During China's infamous Tang Dynasty, a time awash with luxury yet littered with deadly intrigues and fallen royalty, betrayed Princess Ai Li flees before her wedding.Miles from home, with only her d
It is a time of celebration in the Pingkang li, where imperial scholars and bureaucrats mingle with beautiful courtesans. At the center is the Lotus Palace, home of the most exquisite courtesans in Ch
A bold portrait of a writer working to balance all his lives—as an artist, a son, and a loner.In 2014, a novelist named Li leaves Manhattan to visit his parents in Taipei for ten weeks. He doesn’t kno
Building the Rule of Law in China explores the idea that China needs a more globalized and diversified vision for the science of law, presenting the need to think differently from the two major wester
Reaction Engineering clearly and concisely covers the concepts and models of reaction engineering and then applies them to real-world reactor design. The book emphasizes that the foundation of reactio
This book systematically and concisely expounds the construction process of China's legal system since China's reform and opening-up. Chapter 1 defines the legal system in China and describes the deve
Edited by Lin (director, CASS [Chinese Academy of Social Sciences] Institute of Law, China), this is the English version of the fifth report of the CASS Institute of Law on the development of the rule
This annual publication leads off with a general report on developments pertaining to the rule of law in China during 2009. Following are special reports on the "National Human Rights Action Plan," in
This volume of The China Legal Development Yearbook is the fourth in a series of annual reports written by leading Chinese law and legal policy scholars and judges to appear in English translation. Th
Edited by Lin (director, CASS [Chinese Academy of Social Sciences] Institute of Law, China), this is the English version of the sixth report of the CASS Institute of Law on the development of the rule
In this eloquent and atmospheric novel, Li Ang further cements her reputation as one of our most sophisticated contemporary Chinese-language writers.The Lost Garden moves along two parallel lines. In
Retribution opens with the raucous festivities surrounding the annual procession to honor the Bodhisattva Guanyin. Changsheng, the young wife of the local coffin maker Liu Laoshi, is raped while makin
This report analyzes the operating mechanism of the constitutional enforcement and constitutional review system in China. From the perspective of comparative law, the implementation of the mechanism o
Wave overtopping on levees is one of the important issues in coastal engineering. This book provides a summary of new understandings on overtopping hydraulics under negative free board.
In 1945, Taiwan was placed under the administrative control of the Republic of China, and after two years, accusations of corruption and a failing economy sparked a local protest that was brutally qua
This is a annotated translation of Nan-fang ts'ao-mu chuang (Nanfang caomu zhuang) (Plants of the Southern Regions) by Qi Han which deals with some eighty plants and plant products of southern China a
Li Ang’s Visionary Challenges to Gender, Sex, and Politics is the first collection of critical essays in English on Li Ang, the famous and controversial feminist writer from Taiwan, and some of her mo
This book studies the practical experience and theoretical development of rule of law in China, and provides fundamental theory for the construction of rule of law in contemporary China. The author ex
Variational methods are very powerful techniques in nonlinear analysis and are extensively used in many disciplines of pure and applied mathematics (including ordinary and partial differential equatio
