Tong: 155 books

Book cover of The Ultimate Chinese Martial Art

The Ultimate Chinese Martial Art

The Science of the Weaving Stance Bagua 64 Forms and its Wellness Applications

by Jun Feng Li, Chun Yan Ge, Tong Luo
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017

The Ultimate Chinese Martial Art — The Science of the Weaving Stance Bagua 64 Forms and the Wellness Applications has three well integrated parts. Part One describes the cultural, historical and scientific background of the mysterious inner style martial
Book cover of The Private Banquet (Storycuts)
by Su Tong
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2011

Bao Qing was a classic example of what people in Maqiao meant when they spat out the word 'intellectual'. Coming home to his old town for the holidays was just as much trouble as not coming home, for this was a town where his old schoolmate Fatcat had every local business in his pocket. And Fatcat...
Book cover of Chinese Death Rituals in Singapore
by Tong Chee Kiong
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004

Through a cultural analysis of the symbols of death - flesh, blood, bones, souls, time numbers, food and money - Chinese Death Rituals in Singapore throws light upon the Chinese perception of death and how they cope with its eventuality. In the seeming mass of religious rituals and beliefs, it suggests...
Book cover of Identity and Ethnic Relations in Southeast Asia
by Chee Kiong Tong
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010

Modern nation states do not constitute closed entities. This is true especially in Southeast Asia, where Chinese migrants have continued to make their new homes over a long period of time, resulting in many different ethnic groups co-existing in new nation states. Focusing on the consequences of migration,...
Book cover of Goddess Peak/The Q of Hearts (Storycuts)
by Su Tong
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2011

In 'Goddess Peak', Miaoyue and Li Yong were almost the last two passengers aboard the steamboat to Goddess Peak - them and Li Yong's friend Mr Cui. Miaoyue found Mr Cui taller and better built than she'd imagined, and also a little younger and more handsome. For some reason, this irritated her. In...
Book cover of Investigative Journalism, Environmental Problems and Modernisation in China
by J. Tong
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2015

This book examines how the news media in general, and investigative journalism in particular, interprets environmental problems and how those interpretations contribute to the shaping of a discourse of risk that can compete against the omnipresent and hegemonic discourse of modernisation in Chinese society.
Book cover of Functional Metamaterials and Metadevices
by Xingcun Colin Tong
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2017

To meet the demands of students, scientists and engineers for a systematic reference source, this book introduces, comprehensively and in a single voice, research and development progress in emerging metamaterials and derived functional metadevices. Coverage includes electromagnetic, optical, acoustic,...
Book cover of L'atelier des miracles
by Valérie Tong Cuong
Language: French
Release Date: January 9, 2013

Prof d’histoire-géo mariée à un politicien narcissique, Mariette est au bout du rouleau. Une provocation de trop et elle craque, envoyant valser un élève dans l’escalier. Mariette a franchi la ligne rouge.  Millie, jeune secrétaire intérimaire, vit dans une solitude monacale. Mais un soir,...
Book cover of Reviving Legitimacy

Reviving Legitimacy

Lessons for and from China

by Deng Zhenglai, Anna L. Ahlers, Alfred L. Chan
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011

The Chinese government has attempted to bolster its legitimacy as a political response to emerging social, cultural, political, economic, environmental challenges and crises experienced during market-oriented reforms and rapid modernization in China. However, contrary to the Western preference for...
Book cover of The Life-Cycle of Pharmaceuticals in the Environment
by B.M. Peake, R. Braund, Louis A Tremblay
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2015

The Life-Cycle of Pharmaceuticals in the Environment identifies pathways of entry of pharmaceuticals into the environment, beginning with the role of global prescribing and disposal practices. The book then discusses typical levels of common pharmaceuticals and how they can be determined in natural...
Book cover of Atmospheric Pressure (Storycuts)
by Su Tong
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2011

The train was late, and the wind was blowing Meng's coat open in the snow. With no sign of his cousin, he needed somewhere to stay the night. An old man enticed him to a second-rate hostel, and despite his annoyance, Meng couldn't shake the feeling that he'd seen this place, and the old man, before. Part...
Book cover of Binu and the Great Wall
by Su Tong
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2008

“A wonderful read—with all of a fairy tale’s leaps and turns and queer, vivid images” by the author of the international bestseller Raise the Red Lantern (The Observer). In Peach village, crying was forbidden. But as a child, Binu never learned to hide her tears. Shunned by the villagers,...
Book cover of How the Ceremony Ends/The Water Demon (Storycuts)
by Su Tong
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2011

In 'How the Ceremony Ends', it was last winter that the folklorist paid his visit to the village of Eight Pines. He wanted to collect folk tales and customs, to re-enact the ceremonies of life and death that only old men still remember. But somehow he managed to provoke the villagers. In 'The...
Book cover of Madwoman on the Bridge (Storycuts)
by Su Tong
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2011

The madwoman was wearing a white velvet cheongsam. Standing on the bridge, she revelled in her own faded splendour. Normal people pay no attention to madwomen, but one woman from Shaoxing stayed on the bridge that afternoon to talk to this one; what was she coveting? Part of the Storycuts series, this short story was previously published in the collection Madwoman on the Bridge.
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