The meaning of life lay in good and evil, and the meaning of martial arts lay in the peak!The essence of martial arts was not invincibility, but the pursuit of declining martial arts spirit.......This was a song about breaking the liver and breaking the intestines. Where would one find a friend in life?A martial artist that had embarked on a slow journey to comprehend the wonders of life, his life began to change at this moment.Ten years of the night rain of the martial arts world, the night rain of the martial arts world is not a worry!
Modern Chinese literature has been flourishing for over a century, with varying degrees of intensity and energy at different junctures of history and points of locale. An integral part of world literature from the moment it was born, it has been in constant dialogue with its counterparts from the rest of the world. As it has been challenged and enriched by external influences, it has contributed to the wealth of literary culture of the entire world. In terms of themes and styles, modern Chinese literature is rich and varied; from the revolutionary to the pastoral, from romanticism to feminism, from modernism to post-modernism, critical realism, psychological realism, socialist realism, and magical realism. Indeed, it encompasses a full range of ideological and aesthetic concerns. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Modern Chinese Literature presents a broad perspective on the development and history of literature in modern China. It offers a chronology, introduction, bibliography, and over 400 cross-referenced dictionary entries on authors, literary and historical developments, trends, genres, and concepts that played a central role in the evolution of modern Chinese literature.
Three years ago, Lin Qing went to prison full of hatred and coincidentally obtained the ancient teachings of the God of Agriculture. When he returned, he was already proficient in peerless medical skills and also had mysterious and wondrous techniques in his possession.
She was a famous poison genius doctor in the modern world. Once she was teleported to the Blue Moon Country, Prime Minister's Estate eldest miss, she would be able to break the relationship between her concubine sister and her fiance and would be silenced? Doesn't it mean that he would be raped by the servants if he were to silence them? If the tiger did not show off his might, he would think of her as a cat!If you were to throw a handful of poison powder over, you won't even know how you died!Liu Xinyue was extremely happy to poison his younger sister and cripple Scumbag. Unexpectedly, all of this was witnessed by a Mask Man."Powerful, poisonous, and ruthless. This Palace has taken a fancy to you.""You trash, since you fancy your sister, I'll poison you to death!
Xiao Budian had no intention of travelling to the outside world, but had been sold to the Azure Dragon Country and even became the crown prince's consort. On the night of the wedding, in order to protest against this marriage, Crown Prince Xuanyuan Qi had actually put on a stunning show in front of her, using the woman's dying red to give the emperor a huge advantage.In order to fight for a chance, Xiaoxiao had actually made that girl, Ling'er, into her little girl. However, she didn't know that such a decision was meant to raise a tiger, and that she had also dropped a chess piece for the Dark Faction that she had been plotting for a long time.Where would she go without her child?
The Ben cao gang mu, compiled in the second half of the sixteenth century by a team led by the physician Li Shizhen (1518–1593) on the basis of previously published books and contemporary knowledge, is the largest encyclopedia of natural history in a long tradition of Chinese materia medica works. Its description of almost 1,900 pharmaceutically used natural and man-made substances marks the apex of the development of premodern Chinese pharmaceutical knowledge. The Ben cao gang mu dictionary offers access to this impressive work of 1,600,000 characters. This second book in a three-volume series verifies and localizes all 2,158 geographical and associated administrative names referred to in the Ben cao gang mu in connection with the origin and use of pharmaceutical substances.
This is the first book in English to focus on the transitional period of Chinese science fiction - a key prelude to the increasingly global stature of Chinese science fiction in the twenty-first century.
Until this book, there has been no comprehensive, methodologically aware study of all aspects of Chinese political culture. The book is organized into three major areas: Chinese identities and popular culture (regional identities, anti-politics attitudes, Hong Kong identity); public opinion surveys (the Beijing area, Chinese workers, the Shanghai area); and ideological debates (the "new" Confucianism, masculinity and Confucianism, why authoritarianism is popular in China, the decline of Chinese official ideology). Here is the first work that reveals just how much, how rapidly, and how dramatically China is changing and why our perceptions of China must keep pace.
Who the heck wanted to die? After the autopsy, the medical examiner was woken up in his dream. He really wanted to throw a scalpel at her. Just when he was about to open his eyes and perform the live spring palace, he had actually become Yuwen Qingying. It was one thing for Yuwen Xiangyu's daughter to be so blind towards such a stingy man, but for his soul to enter his body, what sort of evil fate was this?
Having grown up in a rich family since childhood, Hua Qianlou was a typical playboy. He started to bring calamity to his motherland's flowers at the age of fourteen or fifteen. Just as their souls were about to connect, a strong and powerful soul with a strong memory entered Hua Qianlou's consciousness. The two halves of his consciousness had perfectly merged together and after that, a brand-new Hua Qianlou appeared in people's line of sight. Cultivating the powerful Shaoyang Scripture, in the nature of the wind, he pursued an extraordinary path of stimulation and swore to eat both black and white, becoming an absolute free man that no one could restrict!
Breaking through the void, battling with the nine evils, holding the Yin and Yang in his hands, stepping on the clouds, seeing the path of rebirth, and his heart palming in the universe. His previous life had been filled with ups and downs, and he had been the God King for generations to come. Genius? In my case, you'll only end up getting killed!
A malicious mother, a mean sister-in-law, a violent big brother, enough anger from a family. There was a little fool by the side of the road, picking up bags and carrying them home. Suddenly, one day, this little fool looked at her as if she was a hungry wolf ...
In the long course of late imperial Chinese history, servants and concubines formed a vast social stratum in the hinterland along the Grand Canal, particularly in urban areas. Concubinage and Servitude in Late Imperial China is a survey of the institutions and practice of concubinage and servitude in both the general populace and the imperial palace, with a focus on the examination of Ming-Qing political and socioeconomic history through the lives of this particular group of distinct yet associated individuals. The persistent theme of the book is how concubines, appointed by patriarchal polygamy, and servants, laboring under the master-servants hierarchy, experienced interactions and mobility within each institution and in associating with the other. While reviewing how ritual and law treated concubines and servants as patriarchal possessions, the author explores the perspectives available for individualconcubines and servants and the limitations in their daily circumstances, searching for their “positional powers” and “privilege of the inferiors” in the context of Chinese culture during the Ming-Qing time period. For a list of the book's tables and their sources, please see: http://www.wou.edu/wp/hsiehb/
Godly Doctor Liu Le, in order to save the daughter of the rich and powerful, had accidentally come into contact with the surging waves in the flower capital. From then on, she became the domineering female police officer flower, the coquettish CEO, and the arrogant female star ... They came one after another, with hundreds of beautiful flowers competing with each other. Liu Yue weakly raised his hand. "Can you all be my wives ...
In the first year of Zhenyuan, Dingkang County, Hean Prefecture, a woman transformed into a monster. Luo Qingcai had spent nine years helping her husband. The Heavens did not disappoint those who had worked hard for her. As soon as he ascended the clouds, he kicked her into the abyss where she would never be able to recover! "He said you were as stupid as a pig or a dog and not worthy to be the supervisor lady." The eldest young mistress smiled sweetly as she looked at the corpse nailed to the coffin. "You little bastard, you're still quite useful. At least you raised me a husband for the top scholar." Once they were reborn, she was going to make them suffer through all the suffering in this world!
The numerical, discrete element, Discontinuous Deformation Analysis (DDA) method was developed by Dr. Gen-hua Shi while he was working at the University of California, Berkeley, under the supervision of Prof. Richard E. Goodman in the late 1980s. Two-dimensional DDA was published in 1993 and three-dimensional DDA in 2001. Since its publication DDA has been verified, validated and applied in numerous studies worldwide and is now considered a powerful and robust method to address both static and dynamic engineering problems in discontinuous rock masses. In this book Yossef H. Hatzor and Guowei Ma, co-chairs of the International Society for Rock Mechanics (ISRM) Commission on DDA, join Dr. Shi in authoring a monograph that presents the state of the art in DDA research. A comprehensive discussion of DDA development since its publication is provided in Chapter 1, followed by concise reviews of 2D and 3D DDA in chapters 2 and 3. Procedures to select geological and numerical input parameters for DDA are discussed in Chapter 4, and DDA validation and verification is presented in Chapter 5. Applications of DDA in underground and rock slope engineering projects are discussed in chapters 6 and 7. In Chapter 8 the novel contact theory recently developed by Dr. Shi is published in its complete form, for the first time. This book is published within the framework of the ISRM Book Series and is the contribution of the ISRM DDA Commission to the international rock mechanics community.
This book examines Republican China’s diplomatic strategies and engagement, and power reconfiguration in East Asia after 1914. Drawing on a vast trove of primary sources, including newly declassified archival materials, the book offers not only a richly-informed account of how the Beiyang government conducted diplomacy at the Paris Peace Conference but also new insights into why. Calling into question such long-held beliefs that the Beiyang government was inadequately prepared for the Conference, was treasonous in urging the signing of the Treaty of Versailles, and that its behavior at the Conference amounted to a thorough failure of diplomacy, the author tries to make a case for a much more nuanced re-interpretation and re-evaluation of this critical period in the country’s diplomatic history.
The first handbook on this emerging field provides a comprehensive overview of transition metal-catalyzed coupling reactions in the presence of an oxidant. Following an introduction to the general concept and mechanism of this reaction class, the team of authors presents chapters on C-C cross-coupling reactions using organometallic partners, C-Heteroatom bond forming reactions via oxidative couplings, and C-H couplings via C-H activation. The text also covers such groundbreaking topics as recent achievements in the fields of C-C and C-X bond formation reactions as well as C-H activation involving oxidative couplings. With its novel and concise approach towards important building blocks in organic chemistry and its focus on synthetic applications, this handbook is of great interest to all synthetic chemists in academia and industry alike.
When stresses are applied to saturated soil, deformation will occur as water in voids is squeezed out. Consolidation Analyses of Soils focuses on the consolidation of fully saturated soils. The book follows a classic approach by beginning with one-dimensional constitutive relations of soils and one-dimensional consolidation. It then moves on to analytical solutions to several one-dimensional consolidation problems and one-dimensional finite strain consolidation. The authors also present a finite element method for consolidation analysis of one-dimensional problems, analytical solutions to consolidation of soil with vertical drains, and a finite difference method for consolidation analysis of one-dimensional problems. Simplified methods for consolidation analysis of soils exhibiting creep are introduced and applied to different cases. Three-dimensional consolidation equations and solutions of typical three-dimensional consolidation problems are covered, as well as simplified finite element consolidation analysis of soils with vertical drain and finite element method for three-dimensional consolidation problems. The book is unique in that it covers both classic solutions and state-of-the-art work in consolidation analyses of soils. Authors Jian-Hua Yin is Chair Professor of Soil Mechanics in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Guofu Zhu is a Professor in the Department of Engineering Structures and Mechanics at Wuhan University of Technology, China.
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.
In the 1950s, the residents of the southwestern coastal areas of Taiwan suffered greatly from Blackfoot disease (BFD) due to the consumption of arsenic-contaminated groundwater. Groundwater with high levels of arsenic in southwestern and northeastern Taiwan received much attention. After arsenic-safe tap water was utilized for drinking instead of groundwater in the 1970s, BFD cases decreased greatly. After 1990, no new BFD cases were reported, and as a consequence, BFD problems disregarded. However, arsenic is still present in the groundwater. This book will improve the knowledge and understanding of the occurrence and genesis of arsenic-rich groundwaters in Taiwan. It deals with constraints on the mobility of arsenic in groundwater, its uptake from soil and water by plants, arsenic-propagation through the food chain, human health impacts, and arsenic-removal technologies. Taiwan case experiences are described in this book and can be applied worldwide. This book is a state-of-the-art overview of research on arsenic in Taiwan and is designed to: create interest in regions within Taiwan that are affected by the presence of arseniferous aquifers; draw attention from the international scientific community; increase awareness among researchers, administrators, policy makers, and company executives; improve the international cooperation on arsenic problems worldwide.
As a high-flying person who had worked hard in his previous life, Lu had acquired the quality that a retired cadre should have. Raising flowers and grass, neither fighting nor stealing, using his modern experience to make him into a rich man, while teasing chicks and flirting with gay men, and then ... What the hell did she pick up? The sickly little sheep that was mentioned, how did she become a great demon king? Something was not right, she had to return it for a bad evaluation! A man said with a straight face, "This product does not have seven days without a reason. As for other matters other than returning the goods, we can talk about them slowly on the bed." & have spent & have spent "Hey!
From the acclaimed author of Brothers and To Live: a major new novel that limns the joys and sorrows of life in contemporary China. Yang Fei was born on a moving train. Lost by his mother, adopted by a young switchman, raised with simplicity and love, he is utterly unprepared for the tempestuous changes that await him and his country. As a young man, he searches for a place to belong in a nation that is ceaselessly reinventing itself, but he remains on the edges of society. At age forty-one, he meets an accidental and unceremonious death. Lacking the money for a burial plot, he must roam the afterworld aimlessly, without rest. Over the course of seven days, he encounters the souls of the people he’s lost. As Yang Fei retraces the path of his life, we meet an extraordinary cast of characters: his adoptive father, his beautiful ex-wife, his neighbors who perished in the demolition of their homes. Traveling on, he sees that the afterworld encompasses all the casualties of today’s China—the organ sellers, the young suicides, the innocent convicts—as well as the hope for a better life to come. Yang Fei’s passage maps the contours of this vast nation—its absurdities, its sorrows, and its soul. Vivid, urgent, and panoramic, The Seventh Day affirms Yu Hua’s place as the standard-bearer of modern Chinese fiction.
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