Sociological and psychiatric studies on suicide based on Western ideas about human nature see suicide as social or individual disorder. Suicide in China, however, should be understood differently.By analyzing 30 cases, Wu Fei studies the dynamics of suicide in terms of family politics and local psychology and finds that suicide is committed when a power balance is broken in the games of power in the family. Unlike public injustice, domestic injustice is not only closely related to,...

Canton, 1801La veille de son mariage avec un notable, l’envoûtante Shi Xiu est enlevée d’un bordel par le capitaine Zheng Yi venu piller la ville. Ce jour-là, la prostituée voit s’envoler sa seule chance de rallier la bonne société cantonaise. Prisonnière du terrible loup des mers et de sa gigantesque flotte de pirates, sa beauté et sa finesse d’esprit sont désormais ses seuls atouts pour sa survie…

Mer de Chine, 1802En épousant le capitaine Zheng Yi, l'ancienne courtisane Shi Xiu se retrouve à la tête de la flotte au pavillon rouge, l'une des six escadres pirates qui hantent l'Asie du sud-est. Découvrant le monde cruel et indiscipliné de la piraterie, elle décide de mettre en place des règles innattendues qui provoquent au sein de la confrérie jalousies et rancoeurs. La belle ferait bien de surveiller ses arrières...

Chine, PREMIÈRE MOITIÉ DU XIXe SIÈCLE Après une séparation de longues années, Shi Xiu convoque le Dr. John Barton à son chevet pour lui conter le récit de sa vie, mais aussi lui faire un aveu... Notre belle pirate a encore plus d’une fois dû faire montre de ses talents de meneuse d’hommes, de son intelligence et bien entendu de ses charmes pour prendre son destin en main...

Mer de Chine, 1804.La nouvelle alliance des pirates est devenue une véritable puissance qui commence à inquiéter l’Empire. Pour se faire oublier, Shi Xiu décide d’attaquer des cibles neutres : les navires anglais. Mais le jeu de l’espionnage est plus dangereux qu’elle ne l’aurait cru…

This celebration of Chinese Science Fiction — thirteen stories, all translated for the first time into English — represents a unique exploration of the nation’s speculative fiction from the late 20th century onwards, curated and translated by critically acclaimed writer and essayist Xueting Christine Ni.From the renowned Jiang Bo’s ‘Starship: Library' to Regina Kanyu Wang’s ‘The Tide of Moon City', and Anna Wu’s ‘Meisje met de Parel', this is a collection for all f...

This book first surveys the relevant research progress of major institutions, organizations, projects and companies engaged in 6G research around the world, then comprehensively defines 6G from the perspectives of driving forces, vision, requirements, spectrum and technical characteristics, illustrating a complete picture of an end-to-end 6G mobile network with integration of communication, sensing, AI, data and security. The most promising technologies are presented, including distributed...

Essential reading for serious students of Chinese practical arts, including medicine, martial arts and FengShui, Master Zhongxian Wu and Dr Karin Taylor Wu provide a detailed explanation of the 22 GanZhi symbols in this book, outlining the characteristics of each, and their interactions and relationships.TianGan (Heavenly Stems) and DiZhi (Earthly Branches), commonly abbreviated to GanZhi, originated in the ancient Chinese cosmological sciences and is a complex calendrical system w...

This book constitutes the papers presented at the Evaluation Track of the 8th China Conference on Health Information Processing, CHIP 2022, held in Hangzhou, China during October 21–23, 2022.The 20 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 20 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: text mining for gene-disease association semantic; medical causal entity and relation extraction; medical decision tree extraction from unstruct...

This book focuses on the frontier issues in climate finance and aims to develop a general framework to understand the financial pathways towards a successful energy transition. It builds upon the general descriptions of the current status and future challenges towards carbon neutral targets, and then bring forward a combination of theoretical and empirical analysis on the critical issues related to climate finance.Estimated by the International Energy Agency (IEA), trillions dollar...

The five-volume set constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Life System Modeling and Simulation, LSMS 2024, and of the 8th International Conference on Intelligent Computing for Sustainable Energy and Environment, ICSEE 2024, which were held during September 13-15, in Suzhou, China.The 35 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from over 496 submissions. The LSMS and ICSEE international conference series aim to bring toget...

This book constitutes refereed proceedings of the 8th China Conference on China Health Information Processing Conference 2022 held in Hangzhou, China from August 26–28, 2022.The 14 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 35 submissions. The papers in the volume are organised according to the following topical headings: healthcare natural language processing;healthcare data mining and applications