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Little Leap Forward Chapter
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 128

Little Leap Forward Chapter

A sensitively written, real-life story about a boy called Little Leap Forward, growing up in the hutongs of Beijing in the 1960s, at the time of the Cultural Revolution.

Music, Food And Love
  • Language: en

Music, Food And Love

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2009-12-01
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  • Publisher: Piatkus

Music, Food and Love conveys the vivid experiences of a boy with a passion for music and cooking who grew up in Beijing before and during the Chinese Cultural Revolution. For him, music and food are equally important. The youngest of six children, Guo Yue recalls his childhood at the heart of a close-knit family of musicians living beside a Beijing alley. He draws the reader into a world where music is everywhere - even in the rhythmic chopping sounds of the kitchen. We follow Yue as he explores Beijing, watching others and learning through imitation, until he finally leaves for the West. This beautifully-written and evocative memoir highlights how, despite poverty and repressed times, cooking family dishes was a life-affirming experience, symbolising freedom of expression. He shares with readers a few delicious traditional recipes which have been passed on in his family and among friends. These are based on a few simple ingredients, a natural approach to taste, colour and texture, and an innate love of good food.

Beyond the May Fourth Paradigm
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 352

Beyond the May Fourth Paradigm

When did China make the decisive turn from tradition to modernity? For decades, the received wisdom would have pointed to the May Fourth movement, with its titanic battles between the champions of iconoclasm and the traditionalists, and its shift to more populist forms of politics. A growing body of recent research has, however, called into question how decisive the turn was, when it happened, and what relation the resulting modernity bore to the agendas of people who might have considered themselves representatives of such an iconoclastic movement. Having thus explicitly or implicitly 'decentered' the May Fourth, such research (augmented by contributions in the present volume) leaves us with the task of accounting for the shape Chinese modernity took, as the product of dialogues and debates between, and the interplay of, a variety of actors and trends, both within and (certainly no less importantly) without the May Fourth camp.

The Sinitic Civilization Book II
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 852

The Sinitic Civilization Book II

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-11-14
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  • Publisher: iUniverse

The Sinitic Civilization A Factual History through the Lens of Archaeology, Bronzeware, Astronomy, Divination, Calendar and the Annals The book covered the time span of history of the Sinitic civilization from antiquity, to the 3rd millennium B.C. to A.D. 85. A comprehensive review of history related to the Sinitic cosmological, astronomical, astrological, historical, divinatory, and geographical developments was given. All ancient Chinese calendars had been examined, with the ancient thearchs' dates examined from the perspective how they were forged or made up. The book provides the indisputable evidence regarding the fingerprint of the forger for the 3rd century A.D. book Shang-shu (remote...

Feast or Famine? Food and Children’s Literature
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 280

Feast or Famine? Food and Children’s Literature

In November 2013, the joint annual conference of the British branch of the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY UK) and the MA course at the National Centre for Research in Children’s Literature (NCRCL) at Roehampton University took as its focus ‘Feast or Famine? Food in Children’s Literature’. Food is central to both children’s lives and their literature. The mouth-watering menu of talks given to the conference delegates is richly reflected in this book. Speakers examined the uses of food in children’s books from the nineteenth century to the present day, and in a wide variety of genres, from ancient fable to twenty-first-century fantasy. From the contributions to this collection, it is shown that food within literature not only reflects the society, culture and time in which it is prepared, but also is widely used by authors as a means to instruct their juvenile readers, and to deliver moral messages.

Principles and Applications of Asymmetric Synthesis
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 536

Principles and Applications of Asymmetric Synthesis

Asymmetric synthesis remains a challenge to practicing scientistsas the need for enantiomerically pure or enriched compoundscontinues to increase. Over the last decade, a large amount ofliterature has been published in this field. Principles andApplications of Asymmetric Synthesis consolidates and evaluates themost useful methodologies into a one-volume resource for theconvenience of practicing scientists and students. Authored by internationally renowned scientists in the field, thisreliable reference covers more than 450 reactions and includesimportant stoichiometric as well as catalytic asymmetric reactions.The first chapter reviews the basic principles, commonnomenclature, and analytical...

Advanced Intelligent Computing Theories and Applications
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1398

Advanced Intelligent Computing Theories and Applications

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2007-07-31
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  • Publisher: Springer

This volume, in conjunction with the two volumes CICS 0002 and LNCS 4681, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Intelligent Computing held in Qingdao, China, in August 2007. The 139 full papers published here were carefully reviewed and selected from among 2,875 submissions. These papers offer important findings and insights into the field of intelligent computing.

Communications, Signal Processing, and Systems
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1475

Communications, Signal Processing, and Systems

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-08-14
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  • Publisher: Springer

This book brings together papers from the 2018 International Conference on Communications, Signal Processing, and Systems, which was held in Dalian, China on July 14–16, 2018. Presenting the latest developments and discussing the interactions and links between these multidisciplinary fields, the book spans topics ranging from communications, signal processing and systems. It is aimed at undergraduate and graduate electrical engineering, computer science and mathematics students, researchers and engineers from academia and industry as well as government employees.

Fractals in Rock Mechanics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 472

Fractals in Rock Mechanics

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020-12-18
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  • Publisher: CRC Press

Important developments in the progress of the theory of rock mechanics during recent years are based on fractals and damage mechanics. The concept of fractals has proved to be a useful way of describing the statistics of naturally occurring geometrics. Natural objects, from mountains and coastlines to clouds and forests, are found to have boundaries best described as fractals. Fluid flow through jointed rock masses and clusterings of earthquakes are found to follow fractal patterns in time and space. Fracturing in rocks at all scales, from the microscale (microcracks) to the continental scale (megafaults), can lead to fractal structures. The process of diagenesis and pore geometry of sedimen...

My Wife is a Beautiful CEO
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 842

My Wife is a Beautiful CEO

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-10-27
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  • Publisher: Funstory

Yang Chen, a peddler selling mutton kebabs in a vegetable market, is ordinary in appearance and lazy in character. But one day, Lin Ruoxi, the beautiful president of a multinational company, came to marry him. If there was a woman crying in front of Yang Chen more than half a year ago, Yang Chen would only think that she was deliberately disguise herself. But now, when this woman he once met cried, Yang Chen involuntarily felt a sense of guilt. Under Lin Ruoxi's threat of suicide, he finally agreed to her request. But Lin Ruoxi soon discovered that the man selling mutton kebabs was not only a master of marketing management from Harvard University, but also proficient in many foreign languages. His profile only showed that he was adopted at the age of 5 and returned to China at the age of 23. What mysterious past does Yang Chen have? ☆About the Author☆ Mei Gan Cai Shao Bing is a web novelist. He has written urban novel My Wife is a Beautiful CEO, The Female CEO's Divine Bodyguard and romantic fiction Red Makeup Dream. His new book My Cold And Beautiful Wife is in series.