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Configurations of Comparative Poetics

Three Perspectives on Western and Chinese Literary Criticism

By: Zong-qi Cai

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Configurations of Comparative Poetics

Three Perspectives on Western and Chinese Literary Criticism

By: Zong-qi Cai

This comprehensive comparative study of Western and Chinese poetics begins with broad examinations of the two traditions over more than two and a half millennia. From these parallel surveys, a series of important theoretical questions arises: How do Western and Chinese critics conceptualize the nature, origin, and function of literature? What are the fundamental differences, if any, in their ways of thinking about literature? Can we account for these differences by examining Western truth-based and Chinese process-based cosmological paradigms? What are the major distinctive concepts of literature developed within Western and Chinese poetics? How have these concepts impacted the development of the two traditions at various times? After considering a wide range of major critical texts, Configurations of Comparative Poetics presents bold and cogent answers to these questions while shedding light on the distinctive orientations of Western and Chinese poetics. The second half of the book features four comparative case studies: Plato and Confucius on poetry; Wordsworth and Liu Xie on the creative process; the twentieth-century "Imagists" and their earlier Chinese counterparts on the relationship of the Chinese written character to poetics; and Derrida and the Madhyamika Buddhists on language and onto-theology. The author not only identifies an array of critical concerns shared by Western and Chinese critics, but also differentiates the conceptual models used by each and traces them to cosmological paradigms.

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University of Hawaii Press

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0824823389

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9780824823382

Immemorial Devil Lord

Volume 3

By: Gui Cai

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Immemorial Devil Lord

Volume 3

By: Gui Cai

He made a life-and-death bet with the exalted deity using the humble servant status. He was the weakest of the outer sect disciples, yet he could stir the entire Heaven Origin Sector. Countless peerless experts went crazy because of him. He was the Immortal, he slayed Demons, he exterminated Demons, and he exterminated Demons. His path was ancient and correct. He was bedeviled and cursed the heavens and the earth. How could a million corpses be buried under the wrath of cloth clothes? One would have to bleed for a thousand miles. Look at the journey of the Qin Tian Berserk Demon ...

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Funstory

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1647620554

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9781647620554

Breaking the Peak

Volume 3

By: Cai Shen

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Breaking the Peak

Volume 3

By: Cai Shen

He, summer, was an orphan. Growing up in an orphanage, on the late autumn night when he was ten years old, there was a fire in the orphanage. In order to save his brothers and sisters, he was caught in fire. Five years later in real life, he heavily ... 

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753

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Funstory

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1648845762

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9781648845765

Chinese Aesthetics

The Ordering of Literature, the Arts, and the Universe in the Six Dynasties

By: Zong-qi Cai

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Chinese Aesthetics

The Ordering of Literature, the Arts, and the Universe in the Six Dynasties

By: Zong-qi Cai

This singular work presents the most comprehensive and nuanced studies available in any Western language of Chinese aesthetic thought and practice during the Six Dynasties (A.D. 220–589). Despite a succession of dynastic and social upheavals, the literati preoccupied themselves with both the sensuous and the transcendent and strove for cultural dominance. By the end of the sixth century, their reflections would evolve into a sophisticated system of aesthetic discourse characterized by its own rhetoric and concepts. A prologue details the historical context in which Six Dynasties aesthetics arose and sketches out its major stages of development. The ten essays that follow bring fresh perspectives to bear on important writings on literature, music, painting, calligraphy, and gardening. Grounded in close readings of primary texts, they reveal the complex, dynamic interplay between life and art, the sensuous and the metaphysical, and the artistic and the philosophicaleligious that lies at the heart of the aesthetic thought and practice of the time. As a whole, the collection demonstrates that Six Dynasties achieved a sophistication in aesthetic thought comparable in many ways to that of the West: The discussion of disinterestedness in art, aesthetic judgment, and how mental images mediate between the supersensible and the sensible are reminiscent of Kant. The findings of various Chinese critics provide much food for thought in the broad fields of comparative literature and aesthetics. Chinese Aesthetics will fill a gap in Western sinological studies of the period. It will appeal to scholars and students in premodern Chinese literary studies, comparative aesthetics, and cultural studies and be a welcome reference to anyone interested in ancient Chinese culture. Contributors: Susan Bush; Zong-qi Cai; Kang-i Sun Chang; Ronald Egan; Robert E. Harrist, Jr.; Rania Huntington; Wai-yee Li; Shuen-fu Lin; Victor Mair; François Martin.

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369

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University of Hawaii Press

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0824861841

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9780824861841

Zhuangzi Speaks

The Music of Nature

By: Zhizhong Cai

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Zhuangzi Speaks

The Music of Nature

By: Zhizhong Cai

Selections from the sayings of Zhuangzi rendered into cartoon form and translated into English.

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166

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Princeton University Press

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0691008825

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9780691008820

A Study of Daoist Acupuncture & Moxibustion

By: Liu Zheng-cai

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A Study of Daoist Acupuncture & Moxibustion

By: Liu Zheng-cai

The author, Dr. Liu Zheng-cai, helps clarify what the specifically Daoist contributions to the practice of acupuncture actually are. Included in this book are numerous short biographies of Daoist physicians, detailed explanations on the clinical use of such chrono-acupuncture techniques as midday/midnight point selection and the magic turtle eight methods, moxibustion techniques for longevity and emergencies, and other secret Daoist acupuncture lore. 260 pages.

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Blue Poppy Enterprises, Inc.

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189184508X

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9781891845086

Advanced Blockchain Technology

Frameworks and Enterprise-Level Practices

By: Liang Cai,Qilei Li,Xiubo Liang

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Advanced Blockchain Technology

Frameworks and Enterprise-Level Practices

By: Liang Cai,Qilei Li,Xiubo Liang

This book is a must-have for blockchain developers who want to learn from scratch how to leverage blockchain technology in a real-world setting. The first section provides a brief overview of blockchain technology, including its concepts, history, technology genre, major related companies and typical application scenarios, and presents an ecological map for the blockchain industry by comparing and analyzing some mainstream platforms. The second section systematically introduces Ethereum and HyperLedger, exemplars of well-known open-source blockchain platforms, and demonstrates how to conduct blockchain applications development based on the two platforms. The third section illustrates core technology of enterprise blockchain platforms (to take Hyperchain, an independent, controllable blockchain alliance as an example), and covers Hyperchain based enterprise blockchain applications development technology. The fourth section presents 6 actual blockchain-based applications examples, and analyzes applications development procedure and related key codes. Examples in this book are of great practicability and operability, allowing practitioners to get started easily, and eventually utilize these skills to develop real-life, usable blockchain applications.

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435

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Springer Nature

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9811935963

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9789811935961

Elements Of Stochastic Dynamics

By: Guo-qiang Cai,Weiqiu Zhu

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Elements Of Stochastic Dynamics

By: Guo-qiang Cai,Weiqiu Zhu

Stochastic dynamics has been a subject of interest since the early 20th Century. Since then, much progress has been made in this field of study, and many modern applications for it have been found in fields such as physics, chemistry, biology, ecology, economy, finance, and many branches of engineering including Mechanical, Ocean, Civil, Bio, and Earthquake Engineering.Elements of Stochastic Dynamics aims to meet the growing need to understand and master the subject by introducing fundamentals to researchers who want to explore stochastic dynamics in their fields and serving as a textbook for graduate students in various areas involving stochastic uncertainties. All topics within are presented from an application approach, and may thus be more appealing to users without a background in pure Mathematics. The book describes the basic concepts and theories of random variables and stochastic processes in detail; provides various solution procedures for systems subjected to stochastic excitations; introduces stochastic stability and bifurcation; and explores failures of stochastic systems. The book also incorporates some latest research results in modeling stochastic processes; in reducing the system degrees of freedom; and in solving nonlinear problems. The book also provides numerical simulation procedures of widely-used random variables and stochastic processes.A large number of exercise problems are included in the book to aid the understanding of the concepts and theories, and may be used for as course homework.

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552

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World Scientific Publishing Company

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9814723347

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9789814723343

Revolution and Its Narratives

China's Socialist Literary and Cultural Imaginaries, 1949-1966

By: Xiang Cai

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Revolution and Its Narratives

China's Socialist Literary and Cultural Imaginaries, 1949-1966

By: Xiang Cai

Published in China in 2010, Revolution and Its Narratives is a historical, literary, and critical account of the cultural production of the narratives of China's socialist revolution. Through theoretical, empirical, and textual analysis of major and minor novels, dramas, short stories, and cinema, Cai Xiang offers a complex study that exceeds the narrow confines of existing views of socialist aesthetics. By engaging with the relationship among culture, history, and politics in the context of the revolutionary transformation of Chinese society and arts, Cai illuminates the utopian promise as well as the ultimate impossibility of socialist cultural production. Translated, annotated, and edited by Rebecca E. Karl and Xueping Zhong, this translation presents Cai's influential work to English-language readers for the first time.

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274

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Duke University Press

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0822374617

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9780822374619

Beginning Web Development with Visual InterDev 6.0

By: Andrew Mumford,Mike Cai

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Beginning Web Development with Visual InterDev 6.0

By: Andrew Mumford,Mike Cai

Visual Interdev is the Visual Basic of web development. Like "Beginning Visual Basic 6.0, " this book teaches programming, at the same time as exploring the programming environment Visual Interdev 6. Visual Interdev is a Visual Basic environment that can be used to build applications using VBScript, JavaScript, HTML and ASP. Tools also are provided with VI 6 that make database development easier.

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652

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Wrox Press

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1861002947

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9781861002945

Probabilistic Structural Dynamics

Advanced Theory and Applications

By: Yu-Kweng Lin,Guo-Qiang Cai

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Probabilistic Structural Dynamics

Advanced Theory and Applications

By: Yu-Kweng Lin,Guo-Qiang Cai

Probabilistic structural dynamics is a new approach to building calculations that satisfy safety requirements while at the same time driving new efficiencies. This text provides a tutorial to these new methods.

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McGraw Hill Professional

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0071438009

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9780071438001

The Guodian Bamboo Slips Lao Zi

English and Chinese Edition. Edited by Irene M Miller and Hans-Martin Sass

By: Cai Hou

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The Guodian Bamboo Slips Lao Zi

English and Chinese Edition. Edited by Irene M Miller and Hans-Martin Sass

By: Cai Hou

The 85 Lao Zi bamboo slips from around 300 B. C. E. are the earliest texts of what later became known as the Tao Te King. They also contain the-until now-unknown Taoist narrative of Creation 'Great One gave Birth to Water.' These texts are very original and not yet intermingled with Confucian philosophy, governance, or ethics.This English translation presents the Tao Bamboo Slips in modern simplified Chinese characters, with commentaries and a comparison of the modern Chinese version to the old characters. This bilingual Chinese-English publication is a contribution to the crosscultural visions and values of the New SiIk Road of the 21st century. (Series: Practical Ethics-Documentation / Ethik in der Praxis-Materialien, Vol. 16) [Subject: Confucianism, Chinese Studies, Philosophy]

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143

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LIT Verlag Münster

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3643908989

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9783643908988

Beauty CEO vs Conceited Young Master

Volume 2

By: Cai Dao

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Beauty CEO vs Conceited Young Master

Volume 2

By: Cai Dao

She had just said goodbye at daybreak, but now she was his sister-in-law! He wanted to escape, but his sister-in-law chased him for thousands of miles with her big belly! What should he do? Was he inferior to the beasts, or was he to accept them all? What kind of life would the top young master, who had never been touched by a single leaf, have in front of the two sisters? Please wait and see!

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