After waking up, the queen, who had spent a lot of money, saw that the environment around her was not good. The quilt was thin and hard, the clothes were old and short, and he ate without stopping. Was this still a human life? The heavens were merciful to her. In her previous life, there had never been anyone who had asked after her, so they simply rewarded her already prepared husband. How should he live his days? Fortunately, she had brought her husband and daughter along with her to do business ...
In a single night, the company goes bankrupt and my girlfriend disappears. Frustrated, I wander to the northern seaside city and in order to survive, I enter a business to work. To think that the CEO is actually the beauty I flirted with ...An unknown nobody, rising from the bottom to challenge all kinds of dark forces. The cold and beautiful CEO couldn't stand to be conquered.
Above the azure clouds is a god, a showdown between ideals and reality. The lowest level counterattack, with your tears flowing down, I, Qin Wentian, swear to slash the heavens with my sword and destroy the world with my fist. Also, I have to ask about the Nine Heavens, who wouldn't tremble beneath my feet?
A dark path was too lonely and extreme! For love? For justice? For power? For money? Li Wenfeng, this godlike man, was brought to the peak of the underworld.
My sister is dead He died alone in the courtyard of the palace. The man who should have been protecting her, however, was completely indifferent. In order to avenge her sister, she impersonated an elective and entered the palace. She wanted to bring disaster upon him and mess up his future! But he hadn't thought that the truth would turn around once again ...
The rise of China could be the most important political development of the twenty-first century. What will China look like in the future? What should it look like? And what will China's rise mean for the rest of world? This book, written by China's most influential foreign policy thinker, sets out a vision for the coming decades from China's point of view. In the West, Yan Xuetong is often regarded as a hawkish policy advisor and enemy of liberal internationalists. But a very different picture emerges from this book, as Yan examines the lessons of ancient Chinese political thought for the future of China and the development of a "Beijing consensus" in international relations. Yan, it becomes clear, is neither a communist who believes that economic might is the key to national power, nor a neoconservative who believes that China should rely on military might to get its way. Rather, Yan argues, political leadership is the key to national power, and morality is an essential part of political leadership. Economic and military might are important components of national power, but they are secondary to political leaders who act in accordance with moral norms, and the same holds true in determining the hierarchy of the global order. Providing new insights into the thinking of one of China's leading foreign policy figures, this book will be essential reading for anyone interested in China's rise or in international relations. In a new preface, Yan reflects on his arguments in light of recent developments in Chinese foreign policy, including the selection of a new leader in 2012.
This book focuses on the woven arch bridge, an arch-shaped structure that is one of the most extraordinary timber building traditions of the world. The woven arch bridge exists widely in different cultures and its specific nature is conceptualized by the author as a kind of “universal uniqueness,” challenging widespread viewpoints on its origin and genealogy. Taking this argument as its main thread, the book traces the histories of different woven-arch-bridge-cultures and investigates in particular the woven arch bridge in the mountains of Southeast of China from three angles, using both archaeological and anthropological methods. Resting upon these case studies, a definition of typology and a new theory of structural evolution are established, while the book also draws comparisons between western and eastern timber building cultures and offers new insights on the differences between East Asia and Europe. The book also provides a large number of examples and illustrations of the bridge, and will be of great value and inspiration for architects and scholars studying the history of architecture, bridges, and construction, while also appealing to general readers interested in historical bridges and traditional construction technology.
When Yu Haoran woke up again, he had gone back to more than one hundred years ago, to the year he turned sixteen and his fate was ushered to a turning point. This time, Yu Haoran retained not only all the memories of previous life, but also a domain tower which was omniscient and had the ability of time acceleration. In this life, as a martial cultivator who practiced less than a month and barely entered the early period of First Level Martial Disciple, how would Yu Haoran achieve his legendary life relying on the memories of the previous life? ☆About the Author☆ Yan Yun Yu Qi is an outstanding novelist. His works include "The Destiny of God", "The Strongest Reproduction", "My Dantian has a book", "The Best of the Master", "The Anti-Long Ares", a total of five novels. From modern romance to fantasy novels, Yan Yunyuqi can grasp the writing of different styles, which is inseparable from his love of writing and reading from an early age. It is with this enthusiasm that he can continue to insist on creation.
A momentous debate has been unfolding in China over the last fifteen years, only intermittently in public view, concerning the merits of socialism as a philosophy of social justice and as a program for national development. Just as Deng Xiaoping's better advertised experiment with market- based reforms has challenged Marxist-Leninist dogma on economic policy, the years since the death of Mao Zedong have seen a profound reexamination of a more basic question: to what extent are the root problems of the system due to Chinese socialism and Marxism generally? Here Yan Sun gathers a remarkable group of primary materials, drawn from an unusual range of sources, to present the most systematic and comprehensive study of post-Mao reappraisal of China's socialist theory and practice. Rejecting an assumption often made in the West, that Chinese socialist thought has little bearing on politics and policymaking, Sun takes the arguments of the post-Mao era seriously on their own terms. She identifies the major factions in the debate, reveals the interplay among official and unofficial forces, and charts the development of the debate from an initially parochial concern with problems raised by Chinese practice to a grand critique of the theory of socialism itself. She concludes with an enlightening comparison of the reassessments undertaken by Deng Xiaoping with those of Gorbachev, linking them to the divergent outcomes of reform and revolution in their respective countries.
This powerful novel by Mo Yan—one of contemporary China’s most famous and prolific writers—is both a stirring love story and an unsparing critique of political corruption during the final years of the Qing Dynasty, China’s last imperial epoch. Sandalwood Death is set during the Boxer Rebellion (1898–1901)—an anti-imperialist struggle waged by North China’s farmers and craftsmen in opposition to Western influence. Against a broad historical canvas, the novel centers on the interplay between its female protagonist, Sun Meiniang, and the three paternal figures in her life. One of these men is her biological father, Sun Bing, an opera virtuoso and a leader of the Boxer Rebellion. As the bitter events surrounding the revolt unfold, we watch Sun Bing march toward his cruel fate, the gruesome “sandalwood punishment,” whose purpose, as in crucifixions, is to keep the condemned individual alive in mind-numbing pain as long as possible. Filled with the sensual imagery and lacerating expressions for which Mo Yan is so celebrated, Sandalwood Death brilliantly exhibits a range of artistic styles, from stylized arias and poetry to the antiquated idiom of late Imperial China to contemporary prose. Its starkly beautiful language is here masterfully rendered into English by renowned translator Howard Goldblatt.
“Yan is one of those rare geniuses who finds in the peculiar absurdities of his own culture the absurdities that infect all cultures.” —The Washington Post From the Kafka Prize winner and two-time Booker Prize finalist, this is a gripping and bitingly satirical story of ambition and betrayal, following two young communist revolutionaries whose forbidden love sets them apart from their traditionally minded village as the Cultural Revolution sweeps China. Gao Aijun is a son of the soil of Henan’s Balou Mountains, and after his Army service, he is on his way back to his ancestral village, feeling like a hero. Close to his arrival, he sees a strikingly attractive woman walking barefoot alongside a railway track in the warm afternoon sun, and is instantly smitten. She is Xia Hongmei, and lives up to her name of “beautiful flower.” Hiding their relationship from their spouses, the pair hurl themselves into the struggle to bring revolution to their backwater village. They spend their days and nights writing pamphlets, organizing work brigades, and attending rallies, feeling they are the vanguard for the full-blown revolution that is waiting in the wings. Emboldened by encouragement from the Party, the couple dig a literal “tunnel of love” between their homes where, while the unsuspecting villagers sleep, they sing revolutionary songs and compete in shouting matches of Maoist slogans before making earth-moving love. But when their torrid relationship is discovered and they have to answer to Hongmei’s husband, their dreams of a bright future together begin to fray. Will their devotion to the cause save their skins, or will they too fall victim to the revolution that is swallowing up the country? A novel of rare emotional force and surprising humor, Hard Like Water is an operatic and brilliantly plotted human drama about power’s corrupting nature and the brute force of love and desire. “A blistering tour de force . . . poses the uncomfortable and timely question: how did each of us arrive at our certainties?” —The Guardian “One of China’s most important―and certainly most fearless―living writers.” ―Kirkus Reviews
“A brilliant and harrowing novel” about a deadly epidemic fueled by corruption, based on real-life events in China (Publishers Weekly, starred review). Officially censored upon its Chinese publication, Dream of Ding Village is based on a real-life blood-selling scandal in eastern China. The novel is the result of three years of undercover work by Yan Lianke, who worked as an assistant to a well-known Beijing anthropologist in an effort to study a small village decimated by HIV/AIDS as a result of unregulated blood selling. Whole villages were wiped out with no responsibility taken or reparations paid. Dream of Ding Village focuses on one family, destroyed when one son rises to the top of the party pile as he exploits the situation, while another son is infected and dies. The result is a passionate and steely critique of the rate at which China is developing and what happens to those who get in the way. “Lianke confronts the black market blood trade and the subsequent AIDS epidemic it sparked, in a brilliant and harrowing novel.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review
Lin Feng was just a mediocre worker in a glass factory, yet he unexpectedly acquired the supernatural ability of the "Nine Heavens" after obtaining it.Since then, his life had undergone a tremendous change.A conspiracy? Wealth? Woman?All sorts of beautiful women surrounded him.Whether it was the president of the association, Bi Yun'er, or a woman who was his nemesis, Shi Mulan was destined to tangle with him.Let's see how he becomes the master of that mysterious group. Let's see how he becomes the leader of those Adepts.
In his previous life, the beginning of the Song Dynasty was scorching. In reality, Lin Zhenqi no longer had the memories of his previous life, but he had encountered his first love, Song Chuchen, who was still a ghost. It turned out that for more than a thousand years, Song Jin had been searching for Lin Zhenqi. However, a female ghost had appeared out of nowhere to take revenge. Lin Zhenqi also had a affinity with the Daoist Priest, so he entered the Daoist realm. He and his master went around together to capture ghosts and exorcise evil spirits. The love between him and Lin Zhen at the beginning of the Song Dynasty was destined to be a tragedy.
Feng Jingyan, the number one of the younger generation in the Holy Spirit Continent, a peerless Heaven's Pride of the Spirit Race. After failing in his tribulation and having his soul destroyed, he was reborn and returned. A hundred years had passed, and he even had a fiance. Xuanyuan Zhen, the most powerful and mysterious prince of the Xuanyuan Dynasty, would not be able to move his legs the moment he saw Feng Xinyan. He insisted that he had his own blood in his veins and forced him to marry back to the palace. "Impudent!" Feng Yingyan, even if you do not consider your own face, you should still be careful not to disgrace the True King. " The grand ceremony of the Xuanyuan Dynasty had caused Feng Zhengyan to go crazy again. The imperial concubine angrily rebuked him in front of everyone, and there was no one who wasn't waiting to watch a good show. Xuanyuan Zhen, who had always been aloof and untouchable, coldly spoke, "This prince's face is meant for the imperial concubine to play with. What does it have to do with the Empress?" As soon as these words were spoken, the entire audience fell silent. Feng Zhen Yan's mouth twitched as he glanced at the man beside him. This Bonn love was simply too beautiful.
This set of six volumes provides a systematic and standardized description of 23,033 chemical components isolated from 6,926 medicinal plants, collected from 5,535 books/articles published in Chinese and international journals. A chemical structure with stereo-chemistry bonds is provided for each chemical component, in addition to conventional information, such as Chinese and English names, physical and chemical properties. It includes a name list of medicinal plants from which the chemical component was isolated. Furthermore, abundant pharmacological data for nearly 8,000 chemical components are presented, including experimental method, experimental animal, cell type, quantitative data, as well as control compound data. The seven indexes allow for complete cross-indexing. Regardless whether one searches for the molecular formula of a compound, the pharmacological activity of a compound, or the English name of a plant, the information in the book can be retrieved in multiple ways.
He worked diligently for several years at the job, and finally took the position of director, but was framed and insulted by the relatives of the company's CEO. In anger, he chose to resign and leave here to go to the city where his internet pal lives who are very happy to chat with.When he arrived in the new city, his relationship with this internet pal also quickly heated up. His new job was also rewarded by his hard work. Until one day, he found that the beauty who had been chatting with him for a long time on the Internet turned out to be the CEO of his company ...☆About the Author☆Yan Dou, an excellent author of online novels, is good at writing urban romance novels, and her representative works include Workplace Situation: Female Enthusiasts in Love. Her novels have attracted widespread attention for her beautiful language and fascinating storyline.
For seven years in the 1970s, the author lived in a village in northeast China as an ordinary farmer. In 1989, he returned to the village as an anthropologist to begin the unparalleled span of eleven years’ fieldwork that has resulted in this book—a comprehensive, vivid, and nuanced account of family change and the transformation of private life in rural China from 1949 to 1999. The author’s focus on the personal and the emotional sets this book apart from most studies of the Chinese family. Yan explores private lives to examine areas of family life that have been largely overlooked, such as emotion, desire, intimacy, privacy, conjugality, and individuality. He concludes that the past five decades have witnessed a dual transformation of private life: the rise of the private family, within which the private lives of individual women and men are thriving.
The childhood sweetheart, Ying Qizhao, had been murdered in conspiracy, while the flower had been forced to marry and pacify Gu Tianhong. Gu Tianhong had been depressed all day, but before he died, he had been told that Ying Qizhao's death was related to the Gu family and his father.He had been reborn eight years ago, and now he had been burned to worship Buddha in a temple. He was grateful to be reborn into a new life, and he had sworn that he would no longer be weak and powerless ...
The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution occurred in the second decade after Mao Zedong and his comrades came to power in 1949. A comprehensive narrative account of this colossal event, written by Yan Jiaqi, one of the principal leaders of China's pro-democracy movement, and his wife, Gao Gao, a noted sociologist, appeared in Hong Kong in 1986 and was quickly banned by the Communist government. Not surprisingly, censorship and restricted circulation in China resulted in underground reproduction and serialization. The work was thus widely read, coveted, and appreciated by a populace who had just freed itself from the cultural drought and political dread of the event. Yan and Gao later spent two years revising and expanding their work. The present volume, Turbulent Decade: A History of the Cultural Revolution, is based on the revised edition and has been masterfully edited and translated by D. W. Y. Kwok in consultation with the authors. Following Professor Kwok's eloquent introduction and a short foreword in which the authors analyze the basic causes of the Cultural Revolution, Part One of the narrative focuses on the years 1965-1967. In two short years, Mao managed to turn public opinion against Liu Shaoqi, president of the Republic, and launch the Cultural Revolution. The reader is introduced to the Red Guards and encounters the cult of personality, the first resistance to the Cultural Revolution, the attack on Zhou Enlai, and the persecution and death of Liu Shaoqi. Part Two examines the rise and fall of Lin Biao during the years 1959-1971. Lin's bid for power, which began with the consolidation of his personal clique in the army and mass-level persecution in the late stages of theCultural Revolution, ended in a failed coup and his death in an air crash. Part Three follows Jiang Qing from 1966 to her arrest in 1976 for her part in instigating mass violence and the persecution of key figures, including Zhou Enlai. During this period, the political fortunes of Deng Xiaoping rose and fell for a second time, the first protest at Tiananmen Square in 1976 ended in a bloody suppression, and that same year the Gang of Four were arrested. Unlike social scientific treatments of political phenomena, Turbulent Decade includes little discussion of economics, still less of international relations, and no institutional analysis. Instead, the authors' fervent belief in the truthful telling of history through its leading personalities pervades the work.
Once he crossed the Qing Dynasty, he even became the 'Eighth Lord's Blessing'. Chi He really wanted to give the God a middle finger! How could she, a lowly commoner, live to become a prince in the name of Fu Jin! Competing for a favor? No! A duel? No! A palace battle? Not to mention! However, she wasn't willing to die just like that! After some thought, Chi He River set a goal for himself! Even if he didn't have the love of a man, the company of a child was still worth it! Thus, every day she would open her eyes and think about one thing. Would she be able to make Eighth Lord stay for the night today?
Based on groundbreaking research, this book is the first of its kind to provide a close examination in English of the extensive imagery of the soldier figure in the war culture of early twentieth-century China. This study moves away from the traditional military history perspectives and focuses on the neglected cultural aspect of the intersection of war and society in China during a crucial period that led to the eventual victory of the Chinese Communist Party over the Nationalist Party. Integrating history, literature, and arts, this appealing narrative reveals multiple meanings of the soldier figure created by different political, social, and cultural forces in modern China. Drawing from a wide range of sources including government documents, speeches, newspaper articles, memoirs, military textbooks, and yangge drama, Yan Xu recounts stories of unforgettable Chinese political leaders, including Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong. She also examines the wartime experiences of previously marginalized social groups, including women soldiers, wounded soldiers, student soldiers, military writers, and vocational education professionals, giving voice to those largely forgotten by military historians. This book opens up a new area in modern Chinese history and Chinese military history by revealing that the cultural discourse on the soldier image is essential to understanding Chinese nationalism, state-building, and civil-military relations in the early twentieth century.
Chinese art has experienced its most profound metamorphosis since the early 1950s, transforming from humble realism to socialist realism, from revolutionary art to critical realism, then avant-garde movement, and globalized Chinese art. With a hybrid mix of Chinese philosophy, imported but revised Marxist ideology, and western humanities, Chinese artists have created an alternative approach – after a great ideological and aesthetic transition in the 1980s – toward its own contemporaneity though interacting and intertwining with the art of rest of the world. This book will investigate, from the perspective of an activist, critic, and historian who grew up prior to and participated in the great transition, and then researched and taught the subject, the evolution of Chinese art in modern and contemporary times. The volume will be a comprehensive and insightful history of the one of the most sophisticated and unparalleled artistic and cultural phenomena in the modern world.
It's not strange that those beauties fall in love with you. After all, you are so handsome and talented. If I were a woman, I would fall in love with you," Duan Ling Tian said to the mirror.
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