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We are a small, independent publisher of books and e-books for nursing and healthcare students. We involve students in the development and reviewing of our books to ensure they are as suitable as they can be for their intended readership.
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Literature & Literary StudiesJanuary 2017Sing, Sadness
by Lan Lan
This is a poem collection of modern Chinese poet Lan Lan, who chooses about 200 works from 1983-2014. Her poems are characterized with strong emotion, sharp thoughts, and lyrical expression.
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June 2019The Song of High Wind
by Liu Ailong, Deng Fujun
This is a novel about Liu Shaoqi in the form of historical biography, which narrates the fighting experience of Liu Shaoqi from the end of 1939 to the beginning of 1942, thereby vividly demonstrating his unswerving political caliber and superior military capability. The novel describes his life in a chronological order: after being entrusted with the mission of organizing the central plains bureau of the C.P.C., Liu Shaoqi got rid of the disturbing thought of “everything should be subject to the united front”of Xiang Ying, member of the Political Bureau and the commander of the New Fourth Army, and gave full play to initiative in the battles including the Bantaji Battle, two operations against the enemy's “mopping-up” campaign, the Guocun Village Battle, the Huangqiao Battle, making great contributions to tipping the balance after the Southern Anhui Incident, building the Anti-Japanese base area of central China and persisting in the War of Resistance Against Japan in enemy-occupied areas.
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March 2015The Stories of Liu Shaoqi
by Liu Jintian
The characters included in the "The Chinese Leaders' Stories Series" are all the older generation of proletarian revolutionaries who have made great contributions or created great achievements in the great struggle to create the People's Republic of China and the great cause of leading the people to carry out socialist economic construction. The vivid and detailed stories illustrate these great people from their birth time until their senior status and describe their fighting process, showing the reader a full and vivid image, reappearing their personality charm, political wisdom, and military talent. The series is a good model for cultivating the patriotism of Chinese young readers, and it also provides a great opportunity for readers to relive in the history and have experienced those leaders' great achievements. This book is the stories of Liu Shaoqi.
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April 2018Country Teachers
by Liu Xinglong
This is the collection of stories of Liu Xinglong, includingCountry Teachers, The Village Secretary, Recitation at Dusk, Going to Beijing with Tea-Leaf on a Shoulder Pole, Cabbage and Turnip, The Fake City and so forth. In these stories, Liu Xinglong mainly seeks human merits from ordinary people, speaks highly of nobleness of common people and portrays the ordinary-but-not-mediocre images. Due to these works, Liu Xinglong has been regarded as the representative writer of “new realistic novel”.
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May 2020The Sea, the Sea, I Ask You-Liu Raomin's World of Nursery Rhymes
by Sun Yunxiao, Liu Baoan, Cao Weihong
Liu Raomin is a famous poet and nursery rhyme writer in Qingdao. His works have been selected by various elementary school Chinese textbooks many times. Such as "the sea, the sea, I ask you", "tick tick tick it rains", etc., are popular and enduring. But people remember these nursery rhymes, but often don't know the author of the nursery rhymes. Teacher Sun Yunxiao has a dream to recommend more poems by Mr. Liu Raomin to readers, so that everyone can learn more about poets and poetry stories. Thereby sublimating children's imagination and language ability. This book can also be read by adults who are still innocent.
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September 2021Treating the People as His Mirror, a Man of Sincerity—Zhang Lan
by Zhao Zunsheng
Based on the life of Mr. Zhang Lan and supplemented by reasonable literary imagination, this book vividly depicts the magnificent life course of a democratic revolutionary, patriot and educator. He served as a governor of Sichuan Province, hosted the Morning Post and supported the New Culture Movement. As the president of Chengdu University, he adhered to the principle of inclusiveness, insisted on meritocracy and advocated ideological and academic freedom. He participated in the initiation and the organization of the China Democratic Political League, wrote China Needs Real Democracy, exposing the feigned democracy and real dictatorship of the Kuomintang. On the eve of liberation, he was unexpectedly imprisoned in Hongqiao Sanatorium because of his support to the Communist Party of China (CPC) and was nearly drowned by the Kuomintang. He served as vice chairman of the Central People's Government of New China and the first chairman of the Central Committee of the China Democratic League. In his life, Zhang Lan was "a man of sincerity". He loved his nation and country, treated the people as his mirror, and always stood in line with the CPC. The book not only vividly describes Zhang Lan's sincere friendship with Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, Huang Yanpei and others, and his head-to-head confrontation with Chiang Kai-shek, Duan Qirui and Yang Sen, but also vividly portrays minor characters such as Qiu Yichun, Song Lanying, little Zhang Lun. The rich plot, the exquisite writing style and closeness to life can give readers a "talk" with Zhang Lan in the present and personally feel Zhang Lan's patriotic and progressive life.
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September 2018Good Night 321
by Lan Shan
The Creative Thinking, Development, and Enlightenment Book Series consists of two volumes, which are a set of cognition enlightening books with context meant to help children from 1 to 3 years old to learn characters and numbers. The series of books doesn't contain the boring sense of cramming but combining simple storylines with creative expressions to meet the kids' basic cognitive needs at this age. This set of books uses a childlike illustration style, which is in line with what kids like at that age. Also, the book associates emotions with color and cognitive knowledge and develops kids' ability to read, observe, imagine and create while reading with fun. Good Night 321 tells the story of animals counting and sleeping with the theme of Good night.
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September 2018Good Morning ABC
by Lan Shan
The Creative Thinking, Development, and Enlightenment Book Series consists of two volumes, which are a set of cognition enlightening books with context meant to help children from 1 to 3 years old to learn characters and numbers. The series of books doesn't contain the boring sense of cramming but combining simple storylines with creative expressions to meet the kids' basic cognitive needs at this age. This set of books uses a childlike illustration style, which is in line with what kids like at that age. Also, the book associates emotions with color and cognitive knowledge and develops kids' ability to read, observe, imagine and create while reading with fun. Good Morning ABC links 26 English letters into a story with the theme of Good morning. The story contains words and phrases related to each letter of the alphabet, so that children can learn letters more vividly.
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The Story of Liu Tianzuo
by Shi Zhongshan
The story takes place in the early 1980s. Liu Tianzuo has a talent for playing suona, so he was recruited into a certain art propaganda team. In the army, Liu Tianzuo's talent in playing attracted Fu Yao, a nurse in the medical department of the military department. The two fell in love, but after Fu Yao's mother objected and failed, Fu Yao also married others. A few years later, Tianzuo married before the reduction and demobilization of the army, and transferred to work in a company affiliated to the Foreign Trade Bureau. After that, he resigned and went to the sea to do feed business and earned his first pot of gold. The band was recalled and the performance was very popular. Later, a performance company was formed and became the "home of veterans" for demobilized soldiers. The business became more prosperous...
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May 2018Secret Records of Huanggang County
by He Dun
The novel has portrayed the images of Liu Shengzhi, a grass-roots cadre of Chinese Communist Party with strong faith, and many other people via the fate of the Lius in Huanggang County of Hubei Province over the century since the Republican period. Through the description of these characters and the development of the plot, the novel has dug deep into the cultural customs and historical profundity of Huanggang County, and interpreted the patriotic and cultural reasons for Huanggang County being the hometown of many generals and top scorers of college entrance examination. Liu Shengzhi, Brother Shi, is stubborn and unwavering. He has hardly contacted with Brother Shiyi, the best friend in his teenage days, just because he believes that Shiyi has betrayed him. He regularlyremits money to his wife who is retired and gets no more salaries, but tells nothing to her, so as to keep his faith. In face of the storm, he risks his life to dive into water and open the valve of the reservoir. He is also the first to move without any conditions to make room for the construction of Nanmen Bridge. Besides, the novel has also attentively described many other characters such as Uncle Wang Lang. As a brave soldier who had once carried the explosive package to blow up the city gate, Uncle Wang indignantly blocks the car of some greedy official at the street corner of the cross street during the Spring Festival. All these vividly-depicted characters have fully demonstrated the firm faith and integrity of the revolutionists of the older generation.
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Literature & Literary StudiesMay 2017A Corpus of Studies on ZhuZhi Poem
Ancient Folk Songs in China
by Liu Mengchu, Ding Xingyu
Zhuzhi poem is a kind of literary poems developed from folk songs. Since the mid-Tang Dynasty poet Liu Yuxi learned and sang the Zhuzhi poem, Zhuzhi poem has become a cultural trend that reflects people's sentiments and also a channel for people to express true feelings for thousands of years. The book contains 22 related research papers, including research on the origin of Zhuzhi poems, the relationship between Zhuzhi poems and local culture, the characteristics and expression of Zhuzhi poems, the differences and connections between Zhuzhi poems and folk songs, the comparison between Zhuzhi poems and other poetic styles, and the study of Zhuzhi poems teaching and creation, etc. This book helps readers to deepen understanding of Zhuzhi poems and further realize the beauty.
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Children's & YASwimming
by Liu Haiqi
The novel tells the story of the boy Liu Lixian who tried all ways to learn to swim. With humorous and witty words, it shows the vitality as well as special games and sports spirits that belongs only to one's childhood, and presents the strong self-identity built during one's growing up. The story happened in Jinan, a City of Springs, where the author has been living for 58 years. Along with various children's games, the novel also portrays the rich and fresh details of life and folk customs of the city.
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FictionThe Messenger
by Liu Liangcheng
“A novelist is also a message deliverer, for writing is the art of delivering a message.”—Liu Liangcheng Set in Pisha and Heile, two warring countries in the west without any official communication, this excellent fantastic fable centers on a story between Ku, a messenger and famous translator fluent in several languages and a donkey named Xie, which is said to be a message itself. Ku was asked to deliver the donkey Xie to his hostile country thousands of miles away, thus the two of them embarked on the journey. Together, they crossed battlefields and deserts, witnessing incredible happenings in life and death.Part fantasy and part philosophical puzzle, The Message Deliverer is a kaleidoscopic journey to the intersection of war, love, faith and power. Liu Liangcheng tiptoes the harmony between human and nature in this weird and wild novella, sticking to his writing concept of “everything has a spirit.”
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Food & DrinkWeekly Plan of Starting food
by Liu Changwei
This book is a complete guide to starting food. It’s written by Liu Changwei who is a professional children dietitian. Baby’s parents can find the answers to the almost all of the fundamental problems easily, especially the weekly plans of starting food. There are 215 baby food recipes which are accumulated by Docter Liu by more than one year .These recipes can meet the nutrient requirements of baby( more than 6 months’ old ). There also are more than two hundreds attractive illustrations. Parents can find the nutrient information of each recipes from the topics easily. Delicious energy –giving food recipes are specially prepared for the sick baby. With the help of these recipes, baby can reply from the disease quickly.
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Western Hunan Liu Kaiyun Pediatric Tuina
by Peng Jin
This book provides a comprehensive and accurate introduction of Liu Kaiyun's academic thoughts on pediatric tuina from several aspects, including the four methods of diagnosis, syndrome differentiation, acupoints, tuina techniques, and disease diagnosis and treatment. The book presents tuina treatment methods for more than 70 kinds of pediatric diseases, health care with tuina for children throughout the year, and health care tuina methods for common diseases. In addition, it contains digrams of more than 150 kinds of acupoints and techniques for pediatric tuina, accompanied by teaching videos and high-definition pictures, which facilitate readers' learning and practicing.
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January 2021Recollection pf Journey to the West
by Liu Zaifu
In the field of Chinese classical literature research, Mr. Liu Zaifu devoted himself to studying "Journey to the West" after the "Four Books of the Red Chamber" and "Criticism of Double Classics: A Cultural Criticism of "Water Margin" and "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and will spend many years in August 2018. Comprehend the cost book. This book is composed of 300 comprehensions, which not only appraise the things and plots of western tourists vertically, but also observe the four masterpieces horizontally, vividly presenting a cultural scholar's reading style, academic approach and aesthetic appeal.
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Tell Children About the Sanxingdui
by Liu Xingshi
The Sanxingdui Ruins are considered one of the most the greatest archaeological finds of China in the 20th century. Located in the southwest China's Sichuan Province, the ruins are believed to be the remnants of the ancient Shu Kingdom, predating the Xia Dynasty by 700 years or even thousands of years, dating back up to 3000 or 5000 years ago. What is the truth about this period of history and who built it? This is a mystery to the world. Liu Xingshi is a prehistoric archaeological researcher, contemporary geologist, science popularization writer, and expert in Sanxingdui mineral resources investigation. He wrote, at the age of 91, this set of humorous but professional books for children to guide them in uncovering the mysteries of the Sanxingdui Ruins from the perspectives of geography, archaeology, history, and human environmental science. Unlike the most books on the market focusing on the cultural relics unearthed at the Sanxingdui Ruins, including the surprisingly large number of bronzes and ivories, this unique set of books traces back to the ancient Shu civilization and explores how Sanxingdui people lived, including food, clothing, shelter, transportation, labor, and migration, as well as the hidden geography, climate, and environmental knowledge, which leaves infinite imagination space for children.
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Children's & YAI Want My Carving Knife
by Liu Jianping
This book collects nine short novels written by the famous writer—Liu Jianping. This book is based on the colorful and wonderful campus and outside life, and each short novel has different writing style, moving or humorous and lively, vivid or thoughtful. The Author makes the novel equip with strong readability and vivid feeling of reality. 《The Moment of Solitude》 is adapted into a TV show with the same name by Jiangsu TV Station.
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January 2021Liu Xiyan's Interpretation of the Dream of the Red Chamber
by Liu Yanxi
Dream of the Red Chamber, formerly known as The Stone Records, is a documentary-style account of traditional Chinese culture and life. The Dream of the Red Chamber is a rare first-hand source of information for national studies. This book is an all-round interpretation of The Dream of the Red Chamber in the light of traditional Chinese cultural thought, aiming to use the interpretation of The Dream of the Red Chamber to talk about all aspects of Chinese studies, so as to see the true face of the ancients and their real efforts. It is particularly meaningful at a time when traditional Chinese culture is being revived in its entirety, and this great work is being reinterpreted.
