Between 1931 and 1937, Nationalist China was caught between Japanese imperial expansion and the unpredictable intentions of the Soviet Union, facing an increasingly hostile external environment. This book reconstructs how China navigated this precarious situation through a sophisticated strategy known as 'dual-track diplomacy'.While seeking to delay a full-scale war by accommodating Japan, Chiang Kai-shek endeavoured to improve relations with the Soviet Union as a potential counter...

A critical engagement with and interrogation of the dominant tropes of racial violenceThis volume brings together a diverse cohort of contributors working to trace the genealogies, geographies, and the entanglements of anti-Asian violence. Representing a range of critical perspectives, these essays—a collection of works by scholars, students, and community organizers—open up lines of inquiry that unsettle the taken-for-granted framings of anti-Asian violence as sim...

Deep brain stimulation (DBS), as an interventive neurosurgical procedure, has now advanced beyond the treatment of movement disorders and now covers epilepsy, pain, and psychiatric disorders, too. Additionally, a better understanding of feedback-loop systems has led to the development of closed-loop devices such as the Medtronic Percept, which can measure electrophysiologic signals. Implementing these novel technologies will no doubt lead to further advances in our ability to help patients...

The National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author of Pachinko returns with a breathtaking contemporary epic: a masterpiece by turns sweeping and intimate, that reckons with ambition and moderation, lust and loyalty, personal dreams and familial duty.Min Jin Lee brings grand ambition, fierce heart, and the tenderest hope to a novel I didn't want to end.” —Roxane Gay, bestselling author of

In order to save his brothers who had tragically died, Bao Ye did not hesitate to go against the heavens and change his fate, teleporting back into the past.Unexpectedly, the wrong time, back to thirty years ago, before he was born.Not only was he ugly, he was actually a lowly, shameless, vulgar, despicable, scum who betrayed his family and friends. Furthermore, he was also a lowly slave.Logically speaking, such a person shouldn't attract too much attention. Who knew that a powerful man wo...

SUBTLETY IS FOR WIMPS! She . . . is a secondyear high school student with a single allconsuming question: Will the boy she likes ever really notice her? He . . . is the school's most notorious juvenile delinquent and he's suddenly come to a shocking realization: He's got a huge crush, and now he must tell her how he feels. Lifechanging obsessions, colossal foulups, grand schemes, deepseated anxieties, and raging hormonesSchool Rumble portrays high school as it really is: overthetop comedy!...

Qi Yu, the little military doctor of the military academy for two years, had not done enough positive things, yet she had actually died on her first mission! Her soul pierced through the foreign world, becoming the Qi Wangfei who had been hurt by her concubine. The good-for-nothing Prince was determined to get rid of her from the estate, while her concubine was pressing on her step by step. She, Qi Yu, could not take this lying down! Your Highness wants to divorce her? No way! 'My concubin...

This was a legendary story of a young master of a military family who had been framed and turned into a deserter, expelled from the military and thrown into prison, despised by the entire planet.They were both legendary.He was a hero legend, a hero on the battlefield.And he was a bear legend, a bear among deserters.Unfortunately …He, the bear, had somehow become a couple of husband and wife with the hero.From then on, he was ...

Admiral Omega has only grown more powerful after absorbing the fallen clone's energy. Now the last assault of the alien army is nigh! Can humanity survive the unstoppable? Or will they face annihilation? Whatever the outcome, it ends here!

There are four kinds of people Rong Yi hates most in his life: gay, children, trash and sissy. Now he meets all at once.Just because he saw a picture of a beautiful man, his soul travelled through time and space to a different world. And he found that the original owner of this body Rong Yi had married, had a husband, and was pregnant with a baby for four years. He asked to correct the small feet wrapped before, and asked to throw away all the makeups. People thoug...

The Wisdom of World Religions on Death—A Cross-Civilizational Dialogue on Life, Seeking Answers to Death and the Meaning of Human ExistenceDeath is the common destination of every human being; yet how we face death determines how we live.From ancient times to the present, humanity has continued to ask the same questions:Is death the end?Why are human beings afraid of death?How do we continue living after losi...

Take Your Ministry Beyond Cultural Competence to Cultural FluencyIn Thriving Intercultural Ministry, specialist Pablo Kim Sun draws on years of intercultural ministry experience to guide churches and ministries beyond multicultural good intentions to genuine intercultural transformation. He offers a trauma-informed, embodied approach, addressing how cultural displacement and discrimination live in bodies and systems across generations, and how intercultura...