In late 1995, the drama Heaven Above (Cangtian zaishang) debuted on Chinese TV. Featuring a villainous high-ranking government official, it was the first in a series of wildly popular corruption dramas that riveted the nation. Staging Corruption looks at the rise, fall, and reincarnation of corruption dramas and the ways in which they express the collective dreams and nightmares of China in the market-reform era. It also considers how these dramas - as products of the interplay between television stations, production companies, media regulation, and political censorship - unveil complicated relationships between power, media, and society. This book will be essential reading for those following China's ongoing struggles with the highly volatile socio-political issue of corruption.
She had been framed by her stepmother in her previous life, drugged by her sisters, and had been involved with a strange man in the night. As a result, her father had driven her out of the house and killed her own mother. After her rebirth, she brought a small group to rebuild the Godly Doctor Pavilion, and that small group found a father for her. Little blob: Mother, I like this daddy so much, you did it, right?
He was the "King of Hell" of the mercenary world, with tens of billions of gold being taken away by his master and the "one hundred is a huge sum of money". He stepped into the city to pick up girls, but did not expect all sorts of beauties to arrive. Three thousand weak water, only taking one ladle? Or did he not reject anyone?
She had been told from a young age that the Goddess in the village that she could only live to see two Shi Wu years old, and she had laughed it off, never believing it.However, she often heard someone call out to her, "April... "April"On the day that she was twenty years old, she was working overtime at the company when she suddenly heard the distinct sound of Footsteps.He came from hell and walked to her side."You ... Are you a human or a ghost? ""I... I'm your husband.
As the most hated and tormented prince of the Flood Dragon Clan, Candle Light had never thought that someone could pull him out of his quagmire.This man was tall and jade-like, with a face like that of a god, but he had the courage of a hero and was born with the cause of the common people. He was the Third Prince of the Western Sea, Ao Lie.He was willing to follow this person and walk the path of a poverty-stricken individual, an An Donghai, and saving the lives of all ...Even if he found out that everything was just a trap in the Heavenly Court, he still didn't care.
This was not a peaceful world like it seemed to be on the surface. In this city, there were some things that ordinary people could not see. These things did not belong to the human world, but they existed in this world.Li Ling'er was an ordinary employee of the company. Recently, something unimaginable had happened to her. And the story, in such a world, in the haunted building where the female lead works, starts...
He had transmigrated, and as a result, he was dressed as a servant girl. Although the salary was high and the benefits were good, what if he wasn't free? It was a good thing that the original owner's mother and brother had come to redeem her after hanging around the manor for a few years. After two years of idyllic life at home, he married a perfect husband. He had thought that life would continue on like this, blandly and warmly. Who would have thought that his husband would actually be a black-skinned man pretending to be a pig to eat the tiger. Thus, under the push of her active hubby and lackeys, she eventually became a first class celebrity that everyone envied. However, who knew of the twists and turns involved?
A year ago, when the jade pendant fused with my body, I was married into it, and suffered all sorts of contempt, ridicule, and humiliation ... One year later, his cultivation technique would be at the initial stage, and his medical skills unparalleled. What kind of scene would it be then ... What hidden forces of great power were hidden in the mundane world? How cruel and bloody had a jade pendant been? Who am I?
In this ambitious volume, Yunfei Bai delves into the creative adaptations of classical Sanskrit, Chinese, and Tibetan literary texts by four renowned nineteenth- and early twentieth-century authors in France and Argentina: Theophile Gautier, Stephane Mallarme, Victor Segalen, and Jorge Luis Borges. Without any knowledge of the source languages, the authors crafted their own French and Spanish retellings based on received translations of these Asian works. Rewriting the Orient not only explores the so far untapped translation-rewriting continuum to trace the pivotal role of Orientalism in the formation of a singular corpus of world literature that goes beyond the Anglophone canon, but also sheds light on a wide range of innovative discursive strategies that readily challenge traditional notions of cultural appropriation.
At that time, if any family in the village gave birth to a girl, when their daughter's first cry was heard, no matter how poor their family was, they would brew three jars of their daughter's red wine in the Wutu Valley until their daughter got married at the age of eighteen. However, if the daughter died before she got married, the wine would be carved into the flower. A flower carving was the same as a flower bud.
One poor and two white officials met the honest, righteous and rich second generation.On the night before their wedding, they would secretly change the sun. The dignified daughter of a great general had become a shady, shady existence in the middle of the night ...She had become a sinner who escaped marriage, a disgrace to her family!
This book focuses on security science and technology, data and information security, and mobile and network security for space-air-ground integrated networks (SAGINs). SAGIN are expected to play an increasingly important role in providing real-time, flexible, and integrated communication and data transmission services in an efficient manner. Today, SAGINs have been widely developed for a range of applications in navigation, environmental monitoring, traffic management, counter-terrorism, etc. However, security becomes a major concern, since the satellites, spacecrafts, and aircrafts are susceptible to a variety of traditional/specific network-based attacks, including eavesdropping, session hijacking, and illegal access. In this book, we review the theoretical foundations of SAGIN security. We also address a range of related security threats and provide cutting-edge solutions in the aspect of ground network security, airborne network security, space network security, and provide future trends in SAGIN security. The book goes from an introduction to the topic’s background, to a description of the basic theory, and then to cutting-edge technologies, making it suitable for readers at all levels including professional researchers and beginners. To gain the most from the book, readers should have taken prior courses in information theory, cryptography, network security, etc.
In Fusion of East and West, Limin Bai presents a major work in the English language that focuses on Chinese textbooks and the education of children for a new China in a critical transitional period, 1902–1915. This study examines the life and work of Wang Hengtong (1868–1928), a Chinese Christian educator, and other Christian and secular writings through a historical and comparative lens and against the backdrop of the socio-political, ideological, and intellectual frameworks of the time. By doing so, it offers a fresh perspective on the significant connection between Christian education, Chinese Christian educators and the birth of a modern educational system. It unravels a cross-cultural process whereby missionary education and the Chinese education system were mutually re-shaped.
Righteous Blood, Ruthless Blades is a roleplaying game of dark adventure and heroic thrills inspired primarily by the wuxia stories of Gu Long. Players assume the roles of eccentric heroes who solve mysteries, avenge misdeeds, uphold justice, and demonstrate profound mastery of the martial arts. Character creation is designed to produce fleshed-out, potent individuals who can follow several paths, including those of the physician, beggar, assassin, thief, soldier, bandit, and more. These characters inhabit a unique martial world, or Jianghu, set in a romanticized ancient China. The towns, temples, and inns the characters can visit, and the sects and factions with whom they interact, will bring their own character to the game and provide a host of opportunities – and threats. The game is based on a simple ten-sided dice pool mechanic, loosely modeled on the one found in Wandering Heroes of Ogre Gate, and play is designed to be gritty, suspenseful, and fast, so the focus remains on solving mysteries and roleplaying your character. When combat does arise, it is consequential and swift, and often resolved in a single role of the dice. This rulebook includes a sample martial world and a starting adventure, as well as guidelines for games masters looking to run wuxia games and create their own unique Jianghu, rife with martial experts, sects, and mysterious locations.
This review volume consists of scientific articles representing the frontier and most advanced progress in the field of semiconductor physics and lattice dynamics.
In Mapping the Translator: A Study of Liang Shiqiu, the writer studies Liang Shiqiu (1903–1987), who was not only a famous writer and important critic but also one of the most prominent translators in China in the 20th century, most notably the first Chinese to finish a translation of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare. Based on primary sources, this research covers issues related to the historical, cultural, cognitive and sociological dimensions of translator studies. It investigates Liang’s translation poetics; the influences of possible patrons and professionals on him; the relationship between Liang’s ideology, the dominant ideology and his translation; Liang’s debates with Lu Xun about and beyond translation criteria, and whether there is inconsistency or possible contradiction in Liang’s translation poetics. This book also analyses the similarities and differences between Liang Shiqiu and Wu Mi–two followers of Irving Babbitt–in terms of translation poetics, and further explores the reasons leading to such differences. This book is targeted at scholars and students, both undergraduate and postgraduate, in the fields of translation studies, Asian studies, Chinese studies, and literary studies.
For 1,300 years, Chinese calligraphy was based on the elegant art of Wang Xizhi (A.D. 303–361). But the seventeenth-century emergence of a style modeled on the rough, broken epigraphs of ancient bronzes and stone artifacts brought a revolution in calligraphic taste. By the eighteenth century, this led to the formation of the stele school of calligraphy, which continues to shape Chinese calligraphy today. A dominant force in this school was the eminent calligrapher and art theorist Fu Shan (1607–1685). Because his work spans the late Ming–early Qing divide, it is an ideal prism through which to view the transformation in calligraphy. Rather than seek a single explanation for the change in calligraphic taste, the author demonstrates and analyzes the heterogeneity of the cultural, social, and political processes behind it. Among other subjects, the book covers the late Ming interaction between high and low culture; the role of publishing; the Ming loyalist response to the Qing; and early Qing changes in intellectual discourse. In addition to the usual approach of art historians, it adopts the theoretical perspectives of such fields as material culture, print culture, and social and intellectual history.
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