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Zhan Zhuang
  • Language: zh-CN
  • Pages: 272

Zhan Zhuang

THIS IS THE CHINESE EDITION Zhan Zhuang, The Art of Nourishing Life is the exploration of an ancestral practice: Zhan Zhuang, the practice of ancient physical and meditative postures. Through this practice, a continual process of adjustment, learning, and purification takes place; it is a process by which the mind and body mutually integrate, triggering the unification of the self and its surroundings. It is this form which in ancient China was named symbiosis-a process by which the mind and body merge together with the Tao-through which an infinite field of possibilities opens to us, both in the treatment and prevention of diseases, and at the level of development of latent potential within us. In Zhan Zhuang, The Art of Nourishing Life, Dr. Yu Yongnian not only unveils the heritage of martial arts as well as purifying arts-previously available only in an unintelligible language-but also translates them into an accessible form that reveals the laws governing the body and mind.

Sinopticon
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 376

Sinopticon

This celebration of Chinese Science Fiction — thirteen stories, all translated for the first time into English — represents a unique exploration of the nation’s speculative fiction from the late 20th Century onwards, curated and translated by critically acclaimed writer and essayist Xueting Christine Ni. From the renowned Jiang Bo’s ‘Starship: Library' to Regina Kanyu Wang’s ‘The Tide of Moon City, and Anna Wu’s ‘Meisje met de Parel', this is a collection for all fans of great fiction. Award winners, bestsellers, screenwriters, playwrights, philosophers, university lecturers and computer programmers, these thirteen writers represent the breadth of Chinese SF, from new to old: Gu Shi, Han Song, Hao Jingfang, Nian Yu, Wang Jinkang, Zhao Haihong, Tang Fei, Ma Boyong, Anna Wu, A Que, Bao Shu, Regina Kanyu Wang and Jiang Bo.

China's Cold War Science Diplomacy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 273

China's Cold War Science Diplomacy

During the early decades of the Cold War, the People's Republic of China remained outside much of mainstream international science. Nevertheless, Chinese scientists found alternative channels through which to communicate and interact with counterparts across the world, beyond simple East/West divides. By examining the international activities of elite Chinese scientists, Gordon Barrett demonstrates that these activities were deeply embedded in the Chinese Communist Party's wider efforts to win hearts and minds from the 1940s to the 1970s. Using a wide range of archival material, including declassified documents from China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs Archive, Barrett provides fresh insights into the relationship between science and foreign relations in the People's Republic of China.

The Construction of National Identity in Taiwan's Media, 1896-2012
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 300

The Construction of National Identity in Taiwan's Media, 1896-2012

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-03-20
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  • Publisher: BRILL

National identity has been an ongoing political issue in Taiwan since the late-1890s. The Construction of National Identity in Taiwan’s Media, 1896-2012 breaks new ground with the most comprehensive analysis of the development of Taiwan’s media and the construction of national identity in Taiwan’s media. Using a variety of media contents including newspapers, opposition magazines, broadcasting radio, news TV stations and the Internet as well as numerous interviews with journalists, senior media staffs and academics, Dr Hsu provides many original insights into the formation of national identity in Taiwan's media. Taiwan's media began to demonstrate a variety of new identities under democratization. Part of this change responded to market conditions as a majority of Taiwan's population stressed their Taiwan identity.

The Everyday Impact of Economic Reform in China
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 224

The Everyday Impact of Economic Reform in China

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010-05-11
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  • Publisher: Routledge

During the past 30 years, China has undergone extensive economic reform, replacing the government’s administration of enterprises with increasing levels of market-oriented enterprise autonomy. At the heart of the reform are changes in the employment relationship, where state control has been superceded by market relationships. These reforms have had far-reaching implications for many aspects of everyday life in Chinese society. This book appraises the impact of the economic reforms on the employment relationship and, in turn, examines the effects on individual workers and their families, including salaries, working conditions and satisfaction, job security and disparities based on location...

The Yudahua Business Group in China's Early Industrialization
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 207

The Yudahua Business Group in China's Early Industrialization

By tracing the history of Yudahua from the late nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth century, this study analyzes a successful inland business model among textile companies in modern China. The steady growth of this enterprise relied primarily on its strategy to focus on low-end markets and to locate new mills in underdeveloped interior regions. This strategy further allowed the enterprise to pioneer industrialization in its host localities, demonstrating a major social and economic impact on the local societies. At the same time, Yudahua’s unique team leadership pattern—five leading families shared its ownership and management—made the business an atypical family firm and allowed relatively easy institutional departure from Chinese social networks and adoption of Western corporate hierarchy. Therefore, by the late 1940s, Yudahua had gradually developed into a fairly integrated business group with a unified management structure and routinized connections between its member mills, which differed noticeably from the loose alliances normally found in other early twentieth-century Chinese business conglomerates.

The Revival of China (with Pictures)
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 664

The Revival of China (with Pictures)

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: Unknown
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  • Publisher: Mao Min

The book is about the revival of China in the 20th century and the first decade of the 21st century. It has eight parts: (1) The civil revolution in China, (2) The countryside bases, (3) The Long Match of the Red Army, (4) The Anti Japanese War, (5) Decisive civil battles before the establishment of the People’s Republic of China, (6) The Mao Era before the Great Cultural Revolution, (7) The Great Cultural Revolution, and (8) The Reform and opening up. This version of the book is with pictures.

The Shape of the Turtle
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 248

The Shape of the Turtle

Many Chinese philosophic concepts derive from an ancient cosmology. This work is the first reconstructions of the mythic thought of the Shang Dynasty (ca. 1700- 1100 B.C.) which laid the foundation for later Chinese patterns of thought. Allan regards the myth, cosmology, divination, sacrificial ritual, and art of the Shang as different manifestations of a common religious system and each is examined in turn, building up a coherent and consistent picture. Although primarily concerned with the Shang, this work also describes the manner in which Shang thought was transformed in the later textual tradition.

The Korean War
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 139

The Korean War

  • Categories: Art
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-09-10
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  • Publisher: Mao Min

This is Selected topic 1 of the book entitled "The Revival of China". The full book is about the revival of China in the 20th century and the first decade of the 21st century. This topic is about the Korean war in the years starting from 1950 and ending at 1952. In the appendices, it also records the other war or conflicts involving New China,including the border war between China and India in the year of 1959, the border war between China and Vietnam in the year of 1979, the conflict at Zhenbao Island between China and Russia in the year of 1969, the conflict at Xisha Islands between China and Vietnam in the year of 1974, and the conflict at Nansha Islands between China and Vietnam in the year of 1988.

Chinese Women in a Century of Revolution, 1850-1950
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 292

Chinese Women in a Century of Revolution, 1850-1950

Spanning the century from the Taiping Rebellion through the establishment of the People's Republic of China, this is the first comprehensive history of women in modern China. Its scope is broad, encompassing political, economic, military, and cultural history, and drawing upon Chinese and Japanese sources untapped by Western scholars. The book presents new information on a wide range of topics: the impact of Western ideas on women, especially in education; the importance of women in the labor force; the relative independence enjoyed by some women textile workers; the struggle against footbinding; the influence of anarchism; the participation of a women's brigade in the Revolution of 1911; th...