El ojo de jade, Mariposas para los muertos y La Casa del Espíritu Dorado, los tres casos de Mei Wang, la detective más emblemática de la novela negra asiática, reunidos por fin en un solo volumen.Para llegar a la verdad, la joven investigadora Mei Wang ha aprendido a moverse con toda soltura entre los vertiginosos contrastes del Pekín moderno, esa dinámica megalópolis convertida en símbolo del gran cambio cultural y económico que está experimentando el gi...

«La autora ha creado un personaje rico en matices que va ganando fuerza a medida que avanza la historia.»Begoña Piña, Qué leer«Una detective privada (profesión ilegal) en un Pekín actual lleno de colorido y de trasfondo histórico.»BooksellerA sus 33 años, soltera y económicamente independiente, la detective Mei Wang se mueve en un Pekín donde la desigualdad entre pobres y ricos aumenta cada día y donde todos rivalizan por el poder o el dine...

La moderna y emprendedora Mei acaba de abrir una agencia privada de detectives en pleno corazón de Pekín. Esta mujer joven es un símbolo evidente del gran cambio cultural y ecónomico que está viviendo China. Al volante de su Mitsubishi rojo, y con un hombre como secretario, Mei está preparada para su nuevo trabajo. Cuando un cliente le pide que encuentre un valioso jade de la dinastía Han sustraído de un museo en plena Revolución Cultural, Mei se verá obligada a profundizar en ese oscuro p...

Los 20.000 lectores que han conocido y seguido a Mei Wang por el Pekín de El ojo de jade, no deberían perderse el nuevo caso de esta moderna detective china.Es un juego peligroso el de investigar la verdad en una sociedad que aún está poniendo al día los secretos de su pasado...En lo más remoto de China, un activista político encarcelado tras la masacre de Tian’anmen es puesto en libertad y se dirige a la capital del país, donde espera enfrentarse con sus propios d...

This textbook covers the essentials for successfully conducting online discussions in various course delivery formats, such as online, face-to-face, and blended. Readers will learn how to design online discussions to cognitively engage students, build meaningful discourse communities to promote group dynamics, apply just-in-time facilitation strategies to deepen student learning and utilize robust assessment to ensure learning objectives are achieved.Online discussion is the lifeli...

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the emerging field of cultural finance. It summarizes research results of cultural differences in financial decision making and financial markets. Many of the results have been published in leading academic journals over the last ten years but some are presented here for the first time. The book is based on an international survey on risk and time preferences — the INTRA study, conducted in 53 countries worldwide. Applications to financial mar...

The first English-language anthology of its kind, Red Is Not the Only Color offers a window into the uncharted terrain of intimate relations between Chinese women. As urban China has undergone rapid transformation, same-sex relations have emerged as a significant, if previously neglected, touchstone for the exploration of the meaning of social change. The short fiction in this volume highlights tensions between tradition and modernization, family and state, art and commerce, love ...

In Global Health and Sustainable Development Architecture, Wang discusses the convergence of such problems as financial crisis, water, food and energy shortage, earthquakes and disasters, epidemics and pandemics, wars and nuclear threats. "What is wrong with our development model?" "What is the solution?" This book aims to answer these questions by providing an alternative model to conceptualize sustainable development. The Inclusive Sustainable Development Theory disputes the con...

There are some serious concerns and critical questions about the on-going minority protesting in China, such as Tibetan monks’ self-immolations, Muslims’ suicide bombings, and Uyghur large-scale demonstrations. Why are minorities such as the Uyghur dissatisfied, when China is rising as a world power? What kind of struggle must they go through to maintain their identity, heritage, and rights? How does the government deal with this ethnic dissatisfaction and minority riots? And what is ethni...

Doing English in Asia: Global Literature and Culture examines the effect of globalization on the curriculum of Asian universities. As knowledge of the English language has increasingly been understood as necessary to excel in international business, a number of Asian universities have replaced the traditional study of English literature and culture with applied English or English for specified purposes. This edited collection tackles the question of how to teach English language and cultur...

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