The Buffaloes of China
Title | The Buffaloes of China PDF eBook |
Author | Ross Cockrill |
Publisher | |
Pages | 116 |
Release | 1976 |
Genre | Technology & Engineering |
ISBN |
Healing with Poisons
Title | Healing with Poisons PDF eBook |
Author | Yan Liu |
Publisher | University of Washington Press |
Pages | 278 |
Release | 2021-06-22 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0295749016 |
Open access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295749013 At first glance, medicine and poison might seem to be opposites. But in China’s formative era of pharmacy (200–800 CE), poisons were strategically employed as healing agents to cure everything from abdominal pain to epidemic disease. Healing with Poisons explores the ways physicians, religious figures, court officials, and laypersons used toxic substances to both relieve acute illnesses and enhance life. It illustrates how the Chinese concept of du—a word carrying a core meaning of “potency”—led practitioners to devise a variety of methods to transform dangerous poisons into effective medicines. Recounting scandals and controversies involving poisons from the Era of Division to the Tang, historian Yan Liu considers how the concept of du was central to how the people of medieval China perceived both their bodies and the body politic. He also examines the wide range of toxic minerals, plants, and animal products used in classical Chinese pharmacy, including everything from the herb aconite to the popular recreational drug Five-Stone Powder. By recovering alternative modes of understanding wellness and the body’s interaction with foreign substances, this study cautions against arbitrary classifications and exemplifies the importance of paying attention to the technical, political, and cultural conditions in which substances become truly meaningful. Healing with Poisons is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem) and the generous support of the University of Buffalo.
China in the Era of Social Media
Title | China in the Era of Social Media PDF eBook |
Author | Junhao Hong |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 381 |
Release | 2020-06-22 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 179360875X |
China in the Era of Social Media discusses how social media is changing the world in an unprecedented way through speed, scope, and depth. In the last decade or so, social media in China has witnessed the most explosive growth in the world. Being the most populous nation in the world, it has the most social media users in the world as well. This book examines the current situation and unique characteristics of Chinese social media, the significance of social media in the country’s social transformation, and particularly its influences on political change in the nation. The main goal of this book is to explore how social media has been affecting and thus changing China’s political system, the ruling communist ideology, and the state-run media, as well as its public discourse and public opinions. Scholars of Asian studies, political science, and communications will find this book particularly interesting.
Animals Through Chinese History
Title | Animals Through Chinese History PDF eBook |
Author | Roel Sterckx |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 293 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1108428150 |
This innovative collection opens a door into the rich history of animals in China. This title is also available as Open Access.
China
Title | China PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Food & Agriculture Org. |
Pages | 148 |
Release | 1980 |
Genre | Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | 9789251008980 |
Introduction to China: background information, administrative structure, the people's commune, agricultural policy. The agricultural training system: historical review of the educational system, the colleges of agriculture, communist labour university, the agriculture schools, spare-time education, development of the research and extension system, higher research institutions, the four-level research network, popularization. Appraisal, suggestions, applications: an overview of the agricultural training system, an appraisal of the educational system, an appraisal of the research and extension system, some suggestions on the training system, possible applications to other countries, suggestions for China-FAO cooperation in the field of agricultural training.
The Chinese Slave-girl
Title | The Chinese Slave-girl PDF eBook |
Author | John A. Davis |
Publisher | |
Pages | 400 |
Release | 1880 |
Genre | China |
ISBN |
Flight of the Buffalo
Title | Flight of the Buffalo PDF eBook |
Author | James A. Belasco |
Publisher | Grand Central Publishing |
Pages | 291 |
Release | 2008-11-16 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0446549304 |
A hardcover bestseller now in paperback presents a management program that encourages employee leadership--which today's companies must have more of if they are to survive the coming decades.