China

by Edward Rutherfurd, Natal'ya Vlasova (Translator)

Overview

XIX vek. Kitaj — gordaya drevnyaya imperiya, zakrytaya dlya inostrancev. Odnako ot Gonkonga do Velikoj Kitajskoj steny, ot Letnego dvorca s ego potryasayushchimi cennostyami i Zapretnogo goroda do ubogih derevenskih lachug — po vsej Podnebesnoj razvorachivaetsya dramaticheskaya bor'ba. Rasskazyvaya o sud'bah britanskih, amerikanskih i kitajskih semej, Rezerford predstavlyaet masshtabnuyu istoriyu, v kotoroj kolonial'nyj Zapad vstrechaetsya s bogatym i slozhnym Vostokom. Eto roman o moshchnom stolknovenii mirovozzrenij, o vzaimnom neponimanii, o srazheniyah i poteryannoj lyubvi. Eta kniga dlya tekh, kto pobyval v Kitae i polyubil etu stranu, i dlya tekh, komu eshche predstoit tam pobyvat'. Vpervye na russkom yazyke!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9785389217539
Publisher:	Azbooka
Publication date:	08/01/2022
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	849
File size:	3 MB
Age Range:	16 Years
Language:	Russian

About the Author

Эдвард Резерфорд — английский писатель, автор исторических романов. Резерфорд написал цикл книг, действие которых происходит в России, Англии, Франции, США, Китае. Книги писателя переведены на 20 языков мира. Его роман «Сарум» о людях, живших на протяжении 10 тысяч лет на территории около Стоунхенджа, стал международным бестселлером.

Editorial Reviews

03/15/2021

Rutherfurd’s immersive if uneven epic (after Paris: The Novel) focuses on the development of China’s relationship with the West. He begins in 1839, on the eve of what became known as the Opium War. British traders have been profiting from selling the drug to the Chinese, and Lord Lin, a righteous government minister, vows to stamp out the lucrative trade, by force if necessary, a tack that prompts the British to showcase their naval superiority. Rutherfurd carries the story forward through the early 20th century, ending it after the Boxer Rebellion in 1900, and the untimely death of a Chinese emperor. The conflicts are illuminated via a large cast, including Lin’s young assistant, Jiang Shi-Rong; Nio, a pirate who shifts his alliances out of expediency; the unimaginatively named Englishman John Trader, whose fortune hinges on the uninterrupted flow of opium from India into China; and Lacquer Nail, a father and husband who becomes a palace eunuch to support his family, a trade Rutherfurd illuminates with somewhat expositional dialogue. The earlier sections are more engaging than the exhausting second half, and the balance between Asian and Occidental characters may disappoint some who’d hoped, from the title, that the focus would be on the Chinese. Nonetheless, readers unfamiliar with the history will learn something from this action-packed saga. (May)

Publishers Weekly

Beginning with the First Opium War in 1839 and continuing through the present day, Rutherfurd tells a sweeping tale that brings to life a nation's history, traditions and the people who lived through it as if by magic.”
―Newsweek

“Bravo; this is a big, complex, and utterly involving portrait of 19th-century China.”
—The Times (London)

“It’s a bravura performance, fizzing with incident, excitement and energy.”
—The Daily Mail

“[An] action-packed saga.”
—Publisher’s Weekly

“Edward Rutherfurd is known for massive historical novels usually set in cities like New York, Paris and London. They dig deeply into a specific place and he focuses on a certain period. . . . Rutherfurd’s thorough research shows again here in his descriptions of China and other places in Asia like Hong Kong and Macao. . . . Besides place, Rutherfurd also has thoroughly researched the many complexities of Chinese culture. . . . China can perhaps be placed in the same basket as the James Clavell novels of Tai-Pan and Noble House. . . . Worth sticking with all 760 pages” 
—Asian Review of Books

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