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  • 我的嫁妆谁也别想动

    by li zhu tian ...
    她记得自己 996 到凌晨两点,猝死在工位上。 她没料到自己再次睁开眼时,是被烟熏醒的。 ——她穿越成了一本小说里被欺负致死的炮灰媳妇。 但她手里拿着的不再是文件,而是擀面杖。宋念薇,28 岁,996 社畜,加班到凌晨两点猝死。再次睁开眼,她蹲在一口大灶前,灶膛里柴火噼啪作响。 婆母让她烧火做饭。姑姐让她洗衣服。丈夫是个窝囊废。 她突然想起来了——这是她睡前翻过的一本小说,她叫宋念薇,是个炮灰角色。那一通借钱大姑姐周翠翠回娘家,要借 50 两银子。 "妈,我有身孕了,孩子不是李家哥的。我要打掉。" 婆婆想偷偷拿宋念薇的嫁妆钱。宋念薇走出灶房,挺直了腰:"我的嫁妆,哪怕是一文钱都不能动用。" "姑姐若要借钱,那就书写借据,按下手印。... ... Read more

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  • An Inch of Brocade

    by li zhu tian ...
    Three years ago, an apprentice walked into the Jinling brocade workshop and ruined her third bolt of silk before lunch.Yun brocade is a stubborn art: continuous warp, broken weft. The most patient hands spend a decade learning it. She was eight years old when she arrived, and she could not learn it. For three years she sat at the loom and cried into tangled thread, until the master of the workshop ... Read more

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  • Climate-Resilient, Low-Carbon, and Sustainable Cities

    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This open access book is a proceeding of the Conference on High-Quality Urban Development and Beautiful Countryside Construction (UDCC). This book focuses on the latest thoughts, ideas, models, methods, solutions, and practices on resilient, low-carbon, and sustainable city through planning and design, covering interdisciplinary topics in architecture, urban-rural planning, meteorology, building ... Read more

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  • Healthcare Information Systems

    Progress, Challenges and Future Directions

    Series series Medicine (R0)
    This book comprehensively and systematically introduces the latest research progress, challenges, and future directions of various healthcare information systems. Starting from the formation, development, and typical research achievements of medical informatics, the book provides a detailed overview of the more mature healthcare information systems, including electronic medical record systems, ... Read more

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  • Property Rights, Land Values and Urban Development

    Betterment and Compensation in China

    by Li Tian ...
    Land value capture has long been a hotly debated topic, and it has influenced a wide variety of land ownership regimes. Property Rights, Land Values and Urban Development examines the role and impact of government intervention on land markets in China. It reveals that the state has taken selective advantage of the ambiguous definition of property rights in pursuit of the objective of rapid urban ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Peri-Urban China

    Land Use, Growth, and Integrated Urban–Rural Development

    by Li Tian, Yan Guo ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Studies in Urbanism and the City
    The urban-rural relationship in China is key to a sustainable global future. This book is particularly interested in peri-urbanization in China, the process by which fringe areas of cities develop.Recent institutional change has helped clarify property rights over collective land, facilitating peri-urban area development. Chapters in this book explore how rural industrialization has changed the ... Read more

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  • I Paid His Debt. He Sued Me

    by li zhu tian, Joni ...
    She lent him 200,000 yuan to pay off his gambling debt. He took the money, then told her "I don't deserve you" and broke up with her. The very next month.Five years later, an electronic wedding invitation arrives on her phone. Gold background. Piano music. A rotating red heart."We cordially invite Ms. Su Yao to serve as our wedding witness. Because of you, I became who I am today. You were the ... Read more

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  • Lightless Winter Night

    by li zhu tian ...
    She tied the victim's hands and feet. Then she tightened the rope—slowly, gradually, point by point. She didn't cover the mouth and nose with force. She adjusted the angle, so the victim would feel the pain of suffocation.Then she untied the rope, wiped away the fingerprints, and turned on every light in the room."Auntie, does this count as avenging you?"On Chinese New Year's Eve, the body of a ... Read more

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  • Ferrying the Crane

    by li zhu tian ...
    He has slain demons for ninety-nine years. Ninety-nine years. Ninety-nine demons. Never failed, never hesitated, never made an exception.Gu Du is the sharpest blade the Ninth Heaven has ever known. He stands at the center of the Demon-Slaying Platform, paved with bluestone, marked with the dark brown stains of ninety-eight demons whose blood has seeped into the rock. Around him stand four Demon ... Read more

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  • Geospatial Semantic Web

    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book covers key issues related to Geospatial Semantic Web, including geospatial web services for spatial data interoperability; geospatial ontology for semantic interoperability; ontology creation, sharing, and integration; querying knowledge and information from heterogeneous data source; interfaces for Geospatial Semantic Web, VGI (Volunteered Geographic Information) and Geospatial Semantic ... Read more

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  • Conceptual History of Morality and Penalty in China

    by Dejia Li ...
    Translated by Linan Tian ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book challenges the long-prevailing interpretation of China’s legal tradition as “virtue given priority over penalty,” arguing that this proposition is a projection of modern Western rule-of-law discourse and fails to accurately reveal the structure of traditional Chinese legal thought. The author introduces the concept of “virtue as foundation, penalty as function”—framing “virtue” as the ... Read more

    $179.99 USD

  • The Belt and Road Initiative as Epochal Regionalisation

    Series series Regional Studies Policy Impact Books
    The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), launched by China in 2013, carries and projects powerful regional dimensions and transformations, with short- and long-term global, national and local consequences. The BRI’s regional significance lies in its designation and creation of several cross-border corridors that originate from inside China and extend out into its neighbouring countries, and those ... Read more

    $19.99 USD