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The Most Powerful Doctor

Volume 5

By: Yu Yang

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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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Doctor's Romantic Adventures

Volume 7

By: Yu BuZhou

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Doctor's Romantic Adventures

Volume 7

By: Yu BuZhou

Tang Chuan, the heir to the imperial family, was ordered by four beautiful mothers to find the precious treasure of the Apricot Forest, the "Nine Stars Needle". At the same time, he helped his fiancée, who he had never met, dissolve her yin and yang body, but because of the misunderstanding, Tang Chuan stayed at Zhou's house.

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To Save China, To Save Ourselves

The Chinese Hand Laundry Alliance of New York

By: Renqiu Yu

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To Save China, To Save Ourselves

The Chinese Hand Laundry Alliance of New York

By: Renqiu Yu

Combining archival research in Chinese language sources with oral history interviews, Renqiu Yu examines the Chinese Hand Laundry Alliance (CHLA), an organization that originated in 1933 to help Chinese laundry workers break their isolation in American society. Yu brings to life the men who labored in New York laundries, depicting their meager existence, their struggles against discrimination and exploitation, and their dreams of returning to China. The persistent efforts of the CHLA succeeded in changing the workers' status in American society and improving the image of the Chinese among the American public. Yu is especially concerned with the political activities of the CHLA, which was founded in reaction to proposed New York City legislation that would have put the Chinese laundries out of business. When the conservative Chinese social organization could not help the launderers, they broke with tradition and created their own organization. Not only did the CHLA defeat the legislative requirements that would have closed them down, but their "people's diplomacy" won American support for China during its war with Japan. The CHLA staged a campaign in the 1930s and 40s which took as its slogan, "To Save China, To Save Ourselves." Focusing on this campaign, Yu also examines the complex relationship between the democratically oriented CHLA and the Chinese American left in the 1930s.

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My Demon Friend

Volume 2

By: Yu WenYuLe

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My Demon Friend

Volume 2

By: Yu WenYuLe

College student Lin Xiao had accidentally entered the world of demons. Humans and demons had actually survived for thousands of years! Fuxi Nuwa? Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors? Three Thousand Worlds? Myth is myth after all. Was the end of time and space a new era, and the cause of all the ancient grudges ... Three thousand six hundred lines, and a single dream that spanned the ages. In the blink of an eye, fate had sprung up within him. Close]

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Miss Zensheng

Volume 2

By: Yu Qiuli

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Miss Zensheng

Volume 2

By: Yu Qiuli

How could he possibly believe that Nie Mo was repayment for his kindness and enmity? Nie Mo, on the other hand, felt that he was composing a soul-stirring love song using his prime, his beautiful future, and his dazzling life.However, this was only the beginning. Why was his life so complicated and complicated? Furthermore, the wedding that Nie Mo had thought of hundreds and thousands of times was also not that easy to settle.For Yu Gongsheng, the Leaf Board was a great achievement that he had discovered after teleporting over to this world. On the other hand, for Nie Mo, why was it so hard for him to get married?! It was difficult for Yu to have a child in his womb, he couldn't rely on his father's noble position!This was actually a story of a couple struggling to get married. To paraphrase Yu's words, I am responsible for setting goals, while you are responsible for struggling.

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Into The Sky

Volume 3

By: Yu Qing

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Into The Sky

Volume 3

By: Yu Qing

Eighteen years ago, a first god body appeared in the Xu family. It had ten divine veins, but the news of it had been leaked out, and ten divine veins had been destroyed. From then on, even though he had the qualifications of a god body, he could no longer cultivate. He had never been known to shake the mountains and rivers; he had never been able to cover the sky with his hands, but he had guided the world; he had never possessed endless abilities, but he had been respected by the world as a teacher; he was destined to not live past twenty, even though he was young and extraordinary.

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Tough Wife Rules

Volume 2

By: Lian Yu

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Tough Wife Rules

Volume 2

By: Lian Yu

In the most tragic moment of teleportation, a crappy city that was on all sides was thrown to her by the unscrupulous Father And Daughter. He was an unreachable General Da in the midst of all the glory, and his skills were both underhanded. Alright, I beg for surrender. I'll let you handle this mess a little more, my Principal Superior. On the stretcher, she feebly revealed an immoral smile. Want to kill her? Very good. He couldn't bear to part with this talent of hers, making him fall in love with her, then abandoning her like a pair of old shoes!

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Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 5, Chemistry and Chemical Technology, Part 4, Spagyrical Discovery and Invention: Apparatus, Theories and Gifts

By: Joseph Needham,Ho Ping-Yu,Lu Gwei-Djen,Nathan Sivin

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Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 5, Chemistry and Chemical Technology, Part 4, Spagyrical Discovery and Invention: Apparatus, Theories and Gifts

By: Joseph Needham,Ho Ping-Yu,Lu Gwei-Djen,Nathan Sivin

The fifth volume of Dr Needham's immense undertaking, like the fourth, is subdivided into parts for ease of assimilation and presentation, each part bound and published separately. The volume as a whole covers the subjects of alchemy, early chemistry, and chemical technology (which includes military invention, especially gunpowder and rockets; paper and printing; textiles; mining and metallurgy; the salt industry; and ceramics).

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The Lunatic Merciful person

Volume 1

By: Yu Qingmu

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The Lunatic Merciful person

Volume 1

By: Yu Qingmu

The Central Plains was built side by side with the Hundred Kingdoms.The powers of each nation were about the same, but after the fall of the only empire in the country, the Empire of Chu and Tang, they waged a full-scale war for the throne.The flames of war swirled around him as his spirit was burnt to ashes.Good to evil, reincarnation limitless, willing to be a Qinglian one-man, do not be the world's worst.The four images were all empty, and they were all based on kindness.

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A Mistaken Marriage with CEO

Volume 5

By: Yu GongZi

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A Mistaken Marriage with CEO

Volume 5

By: Yu GongZi

Xiao Yueze was originally her good friend's fiancé. Once, her good friend accidentally jumped into the sea to commit suicide because he lost his virginity in a bar, while Xiao Yueze blamed all the crimes on her. The wedding night. He was like an enraged lion, his hands tightly gripped around her neck, and killing intent raged in his eyes, "From tonight onwards, your good days will come to an end ...

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Chronicle of a Blood Merchant

By: Yu Hua

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Chronicle of a Blood Merchant

By: Yu Hua

From the acclaimed author of Brothers and China in Ten Words: here is Yu Hua’s unflinching portrait of life under Chairman Mao. A cart-pusher in a silk mill, Xu Sanguan augments his meager salary with regular visits to the local blood chief. His visits become lethally frequent as he struggles to provide for his wife and three sons at the height of the Cultural Revolution. Shattered to discover that his favorite son was actually born of a liaison between his wife and a neighbor, he suffers his greatest indignity, while his wife is publicly scorned as a prostitute. Although the poverty and betrayals of Mao’s regime have drained him, Xu Sanguan ultimately finds strength in the blood ties of his family. With rare emotional intensity, grippingly raw descriptions of place and time, and clear-eyed compassion, Yu Hua gives us a stunning tapestry of human life in the grave particulars of one man’s days.

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Marriage, Gender and Sex in a Contemporary Chinese Village

By: Sun-Pong Yuen,Pui-Lam Law,Yuk-Ying Ho,Fong-Ying Yu

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Marriage, Gender and Sex in a Contemporary Chinese Village

By: Sun-Pong Yuen,Pui-Lam Law,Yuk-Ying Ho,Fong-Ying Yu

This book explores changing concepts of marriage and gender relationships and attitudes toward sex in a rural Chinese community over the past five decades. The book is based on a study of an industrialized peasant village in Guangdong Province from 1994 to 1996 and subsequent visits from 2000 to 2002. According to the authors, the rural economic reforms of the 1980s in southern China have challenged and reinforced the deep structure of Chinese familism and this has lead to tensions between tradition and modernity. The first section of the book explores how attitudes toward marriage and courtship have changed over the past fifty years through personal accounts of three different marriages from different generations. In Part II, the transition from a traditional to a modern society is discussed from the perspective of several women from different generations. The third section focuses on sexual relationships and the growing sex trade in the village. Part IV includes updates to the original survey and takes a look at village politics.

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The Politics, Practices, and Possibilities of Migrant Children Schools in Contemporary China

By: Min Yu

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The Politics, Practices, and Possibilities of Migrant Children Schools in Contemporary China

By: Min Yu

Winner of the AERA Division B Outstanding Book Recognition Award This book examines the dynamics surrounding the education of children in the unofficial schools in China’s urban migrant communities. This ethnographic study focuses on both the complex structural factors impacting the education of children attending unofficial migrant children schools and the personal experiences of individuals working within these communities. As the book illustrates in careful detail, the migrant children schools serve a critical function in the community by serving as a hub for organized collective action around shared grievances related to issues of education, employment, wellbeing, and other social rights. In turn, the development of a collective identity among teachers, students, parents, and other members in the migrant communities makes it possible for activists to begin to working to address multiple forms of discrimination and maltreatment while simultaneously moving towards the possibility of more profound social transformation.

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Evidence-based Clinical Chinese Medicine - Volume 3: Chronic Urticaria

By: Meaghan Coyle,Jingjie Yu

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Evidence-based Clinical Chinese Medicine - Volume 3: Chronic Urticaria

By: Meaghan Coyle,Jingjie Yu

In the third volume of the Evidence-based Clinical Chinese Medicine series, the authors focus on a challenging dermatological condition — chronic urticaria. Chronic urticaria can have a significant impact on quality of life, and while medical management can be effective, many people experience frequent and unpredictable recurrence.This book unearths treatments used in classical Chinese medicine textbooks, many of which are inaccessible to non-Chinese speaking Chinese medicine practitioners. Oral and topical Chinese herbal medicines used in pre-modern China for urticaria are identified, some of which are still in use today. Evidence from clinical studies has been subject to rigorous evaluation, with analyses conducted using the internationally recognized Cochrane-GRADE approach. Chinese herbal medicine formulas and acupuncture therapies which offer the most potential for treatment of chronic urticaria are highlighted.This book provides an easy to use reference for clinicians who are interested in Chinese medicine management of chronic urticaria.The authors are internationally recognized, well-respected leaders in the field of Chinese medicine and evidence-based medicine with strong track records in research.

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Propose to Me? Please Wait

Volume 1

By: Xie Yu

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Propose to Me? Please Wait

Volume 1

By: Xie Yu

what let her divorce and go with him is this man insane? want her to move on no way never mind how undignified her marriage was she didn t do anything beyond her conscience however he car accident hospitalization her temporarily softhearted let him have opportunity in the face of his pity and love she moved so that they fell in love but do not think she is just a pawn of his when she returns from nirvana he will propose sorry i m not free wait ps men do not slag is not slag men and women clean body and mind rest assured into the pit

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Peerless Ghost Doctor

Volume 2

By: Yu Gu

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Peerless Ghost Doctor

Volume 2

By: Yu Gu

Li Su's life was very exciting. Last month, he married his thirteenth beautiful wife, a young international model, in the United States. Last week, he bought a fifteenth private island in the South Pacific and planned to make a golf course. A few days ago, he even rejected the investment invitation of the Roschell family. Hm, he looked down on that small amount of money! He's a genius, he's a legend! At the age of 20, he had millions of properties and at the age of 23, he was evaluated as the youngest rich man in Asia. His life was filled with glory and glory. Of course, he also had a weakness of wanting to boast to the best of his ability, and that was that even at the end of his life, he still hadn't changed his habit of bragging. Yes, it was all bragging.

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Essential Chinese Medicine (In 4 Volumes)

By: Bao Chun Zhang,Yu Ting Chen

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Essential Chinese Medicine (In 4 Volumes)

By: Bao Chun Zhang,Yu Ting Chen

Over the course of several thousand years, with a long history of continual development and enhancement, Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) has become a unique Chinese medical system with significant success in the field of healthcare, making great contributions to the well-being of mankind.The Essential Chinese Medicine book series fulfills the mission of honouring life and promoting the health of family members and friends. This series develops and expands on the essence of TCM to advocate new concepts of health and wellness.The editors-in-chief, Professor Zhang Bao Chun and Associate Professor Chen Yu Ting, have been involved in the teaching, research and clinical work of the TCM theoretical system for a long period of time. Both have not only mastered the ancient learning but have also blazed new trails. They have put forward assiduous efforts in the research and writing of materials, being the chief editors of several specialised academic publications and other teaching materials. This four-volume Essential Chinese Medicine series is the product of their extensive research.

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Never Regret Falling in Love with You

Volume 2

By: Yu Meiren

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Never Regret Falling in Love with You

Volume 2

By: Yu Meiren

He was the highest and most proud of men and she was the humblest of little maids he bullied her but also spoiled her so that millions of women are jealous of her she thought he loved her and when he conceived his child he waited for the coldest result

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CEO's Love Strategy

Volume 1

By: Xie Yu

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CEO's Love Strategy

Volume 1

By: Xie Yu

This marriage was very hasty, a child shouldn't be born so easily.She did not know if she liked him, much less who he liked!But then one morning she woke up crying in his arms.He looked deeply at her and asked softly, "Did you have a sad dream?""I dreamed I lost you!"He held her tighter, running his fingers over the tears at the corners of her eyes. "Don't cry, this is just a dream!"She rubbed her hand against his chest, "But I'm afraid. I'm afraid that I might really lose you in the real world. What should I do then?"He squeezed her cold little hand and said softly, "It doesn't matter, I'll find you!"By then, the purple violets on the balcony were all in full bloom.Ps: purple violet flowery language: in a beautiful dream to fall in love with you.

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Plum Shadows and Plank Bridge

Two Memoirs About Courtesans

By: Mao Xiang,Yu Huai

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Plum Shadows and Plank Bridge

Two Memoirs About Courtesans

By: Mao Xiang,Yu Huai

Amid the turmoil of the Ming-Qing dynastic transition in seventeenth-century China, some intellectuals sought refuge in romantic memories from what they perceived as cataclysmic events. This volume presents two memoirs by famous men of letters, Reminiscences of the Plum Shadows Convent by Mao Xiang (1611–93) and Miscellaneous Records of Plank Bridge by Yu Huai (1616–96), that recall times spent with courtesans. They evoke the courtesan world in the final decades of the Ming dynasty and the aftermath of its collapse. Mao Xiang chronicles his relationship with the courtesan Dong Bai, who became his concubine two years before the Ming dynasty fell. His mournful remembrance of their life together, written shortly after her early death, includes harrowing descriptions of their wartime sufferings as well as idyllic depictions of romantic bliss. Yu Huai offers a group portrait of Nanjing courtesans, mixing personal memories with reported anecdotes. Writing fifty years after the fall of the Ming, he expresses a deep nostalgia for courtesan culture that bears the toll of individual loss and national calamity. Together, they shed light on the sensibilities of late Ming intellectuals: their recollections of refined pleasures and ruminations on the vagaries of memory coexist with political engagement and a belief in bearing witness. With an introduction and extensive annotations, Plum Shadows and Plank Bridge is a valuable source for the literature of remembrance, the representation of women, and the social role of intellectuals during a tumultuous period in Chinese history.

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Pear Flower Story

Volume 2

By: Yu YueYa

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Pear Flower Story

Volume 2

By: Yu YueYa

Bu Heng had never seen such an eye before. It was so attractive that she couldn't tear her eyes away from it. It was a pair of ... Green eyes! No, it was a green eye! The other was grayish brown. The colors were not the same, but they were all sparkling and translucent!

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Shanghai Narrative

A Socio-spatial Perspective

By: Hai Yu,Huahua Zou

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Shanghai Narrative

A Socio-spatial Perspective

By: Hai Yu,Huahua Zou

This book focuses on urban development in Shanghai over the past four decades, which is composed of two major development processes—the development of new spaces and the renewal of old ones. Seeking to bring the concept of space back into social analysis, the book explores changes affecting communities, interpersonal interactions, lifestyles and social mindsets in Shanghai from a spatial perspective. What’s more, all these social themes are presented using a narrative of spatial representation and spatialization. The book combines both academic and documentary-style contributions. It also provides cutting-edge research on the most representative case in Shanghai. As the book demonstrates, the story of social spaces in Shanghai is more than a combination of social analysis and spatial analysis but also involves historical analysis and contemporary narrative.

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Leap

How to Thrive in a World Where Everything Can Be Copied

By: Howard Yu

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Leap

How to Thrive in a World Where Everything Can Be Copied

By: Howard Yu

Every business faces the existential threat of competitors producing cheaper copies. Even patent filings, market dominance and financial resources can't shield them from copycats. So what can we do -- and, what can we learn from companies that have endured and even prospered for centuries despite copycat competition? In a book of narrative history and practical strategy, IMD professor of management and innovation Howard Yu shows that succeeding in today's marketplace is no longer just a matter of mastering copycat tactics, companies also need to leap across knowledge disciplines, and to reimagine how a product is made or a service is delivered. This proven tactic can protect a company from being overtaken by new (and often foreign) copycat competitors. Using riveting case studies of successful leaps and tragic falls, Yu illustrates five principles to success that span a wide range of industries, countries, and eras. Learn about how P&G in the 19th century made the leap from handcrafted soaps and candles to mass production of its signature brand Ivory, leaped into the new fields of consumer psychology and advertising, then leaped again, at the risk of cannibalizing its core product, into synthetic detergents and won with Tide in 1946. Learn about how Novartis and other pharma pioneers stayed ahead by making leaps from chemistry to microbiology to genomics in drug discovery; and how forward-thinking companies, including China's largest social media app -- WeChat, Tokyo-based Internet service provider Recruit Holdings, and Illinois-headquartered John Deere are leaping ahead by leveraging the emergence of ubiquitous connectivity, the inexorable rise of intelligent machines, and the rising importance of managerial creativity. Outlasting competition is difficult; doing so over decades or a century is nearly impossible -- unless one leaps. Ultimately, Leap is a manifesto for how pioneering companies can endure and prosper in a world of constant change and inevitable copycats.

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Empowered by Ancestors

Controversy over the Imperial Temple in Song China (960–1279)

By: Cheung Hiu Yu

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Controversy over the Imperial Temple in Song China (960–1279)

By: Cheung Hiu Yu

Empowered by Ancestors: Controversy over the Imperial Temple in Song China (960–1279) examines the enduring tension between cultural authority and political power in imperial China by inquiring into Song ritual debates over the Imperial Temple. During these debates, Song-educated elites utilized various discourses to rectify temple rituals in their own ways. In this process, political interests were less emphasized and even detached from ritual discussions. Meanwhile, Song scholars of particular schools developed various ritual theories that were used to reshape society in later periods. Hence, the Song ritual debates exemplified the great transmission of ancestral ritual norms from the top stratum of imperial court downward to society. In this book, the author attempts to provide a lens through which historians, anthropologists, experts in Chinese Classics, and scholars from other disciplines can explore Chinese ritual in its intellectual, social, and political forms. “Cheung knows the history and culture of China’s Imperial Temple system best and pulls together a decade of research to share his mature reflections. Most modern scholars have avoided this arcane institution; Cheung clarifies its role in Song political culture, its influence in late imperial China, and its legacy in contemporary constructions of cultural memory and legitimacy.” —Hoyt Cleveland Tillman, Arizona State University; coauthor of Cultural Authority and Political Culture in China: Exploring Issues with the Zhongyong and the Daotong during the Song, Jin and Yuan Dynasties “Professor Cheung helps us wrap our minds around the weight Song Confucian scholars put on reviving ancient rituals. He does this by digging deeply into their positions on the arrangement of the Imperial Ancestral Shrine and placing their contentions in both political and intellectual contexts.” —Patricia Ebrey, University of Washington; author of Confucianism and Family Rituals in Imperial China: A Social History of Writing about Rites

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Chang'an Avenue and the Modernization of Chinese Architecture

By: Shuishan Yu

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Chang'an Avenue and the Modernization of Chinese Architecture

By: Shuishan Yu

In this interdisciplinary narrative, the never-ending "completion" of China's most important street offers a broad view of the relationship between art and ideology in modern China. Chang'an Avenue, named after China's ancient capital (whose name means "Eternal Peace"), is supremely symbolic. Running east-west through the centuries-old heart of Beijing, it intersects the powerful north-south axis that links the traditional centers of political and spiritual legitimacy (the imperial Forbidden City and the Temple of Heaven). Among its best-known features are Tiananmen Square and the Great Hall of the People, as well as numerous other monuments and prominent political, cultural, financial, and travel-related institutions. Drawing on Chang'an Avenue's historic ties and modern transformations, this study explores the deep structure of the Chinese modernization project, providing both a big picture of Beijing's urban texture alteration and details in the design process of individual buildings. Political winds shift, architectural styles change, and technological innovations influence waves of demolition and reconstruction in this analysis of Chang'an Avenue's metamorphosis. During collective design processes, architects, urban planners, and politicians argue about form, function, and theory, and about Chinese vs. Western and traditional vs. modern style. Every decision is fraught with political significance, from the 1950s debate over whether Tiananmen Square should be open or partially closed; to the 1970s discussion of the proper location, scale, and design of the Mao Memorial/Mausoleum; to the more recent controversy over whether the egg-shaped National Theater, designed by the French architect Paul Andreu, is an affront to Chinese national pride. Art History Publication Initiative. For more information, visit http://arthistorypi.org/books/chang-an

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