This book provides unique insights into the challenges and potential solutions to alleviate poverty in western China. Many people are interested in China's economic and social development; the development of Tibet is an important part of this narrative. Unlike big cities in the east of China, Tibet is still underdeveloped, with severe poverty, relatively poor communications, poor infrastructure, transport links, and limited social services. Using deep and well-researched analyses, learned Chinese scholars share their policy insights, experience and knowledge of the underlying causes and potential solutions to this underdevelopment and poverty. The reader is also provided with firsthand accounts of different people in Tibet, ranging from local government officials to poverty-stricken herdsmen. This book gets at the heart of problems faced by ordinary Tibetans, such as dealing with impacts of natural disasters, lack of education, managing ecological resettlement, and trying to prevent the transmission of intergenerational poverty. Looking at these issues from a theoretical, policy, government and practical perspective, Breaking Out of the Poverty Trap - Case Studies from the Tibetan Plateau in Yunnan, Qinghai and Gansu covers the full range of issues in the development of the Tibetan Plateau.

BREAKING OUT OF THE POVERTY TRAP: CASE STUDIES FROM THE TIBETAN PLATEAU IN YUNNAN, QINGHAI AND GANSU

Business & Money

Zhu, Ling

Economics

World Century

Trigonometric Functions and Complex Numbers covers the followings areas in the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) and other mathematical competitions. <ul>
<li>Trigonometric identity, graphs and properties of trigonometric equations, inverse trigonometric functions and trigonometric equations, solutions of triangles, trigonometric substitution and trigonometric inequality;</li> <li>The concept and operation of complex numbers, trigonometric form of a complex number, complex number and equation.</li> </ul>
The contents are essential for the IMO. A good help for students who want to improve in these areas.

TRIGONOMETRIC FUNCTIONS AND COMPLEX NUMBERS: IN MATHEMATICAL OLYMPIAD AND COMPETITIONS (World Century Mathematical Olympiad)

Science & Math

Desheng Yang & Chunhui Shen

Mathematics

This book provides a detailed study of practices of China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone (Shanghai Ftz henceforth). It aims to answer questions related to establishing the Shanghai Ftz and improving its practices, such as the future of world's macro-economy, the Shanghai Ftz's position in Chinese and world economy, government transition and international trade upgrading, as well as financial sector opening up strategies and innovations. By answering these questions, implications for possible future policy developments are provided. Though the operation of Shanghai Ftz is the main focus, this book delves deeper into the question of how China will further reform its financial system in the future. Similar to the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone, which heralded China's economic transformation in the 1980s and 1990s, the Shanghai Ftz may well be such a pioneer project, pointing to the future economic path that China might tread. Written by the foremost Chinese economists - with some involved in the setup process of the Shanghai Ftz, this book is a must read for anyone who is interested in the prospects of the Shanghai Ftz and the future direction of the Chinese economic development.

New Strategic Research on China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone

Zhi-gang Yuan

Based on two and a half years of fieldwork in China, this book examines the cultural genesis and social mechanisms of stigma related to mental illness and Hiv/Aids in China. It also explores the bio-politics on stigma through detailed description of social exclusion experienced by people suffering from mental illness or Hiv/Aids and by systematic comparison on stigma between the two illnesses in the Chinese context. Through the comparison, this book describes the micro socio-dynamic process of stigmatization in the local Chinese context, highlights the identity transformation accompanying the illness trajectory the patients and their families have lived through, and ultimately connects Chinese society and its community-centered social value system and institutional arrangement to the stigma associated with mental illness and Hiv/Aids.

Stigma: An Ethnography of Mental Illness and HIV/AIDS in China

Politics & Social Sciences

Jinhua Guo

Anthropology

This bilingual book contains a selection of Chinese medicine anecdotes drawn from China's enormous textual archive. The sections form collections of alternative names for: Chinese medicine Biographies of sages Anecdotes about famous doctors and medical figures Stories about Chinese materia medica Anecdotes about formulas, clinical cases, acupuncture stories Explanation of acupuncture names. Each story begins with the Chinese characters, accompanied by the pin yin with tones to guide Western students with their Chinese pronunciation. Then the English version of the story follows with a glossary to assist Chinese students with their English pronunciation.

ANECDOTES OF TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE (Chinese and English Edition)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Lifang Qu

Alternative Medicine

This bilingual book contains a selection of Chinese medicine anecdotes drawn from China's enormous textual archive. The sections form collections of alternative names for: Chinese medicine Biographies of sages Anecdotes about famous doctors and medical figures Stories about Chinese materia medica Anecdotes about formulas, clinical cases, acupuncture stories Explanation of acupuncture names. Each story begins with the Chinese characters, accompanied by the pin yin with tones to guide Western students with their Chinese pronunciation. Then the English version of the story follows with a glossary to assist Chinese students with their English pronunciation

ANECDOTES OF TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE (English and Chinese Edition)

This is a full-text English translation of Jin Gui Yao Lue, a classic book of traditional Chinese medicine. It is the oldest clinical book dedicated to internal, external, gynecological and obstetrical diseases. It is also the first medical book on differential diagnosis of diseases and symptoms, along with treatment and prescriptions.This book was originally written by Zhang Zhongjing (Zhang Ji) (150-219 CE), an eminent Chinese physician in the Eastern Han dynasty. The book consists of 25 chapters. The first chapter serves as an introduction. Chapters 2-22 discuss the diagnosis and treatment of sixty diseases, involving internal medicine, external medicine, and gynecology & obstetrics. Chapter 23 discusses emergency treatments. Chapters 24 and 25 discuss food contraindications (fowls, beasts, fruits, vegetables and grains) and treatment. The text can serve as a reference for education, research and clinical practice.

Essentials from the Golden Cabinet

Zhang, Zhongjing

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