China

China
Author: Samuel Kidd
Publisher:
Total Pages: 474
Release: 1841
Genre: China
ISBN:

Traditional Chinese Fiction in the English-Speaking World

Traditional Chinese Fiction in the English-Speaking World
Author: Junjie Luo
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 213
Release: 2022-08-16
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3031056868

This book develops interdisciplinary and comparative approaches to analyzing the cross-cultural travels of traditional Chinese fiction. It ties this genre to issues such as translation, world literature, digital humanities, book culture, and images of China. Each chapter offers a case study of the historical and cultural conditions under which traditional Chinese fiction has traveled to the English-speaking world, proposing a critical lens that can be used to explain these cross-cultural encounters. The book seeks to identify connections between traditional Chinese fiction and other cultures that create new meanings and add to the significance of reading, teaching, and studying these classical novels and stories in the English-speaking world. Scholars, students, and general readers who are interested in traditional Chinese fiction, translation studies, and comparative and world literature will find this book useful.

Acupuncture, Expertise and Cross-Cultural Medicine

Acupuncture, Expertise and Cross-Cultural Medicine
Author: R. Bivins
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 275
Release: 2015-12-22
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0230287514

Alternative medicine is a fifty billion dollar per year industry. But is it all nonsense? The Whole Story rounds up the latest evidence on the placebo effect, the randomized control trial, personalized genetic medicine, acupuncture, homeopathy, osteopathy and more. It reaches a provocative conclusion: alternative therapies' whole-body approach might be just what medicine really needs right now to help crack the tough, chronic conditions seemingly untouched by the revolutions of surgery, antiseptics, antibiotics, vaccines and molecular biology.

Catalogue

Catalogue
Author: Calcutta (India). Imperial library
Publisher:
Total Pages: 476
Release: 1904
Genre: India
ISBN: