In a manga chat group, a user named "Hare" posted three lines of red text."I want to kill her.""I want to kill her.""I want to kill her."Out of curiosity, Ye Zi DMed the stranger as "Predator."[Predator (Ye Zi): I saw your messages in the group chat. "I want to kill her."... Is that what you really think?][Hare: Yes, it is.][Hare: …I can't think of anything I want more than to tear her body to shreds. Do you know that feeling?][Predat...

When Xiao Hai turned fifteen, his family paid a vocational-school teacher 1,200 yuan to find him a factory job in Shenzhen. So began fifteen years spent moving between the garment mills and electronics factories of China's fast-growing southern cities.Adrift in the South is a memoir of life as a migrant labourer in the twenty-first century, making iPhones and baby clothes, hand-stitching football shirts and cutting plastic into radios. Here, Xiao Hai reveals the alienation...

Babies are always hungry! Forest Xiao’s playful board book celebrates the lovable nom-nom monsters among us.Some things are yummy, like a banana or a juicy watermelon. When you’re a baby, other things are yummy, too, like a leaf. Or your own foot. And watch out, little friend sitting nearby! These delightful babies will captivate their audience in a board book sure to cause giggling all around.

This book is a retelling, in easy-to-read Chinese, of the legendary story of how a little stone monkey was born, became king of his troop of monkeys, left his home to pursue enlightenment, received the name Sun Wukong (literally, "ape seeking the void") from his teacher, and returned home to defend his subjects from a ravenous monster.Sun Wukong, the Handsome Monkey King, is one of the most famous characters in Chinese literature and culture. His legendary bravery, his foolish mist...

In his previous life, the Gu Clan had overflowing authority. Because she was the daughter of the Gu Clan, that man had married her and obtained the position of crown prince that he had yearned for in his dreams.As for the Gu family, they had been framed as traitors, and all 192 heads of their family had been beheaded.Unbearably humiliated, she returned to the day of her wedding.……

An orphan girl gets help from a goose. A poor family receives a magical gift. A boy is stranded alone on a ship in a storm. And two magicians perform a deadly trick.Believe it or not, it's possible for you to read and understand the four wonderful stories in this book even if you start off not knowing a single word of Chinese! We won't lie to you and say it will be easy, but with time and patience you can certainly do it.Each page of Chinese faces a page of pinyin ...

Move agentic AI from clever demos to reliable production with the principles, patterns, and practices behind multi-agent systems at scale.Key FeaturesBuild production-ready agents and multi-agent systems with hands-on Python examplesApply foundational principles, proven design patterns, and orchestration strategiesEvaluate, observe, scale, and evolve agent systems through real-world case studiesPurchase of the print or Kindle book incl...

The modern medicine girl, reborn as an ancient daughter, father does not hurt, mother died long ago, bearing the title of a direct daughter, under the bullying of the aunt. She vowed to use her medical skills to create a world of her own, to escape the fate of an ancient woman living in dependence on a man.Open the chest, reattach the limbs and bone, breathe, cut the throat to give oxygen, inject and inject … With her astonishing medical skills, she began a new era...

Song Qiu'er, who suffered a assassination attempt, never thought that she would transcend over. Furthermore, she even transmigrated into the body of an orphan girl that was without a father's love and without a mother's love. Accepting the truth, she was prepared to have a good time in the ancient times, but ended up picking up a man who lost his memory due to his stupidity.However, this man didn't seem to be as stupid as he thought."Ah Mu, your room is nea...

"Even if this world is just a nobody, who can predict what will happen in the future? But as long as you work hard, you will be able to create your own brilliance."He had always wanted to live a peaceful life with his family, but an accident had changed his ordinary life."

This volume explores what Italian readers of the 1480s and 1490s could learn about Asian music through the expanding medium of print. Drawing on ten travel books printed in Italy before 1501, reporting the experiences of pilgrims, merchants, diplomats, adventurers, and an enslaved individual, the authors examine how musical practices in the Levant, Turkey, Persia, India, and China were described for late fifteenth-century audiences.Through close textual analysis, the book reveals ho...

China, 1057 B.C. The foolish king of the Shang Dynasty has gravely insulted a goddess. In revenge, the goddess sends a thousand-year-old fox demon to extinguish the soul of the beautiful young Daji, inhabit her body, and seduce the king into taking her as his chief concubine. Daji slowly gains control of the king and his kingdom, leading the Shang Dynasty towards chaos and disaster. But gods and demons are all watching closely and try to take matters into their own hands.This book ...