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Industry Research: Analysis on China Wine Industry
Shandong province has most leading wine enterprises, and among all top 100 large wine enterprises across China, 33 are located in Shandong. According to China Wine Industry Profile - the industry research report issued by Zeefer Consulting, Shandong, Hebei and Tianjin are the major production bases for wine industry in China. Beijing, Henan, Liaoning, Jilin, Yunnan, Xinjiang and Shanghai are the secondary distribution areas for this industry.
In terms of market size, in 2009, wine enterprises above designated size achieved a sales revenue of more than USD 3 billion. Total assets of enterprises inside wine industry exceeded USD 3 billion, a rise of more than 20% on a year-on-year basis. The total number of enterprises above designated size in wine industry was more than 200, a rise of more than 20% on a year-on-year basis. The total export delivery value exceeded USD 15 million, an increase of about 10% on a year-on-year basis.
In terms of industry-wide profit, in 2009, profits of enterprises above designated size in wine industry added up to more than USD 400 million, a growth of more than 15% on a year-on-year basis. A total of more than 30 enterprises suffered a loss, the percentage of loss-incurring enterprises was higher than 10%. On average, the ratio of return on assets in wine industry was higher than 10%.
In terms of market position of foreign enterprises in China, in 2009, sales revenue from foreign enterprises engaged in wine production in China added up to more than USD 900 million, taking a share of more than 25% of the gross sales revenue from wine enterprises across China. Foreign enterprises in China wine industry achieved a ratio of return on sales of more than 10%, higher than the industry average.
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This blog is about to get super festive… is it too early? I don't know the rules, but considering Christmas decorations have been in stores since before Halloween, I think it's appropriate. I was originally going to make a peppermint brownie or some other baked treat, but the thought of baking and washing dishes made me change my mind. There's nothing worse than Holiday dishes! I also figured that something on the "healthier" side would be a good idea, and since I'm a smoothie bowl kind of girl, this seemed perfect. While I'm not a huge peppermint fan, it does taste delicious with chocolate (like pretty much everything else), and I had some awesome vegan candy canes that I sprinkled on top, so this did win me over! Luna will be pleased, as candy canes are one of her favorite treats. The base for this pudding is the same as my avocado pudding recipe, you'll just need to add some peppermint extract to it. If you want this to be a thinner consistency to drink as a smoothie, up the milk to 1 cup and only use one banana instead of two. Simple!
Along with holiday inspired recipes, I'll be posting gift-giving guides with some ideas that are a little bit "nontraditional". I had also mentioned earlier that I would be doing an e-book for Thanksgiving, but I decided that I'd rather make an e-book that would be helpful long-term, so look out for something fun in the future 😉
I wish that I had some coconut whip cream to put on my pudding! I thought about it after the fact, but if you're planning ahead to make this, then I'd highly suggest getting a dairy-free whip cream…you won't regret it!
Find your favorite mug, pour in a serving of pudding, top with some crushed candy canes and you're officially in a winter wonderland. This brings back memories of sitting by my grandparent's fireplace playing board games with my sisters. Ah, nostalgia. This makes enough pudding for at least two people, and snuggling under a cozy blanket while eating is advised.
- 1 ripe avocados
- 2 ripe bananas
- 1/4 cup raw cacao powder
- 2-3 tbsp maple syrup (or other sweetener)
- 1/4 cup soy, almond or hemp milk
- 1/2 tbsp peppermint extract
- Use the same ingredients as above, but use 1 cup of soy, almond or hemp milk instead of 1/4 cup and only one banana.
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Why laziness doesn't really exist
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"As an aside, it is important to point out that society today assumes a very negative posture towards humanity, retaining the belief that if human beings were not "required" to do something, they would just sit around, be lazy, and do nothing. This is absurd propaganda.
The notion of "leisure" is a monetary invention, created because of the oppressive, fascist basis of the employment institution itself. Laziness is, in fact, a form of rejection of the system. It is a quality that only exists due to the oppression and required servitude.
In a true society, there would be no such thing as the separation of "work and "leisure", for humans should be allowed to pursue whatever they feel is relevant. To put it a different way, consider the curiosity and interest of a child. He or she doesn't even know what money is...Do they need to be motivated by money to go out and explore/create? No. They have a personal interest and they pursue it without reward. In fact, the greatest contributors to our society, such as Einstein, Newton or Galileo, pursued what they did without any regard to money. They did it because they wanted to. The act of doing and contributing was their reward. "
W: This makes sense, after all, no one is "lazy" when they're doing what they love.
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The thing about laziness is that it is one of the prime drivers of healthy societies. As any economist will tell you, productivity improvement ( making more with less labor) is the key driver of capitaltist society.The increases in productivity increase the standard of living by lowering the cost of living. Think of the spiralling down of prices for digital cameras in the past 5 years. The price goes down so rapidly that we can actually see it. Well that is being done in every industry but we don't realize it because the improvement is only 1.5-2.5 percent per year. The improvement is invisible, but it is there and it is accurately measured.
The final end result of all this improvement---is a society where we don't have to work,especially at jobs that suck. We may not see this in our lifetime...but it will come.
Interesting observation, but I can't help thinking that we are playing a semantics game between terms such as laziness, idle/leisure time and efficiency.
I don't think it's just a semantic game. Labor economist have done surveys on worker satisfaction. About 75% of the work force doesn't like what they do. This is of course a horrible thing. Productivity enhancement will eventually raise living standards to the point where much of that distasteful work will be eliminated.
The lazy will get the leisure time that they deserve, and they won't be called lazy. They'll just be people who take more leisure time.
As I wrote and responded to this before, with this kind of "laziness" attitude, you won't do well with women in China or Taiwan besides maybe the prostitutes(even they can be picky sometimes) as they believe the opposite of you. If you want to live in China and do well with the women, get yourself established meaning you should be working or running a business. It also makes it easy to live there as you generate your own income and you also have chances to pursue other interests.
Yes there are ways that make things more efficient but one still have to generate his own income but working less while earning more is great. For Winston, I suspect from other things I read about him, he doesn't generate enough income to support himself let alone a wife and a son. I suggested Winston if he wants to live in China, he know his Mandarin well and since he is fluent in English being a Overseas Taiwanese American, he can be an English teacher where he can support himself, make him established in the chicks eyes, and do well with Chinese chicks while living there. There are other ways to live in China like running a business which I did but its not easy and its risky. Perhaps with Winston's definition of "laziness" he should go back to the Philippines or maybe try out Thailand as I replied in another post in another board about Thailand.
Having more leisure time because you are more productive and efficient is great. In fact I'm reading the book "The Four Hour Work Week" right now. But none of this takes away the fact that plain old fashioned laziness does and will always exist. I wanted to graduate from school and receive my degrees, but many times I put off doing my assignments and studying until the last minute. It wasn't a rejection of the system, I was just plain lazy right then.
He could be living in China and spawn another kid with some poor Chinese girl while neglecting his son Angelo back in the Philippines. With his track record, I wouldn't be surprised he will neglect any future kids as his aimless ways to go anywhere, hooking up with any random poor girl without thinking of the potential consequences. Swincor, your sig says it all.
W: If you're talking about automation, isn't the motive behind that to help the company save money? It's the same motive behind outsourcing, they are trying to reduce costs. It's not to free up time for more people. The bottom line is profit here, in the monetary system. That's the bottom line to the shareholders of a corporation too. Corporations only get involved in charity for their public image.
The fallacy about automation is that as it reduces the need for human labor, more people are out of work. And as more people are unemployed, less people are able to afford the company's goods and services. As of now, there is no solution to this and it's not even being addressed. It reveals an inherent flaw in the system that may bring about its downfall.
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W: Well that's the hope of the Zeitgeist Movement and what it's trying to achieve. Gmm567, you should join the movement or at least watch its first two films. They are very inspiring and life changing, a must see. I can personally vouch for this. Here is the film that's most relevant to what you're talking about.
Zeitgeist 2: Addendum
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BTW, here is an interesting site I found that has suggestions for freeing yourself of a wage slave life, and decrease your dependence on money.
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W: Yeah well I've known that my whole life. That's why I am a different creature than my own family. I'm not a workaholic (unless I'm doing something I love) and my soul is not really Chinese. I am way too open for a Chinese person. A Chinese soul and mind is rigid, judgmental, conformist, driven by fear and strict control. Like the Christian fundamentalists, Chinese believe that human nature is evil and idle and if left uncontrolled, will result in evil vices and mischief. Thus, people must be controlled strictly or else chaos will erupt. FEAR is the prime motivator of Chinese people. It's used in their mind control techniques. If you watch a Chinese parent yelling at their child closely, you will notice a TRANSFERENCE of fear between them. The fear that their parents live with deep down inside is transferred to their child as they are being lectured, instilling the same fear in them as well. It's a subconscious control mechanism that is passed down from generation to generation.
My parents have it too. It's in their subconscious. But I choose to live in hope, optimism, confidence and faith. These things are alien to my parents and their primordial instincts of fear, control and conformity. Thus there is an uncomfortable vibe between us and we do not speak that much to each other.
Most Chinese people ONLY see everything in terms of practical things, like work, money, cooking, cleaning, etc. They do not think in terms of concepts, ideas, theories, etc. esp that are outside the box. Their knowledge of the world is only of practical things. They do not have an intellectual way of thinking.
This creates a mental rift between me and the average Chinese or Asian folks. In the Philippines, mainstream people are simple minded too, but they are not judgmental control freaks who live in fear like the Chinese are. And they are not picky about little things (one reason why their food tastes so bad). Instead, they are very let loose and open, a vibe I'm much more comfortable around.
I'll tell you though, when a person has been ruled by strict control their whole lives, they exude a vibe that makes me feel uptight as well if I'm around them.
BTW, I don't see why prostitutes in China would be picky. It's not like they have to understand me first before sleeping with me. Usually, as long as you look decent, do not smell bad and do not belong to a racial/ethnic group that they are repulsed by, they will go with you, as long as you pay.
The only prostitutes that have rejected me were in Russia and Poland, and it was because they were disgusted by Asians.
Sure you gotta make a living, but you can't be something you're not too. Thus the challenge is to find a BALANCE between who you are and what you have to do. I'm not going to do something I hate just cause society says so. No way. I want to get rich too, but in a way that's comfortable and natural to me. If you put me on a factory line assembly, which is monotonous and will burn me out quickly, I will get lazy fast. But if you give me a job with National Geographic as a Photographer or Filmmaker and send me to an exotic country to film wildlife or remote cultures, then I will become a workaholic and be at it every waking hour, because it's something that I would love to do.
So, under the right conditions, I can be a workaholic too. Think of the thousands of hours I've put into this website for instance. It involved a lot more than you could imagine. I certainly was not lazy about putting this massive site together, which involved solving many technical problems that I was new to.
Sure, I only make $200 a month from this site, which is not enough, but it's better than what most people trying to make money online get.
BTW Jake, if I was a practical minded Chinese, I would not have created this website. It would not exist. And neither would this forum. A typical Chinese mind only does things that have a practical benefit. This website is more about ideas and stories inspiring others. It is intellectually based and deals with concepts regarding dating and social lives. It is not about practical things. A mainstream practical minded Chinese person would not be interested in what this site stands for. In short Jake, I would be working all day, and playing with my electronic gadgets at night, and not even be discussing this with you, if I were a typical Asian workaholic. Keep that in mind.
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W: Don't jump the gun here. I never told Jake that I planned to live in China. To plan such a thing would be illogical, given that I've never been there. I only talked about a trip to scope it out first. And for the cultural experience too of course.
White tourists always have positive things to say about going to China. But Taiwanese tourists say negative things and focus on how Chinese people there try to cheat them and rip them off.
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Funny thing is, in the US (the workalcholic capital of the world) if your not working your considered a lazy bum (unless you are retired then it's OK to not be working). I know people who are workalcholics and they actually get depressed when they are not working! When they take a vacation they may feel guilty that they are not working! WTF? They can't even enjoy being on vacation!
In America a good trait to have is being someone who works a lot and makes their job the center piece of their life! Who in their right mind would want to make their job the center piece of their life? Especially since most people hate their jobs! I heard a statistic on the radio that said 80% of Americans hate their jobs! I believe it, people don't work where they want to work, they work where ever they can find a job, even if it means taking a job they don't like!
Think about this, you spend MOST of your life working! Now, if most people hate their jobs, you spend MOST of your life doing something you HATE! WTF? No wonder so many people can't wait to retire and get out of the 9 to 5 rat race!
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The road has lately also acquired new restaurants doing honour to the locale. At 37 Pimlico Road, The Orange, a sister house to The Thomas Cubitt and The Pantechnicon, is a temple dedicated to Sloanedom.
101 Pimlico Road is more bijou but no less site-specific. It's where Italian restaurant Vivezza used to be; before that, in the Sixties, it was La Fontana, famous for truffle menus. The new owner is 24-year-old Will Guess, who has also taken over Rowley's in Jermyn Street from his father. The chef is youthful too, 29-year-old Keith Goddard, ex-Tom Aikens.
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Diver scallops, truffled potato, raisin purée, tomato and basil (£12) was ornate in appearance — coins of scallop, confit halves of cherry tomatoes, and gloopy mounds of mash flavoured with truffle — but it came together in the mouth.
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Bharti made the remarks during the inaugural function of late RSS leader Nanaji Deshmukh's birth centenary celebrations here.
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November 3, 2016 | Business and Careers, Enjoying Retirement
When Bob Breaux retired, he could have joined a bowling league or met friends at a coffee shop, but his real passion is helping entrepreneurs get their start.
"I just get excited about working with people who are dreaming about starting a business," says the 69-year-old Breaux, a former technology pioneer and entrepreneur.
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Chrome works for a while, but then I notice that any tab I click on, new or old, will not load or refresh...including Chrome's own History, etc. I get a message saying I can Wait or Kill Pages. So far, re-booting the computer has fixed it. I have had absolutely NO trouble with any other programs on this computer - less than a year old. (Windows 7 HP 64 bit)
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Not sure if this will help, I had the same issue yesterday.
Uninstall Chrome and download and install a fresh copy from here Google Chrome 19.0.1084.52
Also, do you have too many extensions on chrome?
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I'm having the same problem. I've tried a lot of different things to solve it, but to no avail: reinstalling Chrome, pulling up Chrome's task manager ("view hidden pages") when it happens (no obvious culprit), playing around with Flash (about: plugins), etc.
I can go for several days sometimes where this problem doesn't occur, but it always comes back. It happens sometimes when I first open Chrome. It happens sometimes when I open the next of a number of open tabs. I haven't been able to determine a pattern. If anything, it seems to happen most often with Google's own sites, but it's not limited to them (maybe it's just I go to Google sites a lot). It also happened with the SRWare Iron browser, which is similar to Chrome.
I try other browsers, but I go back to Chrome. I like it and want to use it, but this "page has become unresponsive" routine is getting very old.
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EXACTLY! I have not tried the SRWare Iron browser, but everything else is exactly my experience and my feeling about it! I really hope someone can help us figure this out.
What kind of computer are you using? This is an Asus laptop, about a year old, w/ 2nd gen I5 processor.
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I'm on a Dell Latitude E6500 with an Intel Core Duo 2 (2.8ghz) processor. I've also tried removing/disabling the few extensions on it as well, but still end up with unresponsive pages.
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|Reviews for Islands Like Glass Towers
| Guest chapter 12 . 2/13/2015
What'd be funny, is if Sora's first word was 'Light' or 'Heart'.
Great story, going to the next one now.
| the door to light chapter 1 . 8/26/2012
Definitely a good read! I didn't even stop for a minute.
| nown unnoun chapter 12 . 4/27/2012
The one thing I'd change is the bit with the boy that arrived on the kid's Island at the end.
Have it so that the boy showed up with his grandfather, who got him the room, and that the boy was still mostly comatose when he and his grandfather left.
I'm assuming that you know about BBS by now, so I'll be brief.
Ven definitely wasn't walking and talking by the time he left the Islands.
I could maybe see Xehanort booking a room for the two of them, as he wouldn't have wanted Ven to get sick and die in the storm.
Not while Ven, who had just linked his heart with Sora's and resummoned the Keyblade, was still useful to him.
| FrostFire15 chapter 12 . 12/17/2011
Gah I love this point of view!
| inkbender chapter 11 . 4/7/2011
Sora has been born! And his Tower completed by Emi. The visualization I received in my head was so graphic and real and inspired a rush of emotion when Sora's heart was finally finished. And his first act was to reach out all around him to other heart towers enshrouded in darkness-wow, the powerful imagery. The flash of "lightning" outside the bedroom window, Sora reaching out to touch other people's broken hearts; I'm already considering this canon in my mind, that along with Scribbler's "The Sky and the Dawn and the Sun". Your writing is so strong and powerful and this fanfiction stands firm with canon and that makes me love it all the more.
| inkbender chapter 10 . 4/7/2011
Here's the big clincher, the part where Taro and Emi realize that there is so much more out there they can't even begin to comprehend... but to know the fate of their child even before the child has been born, that's something to contemplate. The glass tower that Emi's building... is that Dive to the Heart platforms that Sora lands on in the beginning of the first game? Interesting concept if that pans out, and even more interesting that Sora's mother experienced the construction of it long before Sora himself knew about it. Sora's parents don't know what they're seeing, but they know there's a lot of it and it's strange foreshadowing to all the worlds their son is going to travel to,and how he's going to play an integral part in the whole of Kingdom Hearts, and all the implications that follow being a Keyblade Master. Wow. Again, incredible case study of the parents of the Destiny Island children.
| inkbender chapter 7 . 4/7/2011
You mentioned a spoiler, eep... just wanted to mention I caught it and it helped tie the story back to the universe of Kingdom Hearts. I'm surprised the parents of the Destiny Islands would trust their children to row off to the far out Play Island, knowing the distance and the rowboat ride and all the things that could go wrong. But then again, the Destiny Islands were built specifically to be a child's paradise-video game logic.
| inkbender chapter 6 . 4/7/2011
Islands like glass towers... hmmm... I can't imagine why she would dream of a glass tower, though the part about the flat thought wanting Hearts sent me into a negative stance, despite Light following afterwards.
You seem to have quite a bit of knowledge on the strains of early motherhood :/
| inkbender chapter 5 . 4/7/2011
The conversation is not only believable, it is genuine and catching. You are an amazing writer, and I was just as frantic as Taro to find Emi.
I got to thinking about why an original character story attracts me so much, and another conclusion I reached is that you don't use Caucasian/ Japanese/ crazy mixture of Caucasian-Asian names like John or Sakura-Rose. Sora, Riku, Kairi-they're all plain and simple names (but still have meaning); likewise, Taro and Lana are short and simple but still retain an exotic feel (haha, I know taro is a purple sweet potato...)
| inkbender chapter 3 . 4/7/2011
I don't know why I decided to click on this link, since I don't particularly like OC stories. But the summary drew me in: the game chalks it up to video game logic, and players never stop and think about things beyond the main characters' points of view. In other stories I've read concerning Sora's and Riku's parents, I've never had the emotional attachment to truly care about what they feel about their children. And an exploration of the Destiny Islands in the eyes of a settled adult, instead of the eyes of restless teenagers, is definitely a different perspective.
You haven't disappointed in this fanfiction. It's realistic and thorough, and, casting aside my wishes to glimpse references to Sora and Kairi and Riku, the relationship you've built between Taro and Emi is self-supporting and attractive (enough to keep me reading into the wee hours of the morning!)
| Flightfoot chapter 12 . 9/18/2010
Ok, Sora's cute. I'm off to read the sequel. By the, way, I don't think that this really belongs in romance. Personally, I think that family would be a better choice.
| mooglestookmyheart chapter 12 . 7/7/2010
god knows i loved your fic. are you planning on making some sort of a sequel? i really hope you do :)
| xDelfin chapter 12 . 7/3/2010
WHAAAT? That's it? D:
BUT BUT I don't understand!
The towers...the voice. I can kind of draw the conclusion that it will be Sora's premonitions as in KH1, but DX! It was great to read! I kinda wish you wrote more Riku. That little 'hi' made my day xD You write beautifully. Thank you for this story ~
| AriaxCiel chapter 12 . 6/29/2010
i loved it...it was cute...especially riku only saying "hi" to sora...its so cute
| Flightfoot chapter 11 . 6/24/2010
The ill boy... Ven?


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"Walking in the Shade opens in 1949 with Doris Lessing's resolute good-bye to Africa and her hopeful hello to England. In the second volume of her memoirs, Lessing traces her journey as a twice married mother of three in the British colony of Southern Rhodesia to her struggles as a writer and single parent in post-war London. If "Under My Skin focuses on her childhood and various attempts to differentiate herself from her parents and the values and sacrifices they symbolized, then "Walking in the Shade marks Lessing's development as a promising writer, cast in the shadow of her vexed relationship to the Communist Party in particular and organized politics in general. In fact, Lessing considered separating the description of her political life into a single chapter, so that disinterested readers could simply skip the section. However, Lessing soon realized that politics permeated her experience of these years so thoroughly that compartmentalization would not only be impossible, but inadvisable given her dedication to representing truthfully the age through which she lived and was shaped. Lessing devotes much of the second volume to the evocation of her creative process, her interactions with the literati of London and the many changes--economic, social and cultural--that occurred in England throughout the 1950s. "Walking in the Shade concludes in 1962, the year she published her most famous and most influential work to date: "The Golden Notebook.
Topics For Discussion 1. In the middle of "Walking in the Shade, Lessing remarks that " coming events cast their shadows before. But looking backfrom the perspective of those events, it is easy to be dishonest. Some tiny passing shade of feeling, a mere cloud shadow, may ten years later become a storm of revelation: about yourself, about others, about a time. Or may have dissolved and gone." Does this metaphoric reflection relate to the title of Lessing's second autobiographical volume? If so, how?
2. Lessing punctuates the second volume of her autobiography with commentary on " The Zeitgeist: How We Were Thinking." These sections, which include reflections on politics, class warfare, and feminism, seem to promote a common theme in Lessing's work: people cannot act outside the parameters of their particular histories, of which they are a direct product. Yet, Lessing also insists that " if acceptance of social ills is a sign of maturity, what becomes of progress?" Are these philosophical positions in conflict or do they represent a productive paradox about history and change?
3. Throughout the book, Lessing suggests that all formally organized social groups, regardless of original intention, eventually become religious and frequently turn into their polar opposite. What does religion mean in the context of this hypothesis? How does Lessing describe this process of group transformation in relation to her experience with the Communist Party?
4. In England, Lessing became involved with many Americans. She concludes that " Americans are a people of extremes." Although the British and the Americans share the English language, Lessing says their " national temperaments" form a barrier to substantive communication and understanding, a contention that " may hardly be said aloud in theUnited States, because of political correctness." What characterizes these " national temperaments" in Lessing's opinion? How do these different dispositions manifest themselves in "Walking in the Shade?
5. In England, Lessing became involved with many Americans. She concludes that " Americans are a people of extremes." Although the British and the Americans share the English language, Lessing says their " national temperaments" form a barrier to substantive communication and understanding, a contention that " may hardly be said aloud in the United States, because of political correctness." What characterizes these " national temperaments" in Lessing's opinion? How do these different dispositions manifest themselves in "Walking in the Shade?
About the Author Doris Lessing was born in Persia (now Iran) in 1919. Lessing has described her childhood as an uneven mix of some pleasure and much pain. Her mother, obsessed with raising a proper daughter, enforced a rigid system of rules, then installed Doris in a convent school and, later, an all-girls high school in Salisbury, from which she soon dropped out at the age of thirteen. Lessing, however, made herself into a self-educated intellectual, reading Dickens, Kipling, Tolstoy, and Dostoevsky. Doris's early years were spent absorbing her father's bitter memories of World War I, taken in as a kind of " poison." " We are all of us made by war, " Lessing has written, " twisted and warped by war, but we seem to forget it." Lessing left home when she was fifteen and took a job as a nursemaid. Her employer gave her books on politics and sociology; she was alsowriting stories, and sold two to magazines in South Africa.
In 1937, she moved to Salisbury (Southern Rhodesia), where she worked as a telephone operator and, at nineteen, married Frank Wisdom and had two children. A few years later, feeling trapped in a persona she feared would destroy her, she left her family, remaining in Salisbury. She was drawn to the members of the Left Book Club, a group of Communists. Gottfried Lessing was a central member of the group; shortly after she joined, they married and had a son. During the postwar years, Lessing became increasingly disillusioned with the Communist movement, which she left altogether in 1954. By 1949, Lessing had moved to London with her young son and published "The Grass is Singing, beginning her career as a professional writer. After writing the "Children of Violence series, about the growth in consciousness of her heroine, Martha Quest, Lessing broke new ground with "The Golden Notebook (1962), a daring narrative experiment. Her most recent works include two volumes of autobiography, "Under My Skin (1994) and "Walking in the Shade (1997), and a novel, "Love, Again (1995).
Lessing's life has been a challenge to her belief that people cannot resist the currents of their time, as she fought against the cultural and biological imperatives that fated her to sink without a murmur into marriage and motherhood.Lessing believes that she was freer than most people because she became a writer.For her, writing is a process of "setting a distance," taking the "raw, the individual, the uncriticized, the unexamined, into the realm of the general."
Lessing's fiction is deeply autobiographical, much of it emerging out of her experiences in Africa.Drawing upon her childhood memories and her serious engagement with politics and social concerns, Lessing has written about the clash of cultures, the gross injustices of racial inequality, the struggle among opposing elements within an individual's own personality, and the conflict between the individual conscience and the collective good.
Over the years, Lessing has attempted to accommodate what she admires in the novels of the 19th century -- their "climate of ethical judgment" -- to the demands of 20th-century ideas about consciousness and time.After writing the Children of Violence series (1952-1959), a formally conventional bildungsroman (novel of education) about the growth in consciousness of her heroine, Martha Quest, Lessing broke new ground with The Golden Notebook (1962), a daring narrative experiment in which the multiple selves of a contemporary woman are rendered in astonishing depth and detail.Anna Wolf, like Lessing herself, strives for ruthless honesty as she aims to free herself from the chaos, emotional numbness and hypocrisy afflicting her generation.
In the 1970s and 1980s, Lessing began to explore more fully the quasi-mystical insight Anna Wolf seems to reach by the end of The Golden Notebook.Her "inner-space fiction" deals with cosmic fantasies Briefing for a Descent into Hell, 1971), dreamscapes and other dimensions (Memoirs of a Survivor, 1974), and science-fiction probings of higher planes of existence (Canopus in Argos: Archives, 1979-1983).These reflect Lessing's interest, since the 1960s, in Idries Shah, whose writings on Sufi mysticism stress the evolution of consciousness and the belief that individual liberation can come about only if people understand the link between their own fates and the fate of society.
Lessing's other novels include The Good Terrorist (1985) and The Fifth Child (1988); she also published two novels under the pseudonym Jane Somers (The Diary of a Good Neighbor, 1983, and If the Old Could., 1984). In addition, she has written several nonfiction works, including books about cats, a love since childhood. Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949 wasjoined by Walking in the Shade: 1949 to 1962, both published by HarperCollins.


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A warm summer night. The moon shines down on the quiet houses and gardens. Everyone is asleep. Everyone except the man in pyjamas and slippers, standing on the wet grass at the end of his garden, watching and waiting . . . In these three short stories, H. E. Bates presents ordinary people like you and me. But as we get to know them better, we see that their feelings are not at all ordinary. In fact, what happens to them - and in them - is passionate, and even extraordinary. Could this happen to you and me?
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