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    • Trusted Partner
      March 2023

      Chinese Martial Arts

      by Born in Changsha, Hunan Province, He Dun is a member of the China Writers Association, vice chairman of the Hunan Writers Association, vice chairman of the Changsha Federation of Literary and Art Circles, and a representative writer of "New Realism".

      Chinese Martial Arts is a literary work that recreates the spirit of the times and the fate of the characters with realistic creative techniques. Liu Qirong, the hero, had been ailing since childhood. In order to keep fit, he began learning martial arts at the age of eight and continued to practice throughout his life.

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      June 2022

      Mogao Grottoes Art in Dunhuang

      by Chang Shuhong (1904–1994), the author, was a famous artist and researcher on the art of Dunhuang. As the founder of Dunhuang Studies and a pioneer of Dunhuang cultural undertakings, he was honored as "the guardian of Dunhuang."

      Mogao Grottoes Art in Dunhuang is general reading material about the art of Dunhuang grottoes, and it’s the ingenious work of Mr. Chang Shuhong, the pioneer of Dunhuang Studies in China.

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      December 2022

      Art Works of Chang ShuhongVol.1

      by The author Chang Shuhong (1904-1994) was a renowned artist and Dunhuang art researcher. He is considered the founder of Dunhuang studies and the pioneer of Dunhuang cultural career in China, earning him the title "Guardian of Dunhuang."

      Carefully selected and meticulously compiled, this collection features nearly four hundred artworks from the various stages of Mr. Chang Shuhong's artistic career. It encompasses a wide range of categories, including oil paintings, watercolors, copies, sketches, and more, offering a comprehensive showcase of the distinctive creative characteristics of Mr. Chang Shuhong across different periods and reflecting his artistic journey under different circumstances. Authored by experts from the Dunhuang Academy, the detailed annotations provide valuable insights into the background of each piece, aiding readers in gaining a deeper understanding of the stories behind the artworks and interpreting Dunhuang art.

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      December 2022

      Art Works of Chang ShuhongVol.2

      by The author Chang Shuhong (1904-1994) was a renowned artist and Dunhuang art researcher. He is considered the founder of Dunhuang studies and the pioneer of Dunhuang cultural career in China, earning him the title "Guardian of Dunhuang."

      Carefully selected and meticulously compiled, this collection features nearly four hundred artworks from the various stages of Mr. Chang Shuhong's artistic career. It encompasses a wide range of categories, including oil paintings, watercolors, copies, sketches, and more, offering a comprehensive showcase of the distinctive creative characteristics of Mr. Chang Shuhong across different periods and reflecting his artistic journey under different circumstances. Authored by experts from the Dunhuang Academy, the detailed annotations provide valuable insights into the background of each piece, aiding readers in gaining a deeper understanding of the stories behind the artworks and interpreting Dunhuang art.

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      The Arts
      May 2014

      The Centennial History of Chinese Art (1900-2000)

      by Yin Hong, Ling Yan, etc.

      This book series contain 5 volumes: The Centennial History of Chinese Cinematography (1900-2000) The Centennial History of Chinese Fine Arts (1900-2000) The Centennial History of Chinese Dancing (1900-2000) The Centennial History of Chinese Drama (1900-2000) The Centennial History of Chinese Music (1900-2000) A period historical works of the Chinese Art for the last hundred years (1900-2000),offering a profound analysis of the underlying interaction between the development of the centenial history of fine arts and society, economy, thoughts and cultural vicissitudes through the narration of the conditions of the development of Chinese art.

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      Humanities & Social Sciences
      October 2024

      The Malleus Maleficarum

      by Peter Maxwell-Stuart

      A shocking glimpse into the mind of a medieval witch hunter. In 1487, the zealous Dominican inquisitor Heinrich Kramer wrote a treatise that would have a remarkable influence on European history. Blaming women for his own lust, and frustrated by official complacency before what he saw as a monstrous spiritual menace, Kramer penned a practical guide to aid law officers in the identification and prosecution of witches. Fusing theology, lurid anecdotes and advice for those engaged in combating sorcery, The Malleus Maleficarum transports the reader into the dark heart of medieval belief - where fear of the supernatural provokes a gripping struggle for understanding and control. Kramer's book led to the burning of numerous innocents and had a lasting impact on the popular image of witchcraft. It remains a sinister symbol of fanaticism and cruelty to this day.

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      Mind, Body, Spirit

      FROM MEDIC TO MYSTIC

      The True Story of an Academic Physician’s Journey into the Paranormal

      by Dr Anona Blackwell

      In this candid memoir, Dr. Anona Blackwell shares her remarkable journey from orthodox-trained medic to unapologetic mystic. Chronicling her dual professional life as a highly respected, Lancet-published academic physician while also investigating powerful psychic and paranormal experiences in her work and personal life, Dr. Blackwell presents compelling evidence for telepathy, clairvoyance, near-death experiences (NDEs), life after death, the power of prayer, non-ordinary reality, and more. By sharing her forays into non-ordinary reality Dr. Blackwell encourages others to share their own paranormal experiences.

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      May 2014

      The Mysterious Forbidden City

      by Jian Qianai

      On the wedding night of Emperor Guangxu (1871-1908), whose queen was secretly eating wood...... Imperial Consort Zhen in her blooming age started her mysterious life in the Forbidden City......

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      Children's & YA

      The Secret of Crossing

      China Story Picture Books

      by Zhang Jie

      China Story Picture Books is the first set of children's picture books launched by the Bingxin Award Committee. This set of books covers the works of seven Bingxin Award-winning writers of different ages including children's literature masters and promising young writers. The illustrations are full of traditional Chinese cultural elements such as dragon lantern dance, paper cutting, oil paper umbrella, and bamboo. Powerful painters at home and abroad are invited to do illustrations, which brings interesting fusion and collision of Chinese and foreign cultures to the books. In addition to the original illustrations, the stories are more touching. Every child can harvest the courage and wisdom for growing up from these stories. The series consists of 7 picture books: The Dragon Lantern, The Path of Golden Flowers, The Child in Three-Story Attic, The School Day Gifts, The Secret of Crossing, The Slope of Sisters. The Secret of Crossing tells the story of the growth of children in villages and small towns. The mud road to the canteen is narrow, several places collapse from the foot of the wall, and one of them breaks into a big gap. Why not fill in the big gap? It's really a lion in the way, and the girl has to cross it carefully, with all her strength.

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      Children's & YA
      2020

      Ayélévi's Secret

      by Simon de Saint-Dzokotoe, Maryse Montron

      Little Ayélévi is very cunning. She always wins at the game of "Who would win the most beautiful flower." This situation intrigued his brother who wanted to understand the secret of these repeated successes. Ayélévi is very clever; will it still be for a long time?

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      October 2022

      My Father's Secret

      The BND, my family and I

      by Corinna von Bassewitz

      For a long time, Corinna von Bassewitz believed her father was a soldier, later on that he was a diplomat. Then, at the age of 16, she learnt something unbelievable: he had been a secret agent for the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND, Germany's Federal Intelligence Service). Once the secret had been at least partly uncovered, she became something of a spy herself and eventually found some confidential documents in her parents' attic. Later, she realised that her father had been living as a double agent for the FRG and the GDR. So what effect does it have on a girl if her father conceals his true identity and eventually disappears without trace? Along with her family history, the author provides multi-layered and exciting insights into the historical context of the Cold War. A very personal book, intriguingly told and emotionally touching.

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      2017

      Children's Art Manual Game Book

      by Green Book

      Basics of Interesting Paper-cut: Basics of Interesting Paper-cut is a book for guiding children to have fun origami. The strength of DIY ability directly reflects the flexibility of the brain, so improving children's DIY ability is an important way to promote intellectual development, while hand craft is a good way to fully develop children's intelligence.

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      Humanities & Social Sciences
      June 2025

      Faith, folk and the far right

      Racist and anti-racist Heathenry and Occultism in Britain

      by Dominic Alessio, Robert J. Wallis

      This book offers the first examination of extremist Heathenry and occultism in the UK and how anti-racist Heathens act to counter this discourse. It explores the spectrum of Heathen practice today and the historical origins of racist Heathenry in nineteenth century Germanic romanticism and twentieth century folkish nationalism. Treating each of the three main extremist Heathen organisations, the book extends the analysis to the neo-Nazi occult organization the Order of the Nine Angles (O9A), and the wider racist Heathen cultural scene in Black Metal and Dark Folk music. The authors balance this with discussion of how inclusivist Heathens are countering this discourse, from visible protests at far-right rallies to inter-faith forums and an active presence on social media platforms. The book makes an important contribution to the intersecting fields of new religious movements, nationalist history and racist politics.

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      A practical manual for calligraphers and painters

      by Ma Dechun

      "Practical Manual for Calligraphers and painters (Revised Edition)" by the famous painter Ma Dechun and his wife for several years to compile, is a guide book to assist the majority of calligraphers, painters and painting lovers to create art. This book is divided into two parts, which "calligraphy and painting literature thought quote" fine escape of the first praise of the past dynasties, is the compilation of the content of the topic: "ink edge miscellaneous knowledge record" the calligrapher and painter often encountered and interested in the relevant knowledge made a carding excerpt, including traditional festival taboos, title title and modest words attached, Jijin name often deputy content."Practical Manual of Calligraphers and painters (Revised Edition)" by the famous painter Ma Dechun and his wife for several years to compile, is a guide book to assist the majority of calligraphers, painters and painting lovers to create art. This book is divided into two parts, which "calligraphy and painting literature thought quote" fine escape of the first praise of the past dynasties, is the compilation of the content of the topic: "ink edge miscellaneous knowledge record" the calligrapher and painter often encountered and interested in the relevant knowledge made a carding excerpt, including traditional festival taboos, title title and modest words attached, Jijin name often deputy content.

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      May 2018

      Secret Records of Huanggang County

      by He Dun

      The novel has portrayed the images of Liu Shengzhi, a grass-roots cadre of Chinese Communist Party with strong faith, and many other people via the fate of the Lius in Huanggang County of Hubei Province over the century since the Republican period. Through the description of these characters and the development of the plot, the novel has dug deep into the cultural customs and historical profundity of Huanggang County, and interpreted the patriotic and cultural reasons for Huanggang County being the hometown of many generals and top scorers of college entrance examination. Liu Shengzhi, Brother Shi, is stubborn and unwavering. He has hardly contacted with Brother Shiyi, the best friend in his teenage days, just because he believes that Shiyi has betrayed him. He regularlyremits money to his wife who is retired and gets no more salaries, but tells nothing to her, so as to keep his faith. In face of the storm, he risks his life to dive into water and open the valve of the reservoir. He is also the first to move without any conditions to make room for the construction of Nanmen Bridge. Besides, the novel has also attentively described many other characters such as Uncle Wang Lang. As a brave soldier who had once carried the explosive package to blow up the city gate, Uncle Wang indignantly blocks the car of some greedy official at the street corner of the cross street during the Spring Festival. All these vividly-depicted characters have fully demonstrated the firm faith and integrity of the revolutionists of the older generation.

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      Humanities & Social Sciences
      January 2023

      The supernatural in early modern Scotland

      by Julian Goodare, Martha McGill

      This book is about other worlds and the supernatural beings, from angels to fairies, that inhabited them. It is about divination, prophecy, visions and trances. And it is about the cultural, religious, political and social uses to which people in Scotland put these supernatural themes between 1500 and 1800. The supernatural consistently provided Scots with a way of understanding topics such as the natural environment, physical and emotional wellbeing, political events and visions of past and future. In exploring the early modern supernatural, the book has much to reveal about how men and women in this period thought about, debated and experienced the world around them. Comprising twelve chapters by an international range of scholars, The supernatural in early modern Scotland discusses both popular and elite understandings of the supernatural.

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      How to understand contemporary art

      by Su Ye

      Focusing on specific artists and vivid works of art, this book aims to assist in the narration of the important artistic movements and trends that have formed the current state of contemporary art. Starting from the major creative media of image, sound, color, body, digital technology and the Internet, it discusses and introduces a number of new works, new issues and new approaches in contemporary art. Through the author's detailed elaboration of the creation of artworks, artists' personal stories and the evolution of aesthetic concepts, readers will see the vitality, thinking and creativity of contemporary art, experience the concrete connection between contemporary art and our daily life, dispel myths and prejudices about contemporary art, and truly feel the infinite power of art.

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