Using Chinese Synonyms is an essential reference book, specifically designed for non-native speakers of Chinese, and for teachers and other language professionals who want a user-friendly guide to the finer nuances of Chinese synonyms. It contains approximately 1700 synonyms in 316 groups. With the particular needs of non-native speakers of Chinese in mind, this invaluable book selects and explains words and phrases in everyday use, allowing students to enhance their knowledge of one of the most important and widely-spoken languages in the world. This book assists in the development of fluent, spontaneous and skilful use of Chinese synonyms.
Six Short Chapters on Automorphic Forms and L-functions" treats the period conjectures of Shimura and the moment conjecture. These conjectures are of central importance in contemporary number theory, but have hitherto remained little discussed in expository form. The book is divided into six short and relatively independent chapters, each with its own theme, and presents a motivated and lively account of the main topics, providing professionals an overall view of the conjectures and providing researchers intending to specialize in the area a guide to the relevant literature. Ze-Li Dou and Qiao Zhang are both associate professors of Mathematics at Texas Christian University, USA.
This book investigates request strategies in Mandarin Chinese and Korean, and is one of the first attempts to address cross-cultural strategies employed in the speech act of requests in two non-Western languages. The data, drawn from role-plays and naturally recorded conversations, complement each other in terms of exhaustiveness and authenticity. This study explores the similarities and differences of the request patterns that emerged in the Chinese and Korean data, and the intricate relation between request strategies and social factors (such as power and distance). The findings raise questions about the influence of methodology on data, and the applicability of so called universals to East Asian languages. They also offer new insights into generally held ideas of directness and requesting behaviours in Chinese and Korean, and the problems of cross-cultural and cross-linguistic communication.This research is suggestive for the disciplines of cross-cultural pragmatics, cross-cultural communication, contrastive linguistics, applied linguistics and discourse analysis.
She was a top assassin in the 21st century! It was the trash, the Third Young Miss, that the people of Zi Yue despised! He was the master of the Blood Underworld. He was incomparably handsome, talented, cold, domineering, and incomparable to a woman! Everyone in the world had insulted her as a worthless trash. He was the only one who had seen through everything. He treated her like a priceless treasure that he would never abandon! She also vowed to take his hand and experience the world! And let's see how they will step up to the peak of the world step by step and look down on the whole world! A certain woman with a head full of black lines looked behind her, eagerly chasing after her. A certain man with a face full of smiles, the corner of his mouth twitched! Are you sure this is the Lord of Blood Underworld? What about the callousness they said? What happened to not being close to a woman?
This book highlights recent advances in novel optical fiber sensing technology and systems, using distributed fiber sensing technology based on chaotic lasers. Upon introducing the basic theory of chaotic laser, a novel light source, the book summarizes new frontier technologies, and presents photonic integration and sensing applications. The book elaborates on new technologies of distributed optical fiber sensors and its engineering applications, as well as narrow-linewidth fiber laser for optical fiber sensing. This book is of great reference for researchers and professionals in the area of optics and optoelectronics.
Electrolytes for Electrochemical Supercapacitors provides a state-of-the-art overview of the research and development of novel electrolytes and electrolyte configurations and systems to increase the energy density of electrochemical supercapacitors. Comprised of chapters written by leading international scientists active in supercapacitor research
She was immortal and did not die of old age. She used a knife in her hand to unravel all the mysteries around her. He, the current prince, calmly played chess with every move he made. A broken piece of jade pushed the two unrelated people together. She gave up love and wanted nothing more than to find a way to live. Facing each other day and night, a deep love, hand in hand and retreat, cutting through thorns and thorns. Power conspiracy, mystery, who was the most important person!
She was immortal and did not die of old age. She used a knife in her hand to unravel all the mysteries around her. He, the current prince, calmly played chess with every move he made. A broken piece of jade pushed the two unrelated people together. She gave up love and wanted nothing more than to find a way to live. Facing each other day and night, a deep love, hand in hand and retreat, cutting through thorns and thorns. Power conspiracy, mystery, who was the most important person!
Three years ago, a calamity had descended upon South Stream City, and she had become a true god of pests. Everyone had to avoid her.Three years later, in order to achieve her goal, she resolutely took the initiative to express her goodwill towards the rich and powerful, and unintentionally climbed up the ranks of the Bai Empire's wealthiest, Master Bai.From then on, no one dared to say no to Nanxi who ran amok in Qingcheng!"Third Master, Young Mistress beat up the daughter of the richest man in Qingcheng and broke three of her ribs.""Call that rich guy over here, I want to talk to him.""Lord Third," said Meng Hao, his voice cool. "The Young Lady went to business, and lost a hundred million.""Give her another billion!"Afterwards, the man at the apex of South Stream had returned.They had agreed to make use of each other. He had helped her find her fiance while she had helped him find her child's mother. However ...
Three years ago, a calamity had descended upon South Stream City, and she had become a true god of pests. Everyone had to avoid her.Three years later, in order to achieve her goal, she resolutely took the initiative to express her goodwill towards the rich and powerful, and unintentionally climbed up the ranks of the Bai Empire's wealthiest, Master Bai.From then on, no one dared to say no to Nanxi who ran amok in Qingcheng!"Third Master, Young Mistress beat up the daughter of the richest man in Qingcheng and broke three of her ribs.""Call that rich guy over here, I want to talk to him.""Lord Third," said Meng Hao, his voice cool. "The Young Lady went to business, and lost a hundred million.""Give her another billion!"Afterwards, the man at the apex of South Stream had returned.They had agreed to make use of each other. He had helped her find her fiance while she had helped him find her child's mother. However ...
Three years ago, a calamity had descended upon South Stream City, and she had become a true god of pests. Everyone had to avoid her.Three years later, in order to achieve her goal, she resolutely took the initiative to express her goodwill towards the rich and powerful, and unintentionally climbed up the ranks of the Bai Empire's wealthiest, Master Bai.From then on, no one dared to say no to Nanxi who ran amok in Qingcheng!"Third Master, Young Mistress beat up the daughter of the richest man in Qingcheng and broke three of her ribs.""Call that rich guy over here, I want to talk to him.""Lord Third," said Meng Hao, his voice cool. "The Young Lady went to business, and lost a hundred million.""Give her another billion!"Afterwards, the man at the apex of South Stream had returned.They had agreed to make use of each other. He had helped her find her fiance while she had helped him find her child's mother. However ...
She was immortal and did not die of old age. She used a knife in her hand to unravel all the mysteries around her. He, the current prince, calmly played chess with every move he made. A broken piece of jade pushed the two unrelated people together. She gave up love and wanted nothing more than to find a way to live. Facing each other day and night, a deep love, hand in hand and retreat, cutting through thorns and thorns. Power conspiracy, mystery, who was the most important person!
A monarch is usually born, a member of parliament or a president is usually elected, but a regional leader in China is usually orchestrated to replace his or her predecessor through an opaque process and for reasons not normally made public. The professional trajectories of Chinese regional leaders are mysterious in many ways. Their promotions and demotions can be "predictable" in terms of their age, gender, nationality, education, factions, and previous engagements in the political system. Yet, speaking of their capability, performance, opportunities and arrangements, their future can also be "unexpected". Such arrangements are always originated from the Organization (zuzhi) which represents the Chinese Communist Party. What are the factors the organization considers in order to make its final decisions on nominating and appointing a regional leader? Today’s regional leaders of China will very likely become the central leaders of China in the future. By making an empirical analysis of Chinese regional leaders’ political mobility, Qiao establishes a descriptive political mobility model that reveals leadership trajectories in Chinese politics.
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