Dong Ren's Books

Pretty Secretary's Promotion

Volume 14

By: Dong RiNuanYang

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The little secretary, Gu Yuwei, unexpectedly got to know the top figure of Jiangyou Group, Zhao Muchen. Zhao Mu Chen was handsome and wise, which made Gu Yu Wei fall in love with him. He fell in love with her from then on. Amidst the entanglement and reality attacks of the secular world, she wanted to retreat time and time again, but each time she fell deeper into the abyss ... Could their love reach the end?

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Chromatic Polynomials And Chromaticity Of Graphs

By: Fengming Dong,Khee-meng Koh,Kee L Teo

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Chromatic Polynomials And Chromaticity Of Graphs

By: Fengming Dong,Khee-meng Koh,Kee L Teo

This is the first book to comprehensively cover chromatic polynomials of graphs. It includes most of the known results and unsolved problems in the area of chromatic polynomials. Dividing the book into three main parts, the authors take readers from the rudiments of chromatic polynomials to more complex topics: the chromatic equivalence classes of graphs and the zeros and inequalities of chromatic polynomials. The early material is well suited to a graduate level course while the latter parts will be an invaluable resource for postgraduate students and researchers in combinatorics and graph theory.

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World Scientific

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9814480460

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Secret Tales of Shenque Palace

Volume 1

By: Dong Lingbuxiao

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Secret Tales of Shenque Palace

Volume 1

By: Dong Lingbuxiao

She was supposed to be from a noble familyOne person's martial arts could shake the world, while the other person's literary talent could shake the imperial city!However, both of them were deeply tied to the same king.A monarch descended upon the world, and his concubine stepped into the palace. There was no turning back ...The thorns in the palace pave the way, and the family outside the palace is in dangerPassing through this trial will lead to the Ascendant Phoenix Seat'Is it for love or for power? '"Only wait until the day when power falls upon the world, and all the grievances and grievances will be wiped out.

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Huawei

From Catching Up To Leading

By: Xiaoying Dong,Mengling Yan,Yanni Hu

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Huawei

From Catching Up To Leading

By: Xiaoying Dong,Mengling Yan,Yanni Hu

Through in-depth case studies, this book seeks to reveal the secret of Huawei's rapid growth. The content of this book is rich and detailed. The authors combine first-hand interview data, including Huawei managers of many functional departments such as research and development, marketing, supply chain management, and human resources, as well as Huaweis suppliers partners and competitors. This book analyzes the articles and speeches published by Huaweis leader Ren Zhengfei since 1994 both in the public and internally and reference to various materials about Huawei including employees postings in the social media, news reports, research papers, books, etc. The book systematically describes the key elements of Huawei's strategy, corporate culture, organizational capabilities, and R&D innovation system and so on. The book also compared the differences between Huawei and Cisco in many subjects as leadership, culture, organization transformation and management capabilities. For whoever tries to understand Huawei, this book is an excellent reference book. In the companion book Cisco: Integration of Innovation and Operation, the author tells another growth path of technology company in America. .

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9811940789

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9789811940781

Interfacial Mechanics

Theories and Methods for Contact and Lubrication

By: Jane Wang,Dong Zhu

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Interfacial Mechanics

Theories and Methods for Contact and Lubrication

By: Jane Wang,Dong Zhu

Understanding the characteristics of material contact and lubrication at tribological interfaces is of great importance to engineering researchers and machine designers. Traditionally, contact and lubrication are separately studied due to technical difficulties, although they often coexist in reality and they are actually on the same physical ground. Fast research advancements in recent years have enabled the development and application of unified models and numerical approaches to simulate contact and lubrication, merging their studies into the domain of Interfacial Mechanics. This book provides updated information based on recent research progresses in related areas, which includes new concepts, theories, methods, and results for contact and lubrication problems involving elastic or inelastic materials, homogeneous or inhomogeneous contacting bodies, using stochastic or deterministic models for dealing with rough surfaces. It also contains unified models and numerical methods for mixed lubrication studies, analyses of interfacial frictional and thermal behaviors, as well as theories for studying the effects of multiple fields on interfacial characteristics. The book intends to reflect the recent trends of research by focusing on numerical simulation and problem solving techniques for practical interfaces of engineered surfaces and materials. This book is written primarily for graduate and senior undergraduate students, engineers, and researchers in the fields of tribology, lubrication, surface engineering, materials science and engineering, and mechanical engineering.

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0429526210

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Lord of the World

Volume 1

By: Ke Dong

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Lord of the World

Volume 1

By: Ke Dong

A few hundred years ago, there was a group of humans who were known as' Force Awakened ones'. They have the unimaginable power of ordinary humans and the ability to rule the world. However ... Awakened ones are not united and in the end, they are separated into two factions. The group was called the Yang Awakened ones, also known as the Sky Sun Clan. The other faction was the Yin Awakened ones, also known as the Earth Yin Tribe. A hundred years ago, the Sky Sun and Earth Yin Tribes finally had an unprecedented, decisive battle. In the end, the Sky Sun Clan won, and the Earth Yin Tribe was completely wiped out. The world was eventually ruled by the Heavenly Sun tribe, who began to call themselves the Heavenly God race. After the war between Yin and Yang, the Earth Yin Tribe was demoted to the "Earth Devil Race" by the God of Heaven. Although the Earth demons had been killed and wounded in the great battle, the clan's most precious treasure, the "Earth Yin Saint (Demon) Codex", had been left behind and had set off a wave of bloodshed.

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Attribute-Based Encryption and Access Control

By: Dijiang Huang,Qiuxiang Dong,Yan Zhu

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Attribute-Based Encryption and Access Control

By: Dijiang Huang,Qiuxiang Dong,Yan Zhu

This book covers a broader scope of Attribute-Based Encryption (ABE), from the background knowledge, to specific constructions, theoretic proofs, and applications. The goal is to provide in-depth knowledge usable for college students and researchers who want to have a comprehensive understanding of ABE schemes and novel ABE-enabled research and applications. The specific focus is to present the development of using new ABE features such as group-based access, ID-based revocation, and attributes management functions such as delegation, federation, and interoperability. These new capabilities can build a new ABE-based Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) solution that can incorporate data access policies and control into ciphertext. This book is also ideal for IT companies to provide them with the most recent technologies and research on how to implement data access control models for mobile and data-centric applications, where data access control does not need to rely on a fixed access control infrastructure. It’s also of interested to those working in security, to enable them to have the most recent developments in data access control such as ICN and Blockchain technologies. Features Covers cryptographic background knowledge for ABE and ABAC Features various ABE constructions to achieve integrated access control capabilities Offers a comprehensive coverage of ABE-based ABAC Provides ABE applications with real-world examples Advances the ABE research to support new mobile and data-centric applications

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Iterative Learning Control for Multi-agent Systems Coordination

By: Shiping Yang,Jian-Xin Xu,Xuefang Li,Dong Shen

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Iterative Learning Control for Multi-agent Systems Coordination

By: Shiping Yang,Jian-Xin Xu,Xuefang Li,Dong Shen

A timely guide using iterative learning control (ILC) as a solution for multi-agent systems (MAS) challenges, showcasing recent advances and industrially relevant applications Explores the synergy between the important topics of iterative learning control (ILC) and multi-agent systems (MAS) Concisely summarizes recent advances and significant applications in ILC methods for power grids, sensor networks and control processes Covers basic theory, rigorous mathematics as well as engineering practice

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The Alpheidae from China Seas

Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea

By: Zhong-li Sha,Yan-rong Wang,Dong-ling Cui

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The Alpheidae from China Seas

Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea

By: Zhong-li Sha,Yan-rong Wang,Dong-ling Cui

As one of the largest families within the Caridea, the Alpheidae have attracted much attention for its species richness, especially on coral reefs. The Alpheidae are one of the most abundant decapods in tropical and subtropical areas, with 48 genera and more than 700 known species. The Alpheidae present a particular challenge in terms of both taxonomy and systematics as they are difficult to identify (some species vary in their growth and there are often large differences between the sexes). Traditional, morphology-based research on the Alpheidae still plays an important role in identifying species, compared with new methods, such as the short gene sequences. Based on more than 2000 specimens collected from the China Seas, this book describes and clearly illustrates 146 species belonging to 16 genera of the Alpheidae. It also presents the key features of every genus and every species within every genus, to enable readers to easily identify the alphid shrimps of the China Seas.

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Cisco

Integration of Innovation and Operation

By: Xiaoying Dong,Yan Yu,Jiali Zhou

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Cisco

Integration of Innovation and Operation

By: Xiaoying Dong,Yan Yu,Jiali Zhou

This book picks Cisco as an example to propose a framework of ambidextrous integration of innovation and operation, which is the key to the success of global companies along their evolutions, especially for those technology companies. The authors try to find how the company combines active innovation and efficient operation for its sustainable development. On the basis of comprehensive analysis of the strategic leadership, change management, innovation system, M&As, IT-enabled value chains, collaboration, etc., in Cisco, as well as the interviews with Cisco staff, this book shows that management practices shape the balance of internal-external resources for explorative-exploitative innovations. IT strategies and implementation enable efficient operations when innovations are identified and justified in the leading company. Managerial insights for sustainable competitiveness can be gained from Cisco practices in this book. The companion of the book, Huawei: From Catching up to Lead, telling another growth path of technology company in China by similar framework.

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Formation and Containment Control for High-order Linear Swarm Systems

By: Xiwang Dong

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Formation and Containment Control for High-order Linear Swarm Systems

By: Xiwang Dong

This book focuses on analysis and design problems for high-order linear time-invariant (LTI) swarm systems (multi-agent systems) to achieve consensus, formation, containment and formation-containment. As a first step, the concepts of practical consensus and formation-containment are introduced. Unlike previous research, the formation in this book can be time-varying. A general framework for consensus, consensus tracking, formation, containment and state formation-containment is presented for the first time. Sufficient/necessary and sufficient conditions, and approaches to designing the protocols for swarm systems to achieve these control objectives, are respectively proposed. Autonomous time-varying formation experiments using five quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are conducted in an outdoor setting to demonstrate the theoretical results.

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A Decade of Upheaval

The Cultural Revolution in Rural China

By: Dong Guoqiang,Andrew G. Walder

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A Decade of Upheaval

The Cultural Revolution in Rural China

By: Dong Guoqiang,Andrew G. Walder

A revealing exploration of political disruption and violence in a rural Chinese county during the Cultural Revolution A Decade of Upheaval chronicles the surprising and dramatic political conflicts of a rural Chinese county over the course of the Cultural Revolution. Drawing on an unprecedented range of sources—including work diaries, interviews, internal party documents, and military directives—Dong Guoqiang and Andrew Walder uncover a previously unimagined level of strife in the countryside that began with the Red Guard Movement in 1966 and continued unabated until the death of Mao Zedong in 1976. Showing how the upheavals of the Cultural Revolution were not limited to urban areas, but reached far into isolated rural regions, Dong and Walder reveal that the intervention of military forces in 1967 encouraged factional divisions in Feng County because different branches of China’s armed forces took various sides in local disputes. The authors also lay bare how the fortunes of local political groups were closely tethered to unpredictable shifts in the decisions of government authorities in Beijing. Eventually, a backlash against suppression and victimization grew in the early 1970s and resulted in active protests, which presaged the settling of scores against radical Maoism. A meticulous look at how one overlooked region experienced the Cultural Revolution, A Decade of Upheaval illuminates the all-encompassing nature of one of the most unstable periods in modern Chinese history.

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0691214972

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Luxuriant Gems of the Spring and Autumn

By: Zhongshu Dong

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Luxuriant Gems of the Spring and Autumn

By: Zhongshu Dong

The Spring and Autumn (Chunqiu) is a chronicle kept by the dukes of the state of Lu from 722 to 481 B.C.E. Luxuriant Gems of the "Spring and Autumn" (Chunqiu fanlu) follows the interpretations of the Gongyang Commentary, whose transmitters sought to explicate the special language of the Spring and Autumn. The work is often ascribed to the Han scholar and court official Dong Zhongshu, but, as this study reveals, the text is in fact a compendium of writings by a variety of authors spanning several generations. It depicts a utopian vision of a flourishing humanity that they believed to be Confucius's legacy to the world. The Gongyang masters thought that Confucius had written the Spring and Autumn, employing subtle phrasing to indicate approval or disapproval of important events and personages. Luxuriant Gems therefore augments Confucian ethical and philosophical teachings with chapters on cosmology, statecraft, and other topics drawn from contemporary non-Confucian traditions. A major resource, this book features the first complete English-language translation of Luxuriant Gems, divided into eight thematic sections with introductions that address dating, authorship, authenticity, and the relationship between the Spring and Autumn and the Gongyang approach. Critically illuminating early Chinese philosophy, religion, literature, and politics, this book conveys the brilliance of intellectual life in the Han dynasty during the formative decades of the Chinese imperial state.

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0231539614

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Hierarchically Porous Bio-Carbon Based Composites for High Electromagnetic Shielding Performance

By: Songtao Li,Zhengwang Zhu,Dongyan Liu,Yu Dong

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Hierarchically Porous Bio-Carbon Based Composites for High Electromagnetic Shielding Performance

By: Songtao Li,Zhengwang Zhu,Dongyan Liu,Yu Dong

This book highlights the preparation and characterization of efficient electromagnetic shielding composites containing bio-carbon derived from natural loofah with unique three-dimensional porous structures by means of entire structure design of composites according to shielding theory. The synergistic effect of multifunctional nanoparticles and bio-carbon on electromagnetic shielding mechanism, mechanical performance, and thermal stability of composites obtained has been holistically investigated. The discovery of this renewable, environmentally friendly, and inexpensive bio-carbon represents a new class of conductive materials with multi-interfaces and unravels further research and development of a wide variety of new electromagnetic shielding material systems with potential commercial applications ranging from electronic devices to energy management.

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9811910693

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Semantics of Chinese Questions

An Interface Approach

By: Hongyuan Dong

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Semantics of Chinese Questions

An Interface Approach

By: Hongyuan Dong

Semantics of Chinese Questions is the first major study of Chinese questions, especially wh-questions, within the framework of Alternative Semantics. It takes an interface approach to study the syntax, semantics, and phonology of questions and proposes a phonological scope-marking strategy in Chinese questions, based upon experimental data. It also incorporates historical linguistic data regarding the grammaticalization of sentence-final particles such as –ne and –ma to study the formal diachronic semantics of questions. Primarily suitable for scholars in the field of Chinese linguistics, this book makes new theoretical contributions to the study of questions.

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1351021567

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Historical Background of Wang Yang-ming’s Philosophy of Mind

From the Perspective of his Life Story

By: Ping Dong

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Historical Background of Wang Yang-ming’s Philosophy of Mind

From the Perspective of his Life Story

By: Ping Dong

This open access book offers comprehensive information on Wang Yang-ming’s life, helping readers identify and grasp the foundations on which his philosophy was established. Though a great man, Wang had an extremely difficult life, full of many hardships. Based on various official histories, Wang’s own writings, and his disciples’ records, the book explores the legendary life of this ancient philosopher, who not only diligently pursued his objective of living as a sage, but also persistently sought the ideal state of a sage in ideology. The author also shares his own interpretations of the main aspects of Wang’s philosophy using simple and straightforward language. This book will help readers understand and appreciate Wang Yang-ming’s extraordinary life, his generous mind, deep thoughts and bright personality, inspiring them to pursue enriching lives. It offers a unique and insightful work for undergraduate students and all others interested in Wang’s philosophy and life story.

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981153036X

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Untethered Miniature Soft Robots

Materials, Fabrications, and Applications

By: Li Zhang,Jiachen Zhang,Neng Xia,Yue Dong

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Untethered Miniature Soft Robots

Materials, Fabrications, and Applications

By: Li Zhang,Jiachen Zhang,Neng Xia,Yue Dong

Untethered Miniature Soft Robots Reference on achieving contactless manipulation of soft robots, detailing high level concepts and perspectives and technical skills of soft robots Untethered Miniature Soft Robots: Materials, Fabrications, and Applications introduces the emerging field of miniature soft robots and summarizes the recent rapid development in the field to date, describing different types of functional materials to build miniature soft robots, such as silicone elastomer, carbon-based materials, hydrogels, liquid crystal polymer, flexible ferrofluid, and liquid metal, and covering the material properties, fabrication strategies, and functionalities in soft robots together with their underlying mechanisms. The book discusses magnetically, thermally, optically, and chemically actuated soft robots in depth, explores the many specific applications of miniature soft robots in biomedical, environmental, and electrical fields and summarizes the development of miniature soft robots based on soft matter, fabrication strategies, locomotion principles, sensing and actuation mechanisms. In closing, the text summarizes the opportunities and challenges faced by miniature soft robots, providing expert insight into the possible futures of this field. Written by four highly qualified academics, Untethered Miniature Soft Robots covers sample topics such as: Soft elastomer-based robots with programmable magnetization profiles and untethered soft robots based on template-aiding Working mechanisms of carbon-based materials, covering light-induced expansion and shrinkage, and humidity-induced deformation Designing microscale building blocks, modular assembly of building blocks based on Denavit-Hartenberg (DH) matrix, and inverse and forward design of modular morphing systems Material designs of magnetic liquid crystal elastomers (LCE) systems, multiple-stimuli responsiveness of magnetic LCE systems, and adaptive locomotion of magnetic LCE-based robots Controllable deformation and motion behaviors, as well as applications of ferrofluids droplet robots (FDRs), including cargo capturing, object sorting, liquid pumping/mixing, and liquid skin. Providing highly detailed and up-to-date coverage of the topic, Untethered Miniature Soft Robots serves as an invaluable and highly comprehensive reference for researchers working in this promising field across a variety of disciplines, including materials scientists, mechanical and electronics engineers, polymer chemists, and biochemists.

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3527840907

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Confucianism as a World Religion

Contested Histories and Contemporary Realities

By: Anna Xiao Dong Sun

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Confucianism as a World Religion

Contested Histories and Contemporary Realities

By: Anna Xiao Dong Sun

Is Confucianism a religion? If so, why do most Chinese think it isn't? From ancient Confucian temples, to nineteenth-century archives, to the testimony of people interviewed by the author throughout China over a period of more than a decade, this book traces the birth and growth of the idea of Confucianism as a world religion. The book begins at Oxford, in the late nineteenth century, when Friedrich Max Müller and James Legge classified Confucianism as a world religion in the new discourse of "world religions" and the emerging discipline of comparative religion. Anna Sun shows how that decisive moment continues to influence the understanding of Confucianism in the contemporary world, not only in the West but also in China, where the politics of Confucianism has become important to the present regime in a time of transition. Contested histories of Confucianism are vital signs of social and political change. Sun also examines the revival of Confucianism in contemporary China and the social significance of the ritual practice of Confucian temples. While the Chinese government turns to Confucianism to justify its political agenda, Confucian activists have started a movement to turn Confucianism into a religion. Confucianism as a world religion might have begun as a scholarly construction, but are we witnessing its transformation into a social and political reality? With historical analysis, extensive research, and thoughtful reflection, Confucianism as a World Religion will engage all those interested in religion and global politics at the beginning of the Chinese century.

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Princeton University Press

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0691155577

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Fusion of Critical Horizons in Chinese and Western Language, Poetics, Aesthetics

By: Ming Dong Gu

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Fusion of Critical Horizons in Chinese and Western Language, Poetics, Aesthetics

By: Ming Dong Gu

This book begins with a reflection on dichotomies in comparative studies of Chinese and Western literature and aesthetics. Critiquing an oppositional paradigm, Ming Dong Gu argues that despite linguistic and cultural differences, the two traditions share much common ground in critical theory, aesthetic thought, metaphysical conception, and reasoning. Focusing on issues of language, writing, and linguistics; metaphor, metonymy, and poetics; mimesis and representation; and lyricism, expressionism, creativity, and aesthetics, Gu demonstrates that though ways of conception and modes of expression may differ, the two traditions have cultivated similar aesthetic feelings and critical ideas capable of fusing critical and aesthetic horizons. With a two-way dialogue, this book covers a broad spectrum of critical discourses and uncovers fascinating connections among a wide range of thinkers, theorists, scholars, and aestheticians, thereby making a significant contribution to bridging the aesthetic divide and envisioning world theory and global aesthetics.

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3030737306

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Republican Beijing

The City and Its Histories

By: Madeleine Yue Dong

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Republican Beijing

The City and Its Histories

By: Madeleine Yue Dong

Old Beijing has become a subject of growing fascination in contemporary China since the 1980s. While physical remnants from the past are being bulldozed every day to make space for glass-walled skyscrapers and towering apartment buildings, nostalgia for the old city is booming. Madeleine Yue Dong offers the first comprehensive history of Republican Beijing, examining how the capital acquired its identity as a consummately "traditional" Chinese city. For residents of Beijing, the heart of the city lay in the labor-intensive activities of "recycling," a primary mode of material and cultural production and circulation that came to characterize Republican Beijing. An omnipresent process of recycling and re-use unified Beijing's fragmented and stratified markets into one circulation system. These material practices evoked an air of nostalgia that permeated daily life. Paradoxically, the "old Beijing" toward which this nostalgia was directed was not the imperial capital of the past, but the living Republican city. Such nostalgia toward the present, the author argues, was not an empty sentiment, but an essential characteristic of Chinese modernity.

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Sustainable Agriculture

Adaptation Strategies to Address Climate Change by 2050

By: Zied Haj-Amor,Dong-Gill Kim,Salem Bouri

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Sustainable Agriculture

Adaptation Strategies to Address Climate Change by 2050

By: Zied Haj-Amor,Dong-Gill Kim,Salem Bouri

Ever-increasing population growth, combined with ongoing climate change signals that agriculture will face great challenges in ensuring global food security by 2050. Additionally, climate change-driven variations in mean sea level, wave conditions, storm surge, droughts, and river flows could have serious effects on agriculture and other sectors. Considering these factors and the extremely high value and necessity of agriculture worldwide, effective adaptation measures underpinned by reliable climate change impact assessments are essential to conserve soil and water resources and ensure food security. Sustainable Agriculture: Adaptation Strategies to Address Climate Change by 2050 provides a thorough examination of these issues, and presents in-depth analysis, practical case studies, and numerous examples of adaptation options throughout for various regions of the world. Features: Presents up-to-date, scientifically robust information on climate change projections in Europe, Asia, America, Africa, and Australia Provides pathways to sustainable agricultural options rather than just defining the climate change issue Includes case studies and practical examples throughout the world Presents a framework by which policymakers can begin implementing strategies for improving agricultural productivity

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1003815995

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Evil Sentimental Young Master

Volume 2

By: Dong Fangshaoshuai

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Evil Sentimental Young Master

Volume 2

By: Dong Fangshaoshuai

Accepting female generals, capturing beauties, and building a harem! He had crossed over to another world to become the only man of the famous sect, and he was tasked with the task of "passing down his generations"! He did not hesitate to make a move on his solitary princess consort; he courageously pursued the unruly and spicy loli! I was a wicked young master, smiling at Fuyan. The operation of the command of the world, unhindered and unrestrained in the four seas. Furthermore, it was the legendary story of how young evil beings of the Modern Realm built their harem in a different world...

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Tuttle Chinese-English Dictionary

By: Li Dong

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Tuttle Chinese-English Dictionary

By: Li Dong

This is an extensive and user-friendly Chinese to English dictionary. The Tuttle Chinese-English Dictionary provides clear and accurate definitions in idiomatic English for the 18,000 most common Chinese vocabulary items (characters and compounds), including all words required for the official HSK Chinese Language Proficiency Examination used by the Chinese government as well as corporations and universities worldwide. This Chinese dictionary is designed specifically for English speakers. All entries are listed alphabetically in their romanized form using the standard Hanyu Pinyin romanization system. To ensure that the dictionary is up-to-date, recently coined terms have been included reflecting the dramatic changes taking place in Chinese society, business and education. Entries contain idiomatic expressions and detailed notes on Chinese culture, grammar and usage that are extremely useful for foreigners--a unique feature found in no other Chinese dictionary. Over 8,000 example Chinese sentences are provided showing how Chinese words are used in real-life situations. A concise guide to Chinese pronunciation, tones and grammar and lists of common character components, measure words are given at the front of the dictionary, while Chinese personal and place names are given at the back. Indexes list characters by strokes and also by radicals to enable the reader to look up characters when the pronunciation is not known. Key features of this Chinese dictionary include: Clear and concise definitions for 18,000 common vocabulary items. The only Chinese dictionary designed specifically for English speakers. All entries listed alphabetically in romanized Hanyu Pinyin form. Includes all words for the HSK Chinese language Proficiency Examination.

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Sport, Revolution and the Beijing Olympics

By: Grant Jarvie,Dong-Jhy Hwang,Mel Brennan

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Sport, Revolution and the Beijing Olympics

By: Grant Jarvie,Dong-Jhy Hwang,Mel Brennan

The 2008 Olympic Games will be held in Beijing but many human rights activists support a boycott. They liken the circumstances to previous governments that used the games to glorify their regimes - most notoriously the Nazis in 1936. What has led to this perception and is it fair? Sport, Revolution and the Beijing Olympics is a cultural history of sport in China and challenges many such ingrained Western assumptions. The authors unpick the relationship of sport to imperialism and revolution, and examine its significance in both China and Taiwan at governmental and everyday levels. In the process, they successfully debunk harmful myths, such as the prevalence of drugs in Chinese sport among women athletes, and present a balanced view that is a much-needed corrective to popular understanding.

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1845201000

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