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Extraterritoriality

Locating Hong Kong Cinema and Media

By: Fan Victor Fan

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Extraterritoriality

Locating Hong Kong Cinema and Media

By: Fan Victor Fan

Examining how Hong Kong filmmakers, spectators and critics wrestled with this perturbation between the Leftist Riots (1967) and the aftermath of the Umbrella Movement (2014), this book traces how Hong Kong's extraterritoriality has been framed: in its position of being doubly occupied and doubly abandoned by contesting juridical, political, linguistic and cultural forces. Extraterritoriality scrutinises creative works in mainstream cinema, independent films, television, video artworks and documentaries - especially those by marginalised artists - actively rewriting and reconfiguring how Hong Kong cinema and media are to be defined and located.

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Edinburgh University Press

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1474440452

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9781474440455

Cinema Approaching Reality

Locating Chinese Film Theory

By: Victor Fan

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Cinema Approaching Reality

Locating Chinese Film Theory

By: Victor Fan

In Cinema Approaching Reality, Victor Fan brings together, for the first time, Chinese and Euro-American film theories and theorists to engage in critical debates about film in Shanghai and Hong Kong from the 1920s through 1940s. His point of departure is a term popularly employed by Chinese film critics during this period, bizhen, often translated as “lifelike” but best understood as “approaching reality.” What these Chinese theorists mean, in Fan’s reading, is that the cinematographic image is not a form of total reality, but it can allow spectators to apprehend an effect as though they had been there at the time when an event actually happened. Fan suggests that the phrase “approaching reality” can help to renegotiate an aporia (blind spot) that influential French film critic André Bazin wrestled with: the cinematographic image is a trace of reality, yet reality is absent in the cinematographic image, and the cinema makes present this absence as it reactivates the passage of time. Fan enriches Bazinian cinematic ontology with discussions on cinematic reality in Republican China and colonial Hong Kong, putting Western theorists—from Bazin and Kracauer to Baudrillard, Agamben, and Deleuze—into dialogue with their Chinese counterparts. The result is an eye-opening exploration of the potentialities in approaching cinema anew, especially in the photographic materiality following its digital turn.

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U of Minnesota Press

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1452944067

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9781452944067

Cinema Illuminating Reality

Media Philosophy through Buddhism

By: Victor Fan

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Cinema Illuminating Reality

Media Philosophy through Buddhism

By: Victor Fan

A new critical approach to cinema and media based on Buddhism as a philosophical discourse How can a philosophical discourse generated in Asia help us reframe and renew cinema and media theory? Cinema Illuminating Reality provides a possible way to do this by using Buddhist ideas to examine the intricate relationship between technicity and consciousness in the cinema. The resulting dialogue between Buddhism and Euro-American philosophy is the first of its kind in film and media studies. Victor Fan examines cinema’s ontology and ontogenetic formation and how such a formational process produces knowledge, political agency, and in-aesthetics. Buddhism allows Fan to deconstruct binary thinking and reimagine media as an ecology, rethinking cinema in relational terms between the human and the machine. Along the way, Fan considers a wide variety of case studies from around the globe, while paying special attention to how contemporary Tibeto-Sinophone filmmakers have adopted relational thinking to detail ways of rebuilding a world that appears to be beyond repair. From Chinese queer cinema to a reexamination of Japanese master Ozu’s work and its historical reception to Christian Petzold’s 2018 existential thriller Transit, CinemaIlluminating Reality forges a remarkable path between Buddhist studies and cinema studies, casting vital new light on both of these important subjects.

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U of Minnesota Press

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1452964319

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9781452964317

The Fan Museum

By: Hélène Alexander,Fan Museum (London, England)

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The Fan Museum

By: Hélène Alexander,Fan Museum (London, England)

This work tells the story of the privately owned Fan Museum in London, its aims and aspirations, and illustrates in detail over fifty of the most prestigious fans and fan leaves in its collection, ranging from a 1681 folding fan depicting Louis XIV and his family, to a Victorian fan with guards containing compartments which house a minute sewing kit with scissors, a mirror and a comb.

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Third Millennium Information Ltd

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0954031911

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9780954031916

Cinema Approaching Reality

Locating Chinese Film Theory

By: Victor Fan

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Locating Chinese Film Theory

By: Victor Fan

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U of Minnesota Press

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1452944067

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Transport Phenomena in Biological Systems

By: George A. Truskey,Fan Yuan,David F. Katz

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Transport Phenomena in Biological Systems

By: George A. Truskey,Fan Yuan,David F. Katz

For one-semester, advanced undergraduate/graduate courses in Biotransport Engineering. Presenting engineering fundamentals and biological applications in a unified way, this text provides students with the skills necessary to develop and critically analyze models of biological transport and reaction processes. It covers topics in fluid mechanics, mass transport, and biochemical interactions, with engineering concepts motivated by specific biological problems.

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Prentice Hall

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0131569880

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9780131569881

Cinema Illuminating Reality

Media Philosophy through Buddhism

By: Victor Fan

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Media Philosophy through Buddhism

By: Victor Fan

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U of Minnesota Press

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Extraterritoriality

Locating Hong Kong Cinema and Media

By: Victor Fan

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Locating Hong Kong Cinema and Media

By: Victor Fan

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Edinburgh University Press

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1474440444

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9781474440448

Treatises of the Supervisor and Guardian of the Cinnamon Sea

The Natural World and Material Culture of Twelfth-Century China (A China Program Book)

By: Chengda Fan,James M Hargett

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Treatises of the Supervisor and Guardian of the Cinnamon Sea

The Natural World and Material Culture of Twelfth-Century China (A China Program Book)

By: Chengda Fan,James M Hargett

This important work of twelfth-century Chinese scholarship is at once a gazetteer, an ethnography, and a natural history of south China - mainly Guangxi and Hainan - and its indigenous people. Now, for the first time in English, a complete and annotated translation captures its charm and significance for new generations of scholars. James M. Hargett is professor of Chinese at the State University of New York, Albany.

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University of Washington Press

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0295990791

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9780295990798

Validation of Guidelines for Evaluating the Moisture Susceptibility of WMA Technologies

By: Amy Epps Martin,Edith Arambula,Fan Yin,Eun Sug Park,Texas A & M Transportation Institute

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Validation of Guidelines for Evaluating the Moisture Susceptibility of WMA Technologies

By: Amy Epps Martin,Edith Arambula,Fan Yin,Eun Sug Park,Texas A & M Transportation Institute

TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 817: Validation of Guidelines for Evaluating the Moisture Susceptibility of WMA Technologies presents validated guidelines proposed for identifying potential moisture susceptibility in warm mix asphalt (WMA) during mix design. The report further corroborates the moisture susceptibility thresholds described in NCHRP Report 763: Evaluation of the Moisture Susceptibility of WMA Technologies.

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0309375061

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9780309375061

Tom Swift and His Oceanic Subliminator

By: Victor Appleton, II.

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Tom Swift and His Oceanic Subliminator

By: Victor Appleton, II.

In this 4th novel in the series, Tom is asked to help save the crew of a sunken nuclear submarine, and then to recover the actual sub before it can be claimed as salvage and stripped of its top secrets by a foreign power. His successful efforts lead him to being requested to undertake a monumental task: locating and recovering the more than half-dozen "lost" nuclear submarines sitting on the bottom of several of the Earth's oceans. More than that, he must also find their nuclear-tipped torpedoes and reactors, some of which are no longer with their hulls, and recover them safely as well. With nothing available from his own company, it looks hopeless until the U.S. Navy loans him a holdover from the Cold War, a gigantic submarine carrier capable of holding and launching several attack class subs. He refits it for the mission, trains a half-Enterprises and half Navy crew, and sets out only to discover that saboteurs, spies, possible terrorists and even foreign governments are out to see him fail. But the ultimate danger comes later when they discover more than anyone could have ever believed!

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Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

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1495385361

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9781495385360

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Extraterritoriality

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The Fan Museum

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Cinema Approaching Reality

Cinema Approaching Reality

Transport Phenomena in Biological Systems

Transport Phenomena in Biological Systems

Cinema Illuminating Reality

Cinema Illuminating Reality

Extraterritoriality

Extraterritoriality

Treatises of the Supervisor and Guardian of the Cinnamon Sea

Treatises of the Supervisor and Guardian of the Cinnamon Sea

Validation of Guidelines for Evaluating the Moisture Susceptibility of WMA Technologies

Validation of Guidelines for Evaluating the Moisture Susceptibility of WMA Technologies

Tom Swift and His Oceanic Subliminator

Tom Swift and His Oceanic Subliminator

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