Fu Ping

Author : Anyi Wang
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-06
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780231550208

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Fu Ping by Anyi Wang Pdf

Nainai has lived in Shanghai for many years, and the time has come to find a wife for her adopted grandson. But when the bride she has chosen arrives from the countryside, it soon becomes clear that the orphaned girl has ideas of her own. Her name is Fu Ping, and the more she explores the residential lanes and courtyards behind Shanghai’s busy shopping streets, the less she wants to return to the country as a dutiful wife. As Fu Ping wavers over her future, she learns the city through the stories of the nannies, handymen, and garbage collectors whose labor is bringing life and bustle back to postwar Shanghai. Fu Ping is a keenly observed portrait of the lives of lower-class women in Shanghai in the early years of the People’s Republic of China. Wang Anyi, one of contemporary China’s most acclaimed authors, explores the daily lives of migrants from rural areas and other people on the margins of urban life. In shifting perspectives rich in detail and psychological insight, she sketches their aspirations, their fears, and the subtle ties that bind them together. In Howard Goldblatt’s masterful translation, Fu Ping reveals Wang Anyi’s precise renderings of history, class, and the human heart.

Author : Ping Fu,MeiMei Fo
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101608197

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Bend, Not Break by Ping Fu,MeiMei Fo Pdf

“Bamboo is flexible, bending with the wind but never breaking, capable of adapting to any circumstance. It suggests resilience, meaning that we have the ability to bounce back even from the most difficult times. . . . Your ability to thrive depends, in the end, on your attitude to your life circumstances. Take everything in stride with grace, putting forth energy when it is needed, yet always staying calm inwardly.” —Ping Fu’s “Shanghai Papa” Ping Fu knows what it’s like to be a child soldier, a factory worker, and a political prisoner. To be beaten and raped for the crime of being born into a well-educated family. To be deported with barely enough money for a plane ticket to a bewildering new land. To start all over, without family or friends, as a maid, waitress, and student. Ping Fu also knows what it’s like to be a pioneering software programmer, an innovator, a CEO, and Inc. magazine’s Entrepreneur of the Year. To be a friend and mentor to some of the best-known names in tech­nology. To build some of the coolest new products in the world. To give speeches that inspire huge crowds. To meet and advise the president of the United States. It sounds too unbelievable for fiction, but this is the true story of a life in two worlds. Born on the eve of China’s Cultural Revolution, Ping was separated from her family at the age of eight. She grew up fighting hunger and humiliation and shielding her younger sister from the teenagers in Mao’s Red Guard. At twenty-five, she found her way to the United States; her only resources were $80 in traveler’s checks and three phrases of English: thank you, hello, and help. Yet Ping persevered, and the hard-won lessons of her childhood guided her to success in her new home­land. Aided by her well-honed survival instincts, a few good friends, and the kindness of strangers, she grew into someone she never thought she’d be—a strong, independent, entrepreneurial leader. A love of problem solving led her to computer science, and Ping became part of the team that created NCSA Mosaic, which became Netscape, the Web browser that forever changed how we access information. She then started a company, Geomagic, that has literally reshaped the world, from personalizing prosthetic limbs to repair­ing NASA spaceships. Bend, Not Break depicts a journey from imprisonment to freedom, and from the dogmatic anticapitalism of Mao’s China to the high-stakes, take-no-prisoners world of technology start-ups in the United States. It is a tribute to one woman’s courage in the face of cruelty and a valuable lesson on the enduring power of resilience.

Author : Xu Li
Publisher : Elsevier Health Sciences
Page : 902 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1901149021

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Chinese Materia Medica by Xu Li Pdf

This clearly written, comprehensively indexed, and reader-friendly manual contains more than 350 monographs -- each describing the functions, indications, combinations, and applications of commonly used Chinese Materia Medica. Comprehensive monographs contain: details of main ingredients, taste and nature, channels entered, functions and indications, common dosage, precautions and contraindications. Unique tabular format lists provide "at-a-glance" accessibility. Summary tables in each chapter help you obtain quick overviews of the material covered. Unique coverage on toxicity and legal status. Comprehensive list of appendices and indices -- listings are by pinyin, pharmaceutical, and English names for easy reference.

Author : Joseph S. M. Lau,Howard Goldblatt
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 802 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Education
ISBN : 0231138415

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The Columbia Anthology of Modern Chinese Literature by Joseph S. M. Lau,Howard Goldblatt Pdf

An anthology of Chinese fiction, poetry, and essays written during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Author : Jian Xian
Publisher : Funstory
Page : 935 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781647364472

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The Deserted Land by Jian Xian Pdf

In the abandoned domain of the Mysterious Sky Continent's god race, the humans and demons continued to fight endlessly. The evil spirits had awoken unexpectedly, and the evil races from the foreign lands would descend upon the Profound Heaven Continent. Human youths occasionally obtained divine blood and became disciples of the Great Void Sect. Everything began here.

Author : Ping Zhu,Hui Faye Xiao
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780815655268

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Feminisms with Chinese Characteristics by Ping Zhu,Hui Faye Xiao Pdf

The year 1995, when the Fourth World Conference on Women was held in Beijing, marks a historical milestone in the development of the Chinese feminist movement. In the decades that followed, three distinct trends emerged: first, there was a rise in feminist NGOs in mainland China and a surfacing of LGBTQ movements; second, social and economic developments nurtured new female agency, creating a vibrant, women-oriented cultural milieu in China; third, in response to ethnocentric Western feminism, some Chinese feminist scholars and activists recuperated the legacies of socialist China’s state feminism and gender policies in a new millennium. These trends have brought Chinese women unprecedented choices, resources, opportunities, pitfalls, challenges, and even crises. In this timely volume, Zhu and Xiao offer an examination of the ways in which Chinese feminist ideas have developed since the mid-1990s. By juxtaposing the plural “feminisms” with “Chinese characteristics,” they both underline the importance of integrating Chinese culture, history, and tradition in the discussions of Chinese feminisms, and, stress the difference between the plethora of contemporary Chinese feminisms and the singular state feminism. The twelve chapters in this interdisciplinary collection address the theme of feminisms with Chinese characteristics from different perspectives rendered from lived experiences, historical reflections, theoretical ruminations, and cultural and sociopolitical critiques, painting a panoramic picture of Chinese feminisms in the age of globalization.

Author : United States. Congress. House
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1150 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : United States
ISBN : OXFORD:555038377

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House Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Executive Documents by United States. Congress. House Pdf

Author : USA House of Representatives
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1196 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11037600

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House Documents by USA House of Representatives Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1262 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11037659

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Papers relating to the foreign relations of the United States by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Department of State
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 892 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : United States
ISBN : MINN:31951T00248715S

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Foreign Relations of the United States by United States. Department of State Pdf

Author : United States. Department of State
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 954 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : United States
ISBN : HARVARD:32044049909187

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Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States by United States. Department of State Pdf

Author : United States. Department of State
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 954 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871
ISBN : NKP:3186220059

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Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, with the Annual Message of the President, December 4, 1871 by United States. Department of State Pdf

Author : Nigel Wiseman
Publisher : Paradigm Publications
Page : 1652 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-21
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780912111674

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Chinese-English Dictionary of Chinese Medical Terms by Nigel Wiseman Pdf

Containing over 33,000 terms, the Chinese-English Dictionary of Chinese Medicine is the largest, fully searchable list of Chinese medical terms ever published. It is the only sufficiently comprehensive list of Chinese medical terms to be an ultimate go-to for any translator, student, or clinician. It contains a vast array of general terms, including the 5,000 or more of Practical Dictionary of Chinese Medicine (Paradigm Publications, 1997). It also contains the 1,500 standard and alternate acupoint names from Grasping the Wind (Paradigm Publications, 1989) and over 10,000 standard and alternate names of medicinals described in the Comprehensive Chinese Materia Medica (Paradigm Publications, 2023) derived from the Zhōng Yào Dà Cí Diǎn. The present e-book version offers maximum searchability without the need of indexes. Chinese terms are given in simplified and complex characters, so that they can be found by anyone who knows Chinese. Pinyin is given in accented and unaccented form, so that users can search by it whether they know the tones or have a system capable of entering tone marks. General terms can be searched by English, acupoints by alphanumeric codes, and medicinals can be searched by English and Latin pharmacognostic names. To make for the greatest utility without overly burdening the text, a standard set of graphical indicators are used throughout this and other related e-books. Square brackets ([ ]) indicate elements of terms that can be omitted (such as omissible elements of medicinal names) or notes to Chinese and English terms. A double asterisk (⁑) indicates polysemous medicinal names. A gray sidebar in the left-hand margin indicates a commonly used item. This dictionary has a history of over thirty years of continual expansion and refinement. It began with a database created while writing Fundamentals of Chinese Medicine (Paradigm Publications, 1985). It was published in the form of Glossary of Chinese Medical Terms (Paradigm Publications in 1990). It was expanded and republished in the form of the English-Chinese, Chinese-English Dictionary of Chinese Medicine (Hunan Science and Technology Press, 1995). And in 2014, after further expansion, it was made available as the Online TCM Dictionary on Paradigm Publications’ website. These decades of development and publication have given the terms here presented the benefit of other scholars’ contributions, as well as the refinements inspired by public critique. Chinese-English Dictionary of Chinese Medicine is an invaluable asset for translators and teachers engaged in compiling or presenting information from primary sources. As a bilingual term list, it has met the critical test of actual translations of the classical Chinese medical texts, the Shāng Hán Lùn (Paradigm Publications, 1999) and Jīn Guì Yào Lüè (Paradigm Publications, 2013) Chinese Medicine: Theories of Modern Practice (Paradigm Publications, 2022) shows this terminology to be up to the challenge of presenting the entire theoretical knowledge of professional Chinese medical education. This e-book version offers translators suggestions for translation problems they come across in their work, without proprietary restrictions and at an extremely low cost. However, the notion that Chinese medicine does not possess a terminology that requires a corresponding terminology in English and other languages has not faded from the Western world. In view of this, the present work also includes an introduction explaining issues surrounding terminology and translation.

Author : United States. Office of Geography
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : China
ISBN : PSU:000015804518

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China by United States. Office of Geography Pdf

Author : United States Board on Geographic Names
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 816 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : Names, Geographical
ISBN : UCBK:C046937069

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United States Board on Geographic Names: Gazetteer by United States Board on Geographic Names Pdf