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As the first Chinese female scientist to win a Nobel prize (in physiology or medicine) in 2015, what were Tu Youyou’s formative experiences and the major events that shaped her life? How did this remarkable woman − without a medical degree, doctorate or overseas work experience – makesuch a valuable contribution to the control of malaria? This book explores the extraordinary career of this modest, frugal and very unconventional scientist and records her inspirational work.During early clinical trials, Tu traveled to malaria-endemic areas of Hainan and was the first to test her medicine on herself to ensure it was safe after the drug had shown promising results in mice and monkeys. Only then were the clinical trials expanded to include other humans.Afflicted with tuberculosis at the age of 16, Tu Youyou recovered two years later with a determination to make up for lost time. In fact, the illness was the making of her in that it sparked an interest in medicine and pharmacology and a desire to help save the lives of others. Indifferent to fame and wealth, and courageous in the pursuit of truth, she went on to make remarkable scientific achievements.Although born in Ningbo at a time of turmoil, Tu Youyou was among the first intake of female college students in the new China. She made the most of this good fortune by devoting herself to decades of quiet and patient labor in which she embraced Chairman Mao Zedong’s quest for the country to combine traditional Chinese medicine and western medicine.Separated from her family, she led a national research group codenamed ‘Mission 523’ tasked with developing antimalarial drugs from Chinese medicines. Exposing themselves to considerable hardship and danger, the team’s pioneering work led to the discovery of artemisinin, a drug therapy that has since saved millions of lives across the globe, especially in developing countries.

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Imagine what it’s like to effectively organise and develop a political party with over 65 million (65m) members – that’s bigger than the total populations of many of the world’s most developed countries such as the UK (65m), France (64m), and Australia (24m).Then imagine that, if the Communist Party of China (CPC) was a country, its population would rank as the 21st biggest in the world. In addition to developing and organising its 65m party members, it had to embed them among a population of 1.38bn people so that the party could lead and guide the world’s biggest population to develop from economic backwardness after years of war and destruction to become the 2nd largest economy in the world within nine decades.Now, imagine what it takes to achieve that in terms of structure and organisation and you have a good grasp of the scale of the CPC’s achievement from its founding with just 50 members in 1921 until 2015 with some 65m members.The Communist Party of China: the Past, Present and Future of Party Building gives a blow-by-blow and chapter-by-chapter account of how the CPC got from where it was in 1921 shortly after the founding of the party to where it is now.

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El cuerpo humano es uno de los organismos más complejos y maravillosos de la Naturaleza. Tras millones de años de evolución y desarrollo de un fabuloso y complejo sistema inteligente de autorregulación, autorregeneración y autorreparación, nuestro organismo aún atesora miles de enigmas sin resolver. Gracias a su antigüedad y su registro sistemático de historiales clínicos, la Medicina Tradicional China puede aportar respuestas útiles a algunos de esos misterios, en un viaje desde la ancestral tradición hasta las modernas prácticas científicas que confluye hoy con una Medicina Integrativa de amplia y holística visión sobre las enfermedades, la salud y el bienestar humano.Esta obra ofrece a los lectores y a los profesionales de la salud un enfoque moderno de la Medicina Tradicional China y, particularmente, de la Acupuntura, basado en fundamentos científicos y evidencias clínicas, para contribuir al autoconocimiento de la naturaleza humana. Lejos de exigir auto de fe alguno, estas pág

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Según la medicina china, las enfermedades son consecuencia de trastornos originados en el cuerpo mental y emocional de cada persona. Cuando enfermas, el cuerpo entero está enfermo. En el conocimiento del cuerpo está el secreto de la salud y la longevidad, la manera más eficaz para gozar de una salud de hierro, armonía espiritual y fuerza sin límites.Nacido en Beijing y establecido en Madrid, el Dr. Liu Zheng de la Clínica Medizen comparte en este libro todos sus conocimientos. Él sugiere un estilo de vida para mejorar los pequeños hábitos, la nutrición, la armonía espiritual; una forma de solucionar los problemas cotidianos más comunes basándose en la milenaria medicina china.Con un lenguaje fácil de comprender, esta obra demuestra que cualquiera puede sortear las dolencias más comunes. Temas como los biorritmos, los horarios de las comidas y descanso, la fitoterapia, las comidas en sustitución del medicamento, la meditación activa y pasiva, el cómo adelgazar, los secretos de la

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The Painted Skin Chinese Breeze Graded Reader Level 3 750 Words.

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Three years after the devastating Pacific War, tensions run thick across China. Inside Peking, groups once aligned against external forces now bicker among themselves. Streets churn as Communists and Nationalists jostle for position, threatening to unravel a delicate peace. A decade of struggle has taxed the citizenry to their limits, their daily struggles exacerbated by an overstretched and corrupt government. Into this world steps Feng Meng’ao, a hotshot young fighter pilot for the Kuomintang Air Force. He reorganises his flying brigade into a relief unit for those in need, trying to stem the breakdown of order.When an important mission sends him to the old northern capital, his presence draws unwanted attention and he is swept up in accusations meant for his father. Will his drive to help those in need be enough to weather this political firestorm? Or is he due for an untimely crash?

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Following the death of Mao Zedong, Gu Mu was a major figure in the 1980s ‘Reform and Opening Up’ of China’s economy. After the founding of the PRC in 1949, he took on a number of important positions in developing China’s economy, before being persecuted during the Cultural Revolution.Following his ‘rehabilitation’ in 1973, he rapidly made up for lost time, and began laying the groundwork for the incredible economic rise the People’s Republic would undergo in the following decades.Gu Mu: Revolutionary Thinker, Organiser and Technocrat features never-before-seen archive photos dating back to the revolutionary wars of the early 20th century in addition to detailed eye-witness accounts and colourful anecdotes of the great man’s life that really bring his true character and influence on Chinese history to light.

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His mission to better the lot of Peking’s citizens has put Fang Meng’ao on the radar of Inspector General Zeng Keda, the fearsome and ruthless commander responsible for maintaining order in the city. Naturally suspicious of Communists, his hunt for revolutionaries ensnares the young maverick.The city has become a snake pit of treachery and double-dealing. Desperate measures, such as the currency reforms implemented by the Central Bank governor, plaster over the cracks of a fracturing society.Out on the streets, the intellectual Yang Jinglun helps organise student protests and rebellions for those accused of siding with the Reds. With the nation embroiled in full-blown civil war, the tension builds and Fang Meng’ao becomes desperate. Can he evade Zeng Keda’s suspicious eyes?* Or will he fall prey to one of the many traps set in the city?*

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One Day Three Autumns was written to preserve the memory of the author's sixth uncle, a talented artist whose paintings were tragically burned after his death. It attempts to bring them back to life in writing, proving that those we love are never truly gone, and that a home is more than what we choose to fill it with.

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One strange day, roughly 20,000 otherworldly spaceships flew into stable orbit around the Earth. After six months with no contact from the mysterious spacecrafts, in a certain Asian village, a young girl named Zihan discovers an old man who fell from the sky. Soon, many more elderly drifters in similar clothing begin popping up all over the world-their numbers surpassing two billion in total. What is the goal of these mysterious visitors? Find out in this adaptation of a story by the popular Chinese sci-fi author, Cixin Liu!

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