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Who founded China? Are Chinese people religious? What is Chinese culture and how has it changed over time? The accessible and fun Understanding China Through Comics series answers those questions and more.

For all ages, Foundations of Chinese Civilization covers China's early history in comic form, introducing philosophies like Confucianism and Daoism, the story of the Silk Road, famous emperors like Han Wudi, and the process of China's unification.

Includes a handy timeline. This is volume one of the Understanding China Through Comics series.

Jing Liu is a...

Die vorliegende Studie ist eine rechtslinguistische Untersuchung zur Explizierung des textgestutzten und diskursbasierten Rechtsstreits zwischen verschiedenen Rechtsarbeitern (Richter, Staatsanwalt, Rechtsanwalt) im Rechtsfindungsverfahren. Als Untersuchungskorpus gelten die authentischen Textmaterialien (Anklageschriften, Berufungs- bzw. Revisionsschriften, Urteile und Schriftsatze usw.) von sechs zusammenhangenden Rechtsfallen aus der deutschen Rechtspraxis. Die Analyse setzt sich zum Ziel, einerseits zugunsten des interdisziplinaren Erkenntnisinteresses einen exemplarischen Beitrag zu...

What happens when language wars are not about hurling insults or quibbling over meanings, but are waged in the physical sounds and shapes of language itself?

Native and foreign speakers, mother tongues and national languages, have jostled for distinction throughout the modern period. The fight for global dominance between the English and Chinese languages opens into historical battles over the control of the medium through standardization, technology, bilingualism, pronunciation, and literature in the Sinophone world. Encounters between global languages, as well as the internal...

This book provides a systematic study of the political, economic, cultural, and educational changes that have taken place in China since 1978, and examines the impacts of these changes on the Chinese people's thinking and behavior. Jing Lin traces the gradual change of the Chinese from obedient, unquestioning citizens to critical and intelligent thinkers. She points out that with the more relaxed political and economic environment the Chinese people have gone through a period of reflection on their communist past, which has resulted in a new sense of identity and a more independent spirit....

"Business and Technology in China" offers a perceptive look at China's economic wonder and the science/business partnership that is pointing the way to its future. In a series of narrative chapters, the book marks China's astonishing transformation into a global manufacturing powerhouse, with specific coverage of the devastating human and environmental impact of that growth, the effects of the 2008 global financial crisis, and China's new Initiatives for creating a more sustainable economic model.

"Business and Technology in China" shows why China's renewed focus on scientific and...

This book focuses on how instruction affects English learners use of Theme and thematic progression (thematic organization). While thematic organization in learner English has been extensively studied, little research has been done to investigate the effects of instruction on the use of Theme and thematic progression. Adopting a Systemic Functional Grammar approach, this study explores how a ten-week instruction on thematic organization affects Chinese college students use of Theme and thematic progression by comparing their English essays before and after the instruction, with...