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University of the East Red Warriors | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homegrown%20Cup | 8263878 | 9 | 7872ef8a03d67773a5f2828b20e90c9035c9cf74aa9e8dde4dae4b39f8515272 | 35 | 6 |
University of the Philippines Fighting Maroons | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homegrown%20Cup | 8263878 | 10 | 60b8686db0d5826eab2f0357ee8d8063dde59f83dd4e3e0a9ee355f0e195754a | 46 | 7 |
University of Santo Tomas Growling Tigers | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homegrown%20Cup | 8263878 | 11 | 721d11437b72438e48415335bb6ad6debcaa432255e330684e09e1d701c17649 | 41 | 7 |
NCAA | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homegrown%20Cup | 8263878 | 12 | ecdd8c5ae8b30bcc1e9584fc047970fb224a315657ecc915ec93426c10374ca1 | 4 | 2 |
Colegio de San Juan de Letran Knights | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homegrown%20Cup | 8263878 | 13 | f7f6c3bcc2214eade208b3f8a73608eb0d971be1ce3e1dac3e8e7bc8e6c813cf | 37 | 9 |
Jose Rizal University Heavy Bombers | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homegrown%20Cup | 8263878 | 14 | 71c598cee1ebf3740fa55c0b6c7c60b97338dd5d10e0a997c3a0d61c1bd16327 | 35 | 6 |
San Beda College Red Lions | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homegrown%20Cup | 8263878 | 15 | 7a1104514eaaaef073ea13d29714114640905786c6bc860f7ce7c4f2af4d707b | 26 | 6 |
San Sebastian College - Recoletos Stags | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homegrown%20Cup | 8263878 | 16 | 106f41a99c7cdc01fbfa144d182a96dfc90cc96d2f0991f8126e560291a1b3be | 39 | 9 |
Format | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homegrown%20Cup | 8263878 | 17 | b589ee9368bdbad1f4cdf39f62a1872cdb604ba2f0c89858e285ca3a31afe62e | 6 | 1 |
Each team must have at least 3 homegrown players in their roster. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homegrown%20Cup | 8263878 | 18 | 7e1078115dc875b2f8c6af935aa24e2468b92a019f81afdcb18b375182d63ad2 | 65 | 14 |
Cross over single-round robin format. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homegrown%20Cup | 8263878 | 19 | d314bead06adb345c5dfdfc538cde997fa732a4a316cf35d0e5ec28d1a0616d7 | 37 | 8 |
Top two teams in each group battle in the semifinals. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homegrown%20Cup | 8263878 | 20 | 57d892f032895f590730fbf88944dfeaaa0277a7e3a9ac83639a9b008e6547e3 | 53 | 11 |
Single game championship. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homegrown%20Cup | 8263878 | 21 | 071f4bdb38c260856f88bced2c881a43b74d7395274ae30af36ab420c5e12e7e | 25 | 4 |
Elimination round | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homegrown%20Cup | 8263878 | 22 | f0ba01f992687b2f08a05d934dbb87aef1a3471c6c54c731a15fed5d7fa1341b | 17 | 3 |
Group A | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homegrown%20Cup | 8263878 | 23 | e045ec4e787086a857b65cf40b8fadf5ecad7640b7821c46775aa9815b28fa74 | 7 | 2 |
Group B | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homegrown%20Cup | 8263878 | 24 | 97467d205567928c2dd663cef7e121ce4bbe5efa437b9f29a1c9b545be5f7213 | 7 | 2 |
Playoffs | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homegrown%20Cup | 8263878 | 25 | 29aacc5f506bd6137fb3763ce61a52a061bdb3425a87db3c022a26b39a394efc | 8 | 2 |
Awards | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homegrown%20Cup | 8263878 | 26 | f2889f1c1795d16159e46bd63d36b0171135200c89e8c01beb168d0d3618b9f4 | 6 | 1 |
Tournament MVP: Rico Maierhofer (De La Salle University) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homegrown%20Cup | 8263878 | 27 | d0c9ca8f7c94cec7c9e64dd549a22104b4c5c77493133341d372e3c0fc09d6a0 | 56 | 12 |
Mythical Five: | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homegrown%20Cup | 8263878 | 28 | 83145a046ca1e14dfb1b58c6a74a2e1b732042e061382c60dd16c2b68950c22b | 14 | 4 |
Guard: JVee Casio (De La Salle University) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homegrown%20Cup | 8263878 | 29 | 3094dcd489c29c8e445ba57404a3e2ab333260a62c3f30d0be6facf685f96a48 | 42 | 12 |
Guard: James Martinez (University of the East) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homegrown%20Cup | 8263878 | 30 | f8f50053f5134730114d729161f929cc08588653c0928da5d33c0d5ec082c549 | 46 | 10 |
Forward: Paul Sanga (Far Eastern University) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homegrown%20Cup | 8263878 | 31 | e071d4e44147c8c41e46640e590c62a00d9aa3e095e0626b47e9142ac0eb3d8e | 44 | 10 |
Forward: Rico Maierhofer (De La Salle University) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homegrown%20Cup | 8263878 | 32 | 68a39818d7ff6bdc6eb48966dbcbacfd22af0dc22ccc6816cc92fe69789aaba7 | 49 | 11 |
Center: James Sena (Jose Rizal University) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homegrown%20Cup | 8263878 | 33 | c209824eaf72c6096677372667e54561b9d767a77557e01d23fe70671ebc0dd6 | 42 | 9 |
References | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homegrown%20Cup | 8263878 | 34 | 6820752e56c15a9194cdc8b524f29556e5cd9e714db9a68d997ef68f6e18cb72 | 10 | 1 |
College men's basketball competitions in the Philippines | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homegrown%20Cup | 8263878 | 35 | bdcdc29eecfb80c4f0bc1d21487f65207476985c9056b05d471a224e9a44f864 | 56 | 9 |
Richard Arlin Billings (born December 4, 1942) is an American former professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball as a catcher, outfielder and third baseman for the Washington Senators/Texas Rangers (1968–74) and St. Louis Cardinals (1974–75). | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick%20Billings | 8263881 | 1 | 711d787dd56275b2005d1d678c9f022731e1fe90f08d1686c3e970ac877fe1d4 | 263 | 68 |
Baseball career | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick%20Billings | 8263881 | 2 | 9f75a4fcb4a48d48babfdced1570a5ea911ca7d731a00169f4ec1ead60a2300f | 15 | 2 |
Billings was born in Detroit, Michigan where his father was a factory worker. His father moved the family to Troy, Michigan where Billings attended Troy High School. After high school, Billings attended Michigan State University where he played as a third baseman and outfielder for the Michigan State Spartans baseball ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick%20Billings | 8263881 | 3 | 0befbd7994fc0abb450c4f472db97268f9f43a3b61cb6920f11a65512df77734 | 443 | 93 |
Billings played as an outfielder and occasional third baseman in the Senators' minor league system for four years before making his major league debut at the age of 25 as a pinch hitter on September 11, 1968. He had his first appearance as a starting player on September 20, as a left fielder in a game against the Detr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick%20Billings | 8263881 | 4 | 7d43e290891a3fa348357b25fd85f28bca6faf08e7a9716ca687f41082af55bb | 331 | 77 |
Billings began the 1969 season with the Senators but, with the team experiencing a weakness at the catcher's position, he agreed to return to the minor leagues in June in order to be converted into a catcher. In , he posted a .305 batting average with 15 home runs and 67 runs batted in while playing for the Denver Bear... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick%20Billings | 8263881 | 5 | 1e1d1d83fb28b76767e76d5fc8dbcf5a385b1fe2a333ecae5770ea3054d5e613 | 468 | 111 |
Billings won the starting catcher's job in July 1971 when Senators manager Ted Williams benched Casanova for weak hitting. Although he led American League catchers with 16 passed balls, he ended the season with a career-high .992 fielding percentage in 116 games. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick%20Billings | 8263881 | 6 | 7c22161bed8986075ad32de3dc75b01181205ef1acbee87717c0a2c455c4c4f9 | 263 | 65 |
After the season, the Senators sent Billings to play for the Águilas del Zulia in the Venezuelan Winter Baseball League during the 1971–1972 season to gain additional catching experience. When his manager, Larry Doby was fired midway through the season, the Águilas installed Billings as their player-manager. He then gu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick%20Billings | 8263881 | 7 | bf30978f83ea31216d1adef87749540c6391bba47a86d2643e8dfa8781375ded | 584 | 127 |
In 1972 the Senators relocated to the Dallas-Fort Worth area and were renamed the Texas Rangers. Billings started the season in a platoon role alongside left-hand hitting catcher Hal King. King was sent to the minor leagues in July and Billings eventually played in a career-high 133 games. He also posted career-highs w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick%20Billings | 8263881 | 8 | 1ce2a2e203bc37a5e03b573125bf3def983c34826dc9e39d571d6bec1602de2b | 540 | 139 |
Williams resigned and was replaced by Whitey Herzog as the Rangers' manager, who employed Billings in a platoon role alongside Ken Suarez for the 1973 season. In May, Billings went on the 15-day disabled list. On July 30, , Billings caught Jim Bibby's no-hitter against the Oakland Athletics. Batting as the Rangers' cle... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick%20Billings | 8263881 | 9 | 8b36455924e4c0714c8430cc32df7328fe300e67e0b0b0fcdf287415d06e28ae | 406 | 103 |
With the arrival of new manager Billy Martin in 1974, Billings found himself in a backup role behind defensive standout Jim Sundberg. Billings suffered an ankle injury on April 27 and was placed on the disabled list. He ultimately was sidelined for most of the year with a variety of injuries. In August his contract wa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick%20Billings | 8263881 | 10 | 02c297544a677ae823c599650b424dc6c9249098c47214ac3ac96ee2813a73b9 | 834 | 183 |
Career statistics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick%20Billings | 8263881 | 11 | dbc55b27cec24234bc45713c352de4112af0129d85d3c8c7d8a63914f389a022 | 17 | 2 |
In an eight-year major league career, Billings played in 400 games, accumulating 280 hits in 1,231 at bats for a .227 career batting average along with 16 home runs, 142 runs batted in and an on-base percentage of .281. He had a .984 career fielding percentage in 248 games as a catcher, a .966 fielding percentage in 92... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick%20Billings | 8263881 | 12 | 291ec03d9fc3f73968a3fba185a1602b67ff2a800c0e2e352ff8cadfa2fcf774 | 407 | 123 |
Later life | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick%20Billings | 8263881 | 13 | 818a61a0715e1aa99e8e518009fa04aa69b13d03f2f4efdb3af40551087a87f1 | 10 | 2 |
After his playing career Billings obtained his real-estate license and worked as a real-estate broker in Texas and Michigan. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick%20Billings | 8263881 | 14 | c763cae937acaf7f7e16efcc4c10cf162ac87629d5d8f8df057e1044292044c4 | 124 | 24 |
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External links | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick%20Billings | 8263881 | 16 | dc77f64b10a4e0015052da5b1d3b5f8418d19bd61dc469fb295f98ceb9cdbf2a | 14 | 2 |
Dick Billings at The Baseball Biography Project | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick%20Billings | 8263881 | 17 | 2f447a1730baea0fd98c0570d59c421ca53a07f8e550785292a19144cdd17b80 | 47 | 7 |
1942 births | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick%20Billings | 8263881 | 18 | 0b075e1639e4c9de027202efa134c67e4e4b02cb0850b4c892e9ac7923898d8c | 11 | 5 |
Living people | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick%20Billings | 8263881 | 19 | 2169379cf7357aa340e38defdfed80901f4dea59ce8151f76bc0ccd6cd7a7446 | 13 | 2 |
Águilas del Zulia players | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick%20Billings | 8263881 | 20 | 40aabb225cdd54956d6795bd04516f4e25f16ddb0fe484d45f32c38cc5907f6a | 25 | 7 |
American expatriate baseball players in Venezuela | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick%20Billings | 8263881 | 21 | 5c1ded2a5e1eb6cee6c36226ba60b35d50bef891362d24a6184941f6168a44b0 | 49 | 7 |
Baseball players from Detroit | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick%20Billings | 8263881 | 22 | cc7f7e930f7a3a29740c486ba6acc3d2a89cf13e7057210d8276bc9bef698211 | 29 | 4 |
Buffalo Bisons (minor league) players | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick%20Billings | 8263881 | 23 | 6bfe24915b51eafe6ac249f85b10d2d0f5ce544e525a7e425dfe5c6a2bd97e5e | 37 | 8 |
Burlington Senators players | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick%20Billings | 8263881 | 24 | b4c96cce0e9451c3f384463c625a0e1d515ed60ceed5c380a31667c1b3d8b269 | 27 | 4 |
Denver Bears players | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick%20Billings | 8263881 | 25 | 8c1969970ff1cb09ec0049636a9861181a793fbe3383691b3f8eddaa3a4f3f71 | 20 | 3 |
Geneva Senators players | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick%20Billings | 8263881 | 26 | 8572e5fe7d2aa3dc6210497f1b347b635765d94eb09fbc530995f361d622b007 | 23 | 4 |
Major League Baseball catchers | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick%20Billings | 8263881 | 27 | 46e444782ab5c41d66809fc4c4f486a62e6615cfea1bc5bb634aef4c337e7392 | 30 | 5 |
Michigan State Spartans baseball players | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick%20Billings | 8263881 | 28 | a9a9f6c49b68b9f7231bbd8c2d74ac57323c21bae56cc8fd714f98ad5605aaa4 | 40 | 5 |
People from Troy, Michigan | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick%20Billings | 8263881 | 29 | 347bd8f92801890cca25429fa6c24a54375614a2b530a830da87683f1b5208bd | 26 | 5 |
Baseball players from Oakland County, Michigan | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick%20Billings | 8263881 | 30 | cfc9e12a47b9284ac384620305e1cc8c109bdc136edad8d9c2a11a7e03e8607a | 46 | 7 |
St. Louis Cardinals players | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick%20Billings | 8263881 | 31 | e3f3c4870e2802e67e13ba1c10107181b42ea8a470ae87ec045789dba23f9905 | 27 | 5 |
Savannah Senators players | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick%20Billings | 8263881 | 32 | 50561d445c17cf32e67b032000cf75daa50b3a487903ed1eb53fd33b7d44eb5e | 25 | 4 |
Texas Rangers players | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick%20Billings | 8263881 | 33 | 201bd5d990217f01af749b26dccbea1982b3b7484a2b0d0b494f7d8bc96cbd42 | 21 | 3 |
Tulsa Oilers (baseball) players | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick%20Billings | 8263881 | 34 | 6ae54fe4565f3af4e24293006556c97ce2dba7decc3613c042dd8cb7e8efd2ee | 31 | 7 |
Washington Senators (1961–1971) players | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick%20Billings | 8263881 | 35 | 544f47c9967d78950c6a1327d4c450f543b9f966c30bc0002916ea6ac2fb9c38 | 39 | 14 |
York White Roses players | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick%20Billings | 8263881 | 36 | 7cf52e3247e4d1e8c05cd135175a1a494bce32d59f514deb93962dc0e2b3a44b | 24 | 4 |
Our Lady of Good Counsel High School, located in Sion, Mumbai, India is one of the oldest Catholic, coeducational schools in Mumbai. The school was founded as a primary school in 1939, and became a high school in 1958. Although run by the Archdiocese of Mumbai, a majority of students at the school have been non-Christi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our%20Lady%20of%20Good%20Counsel%20High%20School%2C%20Mumbai | 8263931 | 1 | c44d8455485c1b12662e99b90676f92bbdf6e7df1d20441e1a96fa7ab357506d | 489 | 109 |
The school is atop a hill, and shielded from the road by a massive black stone wall. The wall had two gates, one towards the East end and another to the West end. The west gate was used as the main entrance, with the east gate remaining closed most of the time. The rear boundary of the school is adjacent to a hillock w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our%20Lady%20of%20Good%20Counsel%20High%20School%2C%20Mumbai | 8263931 | 2 | 6af0a7dfec0af1b71d32987291bbe91d7d9a119907ee0e7bdde5a73a8a6d9a5a | 1,017 | 222 |
Our Lady of Good Counsel High School's first headmaster was Mr.William Dias, whose younger brother, Father Sylvester Dias, served as Principal. The duo served the school for nearly three decades. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our%20Lady%20of%20Good%20Counsel%20High%20School%2C%20Mumbai | 8263931 | 3 | 945ea3180b7028b018afd8c2e66cecb610fdd747bd270e80cee96ad4bca1917d | 196 | 41 |
Students participate in the Boy Scout/Girl Guide and Red Cross movements. The school has an Interact movement (under the Rotary club) to spread social and community consciousness. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our%20Lady%20of%20Good%20Counsel%20High%20School%2C%20Mumbai | 8263931 | 4 | eb879f7cfbc647ce50fcc5ee151edc28c66b8440006d35a1c291f8bda5eb5de3 | 179 | 33 |
The students of the school are divided among four houses - Roaring Lions(Red), Gigantic Elephants (Green), Brave Bulls (Blue) and Youthful Tigers (Yellow). The houses score points on the strength of their students' performance in sports, quizzes, academic, artistic, cultural and other extracurricular achievements. Earl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our%20Lady%20of%20Good%20Counsel%20High%20School%2C%20Mumbai | 8263931 | 5 | e01ebc600a6f111b4bf8795ad1a6806a779888f89368acc3fc607247fdae4752 | 657 | 134 |
A recent visit to the school (April 2023) showed that many ancient landmarks within the school premises are well preserved. The Church has been modified a bit. The old Cross in front of the Church has disappeared. But the basic structure of the three buildings, the classrooms, the assembly hall, the parish rooms,the se... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our%20Lady%20of%20Good%20Counsel%20High%20School%2C%20Mumbai | 8263931 | 6 | 8b056daf474d54941416cebfa5907e24cbd55bff99fdf655c3db65eba92799fc | 473 | 100 |
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Jia Pingwa (born 21 February 1952) is one of China's most popular authors of novels, short stories, poetry, and non-fiction. His best-known novels include Ruined City, which was banned by the State Publishing Administration for over 17 years for its explicit sexual content, and Qin Opera, winner of the 2009 Mao Dun Lit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jia%20Pingwa | 8263963 | 1 | e6043281fec9423458a06728bba1cf4834bbbe394d61cf3f9a8e474ce6acb96f | 334 | 85 |
Early life and teen years | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jia%20Pingwa | 8263963 | 2 | 422288461c5343f149656812dba957232a012d1019301be75631cf84eb53900a | 25 | 5 |
Born in Dihua () Village, Danfeng County, Shangluo, Shaanxi in 1952, only three years after the founding of the People's Republic of China, as the son of a school teacher, Jia Yanchun (), Jia had an early role model for his later decision to become a writer. Due to a shortage of qualified teachers in Shaanxi at the tim... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jia%20Pingwa | 8263963 | 3 | f7a7d2ffc7ba571a744643436d38d48cd5d6a8b826ee90f9425a5740a83a4cab | 794 | 189 |
Pen name | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jia%20Pingwa | 8263963 | 4 | 2ea0bead7522b9458cb6fd058b2f63fa4426d1bfe944c0983c043f2259f774da | 8 | 2 |
Jia's given name, (Píngwá), literally means 'ordinary child', a name suggested to Jia's parents by a fortune teller following the death of their first born child. He later chose the pen name (Píngwā), a play on his given name, as the character for 'ordinary' also means 'flat', and in southern Shaanxi dialect the char... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jia%20Pingwa | 8263963 | 5 | 933fec96ed4ee915e26a07507581f0e79a512eb0156d1dff0b8cdab475b6b1ec | 538 | 140 |
Education and early career | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jia%20Pingwa | 8263963 | 6 | df1ec8020ec2d38a6fd11220d5f9976d136ba4e8409d587216ca364f815bff12 | 26 | 4 |
While working on a production brigade, Jia had the good fortune to attract the attention of local party cadres after volunteering to write revolutionary slogans, and thanks to their support he was sent to study literature at Northwest University in Xi'an in 1971. Two years later, Jia's first short story, "A Pair of Soc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jia%20Pingwa | 8263963 | 7 | a87dafb19b22a311a2f8d2c0808bbad884b973451f7d38df5cfef944f0b39b46 | 861 | 184 |
Turn towards native-place fiction | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jia%20Pingwa | 8263963 | 8 | 36a2776482d5e704da1d605687423e6d206450ce2e11818b37361bbe432a8b28 | 33 | 6 |
Inspired perhaps by the worsening health of his father, who had fallen into alcoholism, in 1980 Jia published his first collection of rural fiction set in his home province of Shaanxi, Notes from the Highlands, and in 1982, on the strength of his published short stories and essays, Jia was admitted the Xi'an Literary F... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jia%20Pingwa | 8263963 | 9 | 708541d6139730b0ae614057f3fd09ea5a35e6b9d13b073678f156d27f8b5b0e | 792 | 175 |
In 1986, Jia published his first novel, Shangzhou, an account of a young fugitive who the police who suspect of having committed a robbery in the city. He decides to hide out in his rural hometown, giving Jia a narrative framework around which to structure his popular descriptions of life in the countryside. This novel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jia%20Pingwa | 8263963 | 10 | b4fe95ddc74987b9c023350468fb4dbb05ff13004e17d19e2b71ca29db5276ae | 988 | 218 |
After Ruined City and present day | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jia%20Pingwa | 8263963 | 11 | 9b117835bb17e0e48d76780133108dfe2c554e9d8189de6ed2990cea3122d37d | 33 | 7 |
Despite the ban, Jia continued to write, publishing a trilogy of rural novels: White Nights (1995), Earth Gate (1996), and Old Gao Village (1998). This was followed by the modern fable Wolves of Yesterday (2000), about a Wu Song-like hunter chasing a modern-day environmentalist who turns into a wolf, a historical roman... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jia%20Pingwa | 8263963 | 12 | 83cc18e31ac9bc1ea966096dfe17e6211b5bff061bca17fe92ae8a45c601fda8 | 661 | 183 |
In 1992 Jia was admitted to the prestigious Chinese Writers Association, later being elected Chairman of Shaanxi branch of the organization and in 2003 he was appointed dean of the School of Humanities and the Dean of the College of Arts at Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology. Additionally, he is a member o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jia%20Pingwa | 8263963 | 13 | 6cd4256bdeeb35cf8e570df79df6a3a1a8963ddd16109fb93e805d13e10d89d1 | 705 | 154 |
Style | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jia%20Pingwa | 8263963 | 14 | 1b988717b10ff06f1036a4d4ca88313edb92e4cd19e94b5b48e868f1a1a95fa7 | 5 | 1 |
Jia Pingwa is known for mixing traditional vernacular story-telling with modern realism in his work, which Carlos Rojas describes as being "explicitly rooted in the breathless modernization of contemporary urban China, while at the same time... [featuring] a nostalgic fascination with the historical tradition which tha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jia%20Pingwa | 8263963 | 15 | 8ce7a815db04fb2277441bb2243a11cdab8dd663b1ea099a38a56e7f33db91c4 | 384 | 65 |
List of works | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jia%20Pingwa | 8263963 | 16 | cf862e1d39c5ba29644f6f3d1f1138de6ffeb8ab5b150513fd3fb123e5471f81 | 13 | 3 |
Novels: | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jia%20Pingwa | 8263963 | 17 | 25602d472ce7040e1702b33509b030411359c31e992da5dfab754fb5278eab85 | 7 | 3 |
Shangzhou (商州, 1986) Shangzhou, currently untranslated. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jia%20Pingwa | 8263963 | 18 | 969f5a46c85979233cc49c51f5448059fb4ab32c14c6db628357922d80390e63 | 55 | 20 |
Fuzao (浮躁, 1987) English translation Turbulence by Howard Goldblatt (Louisiana State University Press, 1991, republished by Grove Press, 2003). Winner of the 1991 Pegasus Prize. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jia%20Pingwa | 8263963 | 19 | 52d7991bbbf6e9a650474958077e8bc9195f7ca1caabfa1db5b09990ed160e52 | 178 | 55 |
Renshen (妊娠, 1988) Pregnancy, currently untranslated. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jia%20Pingwa | 8263963 | 20 | d4e58a45f3091c939c5cd5911dbc685f2c8a6fb0256c3f361f1cb5a1edf4c5e3 | 53 | 19 |
Fei Du (废都, 1993) English translation Ruined City by Howard Goldblatt (University of Oklahoma Press, 2016). Also known in English as Defunct Capital and Abandoned Capital. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jia%20Pingwa | 8263963 | 21 | 766cc51ebb4031895247975dcf6aa9845ba5e0904e891f84d54ff8d6cfc6f798 | 171 | 47 |
Bai Ye (白夜, 1995) White Nights, currently untranslated. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jia%20Pingwa | 8263963 | 22 | 52776aa0d22e1fae04c794941817b228d9ba2ef5d19adc130a6a910e12e1dc24 | 55 | 20 |
Tu Men (土门, 1996) Earth Gate, English translation The Earthen Gate by Hu Longfeng and He Longping. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jia%20Pingwa | 8263963 | 23 | 6e20817cefe974c9bcee9edb77091408ffa6e4ea697c459403ee85c325e124f4 | 98 | 30 |
Gao Lao Zhuang (高老庄, 1998) Old Gao Village, currently untranslated. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jia%20Pingwa | 8263963 | 24 | 7fa57b56e886a27c706581aab2ffc81d833ba34f1a1efeccb0af3d97ba074c6f | 67 | 24 |
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