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The Collected Poems of Li He

By: Li He

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The definitive collection of works by one of the Tang Dynasty's most eccentric (and badly-behaved) poets, now back in print for the first time in decades. Li He is the bad-boy poet of the late Tang dynasty. He began writing at the age of seven and died at twenty-six from alcoholism or, according to a later commentator, “sexual dissipation,” or both. An obscure and unsuccessful relative of the imperial family, he would set out at dawn on horseback, pause, write a poem, and toss the paper away. A servant boy followed him to collect these scraps in a tapestry bag. Long considered far too extravagant and weird for Chinese taste, Li He was virtually excluded from the poetic canon until the mid-twentieth century. Today, as the translator and scholar Anne M. Birrell, writes, “Of all the Tang poets, even of all Chinese poets, he best speaks for our disconcerting times.” Modern critics have compared him to Rimbaud, Baudelaire, Keats, and Trakl. The Collected Poems of Li He is the only comprehensive selection of his surviving work (most of his poems were reputedly burned by his cousin after his death, for the honor of the family), rendered here in crystalline translations by the noted scholar J. D. Frodsham.

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New York Review of Books

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9629969327

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Time Commences in Xibalb‡

By: Luis de Li—n

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Time Commences in Xibalb‡

By: Luis de Li—n

Time Commences in Xibalb‡ tells the story of a violent village crisis in Guatemala sparked by the return of a prodigal son, Pascual. He had been raised tough by a poor, single mother in the village before going off with the military. When Pascual comes back, he is changedÑboth scarred and ÒenlightenedÓ by his experiences. To his eyes, the village has remained frozen in time. After experiencing alternative cultures in the wider world, he finds that he is both comforted and disgusted by the villageÕs lingering ÒindigenousÓ characteristics. De Li—n manages to tell this volatile story by blending several modes, moods, and voices so that the novel never falls into the expected narrative line. It wrenches the readerÕs sense of time and identity by refusing the conventions of voice and character to depict a new, multi-layered periphery. This novel demands that we leave preconceptions about indigenous culture at the front cover and be ready to come out the other side not only with a completely different understanding of indigeneity in Latin America, but also with a much wider understanding of how supposedly peripheral peoples actually impact the modern world. The first translation into English of this thought-provoking novel includes a conluding essay by the translator suggesting that a helpful approach for the reader might be to see the work as enacting the never-quite-there poetics of translation underlying GuatemalaÕs indigenous heart. An afterword by Arturo Arias, the leading thinker on Indigenous modernities in Guatemala, offers important approaches to interpreting this challenging novel by showing how GuatemalaÕs colonial legacy cannot escape its racial overtones and sexual undertones as the nation-state struggles to find a suitable place in the modern world.

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University of Arizona Press

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0816521344

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Number One Chinese Restaurant

A Novel

By: Lillian Li

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Number One Chinese Restaurant

A Novel

By: Lillian Li

Named a Must-Read by TIME, Buzzfeed, The Wall Street Journal, Star Tribune, Fast Company, The Village Voice, Toronto Star, Fortune Magazine, InStyle, and O, The Oprah Magazine "A joy to read—I couldn't get enough." —Buzzfeed "This novel practically thumps with heartache and sharp humor." —Chang-rae Lee, New York Times bestselling author of Native Speaker An exuberant and wise multigenerational debut novel about the complicated lives and loves of people working in everyone’s favorite Chinese restaurant. The Beijing Duck House in Rockville, Maryland, is not only a beloved go-to setting for hunger pangs and celebrations; it is its own world, inhabited by waiters and kitchen staff who have been fighting, loving, and aging within its walls for decades. When disaster strikes, this working family’s controlled chaos is set loose, forcing each character to confront the conflicts that fast-paced restaurant life has kept at bay. Owner Jimmy Han hopes to leave his late father’s homespun establishment for a fancier one. Jimmy’s older brother, Johnny, and Johnny’s daughter, Annie, ache to return to a time before a father’s absence and a teenager’s silence pushed them apart. Nan and Ah-Jack, longtime Duck House employees, are tempted to turn their thirty-year friendship into something else, even as Nan’s son, Pat, struggles to stay out of trouble. And when Pat and Annie, caught in a mix of youthful lust and boredom, find themselves in a dangerous game that implicates them in the Duck House tragedy, their families must decide how much they are willing to sacrifice to help their children. Generous in spirit, unaffected in its intelligence, multi-voiced, poignant, and darkly funny, Number One Chinese Restaurant looks beyond red tablecloths and silkscreen murals to share an unforgettable story about youth and aging, parents and children, and all the ways that our families destroy us while also keeping us grounded and alive.

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Henry Holt and Company

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1250141303

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9781250141309

A Daughter Remembers

By: Li Lien- Fung

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A Daughter Remembers

By: Li Lien- Fung

In this book, the author recounts her parents’ tumultuous long-distance relationship and explores its effects on her and her sister. Spanning a century of the family’s history (1860–1960), Li tells of her American Chinese father, Dr Li Kuo Ching, a successful entrepreneur and brilliant engineer who discovered tungsten, a strategic metal at the time. Her mother, Luo Bu Ge, was a simple but smart and inquisitive woman; but being born at the end of the Qing Dynasty, she had to conform to the traditions of the times. As a daughter who always felt abandoned by her father and who has been unable to confront her innermost conflicts, Li finally finds the courage to confront her fears

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Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd

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9814634921

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Coloratura

By: Li Er

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Coloratura

By: Li Er

Li Er, whose innovative works of fiction have earned the admiration of scholars and critics—and a passionate fan base of readers—is one of China’s most prominent writers. This landmark publication of his Coloratura, a tour de force of literary innovation, marks the first translation of the author’s novels into English. Set against the turbulent backdrop of the Chinese Civil War, Coloratura revolves around the mysterious Ge Ren, whose story is told by three narrators and a host of other voices. Who was Ge Ren really? Just about the only thing anyone can agree on is that he is dead. But how he died, and who he was when alive, are less than certain. Was Ge Ren a hero, a Nationalist or Communist, a poet, translator, scholar, or spy—or some combination of all these identities? And how much of his story is merely fanciful “coloratura” nonsense? As different factions fight for control of China, Ge Ren traverses the political and intellectual life of the country, managing to affect countless lives. Years later, in the present day, his final surviving descendant, the intriguing “compiler” of the novel, pieces together the stories of her enigmatic ancestor from a patchwork of narrators, reliable or otherwise, and historical documents, real or invented. But readers also will wonder if she has an agenda of her own. The search for Ge Ren takes us from Chairman Mao’s stronghold at Yan’an to a barren People’s Commune, and then farther afield, with excursions into Russia, Japan, and even a small town in England. Many of the characters and incidents are actual historical figures and events, woven seamlessly into the fictional storyline. Told with swashbuckling brio and painstaking historical detail, Coloratura is both an illuminating journey through twentieth-century Chinese history and a profound exploration of the elusive nature of truth.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806163828

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9780806163826

A Year of Pink Roses

By: Siu Fai Li

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A Year of Pink Roses

By: Siu Fai Li

On a beautiful autumn day, James is out for a leisurely stroll in the city sunshine. In his wanderings, he spots a beautiful woman standing on the subway platform. When she boards the train, he can't help but be entranced by her grace and beauty, but they are separated when he gives up his seat to an elderly woman. He disembarks soon after, reluctantly leaving the woman behind. Coming upon a small caf , James sees the woman again, and the two instantly strike up a conversation. Her name is Lauren, and she is a professional model. They have an enjoyable lunch together, and Lauren agrees to have dinner with James soon. Ecstatic, James returns to his job as an ER doctor and can't stop thinking about her. The road to love is a rocky one. Lauren is already in a relationship and struggles with her feelings for James. When she breaks up with her boyfriend, James is overjoyed and falls head over heels in love with her. For a time, they bask in the newness of their relationship, but it's not long before Lauren's fear of commitment reappears. Can Lauren and James surpass the obstacles to love, or will their relationship succumb to doubt and fear?

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0595424015

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A DROP OF DEW ON THE LEAF

Selected Novels by Tao Shaohong

By: Li Haijun,Ning Yunzhong,Tan Zhaoliang,Chen Baoni

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A DROP OF DEW ON THE LEAF

Selected Novels by Tao Shaohong

By: Li Haijun,Ning Yunzhong,Tan Zhaoliang,Chen Baoni

This book consists five representative novels by Tao Shaohong. These novels, with local flavor of Changde, reflect the change of society and human nature in contemporary China. The author explores the people’s inner secrecy with a unique perspective. He has a sympathy for the people and understands their love and hatred. With a pen of artistic tension, he depicts meticulously and fully the people’s desire, struggle and redemption. The vivid and lively characters, attractive plots, concise and plain style of this novels are so unique and insightful to read.

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American Academic Press

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1631819852

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Wintry Night

By: Qiao Li

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Wintry Night

By: Qiao Li

An epic spanning more than half a century of Taiwan's history, this breathtaking historical novel traces the fortunes of the Pengs, a family of Hakka Chinese settlers, across three generations from the 1890s, just before Taiwan was ceded to Japan as a result of the Sino-Japanese war, through World War II. Li Qiao brilliantly re-creates the dramatic world of these pioneers—and the colonization of Taiwan itself—exploring their relationships with the aboriginal peoples of Taiwan and their struggle to establish their own ethnic and political identities. This carefully researched work of fiction draws upon Li's own experiences and family history, as well as oral and written histories of the era. Originally published in Chinese as a trilogy, this newly translated edition is an abridgement for English-speaking readers and marks the work's first appearance in the English-speaking world. It was well-received in Taiwan as an honest—and influential—recreation of Taiwan's history before the relocation of the Republic of China from the mainland to Taiwan. Because Li's saga is so deeply imbued with the unique culture and complex history of Taiwan, an introduction explaining the cultural and historical background of the novel is included to help orient the reader to this amazingly rich cultural context. This informative introduction and the sweeping saga of the novel itself together provide an important view of Taiwan's little known colonial experience.

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Columbia University Press

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0231505566

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9780231505567

Acupuncture and Hormone Balance

By: Li Zheng

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Acupuncture and Hormone Balance

By: Li Zheng

This book tries to answer the following questions: Why can acupuncture relax our mind and body to alleviate stress and balance our immune function? Why can acupuncture reduce the pain without causing drowsiness and addiction? Why can acupuncture increase the success rate of fertility? How can acupuncture help people quit smoking or alcohol? Why can acupuncture promote your metabolism and suppress your appetite so you can regain your healthy body shape? Why do celebrities choose acupuncture to reduce their muscle drooping and skin wrinkles? How can acupuncture help depressed people regain their confidence and reduce their medication?

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acupuncture and hormone

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0557019176

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9780557019175

Winter Pasture

One Woman's Journey with China's Kazakh Herders

By: Li Juan

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Winter Pasture

One Woman's Journey with China's Kazakh Herders

By: Li Juan

Named one of The Washington Post's Best Travel Books of 2021. "Winter Pasture is Li Juan's crowning achievement, shattering the boundaries between nature writing and personal memoir." —Smithsonian Magazine "Li Juan spent minus-20-degree nights with nomadic herders in the Chinese steppes. You’ll want to join her." —Laura Miller, Slate "Deeply moving...full of humor, introspection and glimpses into a vanishing lifestyle." —The New York Times Book Review Winner of the People's Literature Award, WINTER PASTURE has been a bestselling book in China for several years. Li Juan has been widely lauded in the international literary community for her unique contribution to the narrative non-fiction genre. WINTER PASTURE is her crowning achievement, shattering the boundaries between nature writing and personal memoir. Li Juan and her mother own a small convenience store in the Altai Mountains in Northwestern China, where she writes about her life among grasslands and snowy peaks. To her neighbors' surprise, Li decides to join a family of Kazakh herders as they take their 30 boisterous camels, 500 sheep and over 100 cattle and horses to pasture for the winter. The so-called "winter pasture" occurs in a remote region that stretches from the Ulungur River to the Heavenly Mountains. As she journeys across the vast, seemingly endless sand dunes, she helps herd sheep, rides horses, chases after camels, builds an underground home using manure, gathers snow for water, and more. With a keen eye for the understated elegance of the natural world, and a healthy dose of self-deprecating humor, Li vividly captures both the extraordinary hardships and the ordinary preoccupations of the day-to-day of the men and women struggling to get by in this desolate landscape. Her companions include Cuma, the often drunk but mostly responsible father; his teenage daughter, Kama, who feels the burden of the world on her shoulders and dreams of going to college; his reticent wife, a paragon of decorum against all odds, who is simply known as "sister-in-law." In bringing this faraway world to English language readers here for the first time, Li creates an intimate bond with the rugged people, the remote places and the nomadic lifestyle. In the signature style that made her an international sensation, Li Juan transcends the travel memoir genre to deliver an indelible and immersive reading experience on every page.

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Thinkingdom

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1662600348

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9781662600340

The “States” in Villages

A Look at Schools in Rural China

By: Li Shulei

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The “States” in Villages

A Look at Schools in Rural China

By: Li Shulei

This book presents a study in educational sociology, exploring the function of rural schools, which are a symbol of the state in rural society, in a time characterized by local cultural transition. The book begins with an investigation of the status quo, background and history of a representative rural school, Fengning Hope Elementary School, and gives a definition of “the ‘states’ in villages.” Subsequently, on the basis of research on the teachers, an analysis of the courses taught, and comparison to other rural elementary schools of the same type, it reveals the dual status of rural schools and their relation with social development in rural areas. Based on thorough fieldwork and empirical research, the book provides a new vision of the interactive relation between the state and rural society, particularly focusing on the role of rural education in that relation. In addition, it explores the reshaping of Chinese culture and the part that intellectuals play in the process of today’s cultural transition. For English-language readers and Western professionals, this translated version will offer an essential window into Chinese studies from a local point of view.

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Springer

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9812879463

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9789812879462

Nixon in New York

How Wall Street Helped Richard Nixon Win the White House

By: Victor Li

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Nixon in New York

How Wall Street Helped Richard Nixon Win the White House

By: Victor Li

Richard Nixon’s loss in the 1962 gubernatorial election in California was more than just a simple electoral defeat. His once-promising political career was in ruins as he dropped his second high-profile race in as many years. Nixon, himself, rubbed salt in his own self-inflicted wounds by delivering a growling, bitter concession speech that made him seem like a sore loser. In the months following his defeat and self-immolation, he left California to move to New York so that he could work for a prestigious Wall Street law firm. His new career only seemed to confirm what everyone already knew: Richard Nixon was finished as a politician. Except, he wasn’t. Nixon’s political resurrection was virtually unprecedented in American history role, and he had his law firm to thank for paving his way to the White House. His role as public partner at Nixon, Mudge, Rose, Guthrie & Alexander was the ideal platform for him as he looked to reinvent himself after his back-to-back losses in 1960 and 1962. Nixon’s firm gave him access to deep-pocketed clients, many of whom became donors when he decided to take the plunge in 1968. Furthermore, working for so many international clients allowed him to travel the world and burnish his foreign policy credentials – a vital quality that voters were looking for as the Cold War raged on and the Vietnam War showed no signs of slowing down. Nixon’s time at the firm also allowed him to build a formidable campaign staff consisting of top-notch lawyers, researchers and writers – a staff that did just about everything for him when it came time to ramp up for the 1968 campaign.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1683930010

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9781683930013

Critical Companion to John Steinbeck

A Literary Reference to His Life and Work

By: Jeffrey D. Schultz,Luchen Li

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Critical Companion to John Steinbeck

A Literary Reference to His Life and Work

By: Jeffrey D. Schultz,Luchen Li

Celebrates the American writer who in his works confronted and explored the social fabric of the United States in the early 20th century. More than 500 entries include synopses of his novels, short stories, and nonfiction; descriptions of his characters, details about family, friends, and associates.

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Infobase Publishing

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1438108508

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9781438108506

Chinese Women Through Chinese Eyes

By: Li Yu-ning

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Chinese Women Through Chinese Eyes

By: Li Yu-ning

The special focus of this book is the lives and experiences of women in China in the first half of the 20th century. Part One - Historical Interpretations - presents essays by Western-educated Chinese women and men, on the historical role of women in a time of great social and economic upheaval. Part Two - Self-Portraits of Women in Modern China - presents the views of women who experienced life in this period through essays and autobiographies that range from women as concubines to women as factory workers, from women suffering footbinding to women serving as nurses, from women in traditional role in a traditional family to women as scientists and teachers.

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Routledge

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1317474716

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Blessed Epoch Vol. 1

By: August Li

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Blessed Epoch Vol. 1

By: August Li

Books One through Four of the Blessed Epoch When mage Yarroway L’Estrella and knight Duncan Purefroy are both assigned to escort Prince Garith to his new bride and kingdom, neither is sure he trusts the other, but a disturbing secret and another ally forces the three to work together, in Ashes and Echoes. After Yarrow leaves Duncan and Sasha to find a cure for his magical affliction, in Ice and Embers, the pair are left on their own to deal with Duncan’s new realm of Windwake and Sasha’s former family of assassins. Sasha gave up everything when he chose to stay with Yarrow and Duncan and to not kill Prince Garith; now, in Iron and Ether, all three must face the consequences and deal with a threat to Garith’s twin kingdoms. In Cairn and Covenant, Octavian Rose was given a second chance thanks to an assassin’s unexpected mercy. Through the years, determined to make a name for himself and retain his morals while doing so, his actions will have much larger consequences than he could have ever imagined.

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DSP Publications

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1634776305

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9781634776301

Confucian Way

By: Li Fu Chen

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Confucian Way

By: Li Fu Chen

First published in 1987. The teachings of Confucius have sustained the East for over 2,500 years. As set forth in the Four Books, Confucianism stresses morality, love of peace, justice, honesty, virtue, moderation in all things and sincerity as the means of self-fulfilment. Chen arranges into one compact volume the essential principles for human conduct propounded in Confucius's Four Books, and to make them easily accessible to Western readers for the first time.

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Routledge

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1317761030

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Culturally Contested Literacies

America's "Rainbow Underclass" and Urban Schools

By: Guofang Li

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Culturally Contested Literacies

America's "Rainbow Underclass" and Urban Schools

By: Guofang Li

Culturally Contested Literacies examines the home and school literacy experiences of children from a uniquely socio-cultural perspective, including vivid, detailed case studies describing the lives and literacy practices of six families.

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113591513X

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Retrospect and Prospect of Protein Research

By: Zai-ping Li,Zi-Xian Lu,Y. S. Zhang

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Retrospect and Prospect of Protein Research

By: Zai-ping Li,Zi-Xian Lu,Y. S. Zhang

Festschrift in Honour of Professor Cao Tian-qin"--T.p. verso.

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World Scientific

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981020518X

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A Cage Went in Search of a Bird

Ten Kafkaesque Stories

By: Ali Smith,Tommy Orange,Naomi Alderman,Helen Oyeyemi,Keith Ridgway,Yiyun Li,Charlie Kaufman,Elif Batuman,Leone Ross,Joshua Cohen

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A Cage Went in Search of a Bird

Ten Kafkaesque Stories

By: Ali Smith,Tommy Orange,Naomi Alderman,Helen Oyeyemi,Keith Ridgway,Yiyun Li,Charlie Kaufman,Elif Batuman,Leone Ross,Joshua Cohen

A collection of brand-new short stories written by prize-winning, bestselling writers and inspired by Kafka - published to commemorate the centenary of his death *Chosen as a 2024 highlight in the Guardian, the Financial Times, the Daily Mail, New Statesman, Esquire and the New European* Franz Kafka is widely regarded as one of the great geniuses of twentieth-century literature. What happens when some of the most original literary minds of today take an idea, a mood or a line from his work and use it to spark something new? From a future society who ask their AI servants to construct a giant tower to reach God; to a flat hunt that descends into a comically absurd bureaucratic nightmare; to a population experiencing a wave of unbearable, contagious panic attacks, these ten specially commissioned stories are by turns mind-bending, funny, unsettling and haunting. Inspired by the visionary imagination of a writer working one hundred years ago, they speak powerfully to the strangeness of being alive today.

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Abacus

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034914639X

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Tales To Warm Your Heart

Together In The Rain and Other Stories

By: Vanessa Renee Min Ng,Brigitte Tang,Ian Choo,Dejoy Shastikk Kumaran,Sharon Skariah,Nur Sabrina Dzulkifli,Sng Li Lyn

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Tales To Warm Your Heart

Together In The Rain and Other Stories

By: Vanessa Renee Min Ng,Brigitte Tang,Ian Choo,Dejoy Shastikk Kumaran,Sharon Skariah,Nur Sabrina Dzulkifli,Sng Li Lyn

Prepare to have your heartstrings tugged at as you delve into stories written by the young; read of young maids becoming ballerinas, an unlikely friendship between two soldiers, a runner with an important message and finding your Happily Ever After against all odds.

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Experiences & Experiments Books Pte Ltd

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9814320900

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Lao-Tzu's Treatise on the Response of the Tao

A Contemporary Translation of the Most Popular Book Taoist Book in China

By: Li Ying-Chang

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Lao-Tzu's Treatise on the Response of the Tao

A Contemporary Translation of the Most Popular Book Taoist Book in China

By: Li Ying-Chang

Taoists and non-Taoists alike consider Lao-Tzu's Treatise on the Response of the Tao, written by the twelfth-century sage Li Ying-Chang, an essential guide to living. Presenting foundational teaching and practices of the Action and Karma school of Taoism, it is replete with stories illustrating the teachings and an introductory essay that discusses the more esoteric meanings of the passages. Told with clarity and depth, these seminal Taoist teachings offer guidance on leading a balanced, healthy life. Sponsored by the Fung Loy Kok Institute of Taoism

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0761989986

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Night and Day

A Novel

By: Abdulhamid Sulaymon o’g’li Cho’lpon

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Night and Day

A Novel

By: Abdulhamid Sulaymon o’g’li Cho’lpon

Night and Day (1934), an unfinished dilogy by Uzbek author Abdulhamid Sulaymon o’g’li Cho’lpon, gives readers a glimpse into the everyday struggles of men and women in Russian imperial Turkestan. More than just historical prose, Cho’lpon’s magnum opus reads as poetic elegy and turns on dramatic irony. Though Night, the first and only extant book of the dilogy, depicts the terrible fate of a young girl condemned to marry a sexual glutton, nothing is what it seems. Readers find themselves questioning the nature of Russian colonialism, resistance to it, and even the intentions of the author, whose life and the second book of his dilogy, Day, were lost to Stalinist terror.

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Academic Studies PRess

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1644694808

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Strangers in the City

Reconfigurations of Space, Power, and Social Networks Within China’s Floating Population

By: Li Zhang

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Strangers in the City

Reconfigurations of Space, Power, and Social Networks Within China’s Floating Population

By: Li Zhang

With rapid commercialization, a booming urban economy, and the relaxation of state migratory policies, over 100 million peasants, known as China's "floating population," have streamed into large cities seeking employment and a better life. This book traces the profound transformation this massive flow of rural migrants has caused as it challenges Chinese socialist modes of state control.

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Stanford University Press

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0804742065

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Silver City

By: Li Rui

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Silver City

By: Li Rui

Li Rui's first novel, Silver City is a gripping family saga based on his father's experience as an underground Communist, and the latter's tragic death in a cadre school.

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Macmillan

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1429936517

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Power versus Law in Modern China

Cities, Courts, and the Communist Party

By: Qiang Fang,Xiaobing Li

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Power versus Law in Modern China

Cities, Courts, and the Communist Party

By: Qiang Fang,Xiaobing Li

Today 700 million Chinese citizens -- more than fifty-four percent of the population -- live in cities. The mass migration of rural populations to urban centers increased rapidly following economic reforms of the 1990s, and serious problems such as overcrowding, lack of health services, and substandard housing have arisen in these areas since. China's urban citizens have taken to the courts for redress and fought battles over failed urban renewal projects, denial of civil rights, corruption, and abuse of power.In Power versus Law in Modern China, Qiang Fang and Xiaobing Li examine four important legal cases that took place from 1995 to 2013 in the major cities of Wuhan, Xuzhou, Shanghai, and Chongqing. In these cases, citizens protested demolition of property, as well as corruption among city officials, developers, and landlords; but were repeatedly denied protection or compensation from the courts. Fang and Li explore how new interest groups comprised of entrepreneurs and Chinese graduates of Western universities have collaborated with the CCP-controlled local governments to create new power bases in cities. Drawing on newly available official sources, private collections, and interviews with Chinese administrators, judges, litigants, petitioners, and legal experts, this interdisciplinary analysis reveals the powerful and privileged will most likely continue to exploit the legal asymmetry that exists between the courts and citizens.

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