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The first time I met Ward in college, I sat in his back row and watched him flirt with his girlfriend. The second time they met, she was still sitting behind him, and he still came with his girlfriend, but it was not the same as last time. Later, she witnessed the girls beside him changing one after another. On Christmas Day, the two came back from school, and the school was full of lovers holding hands. Lucy asked him in a subtle way: "Would you like to give me an extra girlfriend?" After waiting for half a minute, he didn't respond. Lucy knew that this was a polite refusal. —— You can't fall into the same trap twice. The first time is called naivety, and the second time is called stupi...
This volume represents the first book-length corpus-based contrastive studies of major grammatical categories in English and Chinese, two most important yet distinctly different world languages in the 21st century, on the basis of large matching corpora of authentic spoken and written data in the two languages.
As the saying goes, a fallen phoenix is no better than a chicken. She finally experienced it: her parents were killed and jailed, her boyfriend was jailed, her house was confiscated, her company had failed, and she had graduated from university was equivalent to losing her job. Could it be that God had opened another door for her, that only God would send one of them, the rich and handsome man who saved her, the world is unpredictable, there must be demons, whether the fake marriage contract in front of her is a conspiracy or an opportunity, only you can know!
The year I dropped out of school, I started my hot-blooded life. Lolita, the oneesan came to him one by one ... ...
Zi Zhi Tong Jian (Chinese: 资治通鉴;English: "Comprehensive Mirror in Aid of Governance") is a pioneering reference work in Chinese historiography, published in 1084 in the form of a chronicle. In 1065 AD, Emperor Yingzong of Songordered the great historian Sima Guang (1019–1086 AD) to lead with other scholars such as his chief assistants Liu Shu, Liu Ban and Fan Zuyu, the compilation of a universal history of China. The task took 19 years to be completed,and, in 1084 AD, it was presented to his successor Emperor Shenzong of Song. The Zi Zhi Tong Jian records Chinese history from 403 BC to 959 AD, covering 16 dynasties and spanning across almost 1,400 years,and contains 294 volumes (...
This lively book explores individual and societal changes in contemporary China through the compelling personal accounts of young Chinese journalists. China's media are central to public life in the most populous nation on earth, and have also become increasingly relevant to communication and understanding on a global scale. Through a series of engaging oral histories, Judy Polumbaum puts a human face on vital political and philosophical issues of freedom of expression and information that will shape China's future. The author's extended and frank conversations with journalists from a range of news outlets reveal diversity, passion, humor, and optimism that belie the stereotype of journalist...
At a fan meeting, Ye Sheng met Lu Xuanyu. Who said that male netizens were either married or frogs? Then who was this heaven-defying handsome man with the limelight? However, in the blink of an eye, he had become a handsome professor outside the academy! Or was it the head of the famous Lu Corporation? She was also the idol that she had worshipped for many years! * Many years later, a reporter asked: "May I ask Great God Lu what is your family ranking?" Helpless Lu Shen, "Wife, baby, dog, I ...
The immortal doctor of this generation was known for his carefree and unrestrained movements, as well as his heaven-defying medical skills. He possessed the strongest martial arts in his possession. Face-smacking young masters of wealthy families, stepping on tens of thousands of heaven's pride level experts, and also attracting countless beauties to throw themselves into their arms. When he reached the peak of his life, Chen Nan could only hug a million beauties and sigh. "Invincibility is such a lonely thing."
His heart was filled with reverence, and he was filled with endless fantasies. Pulling out his sword, Qin Wentian moved like the wind, while the men moved like horses and the golden gecko moved like horses. In the early part of the last century, in the vast void between Jupiter and Mars, a space wormhole had appeared by chance. After more than a hundred years of diffusion, on March 31, 2027, it finally encompassed the Earth. Due to the rapid increase in density of spiritual energy, the life on Earth, which was accustomed to the barren environment, inevitably underwent drastic evolution. Most people had either lost their life or turned into zombies, and only a small portion of the evolved humans struggled to survive in a world filled with zombies ... Of course, since it was a disaster, the surviving humans, while struggling to survive, also gained the chance to evolve and become stronger. Earth's humans, who were at the edge of the barren land of the universe, slowly gained the possibility to integrate into the universe's family. Close]
Based on almost eight years of fieldwork in a town and a village in South China, this book analyzes contradictions among various dimensions of the peasant economy, social relationships, popular religion, and local politics in rural China. Compared to many anthropological, sociological, and political studies of rural China, which regard Chinese peasants as one-dimensionally materialistic, politically conservative, egocentric (lacking public-mindedness, as in anthropologist Yan Yunxiang’s notion of the "uncivil individual"), with collapsed beliefs, and thinking only of the present (or the "today-ness of today" according to anthropologist Liu Xin), this book shows that people in contemporary ...