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Chronicle of a Blood Merchant

By: Yu Hua

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From the acclaimed author of Brothers and China in Ten Words: here is Yu Hua’s unflinching portrait of life under Chairman Mao. A cart-pusher in a silk mill, Xu Sanguan augments his meager salary with regular visits to the local blood chief. His visits become lethally frequent as he struggles to provide for his wife and three sons at the height of the Cultural Revolution. Shattered to discover that his favorite son was actually born of a liaison between his wife and a neighbor, he suffers his greatest indignity, while his wife is publicly scorned as a prostitute. Although the poverty and betrayals of Mao’s regime have drained him, Xu Sanguan ultimately finds strength in the blood ties of his family. With rare emotional intensity, grippingly raw descriptions of place and time, and clear-eyed compassion, Yu Hua gives us a stunning tapestry of human life in the grave particulars of one man’s days.

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1400031850

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9781400031856

Invincible Hero

Volume 5

By: Hua Xiaodao

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Invincible Hero

Volume 5

By: Hua Xiaodao

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!

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882

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Funstory

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1647816076

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9781647816070

Vibration Testing and Applications in System Identification of Civil Engineering Structures

By: Heung-Fai Lam,Jia-Hua Yang

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Vibration Testing and Applications in System Identification of Civil Engineering Structures

By: Heung-Fai Lam,Jia-Hua Yang

This book covers vibration testing and identification of dynamic structural systems. It starts from the fundamentals of structural dynamics, and covers the methods of modal analysis and model identification, vibration tests and the related experimental setup. It concludes with an outline of the authors‘ software, demonstrating practical applications, and illustrated with real-world case studies of full-scale structures. Theory is presented and derived step-by-step, with a detailed measurement system developed for vibration tests. This book is written for Masters students and enables them to understand the theories of system identification and empowers them to apply this in practice.

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428

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CRC Press

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0429819986

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9780429819988

Historical Dictionary of Modern Chinese Literature

By: Li-hua Ying

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Historical Dictionary of Modern Chinese Literature

By: Li-hua Ying

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.

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825

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1538130068

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9781538130063

Supreme Magic Doctor In City

Volume 1

By: Hua TuoZaiShi

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Supreme Magic Doctor In City

Volume 1

By: Hua TuoZaiShi

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.

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771

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Funstory

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1636669573

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9781636669571

Dictionary of the Ben cao gang mu, Volume 2

Geographical and Administrative Designations

By: Hua Linfu,Paul D. Buell

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Dictionary of the Ben cao gang mu, Volume 2

Geographical and Administrative Designations

By: Hua Linfu,Paul D. Buell

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.

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Univ of California Press

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0520965558

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9780520965553

The A to Z of Modern Chinese Literature

By: Li-hua Ying

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The A to Z of Modern Chinese Literature

By: Li-hua Ying

The A to Z 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 300 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.

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Scarecrow Press

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1461731879

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9781461731870

How the Red Sun Rose

The Origin and Development of the Yan’an Rectification Movement, 1930–1945

By: Gao Hua

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How the Red Sun Rose

The Origin and Development of the Yan’an Rectification Movement, 1930–1945

By: Gao Hua

This work offers the most comprehensive account of the origin and consequences of the Yan'an Rectification Movement from 1942 to 1945. The author argues that this campaign emancipated the Chinese Communist Party from Sovietinfluenced dogmatism and unified the Party, preparing it for the final victory against the Nationalist Party in 1949. More importantly, this monograph shows in great detail how Mao Zedong established his leadership through this partywide political movement by means of aggressive intraparty purges, thought control, coercive cadre examinations, and total reorganizations of the Party's upper structure. The result of this movement not only set up the foundation for Mao's new China, but also deeply influenced the Chinese political structure today. The Chinese version of How the Red Sun Rose was published in 2000, and has had nineteen printings since then.

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The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press

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9629968223

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9789629968229

Farmer Girl Becomes a Pheonix

Volume 7

By: Hua ManYi

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Farmer Girl Becomes a Pheonix

Volume 7

By: Hua ManYi

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 ...

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Funstory

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1649555091

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9781649555090

Evolutionary Learning: Advances in Theories and Algorithms

By: Zhi-Hua Zhou,Yang Yu,Chao Qian

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Evolutionary Learning: Advances in Theories and Algorithms

By: Zhi-Hua Zhou,Yang Yu,Chao Qian

Many machine learning tasks involve solving complex optimization problems, such as working on non-differentiable, non-continuous, and non-unique objective functions; in some cases it can prove difficult to even define an explicit objective function. Evolutionary learning applies evolutionary algorithms to address optimization problems in machine learning, and has yielded encouraging outcomes in many applications. However, due to the heuristic nature of evolutionary optimization, most outcomes to date have been empirical and lack theoretical support. This shortcoming has kept evolutionary learning from being well received in the machine learning community, which favors solid theoretical approaches. Recently there have been considerable efforts to address this issue. This book presents a range of those efforts, divided into four parts. Part I briefly introduces readers to evolutionary learning and provides some preliminaries, while Part II presents general theoretical tools for the analysis of running time and approximation performance in evolutionary algorithms. Based on these general tools, Part III presents a number of theoretical findings on major factors in evolutionary optimization, such as recombination, representation, inaccurate fitness evaluation, and population. In closing, Part IV addresses the development of evolutionary learning algorithms with provable theoretical guarantees for several representative tasks, in which evolutionary learning offers excellent performance.

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Springer

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9811359563

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9789811359569

Super Doctor in Huadu

Volume 4

By: Hua JianDao

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Super Doctor in Huadu

Volume 4

By: Hua JianDao

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 ...

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1647625963

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9781647625962

Concubinage and Servitude in Late Imperial China

By: Hsieh Bao Hua

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Concubinage and Servitude in Late Imperial China

By: Hsieh Bao Hua

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/

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Lexington Books

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0739145169

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9780739145166

Book's by Hua Xu

Chronicle of a Blood Merchant

Chronicle of a Blood Merchant

Invincible Hero

Invincible Hero

Vibration Testing and Applications in System Identification of Civil Engineering Structures

Vibration Testing and Applications in System Identification of Civil Engineering Structures

Historical Dictionary of Modern Chinese Literature

Historical Dictionary of Modern Chinese Literature

Supreme Magic Doctor In City

Supreme Magic Doctor In City

Dictionary of the Ben cao gang mu, Volume 2

Dictionary of the Ben cao gang mu, Volume 2

The A to Z of Modern Chinese Literature

The A to Z of Modern Chinese Literature

How the Red Sun Rose

How the Red Sun Rose

Farmer Girl Becomes a Pheonix

Farmer Girl Becomes a Pheonix

Evolutionary Learning: Advances in Theories and Algorithms

Evolutionary Learning: Advances in Theories and Algorithms

Super Doctor in Huadu

Super Doctor in Huadu

Concubinage and Servitude in Late Imperial China

Concubinage and Servitude in Late Imperial China

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