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Passion, Poverty and Travel
Translations from Chinese popular literature of the late-imperial and early republican periods are still very rare, and selections that are devoted to a specific genre or dialect rarer still. These translations of traditional Hakka popular literature are not only a contribution to a broader knowledge of traditional Chinese folk literature, but also contribute to the study of Hakka culture as reflected in these racy songs and exciting narratives. This book is the first extensive selection in English of traditional Hakka mountain songs (shange) and long narrative ballads in various genres. One chapter is devoted to songs and ballads on Hakka migration to Taiwan and Southeast Asia in 18th to 20...
The Rise and Fall of Animal Experimentation
Every year, hundreds of millions of animals are used in the service of biomedical research, despite the risk of extreme cruelty to these animal subjects. The expansion of the pharmaceutical industry and university research funding rapidly normalized its practice. What exactly are these experiments supposed to achieve from the scientific point of view and how effective are they? Working scientists answer these questions by saying that their research is absolutely necessary if we are to develop new therapies for human diseases. But is this really the case? Written by a scientist with over 40 years of laboratory experience, The Rise and Fall of Animal Experimentation critically examines this as...
Out to Work
Out to Work is a fresh, engaging account of the lives of a group of rural Chinese women who, while still in their teens, moved from villages to Beijing to take up work as maids, office cleaners, hotel chambermaids, and schoolteachers. By pursuing new opportunities afforded by migration and strategically applying accumulated knowledge and resources, these women were able to forge better lives for themselves and their families. But as this book also makes clear, broader social inequalities persist to make these women's futures precarious. "This book's unique approach offers readers an intimate look at the impact of labor migration on young women over a ten-year period. We follow Gaetano's info...
Rural Urban Migration and Policy Intervention in China
This book examines rural-urban migration policies in China, and considers how Chinese workers cope with migration events in the context of these policies. It explores the contribution of migrant workers to the Chinese economy, the impact of changes within the ‘hukou’ system (household registration) and the impact of recent migration policies promoting rural-urban migration and targeting key events during migrant workers’ migration trajectories - job-seeking, wage exploitation, work injuries and illness - namely the corresponding ‘Skills Training Program for Migrant Workers’, the ‘Circular on Managing Wage Payment to Migrant Workers’, the ‘Circular on Migrant Workers Participa...
Handbook of Chinese Migration
The recent unprecedented scale of Chinese migration has had far-reaching consequences. Within China, many villages have been drained of their young and most able workers, cities have been swamped by the ‘floating population’, and many rural migrants have been unable to integrate into urban society. Internationally, the Chinese have become increasingly more mobile. This Handbook provides a unique collection of new and original research on internal and international Chinese migration and its effects on the sense of belonging of migrants.
Under a White Sky
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sixth Extinction returns to humanity’s transformative impact on the environment, now asking: After doing so much damage, can we change nature, this time to save it? RECOMMENDED BY PRESIDENT OBAMA AND BILL GATES • SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR WRITING • ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Time, Esquire, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews • “Beautifully and insistently, Kolbert shows us that it is time to think radically about the ways we manage the environment.”—Helen Macdonald, The New York Times With a new afterword by the author That man s...
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入選歐巴馬、比爾•蓋茲2021年夏季推薦書單 普立茲得獎書《第六次大滅絕》作者環境報導新作 人為活動除了對地球帶來傷害，有沒有可能也是拯救自然、扭轉大滅絕的希望？ ┤各界人士好評推薦├ 朱淑娟 獨立記者 李根政 地球公民基金會執行長 李偉文 牙醫師、作家、環保志工 汪中和 中央研究院地球科學研究所兼任研究員 林子倫 行政院能源及減碳辦公室副執行長 柳中明 台灣大學大氣科學系退休教授 陳志勇 前中油獨立董事、前行政院科技會報（循環經濟材料組）首席評議專家 陳瑞賓 台灣環境資訊協會祕書長 陳映伶 台...
화이트 스카이
강남을 물바다로 만든 115년 만에 발생한 최악의 폭우, 46도라는 믿을 수 없는 기온을 기록하게 만든 유럽 폭염. 2022년에 발생한 이 초유의 사건은 인류가 자초한 기후 위기에서 비롯된 것이다. 이처럼 지금 이 순간, 조용하지만 확실하게 대멸종이 재현되고 있다. 그동안 지구상에 일어났던 다섯 번의 대멸종이 천재지변에 의한 것이었다면, 우리가 자초한 이번 대멸종의 대상에는 인류도 포함될 수 있음을 경고한 문제작, 《여섯 번째 대멸종》으로 퓰리처상의 주인공이 된 엘리자베스 콜버트. 그가 다시 한번 전 지구적 위기를 정...
