From one of twentieth-century China\"s greatest writers and the author of Lust, Caution, this is an unforgettable story of a love affair set in 1930s Shanghai. Manzhen is a young worker in a Shanghai factory, where she meets Shijun, the son of wealthy merchants....

Recent research acknowledges that visitors come to museums with their own agendas and construct their own meanings from a museum experience....

There were two women in Zhenbao\'s life: one he called his white rose, the other his red rose. One was a spotless wife, the other a passionate mistress. Isn\'t that just how the average man describe a chaste widow\'s devotion to her husband\'s memory - as spotless, and passionate too? Maybe every man has had two such women - at least two....

Risk and reward are always foremost in the determination of investment decisions and business transactions. Advances in the area of Information Communication Technologies (ICT) have enabled the development of new business paradigms....

Learning how to build useful e-commerce applications is challenging and exciting because it involves knowing a little about a lot of different computing technologies including networking, security, programming, human computer interface design and database design....

America is a nation where a strong entrepreneurial culture establishes favorable conditions for subsequent entrepreneurship activity. I develop and test a model that comprises the determinants and consequences of new venture creation in American counties....

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In 1940s Shanghai, beautiful young Jiazhi spends her days playing mahjong and drinking tea with high-society ladies. But China is occupied by invading Japanese forces, and in wartime things are not always what they seem. Jiazhi\"s life is a front....

Eileen Chang is one of the great writers of twentieth-century China, where she enjoys a passionate following both on the mainland and in Taiwan. At the heart of Chang\"s achievement is her short fiction - tales of love, longing, and the shifting......