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Chinese Gods The Epic Tales of the Deities in Chinese Mythology


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English | September 14, 2023 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0CJ5W3F4Z | 64 pages | EPUB | 0.95 Mb
Get to know an old world full of gods and goddesses in "Chinese Gods." There are many wonderful stories in China’s mythology, and this amazing book takes you on a trip through the heavens.

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Cognitive Systems Joint Chinese-German Workshop, Shanghai, China, March 7-11, 2005, Revised Selected Papers


Free Download Cognitive Systems: Joint Chinese-German Workshop, Shanghai, China, March 7-11, 2005, Revised Selected Papers By Christoph Benzmüller, Helmut Horacek, Ivana Kruijff-Korbayová, Manfred Pinkal (auth.), Ruqian Lu, Jörg H. Siekmann, Carsten Ullrich (eds.)
2007 | 166 Pages | ISBN: 3540709339 | PDF | 8 MB
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the Joint Chinese-German Workshop on Cognitive Systems held in Shanghai in March 2005. The workshop served to present the current state of the art in the new transdiscipline of cognitive systems, which is emerging from computer science, the neurosciences, computational linguistics, neurological networks and the new philosophy of mind.The 13 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions for inclusion in the book. The papers are organized in topical sections on multimodal human-computer interfaces, neuropsychology and neurocomputing, Chinese-German natural language processing and psycholinguistics, as well as information processing and retrieval from the semantic Web for intelligent applications.

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The Chinese Defense Establishment Continuity And Change In The 1980s


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English | 2020 | ISBN: 0367290812 | EPUB | pages: 198 | 0.6 mb
Complex issues of national security and defense modernization continue to be a major preoccupation of the PRC leadership. In the 1970s, especially during the second half of that crucial decade, critical decisions were made that led to Beijing’s alignment with the West against the USSR and a revitalization of its armed forces. This book looks at Chi

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Chinese Labour in the Global Economy Capitalist Exploitation and Strategies of Resistance


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English | 2019 | ISBN: 0367220474, 1138726605 | EPUB | pages: 162 | 0.8 mb
Chinese development is widely considered to be an example of successful developmental catch-up with double-digit growth rates year on year. Some even talk of an emerging power, which may in time replace the US as the global economy’s hegemon. And yet there is a dark underside to this ‘miracle’ in the form of workers’ long hours, low pay and lack of welfare benefits. Increasing levels of inequality have gone hand in hand with super exploitative working conditions. Nevertheless, Chinese workers have not simply accepted these conditions of super-exploitation; they have started to fight back.

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Chinese Constructions of Sovereignty and the East China Sea Conflict


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English | 2021 | ISBN: 1032090251 | EPUB | pages: 244 | 0.8 mb
This book analyses Chinese social constructions of sovereignty in the context of the East China Sea conflict. It specifically explores China and Taiwan’s overlapping cross-Strait sovereignty claims and their domestic debates and policies towards the territorial dispute.

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Inside the Expressive Culture of Chinese Women’s Mosques


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English | ISBN: 1032618515 | 2024 | 250 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
This book presents a multi-voice narrative of the history and significance of current contestations over the increasing prominence of expressive piety in Hui Muslim women’s mosques in central China.

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