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China's Military Faces the Future
This is the most up-to-date assessment of all aspects of the People's Liberation Army. Leading specialists on the Chinese military cover military leadership, defense doctrine and military readiness, preparations for high-tech warfare, military expenditure, military logistics, the scientific and technological base for defense procurement, and China's security concerns in Northeast Asia.
A Woman's Weapon
This text presents an examination of Murasaki Shikibu's 11th-century classic The Tale of Genji. The author explores the role of possessing spirits from a female viewpoint, and considers how the male protagonist is central to determining the role of these spirits.
Fictions of Femininity
The history of Japanese memoir literature began over a thousand years ago, its greatest practitioners being women of the middle ranks whose literary talents won many of them positions as ladies-in-waiting at the Heian imperial court. As female writers they both inhabited and helped create a discursive world obsessed with the arts of concealment and self-display, the perils and possibilitieserotic, political, and literaryof real and metaphorical peepholes. As memoirists they were virtuosos in the exacting art of feminine self-representation. Fictions of Femininity explores the Heian memoirists creations of themselves in four texts: Kagero nikki (The Kagero Memoir, after 974), Makura...
Food Safety
This book is an updated reference source on food safety best practices. The chapters discuss analytical approaches to measuring food contaminants, quality control and risk assessment of food storage, food irradiation, etc. The contributors discuss how quality control and management help to establish sustainable and secure food systems globally. The book covers topics such as techniques to measure food contaminants, toxins, heavy metals and pesticide content in food. FEATURES Examines the role of food safety approaches in global food supply chains Describes various detection techniques for food contaminants and toxins Discusses the application of nanotechnology and other innovations in food safety and risk assessment Reviews the international regulations for management of food hazards Includes the hazard analysis critical control points (HACCP) principles This book is an essential resource to help students, researchers, and industry professionals understand and address day-to-day problems regarding food contamination and safety and their impact on human health.
Blood Stasis E-Book
BLOOD STASIS: CHINA'S CLASSICAL CONCEPT IN MODERN MEDICINE covers the area of blood stasis in Traditional Chinese Medicine, drawing from a huge range of original Chinese material. The book discusses many Western diseases including diabetes, gynecological disorders, stroke, tumors, myocardial infarction, and the interaction of these with other pathological factors. The book also provides both classical and modern differentiations and treatments, including both herbs and acupuncture in all categories with appropriate case histories. - Thoroughly examines the concepts and processes of blood stasis in Traditional Chinese Medicine. - Draws on original translations from Chinese sources ranging from the classical era through modern times. - Describes, in full, the historical perspective of Chinese Medicine's presentation of blood stasis theory and also includes modern research for a balanced view of the effectiveness of blood stasis. - Highlights recent detailed analysis of blood stasis and herbs. - Incorporates real-life cases helped by blood stasis therapy.
Advances in Civil and Industrial Engineering
Selected, peer reviewed papers from the 2013 International Conference on Civil, Architecture and Building Materials (3rd CEABM 2013), May 24-26, 2013, Jinan, China
The Assassin's Touch
"Elegantly told and interspersed with delicious bits of history" (Kirkus Reviews), Laura Joh Rowland's The Assassin's Touch is a mystery set in feudal Japan you won't want to miss! May 1695. During a horse race at Edo Castle the chief of the shogun's intelligence service, Ejima Senzaemon, drops dead as his horse gallops across the finish line—the fourth in a recent series of sudden deaths of high-ranking officials. Sano Ichiro is ordered to investigate, despite his recent promotion to chamberlain and his new duties as the shogun's second-in-command. Meanwhile, Sano's wife, Reiko, is invited to attend the trial of Yugao, a beautiful young woman accused of stabbing her parents and sister to ...
History of South Dynasty
The Twenty-Four Histories (Chinese: 二十四史) are the Chinese official historical books covering a period from 3000 BC to the Ming dynasty in the 17th century. The Han dynasty official Sima Qian established many of the conventions of the genre. Starting with the Tang dynasty, each dynasty established an official office to write the history of its predecessor using official court records. As fixed and edited in the Qing dynasty, the whole set contains 3213 volumes and about 40 million words. It is considered one of the most important sources on Chinese history and culture. The title "Twenty-Four Histories" dates from 1775 which was the 40th year in the reign of the Qianlong Emperor. This ...
Overbearing Young Master's Sweetheart
Life forced her to only shake her head, but she didn't expect to offend the big boss, Tian Hua. She was finally able to escape the clutches of the Demon Claw, and only found out later on that the story had just begun! He looked at her face, his blue eyes deep and long. The one with the surname of Luo, he was my contracted lover. She was both bitter and indignant, but there was nothing she could do about it. Who knew that love was a truth. She pretended to trick him: "What, you came back so early, did you miss me?" He was slightly startled, and his face had a hint of embarrassment written on it that seemed like it could see through anyone's heart: The one with the surname Luo! You're getting bolder and bolder!
The Strongest Soldier King
Ye Feng, who once stood at the peak of the world and made the world tremble. Conspiracy had allowed him to be reborn into a useless cripple with the same surname and surname. And to see, how could Ye Feng return to the peak from being a loser. As long as I, Ye Feng, am not dead, I will make the world cry.
