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Les Genies du chocolat, refered to as "the bible" is the most comprehensive work on the highest quality chocolate in the world today. Crafted with great sensitivity with meticulous editing, this pioneering masterpiece unravels an undiscovered territory of French gastronomy.
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Literature & Literary StudiesMarch 2016Zheng Chouyu’s Poems: Collection of a Confused Age
by Zheng Chouyu
Zheng Chouyu is one of the most representative poets of modern Chinese poetry. His poems are characterized with elegance, fluency, imagination and lyricism. Various images and gentle, gorgeous style make him a very popular poet.
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March 2012Zheng Guofan（Annotated Edition）
by Tang Hao Ming
This book gives a vivid description to Zeng Guofan, the most prominent but controversial person in modern China, and his Xiang Army group. Basing on the historical facts and taking time as its axle, the novel adds some proper fictions to the event description and plot details. In the book, the description of various historical stories, contradictions and intriguing official circle portrays Zeng Guofan’s heroic image of emphasizing on overall situation and national security.
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Humanities & Social SciencesSanjiangyuan
Image Files of the Natural and Humanistic Heritages of China’s River Sources, I
by Zheng Yunfeng
The Sanjiangyuan (Source of Three Rivers) region, where the Yangtze, Yellow and Lancang rivers all originate, is regarded as the cradle of Chinese civilization that has nurtured Chinese people for thousands of years. The Sanjiangyuan series is a collection of photography of Zheng Yunfeng in the past 3 decades. It contains 10 volumes and over 3000 photos, presenting in a panoramic view the landscapes, historical relics, religions, civilization and arts in the Sanjiangyuan Region.
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Humanities & Social SciencesThree Gorges
Image Files of the Natural and Humanistic Heritages of China’s River Sources, II
by Zheng Yunfeng, Ge Jianxiong
China's giant Three Gorges Dam is the world's biggest hydropower plant located in the Three Gorges region in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River. Since its construction officially began in 1994, the higher water level has changed the scenery of the Three Gorges. In 1996, photographer Zheng Yunfeng arrived at the Three Gorges, hoping to document the scenery before it was swallowed by the rising water. He spent more than seven years taking over 50,000 photos of the gorges, based on which the series Three Gorges was produced. The series Three Gorges is a selected collection of Zheng Yunfeng’s photography of the Three Gorges region, depicting living conditions, economic status, and customs and beliefs of local people with massive exquisite pictures and plain language. It is a part of Image Files of the Natural and Humanistic Heritages of China's River Sources and has three volumes: Memories of Mountains and Rivers, Memories of Old Days, and Memories of Ours.
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February 2019Tourism Information Technology
by Pierre J Benckendorff, Zheng Xiang, Pauline J Sheldon
This third edition of 'Tourism Information Technology' provides a contemporary update on the complexities of using information technology in the tourism industry. It examines IT applications in all sectors including airlines, travel intermediaries, accommodation, foodservice, destinations, attractions, events and entertainment. Fully updated throughout and organised around the stages of the visitor journey, the book reviews how tourists are using technologies to support decision making before their trip, during their travels and at the destination. It: · Provides comprehensive and up to date coverage of all key topics in tourism information technologies · Covers new areas such as (among others) augmented and virtual reality, robotics, smart destinations, disruptive innovation and the collaborative economy, crowdsourcing for sustainability, online reputation management and big data · Incorporates a wealth of pedagogic features to aid student learning, including key models and concepts, research and industry insights, case studies, key terms, discussion questions, and links to useful websites. Accompanied online by instructor PowerPoint slides, multiple choice questions and further case studies, this book provides a comprehensive and learning-focused text for students of tourism and related subjects.
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November 2020Canghe Daydream
by Liu Heng
This selection is a representative novel of the famous writer Liu Heng. At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, a little-known story was played in the courtyard of the Cao’s house in a small town in the south of the Yangtze River. The second young master, Cao Guanghan, returned from studying abroad, reluctantly obeyed his parents' orders, and married Zheng Yunan, the eldest of the family family. As a husband, he can't get rid of the deep Oedipus complex, and even can't perform the gift of husband and wife. The only thing that makes him feel excited is that he co-founded the "Match Commune" with the mechanic Lucas invited from Sweden, and learned a new lesson The educated young grandmother Zheng Yunan was extremely depressed, and she had a relationship with Lucas and became pregnant... This novel was adapted into a TV series "Once Upon a Time in China", which is popular in China.
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January 2017Nanjing Never Cries
by Zheng Hong
Set in the city of Nanjing during the time of the Sino-Japanese war (1937-1945), this novel tells the story of four people caught up in the violence and tumult of these years: John Winthrop and his MTI classmate, the brilliant Chinese physicist Calvin Ren (Ren Kewen) and his wife. They work at Nanjing's National Central University on a secret project to design and build warplanes to enable the Chinese to defend themselves against Japanese bombers. John enjoys his new life in Nanjing. He helps a lovely and determined yound lady Chen May with her English, falling a little in love with her; he shops for antiques; meets with Chiang Kai-Shek and Madame Chiang. But when the Japanese invade, there is no safe place in the city. The Japanese murder, torture, and rape indiscriminately. May's whole family are killed; John works in a shelter for women and children; Calvin's family flees the city while Calvin, weakened by overwork, stays behind to work on the warplane project. Each tries to survive against the odds. Vivid and disturbing, Nanjing Never Cries offers a compelling story of the horror of war and the power of love and friendships.
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The ArtsMarch 2018Dream and Reality among Light and Shadow: The Code of Cannes Film Festival
by Zheng Shi
This title chooses 40 winners of Cannes Film Festival to introduce and analyze to the readers. The author not only gives thorough representation of these classical works, but also express his own ideas about good films, the standard and core spirit of Cannes Film Festival.
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Feng's Family Pediatric Spine Tuina
by Zheng Jun
This book introduces the origin, inheritance, and development of Feng's family spine tuina therapy, its treatment methods for common pediatric diseases, and the spine tuina and its manipulation techniques. It is equipped with high definition pictures and rich operation videos, which enable readers to conveniently learn and practice the methods.
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November 2020From hunger and cold to a better life-70 years of Chinese people's livelihood (1949-2019)
by Zheng Gongcheng
This book comprehensively and systematically summarizes the development and changes of Chinese society and people's livelihood since the founding of New China 70 years ago. It is an academic work with high publication value. This book is not only a work on the history of people's livelihood development in New China, but also a work that provides historical and practical enlightenment for China to move toward a society of common prosperity.
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April 2014Zeng Guo Fan De Zheng Mian Yu Ce Mian
by Zhang Hongjie
This is textbook of Chinese political.The story tell us of how to move from the ideal to the reality, and have the guiding significance for young people.
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Humanities & Social SciencesYellow River
Image Files of the Natural and Humanistic Heritages of China’s River Sources, III
by Ge Jianxiong, Zheng Yunfeng
In Chinese history, the Yellow River is much more than a river; it stands for the origins of Chinese civilization and is often referred to as "The Mother River". Image Files of the Natural and Humanistic Heritages of China's River Sources: Yellow River systematically records the nature, history, and humanity in the Yellow River Basin from the perspective of "visual anthropology". It contains a large number of precious photos taken in the 1980s, not only showing the originality, diversity, and uniqueness of the Yellow River culture but also strengthening the environmental protection awareness, which is considered of high cultural and historical value. The series has three volumes: Memories of Mountains and Rivers, Memories of Old Days, and Memories of Ours. Memories of Mountains and Rivers records in images the geological features of the Yellow River from the source towards the sea and reveals the natural magnificence of the Yellow River. Memories of Old Days tells the rise and fall of Chinese history in the Yellow River Basin throughout thousands of years, from the primitive society to the feudal dynasties, from cultural relics underground to above-ground. Memories of Ours records the residence, grazing, farming, clothing, and sacrifice of the Chinese nation in the Yellow River Basin and reveals the cultural prosperity of the Yellow River Civilization.
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August 2015Li Ethnic Group: Sing and Dancing on the Third Day of the Third Month
by Bing Bo, Zheng Xiaojuan
Festivals of Chinese Ethnic Groups was co-authored by China's well-beloved authors of children's literature including Fang Suzhen, Tang Sulan, Wang Yimei, and was illustrated by celebrated Chinese illustrators such as Cai Gao, Chen Yadan and Zhu Xunde. This series covers intriguing, outstanding and poetic folk tales on festivals and customs from China's ten most representative ethnic groups. Showcasing their courage, gentleness and indomitable will, these delightful stories allow readers to learn more about the distinct and charming characteristics of these ethnic groups. Recommended as parent-child reading by CCTV during the Dragon Boat Festival, this series has won the Most Beautiful Picture Book 2022 prize given by China Library Journal. It was also nominated for the top picture books prize in China for the Chinese Government Award.
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December 2020Festivals of Chinese Ethnic Groups·Yao: The King Pan Festival
by Yan Xiangjun, Zheng Xiaojuan
This book mainly introduces the origin of the Yao ethnic group's King Pan Festival. The King Gao rebelled. In order to encourage his people to actively fight back and win the war, Emperor Ku made a promise: Whoever can cut off the head of the King Gao will marry his beautiful little daughter -- the third princess. After hearing of the news, Pan Hu who was a dragon dog managed to achieve the goal. However, the emperor did not want to keep his promise after learning that Pan Hu was a dragon dog. The third princess found that Pan Hu was very kind and brave, and decided to marriage him. Later, the third princess learned that Pan Hu could become a human as long as he was steamed in a steamer for seven days and nights. After Pan Hu was transformed into a human, the emperor sent Pan Hu to the Kuaiji Mountain to be the king. From then on, Pan Hu was called King Pan Hu. Later, during a hunting process, King Pan Hu fell off a cliff and died. In order to commemorate him, people set his birthday October 16th in the lunar calendar as the “King Pan Festival”.
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Business, Economics & LawJune 2019Communists constructing capitalism
by Julian Gruin, Yangwen Zheng, Richard Madsen
