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When Hitler trained his lethal eye on the occupation of France, the Gaillet family was forced from their resplendent home near the Belgian border by a bullet through their front door and a German soldier's scream to evacuate within twenty-four hours. Thus begins the harrowing odyssey of four-year-old Helene and her five siblings, who in 1940 abandoned everything they knew, and remained on the brink of disaster for four brutal years.

"I was a War Child: World War II Memoir of a little French Catholic girl "is the rare and raw account of one family's exodus from the front line of the Nazi...

This book, the first of its kind in English, examines the reinvention of loyalism in colonial Taiwan through the lens of literature. It analyzes the ways in which writers from colonial Taiwan--including Qiu Fengjia, Lian Heng, Wu Zhuoliu, and others--creatively and selectively employed loyalist ideals to cope with Japanese colonialism and its many institutional changes. In the process, these writers redefined their relationship with China and Chinese culture.

Drawing attention to select authors' lesser-known works, author Chien-hsin Tsai provides a new assessment of well-studied...

This edited volume of papers from the twenty first International Conference on Chemical Education attests to our rapidly changing understanding of the chemistry itself as well as to the potentially enormous material changes in how it might be taught in the future. Covering the full range of appropriate topics, the book features work exploring themes as various as e-learning and innovations in instruction, and micro-scale lab chemistry. In sum, the 29 articles published in these pages focus the reader s attention on ways to raise the quality of chemistry teaching and learning, promoting the...

Yeh's study provides a unique description of the spatial dimensions of China's transition into modernity and vividly...

Comprised of four thematically linked stories and a novella, The Old Capital focuses on the cultural and psychological realities of contemporary Taiwan. The stories are narrated by individuals who share an aching nostalgia for a time long past. Strolling through modern Taipei, they...