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In Search of the Guardians
The Guardians had always been the protectors of Earth, but an unthinkable betrayal has led to their downfallforcing them to reincarnate as humans and endure lifetimes of pain and suffering. Without any recollection of where they came from and with their powers unknowingly locked in their subconscious minds, the former Guardians can only live the life they know, fighting to survive. But the pain they must endure is so unbearable that most of them lose their minds. Even the leader of the Guardians, the Almighty Dragon, has fallen victim to the Heiling clans evil plot. With the burden of the prophecy on his shoulders, Master Li, his eight-year-old son, and his loyal disciples set out into the Western world to find the Guardians in an attempt to restore peace and harmony to mankind. The dangers they face are beyond anything they envisioned. The Heiling clan seems to always be one step ahead of them, and their vast numbers make it seemingly impossible for Master Li and his followers to fulfill their mission. Filled with adventure, mystery, and cultural diversity, the search of the Guardians brings to Master Li and his followers, experiences that are unforgettable.
The Paradox of Power in a People's Republic of China Middle School
This text provides an ethnography of a Chinese middle school based on fieldwork conducted in 1988 to 1989. It provides a way of looking at classroom and societal interactions in terms of the interplay among criticism, face and shame.
Chinese Guru Companion Manual - HSK 4+ Stories - Volume 1
The Chinese Guru Companion Manual, your essential guide to mastering Chinese through a structured and engaging approach. This manual is designed to complement the Chinese Guru mobile application, available on the App Store and Google Play Store, but it can also be used on its own. Our aim is to enhance your learning experience by providing you with a comprehensive collection of texts, vocabulary lists, grammatical notes, and cultural insights. This is the HSK 4+ volume. It contains 10 stories already available in the Chinese Guru mobile application.
The World of Extreme Happiness
When Sunny is born in rural China, her parents leave her in a slop bucket to die because she's a girl. She survives, and at 14 leaves for the city, where she works a low-paying factory job and attends self-help classes to improve her chances at securing a coveted office position. When Sunny's attempts to pull herself out of poverty lead to dire consequences for a fellow worker, she is forced to question the system she's spent her life trying to master – and stand up against the powers that be. Savage, tragic and desperately funny, The World of Extreme Happiness is a stirring examination of a country in the midst of rapid change, and individuals struggling to shape their own destinies.
Among the 36 Strategies, Running Away is the Top One
Xuya Zhao runs from America to China, running away from her American problems. However, China is full of surprises for her, all kinds: the secrets her family has kept over the years, the unbreakable bond with her girlhood buddies, the magic power of her grandmother, the mystery of the jade pendants, the reunions and encounters with friends, sweethearts, acquaintances, and old enemies. Now she has a chance to settle those unsettled en en yuan yuan (passions and resentments) from the Cultural Revolution and to make sense of her complicated lives in both China and America. Thus, her return-home adventure turns into a journey of self-rediscovery.
Performance Anomalies
Victor Robert Lee's provocative literary spy novel Performance Anomalies launches a protagonist, partly of Chinese and Russian origin, to rival the most memorable espionage heroes. Cono 7Q is a startling young man of haunting heritage who has been gifted - or cursed - with an accelerated nervous system. An orphan and a loner, he acts as a freelance clandestine agent, happy to use his strange talents in the service of dubious organizations and governments - until, in Kazakhstan, on a personal mission to rescue a former lover, he is sucked into a deadly maelstrom of betrayal that forces him to question all notions of friendship and allegiance. Relevant to our geopolitical times, Performance An...
Backward Glances
Backward Glances reveals that the passionate love one woman feels for another occupies a position of unsuspected centrality in contemporary Chinese mass cultures. By examining representations of erotic and romantic love between women in popular films, elite and pulp fiction, and television dramas, Fran Martin shows how youthful same-sex love is often framed as a universal, even ennobling, feminine experience. She argues that a temporal logic dominates depictions of female homoeroticism, and she traces that logic across texts produced and consumed in mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan during the twentieth century and the early twenty-first. Attentive to both transnational cultural flows an...
Fatigue and Fracture of Non-metallic Materials and Structures
The mechanics of fracture and fatigue have produced a huge body of research work in relation to applications to metal materials and structures. However, a variety of non-metallic materials (e.g., concrete and cementitious composites, rocks, glass, ceramics, bituminous mixtures, composites, polymers, rubber and soft matter, bones and biological materials, and advanced and multifunctional materials) have received relatively less attention, despite their attractiveness for a large spectrum of applications related to the components and structures of diverse engineering branches, applied sciences and architecture, and to the load-carrying systems of biological organisms. This book covers the broad topic of structural integrity of non-metallic materials, considering the modelling, assessment, and reliability of structural elements of any scale. Original contributions from engineers, mechanical materials scientists, computer scientists, physicists, chemists, and mathematicians are presented, applying both experimental and theoretical approaches.
Trading Cultures in the Classroom
"Anyone curious about Chinese reflections on their own culture will find this book interesting and informative." --Pacific Affairs
Interfaces and Features in Second Language Acquisition
This book presents comprehensive and rigorous research on the acquisition of Chinese negation by L1-English and L1-Korean learners within the theoretical framework of the Interface Hypothesis and the Feature Reassembly Hypothesis. The results from grammaticality judgment data (N=182) and learner corpus data (overall scale: 15.19 million characters) reveal multiple factors contributing to the variability in L2 acquisition at the interfaces involved with Chinese negative structures, including L1 influence, the quantity (input frequency) and the quality of the target input (input consistency and regularity), as well as L2 proficiency. These factors also underlie the detectability and reassembly...
