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Folklore, fables and fairy tales
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Tells the story of a leader who learns to lead by remembering the most important thing. For grades K-3
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Folklore, fables and fairy tales
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Tells the story of Lao Zi, the founder of Taoism who wrote the guiding principles of his philosophy while on…
his way to lead the life of a recluse. For grades K-3
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Folklore, fables and fairy tales
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Tells the story of famous thinker Confucius and his followers gaining enlightenment at the Yi River. For grades K-3
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Folklore, fables and fairy tales
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Tells the story of famous thinker Zhuang Zi, who devoted himself to his writing and teaching. For grades K-3
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General non-fiction
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Tells the story of how the monster Xi was defeated on the last day of the last month of the year. For grades K-3
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Folklore, fables and fairy tales
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Tells the story of young Ke, who learns the importance of education. For grades K-3
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Mysteries and crime stories
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讲述被停职的警探陈暮在追查富豪离奇失踪案时，意外卷入名为"罪人围栏"的暗网直播平台。 该平台以私刑审判法律难以制裁的"罪人"，随着调查深入，陈暮发现平台背后隐藏着更庞大的阴谋。 为揭露真相，他不得不与神秘的女处刑人陆清欢结成脆弱同盟，在虚实交织的迷宫中对抗操纵人心的"牧羊人"。 当现实与虚拟的边界崩塌，两人必须各自在光明与阴影的两端，守护残存的人性微光。
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Arts and entertainment
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The book is a collection of fifteen introductory essays excerpted from the Annual of Contemporary Art in China, covering the…
years from 2005 to 2019, showcasing the development and changing landscapes of contemporary art in China. The Annual documents exhibitions, events, creative practices, and critical literature concerning contemporary art in China since 2005. Based on archival documentation and statistics data from these annuals, notable phenomena, events, and discourses from a given year, as well as key works and artists are reviewed in each introduction, with no ideological or market-driven undertone. The author unravels industrial and institutional factors, while also broaching important issues of abstract art, new media art and so on, and probing the historical and socio-cultural context as well. In this regard, the book offers a panorama of contemporary Chinese art and critically engages with the art scene in China, including Hongkong, Taiwan, and among the Chinese diaspora. The title will appeal to scholars, students and general readers interested in contemporary art history, art criticism, contemporary Chinese art, iconography, and contemporary art theory.
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Reference, Customs and cultures, General non-fiction
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For many years, the oral performing and dramatic literatures of China from 1200 to 1600 CE were considered some of…
the most difficult texts in the Chinese corpus. They included ballad medleys, comic farces, Yuan music dramas, Ming music dramas, and the novel Shuihu zhuan. The Japanese scholars who first dedicated themselves to study these works in the mid-twentieth century were considered daring. As late as 1981, no comprehensive dictionary or glossary for this literature existed in any language, Asian or Western. A Glossary of Words and Phrases fills this gap for Western readers, allowing even a relative novice who has resonable command of Chinese to read, translate, and appreciate this great body of literature with an ease undreamed of even two decades ago. The Glossary is organized into approximately 8,000 entries based on the reading notes and glosses found in various dictionaries, thesauruses, glossaries, and editions of works from the period. Main entries are listed alphabetically in the pinyin romanization system. In addition to glosses, entries include symbolic annotations, guides to pronunciation, and text citations. The result is a broadly useful glossary serving the needs of students of this literature as well as scholars researching Jin and Yuan language and its usage.
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Customs and cultures, General non-fiction
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Two Twelfth-Century Texts on Chinese Painting presents two texts in translation that provide dual insight into the Painting Academy of…
Emperor Hui-tsung and the literati school of painting. The Shan-shui ch’un-ch’uan chi is a treatise for beginning landscape painters dated to the Hsüan-ho era. The treatise was written by Han Cho, a reputed member of the Academy, but the text was not specifically directed at Academicians. The treatise collects and orders previous writings on landscape painting; one of Han Cho’s main goals is to list all landscape definitions and their practical application in painting. Yet his view is more detached and analytical than a stereotypical Academy painter, revealing an approach reminiscent of Confucian scholarship and literati painting as well. The Hua-chi by Teng Ch’un is a history of painting that was written as a sequel to two earlier painting histories. In ten chapters, Teng Ch’un compiles facts and critical evaluations of painters from 1075 to 1167, as well as listings of selected masterpieces. Teng Ch’un provides more specific information about the Academy than Han Cho, discussing its organization and examination system, and noting that “form-likeness” and adherence to rules were leading standards for painting in the Academy. On the other hand, he thinks that painting should transmit “soul,” not just “form.” Thus, Teng Ch’un writes the history of both the establishment values of the Academy and the intellectual tendencies of the literati.
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Poetry, Customs and cultures, General non-fiction
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The interplay between the external world (ching) and the poet’s inner world (ch’ing) lies at the heart of Chinese poetry,…
and understanding the interaction of the two is crucial to understanding this work from within its own tradition. Closely coordinating her discussions of poetry and criticism so that practice and theory become mutually enriching and illuminating, Sun offers sensitive and original readings of poems and a wealth of insights into Chinese poetics.
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Philosophy, Customs and cultures, General non-fiction
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The relationships, both historical and philosophical, among the Zhuangzi’s Inner, Outer, and Miscellaneous chapters are the subject of ancient and…
enduring controversy. Liu marshals linguistic, intertextual, intratextual, and historical evidence to establish an objectively demonstrable chronology and determine the philosophical affiliations among the various chapters. This major advance in Zhuangzi scholarship furnishes indispensable data for all students of the great Daoist text. In a lengthy afterword, Liu compares his conclusions with those of A. C. Graham and addresses the relationship between the Zhuangzi and the Laozi.
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Poetry, Customs and cultures, General non-fiction
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Pentasyllabic poetry has been a focus of critical study since the appearance of the earliest works of Chinese literary criticism…
in the Six Dynasties period. Throughout the subsequent dynasties, traditional Chinese critics continued to examine pentasyllabic poetry as a leading poetic type and to compile various comprehensive anthologies of it. The Matrix of Lyric Transformation enriches this tradition, using modern analytical methods to explore issues of self-expression and to trace the early formal, thematic, and generic developments of this poetic form. Beginning with a discussion of the Yüeh-fu and ku-shih genres of the Han period, Cai Zong-qi introdues the analytical framework of modes from Western literary criticism to show how the pentasyllabic poetry changed over time. He argues that changing practices of poetic composition effected a shift from a dramatic mode typical of folk compositions to a narrative mode and finally to lyric and symbolic modes developed in literati circles.
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Simplified Chinese edition. Vision Australia exists to support people who are blind or have low vision to live the life…
they choose. This document covers key information about client rights and responsibilities, privacy, services and how clients can provide feedback and make a complaint. It also includes a list of relevant contacts.
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Book description: 内容简介 In this story of "The Junglies" the friends discover there are many other places in the world…
beside their home which they would like see. 在故事中 这群"丛林里的朋友"发现世上还有许多令他们向往的地方 When they realise that they cannot travel outside their home in the jungle they decide to find a way to see other places. They subsequently realise that sometimes we just need to look at things from a different perspective to appreciate what we have. 当他们意识到他们无法离家出外旅游后 他们就决定想个法子看看其他地方 他们最终领悟到有时我们更应该珍惜我们所拥有的
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In just thirteen brief, accessible chapters, this engaging little book takes "absolute beginners" from the most basic questions about the…
language (e.g., what does a classical Chinese character look like?) to reading and understanding selections from classical Chinese philosophical texts and Tang dynasty poetry. "An outstanding introduction to reading classical Chinese. Van Norden does a wonderful job of clearly explaining the basics of classical Chinese, and he carefully takes the reader through beautifully chosen examples from the textual tradition. An invaluable work." —Michael Puett, Harvard University
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The autobiography of the first woman president in Korea 朴槿惠以最平实的笔触 娓娓道出她的过往人生 处处可见她对父母的追慕与怀念之情,对韩国人民怀抱的使命感 以及历经大起大落后的省思与坚韧 全书自朴槿惠的少女时代始 描述了总统府青瓦台中的"第一家庭"如何过着寻常的生活 母亲遇刺后 朴槿惠担当起"第一夫人"的角色 其间得以了解政治的基本议题和国家的基本状况 父亲也遭暗杀后 她与弟妹黯然离开青瓦台 面对种种不堪现实与外界批判 她对人性和权力有了更深入的认识 决心远离政治 1997年韩国陷入经济萧条 朴槿惠眼见民生多艰,国家危殆 毅然重返政坛 书中详细描写了在加入大国家党之后 朴槿惠如何以原则和信念立身 带领大国家党踏上破除陈年积弊,夺取国会议席的征程
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Christianity
如果一切都按照上帝的心意而行，今天的教会会是什么样子？ 这是陈恩藩牧师迄今为止最有力量的一本 书，他深深扎根于圣经真理，回顾自己牧会历程 中的失败经历，展望教会的愿景，透过很多真实 的故事，让人看到上帝如何使用 普通的人来改 变这个世界。 正如陈牧师所说： 我们已经离上帝最初设 立教会的心意太远了。我们当前所经历的，与圣 经所描绘的教会生活有着天壤之别。多年来，教 会领袖们将教会超凡的奥秘束之高阁，把会众训 练成一群对次要事物上瘾的人。是时候悔改了。 当耶稣再来的时候，我们是忙着照顾他的新 妇还是我们自己的生活？本书提醒我们，教会原 来是如此的充满能力和荣耀，并呼召我们再一次 回到上帝最初设立教会的心意当中。
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Police Commissioner John Anderton finds himself at the mercy of his own crime-prevention system when the prescient precogs he's hired…
to stop crime before it starts peg him as a soon-to-be murderer in Philip K. Dick's masterful short story The Minority Report. This slim volume is top-bound like an office account and perfectly timed, the movie version, directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Tom Cruise, is due out this summer but whether fans will shell out the dough for a single short story that's available in various collections remains to be seen. 本书结集科幻鬼才菲利普*迪克最具代表性的九个短篇 第二代 , 冒名顶替 , 规划小组 , 少数派报告 , 战争游戏 , 啊 当个布洛贝尔人 , 死者的话 , 全面回忆 和 电子蚂蚁 菲利普*迪克以其独特的文风和光怪陆离的想象在美国科幻黄金时代独树一帜 他的短篇小说情节跌宕 很多故事的架构都勘称一绝 菲利普*迪克的小说主人公往往是困在极不寻常情镜中的小人物 他们被自己扭曲的感知误导 进退维谷 找不到出路
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In his second collection of stories, as in his first, Carver's characters are peripheral people--people without education, insight or prospects,…
people too unimaginative to even give up. Carver celebrates these men and women. 当我们谈论爱情时我们在谈论什么 是雷蒙德·卡佛优秀的短篇小说集 由17篇短篇小说组成 讲述了如餐馆女招待,锯木厂工人,修车工,推销员和汽车旅馆管理员等社会底层的体力劳动者的生活 这些普通人有着普通人的愿望 做着再普通不过的事情 但他们发现自己在为生存而挣扎 无法达到在常人看来并不远大的人生目标 他们的生活中充满了窘困和不如意 婚姻破裂 失业 酗酒 破产 卡佛用"极简"的遣词,冷静疏离的叙事 表现了现代社会中人的边缘性以及现代人脆弱的自我意识 本书的出版 为美国短篇小说写作注入了新的生命 并为卡佛赢得了"美国的契诃夫"的称号 使他成为美国继海明威之后受到模仿最多的作家