Download or read book Breaking with the Past written by Hans van de Ven and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2014-02-11 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between its founding in 1854 and its collapse in 1952, the Chinese Maritime Customs Service delivered one-third to one-half of all revenue collected by China's central authorities. Much more than a tax collector, the institution managed China's harbors, erected lighthouses, and surveyed the Chinese coast. It funded and oversaw the Translator's College, which trained Chinese diplomats while its staff translated Chinese classics, novels, and poetry and wrote important studies on the Chinese economy, its financial system, its trade, its history, and its government. It organized contributions to international exhibitions, developed its own shadow diplomacy, pioneered China's modern postal system, and even maintained its own armed force. After the 1911 Revolution, the agency became deeply involved in the management of China's international loans and domestic bond issues. In other words, the Customs Service was pivotal to China's post-Taiping integration into the world of modern nation-states and twentieth-century trade and finance. If the Customs Service introduced the modern governance of trade to China, it also made Chinese legible to foreign audiences. Following the activities of the Inspectors General, who were virtual autocrats within the service and communicated regularly with senior Chinese officials and foreign diplomats, this history tracks the Customs Service as it transformed China and its relationship to the world. The Customs Service often kept China together when little else did. This book reveals the role of the agency in influencing the outcomes of the Sino-French War, the Boxer Rebellion, and the 1911 Revolution, as well as the rise of the Nationalists in the 1920s, and concludes with the Customs Service purges of the early 1950s, when the relentless logic of revolution dismantled the agency for good.
Download or read book The Law Times Reports written by and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 990 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Cultures of Eschatology written by Veronika Wieser and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-07-20 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Apokalyptische Vorstellungen von Untergang und Verheißung, von letzten Dingen und äußersten Wahrheiten, von Endgültigem und noch nie Dagewesenem begleiten die europäische Kulturgeschichte seit mehr als 2000 Jahren. Die vorliegende Reihe Kulturgeschichte der Apokalypse legt eine heterogene und interdisziplinäre Durchmessung des Endzeitdenkens aus historisch-kulturwissenschaftlicher Perspektive vor. Sie betont die einzigartigen Verhaftungen apokalyptischer Diskurse in jeweils zeitgenössischen, epistemischen, medialen und politischen Kontexten und plädiert für den Mut zum Bruch – zum Bruch mit homogenen Lesarten, linearen Denktraditionen und lediglich formalen Rückführungen auf einen apokalyptischen Ursprung. Dabei öffnet sie den Blick in andere religiöse wie geographische Kontexte und lädt zum interdisziplinären Vergleich ein.
Download or read book Fractured Faith written by Lina AbuJamra and published by Moody Publishers. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After your faith has fractured, let what takes its place be the real thing . . . at last. Somewhere along the way, the Christianity you knew began to crumble. You began to suspect your faith was misplaced. Disillusionment set in. Churches hurt you. Their people failed you. Christian institutions were exposed as fake. And in it all, God was silent. Is He gone? Or is God really there, waiting for you to find Him instead of the counterfeits? If you’re walking this difficult spiritual path, Lina AbuJamra understands you. After experiencing the near deconstruction of her own faith, Lina had to rebuild something more solid when the faith she once knew let her down. With her diagnostic style that comes from her training as an ER doc, Lina helps you grapple with questions like: Where is God in my pain? Is this how Christians are supposed to act? Why did my story end up this way? Is this the normal Christian life? Why is it so hard for Christians to love? Let Fractured Faith help you find your way back to God. You just might discover that the real God has been waiting for you all along.
Download or read book Toll House Tried and True Recipes written by Ruth Graves Wakefield and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1977-01-01 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For all cooks, this book is a true classic. It contains hundreds of interesting recipes along with hundreds of hints will make anything you prepare a success. The owner of the Toll House Restaurant in Whitman, Massachusetts, Ruth Wakefield offers here the most famous and successful tips and recipes which made her restaurant so renowned. The author begins with the necessary information all good cooks need: helpful hints (dip peeled bananas in lemon juice to prevent discoloration, how to measure solid fat); equivalents and proportions; purchasing guide; timetable for roasting, broiling, boiling, oven steaming; care of your refrigerator and range, how to save fuel; table setting and service; challenging menus; inexpensive everyday meals; success with frozen desserts; and much, much more. There is also a "primer for brides," which contains 36 essential dishes for the new homemaker (from making hot or iced coffee to main courses, desserts, even champagne punch!) Then come the mouth-watering recipes: hors d'oeuvres (cheese balls, caviar toast, stuffed mushroom caps, etc.), appetizers (fruit shrub, stuffed cantaloupe, oyster cocktail, etc.), soups, stews, and chowders (clam bisque, baked bean soup, lobster stew, clam chowder, croutons, croustades, etc.), bread (crumb bread, shredded wheat bread, Swedish tea ring, health bread, orange bread, etc.), meats and poultry (pot roast with vegetables, Neapolitan meat loaf, shepherd's pie, crown roast of pork, chicken divan, chicken terrapin, etc.), meat substitutes (goldenrod eggs, foamy omelettes, cheese croquettes, noodle ring, etc.); seafood (baked halibut, salmon and rice delight, Toll House lobster, lobster imperial, etc.), vegetables, salads and dressing, desserts, all kinds of sauces, cakes and cookies, frosting and fillings, pastries and pies, candies, tea time sandwiches, relishes, and oddments. The book concludes with sections on solving kitchen problems, how to cook for a hundred people, and a guide to purchasing, preserving, and canning jellies, jams, fruits, and vegetables.
Download or read book Reports of All the Cases Decided by All the Superior Courts Relating to Magistrates Municipal and Parochial Law written by Great Britain. Magistrates' cases and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Phantom Tollbooth written by Norton Juster and published by Yearling. This book was released on 1988-10-12 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With almost 5 million copies sold 60 years after its original publication, generations of readers have now journeyed with Milo to the Lands Beyond in this beloved classic. Enriched by Jules Feiffer’s splendid illustrations, the wit, wisdom, and wordplay of Norton Juster’s offbeat fantasy are as beguiling as ever. “Comes up bright and new every time I read it . . . it will continue to charm and delight for a very long time yet. And teach us some wisdom, too.” --Phillip Pullman For Milo, everything’s a bore. When a tollbooth mysteriously appears in his room, he drives through only because he’s got nothing better to do. But on the other side, things seem different. Milo visits the Island of Conclusions (you get there by jumping), learns about time from a ticking watchdog named Tock, and even embarks on a quest to rescue Rhyme and Reason. Somewhere along the way, Milo realizes something astonishing. Life is far from dull. In fact, it’s exciting beyond his wildest dreams!
Download or read book The Soul After Death written by Seraphim Rose and published by Saint Herman Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Book of Liz written by Amy Sedaris and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 2002 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: Sister Elizabeth Donderstock is Squeamish, has been her whole life. She makes cheese balls (traditional and smoky) that sustain the existence of her entire religious community, Clusterhaven. However, she feels unappreciated among her Squ
Download or read book Reports of All the Cases Decided by All the Superior Courts Relating to Magistrates Municipal and Parochial Law written by Great Britain. Courts and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Law Times Reports of Cases Decided in the House of Lords the Privy Council the Court of Appeal new Series written by and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 988 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Pittsburgh Legal Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing reports from Pennsylvania judicial districts and other leading decisions.
Download or read book The National Road and the Difficult Path to Sustainable National Investment written by Theodore Sky and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2011-07-16 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The National Road is a comprehensive history of the first federally financed interstate highway, an approximately 600-mile span that joined Maryland, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois in the nineteenth century. This book covers the road's contribution to the cultural, economic, and administrative history of the United States, its decline during the second half of the nineteenth century, and its revival in the twentieth century in the form of U.S. Route 40. The story of the National Road embraces an account of its building, its constitutional significance, the unique culture that it represented, the movements and trends that transpired across its route, and the symbolic value that it held, and continues to hold, for the American people. Beyond its status as an American heritage symbol, it serves as a forceful reminder that the United States must continue to pursue the goal of sustainable national investment that began with the National Road and comparable projects during the early republic.
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Download or read book The Toll House written by William Wymark Jacobs and published by Litres. This book was released on 2018-07-22 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
