This book examines minban teacher policies and their implementation in China between 1949 and 2000, when rural areas were in severe shortage of qualified teachers. During this period of time, minban teachers made great contributions to education, doing the same work as state-employed school teachers while receiving much lower salaries due to non-official status.With solid fieldwork on oral history of minban teachers and policy actors and deep examination ...

A soul awakened in another time where an ordinary life is a distant dream, and survival means building everything from the ground up.Armed with a mysterious system, the power to nurture, and a mind full of modern knowledge, she faces a world caught between urban decay and rural rebirth.Through patience, courage, and quiet determination, small seeds of hope turn into fields of farming prosperity.Each harvest is more than survival it’s a story of romance, healing, and...

A soul awakened in another time where an ordinary life is a distant dream, and survival means building everything from the ground up.Armed with a mysterious system, the power to nurture, and a mind full of modern knowledge, she faces a world caught between urban decay and rural rebirth.Through patience, courage, and quiet determination, small seeds of hope turn into fields of farming prosperity.Each harvest is more than survival it’s a story of romance, healing, and...

This book traces the transformation of traditional Chinese theatre’s (xiqu) aesthetics during its encounters with Western drama and theatrical forms in both mainland China and Taiwan since 1978. Through analyzing both the text and performances of eight adapted plays from William Shakespeare, Bertolt Brecht, and Samuel Beckett, this book elaborates on significant changes taking place in playwriting, acting, scenography, and stage-audience relations stemming from intercultural appro...

A soul awakened in another time where an ordinary life is a distant dream, and survival means building everything from the ground up.Armed with a mysterious system, the power to nurture, and a mind full of modern knowledge, she faces a world caught between urban decay and rural rebirth.Through patience, courage, and quiet determination, small seeds of hope turn into fields of farming prosperity.Each harvest is more than survival it’s a story of romance, healing, and...

A soul awakened in another time where an ordinary life is a distant dream, and survival means building everything from the ground up.Armed with a mysterious system, the power to nurture, and a mind full of modern knowledge, she faces a world caught between urban decay and rural rebirth.Through patience, courage, and quiet determination, small seeds of hope turn into fields of farming prosperity.Each harvest is more than survival it’s a story of romance, healing, and...

This book offers a comprehensive perspective on carbon fluorides, covering detailed descriptions of the structure, properties, preparation, and applications of carbon fluorides, from basic knowledge to the latest research developments. It provides readers with a clear and in-depth analysis of carbon fluorides. This book first describes the structural properties of carbon fluorides, such as the formation of different types of C-F bonds, F/C ratio, and the impact of F atom distribution on ma...

This book addresses the discursive construction of corporate identities in social media on the part of Chinese corporations, particularly highlighting how followers of corporate social media co-create corporate identities during firm-follower interactions. Toward this end, it pursues an integrated sociolinguistics approach combining e.g. thematic analysis, interactional analysis and in-depth interviews. Readers will also find extensive information on the brand-new dialogic framework of cor...

Organic Solar Thermal Fuels: Mechanisms, Design, and Applications offers a significant introductory overview of the key properties, mechanisms, applications, and research directions in this emerging field of photothermal conversion materials.This book explores the types, characteristics, preparation, testing, applications, and future trends of small organic molecules, polymers, and nanocomposites for solar heat storage. Through the functionalization, composite and ordered structure...

This volume provides researchers with the most updated understanding of the basics of West Nile Virus (WNV). Chapters focus on the biology, virology, epidemiology, pathogenesis, as well as the step-by-step molecular, cellular, and statistical methods to study WNV infection in cell culture, mosquitos, animal models, and human clinical specimen. Written in the highly successful Methods in Molecular Biology series format, chapters include introductions to their respective topics, lis...

In this issue of Cardiac Electrophysiology Clinics, guest editors Drs. Luigi Di Biase and Fengwei Zou bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Pulsed Field Ablation. Pulsed Field Ablation (PFA) is a promising and evolving technology in the field of cardiac electrophysiology, with ongoing research exploring its safety and efficacy. In this issue, top experts discuss lesion characteristics of PFA; tissue selectivity of PFA; pulmonary vein isolation with PFA; and much more. - Contai...

This book summarizes the recent advances in applications of starch in state-of-the-art drug carriers (hydrogel, micro- and nano-particulate carriers) with stimulus-responsive and target-specific properties. It also highlights the role of starch and its derivatives in transmucosal administration to improve the bioavailability of drugs. Further, it outlines the principles of effective, advanced, starch-based drug delivery systems and illustrates how these principles are key to the developmen...