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The beautiful lady shouted angrily, "Zhou Xiaofei, are you going to die if you don't act tough?" Zhou Xiaofei said helplessly, "How did you know?" If I don't act tough, I really will die! " Zhou Xiaofei, who had suffered a car accident, was given a new lease on life after receiving a darn system that required acting tough to acquire all sorts of skills. From then on, Zhou Xiaofei was either pretending to be strong or he was pretending to be strong ...
A history of the reception of Chinese painting from the sixteenth century to the present What is Chinese painting? When did it begin? And what are the different associations of this term in China and the West? In Chinese Painting and Its Audiences, which is based on the A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts given at the National Gallery of Art, leading art historian Craig Clunas draws from a wealth of artistic masterpieces and lesser-known pictures, some of them discussed here in English for the first time, to show how Chinese painting has been understood by a range of audiences over five centuries, from the Ming Dynasty to today. Chinese Painting and Its Audiences demonstrates that viewers...
This book examines the institutional development of Chinese sociology from the 1890s to the present. It plots the discipline’s twisting path in the Chinese context, from early Western influences; through the institutionalization of the discipline in the 1930s-40s; its problematic relationship with socialism and interruptions under Marxist orthodoxy and the Cultural Revolution; its revival during the 1980s-90s; to the twin trends of globalization and indigenization in current Chinese sociological scholarship. Chen argues that in spite of the state-building agenda and persistent efforts to indigenize the discipline, the Western model remains pervasively influential, due in large part to the ...
This new Major Work is fully indexed and includes a comprehensive index, newly written by the editor, which places the collected material in its historical and intellectual context. It is destined to be valued by scholars, students and researchers.
Selected, peer reviewed papers from the 2014 International Conference on Material Engineering and Environment Science (MEES 2014), September 13-14, 2014, Wuhan, China
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The breadth of knowledge offered within this multivolume set is astounding. Coverage includes articles on countries, regions, and ethnic groups; themes involving social history, demography, family life, politics, economics, religion, thought, education, science and technology, and culture; and events such as major wars.
Barlow documents the history of “woman” as a category in twentieth century Chinese history, tracing the question of gender through various phases in the literary career of Ding Ling, a major modern Chinese writer.
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