existence of Hermes Trismegistus in his De hermetica Aegyptiorum vetere et Paracelsicorum nova medicina of 1648. Borrichius pointed to early evidence of chemical processes through biblical citations. Neither did he doubt that Hermes had lived or that he could rightly be called the originator of chemistry. Conring replied to Borrichius in a greatly expanded version of the De hermetica . . . medi...

The majority of rural population in China has limited access to agricultural information at present. Wanquan County was chosen as the studied area, in where the research used questionnaire to survey the current situation of peasants’ demands for agricultural information, as well as the information delivery approaches. A questionnaire was developed and data were collected from 200 peasant househ...

According to the Constitution of the People’s Republic of China and the effective conventions therein, every citizen should enjoy equal right of social security. But in reality, a peasant has much less such right than an urban dweller, only because of their different hukou. Peasants, as part of the investors of state-owned property, should have the rights of owners and enjoy the benefits from t...

THE ROLE OF FAIRIES IN LIVES IRISH PEASANTS AND THEIR DEPICTION SELECTED NINETEENTH-CENTURY TRAVELOGUES
 Life in the nineteenth-century Irish countryside was not easy. peasants lived abject poverty and struggled to make ends meet. They consumed almost only potatoes famines occurred regularly. Peasants often blamed their hardships on fairies, whose various races were supposed inhabit Irelan...