As one of the most well-known contemporary Buddhist teachers, Master Jiqun combines ancient wisdom with real life and makes modernized interpretations, to reveal the truth of the world for us and let us see the ultimate purpose of life.
It is an excellent collection of 108 Tang poems with 108 accompanying paintings done by Shanghaistyle painters, representing a visual feast of Shanghai-style painting.
We have invited 30 famous painters to illustrate Chinese-English Three Hundred Song Lyrics published by Professor Xu Yuanchong.With 117 elaborately created paintings correspondingly illustrating 117 Song lyrics.
In this book, I have decided to focus on something tangible,and very physical, as a way of telling my China story, but also illustrating this issue of difference, but how differences can aid the quest to make something more defined and knowable. Place is something that always fascinated, and continues to fascinate me, in my life in England. The relationship of particular places, for instance, to the lives of writers, something I mentioned at the start of this introduction, in Kent. The memory traces, as they are called, that are left after major events in places like fields where battles occurred, or buildings where major events happened, or cities or towns which testify to the many different kinds of lives that have been lived there over the generations.
What sort of changes has Hong Kong seen in the eighteen years(2015) since its return to China. And what sort of support has the motherland provided to Hong Kong's development? The author has strived to portray the reality of post-return Hong Kong, including:the tests faced by the PLA's Hong Kong garrison (as well as its achievements); the path to success and the contributions of a number of Hong Kong's elites; charity in Hong Kong; the lives of the city's people,as well as its culture, media, and education;the origins of clean governance in HongKong; the challenges the city faces, and its prospects. The author has written the truth of Hong Kong post-return.
This well-documented first-hand account,written with passionate concern, about the struggle to ensure equal educational opportunities for all is a truly inspiring read. As China continues to grow and develop, there is no more important issue than ensuring equal educational opportunity to all its citizenry. Project Hope, organizedby the Communist Youth League Central Committee and the China Youth Development Foundation, was established in 1989. The foundation’s purpose is to provide educational opportunities to children in socio- economically disadvantaged rural China. At its twenty year anniversary in 2009, it had already raised 5.67 billion RMB in donations, aiding 3.46 million students and had built 15,940 primary schools across the country. Project Hope is now one of the top charities in the world.
There can be few examples in all recorded history of a national transformation wrought on such a scale and in such a short space of time as those that occurred in China over the second half of the twentieth century. There can be fewer still examples of such a transformation in one country affecting individuals and governments all over the world, as did the one begun in China in 1978—Reform and Opening Up. This book was the product of four years of research by Lyu Lei and Zhao Hong, tells us how Guangdong Changed China, and fully documents the real process of Reform and Opening Up in China.
