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How was the vast ancient Chinese empire brought together and effectively ruled? What are the historical origins of the resilience of contemporary China's political system? In The Constitution of Ancient China, Su Li, China's most influential legal theorist, examines the ways in which a series of fundamental institutions, rather than a supreme legal code upholding the laws of the land, evolved and coalesced into an effective constitution. Arguing that a constitution is an institutional response to a set of issues particular to a specific society, Su Li demonstrates how China unified a vast territory, diverse cultures, and elites from different backgrounds into a whole. He delves into such are...
Death to freedomis a short story that starts in the future and ends in the past. This is the first of two novels. This first novel is about the near future, where society has been transformed.A common man writes a compelling article about how to fix society. This article takes notice and a movement that radically takes over all the world's goverments and abolishes religion. The New World Social Society (N.W.S.S.) is a Social/Fasist Regen that takes over the whole world. A persons ability to master skill levels in the educational system determines a persons placement in society. The story revolves around a group of teenagers and their grandparents. The teens are all in different parts of the educational system; while their grandparents live in a commune outside of the city. The grandparents commune is comprised of retired military and scientist. They are working in a secret underground complex trying to produce a black-hole in order to find another planet to live on. All the while the N.W.S.S. is getting closer to finding them out. The next novel is about them going back in time to ancient Greece in search of Alantis. If they can't find it, then they are going to make their own.
What happens in Vegas stays in the family. Two dynasties merge in this trilogy debut from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Texas series. When Sallie Coleman abandons Texas to follow her dreams in Las Vegas, she never imagines she’ll win so soon—and so big. But a stroke of luck makes her the richest, most powerful businesswoman in Nevada, and in no time at all her transformation is complete—when she marries Philip Thornton and becomes Vegas’s most elegant first lady. Like her future mother-in-law before her, Pennsylvania beauty Fanny Logan makes her fortune in Vegas, building one of the city’s most successful clothing empires. Her wedding to Ash Thornton, the visionar...
At last here is the long-awaited, first Western-language reference guide focusing exclusively on Chinese literature from ca. 700 B.C.E. to the early seventh century C.E. Alphabetically organized, it contains no less than 1095 entries on major and minor writers, literary forms and "schools," and important Chinese literary terms. In addition to providing authoritative information about each subject, the compilers have taken meticulous care to include detailed, up-to-date bibliographies and source information. The reader will find it a treasure-trove of historical accounts, especially when browsing through the biographies of authors. Indispensable for scholars and students of pre-modern Chinese literature, history, and thought. Part Two contains S to Xi.
Includes "A dozen questions for further discussion" at the end of the book.
How could a game without an external connection work? He was going to grind monsters with 10,000 low-leveled accounts! The diaosi Li Feng who was poisoned by the computer actually had the ability to open small accounts without limit! Hot blooded Jianghu Player, WOW players, Questioning players, Conquering players and other old game players must see it!
Su Li was deeply moved. Why couldn't her transmigration be as smooth as the rest of her people?She would never have thought that she would be buried alive after being reborn into another world!The man who was saved by the beautiful man with great difficulty was then sent to the military camp to be a courtesan!Staring at Su Li's conflicted expression, Yuan Rui Xi chuckled: "No, I'll protect you."Su Li looked at the handsome Yuan Rui and sighed: "Let me protect you!"