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Chinese Medicine in East Africa An Intimacy with Strangers


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English | ISBN: 1800735561 | 2022 | 440 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Based on fieldwork conducted between 2001-2008 in urban East Africa, this book explores who the patients, practitioners and paraprofessionals doing Chinese medicine were in this early period of renewed China-Africa relations. Rather than taking recourse to the ‘placebo effect’, the author explains through the spatialities and materialities of the medical procedures provided why – apart from purchasing the Chinese antimalarial called Artemisinin – locals would try out their ‘alternatively modern’ formulas for treating a wide range of post-colonial disorders and seek their sexual enhancement medicines.

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Common Prosperity A Chinese Approach to Inclusive Growth


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English | ISBN: 9819786150 | 2024 | 221 pages | EPUB | 490 KB
This book offers an in-depth analysis of China’s drive for common prosperity from an insider’s perspective. While philosophers and economists have long debated issues of inequality and growth, and societies have evolved from industrial to post-industrial information economies, challenges related to poverty and inequality persist. Major European nations have transitioned from early capitalist societies to modern welfare states, yet similar issues remain unresolved. Professor Zheng Yongnian provides a unique insight into China’s approach to addressing these challenges through the lens of common prosperity. Drawing on newly published materials and empirical research, this book contrasts China’s development model with Western welfare states, elucidating both the rationale behind and the implications of these differences. This translated version of Professor Zheng’s recent work, 共同富裕的中国方案 (originally published in Chinese), is an essential read for scholars and policymakers seeking to understand China’s strategy for achieving common prosperity.

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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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