Authors:Zong Xiao-Fan, Gary Liscum, Xiao-Fan Zong,
Publisher: Blue Poppy Pr
Keywords: hand, health, palmistry, medical, chinese
Number of Pages: 204
Published: 1995-07
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0936185643
ISBN-13: 9780936185644

This book is an introduction to Chinese medical diagnosis through inspecting the hands in general and the fingernails in particular. In Chinese medicine, it is believed that every part of the body is a hologram. This means that there is a map of the entire body on each part of the body and that changes in one area of the body can indicate disease processes in another area of the body. This book begins with a brief history of Chinese medical palmistry. This is followed two books. Book one discusses the basic anatomy of the hand and then the indications of various shapes of the hands, fing

Authors:Zhu Xiao Di, Xiao Di Zhu,
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Keywords: youth, communist, china, childhood, memoir, years, red, house, thirty
Number of Pages: 255
Published: 1998-02
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 1558491120
ISBN-13: 9781558491120

The wrenching saga of a patriotic Communist family in China. This is the personal account of Zhu Xiao Di, born in Nanjing in 1958, the son of idealistic, educated parents. At the heart of this narrative are the trials of a family caught in the crosscurrents of history--from the early attractions of the Communist revolution to the national disaster that followed and the subsequent odyssey of recovery. 24 illustrations.

Author: Z Xiao Guo
Publisher: Woodhead Publishing Ltd
Keywords: materials, structural, processing, deformation
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2005-05-31
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1855737388
ISBN-13: 9781855737389

Author: Xiao Li
Publisher: Long River Press
Keywords: china, cultural, opera, kunqu, chinese
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2006-02-28
List price: $28.95
ISBN-10: 1592650627
ISBN-13: 9781592650620

Even before Beijing Opera there was Kunqu, an opera form with 600 years of history. This highly distinctive form of Chinese theatre art is comprised of various elements—music, singing, dancing, recitation, and movement. As China’s oldest and most influe

Author: Zhu Xiao Di
Publisher: iUniverse, Inc.
Keywords: dee, judge, tales
Number of Pages: 170
Published: 2006-02-16
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0595384382
ISBN-13: 9780595384389

"Someday I’m going to teach these greedy people a lesson," said Judge Dee, a tall broad-shouldered man with a foot-long black beard and matching side-whiskers. The legendary figure comes back! He continues to solve baffling cases in 7th century China, but at a faster pace. Tales of Judge Dee is Zhu Xiao Di’s debut in fiction. His other books include: Thirty Years in a Red House, a Memoir of Childhood and Youth in Communist China (University of Massachusetts Press, 1998, paperback from the same press, 1999, new edition by Penguin Books India, 2000) and Father: Famous Writ

Author: Xiao Lu
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Keywords: dialogue
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2011-02-24
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 988802812X
ISBN-13: 9789888028122

What forces continue to oppress and restrain women artists in contemporary China? Some powerful answers are provided in this fictional memoir of Xiao Lu, who played an important role in the avant-garde cultural scene during the tumultuous early months of 1989. The acclaimed "China/AvantGarde" exhibition organized by Gao Minglu at the National Art Museum in Beijing was shut down after about three hours from its opening Feb. 5 1989, when Xiao Lu shot live bullets into her mock-up of two telephone booths, turning an edgy installation work into an over-the-edge performance piece and an icon of the

Author: Yang Xiao
Publisher: Auerbach Publications
Keywords: pervasive, computing, mobile, grid, distributed, security
Number of Pages: 440
Published: 2007-04-17
List price: $93.95
ISBN-10: 0849379210
ISBN-13: 9780849379215

Despite recent dramatic advances in computer security regarding the proliferation of services and applications, security threats are still major impediments in the deployment of these services. Paying serious attention to these issues, Security in Distributed, Grid, Mobile, and Pervasive Computing focuses on the increasing demand to guarantee privacy, integrity, and availability of resources in networks and distributed systems. A rich and useful presentation of strategies for security issues, the book covers each computing area in separate sections. It first reviews security issues and chal