Author: Hui-Lin Li
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Flowers
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
The Garden Flowers of China
Author: Hui-Lin Li
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Flowers
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Flowers
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Author: Lisa See
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408821621
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Lily is the daughter of a humble farmer, and to her family she is just another expensive mouth to feed. Then the local matchmaker delivers startling news: if Lily's feet are bound properly, they will be flawless. In nineteenth-century China, where a woman's eligibility is judged by the shape and size of her feet, this is extraordinary good luck. Lily now has the power to make a good marriage and change the fortunes of her family. To prepare for her new life, she must undergo the agonies of footbinding, learn nu shu, the famed secret women's writing, and make a very special friend, Snow Flower. But a bitter reversal of fortune is about to change everything.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408821621
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Lily is the daughter of a humble farmer, and to her family she is just another expensive mouth to feed. Then the local matchmaker delivers startling news: if Lily's feet are bound properly, they will be flawless. In nineteenth-century China, where a woman's eligibility is judged by the shape and size of her feet, this is extraordinary good luck. Lily now has the power to make a good marriage and change the fortunes of her family. To prepare for her new life, she must undergo the agonies of footbinding, learn nu shu, the famed secret women's writing, and make a very special friend, Snow Flower. But a bitter reversal of fortune is about to change everything.
The Flowers of War
Author: Geling Yan
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1446485110
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
December 1937. The Japanese have taken Nanking. A group of terrified schoolgirls hides in the compound of an American church. Among them is Shujuan, through whose thirteen-year-old eyes we witness the shocking events that follow. Run by Father Engelmann, an American priest who has been in China for many years, the church is supposedly neutral ground in the war between China and Japan. But it becomes clear the Japanese are not obeying international rules of engagement. As they pour through the streets of Nanking, raping and pillaging the civilian population, the girls are in increasing danger. And their safety is further compromised when prostitutes from the nearby brothel climb over the wall into the compound seeking refuge. Short, powerful, vivid, this beautiful novel transports the reader to 1930s China. Full of wonderful characters, from the austere priest to the irreverent prostitutes, it is a story about how war upsets all prejudices and how love can flourish amidst death.
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1446485110
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
December 1937. The Japanese have taken Nanking. A group of terrified schoolgirls hides in the compound of an American church. Among them is Shujuan, through whose thirteen-year-old eyes we witness the shocking events that follow. Run by Father Engelmann, an American priest who has been in China for many years, the church is supposedly neutral ground in the war between China and Japan. But it becomes clear the Japanese are not obeying international rules of engagement. As they pour through the streets of Nanking, raping and pillaging the civilian population, the girls are in increasing danger. And their safety is further compromised when prostitutes from the nearby brothel climb over the wall into the compound seeking refuge. Short, powerful, vivid, this beautiful novel transports the reader to 1930s China. Full of wonderful characters, from the austere priest to the irreverent prostitutes, it is a story about how war upsets all prejudices and how love can flourish amidst death.
Plant Inventory
Author:
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ISBN:
Category : Germplasm resources, Plant
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Germplasm resources, Plant
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
The American Homœopathic Dispensatory
Author: Theodore D. Williams
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dispensatories
Languages : en
Pages : 752
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dispensatories
Languages : en
Pages : 752
Book Description
Inventory of Seeds and Plants Imported
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Germplasm resources, Plant
Languages : en
Pages : 1596
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Germplasm resources, Plant
Languages : en
Pages : 1596
Book Description
The Empty Pot
Author: Demi
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780805012170
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
When Ping admits that he is the only child in China unable to grow a flower from the seeds distributed by the Emperor, he is rewarded for his honesty.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780805012170
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
When Ping admits that he is the only child in China unable to grow a flower from the seeds distributed by the Emperor, he is rewarded for his honesty.
The Flora Homoeopathica; Or, Illustrations and Descriptions of the Medicinal Plants Used as Homoeopathic Remedies
Author: Edward Hamilton (M.D., F.L.S.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Inventory
Author: United States. Agricultural Research Service. Plant Science Research Division
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Plant introduction
Languages : en
Pages : 770
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Plant introduction
Languages : en
Pages : 770
Book Description
Surveillance State
Author: Josh Chin
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1250249309
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Where is the line between digital utopia and digital police state? Surveillance State tells the gripping, startling, and detailed story of how China’s Communist Party is building a new kind of political control: shaping the will of the people through the sophisticated—and often brutal—harnessing of data. It is a story born in Silicon Valley and America’s “War on Terror,” and now playing out in alarming ways on China’s remote Central Asian frontier. As ethnic minorities in a border region strain against Party control, China’s leaders have built a dystopian police state that keeps millions under the constant gaze of security forces armed with AI. But across the country in the city of Hangzhou, the government is weaving a digital utopia, where technology helps optimize everything from traffic patterns to food safety to emergency response. Award-winning journalists Josh Chin and Liza Lin take readers on a journey through the new world China is building within its borders, and beyond. Telling harrowing stories of the people and families affected by the Party’s ambitions, Surveillance State reveals a future that is already underway—a new society engineered around the power of digital surveillance.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1250249309
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Where is the line between digital utopia and digital police state? Surveillance State tells the gripping, startling, and detailed story of how China’s Communist Party is building a new kind of political control: shaping the will of the people through the sophisticated—and often brutal—harnessing of data. It is a story born in Silicon Valley and America’s “War on Terror,” and now playing out in alarming ways on China’s remote Central Asian frontier. As ethnic minorities in a border region strain against Party control, China’s leaders have built a dystopian police state that keeps millions under the constant gaze of security forces armed with AI. But across the country in the city of Hangzhou, the government is weaving a digital utopia, where technology helps optimize everything from traffic patterns to food safety to emergency response. Award-winning journalists Josh Chin and Liza Lin take readers on a journey through the new world China is building within its borders, and beyond. Telling harrowing stories of the people and families affected by the Party’s ambitions, Surveillance State reveals a future that is already underway—a new society engineered around the power of digital surveillance.