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North Korea Handbook
This is a timely and comprehensive guide to one of the most volatile, misunderstood, and potentially dangerous states in the world, and one of great strategic importance to U.S. interests in Asia. Featuring a detailed "who's who" section, it covers politics, the economy, the military, education, and culture, and provides numerous vital statistical data.
Finding Myself
Su-mi's dreams of becoming a K-pop star are finally coming true, but her passion is met with the challenge of conforming to society's beauty standards. As she searches for true meaning and purpose in life, a journey of self-discovery leads her and her long-term boyfriend Woo-jin to open a rescue cat sanctuary. With every step of their mission, they discover a profound love for these beautiful creatures, changing lives, finding purpose, and igniting compassion in the hearts of all who witness their devotion. Will Su-mi choose fame or love and purpose? Join Su-mi as she discovers the power of love and compassion within the bustling streets of Seoul.
Little Gods
An epic, heart-breaking novel opening on the night of the Tiananmen Square massacre, about the legacy of migration, with a tangled family mystery at its heart On the night of the Tiananmen Square massacre, a woman gives birth alone in a Beijing hospital. Years later, her daughter Liya travels from America to China with her mother's ashes, hoping to unravel the legacy of silences and contradictions that she inherited from that night. As Liya seeks to untangle the mystery of her family, we travel through Shanghai and Beijing, and deep into the past, uncovering an unexpected love triangle whose repurcussions are felt in the present moment. Ambitious yet intimate, Little Gods is a gripping story of migrations both literal and emotional, and of the tragic impact of history on personal lives. Meng Jin's s narrative prose has appeared in the Pushcart Prize Anthology, Threepenny Review, Ploughshares, the Bare Life Review, Vogue, and Best American Short Stories 2020. A Kundiman Fellow, she has an MFA from Hunter College, and received the David TK Wong Fellowship at the University of East Anglia. Jin was born in Shanghai and has lived in the UK and the US.
Reading North Korea
"Often depicted as one of the world’s most strictly isolationist and relentlessly authoritarian regimes, North Korea has remained terra incognita to foreign researchers as a site for anthropological fieldwork. Given the difficulty of gaining access to the country and its people, is it possible to examine the cultural logic and social dynamics of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea? In this innovative book, Sonia Ryang casts new light onto the study of North Korean culture and society by reading literary texts as sources of ethnographic data. Analyzing and interpreting the rituals and language embodied in a range of literary works published in the 1970s and 1980s, Ryang focuses crit...
Unequal Motherhoods and the Adoption of Asian Children
This book explores a deeply personal aspect of globalization: the adoption of Asian children by white Americans. It is based on dozens of interviews with adoptive mothers and adoption social workers, nearly two hundred letters and essays written by Korean birth mothers who put their children up for adoption, and field work at an adoption agency in South Korea. It also includes analyses and explanations of U.S. and South Korean governments’ social characteristics and policies regarding adoptions and how relations between nations have affected international adoption. The book focuses on whether the commonly held notion that adoptions are to serve children’s welfare and their best interests...
Encyclopedia of Traditional Chinese Medicines - Molecular Structures, Pharmacological Activities, Natural Sources and Applications
This set of six volumes provides a systematic and standardized description of 23,033 chemical components isolated from 6,926 medicinal plants, collected from 5,535 books/articles published in Chinese and international journals. A chemical structure with stereo-chemistry bonds is provided for each chemical component, in addition to conventional information, such as Chinese and English names, physical and chemical properties. It includes a name list of medicinal plants from which the chemical component was isolated. Furthermore, abundant pharmacological data for nearly 8,000 chemical components are presented, including experimental method, experimental animal, cell type, quantitative data, as well as control compound data. The seven indexes allow for complete cross-indexing. Regardless whether one searches for the molecular formula of a compound, the pharmacological activity of a compound, or the English name of a plant, the information in the book can be retrieved in multiple ways.
Taurine 11
This book gathers a selection of original articles and critical reviews presented at the 21st International Taurine Meeting, held in Shenyang, China in May 2018, which discussed and disseminated the latest findings on taurine, especially in human life. The book is divided into eight parts, which respectively address: Taurine and Metabolism, Taurine and Nutrition, Taurine and Organ Dysfunction, Taurine and Heart Health, Taurine and Anti-cancer, Taurine and Anti-oxidation / Anti-microbial, Taurine and Neuroprotection, and Taurine and Anti-inflammatory. These latest discoveries concerning the functions and advantageous effects of taurine on the health of various human body systems will not only advance the treatment of human diseases and the quality of human life, but also promote further research into the applications of taurine in human health.
The Asian Connection
It was like nothing that had been seen before. The world had become used to weapons of all descriptions being used in the fight for ultimate power. But this time a real maniac was on the loose and he was using more modern equipment as he climbed the ladder on his way to becoming the only world leader. Technology had provided him the tool he needed to amass large sums of money which would buy him anything, or anyone he wanted. Nothing escaped his reach, thanks to computers. Law enforcement agencies around the globe weren't moving fast enough to shut down the operation. And the media didn't help, treating each tragedy as an individual story, encouraging one disaster after another, only to highlight the victories without making any connection, allowing him to celebrate his new-found power. As Ryan Droden sifts through the evidence before him, he uncovers more than just the identity of the world's latest power maniac. He also finds himself fighting the enemy within his own ranks. And when his search takes him to Asia, not once, but three times, he discovers a very dangerous connection - a connection which he has to break, before it is too late.
The Cambridge History of Chinese Literature
Stephen Owen is James Bryant Conant Professor of Chinese at Harvard University. --Book Jacket.
SILKHYSTERIA
It’s the 6th of June, 2050. Welcome to the Silkian Sci-Fi Fantasy Mothetic Adventures, namely, ‘SILKHYSTERIA’. In this story it has been discovered that Silkworms can be transformed into humans and the current population around the globe is growing – you’ll be amazed by Silkies’. Albeit that this is a fantasy story in essence, it does relate to our history, present time realities and possible known futures of planet earth inhabitants. Scientific experiments in DNA mutations occur. Social, economic, climatic, gender related living conditions for humans and its fellow creatures that share this planet are continuously unearthed in the storylines. Planetary galactic observations are ...
