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Author : Kexue Ma
Publisher : Kexue Ma
Page : 697 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Kexue Ma
Publisher : Kexue Ma
Page : 1097 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Ivan Franceschini,Nicholas Loubere
Publisher : ANU Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781760462932
According to the Chinese zodiac, 2018 was the year of the ‘earthly dog’. In the middle of the long, hot, and feverish dog days of the summer of 2018, some workers at Shenzhen Jasic Technology took their chances and attempted to form an independent union. While this action was met by the harshest repression, it also led to extraordinary demonstrations of solidarity from small groups of radical students from all over the country, which in turn were immediately and severely suppressed. China’s year of the dog was also imbued with the spirit of another canine, Cerberus—the three-headed hound of Hades—with the ravenous advance of the surveillance state and the increasing securitisation of Chinese society, starting from the northwestern region of Xinjiang. This Yearbook traces these latest developments in Chinese society through a collection of 50 original essays on labour, civil society, and human rights in China and beyond, penned by leading scholars and practitioners from around the world.
Author : Stephen Karcher
Publisher : Piatkus
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2009-05-07
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 074993980X
The I Ching (pronounced ee-ching) is the oldest and most respected oracle or divinatory system in the world. There are currently two translations available which offer somewhat conflicting interpretations - the popular Confucian version and an earlier Taoist version called Zhouyi. Reconstructed by twentieth-century scholars and archaeologists, Zhouyi presents the highly imaginative world of myth and ritual that is the hidden base of thousands of years of Eastern thought. Now, for the first time ever, Stephen Karcher fuses these two traditions using modern scholarship and archaeological and linguistic research, along with a wide background in Eastern philosophy and comparative religion, and presents them to the modern Western reader in a comprehensive and accessible new form. TOTAL I CHING is a complete oracle with instruction for immediate use in all life situations, but is also the first translation to detail the mythology of the divinatory system, offering a revolutionary new approach to the world's oldest wisdom tradition.
Author : Gerhold K. Becker
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9042012013
The advances in molecular biology and genetics, medicine and neurosciences, in ethology and environmental studies have put the concept of the person firmly on the philosophical agenda. Whereas earlier times seemed to have a clear understanding about the moral implications of personhood and its boundaries, today there is little consensus on such matters. Whether a patient in the last stages of Alzheimer's disease is still a person, or whether a human embryo is already a person are highly contentious issues. This book tackles the issue of personhood and its moral implications head-on. The thirteen essays are representative of the major strands in the current bioethical debate and offer new insights into humanity's moral standing, its foundations, and its implications for social interaction. While most of the essays approach the issue by drawing on the rich intellectual tradition of the West, others offer a cross-cultural perspective and make available for ethical consideration the philosophical resources and the wisdom of the East. The contributors to this book are highly recognized philosophers, ethicists, theologians, and professionals in health care and medicine from East Asia (China, Japan), Europe, and North America. The first part of the book probes the foundations of personhood. Examining critically the main theories on personhood in contemporary philosophy, the authors offer alternatives that better respond to contemporary challenges and their implications for bioethics. The focus of the second part is firmly on the Confucian relational concept of the person and on the social constitution of personhood in traditional Japanese culture. While the essays challenge the individualistic features of personhood in the Western tradition, they lay the foundations for a richer concept that holds great promise for the resolution of moral dilemmas in modern medicine and health care. The third part of the book enters into a dialogue with the Christian tradition and draws on its spiritual heritage in the search for answers to the contemporary challenges to human dignity and value. Its focus is on the Catholic social thought and Lutheran theology. The fourth part addresses the moral status of persons in view of specific issues such as the effects of brain injury, gene therapy, and human cloning on personhood. It extends the scope of research beyond human beings and inquires also into the moral status of animals.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Chinese language
ISBN : UCSD:31822034910026
本词典所选词条包括文学作品、作家、文学形象、重要作品中涉及的地名、文学流派思潮、文学专用语以及文学常用语等文学术语13,200多例,分别加以注音,并给出相应的英语词汇或英语解释。
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Penguin Putnam
Page : 1704 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Reference
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110250821
The Oxford American College Dictionaryis completely new, based on the New Oxford American Dictionary, which was published in October 2001. Drawing on Oxford's unparalleled language resources, including a 200-million-word database, this college dictionary contains: * more than 175,000 entries and more than 1000 illustrations, including line drawings, photographs and maps * boxed quotes from famous writers, demonstrating word usage and style * country guides-shaded boxes highlighting the most important geographical information on more than 180 countries-with maps * "core sense" organization of definitions, a brand-new and utterly sensible plan in which subordinate definitions flow logically from primary ones, and the most important usage of the word comes first * thumb index tabs for easy searching
Author : Joseph Tse-Hei Lee,Satish Kolluri
Publisher : Springer
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781349949328
This volume examines the transmission, reception, and reproduction of new cinematic styles, meanings, practices, and norms in early twenty-first-century Asia. Hong Kong and Bollywood offers new answers to the field of inter-Asian cultural studies, which has been energized by the trends towards transnationalism and translatability. It brings together a team of international scholars to capture the latest development in the film industries of Hong Kong and Mumbai, and to explore similar cross-cultural, political, and socioeconomic issues. It also explains how Hong Kong and Bollywood filmmakers have gone beyond the traditional focus on nationalism, urbanity and biculturalism to reposition themselves as new cultural forces in the pantheon of global cinema.
Author : Martin Haspelmath,Uri Tadmor
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 1104 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110218435
"This landmark publication in comparative linguistics is the first comprehensive work to address the general issue of what kinds of words tend to be borrowed from other languages. The authors have assembled a unique database of over 70,000 words from 40 languages from around the world, 18,000 of which are loanwords. This database allows the authors to make empirically founded generalizations about general tendencies of word exchange among languages." --Book Jacket.
Author : Andrea Calabrese,Leo Wetzels
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027248237
For many different reasons, speakers borrow words from other languages to fill gaps in their own lexical inventory. The past ten years have been characterized by a great interest among phonologists in the issue of how the nativization of loanwords occurs. The general feeling is that loanword nativization provides a direct window for observing how acoustic cues are categorized in terms of the distinctive features relevant to the L1 phonological system as well as for studying L1 phonological processes in action and thus to the true synchronic phonology of L1. The collection of essays presented in this volume provides an overview of the complex issues phonologists face when investigating this phenomenon and, more generally, the ways in which unfamiliar sounds and sound sequences are adapted to converge with the native language s sound pattern. This book is of interest to theoretical phonologists as well as to linguists interested in language contact phenomena."
Author : Ruiping Fan
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2010-03-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789048131563
Contrasting with conventional Neo-Confucian attempts to recast the Confucian heritage in light of modern Western values, this book offers a Reconstructionist Confucian project to reclaim Confucian resources to meet contemporary moral and public policy challenges. Ruiping Fan argues that popular accounts of human goods and social justice within the dominant individualist culture of the West are too insubstantial to direct a life of virtue and a proper structure of society. Instead, he demonstrates that the moral insights of Confucian thought are precisely those needed to fill the moral vacuum developing in post-communist China and to address similar problems in the West. The book has a depth of reflection on the Confucian tradition through a comparative philosophical strategy and a breadth of contemporary issues addressed unrivaled by any other work on these topics. It is the first in English to explore not only the endeavor to revive Confucianism in contemporary China, but also brings such an endeavor to bear upon the important ethical, social, and political difficulties being faced in 21st century China. The book should be of interest to any philosopher working in application of traditional Chinese philosophy to contemporary issues as well as any reader interested in comparative cultural and ethical studies.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : OXFORD University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : English language
ISBN : 019860176X
Have a word on the tip of your tongue? Unlike a thesaurus, where you look up alternatives to a word you know, or a dictionary, which defines a familiar word, this dictionary helps with words you are vaguely aware of, but can't bring to mind. Some 31,000 entries are listed under a wide range of subject areas and key words.
Author : John A. Hawkins,Luna Filipović
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-03
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780521184779
This volume introduces the theoretical and empirical bases for defining English language learning levels in terms of criterial features.
Author : R.L. Wing
Publisher : Harmony
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1978-12-19
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780385128384
An important, new interpretation of the I Ching, the 5,000-year-old Chinese book of wisdom, in a unique workbook format designed to help truth-seekers find new meaning and enlightenment in its ancient lore. Designed for those actively exploring this ancient system in order to better understand their lives, The I Ching Workbook serves as a simple guide to the study and interpretation of the I Ching's advice. It provides a format for each of the 64 hexagrams that allows one to record the various responses of the I Ching. Insights regarding health, relationships, business, politics, travel, career, social events, and inner development have been sought of the I Ching, or Book of Change, for thousands of years. With contiinued consultation of the I Ching concerning all apsects of your life, you will begin to preceive patterns to the I Ching's responses—and therefore, certain patterns to the changes in your life. R.L. Wing's new interpretation incorporates cultural and linguistic changes that will greatly enhance your understanding of our world's most ancient book. You can now begin to use this valuable tool to bring new meaning and insight into your life.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0976404133
