Critical Plant Studies in Taiwan presents a historical overview of vegetal ecocriticism in Taiwan. Divided into 12 chapters, it examines the human-plant entanglements on the island. Covering a wide spectrum of topics, such as the imperial plant explorations, the military casuarina afforestation, the mangrove conservation movement, the ecofeminist rooftop garden, the Indigenous millet restoration, the underground mycorrhizal network in urban Taipei, etc., it discloses the phyto-politics in the historical context of the vegetal materialist condition of the island. Intersecting the poetics and politics of plant narratives, it presents the multispecies plantscapes of the island. The first of its kind, the collection launches the historical and localized critical plant studies in Taiwan.
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This book investigates the aesthetics and politics of Post/Taiwan-New-Cinema by examining fifteen movies by six directors and frequent award winners in international film festivals. The book considers the works of such prominent directors as Edward Yang, Tsai Ming-liang and Chang Tsuo-chi and their influence on Asian films, as well as emergent phenomenal directors such as Wei Te-sheng, Zero Chou, and Chung Mong-hong. It also explores the possibility of transnational and trans-local social sphere in the interstices of layered colonial legacies, nation-state domination, and global capitalism. Considering Taiwan cinema in the wake of globalization, it analyses how these films represent the socio-political transition among multiple colonial legacies, global capitalism, and the changing cross-strait relation between Taiwan and the Mainland China. The book discusses how these films represent nomadic urban middle class, displaced transnational migrant workers, roaming children and young gangsters, and explores how the continuity/disjuncture of globalization has not only carved into historical and personal memories and individual bodies, but also influenced the transnational production modes and marketing strategies of cinema.
In 1953 Margaret Mead and Rhoda Metraux produced The Study of Culture at a Distance, a compilation of research from this period. This work, long unavailable, presents a rich and complex methodology for the study of cultures through literature, film, informant interviews, focus groups, and projective techniques.
About the Book The Protectors, Part I follows along with the Williams family during the final years, months, and days up to the translation of Christ’s Church. Bruce is a well-renowned international lawyer. His wife, Alyce, is a fiery redhead but through her years of training as an ER doctor and self-defense training she is well able to control her sudden impulses. Their son, Robbie, is a southern Border Patrol Agent. Their daughter, T’ryce, is a precocious teenager going into her senior year of high school at a Messianic Church School in California. She becomes proficient not only in all of her studies but also in table tennis, pickleball, and self-defense. The enemy of the human soul is self-evident in this book as the Williams family, through their talent and skills and the guidance, protection, and direction of the Lord, thwarts daily his designs on their lives. The Protectors, Part I is very clear, right from the beginning, that the Williams family and those they join with are not Messianic Christians just in word only but also in deeds, aggressive and decisive deeds. It is hoped the readers will take away from this work the urgency of making sure they have received Christ as Savior and Lord before it becomes too late. About the Author John O. Grimley publicly made his profession of faith in Jesus Christ as his Savior and was baptized by a Nigerian pastor, one of his father’s associates. Now semi-retired and an avid fan of the sport of pickleball, he is employed part-time by the Ray & Joan Kroc Community Center (The Salvation Army). His primary responsibility is to develop the game of pickleball through teaching and instruction and by running open court sessions, ladder leagues, clinics, tournaments, and pickleball and pizza nights. As of August 2020, he is a nationally certified pickleball coach. John is available to speak and teach at churches, fellowships, and Sunday Schools, as well as to audiences both in the religious and public sectors. Other books by John O. Grimley: The Messiah, His Comings (2010) "Yea, Has God Said...?" (2020)
It includes many quotations, proverbs, and idioms that shows the wise wisdom and experience of the ages. Learn from the past and improve at the present. Don't fear the future. Challenging the present problems, we'll have a sweet memory and make a better preparation for the future. When reading my book, you learn to speak some Chinese for fun. Well, as S. Johnson says, every man has a right to utter what he think truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it.
Mien Shiang is a 3000-year-old Taoist practice that means literally face (mien) reading (shiang). It was first used in China as a diagnostic tool for the practitioners of Traditional Chinese Medicine who could detect signs of existing ailments as well as predispositions to illness of mind, body and spirit, simply by studying one's face. Soon the Taoist monks developed the art of Mien Shiang to help them evaluate the personal integrity and honesty of those doing business with the courts and officials. Mien Shiang is not about reading facial expressions or telltale tics or shifty eyes but rather face shapes, facial features, positions and sizes and shapes of each feature, lines, shadows, moles and other facial markings. They are foolproof signs, if you know how to read them, you know the art of Mien Shiang. And no one is inscrutable any more! Knowing Mien Shiang can help you to answer two perennial questions: Who Am I and Who Are You. 'Patrician McCarthy is the most dynamic, brilliant, innovative, and empathetic consultant my teams have worked with over the years.' - Ivy Ross, Executive Vice President of Design and Development, Old Navy/Gap Inc. 'I will do anything Patrician McCarthy tells me to do. She makes not just my work better, but my entire life.' - Michael Edelstein, Executive Producer, Desperate Housewives '[Patrician McCarthy] always has interesting insights on how to market to the different types of people who will be interested in our products. We can't wait for her to come back, again and again.' - David Kuehler , Vice President, Procter + Gamble
New Taiwanese Cinema in Focus therefore presents the Taiwanese New Wave and Second Wave movements with an emphasis on intertextuality, citation and trans-cultural dialogue.
