Approaching The Jade Dragon

Author : Shuxian Ye
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9789811930966

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A Mythological Approach to Exploring the Origins of Chinese Civilization by Shuxian Ye Pdf

Is the lion the symbol of China? Or should it be the dragon or the phoenix? This book makes a provocative interpretation of the Chinese ancient totems such as the bear and the owl. Taking a mythological approach, it explores the origin of Chinese civilization using the quadruple evidence method, which integrates ancient and unearthed literature, oral transmission, and archeological objects and graphs. It testifies to the authenticity of unresolved ancient myths and legends from the origins of Chinese Jade Ware (6200BC-5400 BC) to the names of the Yellow Emperor (2698–2598 BC) and the legends from the Xia (2010BC-1600BC), Shang (1600BC-046BC), Zhou (1046BC-771BC), and Qin (221BC-206BC) Dynasties. The book lays the foundation for a reconstruction of Chinese Mythistory. With well over 200 photographs of historic artifacts, the book appeals to both researchers and general readers.

Author : Jeffrey Estrella
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781329071698

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The Time Stone 2: The Curse Of The Jade Dragon, Part I by Jeffrey Estrella Pdf

The "Time Stone Team" of Tina, Drax, and Mercedes are back with the Uplifted entity of James and their new friends Joshua and Bill the dragon who will work as a team to fight the evil forces of the Machination and the mysterious Shadow Blob force travelling throughout the world turning human beings into beasts. This is the first part of this dynamic and powerful sequel pitting friendship and virtuous wisdom against ultimate evil.

Author : Jessica Gunderson
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781479516384

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The Jade Dragon by Jessica Gunderson Pdf

Zhou never seems to beat his brother, Cheng, at anything. But when Zhou finds a jade dragon, his luck changes. Soon, Zhou is beating Cheng at everything. Will Zhou and his jade dragon be able to keep up the winning streak, or will he lose his luck?

Author : Yasmine Galenorn
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2004-05-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101099308

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Legend of the Jade Dragon by Yasmine Galenorn Pdf

When a client gives seer Emerald O'Brien a statue of a jade dragon as payment, bad luck follows. To thwart its evil spell, she'll have to follow a trail of heartache to China's Ming Dynasty.

Author : Jack Ives
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2004-08-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781134369072

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Himalayan Perceptions by Jack Ives Pdf

In the 1970s and 1980s many institutions, agencies and scholars believed that the Himalayan region was facing severe environmental disaster, due primarily to rapid growth in population that has caused extensive deforestation, which in turn has led to massive landsliding and soil erosion. This series of assumptions was first challenged in the book: The Himalayan Dilemma (1989: Ives and Messerli, Routledge). Nevertheless, the environmental crisis paradigm still commands considerable support, including logging bans in the mountain watersheds of China, India, and Thailand, and is constantly being promoted by the news media. Himalayan Perceptions identifies the confusion of misunderstanding, vested interests, changing perceptions, and institutional unwillingness to base development policy on sound scientific knowledge. It analyzes the large amount of new research published since 1989 and totally refutes the entire construct. It examines recent social and economic developments in the region and identifies warfare, guerrilla activities, and widespread oppression of poor ethnic minorities as the primary cause for the instability that pervades the entire region. It is argued that the development controversy is further confounded by exaggerated reporting, even falsification, by news media, environmental publications, and agency reports alike.

Author : Jack D. Ives
Publisher : Himalayan Journal of Scienc
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Culture and tourism
ISBN : 9789994696659

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Himalayan Perceptions: Environmental Change and the Well-being of Mountain Peoples [ENHANCED] (Hardcover) by Jack D. Ives Pdf

Author : Elsa Hart
Publisher : Minotaur Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466883918

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Jade Dragon Mountain by Elsa Hart Pdf

On the mountainous border of China and Tibet in 1708, a detective must learn what a killer already knows: that empires rise and fall on the strength of the stories they tell. Li Du was an imperial librarian. Now he is an exile. Arriving in Dayan, the last Chinese town before the Tibetan border, he is surprised to find it teeming with travelers, soldiers, and merchants. All have come for a spectacle unprecedented in this remote province: an eclipse of the sun commanded by the Emperor himself. When a Jesuit astronomer is found murdered in the home of the local magistrate, blame is hastily placed on Tibetan bandits. But Li Du suspects this was no random killing. Everyone has secrets: the ambitious magistrate, the powerful consort, the bitter servant, the irreproachable secretary, the East India Company merchant, the nervous missionary, and the traveling storyteller who can't keep his own story straight. Beyond the sloping roofs and festival banners, Li Du can see the mountain pass that will take him out of China forever. He must choose whether to leave, and embrace his exile, or to stay, and investigate a murder that the town of Dayan seems all too willing to forget.

Author : Richard Paul Evans
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-16
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781481424400

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Michael Vey 4 by Richard Paul Evans Pdf

Michael and his friends must rescue a child prodigy as the thrilling action continues in this electrifying fourth installment of the New York Times bestselling series! Michael, Taylor, Ostin and the rest of the Electroclan head to China in search of a girl who may have discovered why Michael and his friends became electric. Her name is Lin Julung, or Jade Dragon, and she’s a child prodigy with an IQ higher than Einstein’s—and Ostin’s. But Hatch gets to her first, and the Elgen are holding her prisoner in their Taiwan Starxource plant. Now the Voice wants Michael and the Electroclan to go to Taiwan and free her before Hatch can realize his dreams of an army of electric children. The hunt for Jade Dragon is on, and it’s a race against time!

Author : Da MoGuYang
Publisher : Funstory
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781649752161

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Soldier King's Love Affairs In City by Da MoGuYang Pdf

He was the king of the mercenary world, but he had fallen into a huge conspiracy ...

Author : Sarah Milledge Nelson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315425832

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Jade Dragon by Sarah Milledge Nelson Pdf

This teaching novel is an archaeological suspense story set in northeast China at a site that is called the Goddess Temple. Clara, protagonist of Nelson’s Spirit Bird Journey, begins work at an excavation at the Temple, only to discover the problems of contemporary looting, government meddling, and excavation interpersonal dynamics. Nelson’s story also describes the lifeways of the Neolithic people who used the temple thousands of years ago—their economy, social structure, gender relations, and religious rituals—through the eyes of a young woman living there. Written by a leading American archaeologist specializing in these topics, this volume is both a good read and good archaeology. An ideal starting point to introduce archaeology to college students.

Author : Daniel Tong
Publisher : Armour Publishing Pte Ltd
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Chinese
ISBN : 9814138614

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A Biblical Approach to Feng Shui & Divination by Daniel Tong Pdf

Author : Jack D. Ives
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2022-07-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030960292

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Sustainable Mountain Development by Jack D. Ives Pdf

This second edition of “Sustainable Mountain Development” is a history of the development of mountain environmental awareness from its origins during the Stockholm Conference on the Environment in 1973. This provided intellectual input into UNESCO’s MAB Programme, especially MAB-6 (Impact of Human Activities on Mountain Environments), The International Geographical Union’s commission on mountains, and The United Nations University’s (UNU) mountain project, the latter initiated in 1978. All this research and intellectual activity saw its maturation during the 1992 Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro. The major document universally agreed upon was AGENDA 21, with Chapter 13 concentrating on mountain environmental problems which led to 2002 being dedicated as The International Year of Mountains, and December 17th as International Mountain Day. The research that inspired this book, accompanied by intensive environmental and political activity, was initially propagated by a small group of colleagues that ultimately expanded to a world-wide endeavour. The work was recognised by three awards of the King Albert Gold Medal, two RGS Gold Medals, approved by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, and countless other awards. It led to the founding of the International Mountain Society in 1980 and its quarterly journal “Mountain Research and Development” (1981). The work expanded into subsequent research efforts, including specific assessments of projected major catastrophes such as the status of the potential outbreak of glacier lakes (GLOFs), the impacts of climate warming, and incorporation of the mountain subsistence men and women whose environmental knowledge was enthusiastically recognized. This edition provides a new epilogue, which outlines the considerable changes to world environmental assessment since the establishment of 2002 as the International Year of Mountains, and notes that 2022 has been designated as the International Year of Sustainable Mountain Development.

Author : Dragoş Gheorghiu,Herman Bender,Emilia Pásztor,George Nash
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781527509559

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Archaeological Approaches to Shamanism by Dragoş Gheorghiu,Herman Bender,Emilia Pásztor,George Nash Pdf

This long awaited book discusses both ancient and modern shamanism, demonstrating its longevity and spatial distribution. The book is divided into eleven thought-provoking chapters that are organised into three sections: mind-body, nature, and culture. It discusses the clear associations with this sometimes little-understood ritualised practice, and asks what shamanism is and if tangible evidence can be extracted from a largely fragmentary archaeological record. The book offers a novel portrayal of the material culture of shamanism by collating carefully selected studies by specialists from three different continents, promoting a series of new perspectives on this idiosyncratic and sometimes intangible phenomenon.

Author : Baoan Liu
Publisher : Baoan Liu
Page : 873 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Baoan martial arts novels:Lotus Crisis by Baoan Liu Pdf

Author : Garrett Hutson
Publisher : Warfleigh Publishing
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780998281322

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The Jade Dragon by Garrett Hutson Pdf

The Jade Dragon will take you on a journey to old Shanghai, where danger, excitement, and romance exist side by side. In 1935, Shanghai is the place to be. Glittering nightlife, bustling business, and a diverse international community are just some of the appeals of the “Paris of the Orient.” Douglas Bainbridge, Office of Naval Intelligence, is beginning a two-year immersion in Shanghai when he runs into Tim McIntyre, a childhood friend from San Francisco. Tim is a reporter for the Shanghai office of the Associated Press, and he offers to show Doug the local nightlife. While enjoying a show at The Jade Dragon, Tim never returns from intermission, and Doug finds Tim’s body in an alley. The police dismiss it as a robbery gone bad, but Doug knows there was more to it. Bystanders saw Tim arguing with a pair of men before walking away with them. Doug finds files in Tim’s office showing he was investigating Japanese infiltration of a Korean resistance group; and the notorious “Green Gang” that controls the opium trade in China, and has deep ties to General Chiang Kai-Shek himself. Tim’s friend and fellow reporter, Art “Jonesy” Jones goads Doug into solving Tim’s murder. But in Shanghai, danger lurks around every dark corner. The Jade Dragon is an upmarket historical mystery, with crossover appeal to fans of spy fiction, and gay & lesbian fiction.