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The White Lotus Teachings in Chinese Religious History

The White Lotus Teachings in Chinese Religious History

B. J. ter Haar

Naquin (1976) Susan Naquin, Millenarian Rebellion in China: The Eight Trigrams Uprising of 1813 (Yale UP, New Haven, 1976). Naquin (1981) Susan Naquin, Shantung-rebellion: The Wang Lun Uprising of 1774 (Yale UP, New Haven, ...
Peking: Temples and City Life, 1400-1900

Peking: Temples and City Life, 1400-1900

Susan Naquin

The central character in Susan Naquin's extraordinary new book is the city of Peking during the Ming and Qing periods.
Chinese Society in the Eighteenth Century

Chinese Society in the Eighteenth Century

Susan Naquin

In this book Susan Naquin and Evelyn S. Rawski draw on the most recent research to provide a unique overview and reevaluation of the social history of China during this period--one of the most dynamic periods in China's early modern era.
山东叛乱: 1774年王伦起义

山东叛乱: 1774年王伦起义

Susan Naquin

1774年秋,山东西南地区数千名男女跟着一个名叫王伦的宗教首领,发动了一场起义。依仗着可以护身、躲避枪炮的咒语,这些白莲教叛乱者杀了三个县的地方官员 ...
Pilgrims and Sacred Sites in China

Pilgrims and Sacred Sites in China

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Susan Naquin The modern city of Peking sits on the northwest edge of the North China plain. This area, though long inhabited, was at the far frontiers of the Chinese empire for many centuries; indeed, it was as the southern foothold for ...
Popular Religious Movements and Heterodox Sects in Chinese ...

Popular Religious Movements and Heterodox Sects in Chinese ...

Hubert Michael Seiwert

I developed the idea of a monograph on Ming and Qing sectarianism based on archival materials and sectarian baojuan literature that would combine the approaches of the pioneer books by Susan Naquin and Daniel Overmyer.3 Since it ...
Susan Carter, the Orphan Girl, etc

Susan Carter, the Orphan Girl, etc

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... in their places; and Susan Carter is coming, and Mary Andrews, and Susan Bell and—but I can't recollect all the names; perhaps you are one P And, as she said this, she looked her earnestly in the face, saying, 'Why, you are Susan Carter , ...
THE SUSAN SMITH MURDER TRIAL: WHY SUSAN, WHY?

THE SUSAN SMITH MURDER TRIAL: WHY SUSAN, WHY?

Ronald Williams Sr.

said if Susan Smith hadn't told the sheriff she drowned her two kids, some manin oraround South Carolina would have gone to jail behind Susan Smith's lie. Thejuror also saidthe way them two little babies were sitting in theback seatof that car, ...
One Day at a Time: A Memoir

One Day at a Time: A Memoir

Susan Lewis

In 1960s Bristol, Susan's family was like any other with its joys and frustrations, and fierce loyalties. Then tragedy struck and left a legacy that was to last a lifetime. Susan was only nine when her mother died.
Susan Hefuna: xcultural codes

Susan Hefuna: xcultural codes

Susan Hefuna

Susan Hefuna's Egyptian-German heritage has led her to explore the respective cultures' characteristics and oppositions.
Dance While You Can

Dance While You Can

Susan Lewis

Praise for Susan Lewis 'Guaranteed to set the pulses racing' Daily Mail 'A multi-faceted tearjerker' heat 'Susan Lewis strikes gold again ... gripping' Options
Native America in the Twentieth Century: An Encyclopedia

Native America in the Twentieth Century: An Encyclopedia

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David Billiot of Golden Meadow, Jean Victor Naquin of IsledeJean Charles,and Jean BaptistParfaitof DulacGrand Caillou were among themore influentialleaders during the century. The discoveryof oilduring the 1930s ledto the lossof much ...
Darkest Longings

Darkest Longings

Susan Lewis

Praise for Susan Lewis 'Mystery and romance par excellence' Sun 'Spellbinding - you just keep turning the pages, with the atmosphere growing more and more intense as the story leads to its dramatic climax' Daily Mail 'Susan Lewis strikes ...
Spirit Willing: A Savannah Haunting

Spirit Willing: A Savannah Haunting

Susan B. Johnson

Jacket photo by Nancy Heffernan Author photo by Fred A. Johnson Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Johnson, Susan B. (Susan Belt), 1 934- Spirit willing : a Savannah haunting / by Susan B. Johnson. — I st ed. p. cm.
Rattling Rocco

Rattling Rocco

Susan Clare Anderson

Susan Clare Anderson. Rattling Rocco Edited By Tanya Miller Copyright © 2015 by Susan Clare Anderson. 721486 ISBN: Softcover. Written and Illustrated By SUSAN CLARE ANDERSON “Is there anything we can do?” asked Leramy, looking ...
Susan Seddon Boulet: The Goddess Paintings

Susan Seddon Boulet: The Goddess Paintings

Susan Seddon Boulet

Susan Seddon Boulet: The Goddess Paintings brings together the magnificent paintings of Susan Seddon Boulet with insightful, scholarly text by Michael Babcock, a San Francisco Bay Area writer who has studied mythology extensively.
Plays by Susan Glaspell

Plays by Susan Glaspell

Susan Glaspell

Susan Glaspell C. W. E. Bigsby, Christine Dymkowski. the theatre, participating as the Midwest Director of the Federal Theatre Project from 1936-8, but it was, for the most part, as a novelist that she concluded her career, her last book - Judd ...
Pan Pipes

Pan Pipes

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The officers include: Paula Joyce, president, and Susan Rogers, vice president ; Jan Young, recording secretary ; Bonnie Wagner, corresponding secretary; Susan Dixon, treasurer; Linda Hilliard, editor ; Susan Phillips, chaplain, and Paige ...
Voices Found

Voices Found

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... is blessed are they, are she who be - lieves. . she who re - ceives. they who yearn. . 1 m m • 9. — J^H g r r Words: Music: Susan Marie Smith, Verse 1 © 1996 Susan Marie Smith; Verses 2 and 3 © 1998 Susan Marie Smith. All rights reserved.
Susan Smith: Victim Or Murderer

Susan Smith: Victim Or Murderer

George Rekers

Susan Vaughan Smith that he, Geoffrey McKee, Ph.D., forensic psychologist and Associate Professor, and Tracy Gunter- Justice, M.D., Forensic Psychiatry Fellow had jointly evaluated Susan Smith in response to the court order of March 23, ...
Gift Baskets: Making It Personal

Gift Baskets: Making It Personal

Susan Larberg

Author/designer Susan Maggio Larberg is the owner of Golden Touch Crafts, a home-based business she created in 1988 when she and her family relocated to the beautiful Nature Coast (West Coast) of Florida. Susan's love of crafting and ...
Journal of Youth Services in Libraries

Journal of Youth Services in Libraries

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Meet Susan Hirschman Barbara Barstow 1998 May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture Susan Hirschman. In the early 1970s, I "met" Susan Hirschman, then head of Macmil- lan Books for Children, when she resigned rather than cut her staff and ...
Emergency Contact

Emergency Contact

Susan Peterson

A devoted Star Trek fan, Susan Peterson wrote her first science-fiction novel at the age of thirteen. But unlike other Star Trek fan writers, in Susan's novel she made sure that Mr. Spock fell in love. Unfortunately, what she didn't take into ...
Out of the Wilderness

Out of the Wilderness

Susan E. Hilliard

Susan E. Hilliard, Susan Hilliard. the chariot. The gentle, clear voice of the steed chimes bell-like in your ears. "You could not have stood much more, little one," the steed says softly. "The presence of God's Spirit is powerful and awesome.
Faux Chic

Faux Chic

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... The Glidden Company, 78 Steve Gross & Susan Daley, 52 (bottom); 69 Steve Gross & Susan Daley/Gwen Griffith, Design, 42 Steve Gross & Susan Daley/ Rebecca Purcell, Design, 109 Steve Gross & Susan Daley/Gayle Spannaus, Design, ...
La fortuna di essere quel genere di ragazza

La fortuna di essere quel genere di ragazza

Susan Jane Gilman

Fresca di college, Susan parte per un lungo viaggio insieme all'amica Claire.

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