This book offers a detailed, comprehensive, and theoretically grounded study of experimental xiqu performances that have taken place in recent decades across Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and online platforms.Situating these performances within their specific socio-political contexts and historical trajectories, this book explores the question, what defining aesthetics and methodologies characterise experimental xiqu practices, and how do they distinguish them...

With an increasing number of elders moving into nursing homes, the shift from family to nursing home care calls for an exploration of caregiving decision-making in urban China. This study examines how a rapidly growing aging population, the one-child policy, and economic reform in urban China pose unprecedented challenges to the country’s ingrained tradition of family caregiving. It presents interviews of matched elders and their children from a government-sponsored nursing home in Shangha...

This book discusses basic thermodynamic behaviors and 'abnormal' properties from a thermo-physical perspective, and explores basic heat transfer and flow properties, the latest findings on their physical aspects and indications, chemical engineering properties, microscale phenomena, as well as transient behaviors in fast and critical environments. It also presents the most and challenging problems and the outlook for applications and innovations of supercritical fluids.

這是一本非常用心用力寫出來的貓咪專書，不敢說專業，但是絕對很認真地專講貓咪就對了！《喵的咧！：我不敢想像如果這世界上沒有貓的話該怎麼辦？》一書是專門獻給愛貓咪的大家的用心之作。從目錄頁，你們可以看到許多令你們為之大笑的標題，因為懂的人都懂。例如像你們跟貓咪一定有第一次的邂逅，你愛牠、牠也愛你，於是你們的生命中對彼此有了認定終身的互許。像這些主題都與人貓之間有著重要的關係，相信愛貓的貓奴們絕對不容錯過！本書最難能可貴的地方是作者完全沒有依賴書籍和網路等第二手資料，全文的戮力書寫完成全憑作者Gary Chen二十餘年當貓奴的第一手經驗，這些文字都是經由作者長達二十年的仔細觀察與深刻體驗才能付梓。這樣的心血結晶怎能錯過！更棒的是看貓書怎能少了看貓咪呢？作者大方獻出家中貓主子的精美照片，搭配豐富的圖文書，讓你既看書又賞貓，希望你不要錯過！

著作《我也想要自出版》，這本書將為您提供全面的指導。這本書是我自己親身經歷了從事自出版獨立作業的所有過程，自己經過研讀、研究與實作後，便決定寫出這本類似電腦書的教學指南，內容包括了各大電子書平台介紹，讓讀者有初步的認識，並能按圖索驥地去尋找這些網站。最重要的，本書還手把手的採取圖文並茂的模式，教會想要自出版的初學者按部就班地學會每個電子書平台的出版過程。祝大家 出版順利！

“Cats: I can’t imagine what the world would be like without cats?” is a carefully crafted work dedicated to cat lovers.From the catalog page, you can see many titles that will make you laugh, because those who understand will understand. For example, you must have had your first encounter with a cat. You loved it and it loved you, so you made a lifelong commitment to each other in your lives. Topics like these have an important relationship with the relationship between humans and ...

「沒有人故意要去生病，變成一個無法做好自己工作、無法承擔責任與本分，無法融入這個世界的人。請以愛心代替有色眼光。」本書講述了一位思覺失調症患者歷經四十五年的掙扎與困惑，在病痛、幻覺與社會偏見中尋找生存的意義。他曾因病症影響而無法與世界順利連結，經歷人際關係的破裂、社會功能的退化，以及一次次自我懷疑的折磨。然而，隨著對疾病的深入理解，他學會與病共存，找到屬於自己的道路，在閱讀與創作中獲得救贖，終於邁向新的可能性。本書希望讓更多人理解精神疾病患者的內心世界，並傳遞一個重要訊息：理解與支持，比標籤與誤解更能改變人生。

本書的理論是提出閱讀《易經》的一套完整學理，經由此學理原則的運用，就可以理解這千古不易的奇書《易經》，並且從中得到實質而有用的人生觀念。若能確切的革心易行，終有利於本元純真，造化再生。◎序文：《易經》上典，遠古文明，流傳至今，其文義理本質，實為教導人們修道行德之書，探究深熟，知行合一，可再次啟發天資人智。《易經》的基本涵義是為「簡易、變易、不易。」而其中的「變易」是經文的中心思想。在《易經》六十四卦中，共有四百五十道卦爻辭，卦辭衍繹爻辭。《易經》傳達了為人處世的基本道義。學易至熟，通達了四百五十道人生觀念，可以確實革心易行，必有利於本元純真，造化再生。千古以來，學《易》者眾，而其研《易》成果，往往總是一得己見，言之成理，自成一家之說，最後終究是真相不明。閱讀《易經》爻辭，意欲明白其中道理，一開始就讓初學者望之卻步，因為各式各樣的論點說法，聚訟紛紜，莫衷一是，許多見解，穿鑿附會不著邊際，以及言不及義的注釋，各種答案皆有之，而會導致這樣的結果，歸咎其原因，就是缺乏的就是一套完整的學理系統，以及學子可以運用發揮的理論，是故末學在此提出幾則閱讀《易經》...

"Lost In Confusion For 45 Years" is a novel that deeply explores mental illness and the struggles of life. It tells the story of a protagonist who has been suffering from schizophrenia for 45 years, beginning in his youth. Throughout his life, he grapples with the blurred boundaries between reality and hallucination, struggling to understand himself and his connection to the world. This leads to a series of emotional breakdowns, family conflicts, and difficulties ...

In ancient lands where mountains rise,And rivers sing 'neath moonlit skies,A child of fate, with morning's glow,Was born to bring the Dao's flow.Laozi, wise beyond his years,In humble village, calmed all fears.With mother Mei, in dreams he'd see,The Jade Emperor's prophecy.Young Laozi spoke with water's grace,Of Dao's true path, life's gentle pace.He calmed the storms, he healed the sick,With wisdom vast, and po...

The Media’s Influence on Racial IssuesResearch BackgroundAs a member of an ethnic minority in Australia, the author has personally experienced racial discrimination. However, despite these experiences, the author chose to pursue further studies in Australia and began to focus on ethnic issues, particularly how the media influences societal perceptions of race. Inspired by the research of Professor Michael Meadows, the author decided to explore the ways in which...

"That little move you made involving Levi didn't work as you thought. Now, the shit we've been dealing with has gotten a million times worse."Crissann trembled under Grayson's voice."If the human dies, so what?"Grayson raised his hand to slap her but pulled back. "Not so what if that death opened the door to something else," he spat.The seeds that Crissann has sown in her attempt to remain in power has brought about a chain of events that will change the wor...