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Chinese Perceptions of the Jews' and Judaism

A History of the Youtai

By: Zhou Xun,Xun Zhou

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Chinese Perceptions of the Jews' and Judaism

A History of the Youtai

By: Zhou Xun,Xun Zhou

While prejudice against Jews is a real and ongoing category in Western culture, little attention has been paid to the myths of the Jews' and their impact in countries outside the West. This work draws on a wide variety of source materials from the past two centuries to examine the images of the Jews' as constructed in China. However, the interest here does not lie in the determination of the boundary between the real and fictional aspects of these images. Rather, it lies in the implications associated with the Jew' as an other', which remains a distant mirror in the construction of the self' amongst various social groups in modern China. Although it has been noted by a few scholars that the use of the Jews' as a category was important to many thinkers of modern China in the construction of their nationalistic and socio- political ideologies, this is the first systematic study in the field to be published. This book is also more than a historical book on China in that it opens a new arena for modern Jewish studies from a unique angle.

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Routledge

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1136835164

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9781136835162

Devil CEO's Fierce Love

Volume 3

By: Qian Xun

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Devil CEO's Fierce Love

Volume 3

By: Qian Xun

Mr. Lin Wen had been married for almost two years, but his husband had never touched her. She could only silently endure her husband's indifference, her mother-in-law's difficulties, and Little San's sudden entrance into the inner circle. On her wedding anniversary, her husband finally turned around to spend the night in a luxury hotel with her. But when she woke up, she was horrified to find that the one sleeping beside her wasn't her husband, but an extraordinarily handsome and evil stranger! Since then, her world had been turned upside down. That man forcefully threatened, "From today onwards, you are my, Mu Si Zhe's, lover. You must be here whenever you are called!" "Let me go, I'm a married woman!" "You have already left this young master's mark, don't even think of escaping from me!" ... ....

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Funstory

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1649207743

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9781649207746

Supreme Royal Family

Volume 2

By: Xia Xun

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Supreme Royal Family

Volume 2

By: Xia Xun

500 years later, the human technology has already developed the Milky Way to its most perfect state, and in this beautiful and spacious galaxy, there is a beautiful blue-water planet with its own beautiful halo. In the outer layer of this beautiful planet, a huge ZHN-7 spaceship is already prepared to depart.

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1649485174

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9781649485175

Narcotic Culture

A History of Drugs in China

By: Frank Dikötter,Lars Laamann,Zhou Xun

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Narcotic Culture

A History of Drugs in China

By: Frank Dikötter,Lars Laamann,Zhou Xun

To this day, the perception persists that China was a civilization defeated by imperialist Britain's most desirable trade commodity, opium—a drug that turned the Chinese into cadaverous addicts in the iron grip of dependence. Britain, in an effort to reverse the damage caused by opium addiction, launched its own version of the "war on drugs," which lasted roughly sixty years, from 1880 to World War II and the beginning of Chinese communism. But, as Narcotic Culture brilliantly shows, the real scandal in Chinese history was not the expansion of the drug trade by Britain in the early nineteenth century, but rather the failure of the British to grasp the consequences of prohibition. In a stunning historical reversal, Frank Dikötter, Lars Laamann, and Zhou Xun tell this different story of the relationship between opium and the Chinese. They reveal that opium actually had few harmful effects on either health or longevity; in fact, it was prepared and appreciated in highly complex rituals with inbuilt constraints preventing excessive use. Opium was even used as a medicinal panacea in China before the availability of aspirin and penicillin. But as a result of the British effort to eradicate opium, the Chinese turned from the relatively benign use of that drug to heroin, morphine, cocaine, and countless other psychoactive substances. Narcotic Culture provides abundant evidence that the transition from a tolerated opium culture to a system of prohibition produced a "cure" that was far worse than the disease. Delving into a history of drugs and their abuses, Narcotic Culture is part revisionist history of imperial and twentieth-century Britain and part sobering portrait of the dangers of prohibition.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226149056

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9780226149059

The People's Health

Health Intervention and Delivery in Mao's China 1949-1983

By: Xun Zhou

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The People's Health

Health Intervention and Delivery in Mao's China 1949-1983

By: Xun Zhou

In 1949, the Communist Party of China pledged that its approach to health care would differ markedly from that of the former Nationalist government and the "imperialist" West. For the next thirty years, under Mao's leadership, the People's Republic of China made improving the health of the entire population a central pillar of its policy. International health stakeholders came to view it as a statistical outlier in its ability to achieve better health outcomes with limited resources. The People's Health is the first systematic study of health care and medicine in Maoist China. Drawing on hundreds of files from rarely seen party archives and oral testimonies from experts, local cadres, and villagers across China, Zhou Xun shifts her historian's gaze away from official statistics towards the records of local institutions and personal memories that reflect and give voice to lived experiences. Through the everyday interactions of policy makers, national and local administration, and communities, Zhou illustrates the dynamic relationship between politics and health, and between individual lives and the political system. Presenting case studies of internationally acclaimed public health initiatives in the PRC - the anti-schistosomiasis campaign and the Barefoot Doctor program - this book offers the first thorough, politically neutral analysis of their background, execution, and national and international repercussions. Opening a unique window into the lives - and health care - of individuals living under communism, The People's Health examines the links between local interest, cultural sensibilities, resources, and abilities, exploring the often unforeseeable consequences of political planning and social engineering.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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022800327X

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9780228003274

Proceedings of the 15th International Symposium on Bioluminescence and Chemiluminescence

Light Emission : Biology and Scientific Applications

By: Xun Shen

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Proceedings of the 15th International Symposium on Bioluminescence and Chemiluminescence

Light Emission : Biology and Scientific Applications

By: Xun Shen

In the last decade, great advances have been made in fundamental research and in the applications of bioluminescence and chemiluminescence. These techniques have become vital tools for laboratory analysis. Bioluminescence imaging has emerged as a powerful new optical imaging technique, offering real-time monitoring of spatial and temporal progression of biological processes in living animals. Bioluminescence resonance energy transfer (BRET) methodology has also emerged as a powerful technique for the study of protein-protein interactions. Luciferase reporter gene technology facilitates monitoring of gene expression and is used to probe molecular mechanisms in the regulation of gene expression. Chemiluminescence detection and analysis have also found diverse applications in life science research; for example, chemiluminescent labels and substrates are now widely used in immunoassay and nucleic acid probe-based assays. The latest advances in this exciting field, from fundamental research to cutting-edge applications, are explored in this most recent volume of the biannual symposium series, the Proceedings of the 15th International Symposium on Bioluminescence and Chemiluminescence. The volume highlights advances in fundamental knowledge of luciferase-based bioluminescence, photoprotein-based bioluminescence, fundamental aspects and applications of chemiluminescence, luminescence imaging, fluorescence quantum dots and other inorganic fluorescent materials, phosphorescence and ultraweak luminescence, and instrumentation for measurement and imaging of luminescence.

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World Scientific

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9812839585

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9789812839589

Daoist Modern

Innovation, Lay Practice, and the Community of Inner Alchemy in Republican Shanghai

By: Xun Liu

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Daoist Modern

Innovation, Lay Practice, and the Community of Inner Alchemy in Republican Shanghai

By: Xun Liu

This book explores the Daoist encounter with modernity through the activities of Chen Yingning (1880–1969), a famous lay Daoist master, and his group in early twentieth-century Shanghai. In contrast to the usual narrative of Daoist decay, with its focus on monastic decline, clerical corruption, and popular superstitions, this study tells a story of Daoist resilience, reinvigoration, and revival. Between the 1920s and 1940s, Chen led a group of urban lay followers in pursuing Daoist self-cultivation techniques as a way of ensuring health, promoting spirituality, forging cultural self-identity, building community, and strengthening the nation. In their efforts to renew and reform Daoism, Chen and his followers became deeply engaged with nationalism, science, the religious reform movements, the new urban print culture, and other forces of modernity. Since Chen and his fellow practitioners conceived of the Daoist self-cultivation tradition as a public resource, they also transformed it from an “esoteric” pursuit into a public practice, offering a modernizing society a means of managing the body and the mind and of forging a new cultural, spiritual, and religious identity.

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BRILL

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1684174864

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9781684174867

Mafic-ultramafic Intrusions in Beishan and Eastern Tianshan at Southern CAOB: Petrogenesis, Mineralization and Tectonic Implication

By: Ben-Xun Su

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Mafic-ultramafic Intrusions in Beishan and Eastern Tianshan at Southern CAOB: Petrogenesis, Mineralization and Tectonic Implication

By: Ben-Xun Su

The widespread mafic-ultramafic complexes in the Earth are well-known as their hosting Ni-Cu-PGE ore deposits, and their petrogenesis and mineralization have become hot issues in the geological studies. This thesis comprehensively investigated the petrology, mineralogy, geochemistry and geochronology of several mafic-ultramafic complexes in the Beishan Terrane, southern Central Asian Orogenic Belt aimed at systematically determining the mineralization and petrogenetic processes responsible for the formation of the complexes and placing constraints on the tectonic evolution of the Eastern Tianshan and Beishan, and the Early Permian mantle plume. The thesis identified mineralizing indicators of Ni-Cu sulfide deposits and defined the roles of partial melting, fractional crystallization, crustal assimilation and magma injection. The systematical isotopic compositions revealed the mantle source of the mafic-ultramafic complexes had undergone the subduction-related modifications both from the South Tianshan Ocean and subsequently the Junggar Ocean, and that the complexes were emplaced in the period of 269-285 Ma coeval with the 280 Ma mantle plume event in the Tarim Craton. The results of this thesis provide new insights about the tectonic setting, magma evolution, ore genesis, and exploration implications of the mafic-ultramafic complexes in Central Asian Orogenic Belt. Dr. Benxun Su works at the Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.

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Springer

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364254262X

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The Great Famine in China, 1958-1962

A Documentary History

By: Xun Zhou

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The Great Famine in China, 1958-1962

A Documentary History

By: Xun Zhou

Beginning soon after the implementation of the policies of the Great Leap Forward of 1958-1961, when the drive to collectivize and industrialize undermined the livelihoods of the vast majority of peasant workers, China’s Great Famine was the worst famine in human history. In addition to claiming more than 45 million lives, it also led to the destruction of agriculture, industry, trade, and every aspect of human life, leaving large parts of the Chinese countryside scarred forever by human-created environmental disasters. Drawing on previously closed archives that have since been made inaccessible again, Zhou Xun offers readers, for the first time in English, access to the most vital archival documentation of the famine. For some time to come this documentary history may be the only publication available that contains the most crucial primary documents concerning the fate of the Chinese peasantry between 1957 and 1962. It covers everything from collectivization and survival strategies, including cannibalism, to selective killing and mass murder.

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Yale University Press

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0300183585

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9780300183580

Wolf God Always Seeks Death

Volume 2

By: Hou Xun

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Wolf God Always Seeks Death

Volume 2

By: Hou Xun

Indecent introduction: To think that she, Feng Shuang Xi, had traveled for over three thousand years and had put in so much effort just for the future of the wolf tribe, yet she actually killed a thousand people to secretly poke and stir up trouble!Scolding her, scheming her, framing her, molesting her, even if it meant death! With his blue eyes shining, who would be rash!He smiled at her, his eyes twinkling. "What if someone likes you?"— —In order to cut off the "root of disaster" of the wolf tribe, she found two secrets that were intersected by time and space, as well as the darkness and conspiracy that was not recorded in the history of the wolf clan.

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Funstory

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1647810108

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9781647810108

The Real Story of Ah-Q and Other Tales of China

The Complete Fiction of Lu Xun

By: Lu Xun

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The Real Story of Ah-Q and Other Tales of China

The Complete Fiction of Lu Xun

By: Lu Xun

Lu Xun (Lu Hsun) is arguably the greatest writer of modern China, and is considered by many to be the founder of modern Chinese literature. Lu Xun's stories both indict outdated Chinese traditions and embrace China's cultural richness and individuality. This volume presents brand-new translations by Julia Lovell of all of Lu Xun's stories, including 'The Real Story of Ah-Q', 'Diary of a Madman', 'A Comedy of Ducks', 'The Divorce' and 'A Public Example', among others. With an afterword by Yiyun Li.

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Penguin UK

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0141194189

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9780141194189

Dawn Blossoms Plucked at Dusk

By: Lu Xun

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Dawn Blossoms Plucked at Dusk

By: Lu Xun

A collection of essays by Lu Xun, one of the most influential figures of modern Chinese literature. In this classic and beautiful collection, Lu Xun recounts the stories of his childhood and youth in Shaoxing, China. A revolutionary thinker and writer, and one of the architects of the May 4th Movement, his stories reveal the beauty, joy, and struggle of life in early twentieth-century China.

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Simon and Schuster

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1476774730

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9781476774732

Wild Grass and Morning Blossoms Gathered at Dusk

By: Xun Lu

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Wild Grass and Morning Blossoms Gathered at Dusk

By: Xun Lu

A brilliant new translation of the short improvisational fiction and memoirs of Lu Xun, the father of modern Chinese literature. This captivating translation assembles two volumes by Lu Xun, the founder of modern Chinese literature and one of East Asia’s most important thinkers at the turn of the twentieth century. Wild Grass and Morning Blossoms Gathered at Dusk represent a pinnacle of achievement alongside Lu Xun’s famed short stories. In Wild Grass, a collection of twenty-three experimental pieces, surreal scenes come alive through haunting language and vivid imagery. These are landscapes populated by ghosts, talking animals, and sentient plants, where a protagonist might come face-to-face with their own corpse. By depicting the common struggle of real and imagined creatures to survive in an inhospitable world, Lu Xun asks the deceptively simple question, “What does it mean to be human?” Alongside Wild Grass is Morning Blossoms Gathered at Dusk, a memoir in eight essays capturing the literary master’s formative years and featuring a motley cast of dislocated characters—children, servants, outcasts, the dead and the dying. Giving voice to vulnerable subjects and depicting their hopes and despair as they negotiate an unforgiving existence, Morning Blossoms affirms the value of all beings and elucidates a central predicament of the human condition: feeling without a home in the world. Beautifully translated and introduced by Eileen J. Cheng, these lyrical texts blur the line between autobiography and literary fiction. Together the two collections provide a new window into Lu Xun’s mind and his quest to find beauty and meaning in a cruel and unjust world.

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Harvard University Press

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0674287665

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9780674287662

The Wisdom of the Confucians

By: Zhou Xun

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The Wisdom of the Confucians

By: Zhou Xun

This little anthology offers inspiring words of wisdom from the ancient Eastern tradition that brought us Feng Shui. With advise on everything from love and family life to the importance of education and the role of virtue, this illustrated treasury is full of guidance and insight and will be cherished by all those who seek a calmer and more measured way of life.

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ONEWorld Publications

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1851682597

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9781851682591

Practical Chinese reader

By: Xun Liu

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Practical Chinese reader

By: Xun Liu

Practical Chinese reader, with fifty lessons in its Book I and Book II, has been prepared for use with foriegn learners in a course of elementary Chinese. It may also be used by foreigners who wish to teach themselves modern Chinese"--Introduction

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Beijing : Commercial Press

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7100000882

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9787100000888

Local Language Testing

Design, Implementation, and Development

By: Slobodanka Dimova,Xun Yan,April Ginther

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Local Language Testing

Design, Implementation, and Development

By: Slobodanka Dimova,Xun Yan,April Ginther

Local Language Testing: Design, Implementation, and Development describes the language testing practice that exists in the intermediate space between large-scale standardized testing and classroom assessment, an area that is rarely addressed in the language testing and assessment literature. Covering both theory and practice, the book focuses on the advantages of local tests, fosters and encourages their use, and provides suggested ideas for their development and maintenance. The authors include examples of operational tests with well-proven track records and discuss: the ability of local tests to represent local contexts and values, explicitly and purposefully embed test results within instructional practice, and provide data for program evaluation and research; local testing practices grounded in the theoretical principles of language testing, drawing from experiences with local testing and providing practical examples of local language tests, illustrating how they can be designed to effectively function within and across different institutional contexts; examples of how local language tests and assessments are developed for use within a specific context and how they serve a variety of purposes (e.g., entry-level proficiency testing, placement testing, international teaching assistant testing, writing assessment, and program evaluation). Aimed at language program directors, graduate students, and researchers involved in language program development and evaluation, this is a timely book in that it focuses on the advantages of local tests, fosters and encourages their use, and outlines their development and maintenance. It constitutes essential reading for language program directors, graduate students, and researchers involved in language program development and evaluation.

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Routledge

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0429960328

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9780429960321

Blockchain Foundations and Applications

By: Xun Yi,Xuechao Yang,Andrei Kelarev,Kwok Yan Lam,Zahir Tari

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Blockchain Foundations and Applications

By: Xun Yi,Xuechao Yang,Andrei Kelarev,Kwok Yan Lam,Zahir Tari

This monograph provides a comprehensive and rigorous exposition of the basic concepts and most important modern research results concerning blockchain and its applications. The book includes the required cryptographic fundamentals underpinning the blockchain technology, since understanding of the concepts of cryptography involved in the design of blockchain is necessary for mastering the security guarantees furnished by blockchain. It also contains an introduction to cryptographic primitives, and separate chapters on bitcoin, ethereum and smart contracts, public blockchain, private blockchain, cryptocurrencies, and blockchain applications.This volume is of great interest to active researchers who are keen to develop novel applications of blockchain in the field of their investigatio. Further, it is also beneficial for industry practitioners as well as undergraduate students in computing and information technology.

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Springer Nature

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3031096703

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9783031096709

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