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Lifestyle Change and Transport in China


Free Download Pengjun Zhao, "Lifestyle Change and Transport in China "
English | ISBN: 9811943982 | 2022 | 338 pages | PDF | 8 MB
This book aims to provide a complete overview of the current status of lifestyle and transport changes in China, focusing on the ongoing trends in lifestyle and transport technologies, which are shaping a new lifestyle and transport system. An additional focus is to discuss the mechanism behind the influence of transport on lifestyles, and analyze the influence of transport facilities on lifestyles, which will help to give efficient and effective transport solutions.

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Lifestyle Change and Transport in China


Free Download Pengjun Zhao, "Lifestyle Change and Transport in China "
English | ISBN: 9811943982 | 2022 | 338 pages | PDF | 8 MB
This book aims to provide a complete overview of the current status of lifestyle and transport changes in China, focusing on the ongoing trends in lifestyle and transport technologies, which are shaping a new lifestyle and transport system. An additional focus is to discuss the mechanism behind the influence of transport on lifestyles, and analyze the influence of transport facilities on lifestyles, which will help to give efficient and effective transport solutions.

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Life and Afterlife in Ancient China (PDF)


Free Download Jessica Rawson, "Life and Afterlife in Ancient China"
English | ISBN: 029575236X | 2023 | 560 pages | PDF | 15 MB
The three millennia up to the establishment of the first imperial Qin dynasty in 221 BC cemented many of the distinctive elements of Chinese civilization still in place today: an extraordinarily challenging geography and environment; formidable infrastructure; a society based on the strict hierarchy of the family; a shared written script of characters; a cuisine founded on rice and millet; a material culture of ceramics, bronze, silk, and jade; and a unique concept of the universe, in which ancestors continue to exist alongside the living. Records of these early achievements and their diverse expressions often lie not in written history but in how people marked the end of their lives: their dwellings for the afterlife. Tombs and the treasures within them are almost the only artifacts to survive from Ancient China; their scale and sophistication rivals their equivalents in Ancient Egypt.

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Life and Afterlife in Ancient China (EPUB)


Free Download Life and Afterlife in Ancient China by Jessica Rawson
English | September 26, 2023 | ISBN: 029575236X | True EPUB | 560 pages | 112 MB
The three millennia up to the establishment of the first imperial Qin dynasty in 221 BC cemented many of the distinctive elements of Chinese civilization still in place today: an extraordinarily challenging geography and environment; formidable infrastructure; a society based on the strict hierarchy of the family; a shared written script of characters; a cuisine founded on rice and millet; a material culture of ceramics, bronze, silk, and jade; and a unique concept of the universe, in which ancestors continue to exist alongside the living. Records of these early achievements and their diverse expressions often lie not in written history but in how people marked the end of their lives: their dwellings for the afterlife. Tombs and the treasures within them are almost the only artifacts to survive from Ancient China; their scale and sophistication rivals their equivalents in Ancient Egypt.

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Language Policy in the People’s Republic of China Theory and Practice Since 1949


Free Download Minglang Zhou, Hongkai Sun, "Language Policy in the People’s Republic of China: Theory and Practice Since 1949"
English | 2004 | pages: 344 | ISBN: 1402080387 | PDF | 5,4 mb
Language matters in China. It is about power, identity, opportunities, and, above all, passion and nationalism. During the past five decades China’s language engineering projects transformed its linguistic landscape, affecting over one billion people’s lives, including both the majority and minority populations. The Han majority have been juggling between their home vernaculars and the official speech, Putonghua – a speech of no native speakers – and reading their way through a labyrinth of the traditional, simplified, and Pinyin (Roman) scripts. Moreover, the various minority groups have been struggling between their native languages and Chinese, maintaining the former for their heritages and identities and learning the latter for quality education and socioeconomic advancement.

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Illustrated Flora of Bambusoideae in China Volume 2 (2024)


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English | EPUB | 2022 | 500 Pages | ISBN : 9811627576 | 150.6 MB
This book was compiled by researchers of Chinese Academy of Forestry, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Southwest Forestry University, and Kunming University of Science and Technology. It has been the most comprehensive monograph about the bamboo resources in China until now.

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Hollywood and China in the Post-postclassical Era


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English | ISBN: 1032506024 | 2024 | 244 pages | EPUB, PDF | 3 MB + 4 MB
This book examines the contemporary relationship between Hollywood and China as case studies that help to define a new era in Hollywood film industry, style, and economics, which is termed the ‘post‑postclassical’ period.

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Frustrated Relations China with Central and Eastern Europe


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English | ISBN: 9819937299 | 2023 | 179 pages | PDF | 3 MB
This book focuses on China’s foreign strategy and policy toward Central and Eastern Europe via the "China-CEEC" Cooperation Mechanism. It discusses the formation and evolution of the mechanism, concentrating on China’s leading role in this process, and covering a range of issues related to the mechanism’s organizational development. This discussion includes the broad context of China’s foreign policy, a coherent framework analysis of institution and cooperation issues, the internal aspects of the heterogeneity, external aspects of its asymmetry interactions, and finally, its emphases on cooperation in the two primary dimensions of great powers engagement and localization.

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