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Beyond Filial Piety: Rethinking Aging and Caregiving in Contemporary East Asian Societies (Life Course, Culture and Aging: Global Transformations #6)
Known for a tradition of Confucian filial piety, East Asian societies have some of the oldest and most rapidly aging populations on earth. Today these societies are experiencing unprecedented social challenges to the filial tradition of adult children caring for aging parents at home. Marshalling mi... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
The Problem with Me: And Other Essays About Making Trouble in China Today
by Han HanSatirical essays from China's most popular young troublemaker about growing up millennial and causing social and political scandal today.Han Han is the most influential (and provocative) young person in China, equally beloved and reviled for the satirical wit with which he takes on everyone from cor... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1982 -
This Generation
by Han HanFor those who follow Chinese affairs, Han Han is as controversial as they come--an irreverent singer, sports celebrity, and satirist whose brilliant blogs and books have made him a huge celebrity with more than half a billion readers. Now, with this collection of his essays, Americans can appreciate... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1982 -
Legendary Locals of Rawlins
by Han CheungFounded as a railroad town in 1868, Rawlins was smack in the middle of the Wild West that attracted so many adventure-seekers from the East, such as Clare Espy, who rode into town alone at 12 years old and became a successful cowboy. When the town outgrew its outlaw days and was ready to be incorpor... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2014 -
China’s Local Entrepreneurial State and New Urban Spaces: Downtown Redevelopment in Ningbo (New Perspectives on Chinese Politics and Society)
by Han ZhangIn this book, the author seeks to understand China’s urban redevelopment from the theoretical perspective of the local entrepreneurial state. China’s rapid socio-economic transformations since 1978 have been in large part attributed to China’s state transformations. The author closely investigates N... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
Genre and Graduate-Level Research Writing (The Michigan Series on Teaching Multilingual Writers)
by An ChengIn the context of the well-known pedagogical materials for graduate-level writers by Swales & Feak, An Cheng has written a resource that provides support for instructors who have the daunting task of scaffolding graduate writers’ efforts to navigate discipline-specific research genres--genres that ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Lean Impact: How To Innovate For Radically Greater Social Good
Despite enormous investments of time and money, are we making a dent on the social and environmental challenges of our time? What if we could exponentially increase our impact? Around the world, a new generation is looking beyond greater profits, for meaningful purpose. But, unlike business, few ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
Ethical Foreign Policy?: US Humanitarian Interventions (Ethics and Global Politics)
While the 1990s gave rise to a wealth of literature on the notion of ethical foreign policy, it has tended to simply focus on a version of realism, which overlooks the role of ethics in international affairs, lacking an empirical analysis of foreign policy decision-making, with relation to ethical v... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2011 -
Literature Journals in the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression in China (1931-1938)
This book examines the development of Chinese literature journals and social ideologies from 1931 to 1938, combining first-hand historical materials, historical data and four important literature journals to study the competition and cooperation between various powers such as the Kuomintang, the CCP... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Parts of Speech in Mandarin
This book offers a comprehensive survey of the major parts of speech in Mandarin. Seeking to identify the sets of universal and language-specific categories, it compares the range of categories available in Mandarin and the Indo-European languages and establishes six universal categories - nouns, v... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
Slaughter God's Journey to Immortality: Volume 1 (Volume 1 #1)
The Sect Leader, Li Yifeng, was sent to the Grace Mainland by the aftermath of the battle. He received the inheritance of the three devils, and others received the Three Corpses Slaughtering the Dao, but he gathered the strength of three devils and trained himself to become a Dao Lord, Buddha, and D... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
Slaughter God's Journey to Immortality: Volume 2 (Volume 2 #2)
The Sect Leader, Li Yifeng, was sent to the Grace Mainland by the aftermath of the battle. He received the inheritance of the three devils, and others received the Three Corpses Slaughtering the Dao, but he gathered the strength of three devils and trained himself to become a Dao Lord, Buddha, and D... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
Freedom from Fear and Other Writings
Aung San Suu Kyi, human-rights activist and leader of Burma's National League for Democracy, was detained in 1989 by SLORC, the ruling military junta. This collection of writings reflects Aung San Suu Kyi's greatest hopes and fears for her people and her concern about the need for international coop... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1995 -
Legend of Reborn Alchemist: Volume 3 (Volume 3 #3)
by An ShanHuLiThe Heavenly Life and Death Meridian actually possessed the True Fire of the world. It had achieved an unrivalled attainments in alchemy! After ten years of painstaking effort, the pill was reborn and reborn after ten years of training. Yet, it was plotted against, the pill was stolen, and the Pill ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
Legend of Reborn Alchemist: Volume 7 (Volume 7 #7)
by An ShanHuLiThe Heavenly Life and Death Meridian actually possessed the True Fire of the world. It had achieved an unrivalled attainments in alchemy! After ten years of painstaking effort, the pill was reborn and reborn after ten years of training. Yet, it was plotted against, the pill was stolen, and the Pill ... More
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Legend of Reborn Alchemist: Volume 6 (Volume 6 #6)
by An ShanHuLiThe Heavenly Life and Death Meridian actually possessed the True Fire of the world. It had achieved an unrivalled attainments in alchemy! After ten years of painstaking effort, the pill was reborn and reborn after ten years of training. Yet, it was plotted against, the pill was stolen, and the Pill ... More
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Legend of Reborn Alchemist: Volume 2 (Volume 2 #2)
by An ShanHuLiThe Heavenly Life and Death Meridian actually possessed the True Fire of the world. It had achieved an unrivalled attainments in alchemy! After ten years of painstaking effort, the pill was reborn and reborn after ten years of training. Yet, it was plotted against, the pill was stolen, and the Pill ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
Legend of Reborn Alchemist: Volume 1 (Volume 1 #1)
by An ShanHuLiThe Heavenly Life and Death Meridian actually possessed the True Fire of the world. It had achieved an unrivalled attainments in alchemy! After ten years of painstaking effort, the pill was reborn and reborn after ten years of training. Yet, it was plotted against, the pill was stolen, and the Pill ... More
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Legend of Reborn Alchemist: Volume 5 (Volume 5 #5)
by An ShanHuLiThe Heavenly Life and Death Meridian actually possessed the True Fire of the world. It had achieved an unrivalled attainments in alchemy! After ten years of painstaking effort, the pill was reborn and reborn after ten years of training. Yet, it was plotted against, the pill was stolen, and the Pill ... More
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Legend of Reborn Alchemist: Volume 4 (Volume 4 #4)
by An ShanHuLiThe Heavenly Life and Death Meridian actually possessed the True Fire of the world. It had achieved an unrivalled attainments in alchemy! After ten years of painstaking effort, the pill was reborn and reborn after ten years of training. Yet, it was plotted against, the pill was stolen, and the Pill ... More
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Legend of Reborn Alchemist: Volume 8 (Volume 8 #8)
by An ShanHuLiThe Heavenly Life and Death Meridian actually possessed the True Fire of the world. It had achieved an unrivalled attainments in alchemy! After ten years of painstaking effort, the pill was reborn and reborn after ten years of training. Yet, it was plotted against, the pill was stolen, and the Pill ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
Legend of Reborn Alchemist: Volume 9 (Volume 9 #9)
by An ShanHuLiThe Heavenly Life and Death Meridian actually possessed the True Fire of the world. It had achieved an unrivalled attainments in alchemy! After ten years of painstaking effort, the pill was reborn and reborn after ten years of training. Yet, it was plotted against, the pill was stolen, and the Pill ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
Legend of Reborn Alchemist: Volume 10 (Volume 10 #10)
by An ShanHuLiThe Heavenly Life and Death Meridian actually possessed the True Fire of the world. It had achieved an unrivalled attainments in alchemy! After ten years of painstaking effort, the pill was reborn and reborn after ten years of training. Yet, it was plotted against, the pill was stolen, and the Pill ... More
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Legend of Reborn Alchemist: Volume 12 (Volume 12 #12)
by An ShanHuLiThe Heavenly Life and Death Meridian actually possessed the True Fire of the world. It had achieved an unrivalled attainments in alchemy! After ten years of painstaking effort, the pill was reborn and reborn after ten years of training. Yet, it was plotted against, the pill was stolen, and the Pill ... More
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Legend of Reborn Alchemist: Volume 11 (Volume 11 #11)
by An ShanHuLiThe Heavenly Life and Death Meridian actually possessed the True Fire of the world. It had achieved an unrivalled attainments in alchemy! After ten years of painstaking effort, the pill was reborn and reborn after ten years of training. Yet, it was plotted against, the pill was stolen, and the Pill ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020