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Book Synopsis Charmed Young Master in Huadu City by : Ni Tian
Download or read book Charmed Young Master in Huadu City written by Ni Tian and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He was the king of the legends of the underground mercenaries. Because he had stolen the most precious jade of the world's top organization, the Rose Pavilion, and was seriously injured by the Rose Pavilion Master, he was forced to hide in the Flower City, disguised as a rogue hawker to sell cucumbers in front of different companies ...
Book Synopsis Charmed Young Master in Huadu City by : Ni Tian
Download or read book Charmed Young Master in Huadu City written by Ni Tian and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2019-11-23 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He was the king of the legends of the underground mercenaries. Because he had stolen the most precious jade of the world's top organization, the Rose Pavilion, and was seriously injured by the Rose Pavilion Master, he was forced to hide in the Flower City, disguised as a rogue hawker to sell cucumbers in front of different companies ...
Book Synopsis Charmed Young Master in Huadu City by : Ni Tian
Download or read book Charmed Young Master in Huadu City written by Ni Tian and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2019-12-09 with total page 693 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He was the king of the legends of the underground mercenaries. Because he had stolen the most precious jade of the world's top organization, the Rose Pavilion, and was seriously injured by the Rose Pavilion Master, he was forced to hide in the Flower City, disguised as a rogue hawker to sell cucumbers in front of different companies ...
Book Synopsis Charmed Young Master in Huadu City by : Ni Tian
Download or read book Charmed Young Master in Huadu City written by Ni Tian and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2019-12-05 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He was the king of the legends of the underground mercenaries. Because he had stolen the most precious jade of the world's top organization, the Rose Pavilion, and was seriously injured by the Rose Pavilion Master, he was forced to hide in the Flower City, disguised as a rogue hawker to sell cucumbers in front of different companies ...
Book Synopsis Charmed Young Master in Huadu City by : Ni Tian
Download or read book Charmed Young Master in Huadu City written by Ni Tian and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2019-12-01 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He was the king of the legends of the underground mercenaries. Because he had stolen the most precious jade of the world's top organization, the Rose Pavilion, and was seriously injured by the Rose Pavilion Master, he was forced to hide in the Flower City, disguised as a rogue hawker to sell cucumbers in front of different companies ...
Book Synopsis Charmed Young Master in Huadu City by : Ni Tian
Download or read book Charmed Young Master in Huadu City written by Ni Tian and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2019-12-13 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He was the king of the legends of the underground mercenaries. Because he had stolen the most precious jade of the world's top organization, the Rose Pavilion, and was seriously injured by the Rose Pavilion Master, he was forced to hide in the Flower City, disguised as a rogue hawker to sell cucumbers in front of different companies ...
Download or read book Red Roulette written by Desmond Shum and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "THE BOOK CHINA DOESN'T WANT YOU TO READ."--CNN A riveting insider's story of how the Party and big money work in China today, by a man who, with his wife, Whitney Duan, rose to the zenith of power and wealth--and then fell out of favor. She was disappeared four years ago. News of this book led to a phone call from Whitney, proof that she's alive. As Desmond Shum was growing up impoverished in China, he vowed his life would be different. Through hard work and sheer tenacity he earned an American college degree and returned to his native country to establish himself in business. There, he met his future wife, the highly intelligent and equally ambitious Whitney Duan who was determined to make her mark within China's male-dominated society. Whitney and Desmond formed an effective team and, aided by relationships they formed with top members of China's Communist Party, the so-called red aristocracy, he vaulted into China's billionaire class. Soon they were developing the massive air cargo facility at Beijing International Airport, and they followed that feat with the creation of one of Beijing's premier hotels. They were dazzlingly successful, traveling in private jets, funding multi-million-dollar buildings and endowments, and purchasing expensive homes, vehicles, and art. But in 2017, their fates diverged irrevocably when Desmond, while residing overseas with his son, learned that his now ex-wife Whitney had vanished along with three coworkers. This is both Desmond's story and Whitney's, because she has not been able to tell it herself.
Book Synopsis Destination Shanghai by : Paul French
Download or read book Destination Shanghai written by Paul French and published by . This book was released on 2019-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the privileged a cosmopolitan pleasure ground; For the desperate a port of last resort. A pot of gold at the end of an Oriental rainbow; A thick slice of hell denounced from the pulpit. A place to find fame, or to seek anonymity; Rogues, chancers, showgirls, criminals... For so many people from so many lands, there was one phrase that sent a shiver of anticipation down every spine: "DESTINATION SHANGHAI"
Book Synopsis Matthias Messmer and Hsin-Mei Chuang: China at Its Limits by : Matthias Messmer
Download or read book Matthias Messmer and Hsin-Mei Chuang: China at Its Limits written by Matthias Messmer and published by . This book was released on 2018-05-18 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A very timely and interesting book which will both help and provoke much discussion.' - Lord Chris Patten (Last British Governor of Hong Kong)There are seemingly no limits to China's rise as a superpower. But the empire's ambitions are being tested along its borders, where ruins of mysterious splendour and phantoms of ongoing tensions are overshadowed by the grandeur of China's ascent. Highways are being built over forgotten battlefields and derelict shrines to link the country with the world.In this scholarly and extensive volume, the destinies and landscapes shaped by an empire's upheavals are portrayed intimately. Evocative photographs reveal the sentiments and sensibilities of China's periphery, where a new world order is emerging.Swiss photographer and writer, Matthias Messmer specialises his research into Chinese cultural spaces, geopolitics and Western images of China.Taiwanese cultural researcher, Hsin-Mei Chuang explores the untold stories and cultural subtleties in Chinese and Taiwanese cultures, colonial history and its legacy in Asia.
Book Synopsis Buddhism, Diplomacy, and Trade by : Tansen Sen
Download or read book Buddhism, Diplomacy, and Trade written by Tansen Sen and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-09-11 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relations between China and India underwent a dramatic transformation from Buddhist-dominated to commerce-centered exchanges in the seventh to fifteenth centuries. The unfolding of this transformation, its causes, and wider ramifications are examined in this masterful analysis of the changing patterns of the interaction between the two most important cultural spheres in Asia. Tansen Sen offers a new perspective on Sino-Indian relations during the Tang dynasty (618–907), arguing that the period is notable not only for religious and diplomatic exchanges but also for the process through which China emerged as a center of Buddhist learning, practice, and pilgrimage. Before the seventh century, the Chinese clergy—given the spatial gap between the sacred Buddhist world of India and the peripheral China—suffered from a “borderland complex.” A close look at the evolving practice of relic veneration in China (at Famen Monastery in particular), the exposition of Mount Wutai as an abode of the bodhisattva Mañjuśrī, and the propagation of the idea of Maitreya’s descent in China, however, reveals that by the eighth century China had overcome its complex and successfully established a Buddhist realm within its borders. The emergence of China as a center of Buddhism had profound implications on religious interactions between the two countries and is cited by Sen as one of the main causes for the weakening of China’s spiritual attraction toward India. At the same time, the growth of indigenous Chinese Buddhist schools and teachings retrenched the need for doctrinal input from India. A detailed examination of the failure of Buddhist translations produced during the Song dynasty (960–1279), demonstrates that these developments were responsible for the unraveling of religious bonds between the two countries and the termination of the Buddhist phase of Sino-Indian relations. Sen proposes that changes in religious interactions were paralleled by changes in commercial exchanges. For most of the first millennium, trading activities between India and China were closely connected with and sustained through the transmission of Buddhist doctrines. The eleventh and twelfth centuries, however, witnessed dramatic changes in the patterns and structure of mercantile activity between the two countries. Secular bulk and luxury goods replaced Buddhist ritual items, maritime channels replaced the overland Silk Road as the most profitable conduits of commercial exchange, and many of the merchants involved were followers of Islam rather than Buddhism. Moreover, policies to encourage foreign trade instituted by the Chinese government and the Indian kingdoms contributed to the intensification of commercial activity between the two countries and transformed the China-India trading circuit into a key segment of cross-continental commerce.
Book Synopsis Changing Gods in Medieval China, 1127-1276 by : Valerie Hansen
Download or read book Changing Gods in Medieval China, 1127-1276 written by Valerie Hansen and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her study of medieval Chinese lay practices and beliefs, Valerie Hansen argues that social and economic developments underlay religious changes in the Southern Song. Unfamiliar with the contents of Buddhist and Daoist texts, the common people hired the practitioner or prayed to the god they thought could cure the ill or bring rain. As the economy rapidly developed, the gods, like the people who worshiped them, diversified: their realm of influence expanded as some gods began to deal on the national grain market and others advised their followers on business transactions. In order to trace this evolution, the author draws information from temple inscriptions, literary notes, the administrative law code, and local histories. By contrasting differing rates of religious change in the lowland and highland regions of the lower Yangzi valley, Hansen suggests that the commercial and social developments were far less uniform than previously thought. In 1100, nearly all people in South China worshiped gods who had been local residents prior to their deaths. The increasing mobility of cultivators in the lowland, rice-growing regions resulted in the adoption of gods from other places. Cults in the isolated mountain areas showed considerably less change. Originally published in 1990. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Book Synopsis Secrets of the Blue Cliff Record by : Thomas Cleary
Download or read book Secrets of the Blue Cliff Record written by Thomas Cleary and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2002-12-10 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Blue Cliff Record is a classic text of Zen Buddhism, designed to assist in the activation of dormant human potential. The core of this extraordinary work is a collection of one hundred traditional citations and stories, selected for their ability to bring about insight and enlightenment. These vignettes are known as gongan in Chinese and koan in Japanese. Secrets of the Blue Cliff Record is a fresh translation featuring newly translated commentary from two of the greatest Zen masters of early modern Japan, Hakuin Ekaku (1685–1768) of the Rinzai sect of Zen and Tenkei Denson (1648–1735) of the Soto sect of Zen. This translation and commentary on The Blue Cliff Record sheds new light on the meaning of this central Zen text.
Book Synopsis Records of the Transmission of the Lamp (Jingde Chuandeng Lu) by : Daoyuan
Download or read book Records of the Transmission of the Lamp (Jingde Chuandeng Lu) written by Daoyuan and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-03-30 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compilation of Buddhist biographies, teaching and transmission stories of Indian and Chinese Chan (Japanese ‘Zen’) masters from antiquity up to about the year 1008 CE is the first mature fruit of an already thousand year-long spiritual marriage between two great world cultures with quite different ways of viewing the world. The fertilisation of Chinese spirituality by Indian Buddhism fructified the whole of Asian culture. The message of this work, that Chan practice can enable a free participation in life’s open-ended play, seems as necessary to our own time as it was to the restless times of 11th century Song China. This is the fifth volume of a full translation of this work in thirty books. Records of the Transmission of the Lamp translated by randolph s. whitfield jingde chuandeng lu by daoyuan
Book Synopsis The Mystique of Transmission by : Wendi Leigh Adamek
Download or read book The Mystique of Transmission written by Wendi Leigh Adamek and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adamek provides a reading of the late 8th century Chan/Zen Buddhist Lidai fabao ji (Record of the Dharma-Jewel Through the Generations) and provides its first English translation. The work combines a history of the transmission of Buddhism and Chan in China with an account of the 8th century Chan master Wuzhu in Sichuan.
Book Synopsis Buddhism and Taoism Face to Face by : Christine Mollier
Download or read book Buddhism and Taoism Face to Face written by Christine Mollier and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2008-01-07 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christine Mollier reveals in this volume previously unexplored dimensions of the interaction between Buddhism and Taoism in medieval China. While scholars of Chinese religions have long recognized the mutual influences linking the two traditions, Mollier here brings to light their intense contest for hegemony in the domains of scripture and ritual. Drawing on a far-reaching investigation of canonical texts, together with manuscript sources from Dunhuang and the monastic libraries of Japan—many of them studied here for the first time—she demonstrates the competition and complementarity of the two great Chinese religions in their quest to address personal and collective fears of diverse ills, including sorcery, famine, and untimely death. In this context, Buddhist apocrypha and Taoist scriptures were composed through a process of mutual borrowing, yielding parallel texts, Mollier argues, that closely mirrored one another. Life-extending techniques, astrological observances, talismans, spells, and the use of effigies and icons to resolve the fundamental preoccupations of medieval society were similarly incorporated in both religions. In many cases, as a result, one and the same body of material can be found in both Buddhist and Taoist guises. Among the exorcistic, prophylactic, and therapeutic ritual methods explored here in detail are the "Heavenly Kitchens" that grant divine nutrition to their adepts, incantations that were promoted to counteract bewitchment, as well as talismans for attaining longevity and the protection of stellar deities. The destiny of the Jiuku Tianzun, the Taoist bodhisattva whose salvific mission and iconography were modeled on Guanyin (Avalokitesvara), is examined at length. Through the case-studies set forth here, the patterns whereby medieval Buddhists and Taoists each appropriated and transformed for their own use the rites and scriptures oftheir rivals are revealed with unprecedented precision. Buddhism and Taoism Face to Face is abundantly illustrated with drawings and diagrams from canonical and manuscript sources, together with art and artifacts photographed by the author in the course of her field research in China. Sophisticated in its analysis, broad in its synthesis of a variety of difficult material, and original in its interpretations, it will be required reading for those interested in East Asian religions and in the history of the medieval Chinese sciences, including astrology, medicine and divination.
Book Synopsis Buddhism in Chinese Society by : Jacques Gernet
Download or read book Buddhism in Chinese Society written by Jacques Gernet and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translated and revised by respected scholar of Chinese religions Franciscus Verellen, who has worked closely with Gernet, this edition includes new references, an extensive, up-to-date bibliography, and a comprehensive index.
Book Synopsis Beacon Fire and Shooting Star by : Xiaofei Tian
Download or read book Beacon Fire and Shooting Star written by Xiaofei Tian and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-10-26 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Liang dynasty (502-557) is one of the most brilliant and creative periods in Chinese history and one of the most underestimated and misunderstood. Under the Liang, literary activities, such as writing, editing, anthologizing, and cataloguing, were pursued on an unprecedented scale, yet the works of this era are often dismissed as "decadent" and no more than a shallow prelude to the glories of the Tang. This book is devoted to contextualizing the literary culture of this era--not only the literary works themselves but also the physical process of literary production such as the copying and transmitting of texts; activities such as book collecting, anthologizing, cataloguing, and various forms of literary scholarship; and the intricate interaction of religion, particularly Buddhism, and literature. Its aim is to explore the impact of social and political structure on the literary world.
