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Transformative Journeys
During the Song (960-1279), all educated Chinese men traveled frequently, journeying long distances to attend school and take civil service examinations. They crisscrossed the country to assume government posts, report back to the capital, and return home between assignments and to attend to family matters. Based on a wide array of texts, Transformative Journeys analyzes the impact of travel on this group of elite men and the places they visited. In the first part of the book, Cong Ellen Zhang considers the practical aspects of travel during the Song in the context of state mobilization of and assistance to government travelers, including the infrastructure of waterways and highways, the bur...
Performing Filial Piety in Northern Song China
Educated men in Song-dynasty China (960–1279) traveled frequently in search of scholarly and bureaucratic success. These extensive periods of physical mobility took them away from their families, homes, and native places for long periods of time, preventing them from fulfilling their most sacred domestic duty: filial piety to their parents. In this deeply grounded work, Ellen Zhang locates the tension between worldly ambition and family duty at the heart of elite social and cultural life. Drawing on more than 2,000 funerary biographies and other official and private writing, Zhang argues that the predicament in which Song literati found themselves diminished neither the importance of filia...
MANKIND RISING
Part 1: The core reasons behind the separation of mankind from the fauna as well as their historical processes. Part 2: Human beings again are proving their homologies with other animals, testifying the critical points of the evolution of life history, and verifying the temporal and spatial positions of humans in the evolution of life. Part 3: How consciousness is awakened. This book gradually leads the readers into the abyss of consciousness by utilizing the form of deep investigations of letting readers find the origins of consciousness and track down clues from them. The author also answered some queer questions: 1. Is the characteristic of feeling ashamed innate? 2. Can animals understan...
Shield Tunnel Engineering
Shield Tunnel Engineering: From Theory to Practice is a key technique that offers one of the most important ways to build tunnels in fast, relatively safe, and ecologically friendly ways. The book presents state-of-the-art solutions for engineers working within the field of shield tunnelling technology for railways. It includes expertise from major projects in shield tunnel construction for high-speed rail, subways and other major projects. In particular, it presents a series of advances in shield muck conditioning technology, slurry treatment, backfill grouting, and environmental impact and control. In this volume, foundational knowledge is combined with the latest advances in shield tunnel...
THE DIRECTION OF CIVILIZATION
This book defines and clarifies various confusing concepts of civilization from an academic point of view to avoid self-talking and self-superior quarrels about civilization in life. This book explains the conditions for the occurrence of social civilization, the elements needed for the development of civilization, the relationship among the various elements, the means to promote civilization, the performance resulting of civilized society, and measurable parameters or reference basis for the evaluation of social civilization. According to the author's Theory of Social Civilization, the author evaluates the civilization of the main hot spots in the 21st century and predicts the possible direction of human civilization in the future.
Transformative Journeys
During the Song (960-1279), all educated Chinese men travelled frequently, journeying long distances to attend school and take civil service examinations. This work analyzes the impact of travel on this group of elite men and the places they visited. In so doing it sheds new light on the nature of Chinese literati, their dominance of culture and society, and China's social and cultural integration.
The Four Gods Figurines as Tomb Guardians
This book employs a biographical approach to comprehensively study a set of Tang era-tomb guardian figurines, known as the Four Gods (Sishen), comprising a pair of warriors (Dangkuang and Dangye) and a pair of hybrid beasts (Zuming and Dizhou). These objects were exclusively used by officials until 841 AD and were mainly found in capitals then. They disappeared in the 9th century AD. The book is divided into three sections. Part one focuses on their symbolism through names, images, burial contexts, associated ritual regulations, and the interplay of all of these, revealing their dual significance – apotropaic and political, tied to ritual propriety, nuo exorcism, yin-yang divination, and m...
Taurine 12
This volume gathers a selection of original articles and reviews on timely topics about the application of Taurine in human health written by members of the International Taurine Society, including COVID-19, cancer, heart disease, and diabetes, among others. Chapters are written by Taurine experts across the globe in North and South America, Asia, and Europe. A majority of the articles are based on original studies recently carried out in individual laboratories worldwide. The book is divided into eight parts, each covering a unique aspect of Taurine. Each section will highlight new research findings on Taurine and its application in various human systems, including the nervous system, immune system, and cardiovascular system, to combat disease. The first section covers COVID-19, the dominant health event of 2020. Experts will explore and clarify the potential therapeutic effectiveness of Taurine against COVID-19. The volume will promote further research into the application of Taurine in human health, and will be of use to a wide audience, including basic and clinical scientists, pharmaceutical and nutraceutical companies, and libraries.
