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Humanities & Social SciencesMay 2017Study 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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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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Business, Economics & LawChina’s Path of Reform in the Next Decade
by Wu Jinglian, Zhou Xiaochuan, Lou Ji Wei, Liu Shijin
This an anthology of essays previously published in the academic journal Comparison discussing China’s economic reform for the next decade. Several globally renowned economists and government officials, including Barry Naughton, Zhou Xiaochuan, Lou Jiwei, Liu Shijin, Cai Fang, Tian Guoqiang, penned a series of discourses on the most important and difficult issues lying ahead as China’s economic reform enters into the next ten years. Scholars and officials alike made suggestions on the economic reform policy systematically, with definite directions and strong feasibility.
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June 2015My Uncle Zhou Enlai
by Zhou Erliu
My Uncle Zhou Enlai honestly and sincerely records the bounds and influence of Zhou Enlai’s conduct, behavior and idealism from the perspective of author Zhou Erliu’s family history, personal experiences, and strong data proof. This new, over 200,000-word book is divided into seven sections including “The Zhou Family’s Social Standing”, “I and Uncle Zhou Enlai and Aunt Deng Yingchao”, “The Storms of Building the Nation”, “The Time of the Cultural Revolution”, “An Eternal Reminiscence”, “The Correction and Clarifcation of Historical Facts”, and “Carrying out the Wishes of the Deceased”. The author Zhou Erliu received nurturing and aid for many years from Mr. and Mrs. Zhou Enlai, and was the closest nephew to Prime Minister Zhou Enlai at work and in life. He was deeply influenced by them and possessed an innumerable amount of precious firsthand news and information, all these establishing the basis for the true emergence of Zhou Enlai in his book. This book has countless exclusive historical facts revealed for the frst time, including the influence of Zhou Enlai’s ancestors on him, a pillow side book from his last days along with his aspiration to write the novel Family Branch, his thoughts and views revealed in front of his family from the establishment of the New China to the “Cultural Revolution”, Deng Yingchao’s telling of the true cause for Zhou Enlai’s passing, and more.
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The Collected Works of Zhou Zuoren
by ZHOU ZUOREN
Zhou Zuoren has always been called the "king of short prose". His essays are the culmination of Chinese vernacular prose. Contemporaries such as Lu Xun, Hu Shi, and Yu Pingbo have commented on it. He is erudite and knowledgeable, and his writings are all-encompassing. He is generally acknowledged as his literary style to be calm and dilute. His essays always permeate humanistic observations, which are both profound and forward-looking, and contain the plain and sincere of life, allowing readers to taste the classic aesthetics of prose in his dilute and simple texts, but also You can experience a rich life and harvest the wisdom of thinking.
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March 2015The Stories of Zhou Enlai
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 Zhou Enlai.
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November 2021The Poem and Engraving during the Revolution Period
by Chen Jin, Zhou Aimin
Content in brief: This book selects 100 poems written by famous revolutionists such as Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, Liu Shaoqi, etc., with 100 engraved paintings as illustrations. It depicts how sincere the revolutionists about Chinese revolution cause, and helps readers relive the era full of powder and sacrifice.
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Literature & Literary StudiesMarch 2017Night Watchman: A Selection of Poems by Yu Kwang- chung
by Yu Kwang-chung
This collection of poems chosen and translated by Yu Kwang-chung, the poet himself, covers over eighty poems from 1958 to 2014. Unlike other poetry anthology, the poems in Night Watchman have been handpicked by the author personally. It includes classic works like Nostalgia, Jadeite Cabbage, Four Songs of Nostalgia, A Tug of War with Eternity, On the Rivers and Lakes, etc. and poems in different styles which have never beenpublished in the mainland before. These works, translated into English by the author，combine the charm of classic Chinese literature and the spirit of modern western literature, and embody the sound interaction between writing and translating.
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Forestry & silviculture: practice & techniquesJuly 2005Rust Diseases of Willow and Poplar
by Edited by Ming H Pei, Alistair R McCracken
In recent years there has been increased interest in growing willow and poplar trees, as fast-growing species that have several purposes, including use as biofuels for energy production. However, silviculture of these trees has been constrained by diseases such as Melampsora rusts. This book provides a comprehensive review of over two decades of extensive study of the rust diseases affecting willow and poplar. It provides insights into the population biology of Melampsora rusts in Europe, China, India and Chile, the genetics of their resistance, and their interaction with their hosts. The book offers information essential to the development of effective and sustainable disease control measures including the use of willow genotype mixtures and biological control agents.
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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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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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August 2015Seals of Heaven
by Pei Kuishan
Seals of Heaven is a historical mystery novel with the writing style similar to that of The Da Vinci Code. Zhou Hao, a graduate student majoring in history, was invited by his mentor Ding Jingzhi to attend a cocktail party hosted by a Japanese Otani Yuzi. Unexpectedly, Ding was murdered at home that night after receiving a set of strange signs. In Zhou’s investigation of the cause of Ding’s death, he constantly received hints and reminders through strange mails as well as assistance from National Security Department. Mysterious guys emerged incessantly and bizarre deaths took place one after another. In the meanwhile, major historical mysteries presented themselves massively before their eyes. How could Zhou escape the killings, solving the centuries-old mysteries and guarding the national treasures?
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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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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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FictionApril 2017Made In China
by Zhou Meisen
This novel focuses on reformation of a Chinese city through struggle and fate of people from three social classes: the leaders, the middle managers, and the common citizens.
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FictionApril 2017The Highest Interest
by Zhou Meisen
This political novel reveals inside story of achievement showing project. Through reflection of Chinese political system, it shows the most intense conflict of modern politics and the choice of politicians.
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October 2015Learning Qin with Me
by Liu Zhenyu, Deng Hong
As a gem of Chinese culture, qin (7-stringed zither) became a representative of human oral and intangible heritage at the UNESCO World Heritage Conference in 2003. Its popularization rests on the popularization of introductory textbooks. Qin can help the coordination of hand and mind, activate the human brain and enhance memory. It can also sharpen people’s hearing and bring joys to people. The invention of this musical instrument has made the Chinese people cleverer and the ancient Chinese civilization ahead of other world civilizations, leaving behind precious treasures. Learning Qin with Me is a systematic introductory textbook. It includes an introduction of qin, its cultural continuity and change, its basic knowledge, and its basic fingering, scales, works and songs accompanied by it. The textbook also contains an introduction of the traditional Chinese gongchi musical notation. The qin works and songs appear in numbered musical notation, staff, and qin tablature. As it is very difficult to typeset qin tablature, this is the only qin introductory textbook with qin tablature at present. The book is also attached with a demonstrative CD.
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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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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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Humanities & Social SciencesZeng Guofan (a version explained by Tang Haoming）
by Tang Haoming
Zeng Guofan is a long historical novel elaborately created by Tang Haoming. Based on real history, the novel describes the process of Zeng Guofan's mobilization from the Xiang Army to the victory of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and then becoming a minister. This book exclusively includes Mr. Tang Haoming's 1000-minute video. Readers can scan the two-dimensional code in the book to get an exclusive video. Through the video, readers can understand the historical context of Zeng Guofan's time, the world, the social customs, etc.
