Originally published in 1987, two years before the Tiananmen Square protests, Zhang Wei's award-winning novel is the story of three generations of the Sui, Zhao, and Li families living in the fictional northern town of Wali during China's troubled postliberation years.
Spanning four decades following the creation of the People's Republic in 1949, The Ancient Ship is a bold examination of a society in turmoil, the struggle of oppressed people to control their own fate, and the clash between tradition and modernization. In the course of the narrative, the townspeople of Wali face the moments that have defined China's history during the latter part of the twentieth century: the land reform programs, the famine of 1959-1961, the Great Leap Forward, the Anti-Rightist Campaign, and the Cultural Revolution. Translated into English for the very first time, The Ancient Ship is a revolutionary work of Chinese fiction that speaks to people across the globe.

The Ancient Ship (Harperperennial Modern Chinese Classics)

Literature & Fiction

Wei Zhang

United States

Harper-perennial

Microarray technology provides researchers in the life sciences with a revolutionary tool for measuring gene expression. However, this highly developed process involves multiple steps, from sample selection to data analysis, each susceptible to potentially costly errors. Without sound quality control, experimental microarrays may produce useless or, even worse, misleading results. Microarray Quality Control provides a comprehensive resource for ensuring quality control in every step of this complex process. From experimental design to data processing, analysis, and interpretation, the emphasis in this text remains on practical advice for each stage of planning and running a microarray study. Chapters cover: * Quality of biological samples * Quality of DNA * Hybridization protocols Scanning * Data acquisition * Image analysis * Data analysis Written for the broad group of workers-biologists, mathematicians, statisticians, engineers, physicians, and computational scientists-involved in microarray studies, Microarray Quality Control features a straightforward style easily accessed by various disciplines. Useful checklists and tips help ensure the integrity of results, and each chapter contains a thorough review of pertinent literature. The only complete, systematic treatment of the topic available, Microarray Quality Control offers students and practitioners an invaluable resource for improving experimental quality and efficiency.

Microarray Quality Control

Science & Math

Ilya Shmulevich

Jaakko Astola

Biological Sciences

Wiley-Liss

Dynamic Covalent Chemistry: Principles, Reactions, and Applications

Yinghua Jin

wiley

Green Techniques for Organic Synthesis and Medicinal Chemistry

Berkeley W. Cue

Exploring Math Through Puzzles: Blackline Masters for Making Over 50 Puzzles

Mathematics

PQ Innovations

Contains most of the materials needed to construct the puzzles described in Wei Zhang's 'Exploring Math Through Puzzles' book

Exploring Math Through Puzzles: Construction Kit

Key Curriculum Press

In only a dozen years, Chinese-born collector Wei Zhang and her husband Peter Rasmussen have acquired a diverse and well-documented collection of 1200 antique Chinese puzzles, only a few of which are familiar to western collectors. The puzzles include tangram sets, wire puzzles, puzzle locks, puzzle rings and bracelets, sliding block puzzles, puzzling images of the four happiness boys, puzzle vessels, and more.Now a broad selection of these puzzles is presented in this beautifully illustrated 80-page book. The book is divided into ten sections, each focusing on a particular type of puzzle. Each section contains a short history of the puzzle (in English and Chinese), photographs of representative puzzles, and additional images of them in old Chinese prints, books and photographs. The oldest item included is from the Ming dynasty a brass paperweight made in the form of four boys sharing two heads. The chapters on puzzle locks and puzzle vessels demonstrate how these ingenious creations work.

Chinese Puzzles: Games for the Hands and Mind

Humor & Entertainment

Peter Rasmussen

Puzzles & Games

Art Media Resources

Taftah Zuhur Al-manghulia

Dhikrayat Al-hirah Al-malikiah

COVID-19: Virus or biological weapon

AHMADINEJADFARSANGI, Naiem

Business & Money

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