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Download or read book Ginkgo Village written by Tamara Jacka and published by ANU Press. This book was released on 2024-06-04 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ginkgo Village provides an original and powerfully intimate bottom-up perspective on China’s recent tumultuous history. Drawing on ethnographic and life-history research, the book takes readers deep into a village in a mountainous region of central-eastern China known as Eyuwan. In the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, villagers in this region experienced terrible trauma and far-reaching socio‑economic and political change. In the civil war (1927–1949), they were slaughtered in fighting between Nationalist and Communist forces. During the Great Leap Forward (1958–1961), they suffered appalling famine. Since the 1990s, mass labour outmigration has lifted local villagers out of poverty and fuelled major transformations in their circumstances and practices, social and family relationships, and values and aspirations. At the heart of this book are eight tales that recreate Ginkgo Village life and the interactions between villagers and the researchers who visit them. These tales use storytelling to engender an empathetic understanding of Ginkgo Villagers’ often traumatic life experiences; to present concrete details about transformations in everyday village life in an engaging manner; and to explore the challenges and rewards of fieldwork research that attempts empathetic understanding across cultures.
Download or read book Ghost Breath written by Nan FangDeMeng and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-04-21 with total page 1357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever felt that you were staring into a pair of eyes in the dark? Have you ever heard a voice that was not normal in your ears? Have you ever seen an unexperienced scene reflected in your mind? Have you ever realized that the mysterious aura around your bed in the middle of the night ... A strange woman sitting on her back in a cinema A human head was floating outside the door. A weird handprint on the apartment wall. The thousand-year-old female corpse at the bottom of the lake. A child with a twisted neck... Psyche, strange talk, horror, suspense stories. The short story was the main story, while the middle story was the main story. Please read in order.
Download or read book POEM AND PAINTING written by YANG MIHE and published by American Academic Press. This book was released on 2022-04-11 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dialogue between a poet and a painter, Buddhist master ——Sing a poem for the world, great ambition arises in the netizens. Wisdom comes out on the net and leaves the world people to think. ——What heart is this, the true, the good and the beautiful? Poem and painting repay the world, no difference between the East and the West.
Book Synopsis Koreana - Summer 2012 (English) by : The Korea Foundation
Download or read book Koreana - Summer 2012 (English) written by The Korea Foundation and published by 한국국제교류재단. This book was released on 2013-03-30 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis China from the Inside by : Liam Brunt
Download or read book China from the Inside written by Liam Brunt and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-10-25 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book delivers the fascinating account of one Western family’s time living and working in China. Told through a series of letters, China from the Inside: Letters from an Economist presents insights into the society and economy of a country that is often opaque to outsiders and poorly understood. The author’s expertise as an economist, and the family’s efforts to integrate into Chinese society, furnish a vivid and unique account. It provides a valuable new perspective on the Chinese worldview, social relations and economy, as well as informed opinion on its projected economic development. Addressing issues ranging from the education system to the sustainability of economic growth, this is an accessible and engaging book that will be essential reading for all those interested in China and its future.
Book Synopsis Green Village and Town Construction in China by : Xiaoming Wang
Download or read book Green Village and Town Construction in China written by Xiaoming Wang and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-05-27 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By means of multidisciplinary research on urban and rural planning, construction engineering, environmental engineering and engineering sociology, this book conducts pioneering research on the construction theory, construction methods, evaluation technology and application of demonstration projects in China’s green villages and towns. The book is divided into three parts and eleven chapters. Part I is about the theory and development of green village and town construction, including the theory and innovation, the evolution and development, the patterns and mechanisms, and the community of green village and town construction. Part II is about the planning and construction methods of green villages and towns, including the plan compilation, the environmental infrastructure construction, and the construction and renovation of green buildings in villages and towns. Part III is about the evaluation of the planning and construction of green villages and towns, including the evaluation of plans, the evaluation of environmental infrastructure construction, the evaluation of green building construction, and the comprehensive evaluation of the planning and construction of green villages and towns. Today, 564 million farmers live in 28,500 towns and 2.452 million villages in China. In 2018 alone, 820 million m2 of new houses were built in rural areas. This proves that China’s green village and town construction has great significance and can provide enlightenment to developing countries and even to the world. The book describes new theories, new perspectives and new methods of green village and town sustainable construction in China for overseas experts and readers.
Book Synopsis Prince Charming with Super Brain by : Yan ChangYing
Download or read book Prince Charming with Super Brain written by Yan ChangYing and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-05-26 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It's not strange that those beauties fall in love with you. After all, you are so handsome and talented. If I were a woman, I would fall in love with you," Duan Ling Tian said to the mirror.
Download or read book Rhodora written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 1266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Holy Infant of India written by Feng Qing and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-04-21 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mystery India, there are many unknown things, perhaps you have heard of "baby water burial", also heard of "child marriage", or "killing a girl," etc., but you do not know that the Indian folk have a very magical thing called "baby god".
Book Synopsis The Aura of Confucius by : Julia K. Murray
Download or read book The Aura of Confucius written by Julia K. Murray and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-25 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Aura of Confucius is a ground-breaking study that reconstructs the remarkable history of Kongzhai, a shrine founded on the belief that Confucius' descendants buried the sage's robe and cap a millennium after his death and far from his home in Qufu, Shandong. Improbably located on the outskirts of modern Shanghai, Kongzhai featured architecture, visual images, and physical artifacts that created a 'Little Queli,' a surrogate for the temple, cemetery, and Kong descendants' mansion in Qufu. Centered on the Tomb of the Robe and Cap, with a Sage Hall noteworthy for displaying sculptural icons and not just inscribed tablets, Kongzhai attracted scholarly pilgrims who came to experience Confucius's beneficent aura. Although Kongzhai gained recognition from the Kangxi emperor, its fortunes declined with modernization, and it was finally destroyed during the Cultural Revolution. Unlike other sites, Kongzhai has not been rebuilt and its history is officially forgotten, despite the Confucian revival in contemporary China.
Download or read book Ginkgo written by Peter R. Crane and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-19 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the life story of a ginkgo tree, from its origin and proliferation to its decline and resurgence, highlighting the tree's cultural and social significance, medicinal uses, and role as a source of religious and artistic inspiration.
Download or read book Lake of Heaven written by and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2008-09-26 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lake of Heaven is the story of a traditional mountain village in Japan that is destroyed in the process of constructing a dam. It tells of the lives of the displaced villagers as they struggle to retain their traditional culture_including their stories, dances, music, mythology, and dreams_in the face of displacement, environmental destruction, and rapid modernization. Although fictional, the work is rooted in the events of actual villages in the mountains of Kyushu and Ishimure's imaginative reconstructions of their people's tales. Lake of Heaven considerably stretches the familiar Western conceptions of the novel form. Its interweaving of local stories, dreams, and myths lends it a deep sense of the Noh Drama. Gary Snyder writes that Lake of Heaven is 'a remarkable text of mythopoetic quality_with a Noh flavor_that presents much of the ancient lore of Japan and the lore of the spirit world.' The story becomes a parable for the larger world, 'in which all of our old cultures and all of our old villages are becoming buried, sunken, and lost under the rising waters of the dams of industrialization and globalization.'
Book Synopsis The Blue Guide to Indiana by : Michael Martone
Download or read book The Blue Guide to Indiana written by Michael Martone and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2001-08 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Let Martone guide you through every inch of the amazing state that is home to the Hoosier Infidelity Resort Area, the site of Wendell Willkie's Ascension into Heaven, and the Annual Eyeless Fish Fry. All your questions will be answered, including many you never thought to ask (like: "What's a good recipe for Pork Cake?")."--BOOK JACKET.
Book Synopsis Rehabilitation of Degraded Forests to Improve Livelihoods of Poor Farmers in South China by : Liu Dachang
Download or read book Rehabilitation of Degraded Forests to Improve Livelihoods of Poor Farmers in South China written by Liu Dachang and published by CIFOR. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication is the result of a project initiated by the Chinese Acadamy of Forestry (CAF) and finalised with inputs by representatives of Center for International Forestry Research(CIFOR), and Canada's International Development Research Centre (IDRC) at a meeting in Singapore in 1995.
Book Synopsis Massachusetts Town Greens by : Eric Hurwitz
Download or read book Massachusetts Town Greens written by Eric Hurwitz and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-05-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The state of Massachusetts still has and continues to celebrate its town or village greens. These greens date back to Colonial times where they served as the physical and spiritual centers for these early towns. Today many town greens continue to be the center of town events, fairs, and other gatherings. Massachusetts Town Greens explores the history of these remarkable greens and provide a guide to current events.
Book Synopsis Global Healing by : Karen Laura Thornber
Download or read book Global Healing written by Karen Laura Thornber and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-03-02 with total page 709 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read an interview with Karen Thornber. In Global Healing: Literature, Advocacy, Care, Karen Laura Thornber analyzes how narratives from diverse communities globally engage with a broad variety of diseases and other serious health conditions and advocate for empathic, compassionate, and respectful care that facilitates healing and enables wellbeing. The three parts of this book discuss writings from Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Oceania that implore societies to shatter the devastating social stigmas which prevent billions from accessing effective care; to increase the availability of quality person-focused healthcare; and to prioritize partnerships that facilitate healing and enable wellbeing for both patients and loved ones. Thornber’s Global Healing remaps the contours of comparative literature, world literature, the medical humanities, and the health humanities. Watch a video interview with Thornber by the Mahindra Humanities Center, part of their conversations on Covid-19. Read an interview with Thornber on Brill's Humanities Matter blog.
Book Synopsis Abstracts of Japanese Literature in Forest Genetics and Related Fields by :
Download or read book Abstracts of Japanese Literature in Forest Genetics and Related Fields written by and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: