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Schism

Seventh-day Adventism in Post-Denominational China

By: Christie Chui-Shan Chow

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Schism

Seventh-day Adventism in Post-Denominational China

By: Christie Chui-Shan Chow

Schism is the first ethnographic and historical study of Seventh-day Adventism in China. Scholars have been slow to consider Chinese Protestantism from a denominational standpoint. In Schism, the first monograph that documents the life of the Chinese Adventist denomination from the mid-1970s to the 2010s, Christie Chui-Shan Chow explores how Chinese Seventh-day Adventists have used schism as a tool to retain, revive, and recast their unique ecclesial identity in a religious habitat that resists diversity. Based on unpublished archival materials, fieldwork, oral history, and social media research, Chow demonstrates how Chinese Adventists adhere to their denominational character both by recasting the theologies and faith practices that they inherited from American missionaries in the early twentieth century and by engaging with local politics and culture. This book locates the Adventist movement in broader Chinese sociopolitical and religious contexts and explores the multiple agents at work in the movement, including intrachurch divisions among Adventist believers, growing encounters between local and overseas Adventists, and the denomination’s ongoing interactions with local Chinese authorities and other Protestants. The Adventist schisms show that global Adventist theology and practices continue to inform their engagement with sociopolitical transformations and changes in China today. Schism will compel scholars to reassess the existing interpretations of the history of Protestant Christianity in China during the Maoist years and the more recent developments during the Reform era. It will interest scholars and students of Chinese history and religion, global Christianity, American religion, and Seventh-day Adventism.

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434

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University of Notre Dame Pess

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0268200548

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9780268200541

Great Demon Sovereign

Volume 3

By: Qing Shan

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Great Demon Sovereign

Volume 3

By: Qing Shan

The young genius Chen Feng had been reduced to being a cripple, suffering humiliation and rolling his eyes. He had obtained the mysterious pagoda, cultivated the unparalleled mystical arts, and from then on started his counterattack. All sorts of beauties fell for him, and all the masters feared him because he was the High Lord of this world.

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491

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Funstory

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1647574145

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9781647574147

Don't Provoke the Sweet Rural Wife

Book 2

By: Shan ZhuQing

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Don't Provoke the Sweet Rural Wife

Book 2

By: Shan ZhuQing

She was a monster that the villagers despised.He was the sickly young master who couldn't live past the age of nineteen. When the two of them met, she became the medicine that he would never be able to leave in his lifetime. "My wife, someone is bullying me again." Luo Yi Xiao said while clutching his chest. Chen Fuyue's eyes slightly widened as she coldly swept her gaze, "Who dares!?" No one dares, no one dares.

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404

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Funstory

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1649488165

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9781649488169

Girl Next Door Grows Up

Volume 1

By: Shan Dongxiaohui

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Girl Next Door Grows Up

Volume 1

By: Shan Dongxiaohui

The beauty next door tried her best to help me, but I pushed her into a pit of fire ...

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749

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Funstory

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1648468373

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9781648468377

Picturing the True Form

Daoist Visual Culture in Traditional China

By: Shih-shan Susan Huang

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Picturing the True Form

Daoist Visual Culture in Traditional China

By: Shih-shan Susan Huang

Picturing the True Form investigates the long-neglected visual culture of Daoism, China’s primary indigenous religion, from the tenth through thirteenth centuries with references to both earlier and later times. In this richly illustrated book, Shih-shan Susan Huang provides a comprehensive mapping of Daoist images in various media, including Dunhuang manuscripts, funerary artifacts, and paintings, as well as other charts, illustrations, and talismans preserved in the fifteenth-century Daoist Canon. True form (zhenxing), the key concept behind Daoist visuality, is not static, but entails an active journey of seeing underlying and secret phenomena.This book’s structure mirrors the two-part Daoist journey from inner to outer. Part I focuses on inner images associated with meditation and visualization practices for self-cultivation and longevity. Part II investigates the visual and material dimensions of Daoist ritual. Interwoven through these discussions is the idea that the inner and outer mirror each other and the boundary demarcating the two is fluid. Huang also reveals three central modes of Daoist symbolism—aniconic, immaterial, and ephemeral—and shows how Daoist image-making goes beyond the traditional dichotomy of text and image to incorporate writings in image design. It is these particular features that distinguish Daoist visual culture from its Buddhist counterpart.

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533

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BRILL

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168417516X

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9781684175161

Perpetual Happiness

The Ming Emperor Yongle

By: Shih-shan Henry Tsai

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Perpetual Happiness

The Ming Emperor Yongle

By: Shih-shan Henry Tsai

The reign of Emperor Yongle, or “Perpetual Happiness,” was one of the most dramatic and significant in Chinese history. It began with civil war and a bloody coup, saw the construction of the Forbidden City, the completion of the Grand Canal, consolidation of the imperial bureaucracy, and expansion of China’s territory into Mongolia, Manchuria, and Vietnam. Beginning with an hour-by-hour account of one day in Yongle’s court, Shih-shan Henry Tsai presents the multiple dimensions of the life of Yongle (Zhu Di, 1360-1424) in fascinating detail. Tsai examines the role of birth, education, and tradition in molding the emperor’s personality and values, and paints a rich portrait of a man characterized by stark contrasts. Synthesizing primary and secondary source materials, he has crafted a colorful biography of the most renowned of the Ming emperors.

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295

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University of Washington Press

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0295800224

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9780295800226

Provoke Beauties, So Troublesome

Volume 1

By: Shan Dongxiaohui

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Provoke Beauties, So Troublesome

Volume 1

By: Shan Dongxiaohui

Tieba live broadcast: There's a subject posted online. She sent me those photos and voice messages in the middle of the night. I had a girlfriend online. The first time we met, I forcefully hugged her and took advantage of her. A few passersby stared at me and I glared at them. "What are you guys looking at? Have you never seen someone so shameless?" Cherish my youth, walk my path, and use your sword to make me king! — — Lin Feng

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742

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Funstory

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1647815460

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9781647815462

Reconsidering Tu Fu

Literary Greatness and Cultural Context

By: Eva Shan Chou

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Reconsidering Tu Fu

Literary Greatness and Cultural Context

By: Eva Shan Chou

This work studies one of China's greatest poets, Tu Fu, as both cultural icon and literary genius.

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252

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Cambridge University Press

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0521028280

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9780521028288

My Charming Planning Manager

Volume 1

By: Shan Jianqingqiuyue

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My Charming Planning Manager

Volume 1

By: Shan Jianqingqiuyue

In Xia Xin's eyes, Si Zhaonan had always been a righteous man. It was only after many years that she found out that she had fallen into his trap. If she wanted to leave, it would be impossible.Smoke billowing up and down the shopping mallUndercurrent rivalryIn the middle of the sea of peopleShe met himIt was fate, but it was also fate.

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870

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Funstory

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1647812364

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9781647812362

Li Dazhao

China's First Communist

By: Patrick Fuliang Shan

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Li Dazhao

China's First Communist

By: Patrick Fuliang Shan

As one of the founders of the Chinese Communist Party, Li Dazhao (1889–1927) was a key figure in China's transition from empire to republic, from tradition to modernity, and from imperial rule to turbulent revolution. Patrick Fuliang Shan's biography of Li, the first English-language study in over half a century, draws on a wealth of Chinese-language primary and secondary sources to examine Li's early life, family, education, and career; his endeavors to introduce Western civilization to the Chinese; his switch to communism and his leadership role in the early Communist movement; his political maneuvers and revolutionary activities; and his tragic death at the hands of the warlord Zhang Zuolin. While its focus is on Li's personal odyssey and extraordinary journey, the book also presents an in-depth analysis of China's broad national experience and its march towards modernity.

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384

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State University of New York Press

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143849680X

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9781438496801

The Eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty

By: Shih-shan Henry Tsai

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The Eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty

By: Shih-shan Henry Tsai

This book is the first on Chinese eunuchs in English and presents a comprehensive picture of the role that they played in the Ming dynasty, 1368-1644. Extracted from a wide range of primary and secondary source material, the author provides significant and interesting information about court politics, espionage and internal security, military and foreign affairs, tax and tribute collection, the operation of imperial monopolies, judiciary review, the layout of the palace complex, the Grand Canal, and much more. The eunuchs are shown to be not just a minor adjunct to a government of civil servants and military officers, but a fully developed third branch of the Ming administration that participated in all of the most essential matters of the dynasty. The veil of condemnation and jealousy imposed on eunuchs by the compilers of official history is pulled away to reveal a richly textured tapestry. Eunuchs are portrayed in a balanced manner that gives due consideration to able and faithful service along with the inept, the lurid, and the iniquitous.

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306

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SUNY Press

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0791426874

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9780791426876

Out of the Gobi

My Story of China and America

By: Weijian Shan

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Out of the Gobi

My Story of China and America

By: Weijian Shan

Foreword by Janet Yellen Weijian Shan's Out of the Gobi is a powerful memoir and commentary that will be one of the most important books on China of our time, one with the potential to re-shape how Americans view China, and how the Chinese view life in America. Shan, a former hard laborer who is now one of Asia's best-known financiers, is thoughtful, observant, eloquent, and brutally honest, making him well-positioned to tell the story of a life that is a microcosm of modern China, and of how, improbably, that life became intertwined with America. Out of the Gobi draws a vivid picture of the raw human energy and the will to succeed against all odds. Shan only finished elementary school when Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution tore his country apart. He was a witness to the brutality and absurdity of Mao's policies during one of the most tumultuous eras in China's history. Exiled to the Gobi Desert at age 15 and denied schooling for 10 years, he endured untold hardships without ever giving up his dream for an education. Shan's improbable journey, from the Gobi to the "People's Republic of Berkeley" and far beyond, is a uniquely American success story – told with a splash of humor, deep insight and rich and engaging detail. This powerful and personal perspective on China and America will inform Americans' view of China, humanizing the country, while providing a rare view of America from the prism of a keen foreign observer who lived the American dream. Says former Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen: "Shan's life provides a demonstration of what is possible when China and the United States come together, even by happenstance. It is not only Shan's personal history that makes this book so interesting but also how the stories of China and America merge in just one moment in time to create an inspired individual so unique and driven, and so representative of the true sprits of both countries.

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390

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119529557

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9781119529552

Operational Thermoluminescence Dosimetry

By: Claudio Furetta,Pao-Shan Weng

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Operational Thermoluminescence Dosimetry

By: Claudio Furetta,Pao-Shan Weng

This book provides a comprehensive description of a dosimetric technique called thermoluminescence dosimetry. There are hundreds of scientific papers on thermoluminescence and its applications, but none deal with the "handling" of the technique, except for some official documents regarding procedural tests which are now not easily found. For this reason the authors have written this book with the aim of describing in detail how to use this dosimetric method. This volume is a valuable guide not only on the proper handling of the TL dozemeters but also on the results obtained by their use. The book consists of nine chapters. The first three chapters cover the theory of thermoluminescence and the experimental methods used to evaluate the kinetics parameters. The next three chapters describe the practical aspects of setting up a thermoluminescent dosimetric system, specifically suggesting the procedures to be used in handling the TL dosimeters as well as all the related instrumentation. The algorithm correlating the TL emission to the radiation dosage is provided and explained. The precision and accuracy of the TL measurements are also discussed. The last three chapters are devoted to: (i) the practical procedure used in some specific application fields, (ii) a discussion about the lower limit of detection and (iii) the TL instrumentation. Several practical illustrative examples are given throughout the text. The book is intended for students and researchers learning new techniques and those working in the area of radiation dosimetry with a specific interest in the TL technique.

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270

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World Scientific

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9810234686

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9789810234683

The Dynamic Spread of Buddhist Print Culture

Mapping Buddhist Book Roads in China and Its Neighbors

By: Shih-shan Susan Huang

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The Dynamic Spread of Buddhist Print Culture

Mapping Buddhist Book Roads in China and Its Neighbors

By: Shih-shan Susan Huang

This comprehensive study explores the dynamic spread of Buddhist print culture in China and its Asian neighbors. It examines a vast selection of Buddhist printed images and texts, not merely as static cultural relics, but holistically within multicultural contexts related to other cultural products, and as objects on the move, transmitted across a sprawling web of transnational networks, “Buddhist Book Roads”. The author applies interdisciplinary and network approaches developed in art history, religious studies, digital humanities, and the history of the print and book culture to shed new light on Buddhist print culture from visual, textual, social, and religious perspectives.

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9004700013

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9789004700017

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Schism

Schism

Great Demon Sovereign

Great Demon Sovereign

Don't Provoke the Sweet Rural Wife

Don't Provoke the Sweet Rural Wife

Girl Next Door Grows Up

Girl Next Door Grows Up

Picturing the True Form

Picturing the True Form

Perpetual Happiness

Perpetual Happiness

Provoke Beauties, So Troublesome

Provoke Beauties, So Troublesome

Reconsidering Tu Fu

Reconsidering Tu Fu

My Charming Planning Manager

My Charming Planning Manager

Li Dazhao

Li Dazhao

The Eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty

The Eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty

Out of the Gobi

Out of the Gobi

Operational Thermoluminescence Dosimetry

Operational Thermoluminescence Dosimetry

The Dynamic Spread of Buddhist Print Culture

The Dynamic Spread of Buddhist Print Culture

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