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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - As the first Chinese female scientist to win a Nobel prize (in physiology or medicine) in 2015, what were Tu Youyou's formative experiences and the major events that shaped her life How did this remarkable woman ? without a medical degree, doctorate or overseas work experience - makesuch a valuable contribution to the control of malaria This book explores the extraordinary career of this modest, frugal and very unconventional scientist and records her inspirational work.During early clinical trials, Tu traveled to malaria-endemic areas of Hainan and was the first to test her medicine on herself to ensure it was safe after the drug had shown promising results in mice and monkeys. Only then were the clinical trials expanded to include other humans.Afflicted with tuberculosis at the age of 16, Tu Youyou recovered two years later with a determination to make up for lost time. In fact, the illness was the making of her in that it sparked an interest in medicine and pharmacology and a desire to help save the lives of others. Indifferent to fame and wealth, and courageous in the pursuit of truth, she went on to make remarkable scientific achievements.Although born in Ningbo at a time of turmoil, Tu Youyou was among the first intake of female college students in the new China. She made the most of this good fortune by devoting herself to decades of quiet and patient labor in which she embraced Chairman Mao Zedong's quest for the country to combine traditional Chinese medicine and western medicine.Separated from her family, she led a national research group codenamed 'Mission 523' tasked with developing antimalarial drugs from Chinese medicines. Exposing themselves to considerable hardship and danger, the team's pioneering work led to the discovery of artemisinin, a drug therapy that has since saved millions of lives across the globe, especially in developing countries.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - As China's economy, global influence and interactions with other countries grow, its diplomatic strategy is attracting more and more interest internationally. This book aims to answer the following questions:What kind of development path has China chosen What does China's development mean to the world What ideas and theories guide China's diplomacy What diplomatic policies does China pursue How will China's rise impact neighbouring countries Will China break away from the traditional pattern of 'a rising power always seeking hegemony' Will developing countries benefit from China's development How does China define its international role and its participation in multilateral governance How does China conduct public diplomacy One of the key goals of China's foreign policy is to develop mutually beneficial trade deals. The first and largest FTA (free trade agreement) China established with other countries was the ASEAN+1 FTA concluded in January 2010, which was also ASEAN's first FTA with a foreign country. China ASEAN trade exceeded US$400bn in 2013, US$470bn in 2018 and is expected to reach US$1 trillion by 2020.While this book expounds the orthodox China view on its place in the world, its relations with other countries and its diplomatic strategy of peaceful cooperation and mutual benefit, it concedes that despite all parties' best efforts, sometimes territorial disputes can't be quickly or easily resolved. In such cases, China takes the pragmatic view that it's OK for some problems to be put on hold pending future resolution, and the book explores many of the key problem areas in some detail such as the North Korean nuclear issue, the disputed China-India border and sovereignty over islands and territorial waters in the South China Sea.In terms of land and maritime border issues, the authors concede that whereas only two of 14 land borders with neighbouring countries remain unresolved (with India and Bhutan), to date China has yet to agree maritime borders with any of the eight countries with which it shares maritime borders.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - China is undergoing profound demographic, societal and cultural changes, and these changes are having a considerable impact on the provision of public services and on the complex relationship between the Communist Party of China (CPC) and the government. This book introduces the framework of the Chinese government, explains the constitution and the operation of the National People's Congress (NPC), the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), the central people's government and local governments.Emphasis is placed on analyzing the reforms in China's public service sector, the important changes that are taking place and the impact of current government policies on free education, employment, medical care, social welfare and relief work.The authors focus on introducing the basic framework and operation process of the Chinese government, the reform and development of public service in China, and recent reform initiatives. They explain how the government management system operates based on its people-oriented principles, how it is reforming and adopting innovative measures to provide public service, how it is gradually delivering the basic rights of Chinese citizens, and how it aims to achieve the ultimate goal of social justice.This book also underscores the inner logic of China's public service system reform, in which the government used to take care of everything, but now is striving to manage the different needs of diversified participants.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The urbanization rate in China soared from 29.4% in 1996 to 52.6% in 2012 following an upsurge in the construction of development zones, new urban districts and international metropolises.China's urbanization is one of the two major events that will affect the development of human society in the 21st century, according to Joseph Stiglitz, the acclaimed American Nobel prize-winning economist, the other being the next round of the US-led new technological revolution.Urbanization, an inexorable trend of economic and social development, can act as a benchmark to gauge the economic and societal progress of a country. Since the founding of the PRC, and especially since the reform and opening-up process was launched in 1978, China has witnessed a marked upward spike in the size of its urban population. This trend has accelerated in recent decades, with small towns and cities emerging in large numbers. The authors of this textbook explore the evolution of the economy, society, ecology and culture associated with urbanization, to reveal the distinctive characteristics of urbanization in contemporary China. They examine the changes taking place in towns and cities since the start of reform and opening up, and investigate how the Chinese government has been working to establish an institutional framework to guarantee that urbanization develops in a sustainable way.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Imagine what it's like to effectively organize and develop a political party with over 65 million (65m) members - that's bigger than the total populations of many of the world's most developed countries such as the UK (65m), France (64m), and Australia (24m).Then imagine that, if the Communist Party of China (CPC) was a country, its population would rank as the 21st biggest in the world. In addition to developing and organizing its 65m party members, it had to embed them among a population of 1.38bn people so that the party could lead and guide the world's biggest population to develop from economic backwardness after years of war and destruction to become the 2nd largest economy in the world within nine decades.Now, imagine what it takes to achieve that in terms of structure and organisation and you have a good grasp of the scale of the CPC's achievement from its founding with just 50 members in 1921 until 2015 with some 65m members.The Communist Party of China: the Past, Present and Future of Party Building gives a blow-by-blow and chapter-by-chapter account of how the CPC got from where it was in 1921 shortly after the founding of the party to where it is now.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Renowned artist Han Meilin gives an oral history of the harrowing events that turn his life and fledgling artistic career upside down during the unforgiving times of China's Cultural Revolution.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Memoirs & micro-essays from the master of implication among China's top writers. It is composed of sanwen, a traditional free prose form. Ranging from boisterous urban sketches to quiet musings on humanity's strange & secret compulsions, Su Tong pulls back the curtain in a detached style, unafraid to throw the reader an occasional knowing wink.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 7 days, 7 lectures. Beijing's elderly have gathered to hear sales pitches for care robots, immortality pills and dubious de-ageing tech. Yet one speaker, Nurse Zhong, offers only a story: of Uncle Xiao, the old man she cared for. What follows is a tale of how two fragile humans one young, one infirm weathered all life's hardships: together.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Evening, I made my one hundred and seventy-eighth scratch on the cave wall.Despite her humble rural beginnings, Butterfly regards herself as a sophisticated young woman. So, when offered a lucrative job in the city, she jumps at the chance.But instead of being given work, she is trafficked and sold to Bright Black, a desperate man from a poor mountain village.Trapped in Bright's cave home, Butterfly struggles to repel his lustful advances, and she plans her escape? not so easily done in this isolated and remote village where she is watched day and night.Will her tenacity and free spirit survive, or will she be broken.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The empire is in mortal danger. Hai Rui and his allies bought her time, but now it is spent. Addled by mercury and aided by sycophants, Emperor Jiajing is squandering the last remnants of the treasury. Now it is time to rescue the once-mighty Ming or join in the plunder as it descends in flames to a hell of no return.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The fate of the Ming hangs on a knife edge. In the south, imperial forces make a desperate last stand against pirate raiders. Nearby, magistrate Hai Rui investigates massive corruption. In Beijing, the chief eunuch is forced to choose sides when a chance to oust Yan Song arises. China's heroes must make their move. If they fail. everything burns.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - \*Missives from the Masses \*opens award-winning author Su Tong's newest selection of short stories. From Qianmei, the only one in the dark about her terminal cancer, to the unloved undertaker with seemingly cursed hands, this collection presents darkly humorous and strange accounts of hidden lives eked out during China's turbulent economic rise.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Amid a desolate landscape, Qi Jing's Communist 9th Brigade face a near-impossible mission set to bring the Chinese Civil War to its final chapter. As the campaign splinters and fighting devolves, those stranded within the labyrinth of caves face wretched conditions and unbearable loss in an attempt to find their way out of this war.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - \*Late Spring \*explores the jealousy, obsession, and desperation driving China's first me generation. Written by the nation's top fashion journalist and shaped by decades of high-profile celebrity interviews. In a world where everyone has an expiration date and ambition knows no limits. What would you do to get back in the game.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - One Day Three Autumns was written to preserve the memory of the author's sixth uncle, a talented artist whose paintings were tragically burned after his death. It attempts to bring them back to life in writing, proving that those we love are never truly gone, and that a home is more than what we choose to fill it with.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Jean de Miribel arrived in China in July 1976. The tall, genial foreign-language expert joined the Xi'an International Studies University (XISU) that September, and immediately worked to inspire students to share a passion for literature and science.He adopted China and its people as his family and received admiration and respect from students and colleagues. He worked tirelessly, even in retirement, to build a Sino-French cultural exchange, and inviting friends in France and China to speak and spread ideas.The Chinese name he took for himself was Mi Ruizhe (¿¿¿) - mi which literally means uncooked rice while his given names rui and zhe mean wise and far-sighted or astute.His belief in education saw him develop the language studies at XISU, sponsor children through primary school, and help students from China to study overseas. Although he lived a very frugal life himself, he was extremely generous when it came to subsidising Chinese students in destitute mountainous regions to studying in France.He received many honours, including the Légion d'Honneur, as well as tokens of esteem and affection from students, friends and neighbours.Jean de Miribel left a legacy of cross-cultural understanding and respect. The last wish of the Frenchman known in his 'adopted' country as a 'a person who has performed good deeds for China' was to donate his body for medical research after he passed away at the age of 96 in Xi'an on 10 October 2015.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Fang Meng'ao's mission to better Peking attracts Inspector General Zeng Keda, who hunts communists. In a city of treachery, desperate measures barely cover societal fractures. Yang Jinglun leads student protests for the accused. With civil war raging, Fang must avoid Zeng's watchful eye and the traps set throughout the city.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Echoing Lu Xun's portrayal of useless scholars, Yang Zhengguang's psychodrama satirises the chauvinist who believes he is above it all. It critiques the pressure to achieve while 'laying flat' to unrealistic expectations and offers an insight into the delusions we cling to in justifying our tedious daily routines.

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