Nearly a decade in the making, this will become the definitive guide to Chinese jades from the Ming dynasty through the early twentieth century. This was a particularly rich period in jade production. As this book reveals--based on the most current scholarship--many jade objects previously thought t[...]

Covering all areas of the medicinal chemistry and therapeutic applications of nucleic acids, this book provides up-to-date coverage of the broad area of nucleic acid chemistry and biology. The book lays out the basic principles of medicinal chemistry of nucleic acids before focusing on the developme[...]

Li He is the bad-boy poet of the late Tang Dynasty. A Song dynasty critic once described Li He's poetry as written in the "language of a demonic immortal" and filled with hallucinatory evocations of goddesses, beautiful courtesans, Buddhist visions, drunken nights, and corruption. As the scholar Ann[...]