, sa folie de liberté, son mépris pour toute limite - les sublimes ascèses de Wang Wei, son minimalisme cristallin, ses images pétrifiées - les frémissements, les questionnements angoissés de Du Fu, &quot;mouette des sables entre ciel et terre&quot;, les ellipses brumeuses, picturales toujours, de Bo Juyi, Jia Dao, Li Shangyin, nous entraînent dans un paysage où l'écriture chaque fois transcende la mélancolie, lui ouvre horizons et perspectives infinies. Pointillisme, abstraction lyrique, jeux de silences et d'échos se répondent, ricochent ici avec un bonheur constant sur les brusques jaillissements, les sobres coups de fouet, encres et couleurs explosives, d'une grande calligraphe. <em>--Scarbo</em> ]]>
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    <average_rating>3.76</average_rating>
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    <![CDATA[In Love with the Way: Chinese Poems of the Tang Dynasty (The Calligrapher's Notebooks)]]>
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    <![CDATA[The poetry selected for this volume comes from the Tang Dynasty (618-907), an era when the influence of Buddhism was at its strongest in China. The best loved and most influential of all Chinese poems come from this period. Like all books in the Shambhala Calligraphy series, <em>In Love with the Way </em>takes a classic spiritual text that has been a subject for calligraphers for many years—and uses it to showcase a uniquely modern example of the calligrapher's art, bringing the text to life in a striking new way.  <em>In Love with the Way </em>is accompanied by François Cheng's introductory essay on poetry of the Tang period, and by a closing essay on the work of the calligrapher, Fabienne Verdier. Calligraphy (from the Greek for &quot;beautiful writing&quot;) is an art where word and image meet, where the artist strives to give visual expression to the meaning of words in a way that transcends the text while remaining completely faithful to it. It is a discipline that has been invested with spiritual significance wherever it has arisen—and it has arisen throughout the world in every age, in virtually every language, culture, and religion. The Shambhala Calligraphy series is a collection of books devoted to contemporary expressions of this &quot;art of the word,&quot; featuring contemporary calligraphers' striking new interpretations of texts that have been traditional subjects for calligraphic interpretation. Whether in Arabic, Greek, Hebrew, Latin, or Chinese pictographs, the characters, words, and sentences are brought to life anew here in a choreography of mind, hand, and heart by which letter and spirit fuse in a single stroke.]]>
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    <![CDATA[Regenbogen überm Jangtse.]]>
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