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  • Mountain King's Lovable Wife

    Volume 1

    Series series Volume 1
    Although the little daughter-in-law that she caught was a fool, she was extremely cute. When she stood together with the mother yaksha in the village, it was as if they were pearls versus feces. Qin Mengliang was determined to take care of her for the rest of his life. He had no idea that this little girl was the cruel and merciless head of the Dragon Subduing stronghold, Baikou. Being poisoned ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    The Albatross

    by Nina Wan ...
    Narrated by Lin Yin ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 55 min

    'The albatross is just about the rarest thing in golf - two shots on a par 5. A hole-in-one, anywhere on the course, is just a random event, a fluke. It's not your own doing. But an albatross . . . It's a thing of beauty. One. Two. It must be very deliberate, very thoughtful, one superb shot followed by another. You can say it's got to take a degree of belief. You've got to really want it, and aim ... Read more

    $19.08 USD

  • An Unlikely Trajectory

    Literary and Cultural Leftism in Taiwan

    Edited by Pei-yin Lin, Po-hsi Chen ...
    Examines various case studies to provide a multifaceted understanding of Taiwan's literary and cultural leftism, emphasizing its transnational, diverse, and highly malleable nature.An Unlikely Trajectory addresses a significant gap by foregrounding the often repressed or understudied literary and cultural leftist practices in Taiwan. Its twelve chapters explore how Taiwanese authors, directors, ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Memories of Peking

    South Side Stories

    by Lin Hai-yin ...
    Through the keen eyes and curious mind of a young girl, Ying-tzu, we are given a glimpse into the adult world of Peking in the 1920s.The five sequential stories in this collection can be read as either stand-alone pieces, or as a novel, due to the cleverly constructed themes and character development. Exploring ideas of loss and bewilderment, Lin Hai-yin carefully captures the transition from ... Read more

    $20.69 USD

  • Taiwanese Literature as World Literature

    Series series Literatures as World Literature
    Owing to Taiwan's multi-ethnic nature and palimpsestic colonial past, Taiwanese literature is naturally multilingual. Although it can be analyzed through frameworks of Japanophone literature and Chinese literature, and the more provocative Sinophone literature, only through viewing Taiwanese literature as world literature can we redress the limits of national identity and fully examine writers' ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • Science Communication Practice in China

    Edited by Fujun Ren, Lin Yin, Gauhar Raza ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    China has made remarkable and rapid progress in the area of science communication, both in theory and practice. This book critically examines all aspects of science communication practices in China. Dealing with major turning points since the introduction of the ‘Science and Technology Popularization Law’ and the ‘Outline of the National Scheme for Scientific Literacy’, the book tells a success ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

  • Memories of Peking

    South Side Stories

    by Lin Hai-yin ...
    Translated by Nancy C. Ing, Chi Pang-yuan ...
    Through the keen eyes and curious mind of a young girl, Ying-tzu, we are given a glimpse into the adult world of Peking in the 1920s.The five sequential stories in this collection can be read as either stand-alone pieces, or as a novel, due to the cleverly constructed themes and character development. Exploring ideas of loss and bewilderment, Lin Hai-yin carefully captures the transition from ... Read more

    $11.24 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • East Asian Transwar Popular Culture

    Literature and Film from Taiwan and Korea

    Edited by Pei-yin Lin, Su Yun Kim ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This collection examines literature and film studies from the late colonial and early postcolonial periods in Taiwan and Korea, and highlights the similarities and differences of Taiwanese and Korean popular culture by focusing on the representation of gender, genre, state regulation, and spectatorship. Calling for the “de-colonializing” and “de–Cold Warring” of the two ex-colonies and ... Read more

    $152.09 USD

  • Practice and Progress in Social Design and Sustainability

    Designers provide creative solutions for user problems and identify the needs of users in a given environment. However, it is often difficult to understand the social design of a product or service. Practice and Progress in Social Design and Sustainability is a critical scholarly resource that provides groundbreaking research on social contributions to design. Featuring coverage on a broad range ... Read more

    $166.49 USD

  • Selenium Research for Environment and Human Health: Perspectives, Technologies and Advancements

    Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Selenium in the Environment and Human Health (ICSEHH 2019), October 27-30, 2019, Yangling, Xi'an, China

    The biological importance of selenium has been firmly established by scientists for its intricate roles in various biochemical and physiological mechanisms related to animal and human health. To evaluate different facets of selenium in today’s complex environment and to provide a worldwide platform for multi-disciplinary selenium researchers, the 6th International Conference on Selenium in the ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Selenium in the Environment and Human Health

    Selenium is arguably the naturally occurring trace element of greatest concern worldwide. In excessive amounts it can lead to toxicosis and teratogenesis in animals, while the impact of selenium deficiency can be even more significant. Contributors from 22 countries explored the connections and inter-relationships between selenium in the environmen ... Read more

    $233.99 USD

  • Positioning Taiwan in a Global Context

    Being and Becoming

    Edited by Bi-yu Chang, Pei-yin Lin ...
    Series series Routledge Research on Taiwan Series
    Positioning Taiwan in a Global Context examines modern Taiwanese culture through the prism of global cultural interactions. Challenging the view of Taiwan as a product of transience and displacement, it highlights Taiwan’s subjectivity, viewing the island as a site of a global development that epitomizes both resistance and negotiation in the process of cultural flows.The fourteen contributions by ... Read more

    $62.99 USD