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This book takes Turtle as the protagonist and introduces the characteristics of trees, including their growth environment, growth status, and the importance of trees in creatives’ activities. This book also talks about the importance of wood in human life. For example, wood can be used to build houses, boats, airplanes, gardening, furniture, clothes, etc. And these wood can also return to the forest through branches, roots, and seeds, and grow into towering trees and wood again. This is a storybook full of joy and fun, suitable for introducing knowledge to children and suitable for bedtime stories.
This interdisciplinary inquiry examines Asian Canadian political and cultural activism around community building, identity making, racial equity, and social justice. Informed by a postcolonial and postmodern cultural critique, it traces the trajectory of progressive cultural discourse generated by Asian Canadian cultural activists over the course of several generations. Xiaoping Li draws on historical sources and personal testimonies to convincingly demonstrate how culture acts as a means of engagement with the political and social world. He addresses topical issues of "race," ethnicity, identity, and transculturalism.
By constructing this work in biographical sequence, focusing in particular on Wu Li's intellectual development and how it affected his artistic creation, and by examining selected pieces in both philosophical and pictorial terms, Xiaoping Lin has created a comprehensive study of Wu Li's life and art.
Works of Xiaoping PeiAn Extraordinary Artist of Watercolor
This book examines the historical development of China's collective presidency and identifies five key mechanisms which effectively reduce the asymmetries of knowledge and power. The mechanisms discussed are: group or collective succession, collective division of responsibilities and cooperation, collective learning, collective research and collective decision making. This work presents many facts including historical details showing that the collective presidency of China is a unique and prodigious innovation of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and China's socialist political system. We see how China’s political system stands in contrast to the presidential system that exists in the Uni...
A comprehensive but accessible examination of how elite Chinese politics work covering the period from Deng Xiaoping to Xi Jinping.
The culture of the People's Republic of China offers a unique blend of the popular, the political and the avant-garde. In no other country in the world are cultural products subjected to such strict censorship and at the same time consumed by such large numbers of people. This volume presents essays by scholars at the cutting edge of Chinese cultural studies, dealing with subjects ranging from advertising to poetry, from rock music to revolutionary museums, providing an authoritative and multi-faceted analysis of some of the world's most complex cultural phenomena.
This book covers the entire life of Deng Xiaoping. Starting with his childhood and student years to the post-Tiananmen era.