Feminist Subversion of Linguistic Sexism in Contemporary China: Discursive Warfare provides an in-depth investigation of gender discourse with a focus on social labeling in post-reform China.The book delves into society’s tendency to perceive women in categories, explores the social and historical context of mainstream media’s role in perpetuating sexism, demonstrates feminist discursive empowerment in cyberspace, and sheds light on the complexities of a feminist awakening...

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**"Tanizaki writes with an unabashed sensuality. Even his lighter-hearted fictions…make us hold our breath, and the endings don't let us quite exhale." —John Updike in The New Yorker"Tanizaki's literature is, above all, delicious, like French or Chinese cuisine." —Yukio Mishima"For the sheer entertainment value of a good story well told, none can match Tanizaki." —The Globe and Mail**This dazzling collection of short fiction by literary master Juni...

Get to know the Oscar-nominated star of Wonka, Dune, and A Complete Unknown! This is the perfect read for young movie fans, aspiring actors, and theater kids.Timothée Chalamet grew up in a family of artists and performers in New York City. From a young age, he knew that he wanted to be a great actor. He made his television debut at just fourteen years old on the popular show Law & Order. While attending a prestigious performing a...

The analysis of newly or recently emerged grammatical and lexical forms in Colloquial Singapore English is the main objective of this Element. Using corpus, survey, and interview data from different age groups, we shed light on the spread of language change across generations and ethnicities. Existing descriptions of CSE as a high-contact L1 variety of English in the late stages of endonormative stabilisation do not fully capture Singapore's continued multilingual ecology: source languages...

This book explores the resolution of Mandarin Chinese reflexive pronouns — ziji (‘self’) and ta-ziji (‘he/she-self’) — in language processing, focusing on how the human mind integrates multiple linguistic cues during comprehension through both theoretical and experimental approaches.It investigates the structural, semantic, and discourse-level properties of these reflexives, examining how syntactic and non-syntactic constraints shape real-time resolution. By intro...

The Time Emporium trades lifetimes, memories and chances to change fate.Every visitor comes for a wish.Every wish comes with a price.When a grieving young man strikes a deal to bring back someone he lost,he uncovers the shop’s buried truth.The merchant who sells time is trapped by time himself.No bargain can break the eternal rule: nothing is for nothing.

She was the daughter of a wealthy family, yet she was tricked and nearly lost her virginity.He was a legend in the business world. He had an intelligence and methods that exceeded the average person, and was also cold-blooded and ruthless."If you save me, I'm willing to agree to any conditions!" She begged in the mud.She didn't expect that after that satanic man saved her, he would leave so decisively. She thought that this was the end of the nightm...

Brooke Lin, a young woman from a mountain village, is admitted to a university in the city. On her first day, she finds herself helpless and embarrassed at the payment window over her tuition fees, only to be discreetly rescued by a young professor passing by, Ethan Lu. After the semester begins, the wealthy heir Hugo Zhao relentlessly pursues her, while Ethan Lu repeatedly steps in to protect her. From teacher and student to kindred spirits, the two navigate the pressures of an eleven yea...

This is a healing contemporary romance novel about a young woman who, after experiencing betrayal, encounters a stern yet gentle cardiac surgeon at the darkest moment of her life. Together, through mutual healing and redemption, they rebuild their lives and love.At eighteen, Emily made an innocent vow by Moon Lake, but reality soon cracked its surface. On the eve of her graduate school graduation, she was hospitalized for a minor surgery, only to hear a stranger's voice answer her ...

In Sephiroad, every person receives a blessing, a sacred power that determines status, talent, and future.Io Renalt receives none.Instead, he awakens as a cursed sigilist, a hated class believed to bring corruption and ruin. Branded dangerous by the Church and rejected by society, Io expects his life to end in disgrace.But when a blessing meant to save his sister begins to destroy her from within, Io discovers the truth: curses are not evil. They are the forgotten p...

In a remote corner of the universe, the light of Sirius shone upon two intertwined worlds: Taka and Naru.The Zeta of Naru had destroyed their own home through endless war. With what remained of their fleet, they crossed the sea of stars and set their greedy eyes on the blue planet Earth. But they met fierce resistance from Earth's original inhabitants, the Lizard Clan. As their forces crumbled, the Zeta made their most desperate move. They summoned the Eternal Evil from the abyss o...