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1904. This classic text is composed of ancient text compiled by Confucius. The intent of the book is to expose Western readers to the Shu King so they may become better acquainted with China's literature, manners and customs. Contents: The Book of Yu; The Book of Hia; The Book of Shang; and The Book of Chow, Parts I-III. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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Originally published in 1904.This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies.All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume. ... Read more

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Publisher: Shanghai : Kelly and WalshSubjects: Titles of honor and nobility -- ChinaChina -- Officials and employeesNotes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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One of the major concerns of current linguistic theory is to determine the set of general principles to which the syntactic structure of all natural languages conforms, and in this connection it is important to examine a variety of language families and types. Though since the 1980s, current linguistic theories such as the government-binding theory have been applied to Chinese, this volume takes up issues to which previous investigations did not pay much attention, or gave less comprehensive treatment. Its analysis of manyaspects of Chinese syntax based on careful examination of data should be of interest and value to Chinese linguists, whether G-B oriented or otherwise. ... Read more

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Poisonous Deceit is a daring and timely work written by a top-level Chinese Communist Party official in ex-President Jiang Zemin's inner circle. This explosive and revealing book offers the reader a first everbehind-the-scenes glimpse into the Party's brutal and murderous crackdown on Falun Gong.The author provides ample revealing insights into how and why his very own government is lying, deceiving, and fabricating its "evidence" against Falun Gong. He goes on to expose the so-called "self-immolation" incident in Tiananmen Square as the "greatest hoax ever to be perpetrated against the Chinese people in over 5,000 years!"This book is a 'must read' for anyone interested in knowing the real truth about Falun Gong and the Chinese Government's secret plot to frame, slander and exterminate this popular world-wide spiritual movement. This is a right to the point, 'no holds barred', tell-it-like-it-is, shocking expose' which is guaranteed to leave you speechless!For obvious security reasons, the author has chosen to identify himself using only his pseudonym, Mo Wen. ... Read more

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Why I Suspect The Writer Isn't Who He Claims To Be
After reading it I feel the claim that it is written, or translated writing of a child of top-level inner-circle official to Jiang Zeming, to be not credible.

First, the degree of polish observed suggests it is not written by a non-native speaker. People in China receive poor English foundation and there are cultural nuances of the English language most foreign writer can't master. Yet someone from inner Jiang circle writes perfect British-style English? Despite of their likely age and education opportunity of their generations?

So the claim is that it is translated. There are several questions there. Customarily Chinese authors do not use Roman abbreviations; they attribute anonymity thru poetic pseudonyms, e.g. "Old Oak" or something.

When compared to other translated work originating from the Falun Gong dissident literatures, there're glaring differences in my opinion: complexity of sentence, verbiage and verboseness, presence/lack of literal/translated idioms, construction of paragraphs and transition. These comparisons suggest the booklet lacked signatures of translated work of similar context and origin.

For example, the booklet makes a reference to a distinct western idiom "dumb fox" (or "cunning/sly fox") which isn't a literal translation from Chinese - do you really think a 70 or 50 year old CCP official would write a whole subchapter expounding on an English idiom? It's not a Chinese idiom nor so well meshed to be a translation. The Chinese idioms I know of (Like "Lao Hu Li") don't carry the context into the subchapter.

Another sign this might be a fake is how the document came forth. Initially the Chinese version of the book was not available, only in English. "Original" Chinese version of the booklet came out months after if I recall. Also there lacked authentication of the original manuscript/material.

Perhaps it'll never be authenticated, and I would venture a guess that it's because this booklet might be a fake.

"Daring! Explosive! Timely!"
~Poisonous Deceit: How the Chinese Government (Literally) Gets Away with Murder by Lying, Deceiving, and Fabricating Its "Evidence" Against Falun Gong:

This book says it all in a nutshell: "The Chinese persecution against Falun Gong is an outright hoax!!"

Poisonous Deceit: Great Story that's Unfortunately True

This is the first-hand anonymous account of a high-level official in the Chinese Communist Party who dares to speak out against the suppression of Falun Gong a peaceful~~ meditation and spiritual practice that was outlawed in China in 1999. Newly re-released as both a downloadable PDF file and as a soft-bound book, this latest, totally updated version of Poisonous Deceit looks very different in many ways from any previous English version I've seen out there. Mo Wen, the author, paints a true-to-life picture of a Chinese government morally blinded by the pursuit of money, power and self-interest. Jiang Zemin, the president of China at the time the Falun Gong~~ persecution began, remains in total control of today's Chinese army and is described by the author as a man who ~{!0~}is rooted in all things that directly oppose goodness.~{!1~} This line is indicative of the whole book, which depicts a modern day, epic clash between good and evil... a gripping story of monumental significance. The corrupt and tyrannical Chinese government has always had a hard time facing the fact that many of its own people are embracing the ethical and moral principles that~~ Falun Gong teaches. In an effort to stop this phenomenon of ~{!0~}goodness~{!1~} from spreading, the government launched an all out smear campaign to completely destroy the reputation of Falun Gong. Furthermore, they have been systematically imprisoning and torturing anyone who refuses to give up this wholesome practice. They not only want people to stop embracing ethical and moral principles; they also want to totally crush any nonviolent efforts to oppose the government's suppression of Falun~~ Gong. This battle of ethics and moral principles versus greed and power can be vividly felt in the pages of the book; where the author himself, who seems to be practicing Falun Gong, writes, ~{!0~}I must pretend every day that I'm not aware of all these things [the government~{!/~}s greed and misuse of power] when I see Jiang in the hallway or in meetings. These are private thoughts that I keep to myself, for it is hard to know whom to trust around you.~{!1~} The deep sense of giving of oneself~~ for a greater cause; of going on in the face of an enormous burden ~{!*~}- the size of the most populous nation on earth ~{!*~}- is imprinted in the pages of Poisonous Deceit. The author goes by the pseudonym Mo Wen, which in Chinese means silently writing. However, the question remains: Is he truly a "high-level Chinese official~{!1~}? Is his claim that~{!0~}7,000 Falun Gong practitioners have died at the hands of the government, in fact the case? Does he really have a network of informants~~ working inside China's labor camps? Actually, there seems to be no way to know for sure if all of this is 100% true. However, the overall message seems to eerily align with current events that are unfolding in China. Human rights organizations have the names of nearly 1,000 Falun Gong practitioners who have died from the government's suppression; hundreds of thousands of practitioners are known to have been put in labor camps, mental hospitals, and prisons; and there is a large body of concrete~~ evidence showing that the self-immolation of five Falun Gong practitioners publicized by China's state-owned media in 2001 was a completely staged event. Read this book if you want to really know what is going on behind the scenes in China's war against Falun Gong. What you find out will definitely shock you!~ ... Read more

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From New York City's Chinatown to urban Indonesia, there are fifty-five million ethnic Chinese living outside of China. Their strong sense of community, along with their considerable economic clout, makes them a compelling group with which to study immigrant political participation.

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This book offers new perspectives on the changing boundaries of the Chinese nation. It places domestic nation-building and transnational identity politics in a single analytical framework, and examines how they interact to frame the national project of the Chinese state. By exploring the processes taking place at the ethnic and territorial margins of the Chinese nation-state, the author provides a new perspective on China’s national modernisation project, clarifying the processes occurring across national boundaries and illustrating how China has negotiated the basis for belonging to its national project under the challenge to modernise amid both domestic and global transformations.

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The papers in this collection were first presented at a conference on "Chinese Security Policy and the Future of Asia." The authors, each representing different countries and regions affected by the growth of Chinese power, were asked to address four major questions: (1) China's position in the present and future security environment of the given country or region; (2) principal sources of tension between China and the particular country or region; (3) prevailing opinion in the country or region toward China's efforts at military modernization; and (4) the principal political, security, and economic strategies for responding to China's emergent power and military role. The purpose was to reveal elements of commonality and difference in national strategies. ... Read more

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This volume of more than 20,000 terms is intended as an aid to the reading of newspapers, periodicals, and other materials published in the Peoples Republic. It assumes that the user will already have acquired a foundation in traditional Chinese; it is not, therefore, a complete dictionary. Instead, by concentrating on new terms and expressions not easily found translated or explained elsewhere, it should be a valuable supplement to the older, standard Chinese-English dictionaries. ... Read more