The Biochemical Man Night Blue was created by Doctor Feng Lei, and was then forced to teleport to a thousand years ago by Selina, who loved Doctor Mu Feng Lei. Completing a mission that even Nightland himself didn't know about. Later, in that era, Blue Night fell in love with a man named Feng Chen Xiao. This caused a series of grudges in the martial arts world to arise. Eventually, he died and returned to the modern era, learning the ultimate meaning of his creation.

"Su Xiaoyue, a doctor in her previous life, had somehow traveled to ancient times." At that time, the Emperor had already bestowed her with a marriage. With her modern wisdom, she didn't accept this arrangement.As for the betrothed Prince Luo Xuan, as he interacted with her, he was gradually attracted by her outspoken and straightforward personality, and fell in love with this particular woman.What kind of sacrifice would Su Xiaoyue make for the love between them? What could have happened ...

One accident blew up, but it wasn't the end. It was the beginning. It was an inexplicable era, an inexplicable time and space. Due to the arrival of Han Master, everything had changed. The genius of the Han Family, a prodigy in terms of business, but the most outstanding thing was still the Ancient Martial Arts Class. In the impoverished Ancient Martial Arts Realm, Master Han had actually used his own hard work and effort to break through to the Sky Realm. But the Heavenly Tribulation was ...

This book provides a unique perspective on atom economical utilization of biomass resources into value-added productions. Humins are inevitably formed during the process of biomass conversion, which compete with desired products, restrain the activity of catalyst and hinder the recycling of catalyst and separation of products. To further improve the efficiency of biomass conversion toward downstream products, unambiguous elucidation of the chemical structure and formation mechanism of humi...

A baseline study of the growth of preindustrial cities worldwide.This work employs a subset of preindustrial cities on many continents to answer questions archaeologists grapple with concerning the populating and growth of cities before industrialization. It further explores how scholars differently conceive and execute their research on the population of cities. The subject cities are in Greece, Mesoamerica, the Andes, Italy, Egypt, Africa, United States, Denmark,...

This book summarizes around 200 most recent patent administrative litigation cases concluded by the Intellectual Property Court of the Supreme People's Court of China in the form of restatements. It discusses the similarities and differences in claim construction, full disclosure, definiteness of claims, nature of reexamination and ex officio review in the context of recent patent administrative litigation cases. It is conducive to the implementation of unified review standards and achieve...

This great collection of traditional Chinese stories is a book to delight the imagination of children everywhere. Here you will find stories of witches, shape-changing monsters, and gentle people, as well as what happens to greedy people and foolish donkeys! These strange tales from faraway places have been collected and carefully translated by Yu-li Liu because she wants let the world of children understand the culture of China and the Chinese. These twelve stories are unique, interesting...

This book offers an insightful description of the productive behavior of four-character schematic idiomatic expressions (SIEs) in Mandarin and explores from a usage-based perspective the issue of how young learners acquire the partial productivity of these expressions. The beginning chapters contribute to a constructional understanding of the quadri-syllabic SIEs and an in-depth distributional analysis of three typical schematic patterns based on natural corpus data. The following chapters...

This is the first book to offer a comprehensive overview of the history and development of sport from the ancient to the contemporary era in China. It addresses the gap between the vibrant academic scholarship within China and the limited understanding of Chinese sport outside of the country. It opens different perspectives on Chinese sport and addresses a wide range of issues central to the development of sport in the context of Chinese culture, politics, economy, and society. It explores...

Reading in Chinese as an Additional Language focuses on Chinese literacy acquisition, which has been considered most difficult by both learners and teachers of Chinese as an additional language (CAL).Three major areas are covered: (1) acquisition of Chinese characters; (2) reading comprehension subskills and reader’s identity; (3) reading instruction and assessment. The first part delves into the foundation of Chinese literacy development—how to learn and teach Chinese cha...

This is the first book in English that adopts a critical socio-historical perspective to examine the important themes and challenges of Asian indigenous culture and sport. Written by leading sport historians and scholars, the chapters in the book contain real-life case studies and comparative studies in Asian sport.The book examines the history, contemporary governance and management, gender, and ethnic issues embedded in folk sports and physical culture, and the challenges faced b...

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the development and application of near-infrared fluorescence (NIRF) in cancer surgery. It thoroughly examines the history, principles, agents, functions, and devices associated with NIRF, along with the latest preclinical research and clinical applications. Special emphasis is placed on the advancements in the second NIRF window and its global implementation in cancer surgery, including innovative molecular imaging technologies in clinica...