Wu: 544 books
China's Party Congress
Power, Legitimacy, and Institutional Manipulation
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015
Nominally the highest decision-making body in the Chinese Communist Party, the Party Congress is responsible for determining party policy and the selection of China's leaders. Guoguang Wu provides the first analysis of how the Party Congress operates to elect Party leadership and decide Party policy,...
Who Controls the Internet? : Illusions of a Borderless World
Illusions of a Borderless World
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2006
Is the Internet erasing national borders? Will the future of the Net be set by Internet engineers rogue programmers the United Nations or powerful countries? Who's really in control of what's happening on the Net? In this provocative new book Jack Goldsmith and Tim Wu tell the fascinating story of...
I Ching Wisdom Volume One
Guidance from the Book of Answers
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2005
In this invaluable companion guide to the universal wisdom and guidance of the I Ching, Wu Wei has extracted the I Ching's deepest wisdom in the form of simple yet profound sayings that the greatest Chinese sages have preserved for thousands of years because of their inestimable worth. To these sayings,...
Seeking the Spirit of The Book of Change
8 Days to Mastering a Shamanic Yijing (I Ching) Prediction System
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2009
The Yijing (I Ching) or "Book of Change" is one of the oldest of the Chinese classic texts and has held a key place in the Daoist tradition for thousands of years. Explaining the ancient Yijing system of prediction based on the Xiang (symbolism) and Shu (numerology) knowledge of Bagua (the eight basic...
by Wu Hsin, Roy Melvyn
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
The real life of Wu Hsin is a historical puzzle that may well never be resolved. Long lost texts have emerged from more than two milennia beneath the soil in South China. Written on bamboo and silk and entombed in burial sites of sages of the Southern Region, the writings of Wu Hsin are indeed a treasure....
Globalization against Democracy
A Political Economy of Capitalism after its Global Triumph
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
Globalization has reconfigured both the external institutional framework and the intrinsic operating mechanisms of capitalism. The global triumph of capitalism implies the embracing of the market by the state in all its variants, and that global capitalism is not confined to the shell of nation-state...
by William F. Wu Wu
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2017
In this science fiction satire of westerns, after the American West was destroyed in a series of biological disasters, rebuilding it is a lot like building it in the first place, but there are crucial differences. For example, new, partly mechanical cattle with computer brains are called steerites....
Enlightenment in Dispute
The Reinvention of Chan Buddhism in Seventeenth-Century China
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2008
Enlightenment in Dispute is the first comprehensive study of the revival of Chan Buddhism in seventeenth-century China. Focusing on the evolution of a series of controversies about Chan enlightenment, Jiang Wu describes the process by which Chan reemerged as the most prominent Buddhist establishment...
Remains of Life
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
On October 27, 1930, during a sports meet at Musha Elementary School on an aboriginal reservation in the mountains of Taiwan, a bloody uprising occurred unlike anything Japan had experienced in its colonial history. Before noon, the Atayal tribe had slain one hundred and thirty-four Japanese in a...
Negotiating Rural Land Ownership in Southwest China
State, Village, Family
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
Negotiating Rural Land Ownership in Southwest China offers the first comprehensive analysis of how China’s current system of land ownership has evolved over the past six decades. Based on extended fieldwork in Yunnan Province, the author explores how the three major rural actors—local governments,...
Introducing Writing Across the Curriculum into China
Feasibility and Adaptation
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2012
Dr. Wu Dan’s Introducing Writing Across the Curriculum into China is an important and provocative research study that is broadly international in scope. Of particular significance for education in China, this book provides a historical analysis of writing instruction in China and an original application...
From Christ to Confucius
German Missionaries, Chinese Christians, and the Globalization of Christianity, 1860-1950
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
A bold and original study of German missionaries in China, who catalyzed a revolution in thinking among European Christians about the nature of Christianity itself In this accessibly written and empirically based study, Albert Wu documents how German missionaries—chastened by their failure to convert...
Reproducing Women
Medicine, Metaphor, and Childbirth in Late Imperial China
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2010
This innovative book uses the lens of cultural history to examine the development of medicine in Qing dynasty China. Focusing on the specialty of "medicine for women"(fuke), Yi-Li Wu explores the material and ideological issues associated with childbearing in the late imperial period. She...
I Ching Readings
Interpreting the Answers
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2005
An indispensable companion to the classic Chinese book of wisdom known as the I Ching. I Ching Readings is the only book ever published that shares the real-life stories of people who have consulted the I Ching-their questions, the answers they received, and the events that followed. Wu Wei's informative...