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Reading Chinese Transnationalisms

Society, Literature, Film

By: Maria N. Ng,Philip Holden

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Reading Chinese Transnationalisms

Society, Literature, Film

By: Maria N. Ng,Philip Holden

Reading Chinese Transnationalisms responds to the growing interest in transnational cultural studies by examining Chinese transnationalism from a variety of perspectives. In interrogating social practices and literary and filmic texts which frequently cross national borders in imagining Chineseness, the contributors to this volume also challenge received notions of Chinese transnationalism, opening up new perspectives on the topic. The structure of the book is clearly subdivided into sections on society, literature, and films for quick reference, and each essay is written in accessible language without sacrificing intellectual rigor and critical relevance. The international list of contributors and the wide-ranging subjects they address make Reading Chinese Transnationalisms a unique work in its field. This volume will appeal to all with an interest in Chinese transnationalism, and in particular those who come from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds in the humanities and social science.

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Hong Kong University Press

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9622097960

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9789622097964

Tuttle Concise Tagalog Dictionary

Tagalog-English English-Tagalog

By: Joi Barrios,Maria Cora Labobis,Nenita Pambid Domingo

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Tuttle Concise Tagalog Dictionary

Tagalog-English English-Tagalog

By: Joi Barrios,Maria Cora Labobis,Nenita Pambid Domingo

Easy-to-read and extensive, this Tagalog dictionary is an essential language learning and translation tool. The Tuttle Concise Tagalog Dictionary gives you the most complete and up-to-date translations from English to Tagalog/Filipino and is the most current dictionary available today. Designed primarily for English speakers, it can also be used by Tagalog speakers who are learning English. The dictionary is bidirectional with over 20,000 entries covering the everyday vocabulary used in all educational, work-related and tourist situations. For each entry, in addition to giving all useful definitions, information is given on the part of speech, common collocations and the pronunciation of the word. The introduction at the front provides a guide to pronunciation as well as other grammar pointers and explanations. For ease of use, this dictionary is divided into two parts: Tagalog-English and English-Tagalog. Key highlights of this Tagalog dictionary are: Over 20,000 entries cover everyday words that are used in educational, work-related and tourist situations. Extensive information on parts of speech, common collocations, and the pronunciation of each word. A helpful introduction provides a guide to pronunciation and many other Tagalog grammar pointers and explanations.

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1462914950

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9781462914951

Essential Terms of Chinese Painting

By: Maria CHENG, TANG Wai Hung, Eric CHOY

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Essential Terms of Chinese Painting

By: Maria CHENG, TANG Wai Hung, Eric CHOY

Essential Terms of Chinese Painting provides a comprehensive coverage of the broad spectrum of Chinese painting. Through an array of some 900 terms, it exhibits the history of Chinese culture, as interpreted by artists and portrayed in their work. In masterful detail, it describes not only the artistic implements and drawing styles, but also how these are influenced by changing cultural considerations over time such as religion, philosophy, intellectual ideas, and political developments. From the broad view of how the change of dynasties affected painting trends in both format and subject, to the smallest detail of the methods used to paint different styles of tree branches, this is a full compendium of the scope and depth of artwork from China. This volume features twelve chapters which • explore all major areas of art including techniques, implements and materials, inscriptions and seals, painting and mounting formats for all categories including landscape, bird-and-flower, figure and auspicious paintings; • provide a helpful resource for readers to enjoy Chinese art with over 500 full-colour illustrations and pictures to further elaborate the terms discussed; • serve as an introduction to begin a true understanding of traditional Chinese painting.

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City University of HK Press

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962937188X

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9789629371883

Peer-to-Peer Computing for Mobile Networks

Information Discovery and Dissemination

By: Maria Papadopouli,Henning Schulzrinne

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Peer-to-Peer Computing for Mobile Networks

Information Discovery and Dissemination

By: Maria Papadopouli,Henning Schulzrinne

This book presents research results on data dissemination in mobile networks and peer-to-peer systems for mobile devices. The main focus is a novel resource-sharing mechanism for mobile devices that introduces a new paradigm of information-sharing cooperation among mobile devices not necessarily connected to the internet. The book is geared to the needs of researchers and practitioners in industry, and is also suitable for advanced-level students in computer science and electrical engineering.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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0387685049

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9780387685045

Bitter Almonds

Recollections and Recipes from a Sicilian Girlhood

By: Mary Taylor Simeti,Maria Grammatico

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Bitter Almonds

Recollections and Recipes from a Sicilian Girlhood

By: Mary Taylor Simeti,Maria Grammatico

At the age of eleven, the daughter of a Sicilian sharecropper, Maria Grammatico, entered the San Carlo Institute in the mountaintop town of Erice, an orphanage run by nuns who were famous throughout Sicily for their almond pastries, but who were less adept at dealing with young girls. After ten years of hard work and harsh discipline, Maria emerged with the secrets of the nuns’ pastries hidden inside her head. This is the story of her carefree country childhood—her Dickensian life in the orphanage with no heat, no running water, and only wood-burning ovens—and her triumphs as an entrepreneur and a world-famous pastry chef. Bitter Almonds includes 46 of the recipes that she ‘stole’ from the nuns, committed to writing for the first time in these pages.

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Open Road Media

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150402625X

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Chinese Law and Its International Projection

Building a Community with a Shared Future for Mankind

By: Maria Francesca Staiano

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Chinese Law and Its International Projection

Building a Community with a Shared Future for Mankind

By: Maria Francesca Staiano

This book aims to explore the construction of Chinese law, with an evolution that has been strongly inspired by international law that has functioned as a "pioneer of legal civilization" in China. Chinese law is a fluid sedimentation of traditional elements of Chinese culture and the internalization of external elements. The internal dimension of Chinese legal evolution therefore coincides with a progressive incursion also at the international level, questioning the traditional rules of international relations. The most relevant and comprehensive concept that has been proposed by China in recent years is certainly the idea of building a "community of shared future for mankind." This aspiration demonstrates a global and integral vocation of international law capable of embracing relations of a new type, towards a multi-polar democratization of international relations, which mark the need for the beginning of a new era.

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Springer Nature

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9811995788

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9789811995781

Representations of China in Latin American Literature (1987-2016)

By: Maria Montt Strabucchi

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Representations of China in Latin American Literature (1987-2016)

By: Maria Montt Strabucchi

An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library as part of the Opening the Future project with COPIM. Representations of China in Latin American Literature (1987-2016) analyses contemporary Latin American novels in which China is the main theme. Using ‘China’ as a multidimensional term, it explores how the novels both highlight and undermine assumptions about China that have shaped Latin America’s understanding of ‘China’ and shows ‘China’ to be a kind of literary/imaginary ‘third’ term which reframes Latin American discourses of alterity. On one level, it argues that these texts play with the way that ‘China’ stands in as a wandering signifier and as a metonym for Asia, a gesture that essentialises it as an unchanging other. On another level, it argues that the novels’ employment of ‘China’ resists essentialist constructions of identity. ‘China’ is thus shown to be serving as a concept which allows for criticism of the construction of fetishized otherness and of the exclusion inherent in essentialist discourses of identity. The book presents and analyses the depiction of an imaginary of China which is arguably performative, but which discloses the tropes and themes which may be both established and subverted, in the novels. Chapter One examines the way in which ‘China’ is represented and constructed in Latin American novels where this country is a setting for their stories. The novels studied in Chapter Two are linked to the presence of Chinese communities in Latin America. The final chapter examines novels whose main theme is travel to contemporary China. Ultimately, in the novels studied in this book ‘China’ serves as a concept through which essentialist notions of identity are critiqued.

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Liverpool University Press

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1837644640

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Crossroad of Arts, Crossroad of Cultures

Ecphrasis in Russian and French Poetry

By: Maria Rubins

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Crossroad of Arts, Crossroad of Cultures

Ecphrasis in Russian and French Poetry

By: Maria Rubins

Crossroad of Arts, Crossroad of Cultures is the first book-length study of the aesthetic similarities between the French Parnassians, a 19th-century group of poets led by Théophile Gautier, and the Russian Acmeist poets, including Osip Mandelstam and Anna Akhmatova, who were active in the second decade of the 20th century. The Acmeists shared with the Parnassians a classical sensibility, an aspiration to state-of-the-art verbal craftsmanship, and a keen interest in the three-dimensional, physical world. Their love of plastic beauty as embodied in painting, sculpture, and architecture found natural release in verse about works of art. The book shows how Acmeist texts document aspects of Russian Modernist culture while continuing the Parnassian tradition of poetry inspired by visual art.

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Springer

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1349627364

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Projek Seram - Kem

By: Maria Kajiwa, Zaifuzaman Ahmad, Aida Adia

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Projek Seram - Kem

By: Maria Kajiwa, Zaifuzaman Ahmad, Aida Adia

Kisah Latifah - Maria Kajiwa Cerita ini mengisahkan ketabahan watak utamanya, Azim mencari adiknya, Bahiyah yang hilang sewaktu pergi ke sebuah kampung. Pencarian Azim membawa dia dan dua orang rakannya ke sebuah kem tahanan perang dunia ke 2 yang sudah ditinggalkan di atas sebuah bukit. Di situ, Azim dan kawan-kawannya berhadapan dengan pelbagai rintangan untuk menyelamatkan Bahiyah dari puaka yang mengawal tempat itu. Akhirnya setelah berhempas pulas, mereka berempat berjaya keluar dari situ dengan selamat. Dan akhirnya membongkar misteri yang sudah bertahun-tahun dirahsiakan. Kisah Malam Jumaat - Zaifuzaman Ahmad Zamri hanya bekerja di sebuah medan selera. Ketika malam jumaat, tidak ramai pelanggan yang hadir. Di kesempatan itu dia dan dua lagi rakan sekerja menghabiskan masa berbual. Topik yang dipilihnya kisah seram. Hanafi menceritakan empat kisah seram kepada mereka. Gara-gara sundel bolong, misteri kepala anjing, pocong dalam kem dan cubaan melarikan diri dan diganggu Pontianak. Malangnya malam itu Zamri sendiri ketika pulang telah diganggu dengan hantu tanpa kepala. Terus dia pengsan dan sejak itu dia tidak berani lagi untuk bergebang tentang kisah seram. Kem Rahsia - Aida Adia Empat rakan baik, Zayeed, Afy, Ryan dan Vijay tidak menyangka bahawa tugas mereka di KEM RAHSIA bukan sekadar melaksanakan latihan ketenteraan dan tugas-tugas rahsia dari unit mereka malah telah mengalami suatu tragedi berdarah hingga membawa impak besar dalam hidup mereka. Atas satu kesilapan tanpa disengajakan kerana mengambil barang yang bukan miliknya serta menganggu ketenteraman si penunggu hutan, Vijay telah diserapi roh pahlawan Melayu lama yang telah bersumpah akan mengakhiri dendamnya walau dengan apa cara sekalipun. “GANGGU KETENANGANKU, PETAKA HIDUPMU!”

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Buku Prima

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9674462902

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9789674462901

The Routledge Portuguese Bilingual Dictionary (Revised 2014 edition)

Portuguese-English and English-Portuguese

By: Maria F. Allen

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The Routledge Portuguese Bilingual Dictionary (Revised 2014 edition)

Portuguese-English and English-Portuguese

By: Maria F. Allen

Revised 2014 Reprint Thoroughly revised in 2014, this compact and up-to-date two-way dictionary provides a comprehensive and modern vocabulary. It is the ideal reference for all users of Portuguese. The dictionary includes an extensive coverage of practical terminology from a diversity of fields including; business and economics, law, medicine and information technology as well as common abbreviations, toponyms (place names), nationalities, numerous idiomatic expressions and slang. Key features: Completely up-to-date reflecting the recently-agreed orthographic changes between Brazil and Portugal. Definitions and differences in both variants clearly signposted. Brazilian Portuguese vocabulary where it differs from European-African Portuguese and some American English terms. Coverage of colloquial and slang registers. Useful notes on grammatical points and false friends, as well as boxes with cultural knowledge relating to the U.K., U.S.A., Brazil, Portugal and the other Portuguese-speaking countries. The Routledge Portuguese Bilingual Dictionary provides the maximum information in the minimum space, making it an invaluable reference source

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Routledge

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1136997253

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9781136997259

A Kingdom Without a King

The Protectors of Elbuga

By: Maria Wood

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A Kingdom Without a King

The Protectors of Elbuga

By: Maria Wood

The Protectors of Elbuga set out on yet another journey that will take them to new and wonderful worlds and friends. Argos has only one longing, and it is to return to Elbuga, with Semele, but first he must rescue her from Dwane. Argoss father Hamon, cant wait for his son to return, the kingdom of Elbuga needs a new king and his son must be crowned. A kingdom without a king is a vulnerable kingdom. Semele and Peppe escapes near death, after they are shipwrecked. They are washed up upon a beach, but their relieve are short lived, to have survived a burning, sunken ship. The water thief finds Semeleand demands her help. The Ladron is a dark and mysterious creature, which lives in the sea and is feared by the people of the islands. The islands people have many enemies to fear, especially the slave traders and pirates. Dwane search for Semele after he was saved by the cook once again, he commits to mutiny and kills a pirate captain to claim his ship and men. The ship and men he will need to fight of George, Semeles brother and Argos, the man she loves.

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Partridge Africa

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1482804921

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9781482804928

Hong Kong

Anthropological Essays on a Chinese Metropolis

By: Grant Evans,Maria Tam

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Hong Kong

Anthropological Essays on a Chinese Metropolis

By: Grant Evans,Maria Tam

Hong Kong has become a by-word for all that is modern and sparkling in Asia today. Yet tourist brochures still play with the old cliche of Hong Kong as a place where 'East meets West'. Images of so-called 'traditional' China, junks sailing Victoria Harbour or old women praying to gods in smoky temples, mingle with those portraying Hong Kong as a consumer and business paradise. This collection of essays attempts to transcend the old polarities. It looks at modern Hong Kong in all its splendour and diversity in the run-up to its re-absorption into Greater China in mid-97, through the mediums of film, food, architecture, rumours and slang. It explores the question of a distinct, modern Chinese identity in Hong Kong, and even when it explores the traditional stamping ground of the older anthropology in the New Territories it finds a dramatically changed context, in particular for women. This collection presents an intriguing insight into the process of transition from 'tradition' to 'modernity' in this Modern Chinese Metropolis.

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Routledge

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1136796452

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9781136796456

Guido Cavalcanti

By: Maria Luisa Ardizzone

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Guido Cavalcanti

By: Maria Luisa Ardizzone

Cavalcanti's work is interpreted by reconstructing the debate of ideas in which it participates, and the new model of poetry devised by Cavalcanti is one of the subjects of this book."--BOOK JACKET.

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University of Toronto Press

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0802035914

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9780802035912

Glimpses of Heaven

By: Maria Sandberg

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Glimpses of Heaven

By: Maria Sandberg

Reprint of the original, first published in 1857.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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337516131X

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9783375161316

Beyond Energy

Trade and Transport in a Reconnecting Eurasia

By: Jacopo Maria Pepe

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Beyond Energy

Trade and Transport in a Reconnecting Eurasia

By: Jacopo Maria Pepe

Jacopo Maria Pepe examines the rapid development of non-energy transport infrastructure in the broader Eurasian space. By doing so, the author considers the ongoing structural transformation of the Eurasian continent against the backdrop of deepening commercial interconnectivity in Eurasia into broader areas of trade, supported by the rapid development of rail connectivity. He frames this process in a long-wave historical analysis and considers in detail the geopolitical, geo-economic, and theoretical implications of deepening physical connectivity for the relationships among China, Russia, Central Asia, and the European Union.

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3658201924

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Reading Chinese Transnationalisms

Reading Chinese Transnationalisms

Tuttle Concise Tagalog Dictionary

Tuttle Concise Tagalog Dictionary

Essential Terms of Chinese Painting

Essential Terms of Chinese Painting

Peer-to-Peer Computing for Mobile Networks

Peer-to-Peer Computing for Mobile Networks

Bitter Almonds

Bitter Almonds

Chinese Law and Its International Projection

Chinese Law and Its International Projection

Representations of China in Latin American Literature (1987-2016)

Representations of China in Latin American Literature (1987-2016)

Crossroad of Arts, Crossroad of Cultures

Crossroad of Arts, Crossroad of Cultures

Projek Seram - Kem

Projek Seram - Kem

The Routledge Portuguese Bilingual Dictionary (Revised 2014 edition)

The Routledge Portuguese Bilingual Dictionary (Revised 2014 edition)

A Kingdom Without a King

A Kingdom Without a King

Hong Kong

Hong Kong

Guido Cavalcanti

Guido Cavalcanti

Glimpses of Heaven

Glimpses of Heaven

Beyond Energy

Beyond Energy

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