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Language: en
Pages: 294
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"Chronicles from a lost time relates the work of the China missionaries sent by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions to the Shaowu prefecture of north Fujian, a remote mountainous region 200 miles long and 100 miles wide, with a population at the time of over a million.
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Taken from journals and letters written during the final decades of the Manchu Empire and the chaotic years of revolution and civil war leading up to the War of Resistance (1937-1945), this is the story of the life and work of the Protestant missionaries who opened their first station in
Language: en
Pages: 142
Pages: 142
This volume presents a historical-textual study about transformations of the aesthetics of the sublime-the literary and aesthetic quality of greatness under duress-from early English Romanticism to the New Poetry Movement in twentieth-century China. Zheng sets up the former and the latter as distinct but historically analogous moments and argues that
Language: en
Pages: 466
Pages: 466
In regard to global change, emphasis is generally placed on the increase in global temperature, but large changes in the distribution of precipitation are also likely to occur. Such changes have been redorded in the past by paleoclimatological studies or in the field of climatology. Different approaches to monitoring and
Language: en
Pages: 400
Pages: 400
The Nguyen of Kim Bai (a village in the Red River delta in Vietnam) traces its ancestry back to at least the 15th century. The region is also considered to be the birthplace of the Vietnamese race (the epic revolt of the Trung sisters against the Chinese occupiers occurred here).