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Martial God of the Galaxy

Volume 2

By: Gu XuanFeng

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The vast universe, endless stars; each of the most dazzling stars represented one of the supreme elders of the Spirit Martial Continent. It was rumored that the most powerful spirit cultivator in the Spirit Martial Continent could fuse the six stars in the sky and become immortal. Song of the Wind: What are six stars? I want to fuse seven stars to form the Big Dipper Astral Soul. I want to reach the heavens and look down at the heavens! This book's grade of martial arts: Martial Disciple, Martial Grand Master, Martial Grand Master, Martial Spirit, Martial King, Martial King, Martial Saint, Martial Saint, Martial Emperor, and Martial God.

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1648975313

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Unbound

A Tale of Love and Betrayal in Shanghai

By: Dina Gu Brumfield

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Unbound

A Tale of Love and Betrayal in Shanghai

By: Dina Gu Brumfield

2021 Next Generation Indie Book Award Finalist The sweeping, multigenerational story of two iron-willed women, a grandmother and granddaughter, Unbound is also a richly textured, turbulent portrait of the city of Shanghai in the twentieth century—a place where everyone must fight to carve out a place for themselves amid political upheaval and the turmoil of war. Mini Pao lives with her sister and parents in a pre-war Shanghai divided among foreign occupiers and Chinese citizens, a city known as the “Paris of the East” with its contrast of vibrant night life and repressive social mores. Already considered an old maid at twenty-three, Mini boldly rejects the path set out for her as she struggles to provide for her family and reckons with her desire for romance and autonomy. Mini’s story of love, betrayal, and determination unfolds in the Western-style cafes, open-air markets, and jazz-soaked nightclubs of Shanghai—the same city where, decades later, her granddaughter Ting embarks on her own journey toward independence. Ting Lee has grown up behind an iron curtain in a time of scarcity, humility, and forced-sameness in accordance with the strictures of Chairman Mao’s cultural revolution. As a result, Ting’s imagination burns with curiosity about fashion, America, and most of all, her long-lost grandmother Mini’s glamorous past and mysterious present. As her thirst for knowledge about the world beyond 1970s Shanghai grows, Ting is driven to uncover her family’s tragic past and face the difficult truth of what the future holds for her if she remains in China.

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1626347158

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9781626347151

A Cultural History of the Chinese Language

By: Sharron Gu

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A Cultural History of the Chinese Language

By: Sharron Gu

Chinese, one of the oldest active languages, evolved over 5,000 years. As such, it makes for a fascinating case study in the development of language. This cultural history of Chinese demonstrates that the language grew and responded to its music and visual expression in a manner very similar to contemporary English and other Western languages. Within Chinese cultural history lie the answers to numerous questions that have haunted scholars for decades: How does language relate to worldview? What would happen to law after its language loses absolute binding power? How do music, visual, and theatrical images influence literature? By presenting Chinese not as a system of signs but as the history of a community, this study shows how language has expanded the scope of Chinese imagination and offers a glimpse into the future of younger languages throughout the world.

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McFarland

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0786488271

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Chinese Theories of Fiction

A Non-Western Narrative System

By: Ming Dong Gu

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Chinese Theories of Fiction

A Non-Western Narrative System

By: Ming Dong Gu

In this innovative work, Ming Dong Gu examines Chinese literature and traditional Chinese criticism to construct a distinctly Chinese theory of fiction and places it within the context of international fiction theory. He argues that because Chinese fiction, or xiaoshuo, was produced in a tradition very different from that of the West, it has formed a system of fiction theory that cannot be adequately accounted for by Western fiction theory grounded in mimesis and realism. Through an inquiry into the macrocosm of Chinese fiction, the art of formative works, and theoretical data in fiction commentaries and intellectual thought, Gu explores the conceptual and historical conditions of Chinese fiction in relation to European and world fiction. In the process, Gu critiques and challenges some accepted views of Chinese fiction and provides a theoretical basis for fresh approaches to fiction study in general and Chinese fiction in particular. Such masterpieces as the Jin Ping Mei (The Plum in the Golden Vase) and the Hongloumeng (The Story of the Stone) are discussed at length to advance his notion of fiction and fiction theory.

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SUNY Press

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0791481484

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Law and Politics in Modern China

Under the Law, the Law, and Above the Law

By: Sharron Gu

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Law and Politics in Modern China

Under the Law, the Law, and Above the Law

By: Sharron Gu

This is an original interdisciplinary study of Chinese law, its language, and political institution. Evolving within a complex literary framework over thousands of years, Chinese language has lost its conceptual distinctiveness to its multilevel and overlapping meanings and connotations. Chinese law has become inflated with contrary rulings and exceptions. This mass of rules requires an extra-lingual (legal) authority to redefine boundaries and specify applications. This book follows and continues the author's, The Boundaries of Meaning and the Formation of Law (McGill University Press) by illustrating how language shapes the formation, application, and administration of law in various cultural environments. Law and Politics in Modern China is an important book for those interested in Chinese history, culture, law, and politics. It also provides refreshing insights about the way that law continues to function after its language matures and creates contradictions and loopholes within its system of rules--one of the most important issues facing Western legal administration in the immediate future.

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Cambria Press

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1604976047

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Fusion of Critical Horizons in Chinese and Western Language, Poetics, Aesthetics

By: Ming Dong Gu

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Fusion of Critical Horizons in Chinese and Western Language, Poetics, Aesthetics

By: Ming Dong Gu

This book begins with a reflection on dichotomies in comparative studies of Chinese and Western literature and aesthetics. Critiquing an oppositional paradigm, Ming Dong Gu argues that despite linguistic and cultural differences, the two traditions share much common ground in critical theory, aesthetic thought, metaphysical conception, and reasoning. Focusing on issues of language, writing, and linguistics; metaphor, metonymy, and poetics; mimesis and representation; and lyricism, expressionism, creativity, and aesthetics, Gu demonstrates that though ways of conception and modes of expression may differ, the two traditions have cultivated similar aesthetic feelings and critical ideas capable of fusing critical and aesthetic horizons. With a two-way dialogue, this book covers a broad spectrum of critical discourses and uncovers fascinating connections among a wide range of thinkers, theorists, scholars, and aestheticians, thereby making a significant contribution to bridging the aesthetic divide and envisioning world theory and global aesthetics.

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Springer Nature

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3030737306

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Chinese Theories of Reading and Writing

A Route to Hermeneutics and Open Poetics

By: Ming Dong Gu

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Chinese Theories of Reading and Writing

A Route to Hermeneutics and Open Poetics

By: Ming Dong Gu

This ambitious work provides a systematic study of Chinese theories of reading and writing in intellectual thought and critical practice. The author maintains that there are two major hermeneutic traditions in Chinese literature: the politico-moralistic mainstream and the metaphysico-aesthetical undercurrent. In exploring the interaction between the two, Ming Dong Gu finds a movement toward interpretive openness. In this, the Chinese practice anticipates modern and Western theories of interpretation, especially literary openness and open poetics. Classic Chinese works are examined, including the Zhouyi (the I Ching or Book of Changes), the Shijing (the Book of Songs or Book of Poetry), and selected poetry, along with the philosophical background of the hermeneutic theories. Ultimately, Gu relates the Chinese practices of reading to Western hermeneutics, offering a cross-cultural conceptual model for the comparative study of reading and writing in general.

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State University of New York Press

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0791483479

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Practical Grammar of Modern Chinese I

Overview and Notional Words

By: Liu Yuehua,Pan Wenyu,Gu Wei

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Practical Grammar of Modern Chinese I

Overview and Notional Words

By: Liu Yuehua,Pan Wenyu,Gu Wei

Chinese grammar is characterized by its simple structure, lack of inflections, and wide use of monosyllabic morphemes. With the increased popularity of learning Chinese as a second language, there is a demand for a guide to Chinese grammar that's targeted at second language learners. This four-volume set is one of the earliest and most influential works of Chinese grammar, with a special focus on teaching and learning Chinese as a second language. Drawing on rich teaching experience, the authors analyze a myriad of real-world examples to describe Chinese grammatical phenomena and rules while introducing the general grammar system of Chinese. In addition, the use of notional words in modern Chinese grammar is demonstrated, including nouns, pronouns, numerals, quantifiers, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs. Since the first edition came out in 1983, this set has been revised twice and has remained one of the best sellers in the field. Practitioners and scholars of teaching Chinese as a second language, as well as students with a basic knowledge of Chinese, will find it to be a handy reference.

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Routledge

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1000198561

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Female CEO’s Superior Master

Volume 7

By: Gu Lang

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Female CEO’s Superior Master

Volume 7

By: Gu Lang

Li Wenlong was the driver of the beautiful female leader, so he was well aware of how deep the female leader's background was ...

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Funstory

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1647590787

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Record of Daily Knowledge and Collected Poems and Essays

Selections

By: Yanwu Gu

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Record of Daily Knowledge and Collected Poems and Essays

Selections

By: Yanwu Gu

Gu Yanwu pioneered the late-Ming and early Qing-era practice of Han Learning, or Evidential Learning, favoring practical over theoretical approaches to knowledge. He strongly encouraged scholars to return to the simple, ethical precepts of early Confucianism, and in his best-known work, Rizhi lu (Record of Daily Knowledge), he applied this paradigm to literature, government, economics, history, education, and philology. This volume includes translations of selected essays from Rizhi lu and Gu Yanwu's Shiwen Ji (Collected Poems and Essays), along with an introduction explaining the personal and political dimensions of the scholar's work. Gu Yanwu wrote the essays and poems featured in this volume while traveling across China during the decades immediately after the fall of the Ming Dynasty. They merge personal observation with rich articulations of Confucian principles and are, as Gu said, "not old coin but copper dug from the hills." Like many of his contemporaries, Gu Yanwu believed the Ming Dynasty had suffered from an overconcentration of power in its central government and recommended decentralizing authority while strengthening provincial self-government. In his introduction, Ian Johnston recounts Gu Yanwu's personal history and reviews his published works, along with their scholarly reception. Annotations accompany his translations, and a special essay on feudalism by Tang Dynasty poet and scholar Liu Zongyuan (773–819) provides insight into Gu Yanwu's later work on the subject.

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Columbia University Press

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0231542674

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Peerless Ghost Doctor

Volume 3

By: Yu Gu

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Peerless Ghost Doctor

Volume 3

By: Yu Gu

Li Su's life was very exciting. Last month, he married his thirteenth beautiful wife, a young international model, in the United States. Last week, he bought a fifteenth private island in the South Pacific and planned to make a golf course. A few days ago, he even rejected the investment invitation of the Roschell family. Hm, he looked down on that small amount of money! He's a genius, he's a legend! At the age of 20, he had millions of properties and at the age of 23, he was evaluated as the youngest rich man in Asia. His life was filled with glory and glory. Of course, he also had a weakness of wanting to boast to the best of his ability, and that was that even at the end of his life, he still hadn't changed his habit of bragging. Yes, it was all bragging.

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Funstory

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1649351437

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Virgin Widows

By: Hua Gu

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Virgin Widows

By: Hua Gu

Virgin Widows is a poignant and disquieting novel that unfolds the stories of two women whose lives, despite being separated by nearly a century, reveal a disturbing similarity. First published in China in 1985, it appears now in English for the first time.

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University of Hawaii Press

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0824818024

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Practical Grammar of Modern Chinese IV

Simple Sentence, Compound Sentence, and Discourse

By: Liu Yuehua,Pan Wenyu,Gu Wei

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Practical Grammar of Modern Chinese IV

Simple Sentence, Compound Sentence, and Discourse

By: Liu Yuehua,Pan Wenyu,Gu Wei

Chinese grammar is characterized by its simple structure, lack of inflections, and wide use of monosyllabic morphemes. With the increased popularity of learning Chinese as a second language, there is a demand for a guide to Chinese grammar that's targeted at second language learners. This four-volume set is one of the earliest and most influential works of Chinese grammar, with a special focus on teaching and learning Chinese as a second language. Drawing on rich teaching experience, the authors analyze a myriad of real-world examples to describe Chinese grammatical phenomena and rules while introducing the general grammar system of Chinese. This volume introduces several simple sentence and compound sentence structures of modern Chinese grammar. In addition, the authors examine discourse and other larger units of sentences in use. Since the first edition came out in 1983, this set has been revised twice and remained one of the best sellers in the field. Practitioners and scholars of teaching Chinese as a second language, as well as students with a basic knowledge of Chinese, will find it to be a handy reference.

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Routledge

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100020023X

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Conformal Geometry

Computational Algorithms and Engineering Applications

By: Miao Jin,Xianfeng Gu,Ying He,Yalin Wang

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Conformal Geometry

Computational Algorithms and Engineering Applications

By: Miao Jin,Xianfeng Gu,Ying He,Yalin Wang

This book offers an essential overview of computational conformal geometry applied to fundamental problems in specific engineering fields. It introduces readers to conformal geometry theory and discusses implementation issues from an engineering perspective. The respective chapters explore fundamental problems in specific fields of application, and detail how computational conformal geometric methods can be used to solve them in a theoretically elegant and computationally efficient way. The fields covered include computer graphics, computer vision, geometric modeling, medical imaging, and wireless sensor networks. Each chapter concludes with a summary of the material covered and suggestions for further reading, and numerous illustrations and computational algorithms complement the text. The book draws on courses given by the authors at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and Tsinghua University, and will be of interest to senior undergraduates, graduates and researchers in computer science, applied mathematics, and engineering.

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3319753320

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Hunter's Little Sweet Wife

Volume 4

By: Gu Xi

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Hunter's Little Sweet Wife

Volume 4

By: Gu Xi

In her previous life, her beloved Elementary Scholar had decided to give up on her after getting her title. In her previous life, the old granny that she served meekly beat and scolded her. Seeing that she blocked her son's future, she got someone to chase her out of the Liu family. In the end, she was frozen to death by the roadside. The heavens are merciful, living a new life. Bai Jin swore she would protect this family, filial piety to her parents, love her brother dearly, stay away from the scum of men and women, and bring her family back to prosperity.

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1649356900

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The Boundaries of Meaning and the Formation of Law

Legal Concepts and Reasoning in the English, Arabic, and Chinese Traditions

By: Sharron Gu

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The Boundaries of Meaning and the Formation of Law

Legal Concepts and Reasoning in the English, Arabic, and Chinese Traditions

By: Sharron Gu

Gu's original perspective on legal history challenges established theories of law based on political science, sociology, and philosophy. She argues that language at a specific time and place determines how the law works in each culture. As each language accumulates too many meanings and connotations, the law becomes inflated by rulings, interpretations, and codified cases that overlap and contradict one another.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773578331

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9780773578333

The Hidden Land

The Garrison System And the Ming Dynasty

By: Cheng Gu

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The Hidden Land

The Garrison System And the Ming Dynasty

By: Cheng Gu

The Hidden Land" means that a large amount of land in the Ming dynasty (1368–1644) was "hidden" or unknown, since the land was managed by both the administrative and the military systems, and only the former was made public while the latter was being hidden due to confidentiality issues. This is one of the author’s creative findings as a result of his solid textual research and rigorous argumentation. Since the Ming state management system had a great impact on the land, the population, the taxes and corvée, the imperial examinations, the justice, the grass-roots organizations and the frontier ethnics during the 500 years from Ming to Qing (1636–1912), the views on the garrisons and guards (weisuo) in the military system are of great help to review the essential issues of the period, which were often misunderstood or neglected before. In addition, the author introduces the present situation, existing problems and basic historical materials in the Ming study which will be beneficial to the Ming researchers and enthusiasts.

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Routledge

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1000711005

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The Imperial Clan of Ming Dynasty

Volume 5

By: Gu JunDao

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The Imperial Clan of Ming Dynasty

Volume 5

By: Gu JunDao

From the end of the Ming Dynasty until the end of the Ming Dynasty, he had become a slave of Jin Shang who starved to death. Where did he get such a good meal from in this apocalyptic era? Plundering of countries... No, this is trade. It was more comfortable being the emperor himself ... This sister-in-law Zhang Yan ... He had to take good care of her.

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1649550944

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9781649550941

Goshawk Attacking The Moon

Volume 1

By: Gu YeWuHen

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Goshawk Attacking The Moon

Volume 1

By: Gu YeWuHen

Since ancient times, most martial artists would act as rangers, while rangers would act as an example of the word "independent." Very few people would combine the idle lives of rangers with their military careers. How could rangers adapt to the army? Would he be suitable for the imperial court after the army? Perhaps in war, in special tasks, he was a steel knife, a sharp sword, but in a court where the arts were superior to the warriors, what would become of the rangers? The node of the book is not deep, but the width of the book tells the difficult course of several rangers entering the political war from wulin dispute, and then entering the political hall, and the transition and change of mental character. Close]

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1648842550

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Super Great Fortune Teller

Volume 10

By: Gu FanYuanYing

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Super Great Fortune Teller

Volume 10

By: Gu FanYuanYing

A little Taoist was forced to leave Taoist Temple. Fortunately, he found a cheat book and went into the city to start his own spiritual journey. At first,he got a lot of money from a boss of a big company to help him complete his practice more smoothly. Along his way of practicing, he was admired by both the gangsters and the bosses of companies. The young Taoist has since become a great master, and has ruled the city.☆About the Author☆Gu Fanyuanying, an outstanding online novelist. He has already written four works, of which "Super Great Fortune Teller" is still being updated. His works have attracted wide attention and welcomed because of their colorful plots and the characteristics.

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1647675332

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