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Rebirth: Double-faced Princess

Volume 2

By: Yang GuangXueLuo

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Rebirth: Double-faced Princess

Volume 2

By: Yang GuangXueLuo

The direct daughter of the Jianning Marquis Mansion was ugly without a trace of beauty. Furthermore, she had lived in a quiet and peaceful area of the buddhist faith with an unfamiliar man. She had been despised and condemned by the world! She swore to protect her aunt, begged her little sister Shu, and finally let her relatives agree to let her give birth to her child! However, he didn't know that all of this was part of his concubine sister's plan to climb up the mountain just for the sake of stepping on her mother's blood! Fate had turned, and she had been reborn. That day, was the turning point of her fate! In this life, she had to protect her relatives and even more so, protect the treasures that were hard to come by! Who is it? Who was it that whispered in her ear? Amidst the dizziness, she could only feel a scorching heat coming from her. That ice-cold tone caused goosebumps to appear all over her body!

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1649755643

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When Confucius "Encounters" John Dewey

A Cross-Cultural Inquiry Into Dewey’s Visit to China

By: James Zhixiang Yang

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When Confucius "Encounters" John Dewey

A Cross-Cultural Inquiry Into Dewey’s Visit to China

By: James Zhixiang Yang

John Dewey’s sojourn to China created a historical moment between the United States and China. Therefore, some of the recent scholarship on the topic aims to uncover the social and historical implications behind Dewey’s Chinese trip, centering on how intercultural conversations occurred between “Confucius” and “John Dewey” during the period of May Fourth/New Culture Movement. Much research also reflects an attempt to synthesize and unify Western and Eastern education. This book spotlights a cross-cultural “encounter” between Confucius and John Dewey by studying the four well-known Chinese scholars Hu Shih, Liang Shuming, Tao Xingzhi, and Jiang Menglin, who exerted a profound impact on many aspects of Chinese society during the May Fourth/New Culture Movement period. The study explores answers to a crucial question: What motivated Dewey’s Chinese disciples to forge a synthesis of Confucian traditions and Deweyan ideas to purse of the goals of Chinese educational and cultural reformation? Simultaneously, based on an in-depth historical, philosophical, and cultural analysis of Dewey’s visit to China, this study aims to disclose how our education has evolved in the context of cultural pluralism The book seeks to contribute provocative ideas to today’s educators: any school of thought can renew and update itself if it maintains an open dialogue with a different civilization. Dynamic and transparent intercultural communication enables us to develop a sense of understanding and respect for cultural diversity, all of which are of great benefit to the construction of a stable and healthy international order.

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Chinese Herbal Medicine

Modern Applications of Traditional Formulas

By: Chongyun Liu,Angela Tseng,Sue Yang

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Chinese Herbal Medicine

Modern Applications of Traditional Formulas

By: Chongyun Liu,Angela Tseng,Sue Yang

A roadmap for easily navigating through the complexities of Chinese herbal medicine, Chinese Herbal Medicine: Modern Applications of Traditional Formulas presents information about herbal formulas in a practical and easy-to-access format. Bridging the gap between classroom study and the clinical setting, the book supplies information on disease sym

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CRC Press

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0203493893

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The World Turned Upside Down

A History of the Chinese Cultural Revolution

By: Yang Jisheng

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The World Turned Upside Down

A History of the Chinese Cultural Revolution

By: Yang Jisheng

Yang Jisheng’s The World Turned Upside Down is the definitive history of the Cultural Revolution, in withering and heartbreaking detail. As a major political event and a crucial turning point in the history of the People’s Republic of China, the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (1966–1976) marked the zenith as well as the nadir of Mao Zedong’s ultra-leftist politics. Reacting in part to the Soviet Union’s "revisionism" that he regarded as a threat to the future of socialism, Mao mobilized the masses in a battle against what he called "bourgeois" forces within the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). This ten-year-long class struggle on a massive scale devastated traditional Chinese culture as well as the nation’s economy. Following his groundbreaking and award-winning history of the Great Famine, Tombstone, Yang Jisheng here presents the only history of the Cultural Revolution by an independent scholar based in mainland China, and makes a crucial contribution to understanding those years' lasting influence today. The World Turned Upside Down puts every political incident, major and minor, of those ten years under extraordinary and withering scrutiny, and arrives in English at a moment when contemporary Chinese governance is leaning once more toward a highly centralized power structure and Mao-style cult of personality.

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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Officialdom Unmasked

By: T.L. Yang

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Officialdom Unmasked

By: T.L. Yang

It has been said that the downfall of the Qing dynasty was due not so much to the 1911 Revolution as to the pervasive corruption and weakness within the Qing administration. The regime was rotting from within, and it did not take much to topple the three-hundred-year-old dynasty. Officialdom Unmasked (官場現形記) was written by Li Boyuan in the early years of the twentieth century as the dynasty crumbled. Bizarre though they may seem, the stories told in the novel are based on true stories. From senior ministers to junior clerks, few were immune from taking bribes, stealing, philandering, dereliction of duty, or other wrongdoings. Here the writer portrays an official class who placed their selfish interests above that of the state, and who were so devoid of any moral rectitude that one could but wonder how a once mighty empire had fallen into so complete a decline. Unlike most satires, often written with a degree of humour which evoke a chuckle here and there, this work came from a broken heart; it brings only tears, not smiles.

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Hong Kong University Press

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Dialectics of Spontaneity

The Aesthetics and Ethics of Su Shi (1037-1101) in Poetry

By: Zhiyi Yang

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Dialectics of Spontaneity

The Aesthetics and Ethics of Su Shi (1037-1101) in Poetry

By: Zhiyi Yang

In Dialectics of Spontaneity, Zhiyi Yang examines the aesthetic and ethical theories of Su Shi, the primary poet, artist, and statesman of Northern Song.

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9004298533

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The Chan Interpretations of Wang Wei's Poetry

A Critical Review

By: Jingqing Yang

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The Chan Interpretations of Wang Wei's Poetry

A Critical Review

By: Jingqing Yang

Wang Wei (698-759), a High Tang poet, is widely known as "Poet Buddha". The book is an attempt to criticize the assumptions about Chan Buddhist implications in Wang's nature poetry. While other research investigates how Wang intentionally imparted Chan significance into his poetry, this book shows why this is not so and how it lacks evidence.

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Chinese University Press

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9629962322

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On The Meta-category Of Chinese Music Aesthetics

By: Sai Yang

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On The Meta-category Of Chinese Music Aesthetics

By: Sai Yang

This book opens with the emergence and development of the discipline of aesthetics in western countries, specifically the history of Western Music Aesthetics, to study and delve into the development of Chinese Music Aesthetics. The book provides a clear timeline throughout the writing — from the history of Chinese Music Aesthetics, to the construction of a theoretical framework, and the intersections and conversations between Western and Chinese Music Aesthetics. This academic piece is fundamentally consistent with the developing field of Chinese philosophical and literary research.This book also discusses important music aesthetic categories of Confucianism, Taoism, Mohism, and metaphysics, and uses critical thinking to analyse the relationship between these categories and relevant schools of thought, reflecting the author's academic vision and thought process.

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9811225214

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The Elemental Changes

The Ancient Chinese Companion to the I Ching. The T'ai Hsüan Ching of Master Yang Hsiung Text and Commentaries translated by Michael Nylan

By: Hsiung Yang,Xiong Yang

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The Elemental Changes

The Ancient Chinese Companion to the I Ching. The T'ai Hsüan Ching of Master Yang Hsiung Text and Commentaries translated by Michael Nylan

By: Hsiung Yang,Xiong Yang

Composed in 2 B.C., as "The I Ching revised and enlarged," The Elemental Changes is a divination manual providing a clear method for distinguishing alternative courses of action. Structured in 81 tetragrams ( as opposed to the 64 hexagrams of the I Ching), the book offers much to the modern reader. Today in the West, The Elemental Changes is an essential tool for understanding the Tao as it operates in the Cosmos, in the minds of sages, and in sacred texts. It is also one of the great philosophical poems in world literature, assessing the rival claims on human attention of fame, physical immortality, wealth, and power while it situates human endeavor within the larger framework of cosmic energies. The complete text of The Elemental Changes and its ten autocommentaries are here translated into accessible and, whenever possible, literal English. Following the Chinese tradition, supplementary comments are appended to each tetragram in order to indicate the main lines of interpretation suggested by earlier commentators.

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0791416283

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Peace and Beads

Neural Mechanism of Meditation

By: Joseph Yang, MD

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Peace and Beads

Neural Mechanism of Meditation

By: Joseph Yang, MD

People regret the things they did and the things they fail to do. There should be peace. Meditation is the way. Yet, it has been made more complex than necessary. This book proposes a simple way which is even easier than the popular mindfulness approach. Peace and Beads: Neural Mechanism of Meditation recommends a more straightforward practice. The suggestion is backed by reasoning with available scientific data.The procedure does not have to be complicated to be effective. Motivation will come when the mechanism is understood. With random thoughts deflected by beads, neural re-organization of memories will take place in the unconscious. Emotion will move towards peace. The practice is like the using of the key to open the door. The capacity is innate.

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1634139062

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The Completion of a Poem

Letters to Young Poets

By: Mu Yang

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The Completion of a Poem

Letters to Young Poets

By: Mu Yang

The Completion of a Poem is the first book-length translation of Yang Mu’s poetics. In eighteen letters addressed to young poets, Yang Mu discusses essential questions regarding the definition of poetry, a poet’s growth, the importance of nature and friendship, the choice of subject, the process of creation and publication, and relationships between poet and society, identity and history, and poetry and truth. Using a comparative approach, Yang Mu draws on literary resources from Chinese and Western traditions to expound his views, and this helps to nurture in young poets a vision of world poetry that connects different but equally inspiring expressions of humanity. In style and in theme, this book is a companion piece to Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet and Goethe’s Dichtung und Wahrheit. "Yang Mu is not only one of the greatest living poets and essayists in the Chinese language, he is also an erudite scholar, deeply versed in both Chinese and Western poetic traditions from antiquity to our modern age. In his eighteen letters to young poets, which serve as his Ars Poetica, he emphasizes that the creation of true poetry requires that insight and knowledge are paired with personal integrity and high moral standing. Yang Mu’s letters are often illuminated by exquisite landscape essays of great lyrical intensity which show his facility to allow manifestations of the outer world to reveal inner states of mind. This excellent translation by Lisa Wong deserves to be read by all who consider that poetry matters." Göran Malmqvist, Swedish Academy

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All About Chinese Culture

An Illustrated Brief History in 50 Art Treasures

By: Yonghong Wang,Guimei Yang

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All About Chinese Culture

An Illustrated Brief History in 50 Art Treasures

By: Yonghong Wang,Guimei Yang

Are you curious about the diversified views in “Contention of the Hundred Schools of Thought”? What's the origin of the Chinese zodiac signs? Or the history of the Chinese tea culture that is popular around the world? As one of the few ancient civilizations in the world, China features her a multidimensional cultural deposit in consistency and unification, endowing her history with a sense of perplexity and enchantment. Would you find it quite difficult to study Chinese culture? Well, relax. Together in this book, we shall follow the historical trace of 50 national treasures of the museums through the time tunnel, and enjoy their stories buried in the past 5000 years. They would be your company to explore the magnificent world of ancient China. In this book, the Chinese history is divided into eight periods. The treasures selected as samples are precious collections from museums around the world, including ceramics, jades, bronze wares, paintings, bamboo slips, sculptures, gold wares and silver wares. Rich in photographs and illustrations, the book introduces the most representative academic thoughts, moral education, religious beliefs, and folk customs in every period of the ancient China, and describes the interaction of Chinese and foreign cultures, as well as the spirit of the times and the cultural characteristics hidden behind them. In this way, the most crucial social concepts and the most attractive anecdotes in history will be revealed, and a sketch of Chinese culture will be unfolding in front of you through the rising and falling of those ancient dynasties. The treasures will no longer be resting in silence, as they are about to tell their own stories and present you with a journey of knowledge and visual feast. Let's take a stroll along the glory years to unveil the Chinese culture.

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1938368908

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Rebirth: Divine Dragon Master

Volume 2

By: Yang LaoSan

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Rebirth: Divine Dragon Master

Volume 2

By: Yang LaoSan

This was a world of deer cauldrons without Wei Xiaobao. This was a legendary story of the Divine Dragon Sect dominating the world!

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Funstory

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164935410X

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Religion in Chinese Society

A Study of Contemporary Social Functions of Religion and Some of Their Historical Factors

By: C.K. Yang

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Religion in Chinese Society

A Study of Contemporary Social Functions of Religion and Some of Their Historical Factors

By: C.K. Yang

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1961.

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0520318382

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A Record of Buddhist Monasteries in Lo-Yang

By: Hsüan-chih Yang

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A Record of Buddhist Monasteries in Lo-Yang

By: Hsüan-chih Yang

A Record of Buddhist Monasteries in Lo-yang (the Lo-Yang ch'ieh-lan chi) is a major document of Chinese history and literature. This translation of the sixth- century A.D. classic describes the main Buddhist monasteries and nunneries of Lo-yang and the political, economic, and social conditions at a time when that city was the capital of the Northern Wei Dynasty. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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1400857546

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Case Studies of Information Technology Application in Education

Utilising the Internet, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, and Cloud in Challenging Times

By: Yang Shen,Xin Yin,Yu Jiang,Lingkai Kong,Sheng Li,Haijun Zeng

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Case Studies of Information Technology Application in Education

Utilising the Internet, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, and Cloud in Challenging Times

By: Yang Shen,Xin Yin,Yu Jiang,Lingkai Kong,Sheng Li,Haijun Zeng

This book includes 43 case studies showcasing the application of basic education informatization. It shares the experiences of 43 schools in the construction and application of educational informatization in various regions in China. It aims to promote the balanced development of education and expand the coverage of quality education resources. This book also highlights the achievements of these schools in constructing school-based resources, and changing teaching modes and optimizing classroom teaching. This collection of case studies not only reflects the current trend of informatization application moving from 'universal application' to 'integrated innovation' but also uncovers the potential of applying information technology to transform education processes, innovate education environment, and optimize education governance.

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Springer Nature

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9811996504

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Calamity and Reform in China

State, Rural Society, and Institutional Change Since the Great Leap Famine

By: Dali L. Yang

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Calamity and Reform in China

State, Rural Society, and Institutional Change Since the Great Leap Famine

By: Dali L. Yang

This is the first book-length treatment of the political causes and consequences of the Great Leap Famine (1959-61), one of the worst tragedies in human history.

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Stanford University Press

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0804734704

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The Most Powerful Doctor

Volume 5

By: Yu Yang

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The Most Powerful Doctor

Volume 5

By: Yu Yang

With a pair of magical eyes and tenacity, he is committed to being the best doctor. He is born with a pair of eyes that can clearly see through the human body in the dark. This special ability has made his dream of being a famous doctor. A pair of magical eyes can always find lesions that other doctors cannot see. But because he accidentally discovered the secret of his boss, his life was severely hit. The boss assigned him to work in a very remote place, where there were no family members and friends, and even his girlfriend broke up with him because of that. He was not defeated by setbacks, but strengthened his dream of becoming a famous doctor. His superb medical skills have been noticed by more and more people, and he has since been awarded the title of "the most powerful doctor". ☆About the Author☆ Yu Yang, an outstanding online novelist. His rich life experience has provided inexhaustible motivation for his novel creation, and his novel plot is as good as writing.

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Funstory

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1648464785

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Collective Killings in Rural China during the Cultural Revolution

By: Yang Su

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Collective Killings in Rural China during the Cultural Revolution

By: Yang Su

The violence of Mao's China is well known, but its extreme form is not. In 1967 and 1968, during the Cultural Revolution, collective killings were widespread in rural China in the form of public execution. Victims included women, children, and the elderly. This book is the first to systematically document and analyze these atrocities, drawing data from local archives, government documents, and interviews with survivors in two southern provinces. This book extracts from the Chinese case lessons that challenge the prevailing models of genocide and mass killings and contributes to the historiography of the Cultural Revolution, in which scholarship has mainly focused on events in urban areas.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139492462

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Perception and Production of Mandarin Tones by Native Speakers and L2 Learners

By: Bei Yang

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Perception and Production of Mandarin Tones by Native Speakers and L2 Learners

By: Bei Yang

Tones are the most challenging aspect of learning Chinese as a second language, and L2 learners’ perceptual categories differ in important and fascinating ways from those of native speakers. This book explores the relationship between tone perception and production among native speakers and non-native learners as illustrated in the experiments the author conducted with native speakers, true learners and heritage learners, all of whom were tested on their ability to produce tones naturally and to perceive 81 synthesized tones in various contexts. The experiments show that each group processes tones differently with regard to both register (tonal level) and contour (tonal shape). The results also reveal how three types of cues – acoustic, psychological and contextual – influence non-native speakers’ tone perception and production.

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Springer

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3662446456

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Advances in Bioprocessing Engineering

By: Xiusheng H. Yang,Juming Tang

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Advances in Bioprocessing Engineering

By: Xiusheng H. Yang,Juming Tang

This book consists of peer-reviewed articles reporting on the latest developments in several food engineering and agricultural processing laboratories at US land-granted universities. The contributors are leading experts in their respective fields.The topics covered in the book include new food processing technologies (such as high voltage electric field processing and microwave sterilization/pasteurization), conversion of agricultural by-products into high quality refined cellulose or biodegradable plastics, and advances in machine vision inspection and sorting techniques for fruit and vegetable packaging lines. Each chapter begins with a general background review with important references, and ends with the latest results from each research laboratory.

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9810246978

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Poetry, History, Memory

Wang Jingwei and China in Dark Times

By: Zhiyi Yang

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Poetry, History, Memory

Wang Jingwei and China in Dark Times

By: Zhiyi Yang

Wang Jingwei, poet and politician, patriot and traitor, has always been a figure of major academic and popular interest. Until now, his story has never been properly told, let alone critically investigated. The significance of his biography is evident from an ongoing war on cultural memory: modern mainland China prohibits serious academic research on wartime collaboration in general, and on Wang Jingwei in particular. At this critical juncture, when the recollection of World War II is fading from living memory and transforming into historical memory, this knowledge embargo will undoubtedly affect how China remembers its anti-fascist role in WWII. In Poetry, History, Memory: Wang Jingwei and China in Dark Times, Zhiyi Yang brings us a long overdue reexamination of Wang’s impact on cultural memory of WWII in China. In this book, Yang brings disparate methodologies into a fruitful dialogue, including sophisticated methods of poetic interpretation. The author argues that Wang’s lyric poetry, as the public performance of a private voice, played a central role in constructing his political identity and heavily influenced the public’s posthumous memory of him. Drawing on archives (in the PRC, Taiwan, Japan, the USA, France, and Germany), memoires, historical journals, newspapers, interviews, and other scholarly works, this book offers the first biography of Wang that addresses his political, literary, and personal life in a critical light and with sympathetic impartiality.

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University of Michigan Press

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0472903918

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Mobile Intelligence

By: Laurence T. Yang

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Mobile Intelligence

By: Laurence T. Yang

* Focuses on learning patterns and knowledge from data generated by mobile users and mobile technology. * Covers research and application issues in applying computational intelligence applications to mobile computing * Delivers benefits to a wide range of applications * Introduces the state of the art of computational intelligence to the mobile paradigm

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0470579382

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Untamed Shrews

Negotiating New Womanhood in Modern China

By: Shu Yang

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Untamed Shrews

Negotiating New Womanhood in Modern China

By: Shu Yang

Untamed Shrews traces the evolution of unruly women in Chinese literature, from the reviled "shrew" to the celebrated "new woman." Notorious for her violence, jealousy, and promiscuity, the character of the shrew personified the threat of unruly femininity to the Confucian social order and served as a justification for punishing any woman exhibiting these qualities. In this book, Shu Yang connects these shrewish qualities to symbols of female empowerment in modern China. Rather than meeting her demise, the shrew persisted, and her negative qualities became the basis for many forms of the new woman, ranging from the early Republican suffragettes and Chinese Noras, to the Communist and socialist radicals. Criticism of the shrew endured, but her vicious, sexualized, and transgressive nature became a source of pride, placing her among the ranks of liberated female models. Untamed Shrews shows that whether male writers and the state hate, fear, or love them, there will always be a place for the vitality of unruly women. Unlike in imperial times, the shrew in modern China stayed untamed as an inspiration for the new woman.

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Cornell University Press

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1501770624

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Knowledge-Driven Governance

The Role of Experts and Scholars in Combating Desertification and Other Dilemmas of Collective Action

By: Lihua Yang

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Knowledge-Driven Governance

The Role of Experts and Scholars in Combating Desertification and Other Dilemmas of Collective Action

By: Lihua Yang

This book explores a new model for addressing the central issue of environmental and other collective actions. An alternative to the classical models: central authority, privatization, and self-governance, it has provisionally been named “expert and scholar-based-” or “knowledge-driven governance”. The book also identifies seven working rules (or design principles) for successful knowledge-driven governance, and argues that the more strictly these rules are abided by, the more successful this model of governance becomes. Lastly, it demonstrates that in addition to Lindblom’s observed intellectually guided society and preference-guided/volition-guided society, there may be the possibility of a knowledge-driven society in which knowledge or intellect plays a greater role. The results obtained are supplemented by numerical calculations, presented as tables and figures. This book is intended for graduate students, lecturers and researchers working in environmental management, environmental science and engineering, sustainable development, collective action, and public administration.

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9811329109

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Lighting the Candle

Taoist Principles in Supervision Conducted from an Existential–Humanistic Perspective

By: Mark Yang

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Lighting the Candle

Taoist Principles in Supervision Conducted from an Existential–Humanistic Perspective

By: Mark Yang

Many scholars and practitioners recognize the resonance between the practice of psychotherapy and supervision and the paradoxical principles found throughout Taoism. This is evermore true within the existential-humanistic tradition. Therefore, Lighting the Candle, Taoist Principles in Supervision Conducted from an Existential-Humanistic Perspective introduces readers to the selected writing of the Taoist sages Lao Tzu and Zhuangzi, and considers how their wisdom permeates psychotherapy and supervision practiced from an existential-humanistic perspective. The book takes on a narrative format where the author weaves the following Taoist and existential-humanistic concepts within a number of inspirational stories and supervision case examples gathered across his trainings throughout Southeast Asia. These include wu wei, authenticity, focusing, surrender, trusting the process (trusting the Tao), getting back to the basics, steadiness and the midst of chaos, listening for the unheard, being fully present, humility and awe, bearing witness, following the flow, letting go (of goals, results and techniques), stillness and going nowhere, poetic reflection, and servant leadership. An apprenticeship model of embodied learning is presented in narrative format where the author weaves the above concepts into the supervision process.

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1939686660

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Women's Poetry and Poetics in Late Imperial China

A Dialogic Engagement

By: Haihong Yang

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Women's Poetry and Poetics in Late Imperial China

A Dialogic Engagement

By: Haihong Yang

This literary study examines women-authored poetry and poetic criticism in late imperial China. It provides close readings of original texts to explore the poetic forms and devices women poets employed, to place their work into the context of the wider literary history of the period, and to analyze how they asserted their own agency to negotiate their literary, social, and political concerns. The author also investigates the interactions between women’s poetic creations and existing male scholars' discourses and probes how these interactions generated innovative self-identities and renovations in poetic forms and aesthetics.

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1498537871

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9781498537872

Three Thousand Years of Chinese Painting

By: Richard M. Barnhart,Xin Yang,Nie Chongzheng,James Cahill,Hung Wu,Lang Shaojun

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Three Thousand Years of Chinese Painting

By: Richard M. Barnhart,Xin Yang,Nie Chongzheng,James Cahill,Hung Wu,Lang Shaojun

Written by a team of eminent international scholars, this book is the first to recount the history of Chinese painting over a span of some 3000 years.

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Yale University Press

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0300094477

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Cultivating the Energy of Life

A Translation of the Hui-Ming Ching and Its Commentaries

By: Liu Hua-Yang

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Cultivating the Energy of Life

A Translation of the Hui-Ming Ching and Its Commentaries

By: Liu Hua-Yang

A modern translation of Hui-ming Ching, the classic Taoist manual on cultivating and conserving energy as a means of achieving greater health, longevity, and inner peace To live a healthy and long life, to be tranquil and untouched by the dust of the mundane world, and to become one with the life-giving energy of the Tao—these are the goals of the practitioner of Taoist spirituality. The classic Chinese text Hui-ming ching (“Treatise on Cultivating Life”) is one of the most important Taoist classics on the arts of longevity and a major inspiration for many techniques of Qigong. Even two hundred years after its initial publication, it is still one of the most accessible works on a branch of Taoist practice that has been heretofore shrouded in mystery. Abandoning the symbolic language typically used in the ancient classics, it discusses the practices of the Microcosmic and Macrocosmic Orbits, the role of breath in circulating energy, and the conservation of procreative energy in a straightforward and concrete way. Now, in this new, complete translation, a foremost translator of Taoist texts clarifies and elucidates the Taoist methods of conserving and cultivating energy for the attainment of health, longevity, and inner peace.

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Shambhala Publications

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0834828227

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9780834828223

Appropriating Antiquity for Modern Chinese Painting

By: Chia-Ling Yang

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Appropriating Antiquity for Modern Chinese Painting

By: Chia-Ling Yang

The pursuit of antiquity was important for scholarly artists in constructing their knowledge of history and cultural identity in late imperial China. By examining versatile trends within paintings in modern China, this book questions the extent to which historical relics have been used to represent the ethnic identity of modern Chinese art. In doing so, this book asks: did the antiquarian movements ultimately serve as a deliberate tool for re-writing Chinese art history in modern China? In searching for the public meaning of inventive private collecting activity, Appropriating Antiquity in Modern Chinese Painting draws on various modes of artistic creation to address how the use of antiquities in early 20th-century Chinese art both produced and reinforced the imaginative links between ancient civilization and modern lives in the late Qing dynasty. Further exploring how these social and cultural transformations were related to the artistic exchanges happening at the time between China, Japan and the West, the book successfully analyses how modernity was translated and appropriated at the turn of the 20th century, throughout Asia and further afield.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1501358367

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9781501358364

The Red Guard Generation and Political Activism in China

By: Guobin Yang

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The Red Guard Generation and Political Activism in China

By: Guobin Yang

Raised to be "flowers of the nation," the first generation born after the founding of the People's Republic of China was united in its political outlook and at first embraced the Cultural Revolution of 1966, but then split into warring factions. Investigating the causes of this fracture, Guobin Yang argues that Chinese youth engaged in an imaginary revolution from 1966 to 1968, enacting a political mythology that encouraged violence as a way to prove one's revolutionary credentials. This same competitive dynamic would later turn the Red Guard against the communist government. Throughout the 1970s, the majority of Red Guard youth were sent to work in rural villages, where they developed an appreciation for the values of ordinary life. From this experience, an underground cultural movement was born. Rejecting idolatry, these relocated revolutionaries developed a new form of resistance that signaled a new era of enlightenment, culminating in the Democracy Wall movement of the late 1970s and the Tiananmen protest of 1989. Yang's final chapter on the politics of history and memory argues that contemporary memories of the Cultural Revolution are factionalized along these lines of political division, formed fifty years before.

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Columbia University Press

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0231520484

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9780231520485

Mystifying China's Southwest Ethnic Borderlands

Harmonious Heterotopia

By: Yuqing Yang

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Mystifying China's Southwest Ethnic Borderlands

Harmonious Heterotopia

By: Yuqing Yang

The Confucian notion of “Harmony with difference” (he er bu tong) has great political and cultural resonance in contemporary China, which propagates the quest for a pluralist harmony between cultural and ethnic components of society. In an attempt to examine a range of responses to this state-envisioned ideal of accommodating ethnic differences, this book analyzes the literary and cultural discourses that surround three minority regions in Southwest China — Dali, which was once the location of the ancient Nanzhao and Dali Kingdoms; the homeland of the matrilineal Mosuo known as the Country of Women; and the Tibetan areas associated with utopian Shangri-La. This book borrows Foucault’s concept of “heterotopia” to address the contradictory and often simultaneously existing views of the minority region as rich treasure house of tradition and as intractable barrier to modern development which combine to give rise to productive tensions in scholastic and artistic creations. Through reconstituting and performing the myths and legends of or about minority culture, the representations of the three places turn into heterotopias which are posed between the mythical and the real in different ways. Functioning as a self-reflective mirror, they simultaneously offer images of the actual habitats of the ethnic other which have been subject to socialist projects of modernity, and become a viable means by which to exert material effects on the real landscape. Products of a fascination with alternative social spaces, the three mystified lands all contain conceptualizations of harmony — be it spiritual, gender-based or ecological — that are conceivably absent in the imperfect actuality of the Chinese heartland. In conclusion, these aesthetically constructed spaces of the other negotiate and enrich the discourse of “Harmony with difference,” reacting to ethnic politics in PRC history and creating an audience that grows attentive to the traditions of minorities.

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Lexington Books

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1498502989

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9781498502986

The Wuhan Lockdown

By: Guobin Yang

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The Wuhan Lockdown

By: Guobin Yang

A metropolis with a population of about 11 million, Wuhan sits at the crossroads of China. It was here that in the last days of 2019, the first reports of a mysterious new form of pneumonia emerged. Before long, an abrupt and unprecedented lockdown was declared—the first of many such responses to the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic around the world. This book tells the dramatic story of the Wuhan lockdown in the voices of the city’s own people. Using a vast archive of more than 6,000 diaries, the sociologist Guobin Yang vividly depicts how the city coped during the crisis. He analyzes how the state managed—or mismanaged—the lockdown and explores how Wuhan’s residents responded by taking on increasingly active roles. Yang demonstrates that citizen engagement—whether public action or the civic inaction of staying at home—was essential in the effort to fight the pandemic. The book features compelling stories of citizens and civic groups in their struggle against COVID-19: physicians, patients, volunteers, government officials, feminist organizers, social media commentators, and even aunties loudly swearing at party officials. These snapshots from the lockdown capture China at a critical moment, revealing the intricacies of politics, citizenship, morality, community, and digital technology. Presenting the extraordinary experiences of ordinary people, The Wuhan Lockdown is an unparalleled account of the first moments of the crisis that would define the age.

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Columbia University Press

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0231553633

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9780231553636

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