In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.The courageous, unflinching speeches and writings collected in The Most Dammed Country in the World detail the devastating human and environmental cost of China's economic rise.Over the past 75 years, a new canon has emerged. As life on Earth has become irrevocably altered by humans, visionary thinkers around the world have raised their voices to d...

This work investigates a case of political persecution that occurred over 50 years ago (the Wang case), but which still raises profound issues for the relationship between revolutionary regimes and the intellectuals who serve them. Song Jinshou has compiled a list of the documents of the Wang case.

In the ongoing courageous struggle of a relatively small group of Chinese to prevent the completion of the Three Gorges Dam in China, Dai Qing is the outspoken leader whose eloquent voice is always heard despite threats and intimidation by the Chinese authorities to silence it. Dai Qing, an investigative journalist and author with a wide audience in China and abroad, compiled this book of essays and field reports assessing the impact of the Three Gorges megadam now under construction at Sa...

This book presents the latest progress in enhanced oil recovery technology and introduces the application of various enhanced oil recovery methods in oilfield development. Enhanced oil recovery (EOR) is a continuous theme in oilfield development. Due to the influence of geological conditions, development mode and physical and chemical factors, more than half of the proven oil reserves remain underground and cannot be accessed. Therefore, many enhanced oil recovery methods have been develop...

Comprehensive, systematic review of advances in key CRISPR/Cas technologies, such as TALENS and zinc finger nucleases, double-strand break repair techniques, insertion-based genome edits, base editing, guide RNAs, gRNA/Cas9 constructs and CRISPR/Cas off targetingCovers both techniques and their practical application to particular cereal and other cropsDiscusses challenges in regulating this emerging technology

This book brings together leading names in the field of nanoscale energy transport to provide a comprehensive and insightful review of this developing topic. The textcovers new developments in the scientific basis and the practical relevance of nanoscale energy transport, highlighting the emerging effects at the nanoscale that qualitatively differ from those at the macroscopic scale. Throughout the book, microscopic energy carriers are discussed, including photons, electrons and magnons. S...

During China's last dynasty, the Qing (1644-1911), the empire's remote, bleak, and politically insignificant Southwest rose to become a strategically vital area. This study of the imperial government's handling of the southwestern frontier illuminates issues of considerable importance in Chinese history and foreign relations: Sichuan's rise as a key strategic area in relation to the complicated struggle between the Zunghar Mongols and China over Tibet, Sichuan's neighbor to the west, and c...

After her rebirth, Xiu Ying found out that she was originally the pearl of a speck of dust. In turn, she became the White Moonlight of her husband, the scum of her previous life. She still wanted to desperately try to catch him.Xiu Ying said, "In the past, you abandoned me like a pair of shoes, but now you can't climb higher!" While the scum had its revenge, Xiu Ying thought of her young and capable third uncle. The more she did things, the older she became, and th...

After her rebirth, Xiu Ying found out that she was originally the pearl of a speck of dust. In turn, she became the White Moonlight of her husband, the scum of her previous life. She still wanted to desperately try to catch him.Xiu Ying said, "In the past, you abandoned me like a pair of shoes, but now you can't climb higher!" While the scum had its revenge, Xiu Ying thought of her young and capable third uncle. The more she did things, the older she became, and th...

本集中的三個劇本，跨越了古今的藩籬，分別應用了南管、崑曲、豫劇及話劇等戰後台灣仍然興盛的劇種，對古典作品前有承襲，後有開創，是「現代主義」創造性的繼承範例。文字風格變化多端，足以表現各聲腔劇幅，華美剛健兼而有之。《浪漫傳奇拜月亭》是當代舞台劇導演汪其楣為王海玲、朱陸豪等戲曲名家，將元末明初四大傳奇之一的「拜月亭」（又名幽閨記），改寫為一部引人入勝的當代戲曲。並由朱海珊成為交代情節的關鍵角色，化繁為簡更扼要豐實，聚焦在最戲劇性的亂軍中之邂逅結伴，招商店內孤男寡女禮教間的衝突矛盾，由相依生情到私結連理，竟又遭逢岳父拆散強離，終至兩人因情堅意合而重逢，全劇充滿命運的起伏轉折，並以故事發生地點的聲腔劇種來書寫演出，特別有韻味。《招君內傳》首演於第三屆女節，顛覆過往昭君怨戲劇的俗套，回歸史實與角色本質，透過王嬙和她的知心好友，專業女巫A滿之間的對話與書信，敘述她與三個「君」之間的情感關係與生活故事，文詞雋永而情境悠遠。《芙蓉女兒》取材自《紅樓夢》中黛玉與晴雯之事跡。是一齣為南管、崑曲兩個樂種和主角演員量身打造的跨界戲劇。雖然始終沒有演出，但為了詞曲創作者的心血，特地找回劇作整理出版。...

After her rebirth, Xiu Ying found out that she was originally the pearl of a speck of dust. In turn, she became the White Moonlight of her husband, the scum of her previous life. She still wanted to desperately try to catch him.Xiu Ying said, "In the past, you abandoned me like a pair of shoes, but now you can't climb higher!" While the scum had its revenge, Xiu Ying thought of her young and capable third uncle. The more she did things, the older she became, and th...

After her rebirth, Xiu Ying found out that she was originally the pearl of a speck of dust. In turn, she became the White Moonlight of her husband, the scum of her previous life. She still wanted to desperately try to catch him.Xiu Ying said, "In the past, you abandoned me like a pair of shoes, but now you can't climb higher!" While the scum had its revenge, Xiu Ying thought of her young and capable third uncle. The more she did things, the older she became, and th...