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When a blood feud endangers seven young children, one Tibetan mastiff must prove his worth to save their lives.Old blood feuds on the Tibetan plateau flare up when seven children and their Tibetan mastiff, Gangri Senge, follow a Han journalist to a rival tribe's territory during the early days of the People's Republic of China. As the tribe plots to punish the children for their forefathers' crimes, it is up to Gangri Senge and the journalist who befriends him to rescue the children from a grisly fate.Based on first-hand accounts from author Yang Zhijun's father, this tale follows the lives of Tibet's legendary mastiffs as Gangri Senge and the dog-loving journalist struggle to save the captured children. Together they embark on an extraordinary journey across the vast Tibetan wilderness that will change the plateau and its tribes forever.Mastiffs of the Plateau is a fascinating glimpse into a bygone era and a moving tale of love and loyalty that explores what it means to be human in a world filled with beasts.

As the first Chinese female scientist to win a Nobel prize (in physiology or medicine) in 2015, what were Tu Youyou's formative experiences and the major events that shaped her life? How did this remarkable woman − without a medical degree, doctorate or overseas work experience - makesuch a valuable contribution to the control of malaria? This book explores the extraordinary career of this modest, frugal and very unconventional scientist and records her inspirational work.During early clinical trials, Tu traveled to malaria-endemic areas of Hainan and was the first to test her medicine on herself to ensure it was safe after the drug had shown promising results in mice and monkeys. Only then were the clinical trials expanded to include other humans.Afflicted with tuberculosis at the age of 16, Tu Youyou recovered two years later with a determination to make up for lost time. In fact, the illness was the making of her in that it sparked an interest in medicine and pharmacology and a desire to help save the lives of others. Indifferent to fame and wealth, and courageous in the pursuit of truth, she went on to make remarkable scientific achievements.Although born in Ningbo at a time of turmoil, Tu Youyou was among the first intake of female college students in the new China. She made the most of this good fortune by devoting herself to decades of quiet and patient labor in which she embraced Chairman Mao Zedong's quest for the country to combine traditional Chinese medicine and western medicine.Separated from her family, she led a national research group codenamed 'Mission 523' tasked with developing antimalarial drugs from Chinese medicines. Exposing themselves to considerable hardship and danger, the team's pioneering work led to the discovery of artemisinin, a drug therapy that has since saved millions of lives across the globe, especially in developing countries.

What is it like to suffer from depression? As Li Lanni writes, it's worse than cancer.A child of China's Cultural Revolution, Li Lanni has always persevered through hardship. Despite her many health struggles, including cancer, Lanni went through life with a smile on her face-until she was diagnosed with depression in 2003. This powerful memoir, told in part through diary entries written soon after her diagnosis, follows the extraordinary story of her life, from her upbringing on communist military bases to her coming of age in the high-pressure, freewheeling commercial centre of Shenzhen. At once deeply personal and profoundly universal, this story of cancer and mental illness captures the life and times of a generation struggling for health and happiness in a rapidly changing China.

When fascism threatened to engulf humanity, a few great souls stood up to be counted. Spanning Europe and Asia, Playing Chess with the Devil is the true story of the remarkable people who risked their lives to protect countless civilians from the Nazis and the Japanese during the second world war. Among these heroic individuals were a German military governor, a Chinese housewife, a Danish sailor, an American missionary and two China-based German businessmen. This is an updated and extended version of Zhang Yawen's award-winning 2002 novel A Chinese Woman at Gestapo Gunpoint, which has been adapted for the small screen and broadcast in a primetime national TV slot in China. In 2015, the book was selected by Chinese President Xi Jinping as a gift for King Philippe of Belgium. Based on extensive interviews and research, Zhang not only presents the dramatic events surrounding the resistance to fascism, but also delivers a passionate plea for mankind to learn from the mistakes of the past.

My Uncle Zhou Enlai paints a candid and heartwarming picture of one of China's most beloved leaders and its first premier, Zhou Enlai (1898-1976). Written by his nephew, Zhou Erliu, who found himself at the heart of the political turmoil of the 20th century, this deeply moving and personal account is at once a touching family portrait of the Zhou clan and a comprehensive overview of China's modern political history.Through personal anecdotes, letters, poems, photographs and other relics from the premier's epoch-making life, the reader gets up close and personal with Zhou Enlai as never before and gets an intimate peek at life in China during these turbulent times.This book interweaves the fascinating life story of its author, from his childhood in Shanghai's French concession through his involvement with the Communist Party of China (CPC) in the years of war and revolution up to the present day, and the story of his 'Qi Ba', the prominent CPC leader who was at the forefront of major events such as the founding of the PRC, the Cultural Revolution, the Nanchang Uprising, the Chinese Civil War and US president Richard Nixon's visit to China in 1971, yet always found time to advise his beloved nephew about work, life, love and politics. My Uncle Zhou Enlai aims to set straight the historical facts and to convey the great impact Zhou Enlai had on Chinese and international politics, which paved the way for China's re-entry into the international community. Always honest, wise, humble and kind, Zhou Enlai is warmly remembered by millions of people today both within and outside China, and this book serves as a testament by a close relative to the many Chinese and foreign lives he touched. A must-read for anyone interested in China's history and cultural landscape, its gradual opening-up to the rest of the world, and its notable leaders and key figures.

Wan Li, one of China's revolutionary greats hailing from Shandong, operated at the highest level of party and government, including secretary of the CPC central committee secretariat, chairman of the National People's Congress (NPC) standing committee, vice premier of the state council for agriculture, minister of railways and Beijing mayor.

A pictorial biography of Xiang Nan, an used major force in Fujian province of China, where he is still remembered for his contribution to reform and opening up. During Xiang Nan's governing period, Xi Jinping, the current president of China, started his initial political career in Fujian.

True stories about Ren Zhongyi, previous leader of Guangdong province of China and active player in China's initial reform and open-up.

Jean de Miribel arrived in China in July 1976. The tall, genial foreign-language expert joined the Xi'an International Studies University (XISU) that September, and immediately worked to inspire students to share a passion for literature and science.He adopted China and its people as his family and received admiration and respect from students and colleagues. He worked tirelessly, even in retirement, to build a Sino-French cultural exchange, and inviting friends in France and China to speak and spread ideas.The Chinese name he took for himself was Mi Ruizhe (¿¿¿) - mi which literally means uncooked rice while his given names rui and zhe mean wise and far-sighted or astute.His belief in education saw him develop the language studies at XISU, sponsor children through primary school, and help students from China to study overseas. Although he lived a very frugal life himself, he was extremely generous when it came to subsidising Chinese students in destitute mountainous regions to studying in France.He received many honours, including the Légion d'Honneur, as well as tokens of esteem and affection from students, friends and neighbours.Jean de Miribel left a legacy of cross-cultural understanding and respect. The last wish of the Frenchman known in his 'adopted' country as a 'a person who has performed good deeds for China' was to donate his body for medical research after he passed away at the age of 96 in Xi'an on 10 October 2015.

The Roots & Soul of the Chinese People is a brave and ambitious attempt by author Mr Xu Jun to connect the dots between the 'socialist core values' drawing on Marxism espoused and promoted by the Communist Party of China (CPC) today with China's long cultural heritage - including Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism, Mohism, Legalism and numerous other -isms - dating all the way back to the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods and to the pre-historic mythological times of the Yellow Emperor and the Yan Emperor. So, in addition to a lot of information about China's history, culture and traditions, Roots & Soul touches on what Chinese consider to be some of the best of the rest of the world's great civilisations, including sections of chapters on the Mesopotamians, the Egyptians and India. Mr Xu is a Han Chinese born in 1958 who hails from Chengmai county, Hainan island (which is today a province in its own right after being spun off from Guangdong province in 1988). With an educational background in research at the central party school and currently serving as deputy director of the National People's Congress standing committee, Mr Xu's is very much a senior insider's view of how China's modern socialist path is linked to the illustrious past of China's long historical line of cultural traditions.With lots of references linking the threads running through current President Xi Jinping's modern-day speeches to China's past cultural traditions, the book presents plenty of food for thought about the relevance of the socialist path China has chosen to follow as well as the need for Chinese people not to forget where they have come from, not to worship everything modern and/or foreign and, above all, not to denigrate all of the Chinese traditions that have been passed down from generation to generation.

China is undergoing profound demographic, societal and cultural changes, and these changes are having a considerable impact on the provision of public services and on the complex relationship between the Communist Party of China (CPC) and the government. This book introduces the framework of the Chinese government, explains the constitution and the operation of the National People's Congress (NPC), the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), the central people's government and local governments.Emphasis is placed on analyzing the reforms in China's public service sector, the important changes that are taking place and the impact of current government policies on free education, employment, medical care, social welfare and relief work.The authors focus on introducing the basic framework and operation process of the Chinese government, the reform and development of public service in China, and recent reform initiatives. They explain how the government management system operates based on its people-oriented principles, how it is reforming and adopting innovative measures to provide public service, how it is gradually delivering the basic rights of Chinese citizens, and how it aims to achieve the ultimate goal of social justice.This book also underscores the inner logic of China's public service system reform, in which the government used to take care of everything, but now is striving to manage the different needs of diversified participants.

Imagine what it's like to effectively organize and develop a political party with over 65 million (65m) members - that's bigger than the total populations of many of the world's most developed countries such as the UK (65m), France (64m), and Australia (24m).Then imagine that, if the Communist Party of China (CPC) was a country, its population would rank as the 21st biggest in the world. In addition to developing and organizing its 65m party members, it had to embed them among a population of 1.38bn people so that the party could lead and guide the world's biggest population to develop from economic backwardness after years of war and destruction to become the 2nd largest economy in the world within nine decades.Now, imagine what it takes to achieve that in terms of structure and organisation and you have a good grasp of the scale of the CPC's achievement from its founding with just 50 members in 1921 until 2015 with some 65m members.The Communist Party of China: the Past, Present and Future of Party Building gives a blow-by-blow and chapter-by-chapter account of how the CPC got from where it was in 1921 shortly after the founding of the party to where it is now.

The urbanization rate in China soared from 29.4% in 1996 to 52.6% in 2012 following an upsurge in the construction of development zones, new urban districts and international metropolises.China's urbanization is one of the two major events that will affect the development of human society in the 21st century, according to Joseph Stiglitz, the acclaimed American Nobel prize-winning economist, the other being the next round of the US-led new technological revolution.Urbanization, an inexorable trend of economic and social development, can act as a benchmark to gauge the economic and societal progress of a country. Since the founding of the PRC, and especially since the reform and opening-up process was launched in 1978, China has witnessed a marked upward spike in the size of its urban population. This trend has accelerated in recent decades, with small towns and cities emerging in large numbers. The authors of this textbook explore the evolution of the economy, society, ecology and culture associated with urbanization, to reveal the distinctive characteristics of urbanization in contemporary China. They examine the changes taking place in towns and cities since the start of reform and opening up, and investigate how the Chinese government has been working to establish an institutional framework to guarantee that urbanization develops in a sustainable way.

This useful pocket sized handbook is written by experts on topics such as Business Etiquette, E-commerce, Social Media, and Connecting with Chinese Consumers. Containing economic information accompanied by up-to-date maps, charts and tables of each region in China, from the prosperous coastal cities to the developing inland areas.

Scott Kronick is President and CEO of Ogilvy Public Relations, Asia Pacific. A 28-year veteran of Ogilvy Public Relations, Scott has spent 24 of those years working in leadership positions throughout the Asia Pacific region. Scott has received numerous awards during his career and today Ogilvy Public Relations is one of the leading and most influential public relations consultancies in the Asia Pacific region. Scott is also the author of The Lighter Side of China, a collection of short stories written in a light-hearted style about an American living in Greater China for 24 years. Today Scott lives with his wife Lisa and two children Jacquelin and Samuel in Beijing, China.

 Evening, I made my one hundred and seventy-eighth scratch on the cave wall.Despite her humble rural beginnings, Butterfly regards herself as a sophisticated young woman. So, when offered a lucrative job in the city, she jumps at the chance.But instead of being given work, she is trafficked and sold to Bright Black, a desperate man from a poor mountain village.Trapped in Bright’s cave home, Butterfly struggles to repel his lustful advances, and she plans her escape… not so easily done in this isolated and remote village where she is watched day and night.Will her tenacity and free spirit survive, or will she be broken?

My Thirty Years in China is a collection of autobiographies of select foreign pioneers of business and industry in China. The collection includes memoirs by Sidney Rittenberg, Clinton Dines, Joerge Wuttke, and Michael De Clercq among others. For the few foreign business people who have been engaged with China since this time, the changes have been dramatic. Their memories and insights âEUR" sometimes comic, sometimes sad âEUR" recall the joys and frustrations of their adopted home and paint a fascinating picture of what has changed in China over the past three decades âEUR" and what has not.