China's anti-poverty campaign has liberated hundreds of millions of citizens from absolute poverty, offering a compelling model for other developing countries around the world. This book demonstrates the path of China’s poverty alleviation and explores the approach and the theory underlying the country’s experience. The authors elucidate four important stages of poverty alleviation in China. They further investigate how the administration has balanced economic growth, regional development ...

San Zang and his three disciples have just overcome the greatest threat to their journey so far: their fidelity to one another. Now they must confront and overcome two of the most poweful monsters they have encountered, a pair of brothers who rule with the help of five enchanted weapons. They are the Golden Horned King and his younger brother, Silver Horned King. They have heard that eating SanZang's flesh will grant eternal life, so the Silver Horned King gathers his troops to patrol the ...

Sun Wu Kong, punished by Buddha centuries before, has spent five hundred years buried under Five-Finger Mountain when he encounters San Zang, a priest headed west in search of Buddhist scriptures. On the Goddess of Mercy's instructions, Wu Kong frees himself and assists the priest on a journey to the West that will be fraught with peril. But San Zang soon learns that trouble won't come only in the form of dragons or bandits; it will come from the violent and impetuous monkey who is now his...

* Save 50% by grabbing volumes 16 to 20 in this exclusive omnibus edition!Vol. 16: As autumn draws to a close, San Zang have traveled well past the dangerous Mount Flame when they come upon an enormous city. It is the capital of the JiSai Kingdom, and at its center is an enormous Buddhist temple. Soon, they come upon a group of shackled monks begging for food. The monks explain to them that the JiSai Kingdom was once blessed with good fortune emanating from a magical treasure that ...

* Save 50% by grabbing volumes 6 to 10 in this exclusive omnibus edition!Vol. 6: San Zang and his disciples have only just escaped danger when they arrive at the temple of Zhen Yuan, the most distinguished Taoist in the world and the owner of the magical RenShen tree. When Wu Kong and Bajie discover the secret of the RenShen's precious fruits, the travelers must once again face the consequences of the pig's appetite and the monkey's temper. Three disciples eat fruits of the RenShen...

Sun Wu Kong, having declared himself "Emperor of Heaven," continues his antagonistic campaign against the Jade Emperor and his allies until the gods surrender and offer the Handsome Monkey King the official title of "Emperor of Heaven." Charged with keeping watch over a heavenly peach orchard, Sun Wu Kong cannot help but cause trouble throughout the heavens. When the monkey's antics anger the Jade Emperor for a second time, a new military campaign is launched against the monkeys, which cul...

After Sun Wu Kong's temper resulted in the destruction of the sacred RenShen tree and cost San Zang precious time and energy, the priest has very little patience with his eldest disciple. That patience will be sorely tested when the White Bone Goblin repeatedly tries to make a meal of San Zang, and Wu Kong responds with characteristic aggression. When San Zang banishes Wu Kong, the remaining travelers face unprecedented obstacles; the journey is getting more dangerous the farther they trav...

* Save 50% by grabbing the first 4 volumes in this exclusive omnibus edition!Vol. 2: Sun Wu Kong, having declared himself "Emperor of Heaven," continues his antagonistic campaign against the Jade Emperor and his allies until the gods surrender and offer the Handsome Monkey King the official title of "Emperor of Heaven." But Sun Wu Kong cannot help but cause trouble throughout the heavens. When the monkey's antics anger the Jade Emperor for a second time, a new military campaign is ...

Having barely survived their most recent and difficult test, San Zang and his disciples must now pass through the treacherous Fire Cloud Kingdom, where an infant king with tremendous power aims to become the first monster to taste San Zang's flesh. Not long after the flame appears in the sky, San Zang hears a young child's cry for help. Sun Wu Kong is suspecious of the unfolding events, but even though the Stone Monkey has saved San Zang from monsters in disguise on numeruos prior occasion...

San Zang has recently welcomed Sun Wu Kong back into the company of his traveling companions, and they are diligently making their way towards the West when they notice the weather becoming hotter and hotter. This is strange, since summer is several months past them. When the four can go no farther, Sun Wu Kong is dispatched to find shelter. He comes to a village and asks the help of an old man who explains to them that they are near the treacherous and impassible Mount Flame, a mountain e...

* Save 50% by grabbing volumes 11 to 15 in this exclusive omnibus edition!Vol. 11: Over the course of their journey to the West, San Zang's three disciples have time and again shown personal qualities that make them worthy of their master. But Sun Wu Kong, Zhu Bajie and Sha Wujing have been known to cause an awful lot of trouble. Now, the four companions must atone for vulgar bit of mischief by taking part in a seemingly endless competition of wits, and anything less than victory w...

When San Zang and his disciples come to an impassable river, they take shelter in a small village, which has been ruthlessly tormented by the Ling Gan Demon, a vicious underwater creature who demands sacrifices of the most horrifying nature. The Ling Gan Demon first appeared in the village during the great drought decades earlier and brought much needed rain to the village. Afterwards, the village began to worship the demon, thinking it was a Taoist deity. The following spring, the demon b...