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  • Revolution and Counterrevolution in China

    by Lin Chun ...
    A history of revolutionary China in the 20th centuryChina under XI Jingping has been experiencing unprecedented change. From the Belt and Road initiative to its involvement in Great Power struggles with the West, China is facing the world once more in the hope of reclaiming a lost Chinese greatness. But is "Socialism with Chinese Characteristics" just neoliberal capitalism under another name? And, ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Transformation of Chinese Socialism

    by Chun Lin ...
    In this significant contribution to both political theory and China studies, Lin Chun provides a critical assessment of the scope and limits of socialist experiments in China, analyzing their development since the victory of the Chinese communist revolution in 1949 and reflecting on the country’s likely paths into the future. Lin suggests that China’s twentieth-century trajectory be grasped in ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • The Song of King Gesar

    by Alai ...
    Translated by Howard Goldblatt, Sylvia Li-chun Lin ...
    Series series Canongate Myths
    The first English translation of Tibet's founding myth, written by the renowned Chinese poet, novelist, and winner of China's Mao Dun Prize.The Song of King Gesar is one of the world's great epics, as significant for Tibetans as the Odyssey and Iliad were for the ancient Greeks. Passed down in song from one generation to the next, it is sung by Tibetan bards even today. Set partly in ancient Tibet ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Restless Wave

    My Life in Two Worlds

    by Ayako Tanaka Ishigaki, Yi-Chun Tricia Lin, Greg Robinson ...
    With this critically acclaimed 1940 memoir, pioneering Japanese writer and activist Ayako Ishigaki made history. Restless Wave is the first book written in English by a Japanese woman, introducing Western readers to a largely unknown world; a unique voice; and a writer of great talent, integrity and courage. In exquisite prose, Ishigaki recalls coming of age in a privileged family and rebelling ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Piano Tuner

    A Novel

    Translated by Howard Goldblatt, Sylvia Li-chun Lin ...
    by Chiang-Sheng Kuo ...
    This bestseller and winner of every major literary award in Taiwan is an elegiac novel about love and loss, broken dreams and desolate hearts—and music: "A delightful read."—Ha JinA widower grieving for his young wife. A piano tuner concealing a lifetime of secrets. An out-of-tune Steinway piano. A journey of self-discovery across time and continents, from a dark apartment in Taipei’s red-light ... Read more

    $24.64 CAD

  • Diversity and Geography of Cultivated Plants

    Edited by Karl Hammer, Miguel Ángel Esquivel Pérez, Chunlin Long ...
    This book presents information on cultivated plants located within 12 different regions throughout the world. The content introduces cultural evolution and species richness in cultivated plants, considering domestication assessments, which make it possible to obtain a deeper insight into the diversity of these plants.Cultivated plants are evolutionary connected to man, human action for nature and ... Read more

    $604.99 CAD

  • Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in Toxicology and Environmental Health

    Edited by Zhoumeng Lin, Wei-Chun Chou ...
    Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in Toxicology and Environmental Health introduces the fundamental concepts and principles of machine learning and AI, providing clear explanations on applying these methods to toxicology and environmental health. The book delves into predictions of chemical ADMET properties, development of PBPK and QSAR models, toxicogenomic analysis, and the evaluation ... Read more

    $219.99 CAD

  • I Did Not Kill My Husband

    A Novel

    by Liu Zhenyun ...
    Translated by Sylvia Li-chun Lin, Howard Goldblatt ...
    Li Xuelian, married to Qin Yuhe, is pregnant with their second child. Happy news? Not in China, with its one-child policy. It is a crime. What is she to do? Her only option is divorcing before the second child is born.Once the baby has entered into the household registry, we’ll marry again. The baby will be born after the divorce, so we’ll each have one child when we marry again. No law says ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Remembering 1942

    And Other Chinese Stories

    by Liu Zhenyun ...
    Translated by Howard Goldblatt, Sylvia Li-chun Lin ...
    Sweeping, humorous, and moving tales from one of contemporary China’s greatest writers.The bestselling and award-winning author of novels satirizing contemporary China, Liu Zhenyun is also renowned for his short stories. Remembering 1942 showcases six of his best, featuring a diverse cast of ordinary people struggling against the obstacles-bureaucratic, economic, and personal-that life presents. ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • What's a Snow Leopard to You?

    A Novel

    by Chen-Fu Hsu ...
    Translated by Howard Goldblatt, Sylvia Li-chun Lin ...
    *Winner of the 2021 Taiwan Literature Award*A captivating fusion of travelogue, fiction, and cultural meditation that journeys deep into the heart of Tibet.Chen-Fu Hsu’s debut novel begins with a young Taiwanese naturalist on an arduous quest for the elusive snow leopard, weaving in excerpts from translated entries from a left behind diary of a fictional Japanese monk, which bears witness to the ... Read more

    $21.74 CAD

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  • Information Theory, Mathematical Optimization, and Their Crossroads in 6G System Design

    by Shih-Chun Lin, Tsung-Hui Chang, Eduard Jorswieck, Pin-Hsun Lin ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book provides a broad understanding of the fundamental tools and methods from information theory and mathematical programming, as well as specific applications in 6G and beyond system designs. The contents focus on not only both theories but also their intersection in 6G. Motivations are from the multitude of new developments which will arise once 6G systems integrate new communication ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

  • A Spark in the Smokestacks

    Environmental Organizing in Beijing Middle-Class Communities

    by Jean Yen-chun Lin ...
    Winner, 2024 Robert E. Park Book Award, Section on Community and Urban Sociology, American Sociological AssociationEnvironmental organizing in Beijing emerged in an unlikely place in the 2000s: new gated residential communities. After rapid population growth and housing construction led to a ballooning trash problem and overflowing landfills, many first-time homeowners found their new ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD