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People's Literature Publishing House

People’s Literature Publishing House Co., Ltd., currently a member of China Publishing Group Corporation, is the first and the largest professional national publishing institution in China. Founded in 1951, PLPH has published a vast number of quality literary works, from all time classics to the latest titles, by domestic writers and translated from other languages. PLPH enjoys a great amount of exclusive publishing resources, a high reputation among readers and was awarded many times with national literary and publishing prizes. Along with regular editing and production departments, it has a sub brand, Daylight Publishing, specializing in children’s book and five magazines and journals. We publish over a thousand titles each year, sharing outstanding literary works in a global platform. All-time classics such as the complete works of Shakespeare, Balzac, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Kafka, Hemingway, Sartre, and international bestsellers such as Harry Potter series are all introduced to Chinese readers by PLPH.
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Guangdong People's Publishing House Ltd.

Guangdong People’s Publishing House (GPPH), founded in 1951, has the longest history among 20 publishing houses in Guangdong Province. We are a comprehensive publishing house, consisting of independent editorial departments on Social Science, History, Politics, Culture, Education and etc. We have published over 20,000 different kinds of books in the past 60 years with a rough estimation of over 800 million copies. More than 790 titles have won national and provincial awards. From 1997 to 2004, GPPH has successively won the National Book Award, the Five-Ones Project Award and the China Book Award. Many best-selling titles have won favor of readers as well as good reputation in academic circles. GPPH has also been honored as “Good Publishing House” by the General Administration of Press (GAP) many times. In 2006, GPPH has been awarded as one of “the pioneering publishing houses in copyright trade” by the State Copyright Bureau. As for copyright trading, we have already cooperated with publishers from many countries, buying and selling book copyrights with a wide range of genre. Our most popular titles includes: Concise History of Chinese Family, What is the China Dream, Brief Introduction of Chinese Classical Philosophy, etc.
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June 2016

Once upon a Time in Northern Jiangsu

by Zhou Jian

This novel mainly describes the difficult transformation of the lower classes in Northern Jiangsu from spiritual desolation to the establishment of beliefs in the decades between the 1920s and 1937 when the Japanese soldiers massacred civilians in Nanjing. Focusing on the small town of Wujiaji in Northern Jiangsu and the maturity of the main character Zhang Rujin (pet name Nafu), the novel highlights the historical change of the common people from paying no attention to national affairs to devoting themselves to the cause of fighting against Japanese aggressors. It can be called the annals of the Chinese lower society in the first half of the 20th century. It also offers a profound and objective analysis of the living condition and spiritual world of the lower classes in China during that turbulent period to the extent that this is a rare epic in China about the life of common people on the Northern Jiangsu Plain.

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Humanities & Social Sciences

March 2017

Britain in China

by Robert Bickers

This is a study of Britain's presence in China both at its peak, and during its inter-war dissolution in the face of assertive Chinese nationalism and declining British diplomatic support. Using archival materials from China and records in Britain and the United States, the author paints a portrait of the traders, missionaries, businessmen, diplomats and settlers who constituted "Britain-in-China", challenging our understanding of British imperialism there. Bickers argues that the British presence in China was dominated by urban settlers whose primary allegiance lay not with any grand imperial design, but with their own communities and precarious livelihoods. This brought them into conflict not only with the Chinese population, but with the British imperial government. The book also analyzes the formation and maintenance of settler identities, and then investigates how the British state and its allies brought an end to the reign of freelance, settler imperialism on the China coast. At the same time, other British sectors, missionary and business, renegotiated their own relationship with their Chinese markets and the Chinese state and distanced themselves from the settler British.

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Childhood Memory of the North

by Gao Hongbo

This book is a collection of essays recalling childhood penned by the renowned writer Gao Hongbo. By reading it, the readers today will not only get to know the early days of new China in the northern region but will also feel what growing up is all about.

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Humanities & Social Sciences

May 2023

Decolonising the Hajj

The pilgrimage from Nigeria to Mecca under empire and independence

by Matthew Heaton

Muslims from the region that is now Nigeria have been undertaking the Hajj for hundreds of years. But the process of completing the pilgrimage changed dramatically in the twentieth century as state governments became heavily involved in its organization and management. Under British colonial rule, a minimalist approach to pilgrimage control facilitated the journeys of many thousands of mostly overland pilgrims. Decolonization produced new political contexts, with nationalist politicians taking a more proactive approach to pilgrimage management for both domestic and international reasons. The Hajj, which had previously been a life-altering journey undertaken slowly and incrementally over years, became a shorter, safer, trip characterized by round trip plane rides. In examining the transformation of the Nigerian Hajj, this book demonstrates how the Hajj became ever more intertwined with Nigerian politics and governance as the country moved from empire to independence.

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Humanities & Social Sciences

January 2017

Theories of International Relations and Northern Ireland

by Timothy J. White

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Business, Economics & Law

June 2019

China-Africa Economic and Trade Cooperation:

Case Studies and Plans

by Secretariat of the First China-Africa Economic and Trade Expo Organizing Committee

China-Africa Economics and Trade Cooperation: Case Studies and Plans comes in 3 languages: Chinese(2 volumes), English(2 volumes), and French(2 volumes). This book series include 101 excellent case studies , which related to 21 Chinese provinces and cities and 31 countries in Africa, containing agriculture, manufacturing, commerce and trade, infrastructure, industrial parks, energy and mining, financing and other fields in China-Africa economic and trade cooperation. This set of books is practical and useful for all readers. In addition, the book gives the vivid interpretation on the concept of common prosperity, win-win cooperation, mutual negotiation and construction, shared innovation and progression of Belt and Road Initiative.

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Literature & Literary Studies

October 2018

The Change of Jingkang

The Decline and Fall of the Northern Song Dynasty

by You Biao

The Jingkang transformation that occurred in the late Northern Song Dynasty was a great tragedy in China's history when the country was destroyed and the country fell apart.Who caused this tragedy? Through long-term and multi-layered investigations, this book reproduces the panorama of the decline and decline of the Northern Song Dynasty, and provides thought-provoking thoughts and answers to these questions.

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February 2023

Love for Northeast China

by Laoteng, whose real name is Teng Zhenfu, is a member of the Tenth Presidium of the China Writers Association and is currently the Party Secretary and Chairman of the Liaoning Writers Association. He has published ten novels, includingThe Northeast China, The Numerous Armed Conflicts,and The Forests of Beizhang;eight collections of novels, such as The Black Thrush and A City Without Crows; and three cultural essays, such as Confucian Notes. He has won the 15th and 16th Five-One Project Awards,respectively, and The Northeast China has been selected on the list of 2021 Chinese Good Books.

"Never invest beyond theShanhai Pass", as the saying goes.The particular cultural environment and openness make the brain drain in Northeast China extremely serious. However, Miao Qing, a seemingly delicate doctoral student from a famous school, resolutely went northward because she had a personal plan thatwas related to both her father and herself, namely, to design a world-leading large aircraft. Her father once said that just as a poet without imagination must be a lousy poet, a country without advanced aircraft could never escape the fate of a backward country. For this reason, Miao Qing started her career atKunpeng Group, later went to Feiying Company to produce a leading small low-altitude aerial drone, and then sheplayed the leading role in the national G-31 project that designed a stealth supersonic aircraft and made a successful trial flight.

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Humanities & Social Sciences

September 2021

Populism in Europe

Lessons from Umberto Bossi's Northern League

by Davide Vampa, Daniele Albertazzi

Populism in Europe offers a detailed and systematic analysis of the ideology, electoral and governmental performances, organisational model, type of leadership and member activism of the Northern League under its founder, Umberto Bossi (1991-2012). Based on a wealth of original research, the book identifies the Northern League's consistent and coherent ideology, its strong leadership and its ability to create communities of loyal partisan activists as key ingredients of its success. Through their in-depth analysis, Albertazzi and Vampa show that the League has much to teach us about how populists can achieve durability and rootedness and how parties of all kinds can still benefit from a committed and dedicated membership today.

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The Arts

A Millennium from the Perspective of Arts – China in Classical Paintings (6 Volumes)

by Li Shubo

A Millennium from the Perspective of Arts – China in Classical Paintings tells the stories of China from paintings of different ages. It consists of six volumes, covering the Northern Song Dynasty, the Southern Song Dynasty, the Yuan Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty, and the Republic of China. By introducing the details of the works and observing the artists' creative mentality, the book not only tells the big pictures of politics, military, economy, technology, and humanity in different historical periods, but also shows the daily life and aesthetics of ancient China. As a Norwegian Chinese cultural scholar, the author Li Shubo adopts a special perspective in the book by combining the achievements of overseas Chinese studies with contemporary archaeology and art history, and uses simple language presenting a comprehensive, profound and thought-provoking picture of Chinese civilization.

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July 2021

The World of the North

Between Ragnarok and welfare utopia: A cultural-historical deconstruction

by Bernd Henningsen

— Analysis of how we view Europe's North and how this image emerged — An outsider's perspective on Nordic societies and their self image — Serves as an introduction into Northern European culture and society Our image of Northern Europe has been shaped by projections and desires in the long history of encounters: berserkers and war atrocities, bad weather, beautiful nature, stable political systems, social welfare, equality and prosperity, peacefulness, low corruption, hygge and Bullerby – all this is part of the Nordic narrative. But what about the religious, linguistic and ethnic homogeneity, what about the muchvaunted Nordic cooperation? How do politics "work" in the North? Why are Northern Europeans the happiest people?

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Humanities & Social Sciences

April 2018

Karl Marx In China

by Gu Hailiang

The book illustrates the influence of Marxismin china, including the classic works of Kar Marx and its latest achievements in China.

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Teaching, Language & Reference

August 2024

The Northern Ireland peace process

by Eamonn O'Kane

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Humanities & Social Sciences

April 2020

US politics today

by Edward Ashbee, Bill Jones

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Teaching, Language & Reference

July 2015

Politics and peace in Northern Ireland

Political parties and the implementation of the 1998 Agreement

by David Mitchell

Politics and peace in Northern Ireland analyses the complex and contradictory process of implementing the Good Friday Agreement. Using the lens of security dilemma theory, it begins with an original overview of the conflict, the Agreement and post-1998 politics. The book then explores post-Agreement Northern Ireland through the eyes of each of the four main political parties, showing how they tried to shape the course of peace implementation, and how implementation, in turn, shaped the fates and fortunes of the parties. Drawing on extensive original research, this book explains the promise and limits of the Agreement. It shows how and why the two sides' mutual insecurities repeatedly derailed peace implementation, and reflects on the likely direction of parties and politics in the future. This clearly written and up-to-date book will be of interest to scholars and students of recent Northern Irish history, ethnic conflict and peace-making. ;

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Humanities & Social Sciences

December 2019

Northern Ireland and the politics of boredom

by George Legg

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Humanities & Social Sciences

March 2017

Sunningdale, the Ulster Workers' Council strike and the struggle for democracy in Northern Ireland

by David McCann, Cillian McGrattan

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Humanities & Social Sciences

May 2017

Study on Zhou Dunyi's Journey of Life

by Liu Yiping

Zhou Dunyi (1017—1073) is a famous ideologist, philosopher and originator of Neo-Confucianism in the Northern Song Dynasty. Together with Shao Yong, Zhang Zai, Cheng Hao and Cheng Yi, they are called "Five Thinkers of the Northern Song Dynasty". This book is one of a series of books commemorating Zhou Dunyi with 17 manuscripts in it. The author experiences Zhou Dunyi's life journey by visiting 17 places where Zhou Dunyi ever studied, worked, teached, etc., and records personal feelings and reflection. It is the author's attempt to have a further understanding of Zhou Dunyi, Chinese traditional culture, as well as the Neo-Confucianism in the Northern Song Dynasty.

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Humanities & Social Sciences

July 1999

Britain in China

by Robert Bickers, Andrew Thompson, John Mackenzie

This is a study of Britain's presence in China both at its peak, and during its inter-war dissolution in the face of assertive Chinese nationalism and declining British diplomatic support. Using archival materials from China and records in Britain and the United States, the author paints a portrait of the traders, missionaries, businessmen, diplomats and settlers who constituted "Britain-in-China", challenging our understanding of British imperialism there. Bickers argues that the British presence in China was dominated by urban settlers whose primary allegiance lay not with any grand imperial design, but with their own communities and precarious livelihoods. This brought them into conflict not only with the Chinese population, but with the British imperial government. The book also analyzes the formation and maintenance of settler identities, and then investigates how the British state and its allies brought an end to the reign of freelance, settler imperialism on the China coast. At the same time, other British sectors, missionary and business, renegotiated their own relationship with their Chinese markets and the Chinese state and distanced themselves from the settler British. ;

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Humanities & Social Sciences

November 2010

Devolution and the governance of Northern Ireland

by Colin Knox

This book offers the first account of what the First Minister, Peter Robinson, describes as the most settled period of devolution in Northern Ireland for almost forty years. It traces the tortuous path to devolved government, the political instability which constantly threatened the institutions, and since May 2007 the bedding down of devolution and its impact so far on the people of Northern Ireland. The book parallels accounts of devolved government in Scotland and Wales. For years Northern Ireland has been the subject of academic enquiry relating to political, constitutional and security issues. Now as a post-conflict society political parties which for years engaged in the politics of antagonism must now redirect their efforts to delivering public policies that will improve the quality of people's daily lives. This has not come easily to them. This book is therefore the first study which looks at devolved power sharing governance arrangements in Northern Ireland and a sequel to Derek Birrell's book Direct Rule and the Governance of Northern Ireland. Manchester: Manchester University Press (2009) The book contains chapters on the key governance institutions: the civil service, local government, non-departmental public bodies, and the vibrant third sector in Northern Ireland. It examines in some detail the major review of public administration ongoing since 2002 and the more recent public services modernising agenda. Importantly, given the sectarian divisions which have segregated every aspect of life in Northern Ireland, the book asks the key question whether it is possible to reconcile the two communities or are they destined to live 'separate but equal' lives. Finally, the book considers topical issues which are at the early stages of implementation: community planning and central-local relations. This book will be of interest to students of devolution across the UK and beyond. It will also be relevant for those researchers working in the area of post-conflict societies. ;

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The Decline and Fall of the Northern Song Dynasty

by You Biao

Lessons from Umberto Bossi's Northern League

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Between Ragnarok and welfare utopia: A cultural-historical deconstruction

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