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The Magus Era(1)
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 764

The Magus Era(1)

Long ago, there were people who stood upon the earth with their heads held high. They never bowed to anyone because of their indomitable spirit. They were capable of controlling wind and lightning, and conquering dragons and serpents. They seemed strong enough to split the earth and shatter the stars with their fists. They traveled throughout the land and called themselves Magi. Eventually, one of them would become a Supreme Magus! These men are the ancestors of human beings. Their blood is what we all share today. Qing Long is the former strongest man in the world. He traveled through space and time and was reborn as Ji Hao in the Fire Crow Clan of the Southern Wasteland. It’s a complicated world. Forces from both inside and outside of the clan want this young and talented boy to die. Under great pressure, Ji Hao makes a deal with a mysterious man, who resides in his spiritual space, never showing his real face. He gains two drops of blood from a dragon and phoenix. Afterwards, Ji Hao becomes increasingly more powerful. -------- Releasing: Everyday

MOBIMEDIA 2020
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1259

MOBIMEDIA 2020

We are delighted to introduce the proceedings of the 13th edition of the 2020 European Alliance for Innovation (EAI) International Conference on Mobile Multimedia Communications (MOBIMEDIA). This conference has brought researchers, developers and practitioners around the world who are leveraging and developing multimedia coding, mobile communications and networking fields. Developing and leveraging multimedia coding, mobile communications and networking fields requires adopting an interdisciplinary approach where multimedia, networking and physical layer issues are addressed jointly. Basic theories, key technologies and Artificial Intelligence for next-generations wireless communications,i...

Plants, Health and Healing
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 321

Plants, Health and Healing

Plants have cultural histories, as their applications change over time and with place. Some plant species have affected human cultures in profound ways, such as the stimulants tea and coffee from the Old World, or coca and quinine from South America. Even though medicinal plants have always attracted considerable attention, there is surprisingly little research on the interface of ethnobotany and medical anthropology. This volume, which brings together (ethno-)botanists, medical anthropologists and a clinician, makes an important contribution towards filling this gap. It emphasises that plant knowledge arises situationally as an intrinsic part of social relationships, that herbs need to be enticed if not seduced by the healers who work with them, that herbal remedies are cultural artefacts, and that bioprospecting and medicinal plant discovery can be viewed as the epitome of a long history of borrowing, stealing and exchanging plants.

Missionary Linguistics in East Asia
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 228

Missionary Linguistics in East Asia

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2008
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  • Publisher: Peter Lang

This book examines the language studies of Western missionaries in China and beyond. The goal of this study is to examine the purpose, methods, context, and influence of missionary language studies. The book reveals new insights into the hitherto less well-known and unstudied origins of language thinking. These publically unknown sources virtually form our «hidden history of language». Some key 17thcentury and pre-17thcentury descriptions of language not only pass on our Greco-Latin «grammatical» heritage internationally for about two millennia. They also reveal grammar, speaking, and language as an esoteric knowledge. Our modern life has been formed and influenced through both esoteric and common connotations in language. It is precisely the techniques, allusions, and intentions of language making revealed in rare, coded texts which have influenced our modern identities. These extraordinary and highly controversial interpretations of both language and Christianity reveal that our modern identities have been largely shaped in the absence of public knowledge and discussion.

Du Fu
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 240

Du Fu

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2023-07-10
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  • Publisher: BRILL

Irreducible to conventional labels usually applied to him, the Tang poet Du Fu (712–770) both defined and was defined by the literary, intellectual, and socio-political cultures of the Song dynasty (960–1279). Jue Chen not only argues in his work that Du Fu was constructed according to particular literary and intellectual agendas of Song literati but also that conventional labels applied to Du Fu do not accurately represent this construction campaign. He also discusses how Du Fu’s image as the greatest poet sheds unique light on issues that can deepen our understanding of the subtleties in the poetic culture of Song China.

Masculinities and Hong Kong Cinema
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 357

Masculinities and Hong Kong Cinema

This collection of exciting essays explores how the representations and the ideologies of masculinities can be productively studied in the context of Hong Kong cinema. It has two objectives: first, to investigate the multiple meanings and manifestations of masculinities in Hong Kong cinema that compliment and contradict each other. Second, to analyze the social and cultural environments that make these representations possible and problematic. Masculinities and Hong Kong Cinema presents a comprehensive picture of how Hong Kong mainstream cinematic masculinities are produced within their own socio-cultural discourses, and how these masculinities are distributed, received, and transformed within the setting of the market place. This volume is divided into three interrelated parts: the local cinematic tradition; the transnational context and reverberations; and the larger production, reception, and mediation environments. The combination of these three perspectives will reveal the dynamics and tensions between the local and the transnational, between production and reception, and between text and context, in the gendered manifestations of Hong Kong cinema.

  • Language: en
  • Pages: 416

"In vain I tried to tell you"

From the Introduction: This book is . . . devoted to the first literature of North America, that of the American Indians, or Native Americans. The texts are from the North Pacific Coast, because that is where I am from, and those are the materials I know best. The purpose is general: All traditional American Indian verbal art requires attention of this kind if we are to comprehend what it is and says. There is linguistics in this book, and that will put some people off. ''Too technical," they will say. Perhaps such people would be amused to know that many linguists will not regard the work as linguistics. "Not theoretical," they will say, meaning not part of a certain school of grammar. And ...

Hello, My Actress Darling
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 678

Hello, My Actress Darling

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020-07-21
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  • Publisher: Funstory

Hollywood's popular Chinese actress, Jiang Nianxue, has been hit by a three-year-old illegitimate daughter. Everyone had different opinions on the child's background, and their target was a certain financial crocodile. The colossal financial crocodile smiled and praised, "Yes, Jiang Xanxue is mine, and so is my daughter." He got down on one knee and insisted on taking his wife and children home to get their certificates. Jiang Nian Xue's smile stiffened. "Who is this lunatic? I don't know him." 'Zhao Mo Chen, it's been three years. If I still fall in love with you blindly, I'll be a dog! '

Legend of A Hero
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 714

Legend of A Hero

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020-05-20
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  • Publisher: Funstory

This is a place managed by a martial arts sect. The author tries his best to lead you into a different martial arts world. The two brothers were young and had stepped into the martial arts world. With curiosity, with passion, with chivalry, with the warmth of the world, should I keep my heart or become a devil? Because of his father, he couldn't use any peerless martial arts, so how could he let any random master be chased and beaten until he couldn't hold it in? Civilians could not practice martial arts in this martial arts world. There seemed to be iron-like rules here, so who was trying to break them? This martial arts world had a long history of grudges against its powerful enemies. It was full of twists and turns, and hard to fathom people's hearts. There was never a lack of chivalrous men in the martial arts world. The winds and the rain in the martial arts world rose and fell together, just like the brothers collecting the rain and wind. Their names shook the martial arts world! Close]