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Modern China

By: Xiaobing Li

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Providing an indispensable resource for students, educators, businessmen, and officials investigating the transformative experience of modern China, this book provides a comprehensive summary of the culture, institutions, traditions, and international relations that have shaped today's China. In Modern China, author Xiaobing Li offers a resource far beyond a conventional encyclopedia, providing not only comprehensive coverage of Chinese civilization and traditions, but also addressing the values, issues, and critical views of China. As a result, readers will better understand the transformative experience of the most populous country in the world, and will grasp the complexity of the progress and problems behind the rise of China to a world superpower in less than 30 years. Written by an author who lived in China for three decades, this encyclopedia addresses 16 key topics regarding China, such as its geography, government, social classes and ethnicities, gender-based identities, arts, media, and food, each followed by roughly 250 short entries related to each topic. All the entries are placed within a broad sociopolitical and socioeconomic contextual framework. The format and writing consistency through the book reflects a Chinese perspective, and allows students to compare Chinese with Western and American views.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1610696263

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Tuttle Concise Chinese Dictionary

Completely Revised and Updated Second Edition

By: Li Dong

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Tuttle Concise Chinese Dictionary

Completely Revised and Updated Second Edition

By: Li Dong

This is the most up-to-date Mandarin Chinese Dictionary available today. Tuttle Concise Chinese Dictionary has both Chinese to English and English to Chinese sections. Its compact size allows for easy transport without limiting the content. This Mandarin dictionary is perfect for Chinese language students, or business people and tourists traveling to China who wish to learn Chinese. It contains over 25,000 words and expressions (including all the required words for the official HSK Chinese Proficiency Examination), carefully selected to cover all important aspects of life and commerce in China. In addition, extensive information on Chinese grammar and Mandarin pronunciation are included. This Chinese dictionary contains the following features: 25,000 Chinese words and expressions. Chinese-English and English-Chinese sections Up-to-date local Chinese slang and idioms. A guide to Mandarin pronunciation and Chinese Grammar. An explanation of Mandarin tones and syllables. An introduction to writing Chinese and stroke order. Radical and stroke indexes for easy reference. All the Chinese vocabulary included in the HSK language examinations. Romanized forms (hanyu pinyin) including tones for accurate pronunciation. Extensive notes with detailed tips on usage and social context. Parts of speech, common phrases and idiomatic expressions. Other dictionaries in this bestselling series you might be interested in include: Concise Japanese Dictionary, Concise Korean Dictionary, and Concise Vietnamese Dictionary.

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1462910858

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9781462910854

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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University Press of Kentucky

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0813173957

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9780813173955

Lure on the Bed: Charming Evil Consort

Volume 3

By: Li Dongwaner

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Lure on the Bed: Charming Evil Consort

Volume 3

By: Li Dongwaner

She, the genius medical examiner who ran amok in the police force, had once transmigrated to become the unfavoured direct daughter of the Prime Minister. She was delicate and weak, and her birth was a mystery.It was fine if her father didn't care about her and her mother, but she was sent to the marriage alliance as a family's tool, and she was even framed by someone who wanted to sully her innocence.The man was dressed in white, and looked like a demigod. "Scram."Having lost her rationality after being burned by the medicine, she automatically ignored the cold ridicule in his eyes and rushed forward.... ....Many years later, her reputation as a poison physician would shake the world.From the delicate young lady to the princess consort, they had to clean up the Prime Minister's residence and play in the court.However...Her slender hand pressed against the man's forehead. "You hit this beauty yourself, it has nothing to do with me."The man tyrannically trapped her within an arm. "You think This King can escape after sleeping?

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Funstory

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1647674905

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The History of Taiwan

By: Xiaobing Li

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The History of Taiwan

By: Xiaobing Li

This one-volume handbook explores the history of Taiwan, from its prehistory to its Japanese colonization to its tumultuous relationship with China in the 21st century. This addition to the Greenwood Histories of the Modern Nations series focuses on significant events in the history of Taiwan, from ancient history to the present. Following the general series format, the book opens with the series foreword and a chronology of key events in Taiwan's history. Eleven chapters follow, with half of the book focusing on the modern historic events that occurred post–World War II. Chapters examine topics and eras including Pre-history and Early Civilization to 1100; Formosa: The Dutch Colony, 1622–1662; Cold War Island: Conflicts and Control, 1950–1972; and Democratization and Independence Movement, 1996–2004. A glossary of terms and annotated bibliography rounds out the work, making it an ideal resource for high school and undergraduate students as well as general readers who are looking for an introduction to Taiwan's history.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1440861269

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Mencius In Modern Perspectives

An eBook In English and Simplified Chinese

By: Raymond Li

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Mencius In Modern Perspectives

An eBook In English and Simplified Chinese

By: Raymond Li

Mencius (also known as Meng Zi, Meng Ke, circa 372-289 BC) was the most prominent Confucian after Confucius, whose teachings were fundamental to Chinese culture for millennia. The book Mencius documented Mencius's conversations with his disciples and other relevant characters and highlighted his philosophy. This book provides a new translation of Mencius in plain and colloquial English, thorough annotations, in-depth commentaries to explain the Confucian philosophy, and modern perspectives of Mencius's ideas. The reader will find this book highly comprehensible, inspirational, and enjoyable to read. This eBook also includes the ancient text in simplified Chinese.

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Raymond K. Li

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ISBN 13

9798985120455

Analysis of Reaction-Diffusion Models with the Taxis Mechanism

By: Yuanyuan Ke,Jing Li,Yifu Wang

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Analysis of Reaction-Diffusion Models with the Taxis Mechanism

By: Yuanyuan Ke,Jing Li,Yifu Wang

This open access book deals with a rich variety of taxis-type cross-diffusive equations. Particularly, it intends to show the key role played by quasi-energy inequality in the derivation of some necessary a priori estimates. This book addresses applied mathematics and all researchers interested in mathematical development of reaction-diffusion theory and its application and can be a basis for a graduate course in applied mathematics.

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Springer Nature

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981193763X

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9789811937637

The Readability of the Past in Early Chinese Historiography

By: Wai-yee Li

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The Readability of the Past in Early Chinese Historiography

By: Wai-yee Li

The past becomes readable when we can tell stories and make arguments about it. When we can tell more than one story or make divergent arguments, the readability of the past then becomes an issue. Therein lies the beginning of history, the sense of inquiry that heightens our awareness of interpretation. How do interpretive structures develop and disintegrate? What are the possibilities and limits of historical knowledge? This book explores these issues through a study of the Zuozhuan, a foundational text in the Chinese tradition, whose rhetorical and analytical self-consciousness reveals much about the contending ways of thought unfolding during the period of the text’s formation (ca. 4th c. B.C.E.). But in what sense is this vast collection of narratives and speeches covering the period from 722 to 468 B.C.E. “historical”? If one can speak of an emergent sense of history in this text, Wai-yee Li argues, it lies precisely at the intersection of varying conceptions of interpretation and rhetoric brought to bear on the past, within a larger context of competing solutions to the instability and disintegration represented through the events of the 255 years covered by the Zuozhuan. Even as its accounts of proliferating disorder and disintegration challenge the boundaries of readability, the deliberations on the rules of reading in the Zuozhuan probe the dimensions of historical self-consciousness.

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BRILL

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1684174198

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9781684174195

A Grammatical Sketch of Hainan Cham

History, Contact, and Phonology

By: Graham Thurgood,Ela Thurgood,Li Fengxiang

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A Grammatical Sketch of Hainan Cham

History, Contact, and Phonology

By: Graham Thurgood,Ela Thurgood,Li Fengxiang

This volume is a grammatical sketch of Hainan Cham, an endangered tonal Austronesian language. The study focuses on three areas: social background and contact history, the grammar (including all the recorded vocabulary), and a description of the sound system (including acoustic description). The appendixes also include the wordlist of Sanya Chinese forms and four analyzed texts.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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1614518777

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9781614518778

Disabled Prince Chases His Wife

Volume 1

By: Li Renbugui

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Disabled Prince Chases His Wife

Volume 1

By: Li Renbugui

Su Luo traveled to ancient times and became the general's daughter. His original body committed suicide because he was forced to marry a crippled prince.Unexpectedly, on the third day after Su Luo's teleportation, a royal decree descended once again, pointing her to the crippled emperor, the Prince Chen.Su Luo escaped, and on the way, she met a man she liked at first sight, Qin Feng.Only, Qin Feng was too mysterious. Sometimes he would distance himself from her, and sometimes he would get close to her.After escaping for a few months, Su Luo was brought back to the clan by General Su, and was forced to marry the Prince Chen. However, on the wedding night, the so called crippled prince in front of her, had unexpectedly disappeared without a trace of Qin Feng.Su Luo was enraged: "You are actually the Prince Chen!"Qin Feng's handsome face gave a peerless smile, and with a confident voice, she said, "Luoluo, you will never be able to escape from my grasp in this life!

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Funstory

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164796864X

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Confucius Analects (論語)

A New Translation with Annotations and Commentaries

By: Raymond K. Li

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Confucius Analects (論語)

A New Translation with Annotations and Commentaries

By: Raymond K. Li

Confucius (also known as Kong Qiu, 孔丘, and Kong Zhong Ni, 孔仲尼, 551 - 479 BC) was a prominent, if not the most influential, philosopher of China. His teachings have been fundamental to the Chinese civilization and culture for over two and half millennia. The Analects was written and compiled by Confucius’ disciples after his death. It documented his conversations with his disciples and other relevant characters, and the dialogues among his disciples. These conversations highlighted key doctrines of Confucianism which cover a wide range of topics on education, self-cultivation, morality, ethics, society, social norms, government, law and order, politics, public service careers, music, poetry and so on. Many salient teachings of the Analects are still applicable today. Different from many translations, this new translation has deployed plain and colloquial English, simple writing style, and modern context to facilitate comprehension by common readers. This translation has also preserved accurately the ideas and tone of the original text. Annotations are added to further explain the background history, circumstances and the characters involved in the conversations documented in the Analects. This book will provide the reader many hours of enjoyable reading and inspirations for his or her self-cultivation.

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iUniverse

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1663200246

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9781663200242

Guns and Ledgers

China and the East Asian World in the Age of Early Economic Globalization

By: Bozhong Li

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Guns and Ledgers

China and the East Asian World in the Age of Early Economic Globalization

By: Bozhong Li

This book seeks to reconcile the dual forces of war and economic globalization in tracing China's early modernity. For late imperial China, there were two forms of encounter with the West; the guns of invading Europeans, and the ledgers by which trade between China and the West was measured and regulated. Even today, China's reactions to the West oscillate between business-driven openness and military paranoia. In this intellectual tour de force, Bozhong Li, one of China's preeminent intellectual and economic historians, traces the unprecedented transition that led China into the modern world; the book will be of value for economists, historians, and sinophiles alike.

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Springer Nature

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9819963230

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9789819963232

The Confucian Philosophy of Harmony

By: Chenyang Li

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The Confucian Philosophy of Harmony

By: Chenyang Li

Harmony is a concept essential to Confucianism and to the way of life of past and present people in East Asia. Integrating methods of textual exegesis, historical investigation, comparative analysis, and philosophical argumentation, this book presents a comprehensive treatment of the Confucian philosophy of harmony. The book traces the roots of the concept to antiquity, examines its subsequent development, and explicates its theoretical and practical significance for the contemporary world. It argues that, contrary to a common view in the West, Confucian harmony is not mere agreement but has to be achieved and maintained with creative tension. Under the influence of a Weberian reading of Confucianism as "adjustment" to a world with an underlying fixed cosmic order, Confucian harmony has been systematically misinterpreted in the West as presupposing an invariable grand scheme of things that pre-exists in the world to which humanity has to conform. The book shows that Confucian harmony is a dynamic, generative process, which seeks to balance and reconcile differences and conflicts through creativity. Illuminating one of the most important concepts in Chinese philosophy and intellectual history, this book is of interest to students of Chinese studies, history and philosophy in general and eastern philosophy in particular.

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Routledge

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1134600488

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9781134600489

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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Rowman & Littlefield

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1538130068

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9781538130063

Life Confucianism as A New Philosophy

Love and Thought

By: Huang Yushun,Li Xuening,Yushun Huang

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Life Confucianism as A New Philosophy

Love and Thought

By: Huang Yushun,Li Xuening,Yushun Huang

Life itself has long gone unnoticed in Confucian texts since the Qin and Han dynasties, which is similar to the forgetting of Being, per se, in the Western philosophy after the Axial Period, according to Heidegger. Today, there is a philosophical mission to return life to Confucianism, restoring and reconstructing Confucianism in the perspective of a comparison between Confucianism and Husserl's Phenomenology. The author reduces the features of life to the essence of a thing but returns to life as the essence of Being. The author rejects the idea of post-philosophy in order to reconstruct the metaphysical and the post-metaphysical gradations of Confucianism. These gradations are made along three strata in the life of human beings-no-being of anything (a life comprehension), metaphysical thinghood (the absolute Being), and post-metaphysical things (the relative beings). In this way we have a full understanding of the idea of Confucianism.

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Bridge 21 Publications

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1626430071

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9781626430075

Engineering Communist China

One Man's Story

By: You-Li Sun,Dan Ling

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Engineering Communist China

One Man's Story

By: You-Li Sun,Dan Ling

Sun (director, Beijing Program of American U.) tells the story of one Chinese engineer from Mao's Great Leap Forward to the 1970s. Ling was arrested for his criticisms of Chinese policy, spending the next 20 years in detention camps. Eventually rehabilitated by the Deng Xiaoping regime, he went to w

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Algora Publishing

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0875862403

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9780875862408

Mobile Information Service for Networks

By: Changjun Jiang,Zhong Li

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Mobile Information Service for Networks

By: Changjun Jiang,Zhong Li

This book introduces readers to mobile information services for networks. The content is divided into eight chapters, each of which presents a specific concept and the latest related developments in mobile information services. Mobile information services for networks can be defined as platform-independent functional entities that provide various services based on the communication network platform. The book discusses the three main supporting technologies for mobile information services: neighbor discovery in the data link layer; routing and balanced association in the network layer; and community structure detection in the application layer. Lastly, the book describes the development of applications based on the authors’ mobile information service platform, as well as related key technologies in the domains of intelligent transportation, smart tourism, and mobile payment, such as trajectory analysis, location recommendation, and mobile behavior authentication, which are promoting the development of mobile information services. This book offers a valuable reference guide for researchers in the field of computer science and technology, as well as those in the field of network mobile information service technology.

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Springer Nature

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9811545693

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9789811545696

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