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    Three years ago, an apprentice walked into the Jinling brocade workshop and ruined her third bolt of silk before lunch.Yun brocade is a stubborn art: continuous warp, broken weft. The most patient hands spend a decade learning it. She was eight years old when she arrived, and she could not learn it. For three years she sat at the loom and cried into tangled thread, until the master of the workshop ... Read more

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  • 我的嫁妆谁也别想动

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    她记得自己 996 到凌晨两点,猝死在工位上。 她没料到自己再次睁开眼时,是被烟熏醒的。 ——她穿越成了一本小说里被欺负致死的炮灰媳妇。 但她手里拿着的不再是文件,而是擀面杖。宋念薇,28 岁,996 社畜,加班到凌晨两点猝死。再次睁开眼,她蹲在一口大灶前,灶膛里柴火噼啪作响。 婆母让她烧火做饭。姑姐让她洗衣服。丈夫是个窝囊废。 她突然想起来了——这是她睡前翻过的一本小说,她叫宋念薇,是个炮灰角色。那一通借钱大姑姐周翠翠回娘家,要借 50 两银子。 "妈,我有身孕了,孩子不是李家哥的。我要打掉。" 婆婆想偷偷拿宋念薇的嫁妆钱。宋念薇走出灶房,挺直了腰:"我的嫁妆,哪怕是一文钱都不能动用。" "姑姐若要借钱,那就书写借据,按下手印。... ... Read more

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    This book is a proceeding of the Conference on High-Quality Urban Development and Beautiful Countryside Construction (UDCC). This work focuses on the latest thoughts, ideas, models, methods, solutions, and practices on resilient, low-carbon, and sustainable city through planning and design, covering interdisciplinary topics in architecture, urban-rural planning, meteorology, building and ... Read more

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  • Ferrying the Crane

    by li zhu tian ...
    He has slain demons for ninety-nine years. Ninety-nine years. Ninety-nine demons. Never failed, never hesitated, never made an exception.Gu Du is the sharpest blade the Ninth Heaven has ever known. He stands at the center of the Demon-Slaying Platform, paved with bluestone, marked with the dark brown stains of ninety-eight demons whose blood has seeped into the rock. Around him stand four Demon ... Read more

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  • Healthcare Information Systems

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  • Lightless Winter Night

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    She tied the victim's hands and feet. Then she tightened the rope—slowly, gradually, point by point. She didn't cover the mouth and nose with force. She adjusted the angle, so the victim would feel the pain of suffocation.Then she untied the rope, wiped away the fingerprints, and turned on every light in the room."Auntie, does this count as avenging you?"On Chinese New Year's Eve, the body of a ... Read more

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  • Intelligent Vehicles

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    This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second CCF Intelligent Vehicles Symposium on Intelligent Vehicles, CCF CIVS 2024, held in Wuhan, China, during October 19–20, 2024.The 31 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 60 submissions. The papers contained in these proceedings address challenging issues in autonomous driving, lidar, radar, camera, ... Read more

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  • Multimodality in Translation Studies

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    Focusing on multimodality in translation studies, this edited volume presents insights into the models, trends, and practices of multimodal translation across a variety of media contexts in contemporary China.The book is structured into five main themes, investigating audiovisual translation in digital media, multimodal translation of Chinese classics in print media, multimodal design in website ... Read more

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  • Private Education in China

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    This book takes an in-depth look at the development of the private education sector in modern China. Readers will find valuable data and materials never before presented in such an accessible and transparent way, together with analyses of the major changes and challenges in the course of this development. The book is organized both chronologically and by topic: it employs a past-present-future ... Read more

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  • The Crossed-Out Name

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    I raised him for eighteen years. In his will, I became a name to be deleted.After the earthquake, widower He Jianguo brought a six-year-old boy home from a relief camp. He built a life around school fees, quiet evenings, and braised ribs simmering for a son who still called him Uncle He.Now Chen Yuan has found his biological father—the man who disappeared before the earthquake that killed his ... Read more

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