Li Chen

(1) From Public Critique to Secret Assistance: Divergence in and Response of the Party Central Committee to the Reforms and Open-Up Policies of Guangdong after the Two Provincial Conferences in 1982 (Li Chen); (2) Imagining the Crowd: Screening the Masses of China's Cultural Revolution (Li Guo); (3) "Mountain Heads" in the Military of the Chinese Communist Party and the Way Mao Governed the Military Since 1949 (Shen Xiaoyun); (4) Wang Jingwei before Fleeing and Chen Bijun in Prison: A Reading of The Diary of Chen Kewen (Bin Yang); (5) Frontier as Ruin: The National Allegory in Landscape (Wu Xueshan); (6) Uncanny, or "Old Ghosts Coming Again": Mirror Images and Visual Illusions in Modern China (Hongfeng Tang); (7) Cultural Interaction and Comparative Literature in Modern China: A Special Issue (Yao Dadui); (8) God vs. Dragon: On Samuel I. Woodbridge's English Translation (1895) of "Westward Journey Stories" Contained in a Script of Tongzi Drama (Wu Xiaofang); (9) The Circulation and Reproduction of World Literature: Aesop's Fables in Modern China (Yao Dadui); (10) Chinese Genres, Western Works: The Formation of the Idea of Foreign Literature in Late Qing China (Carlos Yu-Kai Lin)

When an ambitious feline detective gets his paws on a mysterious treasure map, curiosity turns into a full-blown adventure! Li Chen’s bestselling Detective Beans series continues in this new graphic novel that will delight mystery fans and cat-lovers alike. Detective Beans is set on being the world's most successful detective, but before his mom will let him solve any cases, he's going to need to clean his room first. But when he sets out to deliver some mail he received by mistake, a whole new world of adventure opens. After being handed a mysterious treasure map by an old sea captain, Beans sets out to connect the clues on a journey that winds through amusement parks, secret tunnels, and pirate ships. Together with his best friend, Biscuits, the fearless feline detective pieces together a mystery that nobody in Cat Town saw coming. Young readers will delight in the charming characters, clever plot twists, and positive spirit of curiosity and problem-solving that pack every one of these colorful and beautifully illustrated pages.

The world's cutest cat detective is back on the case in this indie bestselling series. Li Chen's newest Detective Beans adventures are a must-read for anyone who loves mystery stories, cute animals, and hilarious original storytelling. Detective Beans is back on the case! In this series of mysteries and adventures, the world's cutest cat detective comes to the aid of her fellow villagers, searching for a cookie thief (with surprising results!), aiding a deceptive duck in the recovery of lost goods, and even doing his best to help a confused bear prove that the moon is made of cheese. In addition to these small capers, Adventures in Cat Town features behind-the-scenes footage of the crime-solving documentary directed by Beans best friend, Biscuits, as well as comics, stories, and even horoscopes illustrated by Beans himself. Called a "must-read" by School Library Journal and "absurdly funny and clever" by Kirkus, it's no mystery why this new series is such a hit!

"Bucătăria chinezească" este o călătorie gustativă ntr-unul dintre cele mai bogate și diverse stiluri de gătit din lume. Cartea conține peste 100 de rețete autentice chinezești, de la preparate cu carne și legume, la supe, garnituri și deserturi, fiecare aduc nd n farfurie arome și gusturi unice. Li Chen, autoarea cărții, este un expert n arta culinară chineză și mpărtășește secretele și tehnici de preparare care stau la baza acestor preparate delicioase. Fiecare rețetă este prezentată ntr-un mod simplu și accesibil, fără a fi nevoie de ingrediente exotice sau echipamente de gătit specializate. Pe l ngă rețetele delicioase, cartea oferă și o introducere completă n cultura și istoria culinară chineză, dezvăluind tradițiile și obiceiurile care au influențat bucătăria chinezească. De asemenea, sunt prezentate sfaturi și trucuri pentru a obține cele mai bune rezultate n bucătărie. Fie că ești un pasionat al bucătăriei chinezești sau doar curios să ncerci ceva nou, "Bucătăria chinezească" ți va oferi inspirație și sfaturi practice pentru a-ți mbunătăți abilitățile de gătit și pentru a-ți surprinde invitații cu preparate autentice chinezești.

How did American schoolchildren, French philosophers, Russian Sinologists, Dutch merchants, and British lawyers imagine China and Chinese law? What happened when agents of presumably dominant Western empires had to endure the humiliations and anxieties of maintaining a profitable but precarious relationship with China? In Chinese Law in Imperial Eyes, Li Chen provides a richly textured analysis of these related issues and their intersection with law, culture, and politics in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Using a wide array of sources, Chen's study focuses on the power dynamics of Sino-Western relations during the formative century before the First Opium War (1839-1842). He highlights the centrality of law to modern imperial ideology and politics and brings new insight to the origins of comparative Chinese law in the West, the First Opium War, and foreign extraterritoriality in China. The shifting balance of economic and political power formed and transformed knowledge of China and Chinese law in different contact zones. Chen argues that recovering the variegated and contradictory roles of Chinese law in Western "modernization" helps provincialize the subsequent Euro-Americentric discourse of global modernity. Chen draws attention to important yet underanalyzed sites in which imperial sovereignty, national identity, cultural tradition, or international law and order were defined and restructured. His valuable case studies show how constructed differences between societies were hardened into cultural or racial boundaries and then politicized to rationalize international conflicts and hierarchy.

This book aims at discussing the development of MOOCs in China in relation to MOOCs in other countries or areas. Based on the history of MOOCs, we summarize and compare the development of MOOCs in China and other countries with empirical evidence from a comprehensive investigation about MOOCs in Asian, United States, and Europe. Then we discuss about the importance of MOOCs in China and its role in the reform of higher education system, and the model of teaching and learning in China. After all, we provide suggestions about how to improve MOOCs at the national, institutional, and individual level. In this book, we analyse and present the current construction and development of MOOCs in China from four dimensions including platforms, courses, learners, colleges and universities based on huge empirical evidence from a comprehensive investigation of 14 platforms, 42 universities, 1388 MOOCs, and 22895 learners. Our investigation mainly focused on seven topics: platform construction and operation, learner groups, curriculum organization form, teaching interaction, learning evaluation model, learning support service, and courses certification and academic score system. Based on the investigation, we found there is an emerging trend of collaboration among government, universities and enterprise in the development of MOOCs in China, which provides great opportunities to build an innovative educational service system for all kinds of learners. We also discuss our findings in relation to the corresponding development of MOOCs in United States, Europe and other regions and then focus on the unique challenges that China faces, such as the lack of deep learning in MOOCs, the low information literacy and self-regulated learning abilities of MOOC learners, the lack of individualized support for MOOC learners, and so on. At last, this book summarizes the overall development of MOOCs in China and other countries and then put forward the future trends and suggestions in this field.

How did American schoolchildren, French philosophers, Russian Sinologists, Dutch merchants, and British lawyers imagine China and Chinese law? What happened when agents of presumably dominant Western empires had to endure the humiliations and anxieties of maintaining a profitable but precarious relationship with China? In Chinese Law in Imperial Eyes, Li Chen provides a richly textured analysis of these related issues and their intersection with law, culture, and politics in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Using a wide array of sources, Chen's study focuses on the power dynamics of Sino-Western relations during the formative century before the First Opium War (1839-1842). He highlights the centrality of law to modern imperial ideology and politics and brings new insight to the origins of comparative Chinese law in the West, the First Opium War, and foreign extraterritoriality in China. The shifting balance of economic and political power formed and transformed knowledge of China and Chinese law in different contact zones. Chen argues that recovering the variegated and contradictory roles of Chinese law in Western "modernization" helps provincialize the subsequent Euro-Americentric discourse of global modernity. Chen draws attention to important yet underanalyzed sites in which imperial sovereignty, national identity, cultural tradition, or international law and order were defined and restructured. His valuable case studies show how constructed differences between societies were hardened into cultural or racial boundaries and then politicized to rationalize international conflicts and hierarchy.