Although the "Han" Chinese constitute about 95 percent of the population of the PRC, they are much more diverse than most Westerners realize. The numerous subgroups of Han speak dialects that seem almost like different languages, and they have a wide range of cultural traditions (differing cuisines, operatic forms, life styles, and attitudes toward

This in-depth examination of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 provides a chronological review of the events, ordinances, and pervasive attitudes that preceded, coincided with, and followed its enactment. The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 was a historic act of legislation that demonstrated how the federal government of the United States once openly condoned racial discrimination. Once the Exclusion Act passed, the door was opened to further limitation of Asians in America during the late 19th century, such as the Scott Act of 1888 and the Geary Act of 1892, and increased hatred towards and violence against Chinese people based on the misguided belief they were to blame for depressed wage levels and unemployment among Caucasians. This title traces the complete evolution of the Exclusion Act, including the history of Chinese immigration to the United States, the factors that served to increase their populations here, and the subsequent efforts to limit further immigration and encourage the departure of the Chinese already in America.

Urgent and timeless, Legacies brings us closer than we have ever been to penetrating the great conundrum of China m the twentieth century. It could only have been written by Bette Bao Lord -- born in China, raised in America, author of the bestselling novel Spring Moon, wife of a former American ambassador to China, resident in Beijing during the "China Spring" of 1989. Lord's unique web of relationships and her sensitive insight have enabled her to observe Chinese life both high and low, Communist and dissident, intellectual and ordinary. Lord interweaves her own story, and that of her clansmen, with the voices of men and women who recall the tumultuous experience of the last fifty years, and the legacy of the Cultural Revolution. In precise, subtle prose, Lord explores the reality of Red Guards and reeducation camps, of friends and families severed by political disgrace, and captures the individual voices of those caught up in them: the seven-year-old girl with a heart full of hate for her father; the journalist whose girlfriend believes the Party newspapers, not him; the imprisoned scholar who hid his writings in his quilt for years; the anti-revolutionary who tells his bitter story in a vein of high farce. All bear heartbreaking witness to the surreal quality of Chinese society today -- and to the astonishing resilience, humor, and heroic equanimity of the Chinese spirit.

Chinese Mosaic is a collection of memoirs, short stories, essays, and columns. Pueblo Chieftain, a daily newspaper in Pueblo, Colorado, published the columns in 19861995. The columns and essays introduce variety of subjects of Chinese customs, culture, and history. The memoirs and short stories are true personal experiences and stories of a few Chinese womenhistorical figures and contemporaries. The author strives to have each piece be dotted with history and customs. She hopes the reader would grasp a clear understanding about the Chinese, the people, the language, and the culture. Her first novel, Two SwordmastersChiang Shiao ho and Lee Mo-bai, was published in March 2018.

Symptoms of disease in plants; Non-parasitic diseases; Diseases due to deficiences of food materials in the soil; Diseases due to excesses of soluble salts in the soil; Diseases due to unfavorable water relations; Diseases due to improper air relations; Diseases due to high temperatures; Diseases due to low temperatures; Diseases due to unfavorable light light relations; Diseases due to manufacturing or industrial processes; Diseases due to control practices; Virus and related diseases; Parasitic diseases; Bacterial diseases of plants; Diseases due to slime molds; The conditions of a fungus in or on the substratum; Diseases due to downy mildews and allies; Diseases due to pondscum parasites; Diseases due to black molds and allies; Diseases due to leaf curls and related fungi; Diseases due to cup fungi and allies; Diseases due to powdery mildews and allies; Diseases due to sphere fungi and allies; Diseases due to imperfect fungi; Diseases due to smut fungi; Diseases due to rust fungi; Diseases due to palisade fungi and allies; Parasitic seed plants and the troubles they cause; Nematodes and the diseases they cause.

Caillou learns all about Chinese New Year with his friend Sarah. Includes a cutout dragon mask!