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Dream under the Harvest: The Story of Yuan Longping is a picture book about Yuan Longping's life experiences from childhood to becoming a scientist. The picture book highlights Yuan's scientist spirit with a child-friendly story and realistic drawings, tells the story of Yuan's life for the cause of hybrid rice, and presents his vivid and colorful life, his persistent spirit of exploration and his bright and open mind.
The profound reportage, Yuan Longping’s World, pays a tribute to a hero of our time -- Yuan Longping, Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering and a great scientist. The reportage has comprehensively and profoundly demonstrated the patriotism and scientific spirit of Yuan Longping, and objectively showed the rigorous but interesting daily life of Yuan and his team. The work has accurately describes the research principle and process of hybrid rice technology,analyzes and clarifies the generally concerned transgenic doubts about hybrid rice in the form of literature for the first time. It has been the most authoritative and deep-going biography of Yuan Longping so far, and even the most approved version by Yuan Longping himself. Chen Qiwen, author of the reportage, who lays emphasis upon field work and longitudinal interview, has worked for three years on this book, and nearly visited the paddy bases throughout the country, and even around the whole world.
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The book is based on Confucianism and focuses on reformation, loyalty, filial piety, benevolence and the study of life. The book is written in a simple, fresh and timeless manner and is highly readable. The author's extensive quotations and examples make this book a 'mini-encyclopaedia' of traditional Chinese culture. The Yuan Family Sermon is mainly a record of the daily teachings of Yuan's parents to their children, the contents of which can be cross-referenced with the Four Sermons of Yuan.
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It is the family instruction of Yuan Liaofan, a scholar of Ming Dynasty. The book is based on Confucianism, focusing on clarifying reforms, loyalty, filial piety, benevolence, and the learning of living in the world.
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This book tells the story of WW1 in a clear and interesting way with historical facts. This book is totally different from any history book you have read. Readers can take a lot of joy and also understand the history of WW2 at the same time.
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This book tells the story of WW2 in a clear and interesting way with historical facts. This book is totally different from any history book you have read. Readers can take a lot of joy and also understand the history of WW2 at the same time.
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This book tells the story of WW2 in a clear and interesting way with historical facts. This book is totally different from any history book you have read. Readers can take a lot of joy and also understand the history of WW2 at the same time.
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Chinese scientist Yuan Longping, who had developed the first hybrid rice varieties in the 1970s, is known as the "Father of Hybrid Rice". This book records in a realistic and plain style some little-known stories of Yuan Longping in the past 30 years from the early 1980s, when China’s hybrid rice research became successful and began to be widely used in production, and gradually spread to the world and benefit people all over the globe.
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Yuan Mei is a culinary expert with rich experience. His Cookbook of Suiyuan Garden is an important work that systematically introduces Chinese cooking skills and cuisines in southern and northern China. The gourmet’s Cookbook of Suiyuan Garden summarizes his 40 years of culinary practice. As an important masterpiece of Chinese food in the Qing Dynasty, it details the dietary habits and cooking skills in Jiangsu and Zhejiang during the Qianlong period with traditional Chinese essays, describes 326 popular cuisines from the 14th century to the 18th century in China, and introduces famous liquor and tea at that time.
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This book embodies 20 letters professor Yuan Longping wrote to his student Dr. Mao Changxiang in the 1980s and 1990s. Professor Yuan Longping, internationally known as the “Father of Hybrid Rice”, had developed the first hybrid rice varieties in the 1970s and helped alleviate famine and poverty around the world. In the late 20th century, when the communication means were not yet developed enough, professor Yuan wrote a lot of letters to Dr. Mao Changxiang, the researcher of Hunan Hybrid Rice Research Center at that time, to discuss about the development of hybrid rice research. These letters were written in Chinese or English, most of which are originals and have not been published before and therefore are very valuable documents in the history of hybrid rice research.
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Yuan Mei, a famous writer in the Qing Dynasty, compiled all the stories he heard about gods and ghosts, monsters, fox fairies, and even strange people and wonders. The story is concise and clear, the characters are concise and vivid, and the language is simple and natural. In many articles, it also shows its liberal, humorous and humorous language characteristics.
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The life of Yuan Longping, who got “The Order of the Republic” medal, is legendary and innovative. Since the early 1960s, he has been working tirelessly to turn his enthusiasm for his country into rice cultivation, and has always been at the forefront of hybrid rice research. His heart for hybrid rice research and the national food security has remained unchanged from the past to the present. This book uses vivid language and various photos to restore Yuan Longping's life, so that young people can feel the charisma of a researcher. It will help young people understand Yuan Longping's growth experience, feel the charm of the researcher's personality, learn his valuable qualities of perseverance, dedication to science and continuous innovation, and open up their profound understanding of personal ideals and national justice, stimulate their patriotic enthusiasm, and guide them to make their contribution to the development of science and technology through their own efforts.
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This book is a fantasy novel which written by Yuanye, who places his gaze on the prairie where his life came from, gazing at the unique experience of exploring nature by Mongolian children. Through the perspectives of teenager Baiyin, Suolong and Uncle Tonglaga, their fantastic adventures show the beauty of the prairie's animals, plants, and folklore. This is a fantasy world in the depths of the prairie, which reads fantastically and purely. The naivete of children, the simplicity of herders, the reverence of nature, the exploration of the unknown world, and the cherishing of culture grow in this prairie, where there are adventures and growth, pure laughter and tears, making people yearn for childhood.
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Centered on the Grand Council, the book deciphers the power operation of the Qing Dynasty and probes its secret history of the rise and fall. It vividly represents the honors or disgrace and ups and downs of key military figures in nearly 200 years of the Qing Dynasty, truly and comprehensively showing the important role of the Grand Council as a power center in the key moments of the Qing Empire. It is an integral history of the rise and fall of the imperial power center. The book is a masterpiece on the history of the Grand Council and the middle and late Qing Dynasty with a lively, detailed and accurate narration and humor and sprightly tone.
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Ancient Chinese diplomacy refers to diplomatic activities during the period from the beginning of ancient diplomacy to the outbreak of the Opium War in 1840. The manuscript describes the history of this period. The Xia, Shang, and Western Zhou Dynasties were the emergence and formation of ancient Chinese diplomacy. The Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods were the development of ancient Chinese diplomacy. The Han Dynasty was the stereotype of ancient Chinese diplomacy. The Tang Dynasty was the heyday of ancient Chinese diplomacy. The period of transformation of ancient diplomacy. Ancient China's diplomacy is foreign affairs diplomacy. The revelation left is that the stronger the national strength, the more capable it can be, and the more rational compromise, the more it can make a difference. The readers of the manuscript are researchers of Chinese history and diplomatic history, and students of Chinese history and diplomatic history.
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This book is the oral autobiography of YUAN Longping, a famous Chinese agricultural scientist widely known as the Father of Hybrid Rice. By the recall of little-known facts including YUAN’s family background, education experience, and scientific research experience, the book veritably reflects the development of Chinese society in the last hundred years, especially the hybrid rice.
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There are 4 volumes in the series, one volume per quarter and each volume containing six short stories. From the perspective of children, they can experience the beauty of spring, summer, autumn, harvest, winter collection, seasonal scenery, and thousands of ecological beauty. This book is "Spring". It tells about the arrival of spring, Nini was sent to the countryside grandmother’s house, she was first immersed in missing her parents and then gradually started to feel the vitality of the growth of everything on earth. Significant changes in nature awakened her heart to perceive the beauty of nature.
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There are 4 volumes in the series, one volume per quarter and each volume containing six short stories. From the perspective of children, they can experience the beauty of spring, summer, autumn, harvest, winter collection, seasonal scenery, and thousands of ecological beauty. This volume is "Summer". This volume tells about the summer. Nini experienced the change of solar terms from “Lixia” (the beginning of summer) to “Dashu” (the great heat) in the countryside: “Xiaoshu” (the small heat) and “Dashu”, frogs and cicadas, and different stages of farming. Nini felt that it was completely different from the urban life.
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There are 4 volumes in the series, one volume per quarter and each volume containing six short stories. From the perspective of children, they can experience the beauty of spring, summer, autumn, harvest, winter collection, seasonal scenery, and thousands of ecological beauty. This book is "Autumn". This book tells about the autumn. Nini experienced the change from “Liqiu” (the beginning of autumn) to “Shuangjiang” (the frost season) and felt the joy of the autumn harvest. The influence and enlightenment of countryside life revealed to her the charm of nature and the taste of agriculture.
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There are 4 volumes in the series, one volume per quarter and each volume containing six short stories. From the perspective of children, they can experience the beauty of spring, summer, autumn, harvest, winter collection, seasonal scenery, and thousands of ecological beauty. This volume is "Winter". This volume tells that winter was finally arrived and it is soon the time when Nini's parents would pick her up. However, Nini, who has gradually become accustomed to rural life, began to truly fall in love with the four distinct seasons of the countryside. With the arrival of “Dahan”, the last big cold solar term in the twenty-four solar terms, she reluctantly returned to her home in the city with her parents. The charm of nature and the taste of agriculture that countryside life revealed to her has become her eternal precious wealth.
