Cheng Hua's Books

Strongest Chef System

Volume 1

By: Wei Cheng

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Lin Feng, who sold small pancakes, got a miraculous stone and menu by accident. Afterwards, the already famous pancake stand in the University City became filled with more customers. Relying on the magical power of the stone and the menu, Lin Feng first subdued the bullies that often bullied people around the Higher Education Mega Centre, then completed his own little dream and set up a small restaurant with his dependent sister, Lin Xin. Afterwards, he obtained a mystical system that continuously completed all the quests given by the system, ranging from catching chickens to making pancakes to winning the Master Chef Competition. In between, Lin Feng got to know many good partners. Finally, with the help of the system and with enough effort from Lin Feng himself, Lin Feng overcame many threats and difficulties, harvesting smiles and tears, friendship and love, his career and family, he reached the pinnacle of his life!

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1649202784

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Sword Destroying Reincarnation

Volume 2

By: Cheng XiaoQi

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Sword Destroying Reincarnation

Volume 2

By: Cheng XiaoQi

At the ends of the world, there was the Azure Sky Continent. For thousands of years, there had been countless heroes in the Azure Sky Continent, and legends were like sand. He, a swordsman who was supposed to be renowned throughout the world, had accidentally gotten involved in the open rivalry between the two races after he had awakened the memories of his previous life and changed his appearance. While he was struggling within the great powers, he sharpened the sword in his hand and angrily swept it across the Six Unity, broke through the blue sky, and annihilated the cycle of reincarnation! " I always felt that the rivers and lakes were very deep, but I didn't expect them to be so shallow that I couldn't drink them!

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1649209525

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A Bushel of Pearls

Painting for Sale in Eighteenth-Century Yangchow

By: Ginger Cheng-chi Hsü

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A Bushel of Pearls

Painting for Sale in Eighteenth-Century Yangchow

By: Ginger Cheng-chi Hsü

This book studies 18th-century Yangchow paintings as artistic products shaped by collective social and cultural experiences, and by constant exchanges between the artists and their audience.

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Stanford University Press

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0804732523

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Philosophical Methodology in Classical Chinese and German Philosophy

Weltphilosophien im Gespräch - Band 16

By: Christian Krijnen,Chung-Ying Cheng

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Philosophical Methodology in Classical Chinese and German Philosophy

Weltphilosophien im Gespräch - Band 16

By: Christian Krijnen,Chung-Ying Cheng

Preface: The last decade or so has seen the emergence of a fruitful cooperation between German and Chinese scholars. The relationships between classical Chinese philosophy and classical German philosophy are being scrutinized during conferences which have taken place both in Germany and China. Initially, the issues under discussion were of a doctrinal nature. A conference in Cologne in 2011 dealt with the foundations of knowledge and ethics in Chinese and European philosophy (published as Metaphysical Foundations of Knowledge and Ethics in Chinese and European Philosophy, eds. Yi Guo, Sasa Josifovic, and Asuman Lätzer-Lasar, Paderborn 2013). In 2012, Foundations of Reason and Morality in Confucianism and German Idealism were discussed at a conference in Tutzing (published as volume no. 15 in the book series World Philosophies in Dialogue, eds. Claudia Bickmann † and Michael Spieker, Nordhausen 2020). In the course of these explorations, it turned out that Chinese and German philosophy have a surprising amount of fundamental philosophical themes in common. ...

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Verlag Traugott Bautz

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3959487975

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Chinese Communist Studies of Modern Chinese History

By: Albert Feuerwerker,S. Cheng

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Chinese Communist Studies of Modern Chinese History

By: Albert Feuerwerker,S. Cheng

Preliminary Material -- General Works -- The Ming and Ch'ing Dynasties -- The Republic -- Economic History -- Intellectual and Cultural History -- Reference Works -- List of Publishers -- Index.

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Harvard Univ Asia Center

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0674123018

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Sword Stirs the World

Volume 1

By: Cheng Gang

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Sword Stirs the World

Volume 1

By: Cheng Gang

The Divine Lands' calamity, the chaotic world, and so many tyrants and tyrants. An ordinary youth who wanted to play this game had unexpectedly obtained a unique book, cultivated peerless martial arts, defeated all sorts of masters, and even wrote a legend in his life. Then, was it a rain of smoke that covered his entire life, or was he trying to draw out a sword and save the lives of all under the heavens? Oh, trouble! It was painful! How should he choose?

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1649203861

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Biographical Dictionary of Republican China

By: Howard L. Boorman

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Biographical Dictionary of Republican China

By: Howard L. Boorman

The summation of more than two thousand years of one of the world's most august literary traditions, this volume also represents the achievements of four hundred years of Western scholarship on China. The selections include poetry, drama, fiction, songs, biographies, and works of early Chinese philosophy and history rendered in English by the most renowned translators of classical Chinese literature: Arthur Waley, Ezra Pound, David Hawkes, James Legge, Burton Watson, Stephen Owen, Cyril Birch, A. C. Graham, Witter Bynner, Kenneth Rexroth, and others. Arranged chronologically and by genre, each chapter is introduced by definitive quotes and brief introductions chosen from classic Western sinological treatises. Beginning with discussions of the origins of the Chinese writing system and selections from the earliest "genre" of Chinese literature -- the Oracle Bone inscriptions -- the book then proceeds with selections from: • early myths and legends; • the earliest anthology of Chinese poetry, the Book of Songs; • early narrative and philosophy, including the I Ching, Tao-te Ching, and the Analects of Confucius; • rhapsodies, historical writings, magical biographies, ballads, poetry, and miscellaneous prose from the Han and Six Dynasties period; • the court poetry of the Southern Dynasties; • the finest gems of Tang poetry; and • lyrics, stories, and tales of the Sui, Tang, and Five Dynasties eras. Special highlights include individual chapters covering each of the luminaries of Tang poetry: Wang Wei, Li Bo, Du Fu, and Bo Juyi; early literary criticism; women poets from the first to the tenth century C.E.; and the poetry of Zen and the Tao. Bibliographies, explanatory notes, copious illustrations, a chronology of major dynasties, and two-way romanization tables coordinating the Wade-Giles and pinyin transliteration systems provide helpful tools to aid students, teachers, and general readers in exploring this rich tradition of world literature.

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Columbia University Press

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0231089570

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China's Economic Development

Growth And Structural Change

By: Chu-yuan Cheng

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China's Economic Development

Growth And Structural Change

By: Chu-yuan Cheng

How has the government of the PRC transformed traditional economic institutions into a socialist, central-planning system? What has been the impact of this transformation on China's economic growth? What is the essence of the Chinese development model and how successfully has it functioned during the past three decades? What are the prospects for t

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0429728255

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China's Aid to Africa

Does Friendship Really Matter?

By: Zhangxi Cheng,Ian Taylor

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China's Aid to Africa

Does Friendship Really Matter?

By: Zhangxi Cheng,Ian Taylor

Although China has rapidly increased foreign aid to Africa and is now a relatively major player in the developmental assistance regime, little is still known regarding how China delivers its foreign aid, and even less about how this foreign aid actually works in the recipient countries. This book, extensively utilising Chinese sources, much of which have not been available before, examines the effectiveness and sustainability of China's foreign aid in Africa, as well as the political, economic and diplomatic factors that influence Chinese aid disbursement policies. The book argues that a nebulous notion of "friendship", however ill-defined, is a key factor in Chinese aid, something which is often overlooked by Western scholars. Through a detailed examination of both the decision-making process in Chinese aid disbursements, as well as an examination of specific case studies in West Africa, this book improves our understanding of China's foreign aid policies towards Africa. It finds that there are profound shortcomings in China's foreign aid at present which, despite the protestations of "friendship" and solidarity, undermine Beijing’s effectiveness as an actor in the developmental assistance enterprise in Africa. This text will be of key interest to scholars and students of development studies, African studies, China-Africa relations and more broadly to international relations.

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1351806637

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Life and Death in Shanghai

By: Cheng Nien

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Life and Death in Shanghai

By: Cheng Nien

A woman who spent more than six years in solitary confinement during Communist China's Cultural Revolution discusses her time in prison. Reissue. A New York Times Best Book of the Year.

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0802145167

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Dragon of Heaven

Book 5

By: Du Cheng

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Dragon of Heaven

Book 5

By: Du Cheng

A vampire ancestor, a five-clawed golden dragon, a Flaming Mirror of Emperor, a Sorrowful God Sword, and a young man in white clothes floating over from Hua Xia, stepping into the underworld with a sword. In this great dark yellow world, laughing at the buddhas of the world, wanting to break the will of heaven to die, to live to the end of time, until the mountains and rivers are reborn, until the universe is cleared, the gods are silent, the sky is clear, the end of cultivation, we cultivators will bear the burden of our hearts! 

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1648845029

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"Nonscientific” Traditional Maps of China

A Study of Traditional Chinese Mapmaking

By: Yinong Cheng

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"Nonscientific” Traditional Maps of China

A Study of Traditional Chinese Mapmaking

By: Yinong Cheng

This book analyzes the drawing data and methods of the Chinese ancient maps that are neglected by the previous researches, and reevaluates the drawing theories and methods, the influences, and accuracy of the maps that represents the scientificity of Chinese ancient cartographic drawings.

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Springer Nature

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981191219X

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Behind The Tiananmen Massacre

Social, Political, And Economic Ferment In China

By: Chu-yuan Cheng

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Behind The Tiananmen Massacre

Social, Political, And Economic Ferment In China

By: Chu-yuan Cheng

The 1989 prodemocracy movement in the People's Republic of China and the subsequent crackdown were marked by many dramatic reversals. Supported at first by several thousand Beijing University students, the movement quickly attracted millions of followers and developed into a nationwide mass movement. The jubilant mood during the short-lived freedom in Tiananmen Square turned into despair over the unnecessary bloodshed. The event raised many deeply disturbing questions: Was the massacre necessary and justified? What is the historical significance of this movement? Which path will the PRC follow in the decade ahead? Although no one had anticipated the tragic outcome, the popular unrest was not totally unexpected. When I read the news of 200,000 Beijing students and residents, in open defiance of the government's order, staging a largescale demonstration on Apri120, I knew a confrontation between the people and the government was inevitable.

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0429718993

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50 Years of the Chinese Community in Singapore

By: Cheng Lian Pang

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50 Years of the Chinese Community in Singapore

By: Cheng Lian Pang

Singapore's success story is essentially a "people" story. Singaporeans have good reason to celebrate the nation's golden jubilee with pride. In the short space of five decades the country has moved from Third World to First, and its real GDP has grown by 40 times! For this phenomenal progress, credit must go to its people, the Republic's primary resource. Against all odds and amidst dire predictions, Singaporeans proved that a united and resourceful community could build a nation from scratch. This book is dedicated to one segment of these Singaporeans--the Chinese community. In particular, this collection of essays focuses on the Chinese speaking members of the community whose many contributions are less familiar to those brought up on a strict diet of the English language"--

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World Scientific

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9814675415

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The Theory and Practice of the East Asian Library

A Marginal Science

By: Hong Cheng

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The Theory and Practice of the East Asian Library

A Marginal Science

By: Hong Cheng

Presenting groundbreaking research on the East Asian library, this book provides theoretical exploration on the subject through a passive model of glocalism. It details various aspects of the field and comprehensively covers the progress and conflicts in practice. The issues and perspectives raised here will lead to a rethinking of the field and its role in global interactivity with East Asia. The book will also provide library guidance to the scholars in East Asian studies and related disciplines, offering support to East Asian resources and services that significantly affect scholarly activities.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1527592022

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Three-Legged Horse

By: Cheng Ch'ing-wen

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Three-Legged Horse

By: Cheng Ch'ing-wen

Here are twelve moving short stories about Taiwan and its people by one of the island's most popular writers, Cheng Ch'ing-wen. Focusing primarily on village life and the effects of modernization on Taiwan in the postwar years, Cheng is one of the most respected of the island's "nativist" writers, yet this is his first book to be translated into English. This anthology represents the best of his fictional efforts across a forty-year span and encompasses his major themes: the tensions between men and women, parents and children, city and village, tradition and modernity. Taken individually, each story presents a moving portrait of paralysis, frustration, or self-realization. Together, they weave a complex tapestry of life in a rapidly changing country. Cheng Ch'ing-wen's stories tell of men grappling with their fears and frustrations, from "The River Suite," in which a ferryman-championed throughout his small town for twice saving a drowning person-lacks the courage to confess his love to a young woman before she dies, to "Spring Rain," in which a man struggles to come to terms with his seemingly rootless life as both an orphaned child and an infertile husband. Here too are illustrations of the changing place of women in Taiwan, as they take on more powerful roles and awaken to a sense of their own sexuality: a woman forcibly separated from her husband by her jealous mother-in-law walks for hours through the night to see him on his birthday, only to turn back and go straight home before her absence is noticed; a disappointed young female scholar with a deformed hand comes to realize--after many painful rejections--that loneliness is not reason enough to become intimate with a man. And generations clash in "Thunder God's Gonna Getcha," as a mother's cruelty is repaid years later by a son's coldness. Death reverberates throughout these stories as characters recall deceased spouses, lovers, relatives, and friends in vivid detail. The focus, however, is not on the dead but on the living. In the title story, an old man carves exquisite lame horses as both a penance for having terrorized a town as a police officer during the Japanese occupation of Taiwan in World War II and a memorial to his deceased wife, who was nobler and more courageous than he. This book is a kind of gallery of three-legged horses: portraits of people maimed and transformed-for better or worse-by the suffering that life brings.

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0231500076

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Serving the Household and the Nation

Filipina Domestics and the Politics of Identity in Taiwan

By: Shu-Ju Ada Cheng

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Serving the Household and the Nation

Filipina Domestics and the Politics of Identity in Taiwan

By: Shu-Ju Ada Cheng

Serving the Household and the Nation is an absorbing sociological study of the globalization of domestic service. Using the case of Filipina domestics in Taiwan, Cheng examines how nationalist politics shape the experience of migrant women under the context of globalization.

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Lexington Books

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0739111728

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Acupuncture and Moxibustion Formulas & Treatments

By: Dan'an Cheng

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Acupuncture and Moxibustion Formulas & Treatments

By: Dan'an Cheng

Cheng DAn-an was the single most important Chinese acupuncturist of the mid-20th century. He created the modern acupuncture college curriculum in China and rescued acupuncture and moxibustion from oblivion in its native land. As a teacher of many other famous teachers of acupuncture, such as the late Dr. James Tin Yau So, Cheng Dan-an is the father of modern Chinese acupuncture. This book is a collection of his formulas and treatments for a wide range of traditional Chinese diseases, such as cold damage, warm heat diseases, wind stroke, mania, diarrhea and dysentery, cough, phlegm rheum, panting & wheezing, the five accumulations, and more. This is a seminal book in the development of modern acupuncture which should not be overlooked by any Western practitioner.

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Blue Poppy Enterprises, Inc.

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0936185686

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9780936185682

Dear Billionaire Hubby, You Are NO. 1

Volume 2

By: Cheng Liang

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Dear Billionaire Hubby, You Are NO. 1

Volume 2

By: Cheng Liang

She needed money. He needed a child.After one accident, she had lost the child she had been carrying for seven months. The transaction had ended, and there was no more interaction between them.Four years later, she was reborn and negotiated with him on a million contracts, only to find him with a little guy who looked very similar to her."Who's your mother?" Su An caressed Tiny's head and asked.Xiao Budian snorted coldly, "My dad said that my mommy is retarded, so I didn't mention it.""...

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Funstory

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164884099X

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9781648840999

Emergency Chinese

By: Jiewei Cheng

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Emergency Chinese

By: Jiewei Cheng

They call for individuals to take immediate and decisive actions. But what do you do when an emergency occurs in a foreign country where the language is unfamiliar? Emergency Chinese is designed to give you the key Mandarin words and phrases you need in the most urgent situations. Mandarin Chinese is the most widely understood dialect so you'll be able to use this book throughout China. Emergency Chinese is small enough to fit in your pocket and arranged for quick and easy reference. Book jacket.

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0781809754

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General Airgap Field Modulation Theory for Electrical Machines

Principles and Practice

By: Ming Cheng,Peng Han,Yi Du,Honghui Wen

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General Airgap Field Modulation Theory for Electrical Machines

Principles and Practice

By: Ming Cheng,Peng Han,Yi Du,Honghui Wen

General Airgap Field Modulation Theory for Electrical Machines Introducing a new theory for electrical machines Air-gap magnetic field modulation phenomena have been widely observed in electrical machines. This book serves as the first English-language overview of these phenomena, as well as developing systematically for the first time a general theory by which to understand and research them. This theory not only serves to unify analysis of disparate electrical machines, from conventional DC machines, induction machines, and synchronous machines to unconventional flux-switching permanent magnet machines, Vernier machines, doubly-fed brushless machines etc., but also paves the way towards the creation of new electrical machine topologies. General Airgap Field Modulation Theory for Electrical Machines includes both overviews of key concepts in electrical machine engineering and in-depth specialized analysis of the novel theory itself. It works through the applications of the developed theory before proceeding to both qualitative analysis of the theory’s operating principles and quantitative analysis of its parameters. Readers will also find: The collective experience of four award-winning authors with long records of international scholarship on this subject Three separate chapters covering the principal applications of the theory, with detailed examples Discussion of potential innovations made possible by this theory General Airgap Field Modulation Theory for Electrical Machines is an essential introduction to this theory for postgraduates, researchers, and electrical engineers.

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1119900360

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9781119900368

Essential Terms of Chinese Painting

By: Maria CHENG, TANG Wai Hung, Eric CHOY

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Essential Terms of Chinese Painting

By: Maria CHENG, TANG Wai Hung, Eric CHOY

Essential Terms of Chinese Painting provides a comprehensive coverage of the broad spectrum of Chinese painting. Through an array of some 900 terms, it exhibits the history of Chinese culture, as interpreted by artists and portrayed in their work. In masterful detail, it describes not only the artistic implements and drawing styles, but also how these are influenced by changing cultural considerations over time such as religion, philosophy, intellectual ideas, and political developments. From the broad view of how the change of dynasties affected painting trends in both format and subject, to the smallest detail of the methods used to paint different styles of tree branches, this is a full compendium of the scope and depth of artwork from China. This volume features twelve chapters which • explore all major areas of art including techniques, implements and materials, inscriptions and seals, painting and mounting formats for all categories including landscape, bird-and-flower, figure and auspicious paintings; • provide a helpful resource for readers to enjoy Chinese art with over 500 full-colour illustrations and pictures to further elaborate the terms discussed; • serve as an introduction to begin a true understanding of traditional Chinese painting.

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City University of HK Press

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962937188X

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Tai Chen's Inquiry into Goodness

A Translation of the Yuan Shan, With an Introductory Essay

By: Chung-Ying Cheng

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Tai Chen's Inquiry into Goodness

A Translation of the Yuan Shan, With an Introductory Essay

By: Chung-Ying Cheng

From Sung times, and throughout the Ming period, one of the dominant philosophies of China had been a dualistic rationalism thought to be firmly grounded on the classics. Tai Chen (1723-1777) was a scholar and philosopher during the Ch'ing period- a time when China produced few philosophic thinkers. He was the greatest of these, and his views are embodied chiefly in Yuan Shan and in Meng Tzu txu-yi shu-cheng. In place of the prevailing Sung dualism, Tai Chen propounded a rationalistic monism seldom before insinuated in a Chinese philosophy. He declines to accept current dogmas and preferred to seek his own truths. His commentaries opposed the time-honored interpretations of Chu Hsi, and he discredited them on purely philosophical grounds. But with few disciples to carry on his teachings, he was virtually forgotten or ignored in China for more than a hundred years after his death. It was not until early in the present century- with China under the pressures of Western aggression and internal disorders-that Tai Chen's nearness to Western thought was rediscovered and his important role in the history of philosophy recognized. Curiously, this first of China's Western-oriented philosophers even today remains little known in the West and his major writings largely untranslated.

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University of Hawaii Press

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082488082X

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Creating the New Man

From Enlightenment Ideals to Socialist Realities

By: Yinghong Cheng

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Creating the New Man

From Enlightenment Ideals to Socialist Realities

By: Yinghong Cheng

The idea of eliminating undesirable traits from human temperament to create a "new man" has been part of moral and political thinking worldwide for millennia. During the Enlightenment, European philosophers sought to construct an ideological framework for reshaping human nature. But it was only among the communist regimes of the twentieth century that such ideas were actually put into practice on a nationwide scale. In this book Yinghong Cheng examines three culturally diverse sociopolitical experiments—the Soviet Union under Lenin and Stalin, China under Mao, and Cuba under Castro—in an attempt to better understand the origins and development of the "new man." The book’s fundamental concerns are how these communist revolutions strove to create a new, morally and psychologically superior, human being and how this task paralleled efforts to create a superior society. To these ends, it addresses a number of questions: What are the intellectual roots of the new man concept? How was this idealistic and utopian goal linked to specific political and economic programs? How do the policies of these particular regimes, based as they are on universal communist ideology, reflect national and cultural traditions? Cheng begins by exploring the origins of the idea of human perfectibility during the Enlightenment. His discussion moves to other European intellectual movements, and then to the creation of the Soviet Man, the first communist new man in world history. Subsequent chapters examine China’s experiment with human nature, starting with the nationalistic debate about a new national character at the turn of the twentieth century; and Cuban perceptions of the new man and his role in propelling the revolution from a nationalist, to a socialist, and finally a communist movement. The last chapter considers the global influence of the Soviet, Chinese, and Cuban experiments. Creating the "New Man" contributes greatly to our understanding of how three very different countries and their leaders carried out problematic and controversial visions and programs. It will be of special interest to students and scholars of world history and intellectual, social, and revolutionary history, and also development studies and philosophy.

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0824830741

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Supreme Lord of the Earth

Volume 4

By: Cheng Gang

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Supreme Lord of the Earth

Volume 4

By: Cheng Gang

He was born with a crippled meridian, yet he followed the path of an ancient assassin. He concealed himself in the imperial court, making it difficult for the one in power to not dare to act recklessly! The Monarch would not dare to fish in fear! Meat eaters are unable to sleep and eat, and do not dare to harm the common people! In the Vast Expanse Continent, who was the Lord? In the Vast Expanse Continent, who was the Lord? The teenager, Meng Chong, said, "The world is in chaos. It's time to intervene!

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Funstory

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1647626056

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A Complementary Study of Lexicalist Approaches and Constructionist Approaches

By: Qilong Cheng,Qianwen Cheng

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A Complementary Study of Lexicalist Approaches and Constructionist Approaches

By: Qilong Cheng,Qianwen Cheng

This book presents a complementary study of lexicalist approaches and constructionist approaches in linguistics. Specific topics discussed include different versions of semantic roles, predicate decomposition, event structures, argument realizations, and cognitive construction grammars. For decades, the relationship between certain concepts and constructions along with related issues of verb-construction associations have been perennially taxing for both lexicalist and constructionist approaches alike. Indeed, in Chinese, unmatched verb-construction associations and the much richer alternate realizations pose very difficult problems. Based on a comparative study, the authors make an attempt to account for the possible correspondence between the delicacy of argument setting and the principles of their realization. They also account for the integration of construction with verbs in terms of their coherent conceptual content. The resultant newly developed model throws new light on these thorny Chinese problems. The book will appeal to scholars and students studying cognitive linguistics, cognitive semantics, computational linguistics, and also natural language processing. The book also brings up some new analysis of Chinese data for both researchers and learners of Modern Chinese.

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Taylor & Francis

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100089245X

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Teochew Red Hokkien Green

A Story of Early Singapore

By: Song Cheng Miang

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Teochew Red Hokkien Green

A Story of Early Singapore

By: Song Cheng Miang

It is 1819 and the seaport of Singapore has developed a magnetic appeal. As merchants, traders, and migrant workers emigrate to seek their fortunes, the untouched land develops into an elegant town managed by British East India Company. Included in those who flock to Singapore are three men who have no idea that their destinies are about to bring them together in a rudimentary Chinese community where secret societies hold the power. Yong Huat is a Hokkien from Malacca determined to become a rich merchant. Mong Seng is a Teochew from South China who is a loyal friend and hard worker. Kum Tat is a Cantonese who works for a trading company. As the three men begin to acquire wealth, their paths intertwine as momentous events rock the land of fortune. Fearless secret societies, clan fights, vicious tigers, the evils of opium and gambling, and a cultural divide soon transform their friendship into a sworn brotherhood. But as a hostile confrontation brews between the Teochews and Hokkiens, now only time will tell if the friendship will survive. In this historical tale of early Singapore, three friends unite with the hope that their sworn brotherhood will help them not only endure the challenges, but also achieve their dreams.

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1482827727

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China’s Allocation of Fixed Capital Investment, 1952–1957

By: Chu-yuan Cheng

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China’s Allocation of Fixed Capital Investment, 1952–1957

By: Chu-yuan Cheng

China’s efforts to stimulate industrial development and economic growth through the allocation of investments are analyzed. Cheng concludes with an overall assessment of the distinctive features of the allocation pattern. Includes 41 statistical tables.

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University of Michigan Press

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0472902229

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Journey to the West, Volume 1

By: Cheng'en Wu

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Journey to the West, Volume 1

By: Cheng'en Wu

First published in 1952, The Journey to the West, volume I, comprises the first twenty-five chapters of Anthony C. Yu's four-volume translation of Hsi-yu Chi, one of the most beloved classics of Chinese literature. The fantastic tale recounts the sixteen-year pilgrimage of the monk Hsüan-tsang (596-664), one of China's most illustrious religious heroes, who journeyed to India with four animal disciples in quest of Buddhist scriptures. For nearly a thousand years, his exploits were celebrated and embellished in various accounts, culminating in the hundred-chapter Journey to the West, which combines religious allegory with romance, fantasy, humor, and satire.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226971503

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A Chinese Rebel beyond the Great Wall

The Cultural Revolution and Ethnic Pogrom in Inner Mongolia

By: TJ Cheng,Uradyn E. Bulag,Mark Selden

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A Chinese Rebel beyond the Great Wall

The Cultural Revolution and Ethnic Pogrom in Inner Mongolia

By: TJ Cheng,Uradyn E. Bulag,Mark Selden

A striking first-person account of the Cultural Revolution in Inner Mongolia, embedded in a close examination of the historical evidence on China’s minority nationality policies to the present. During the Great Leap Forward, as hundreds of thousands of Chinese famine refugees headed to Inner Mongolia, Cheng Tiejun arrived in 1959 as a middle school student. In 1966, when the PRC plunged into the Cultural Revolution, he joined the Red Guards just as Inner Mongolia’s longtime leader, Ulanhu, was purged. With the military in control, and with deepening conflict with the Soviet Union and its ally Mongolia on the border, Mongols were accused of being nationalists and traitors. A pogrom followed, taking more than 16,000 Mongol lives, the heaviest toll anywhere in China. At the heart of this book are Cheng’s first-person recollections of his experiences as a rebel. These are complemented by a close examination of the documentary record of the era from the three coauthors. The final chapter offers a theoretical framework for Inner Mongolia’s repression. The repression’s goal, the authors show, was not to destroy the Mongols as a people or as a culture—it was not a genocide. It was, however, a “politicide,” an attempt to break the will of a nationality to exercise leadership of their autonomous region. This unusual narrative provides urgently needed primary source material to understand the events of the Cultural Revolution, while also offering a novel explanation of contemporary Chinese minority politics involving the Uyghurs, Tibetans, and Mongols.

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0226826856

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Chinese Politics in the Xi Jinping Era

Reassessing Collective Leadership

By: Cheng Li

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Chinese Politics in the Xi Jinping Era

Reassessing Collective Leadership

By: Cheng Li

Chinese politics are at a crossroads as President Xi Jinping amasses personal power and tests the constraints of collective leadership. In the years since he became general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party in 2012, Xi Jinping has surprised many people in China and around the world with his bold anti-corruption campaign and his aggressive consolidation of power. Given these new developments, we must rethink how we analyze Chinese politics—an urgent task as China now has more influence on the global economy and regional security than at any other time in modern history. Chinese Politics in the Xi Jinping Era examines how the structure and dynamics of party leadership have evolved since the late 1990s and argues that "inner-party democracy"—the concept of collective leadership that emphasizes deal making based on accepted rules and norms—may pave the way for greater transformation within China's political system. Xi's legacy will largely depend on whether he encourages or obstructs this trend of political institutionalization in the governance of the world's most populous and increasingly pluralistic country. Cheng Li also addresses the recruitment and composition of the political elite, a central concern in Chinese politics. China analysts will benefit from the meticulously detailed biographical information of the 376 members of the 18th Central Committee, including tables and charts detailing their family background, education, occupation, career patterns, and mentor-patron ties.

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Brookings Institution Press

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0815726937

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9780815726937

Chinese Poetic Writing

By: Francois Cheng

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Chinese Poetic Writing

By: Francois Cheng

The most inovative study of Chinese poetry ever written, François Cheng's Chinese Poetic Writing--now in its first expanded, English-language edition--is an essential read for fans and scholars of Chinese literature and the art of poetry in general. Since its first publication in French in 1977, Chinese Poetic Writing has been considered by many to be the most innovative study of Chinese poetry ever written, as well as a profound and remarkable meditation on the nature of poetry itself. As the American poet Gustaf Sobin wrote, two years after the book’s appearance, “In France it is already considered a model of interdisciplinary research, a source book, and a ‘star’ in the very space it initially explored, traced, and elaborated.” Cheng illustrates his text with an annotated anthology of 135 poems he has selected from the Tang dynasty, presented bilingually, and with lively translations by Jerome P. Seaton. It serves as a book within the book, and an excellent introduction to the golden age of Tu Fu, Li Po, Wang Wei, and company. The 1982 translation, long out of print, was based on the first French edition. Since then, Cheng has greatly expanded the book. This is the first English-language edition of the expanded version, with the original translators returning to accommodate the many new additions and revise their earlier work.

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New York Review of Books

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9629968983

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9789629968984

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