Halal certification in Europe meat market through qualification practices that have created an image of "non-stunned meat" as being of authentic halal quality. Across Europe, halal meat markets are experiencing a period of unprecedented growth and development, though the intensity varies from country to country. In the UK and France there has been year-on-year growth for well over a decade, while in Germany the market is just starting to develop. The growth of these markets is in some way linked to the increasing number of Muslim immigrants across Europe and to the growing consumption of meat characteristic of vertical mobility amongst second and third
The Raksha Country and the Sea Market fishermen shipwrecked on an unknown island, among other stories. According to Qing dynasty critic Feng Zhenluan (), "The Raksha Country and the Sea Market" comprises "two disconnected episodes". In the first, "zhiguai"-like episode, the protagonist Ma Ji encounters the monsters of the Raksha Country; the second, written in the "chuanqi" fashion, concerns Ma's voyage to the sea market, his subsequent romance with a dragon princess and their eventual parting of ways. Several commentators have suggested that the titular "sea market" is imaginary. Giles notes that it "is generally understood in the sense of "mirage", or some similar phenomenon". Liana Chen