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The Butterfly as Companion

Meditations on the First Three Chapters of the Chuang-Tzu

By: Kuang-ming Wu

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The Butterfly as Companion

Meditations on the First Three Chapters of the Chuang-Tzu

By: Kuang-ming Wu

Thorough, serious, yet fun to read, this is a translation of the text and an exposition of the philosophy of Chuang Tzu the Taoist of ancient China.

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SUNY Press

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0887066852

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The Politics of Higher Education

The Imperial University in Northern Song China

By: Chu Ming-kin

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The Politics of Higher Education

The Imperial University in Northern Song China

By: Chu Ming-kin

The Politics of Higher Education: The Imperial University in Northern Song China uses the history of the Imperial University of the Northern Song to show the limits of the Song emperors’ powers. At the time, the university played an increasingly dominant role in selecting government officials. This role somehow curtailed the authority of the Song emperors, who did not possess absolute power and, more often than not, found their actions to be constrained by the institution. The nomination mechanism left room for political maneuvering and stakeholders—from emperors to scholar-officials—tried to influence the process. Hence, power struggles among successive emperors trying to assert their imperial authority ensued. Demands for greater autonomy by officials were, for example, unceasing. Chu Ming-kin shows that the road to autocracy was anything but linear. In fact, during the Northern Song dynasty, competition and compromises over diverse agendas constantly altered the political landscape. “The scholarship of this book is exceptionally sound. Chu’s command of both primary and secondary sources is breathtaking in its scope. This will be the standard treatment of Northern Song higher education for many years to come. The pages that describe how the university functioned as a cynical vehicle to facilitate upper class entry into the jinshi system are fascinating and an important contribution to the larger scholarship on Song culture.” —Charles Hartman, University at Albany, State University of New York “This work highlights in arresting detail a heretofore neglected area of higher education under the Northern Song, the Directorate of Higher Education, with particular focus on student activism at the peak of the institution’s political clout. There is nothing comparable either in China or the Western World. The book is ambitious in the use of sources, while nuanced in interpreting them. In sum, it is a work of rare erudition, particularly for a young scholar.” —Richard L. Davis, National Taiwan University

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Hong Kong University Press

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988852819X

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9789888528196

Humanity and Self-cultivation

Essays in Confucian Thought

By: Wei-ming Tu,Weiming Tu

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Humanity and Self-cultivation

Essays in Confucian Thought

By: Wei-ming Tu,Weiming Tu

This first paperback edition of a renowned collection of essays by noted scholar of Chinese history and philosophy Tu Wei-ming includes a new introductory essay by Robert Cummings Neville, Dean of

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Cheng & Tsui

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0887273173

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9780887273179

Confucian Thought

Selfhood as Creative Transformation

By: Weiming Tu,Harvard-Yenching Professor of Chinese History Philosophy and Confucian Studies Tu Wei-Ming

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Confucian Thought

Selfhood as Creative Transformation

By: Weiming Tu,Harvard-Yenching Professor of Chinese History Philosophy and Confucian Studies Tu Wei-Ming

Tu Wei-ming is the foremost exponent of Confucian thought in the United States today. Over the last two decades he has been developing a creative scholarly interpretation of Confucian humanism as a living tradition. The result is a work of interpretive brilliance that revitalizes Confucian thought, making it a legitimate concern of contemporary philosophical reflections.

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0887060056

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9780887060052

Ts'ao Yu, The Reluctant Disciple of Chekhov and O'Neil

A Study in Literary Influence

By: Joseph Siu-ming Lau

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Ts'ao Yu, The Reluctant Disciple of Chekhov and O'Neil

A Study in Literary Influence

By: Joseph Siu-ming Lau

Historians of modern Chinese literature have generally used the year 1907 to mark the inception of Western-style drama in China. For in that year, a small group of Chinese students in Japan, inspired by the Japanese experiments with Western drama, decided to follow suit and form the Spring Willow Society, an amateurish dramatic club for experimental purposes. Their first play, staged in Tokyo in February of the same year, is an adaptation from Dumas' La dame aux camelias. The play had an all-male cast and used a strange mixture of old and new techniques. But to the Chinese audience brought up in the native operatic tradition, what must have seemed strange would not have been so much the mixture of technique old and new as the complete unfamiliarity of the plot and the method of its presentation: for neither the story nor the acting was anything akin to what they used to think, of as drama.

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0856560057

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Way, Learning, and Politics

Essays on the Confucian Intellectual

By: Tu Wei-ming

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Way, Learning, and Politics

Essays on the Confucian Intellectual

By: Tu Wei-ming

The emergence of New Confucian Humanism as a major intellectual and spiritual tradition in the Chinese cultural area since the Second World War is a phenomenon vitally important and intriguing to students of history, philosophy, and religion. The Confucian vision, rooted in the Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, and Japanese civilizations, has been sustained through more than two millennia of constant social change and holds special meaning for both industrial and socialist East Asia today. Indeed, as a living force defining our humanity and exploring our human potential for authentic self-realization, it addresses evolving concerns of East Asian civilizations with profound implications for the post-modernized world. This book, by a leading scholar and thinker of the New Confucian Humanism, offers a panoramic view of the core values of the Confucian intellectual from historical and comparative cultural perspectives. Grounded in sound sinological scholarship, it brilliantly interprets the Confucian project: the formation of a moral community and the embodiment of the Mandate of Heaven in ordinary human existence through authentic self-realization. In the words of the eminent Princeton sinologist, Fritz Mote, through Tu Wei-ming's thought-provoking ideas, "we are shown what has constituted the life-blood of Confucianism throughout its history, and are led to understand how it still lives. We are made to see where it resides in the world today, especially within the consciousness of modern East Asians (whether or not so identified by them) and increasingly, in the awareness of philosophers and historians of thought everywhere." Like Professor Tu's earlier book, Confucian Thought: Selfhood as Creative Transformation, this book will stir modern minds and evoke powerful responses from scholars in ethics, religion, history, and philosophy as well as those in East Asian studies.

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State University of New York Press

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1438422415

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Special Needs Education

Children with Exceptionalities

By: Kim Fong Poon-McBrayer,Ming-Gon John Lian

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Special Needs Education

Children with Exceptionalities

By: Kim Fong Poon-McBrayer,Ming-Gon John Lian

This book provides teachers and other relevant personnel with fundamental information to enhance their professional competence. Issues addressed include exceptionally and special needs education, special needs education in Hong Kong, gifted and talented learners. There are two special units of high and low incidence disabilities, and the last two chapters provide additional information regarding parents and families of special needs children, and use of technology in special needs education.

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Chinese University Press

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9629960524

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Micro-scaled Products Development via Microforming

Deformation Behaviours, Processes, Tooling and its Realization

By: Ming Wang Fu,Wai Lun Chan

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Micro-scaled Products Development via Microforming

Deformation Behaviours, Processes, Tooling and its Realization

By: Ming Wang Fu,Wai Lun Chan

‘Micro-scaled Products Development via Microforming’ presents state-of-the-art research on microforming processes, and focuses on the development of micro-scaled metallic parts via microforming processes. Microforming refers to the fabrication of microparts via micro-scaled plastic deformation and presents a promising micromanufacturing process. When compared to other micromanufacturing processes, microforming offers advantages such as high productivity and good mechanical properties of the deformed microparts. This book provides extensive and informative illustrations, tables and photos in order to convey this information clearly and directly to readers. Although the knowledge of macroforming processes is abundant and widely used in industry, microparts cannot be developed by leveraging existing knowledge of macroforming because the size effect presents a barrier to this knowledge transfer. Therefore systematic knowledge of microforming needs to be developed. In tandem with product miniaturization, the demand on microparts has been increased for their wide applications in many industries, including automotive, bio-medical, aerospace and consumer electronics industries. Micromanufacturing technologies have thus become more and more important. This book is intended for postgraduates, manufacturing engineers and professionals working in the areas of manufacturing and materials processing.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1447163265

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9781447163268

Scholar's Path, A: An Anthology Of Classical Chinese Poems And Prose Of Chen Qing Shan - A Pioneer Writer Of Malayan-singapore Literature

By: Peter Min-liang Chen,Michael Min-hwa Tan,Chiu Ming Chan

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Scholar's Path, A: An Anthology Of Classical Chinese Poems And Prose Of Chen Qing Shan - A Pioneer Writer Of Malayan-singapore Literature

By: Peter Min-liang Chen,Michael Min-hwa Tan,Chiu Ming Chan

English translation and appreciation by Peter Chen and Michael Tan Reviewed by Chan Chiu MingAn original English translation from the Chinese text:A companion edition of the book in Chinese is available — the original classical text translated into modern Chinese and profusely annotated by Associate Professor Dr Chan Chiu Ming of National Institute of Education, Singapore.

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World Scientific

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9814464392

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9789814464390

Design and Development of Metal-Forming Processes and Products Aided by Finite Element Simulation

By: Ming Wang Fu

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Design and Development of Metal-Forming Processes and Products Aided by Finite Element Simulation

By: Ming Wang Fu

This book presents state-of-the-art research on forming processes and formed metal product development aided by the Finite Element Method (FEM). Using extensive and informative illustrations, tables and photographs, it systematically presents real-life case studies and established findings regarding various forming processes and methods aided by FEM simulation, and addresses various issues related to metal formed part design, process determination, die design and die service life analysis and prolongation, as well as product quality assurance and improvement. Metal forming has been widely used in many industries. This traditional manufacturing process, however, has long been linked to many years of apprenticeship and skilled craftsmanship, and its conventional design and development paradigm appeared to involve more know-how and trial-and-error than in-depth scientific calculation, analysis and simulation. The design paradigm for forming processes and metal formed product development thus cannot meet the current demands for short development lead-times, low production costs and high product quality. With the advent of numerical simulation technologies, the design and development of forming processes and metal formed products are carried out with the aid of FEM simulation, allowing all the potential design spaces to be identified and evaluated, and the best design to ultimately be determined and implemented. Such a design and development paradigm aims at ensuring “designing right the first time” and reducing the need for trial-and-error in the workshop. This book provides postgraduates, manufacturing engineers and professionals in this field with an in-depth understanding of the design process and sufficient knowledge to support metal formed part design, forming process determination, tooling design, and product quality assurance and control via FEM simulation. “/p>

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Springer

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3319464647

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Sheet Metal Meso- and Microforming and Their Industrial Applications

By: Xin Min Lai,Ming Wang Fu,Lin Fa Peng

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Sheet Metal Meso- and Microforming and Their Industrial Applications

By: Xin Min Lai,Ming Wang Fu,Lin Fa Peng

The book presents a compilation of research on meso/microforming processes, and offers systematic and holistic knowledge for the physical realization of developed processes. It discusses practical applications in fabrication of meso/microscale metallic sheet-metal parts via sheet-metal meso/microforming. In addition, the book provides extensive and informative illustrations, tables, case studies, photos and figures to convey knowledge of sheet-metal meso/microforming for fabrication of meso/microscale sheet-metal products in an illustrated manner. Key Features • Presents complete analysis and discussion of micro sheet metal forming processes • Guides reader across the mechanics, failures, prediction of failures and tooling and prospective applications • Discusses definitions of multi-scaled metal forming, sheet-metal meso/microforming and the challenges in such domains • Includes meso/micro-scaled sheet-metal parts design from a micro-manufacturability perspective, process determination, tooling design, product quality analysis, insurance and control • Covers industrial application and examples

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CRC Press

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0429846983

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9780429846984

Urban Paleontology

Evolution of Urban Forms

By: Ming Tang,Dihua Yang

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Urban Paleontology

Evolution of Urban Forms

By: Ming Tang,Dihua Yang

More than ten years ago, when I first read Mario Gandelsonas book The Urban Context, the beautiful abstract diagrams that the book presented -the street network of Chicago- fascinated me with the profound historical and cultural background that they suggested. Without knowing how this would direct me, I started to draw something related with the street network of Beijing. That is the beginning of this book. Among tons of the diagrams that I have created, most of them have not been incorporated into this book, while they have directed me into this fascinating research area which focuses on the "mineralized skeleton," rather than the "soft tissue" of urban forms. It was not until the recent five years when Yang and I came across some theories and approaches in paleontology that we started to integrate them into the street network study in Beijing and Savannah. Paleontology methods lay the foundation and provide a systematic and scientific platform for our research. Then urban paleontology, as a new framework for urban form study, unfolds itself more and more apparently in front of us. It explores the evolution of "urban species" based on their remains- "urban fossils," which describe distinct urban forms with imprints of their street networks. Just as how a biological fossil serves as a factual documentation of certain life forms, an urban fossil provides clues of the existence and transformation of urban forms. The study of urban paleontology inevitably directs us to further exploration in the fields of biology, anatomy, archeology, geology, and the application of computer aided design in the excavation of urban sites. Upon finishing this book, we realize that our work is too inadequate to possibly incorporate all the influence that other disciplines may have on architecture and urban design. What it has suggested is that architecture presents such a wide array of connections with other disciplines and becomes more and more towards an interdisciplinary study. We hope this book has illustrated the diversity of problems that invite further study and can serve as a start point for architects to conceive the total spectrum. -Ming Tang

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Universal-Publishers

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1599429497

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9781599429496

On Metaphoring

Acultural Hermeneutic

By: Kuang-Ming Wu

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On Metaphoring

Acultural Hermeneutic

By: Kuang-Ming Wu

Metaphor familiarizes things strange with things familiar to enrich old things with things newly made familiar. Thus metaphor is an effective intercultural highway without shared thinking-way, for each culture is a specific thinking-way. This volume shows such intercultural communication.

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BRILL

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9004123024

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9789004123021

Ten States, Five Dynasties, One Great Emperor

How Emperor Taizu Unified China in the Song Dynasty

By: Hung Hing Ming

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Ten States, Five Dynasties, One Great Emperor

How Emperor Taizu Unified China in the Song Dynasty

By: Hung Hing Ming

Drawn from Chinese classics of history, Hung Hing Ming's biographies introduce China's most emblematic historical figures and the cultural attributes fostered by China's ancient chronicles. This book is about one of the greatest emperors in Chinese history, Zhao Kuang Yin, founder of the Song Dynasty (960–1279). He is honored for having unified China in the extremely chaotic period of 'Five Dynasties and Ten States'. This enjoyable book introduces more of China's heroes and villains, highlighting a modest man yet a great emperor who brought peace and stability to the realm and saved the people from great suffering. Interwoven into the narrative of battles fought and alliances forged or flouted, we find examples of good leadership and bad, hot-headed fighters and disciplined warriors, and lessons on how to assess — and win — people's loyalty.

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Algora Publishing

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1628940727

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9781628940725

Dictionary of Ming Biography, 1368-1644

By: Association for Asian Studies. Ming Biographical History Project Committee,Luther Carrington Goodrich

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Dictionary of Ming Biography, 1368-1644

By: Association for Asian Studies. Ming Biographical History Project Committee,Luther Carrington Goodrich

Based largely upon original Ming documents, the Dictionary explores the lives of nearly 650 representative figures, both Chinese and foreign, who influenced the course of almost three hundred years of Chinese history. The articles span all classes, professions, and fields of endeavor, from emperors to artists, soldiers to missionaries, concubines, physicians, and pirates.

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Columbia University Press

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023103833X

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9780231038331

Conditions of Comparison

Reflections on Comparative Intercultural Inquiry

By: Ming Xie

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Conditions of Comparison

Reflections on Comparative Intercultural Inquiry

By: Ming Xie

How do we know the other culture? How do such inquiries impact on our knowledge of our own culture? These questions lie at the heart of comparative intercultural studies. As a theoretical inquiry into how conceptual resources of cultures (such as explicit and implicit categories of thought) may pre-figure our perspectives, this book re-conceives and reorients comparative intercultural inquiry by arguing for the importance of an epistemological approach and for its potential to transform current critical paradigms, in contrast to approaches that emphasize primarily the political and the ethical. By critically engaging with and developing the insights of scholars and thinkers from both Anglo-American and Continental traditions, the book makes a significant meta-critical contribution to a rethinking of comparative intercultural studies and literary theory. It will be of interest to students and scholars in comparative literature, English, world literature, and global and translation studies.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1441106995

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9781441106995

Historical Dictionary of Taiwan Cinema

By: Daw-Ming Lee

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Historical Dictionary of Taiwan Cinema

By: Daw-Ming Lee

Taiwan was able to solidly build and sustain a film industry only after locally-produced Mandarin films secured markets in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia during the 1960s and 1970s. Though only a small island with a limited population, in its heyday, Taiwan was among the top-10 film producing countries/areas in the world, turning out hundreds of martial arts kung fu films and romantic melodramas annually that were screened in theaters across Southeast Asia and other areas internationally. However, except for one acclaimed film by director King Hu, Taiwan cinema was nearly invisible on the art cinema map until the 1980s, when the films of Hou Hsiao-hsien, Edward Yang, and other Taiwan New Cinema directors gained recognition at international film festivals, first in Europe, and later, throughout the world. Since then, many other Taiwan directors have also become an important part of cinema history, such as Ang Lee and Tsai Ming-liang. The Historical Dictionary of Taiwan Cinema covers the history of cinema in Taiwan during both the Japanese colonial period (1895-1945) and the Chinese Nationalist period (1945-present). This is accomplished through a chronology highlighting the main events during the long period and an introduction which carefully analyses the progression. The bulk of the information, however, appears in a dictionary section including over a hundred very extensive entries on directors, producers, performers, films, film studios and genres. Photos are also included in the dictionary section. More information can be found through the bibliography. Taiwan cinema is truly unique and this book is a good place to find out more about it, whether you are a student, or teacher, or just a fan.

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Scarecrow Press

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0810879220

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9780810879225

The Lunar Tao

Meditations in Harmony with the Seasons

By: Ming-Dao Deng

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The Lunar Tao

Meditations in Harmony with the Seasons

By: Ming-Dao Deng

From Taosim expert Ming-Dao Deng comes The Lunar Tao: Meditations in Harmony with the Seasons, bringing to life the Chinese Lunar Calendar via the prism of Taoism. In The Lunar Tao, each day of the Lunar year is represented with a reading meditation, beautiful Chinese illustrations, and interesting facts about the festivals and traditions, providing readers with the context that gives Taoism such depth and resonance. Ming-Dao Deng, the bestselling author of 365 Tao: Daily Meditations, shows how to bring the tenets of Taoism into everyday life.

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Harper Collins

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0062205919

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9780062205919

Disclosing Colon Cancer Missed by Complete Colonoscopy

By: Yuk-Ming (Mark) Lui

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Disclosing Colon Cancer Missed by Complete Colonoscopy

By: Yuk-Ming (Mark) Lui

This book is dedicated to patients living with or dying from colon cancer despite negative complete colonoscopy; also, what to advise your relatives and friends to avert this cancer completely or almost completely. The subsequent chapters touch on several other topics. Fingers, doubts, and questions can be sent to 3quarks4lui@gmail.com. All of the proceeds of the author will be donated to Lung Cancer Canada; defeating lung cancer is beyond his ability.

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FriesenPress

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1460201736

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9781460201732

Working Class Formation in Taiwan

Fractured Solidarity in State-Owned Enterprises, 1945-2012

By: Ming-sho Ho

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Working Class Formation in Taiwan

Fractured Solidarity in State-Owned Enterprises, 1945-2012

By: Ming-sho Ho

This book offers a fresh look at Taiwan's state workers in from the postwar period to the present day and examines the rise and fall of labor insurgency in the past two decades. Challenging the conventional image of docile working class, it unearths a series of workers resistance, hidden and public, in a high authoritarian era.

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