The Secret of Everlasting Life is the first translation from the Chinese of the second-century Can Tong Qi. This ancient work, the earliest known text on transformation and immortality, echoes the wisdom and poetry of both the Tao Te Ching and I Ching. The Can Tong Qi is also the ancestral text of all Qi Gong exercises in China. This translation reveals for the first time the meditation methods practised for thousands of years by Taoist sages. Presented here with its original Chinese commentaries, the Can Tong Qi is full of practical information and advice about the process of human transformation and how to nurture and develop the natural life-energy within us. Richard Bertschinger's additional commentary explains the intricacies of...

ISBN: 978-1-84819-048-1
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2010

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Весь мир: самовывоз, почта

'At the time of writing, I freely confess, I know little more about Shanghai than these images. They came upon me, as it were, in the night, unexpectedly. I know, and knew instantly, that I will never forget' - From the foreword by William Gibson. These are photographs of the Shanghai that will not survive the vision the city as for itself. That these homes, shops, lanes and buildings survived as long as they did, and in the way that they did, is by accident rather than design. Whatever the utility of this partial and very subjective record, my intentions, as much as I understand them, have little to do with architecture or preservation. I'm not an historian or an architectural photographer. But I do want to make photographs that show...

ISBN: 0973973994
Дата выхода: май 2010

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Россия, Калининград: самовывоз, курьером, почта

Воспроизведено в оригинальной авторской орфографии.

ISBN: 978-5-8790-8650-8
Издательство: Книга по требованию

Воспроизведено в оригинальной авторской орфографии издания 1898 года (издательство "Harper & brothers").

ISBN: 978-5-8829-7696-4
Издательство: Книга по требованию

Since 1978, China’s mega urban regions (MURs) have experienced rapid urbanization and dramatic economic developments along with their integration with globalization. Although the role of economic globalization in the development of MURs has been well acknowledged, how it shapes their internal spatial structure is still unclear. Using the most reliable data from population census and remote sensing images, this book provides a detailed delineation of the temporal and spatial transformation of China’s MURs in the 1990s, especially the Pearl River Delta and Yangze River Delta. The impacts of economic globalization on the spatial process are also testified by statistical analyses. It is found that the MURs in China were characterized by...

ISBN: 978-3-6391-8921-6
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), an ongoing international collaborative project between the Carolina Population Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the National Institute of Nutrition and Food Safety, and the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, was designed to examine the effects of the health, nutrition, and family planning policies and programs implemented by national and local governments and to see how the social and economic transformation of Chinese society is affecting the health and nutritional status of its population. The impact on nutrition and health behaviors and outcomes is gauged by changes in community organizations and programs...

ISBN: 978-5-5082-2701-2

This book looks at the Chinese bronze bell and its constructed role as a tool used by the socio-political dominant from the Shang Dynasty to the Warring States period, the latter half of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty. Bells and bell ownership represented power. They were musical instruments that reflected an awe-inspiring level of artistic achievement. But they were also used as tools by upper echelon of the socio-political hierarchy to reflect their power and control. As the bronze bell evolves from the Shang dynasty to the close of the Eastern Zhou dynasty, the signified or the perceived meaning of the bell never changes. Bells always represented power. However, what did change were the rules of ownership. Using Michael Foucault's theory of...

ISBN: 978-3-6392-2750-5
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

Both Russia and China moved away from centrally planned economy to a market based one. Russia followed the ‘Shock Therapy' dominated by rapid privatization under Yeltsin whereas China's approach to economic reform was gradual and evolutionary, under an authoritarian political system in conditions of stability. The important question which looms over is: why such large differences existed in the outcome of the reforms in both the countries? The book tries to answer this and delves into the reform process in both the countries which is inextricably linked to the political and economic factors of the two countries. The book presents the case study of Russia and China which are of utmost significance as they are mammoth economies which...

ISBN: 978-3-6393-0331-5
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

Traditional teacher education has ignored the realities of teachers' lives both inside and outside the classroom, failing to consider their existence within broader socio-cultural circumstances. This study examines the professional development and transformation of four women teachers including my mother and myself in China and Canada through exploring our life experiences in socio-cultural contexts. I use autobiographical writings, material from in- depth interviews and artifacts, as well as documents. Data analysis indicates that our devotion to teaching career, optimistic attitude to life, success in overcoming many difficulties to become teachers, all stem from our knowing of the “Tao of life”. My professional transformation in...

ISBN: 978-3-6390-9503-6
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Ownership of Manchester City Football Club traces back to 1894, when Ardwick A.F.C. dissolved and were reformed as Manchester City Football Club Ltd. Over recent years, the ownership and finances of Manchester City Football Club have been tumultuous with various owners of contrasting fortunes much in line with their inconsistent trend on the pitch and the club`s hierarchy maintain the club is in a period of "significant transformation".

ISBN: 978-5-5094-0415-3

South Africa’s post-Apartheid land reform programs redistribute previously white-owned farmland to a small percentage of blacks, and provide these new farmers with agricultural extension services that promote large-scale agriculture. The shortcomings of the agricultural transformation program are apparent in the village of Genadendal, a former mission reserved for "coloureds" and a historically agricultural community in the Western Cape. The case study of Genandendal demonstrates that a national agricultural transformation program for an elite class of black commercial farmers does not address all problems. South Africa’s land reform programs fall short of dismantling the inherited structures of economic and power inequality, while...

ISBN: 978-3-6391-7828-9
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

A Merchant Seaman by training, Douglas Tastad used his Fulbright Fellowship to study and research the maritime logistics system and trade flows of Southeast Asia from one of the world's most important shipping hubs in Singapore. His studies of this topic led him to research and write about the maritime security climate of the South China Sea. He wrote Maritime Security in Southeast Asia for his M.Sc. Thesis at Nanyang Technological University's Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies. This work explores the threat posed by China's economic, diplomatic and especially military encroachment on the region. It documents the very real possibility that China may increase its use force to implement its vision of ownership on the seas,...

ISBN: 978-3-6391-8881-3
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

Die Volksrepublik China stellt fur europaische Unternehmen eine attraktive Beschaffungsquelle dar. Die Arbeit beschaftigt sich mit der Rolle der Logistik in der globalen Beschaffung und insbesondere mit den logistischen Herausforderungen bei der Beschaffung von chemischen Rohstoffen aus der VR China. Im Sinne der Gesamtkostenbetrachtung (Total Cost of Ownership) werden samtliche direkte und indirekte Kostentreiber, die sich aus den logistischen Rahmenbedingungen entlang der globalen Lieferkette ergeben, identifiziert. Den Ausgangspunkt bildet eine ausfuhrliche Analyse des chinesischen Beschaffungsmarktes. In weiterer Folge wird eine kritische Betrachtung globaler Beschaffungsstrategien vorgenommen. Zur Darstellung von Chancen und...

ISBN: 978-3-6392-9175-9
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

Kaum ein Staat kann solch beeindruckende Wachstumsraten aufweisen, kaum ein Staat lockt so viele Investoren an oder baut so schnell wie die Volksrepublik China. Die aussergewohnlich hohen Wachstumsraten sorgen weltweit fur Schlagzeilen, die sowohl Bewunderung als auch Neid erzeugten. Ebenso werden Fragen aufgeworfen, ob die VR China dieses Wachstum auch in Zukunft fortsetzen kann, oder wann die chinesische die amerikanische Volkswirtschaft uberholen wird. Beachtlich ist diese Entwicklung vor allem, da China gleichzeitig die Prozesse der Industrialisierung, Urbanisierung und der Transformation in eine Marktwirtschaft durchschritt. Neben der allgemeinen Wirtschaftsentwicklung stelle ich die okonomische Situation in der Stadt Jinhua dar und...

ISBN: 978-3-6393-0187-8
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

The spectacular transformation of China in the last decade is symbolized by its architecture. The booming cities of China are evolving at a speed which is hard to comprehend, and their skylines have seen a profusion of new architectural styles. An economic metamorphosis and an invasion of Western culture have created a dynamic environment for architecture and construction, both at the public and the domestic scale. This push to prosperity has excited architects from around the globe, who have seen a unique opportunity to produce remarkable and innovative designs. New China Architecture seizes this moment in time. It documents both the stunning designs of famed architects and the emergence of a whole new generation of Chinese architects....

ISBN: 978-0-7946-0389-2
Издательство: Tuttle Publishing
Дата выхода: июль 2011

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A partnership in the People's Republic of China is a business entity governed by the Partnership Enterprise Law passed by order of the President of the People's Republic of China to authorize and govern partnership enterprises. A partnership is a type of business entity in which partners share with each other the profits or losses of the business undertaking in which all have invested. From 1368 to 1911, partnerships with distributive shares were the principal form of a business entity that investors ran coal mines.In the modern era, most enterprises were partnerships in the form of general partnerships levying unlimited liability on the partners In 1933, 41% of factories were run by...

ISBN: 978-6-1333-2383-4
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Property Law of the People's Republic of China (Pinyin: Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo Wuquan Fa) is a property law adopted by the National People's Congress in 2007 that went into effect on October 1, 2007. The law covers the creation, transfer, and ownership of property in the mainland of the People's Republic of China (PRC) and is part of an ongoing effort by the PRC to gradually develop a civil code. In developing civil law in the PRC mainland, the PRC government has used the German Pandectist system of classification under which the property law corresponds to the law on real rights, which is the term used...

ISBN: 978-6-1346-3501-1
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

English was a completely new foreign language to most Chinese people at the beginning of nineteenth century. My research on the social acceptance of English reveals that English was a cultural phenomenon rather than an academic subject when it first entered China. How English was circulated among different groups of local people? What cultural consequences did a foreign language bring to a treaty port society? This study examines how Western languages and ideas influenced the native social life in China two centuries ago, and demonstrates how language transformation became one of the historical stimuli that shaped an urban linguistic landscape. A particular focus is set on ordinary people’s oral and visual English throughout their...

ISBN: 978-3-8364-3650-2
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Renewable energy is helping the People`s Republic of China complete its economic transformation and achieve "energy security". China has moved rapidly along the path of renewable energy development.

ISBN: 978-5-5092-3770-6

The Shizhaishan culture, a Bronze-Iron Age culture distributed over central and northeastern Yunnan, was first discovered through excavation of the Shizhaishan cemetery during the late 1950s. Between the second half of the first millennium BC and around AD 50, this archaeological culture was subjected to many influences from metropolitan China. This thesis discusses the processes of acculturation and sinicization of the Shizhaishan cultural complex in the light of historical texts and archaeological materials. The evidence suggests that the influence of metropolitan China was mainly mediated through Sichuan, and the eventual collapse of the Shizhaishan cultural complex as a recognisable archaeological entity occurred in the early Eastern...

ISBN: 978-3-6392-0874-0
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! China`s economic system before the late-1990s, with state ownership of certain industries and central control over planning and the financial system, has enabled the government to mobilize whatever surplus was available and greatly increase the proportion of the national economic output devoted to investment.

ISBN: 978-5-5131-0724-8

The empirical study examines the nature and extent of property rights institutions emerging in the process of diversification of tribal economy of Arunachal Pradesh as a result of state-led development interventions. What is evident in the study is that the institutions emerge as a consequent of development interventions to meet the institutional requirements of such interventions subsequently. The study finds that the relationship between property rights and production efficiency has not been uniform in three sectors of the economy with a discernible positive relationship in agricultural sector and erratic trend in both secondary and tertiary sectors. Further, some features have emerged which did not exist earlier; with the...

ISBN: 978-3-6392-2098-8
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

The aim of the work was to make a comparison of the Kyrgyz living on the territory of today's Kyrgyzstan with the Kyrgyz that are living on territory of other states as original population. In this context, we have laid the question, what has influenced the culture at the most and cultural changes of Kyrgyz population on the territory of Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, China and Afghanistan. Creation of the national state in Kyrgyzstan had significant influence to national awareness of the Kyrgyz. It was aroused here an interest in the history of own nation, there were presented historical constructs to the population about the ancientness and certain exclusivity of the Kyrgyz ethnic group, what many inhabitants adopted. Данное...

ISBN: 978-3-8381-1786-7
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

This book explores the interrelationship between urbanisation, Chinese women and sport since the 1980s. It examines how urbanisation has transformed Chinese women’s sport with newly emerged functions, values, forms and spaces; how different social factors caused the stratification of women’s sports activities; how the modern culture and the traditional culture clashed and impacted on women’s emancipation in Chinese society and in sport. According to the author, the development of Chinese women’s sport since the 1980s is riddled with complexities and contradictions. Chinese women have gained opportunities to participate in a vast range of sport, while in turn sport has become a means to make women positive, pleasure-loving and...

ISBN: 978-3-6392-2034-6
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

Nach eingehender Literaturrecherche wird der bisherige Entwicklungsverlauf der Lander Ungarn und Polen seit der Transformation in den 1990er Jahren bis 2007 aufgezeigt sowie der Entwicklungsstatus der BRIC Staaten anhand der folgenden funf Betrachtungsaspekte analysiert: Internationale Handelsabkommen und Organisationen, politische und rechtliche Stabilitat, Bildungspolitik, auslandische Direktinvestitionen sowie Zinsen, Inflation und Wechselkurs. Anschliessend wird die finanzielle Absicherung in der Pension anhand des Drei-Saulen- Modells dargestellt und die eigene, private Vorsorge dabei in den Mittelpunkt geruckt. In der Folge werden Investmentfonds als Anlagemoglichkeit mit erhohter Ertragschance und Risiken analysiert und einer...

ISBN: 978-3-6392-3431-2
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011