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Revolutionary Stagecraft

Theater, Technology, and Politics in Modern China

By: Tarryn Li-Min Chun

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Revolutionary Stagecraft

Theater, Technology, and Politics in Modern China

By: Tarryn Li-Min Chun

Revolutionary Stagecraft draws on a rich corpus of literary, historical, and technical materials to reveal a deep entanglement among technological modernization, political agendas, and the performing arts in modern China. This unique approach to Chinese theater history combines a close look at plays themselves, performance practices, technical theater details, and behind-the-scenes debates over “how to” make theater amid the political upheavals of China’s 20th century. The book begins at a pivotal moment in the 1920s—when Chinese theater artists began to import, use, and write about modern stage equipment—and ends in the 1980s when China's scientific and technological boom began. By examining iconic plays and performances from the perspective of the stage technologies involved, Tarryn Li-Min Chun provides a fresh perspective on their composition and staging. The chapters include stories on the challenges of creating imitation neon, rigging up a makeshift revolving stage, and representing a nuclear bomb detonating onstage. In thinking about theater through technicity, the author mines well-studied materials such as dramatic texts and performance reviews for hidden technical details and brings to light a number of previously untapped sources such as technical journals and manuals; set design renderings, lighting plots, and prop schematics; and stage technology how-to guides for amateur thespians. This approach focuses on material stage technologies, situating these objects equally in relation to their technical potential, their human use, and the social, political, economic, and cultural forces that influence them. In each of its case studies, Revolutionary Stagecraft reveals the complex and at times surprising ways in which Chinese theater artists and technicians of the 20th century envisioned and enacted their own revolutions through the materiality of the theater apparatus.

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University of Michigan Press

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0472903969

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East Asian Confucianisms

Texts in Context

By: Chun-chieh Huang

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East Asian Confucianisms

Texts in Context

By: Chun-chieh Huang

This volume tells the story of the importance of the Confucian traditions and why and how Confucian texts were reinterpreted within the different ambiances and contexts around East Asia. The vitality of East Asian Confucianisms stems from the desire of Confucian thinkers to interpret the core values of the Confucian classics in line with conditions and changes in their own times and location. Although all the interpretations that were advanced in China, Korea and Japan were specific to their own era, they do still share some themes. This book reveals that »East Asian Confucianisms« forms an intellectual community that is transnational and multi-lingual and has evolved in interaction between Confucian »universal values« and the local conditions present in each East Asian country.

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298

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V&R Unipress

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3847004085

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Controversies in Modern Chinese Intellectual History

An Analytic Bibliography of Periodical Articles, Mainly of the May Fourth and Post-May Fourth Era

By: Chun-Jo Liu

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Controversies in Modern Chinese Intellectual History

An Analytic Bibliography of Periodical Articles, Mainly of the May Fourth and Post-May Fourth Era

By: Chun-Jo Liu

An analytic bibliography of periodical articles on controversies in modern Chinese intellectual history, mainly focused on the May Fourth movement and the Post-May Fourth periods..

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BRILL

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1684171466

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Crisis and Transformation in Seventeenth-century China

Society, Culture, and Modernity in Li Yü's World

By: Chun-shu Chang,Shelley Hsueh-lun Chang

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Crisis and Transformation in Seventeenth-century China

Society, Culture, and Modernity in Li Yü's World

By: Chun-shu Chang,Shelley Hsueh-lun Chang

Describes the social and cultural transformation of seventeenth-century China through the life and work of Li Yu

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472

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University of Michigan Press

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047208528X

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Unstructuring Chinese Society

The Fictions of Colonial Practice and the Changing Realities of "Land" in the New Territories of Hong Kong

By: Allen Chun

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Unstructuring Chinese Society

The Fictions of Colonial Practice and the Changing Realities of "Land" in the New Territories of Hong Kong

By: Allen Chun

Unstructuring Chinese Society is a culmination of long term field work and archival research that challenges existing theories of social organisation and cultural change. The book makes new sense of historical contradictions, political conflicts and deep seated social transformations that have underlined the experience of colonial rule and the practices of local institutions in Hong Kong over the past century. By focusing on the ongoing interactions of discourse, practices and global-local relations in cultural terms, Unstructuring Chinese Society puts forth a fresh perspective in the field of historical anthropology, while addressing ongoing critical concerns in postcolonial theory and our understanding of tradition and modernity.

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Routledge

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1134450621

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The Debate and Confluence between Confucianism and Buddhism in East Asia

A Historical Overview. Translated by Jan Vrhovski. With a foreword by Jana S. Rošker

By: Chun-chieh Huang

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The Debate and Confluence between Confucianism and Buddhism in East Asia

A Historical Overview. Translated by Jan Vrhovski. With a foreword by Jana S. Rošker

By: Chun-chieh Huang

After the arrival of Buddhism toward the end of the Eastern Han dynasty (25–220), Buddhism found itself in a fierce conflict with indigenous Chinese thought. The controversies between Confucianism and Buddhism reached their peak in the time of the Northern and Southern dynasties (420–589). By then, these two ideologies had gone through a long period of mutual conflict. When Buddhism spread East from China and entered Korea and Japan, a wide array of intense debates was aroused in 14th and 15th century Korea and in 17th century Japan that resulted in an ultimate confluence between Confucianism and Buddhism. This volume tells the story of the debate between Buddhism and Confucianism in East Asia and explains the reason why the confluence between these two systems of thought is possible.

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3847010387

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Topology and Geometry: Commemorating SISTAG

Commemorating SISTAG : Singapore International Symposium in Topology and Geometry, (SISTAG) July 2-6, 2001, National University of Singapore, Singapore

By: A. Jon Berrick,Man Chun Leung,Xingwang Xu

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Topology and Geometry: Commemorating SISTAG

Commemorating SISTAG : Singapore International Symposium in Topology and Geometry, (SISTAG) July 2-6, 2001, National University of Singapore, Singapore

By: A. Jon Berrick,Man Chun Leung,Xingwang Xu

This volume presents 19 refereed articles written by participants in the Singapore International Symposium in Topology and Geometry (SISTAG), held July 2-6, 2001, at the National University of Singapore. Rather than being a simple snapshot of the meeting in the form of a proceedings, it serves as a commemorative volume consisting of papers selected to show the diversity and depth of the mathematics presented at SISTAG. The book contains articles on low-dimensional topology, algebraic, differential and symplectic geometry, and algebraic topology. While papers reflect the focus of the conference, many documents written after SISTAG and included in this volume represent the most up-to-date thinking in the fields of topology and geometry. While representation from Pacific Rim countries is strong, the list of contributors is international in scope and includes many recognized experts. This volume is of interest to graduate students and mathematicians working in the fields of algebraic, differential and symplectic geometry, algebraic, geometric and low-dimensional topology, and mathematical physics.

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American Mathematical Soc.

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0821828207

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9780821828205

Redefining History

Ghosts, Spirits, and Human Society in Pʻu Sung-ling's World, 1640-1715

By: Chun-shu Chang,Shelley Hsueh-lun Chang

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Redefining History

Ghosts, Spirits, and Human Society in Pʻu Sung-ling's World, 1640-1715

By: Chun-shu Chang,Shelley Hsueh-lun Chang

An intimate examination of early Ch'ing China

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378

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University of Michigan Press

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0472108220

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9780472108220

Foundations of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics

Volume 1 A Holistic View

By: Wendell H. Chun

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Foundations of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics

Volume 1 A Holistic View

By: Wendell H. Chun

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a complicated science that combines philosophy, cognitive psychology, neuroscience, mathematics and logic (logicism), economics, computer science, computability, and software. Meanwhile, robotics is an engineering field that compliments AI. There can be situations where AI can function without a robot (e.g., Turing Test) and robotics without AI (e.g., teleoperation), but in many cases, each technology requires each other to exhibit a complete system: having "smart" robots and AI being able to control its interactions (i.e., effectors) with its environment. This book provides a complete history of computing, AI, and robotics from its early development to state‐of‐the‐art technology, providing a roadmap of these complicated and constantly evolving subjects. Divided into two volumes covering the progress of symbolic logic and the explosion in learning/deep learning in natural language and perception, this first volume investigates the coming together of AI (the mind) and robotics (the body), and discusses the state of AI today. Key Features: Provides a complete overview of the topic of AI, starting with philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, and logicism, and extending to the action of the robots and AI needed for a futuristic society Provides a holistic view of AI, and touches on all the misconceptions and tangents to the technologies through taking a systematic approach Provides a glossary of terms, list of notable people, and extensive references Provides the interconnections and history of the progress of technology for over 100 years as both the hardware (Moore’s Law, GPUs) and software, i.e., generative AI, have advanced Intended as a complete reference, this book is useful to undergraduate and postgraduate students of computing, as well as the general reader. It can also be used as a textbook by course convenors. If you only had one book on AI and robotics, this set would be the first reference to acquire and learn about the theory and practice.

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CRC Press

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1040116167

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Taiwan's Economic Transformation

Leadership, Property Rights and Institutional Change 1949-1965

By: Tai-Chun Kuo,Ramon H Myers

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Taiwan's Economic Transformation

Leadership, Property Rights and Institutional Change 1949-1965

By: Tai-Chun Kuo,Ramon H Myers

This book tells the story of Taiwan’s economic revolution—how Taiwan transformed itself from a planned economy into a market economy between 1949 and 1965. The authors posit that it was the Kuomintang Government's endorsement of property rights reform and institutional change that enabled Taiwan to transform from an impoverished command economy to one of the fastest growing economies in the world. The book gives special attention to how a small group of political and economic leaders began adopting the new ideas and beliefs that created the vision that enabled them to embrace institutional and organizational innovations, actions which led to the formation of the new market economy. Using first-hand interview material with key government officials from the period, and analyses of hitherto unused Chinese-language archives including: the diaries of Chiang Kai-shek, Kuomintang party archives, and personal papers of Kuomintang leaders, as well as newspaper and journal articles published in Taiwan between 1949 and 1965, this book is both empirically rich, and gives the reader insights into Taiwan's developmental experience and the direction in which, under different circumstances, China's post-war expansion might have proceeded. Taiwan's Economic Transition will be an invaluable resource for anyone interested in the economic and political history and development of Taiwan. More broadly it will also appeal to scholars and students of China's historical and contemporary development, Asian economics, and Asian studies.

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1136665692

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Book's by Chun Yu Wang

Revolutionary Stagecraft

Revolutionary Stagecraft

East Asian Confucianisms

East Asian Confucianisms

Controversies in Modern Chinese Intellectual History

Controversies in Modern Chinese Intellectual History

Crisis and Transformation in Seventeenth-century China

Crisis and Transformation in Seventeenth-century China

Unstructuring Chinese Society

Unstructuring Chinese Society

The Debate and Confluence between Confucianism and Buddhism in East Asia

The Debate and Confluence between Confucianism and Buddhism in East Asia

Topology and Geometry: Commemorating SISTAG

Topology and Geometry: Commemorating SISTAG

Redefining History

Redefining History

Foundations of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics

Foundations of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics

Taiwan's Economic Transformation

Taiwan's Economic Transformation

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