Yang Xiao Livres

This book is devoted to fill the ‘urban economics niche’ and conceptualize a framework for valuing the urban configuration via local housing market. Advanced network analysis techniques are employed to capture the centrality features hindered in street layout. The author explores the several effects of urban morphology via housing market over two distinct contexts: UK and China. This work will appeal to a wide readership from scholars and practitioner to policy makers within the fields of real estate analysis, urban and regional studies, urban planning, urban design and economic geography.

The time-honored Chinese civilization has nurtured the distinctive Chinesepublishing industry. To some extent, its formulation and development mimics that of Chinese civilization. Chinese civilization is unique in the world in itscontinuity. As a significant activity of knowledge accumulation and culturalinheritance, publishing has contributed greatly to the spread and inheritance of Chinese civilization. In the past thousands of years, Chinese civilizationhas spread all over the world with books as carriers and has taken asignificant part in the development of world culture by constructing the Asian Confucianism civilization circle.

This book is more than a series of tales about intrigues, illicit love affairs, jealousies, and murders committed by the various women who populated the harems of China's many emperors. It is a unique retelling of major events in China's more than 3,000-year-old history as seen through the eyes of these courtesans of the rear palace. Each emperor had thousands of beauties at his beck and call. Most of them, separated at a young age from their families, lived in the rear palace in loneliness and seclusion. A few, however, wielded great power or even gained supremacy over the imperial court. Their stories vividly portray the social customs and palace life in ancient China, and give new insights into the important role of women in Chinese history.