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This book analyzes of the surplus of production capacity in China. According to a government statement, there is a serious surplus of productive capacity in the steel, cement, glass, aluminum, and shipbuilding industries. There was no surplus of productive capacity in above industries between 2002 and 2012, and the current surplus is due to poor government policies on real estate prices after 2012. The book argues that if the Chinese government invested more in social welfare housing over the next few years the surplus of productive capacity would very soon disappear.

Chuntao is a novel penned by Xu Dishan. This narrative delves into the triangular romantic entanglements among Chuntao, Xiang Gao, and Li Mao. On the day Chuntao and Li Mao were to be married, chaos erupted as a result of invading troops, causing the two to be separated in their escape. Subsequently, Li Mao enlisted in the army but ended up disabled and reduced to begging on the streets after sustaining injuries to his legs. Chuntao, wandering and making a living by collecting scraps in Peiping (now Beijing), formed deep feelings with a fellow worker over time. When Li Mao serendipitously encountered Chuntao, she carried him back with her. Eventually, Chuntao became the wife to both Li Mao and Xiang Gao, forming a harmonious family unit. In the novel, Chuntao embodies the essence of an enlightened monk, transcending mundane rules and regulations. In Chuntao's heart, there is no distinction between men and women; all beings are equal. Husband is no longer just a husband, wife is no longer just a wife; everything is emptiness. Compassion and forgiveness, transcending worldly notions, have evolved into the religious concept of "emptiness".

Women in Traditional Chinese Theatre seeks to introduce Western readers to Chinese classical drama as well as investigate how women have traditionally been portrayed on stage by presenting original translations of six plays from the fourteenth to twentieth centuries. Framed with a comprehensive introduction to the Chinese theatre and its representation of women, each play is preceded by an interpretative summary of the plot, and an analysis of each play's theme and significance. The selections in this volume feature women representing the most popular female archetypes in Chinese literature: the paragon of virtue, the stoic sufferer, the faithful wife, the femme fatal, and others. Appealing to both scholars and general enthusiasts of theatre, literature, and women's studies, this book reveals how the cultural constructs of Chinese women are represented in dramatic literature, and how the theatre, in turn, shapes this representation into the cultural perception of women.

When is it too late to learn about someone’s past? Or even the present? To Amy, a 20-year old college student from San Francisco, life was too busy to wrap her mind around silly questions like this one, until she found out that her grandmother, or Popo in Chinese, was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. This memory disorder not only took away Popo’s identity, but also her speech abilities, leaving her with the use of only her mother tongue: Taishanese. With Popo’s progressive memory loss each day, Amy knew the answer to her question was: tomorrow would be too late. The only way to connect with Popo again was by building a bridge between them. Learning Taishanese was that bridge. In this book, you will join Amy’s journey to reconnect with her grandma using Taishanese in San Francisco’s Chinatown. From having dim sum to describing her favorite pastimes, Amy will teach you everything you need to know to master basic conversational Taishanese.

Roman réalisé en pleine période d'imitation du héros Lei Feng.

"This two-volume set offers an up-to-date exploration of Chinese social media through 26 research chapters approached from different theoretical and methodological perspectives within and beyond the field of media and communication studies. The set aims to outline the current landscape of Chinese social media from insider, intercultural and interdisciplinary perspectives. Dedicated to research from insider perspectives, the first volume provides accounts of Chinese social media developments and sheds light on the logics of social media functioning in China, based on case studies and empirical analyses of platforms such as Xiaohongshu, WeChat and Douyin. The second volume brings together thirteen original chapters that together provide a panoramic view of Chinese social media through an intercultural and interdisciplinary lens. By examining these digital spaces from diverse cultural perspectives and across multiple academic disciplines, the book illuminates the complex dynamics at play in the Chinese digital landscape and their implications for global digital communication. This set will be an essential read for scholars and university students of media and communication, social media and China studies, as well as industry professionals and anyone interested in Chinese social media"--

A New-Generation Density Functional: Towards Chemical Accuracy for Chemistry of Main Group Elements covers the most recent progress in the development of a new generation of density functional theory (DFT) for accurate descriptions of thermochemistry, thermochemical kinetics, and nonbonded interactions of main group molecules. In this book, the authors present the doubly hybrid density functionals (DHDFs), which dramatically improve the accuracy for predictions of critical properties by including the role of the virtual (unoccupied) orbitals. The authors not only discuss the theoretical bases of three classes of DHDFs but also demonstrate their performance using some well-established benchmarking data sets.

Appraisal is the way language users express their attitude towards things, people, behaviour or ideas. In the last few decades, significant achievements have been made in Appraisal Theory research, yet little attention has been paid to appraisal in scientific texts, especially in relation to the contrast to how it is applied in English and Chinese. This title examines the similarities and differences of Appraisal systems in English and Chinese scientific research articles. Using a self-constructed corpus of scientific research articles, the authors make cross-linguistic comparisons in terms of the quantity and distribution patterns of categories of appraisals. They creatively categorise articles into theoretical scientific research articles and applied studies and discover that for both languages, each genre can have its own favorite mode of distribution for the realization of appraisal systems. In addition, this research helps appraisal theory systems to become more explicit, specific, and more applicable for the analysis of scientific research articles. Students and scholars of applied linguistics, comparative linguistics and corpus linguistics will find this an essential reference.