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In Search of the Supernatural

The Written Record

By: Bao Gan,Kenneth J. DeWoskin,James Irving Crump

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In Search of the Supernatural

The Written Record

By: Bao Gan,Kenneth J. DeWoskin,James Irving Crump

This is the first complete translation into a Western language of Sou-shen Chi, a fourth-century Chinese collection of 464 extraordinary, fantastic, or bizarre items. The subjects of these brief anecdotes and narratives include natural curiosities, gods, religious figures, omens, dreams, divinations, miracles, monsters, strange animals, demons, ghosts, and exorcists. The stories range from sober reports of drought and misfortune to accounts of a fox transformed into a turtle, persons whose heads could take independent flight at night, a tryst in a tomb, and the marriages of humans with spirits." "Sou-shen Chi is the oldest, richest, and most consulted example of the chi-kuai genre, an important division of classical Chinese literature demonstrating features of narrative technique and ethereal sensibility that point to chi-kuai as the earliest examples of Chinese fiction. Of the three surviving versions of Sou-shen Chi, the 20-chapter edition translated here is widely accepted as the best representation of the work of its compiler, Kan Pao, the official court historian for Emperor Yuan of the Chin dynasty. The style of the writing is terse, almost austere, and it has qualities of documentary prose, a reflection of its common ancestry with historical writing. An introduction deals with the text and its background, authorship, contents, versions, and transmission." "Sou-shen Chi served as a model for subsequent collections and provided many basic plots, characters, and situations for plays, novels, and even poetry. The stories were widely known and became part of the body of allusions that literate Chinese knew and used in their own writings. For example, in the twentieth century Lu Xun retold, in extended fashion, a tale of magic swords that comes from Sou-shen Chi."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

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Stanford University Press

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0804764719

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Helix Network Theory

The Dynamic Structure and Evolution of Economy and Society

By: Runyuan Gan

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Helix Network Theory

The Dynamic Structure and Evolution of Economy and Society

By: Runyuan Gan

Based on the philosophy of Systems Science and the law of evolution theory, the book, by applying the methods of structural functionalism, divides the modern social system into human-culture, economy, polity, science, law, education and other sub-systems through the systematic synthesis of disciplines such as economics, sociology, management, politics, culture theories, history and philosophy, and explores the connection between these sub-systems and their intricate relation with social progress, thus depicting the historical trajectory of the long-term evolution of human social system. Starting from the actual production and operation of the firms, the author systematically analyses the organic connections and sophisticated operating process of social reproduction in modern society from micro, meso and macro, revealing the dynamic structure and evolutionary laws of the social economic system. This book reveals the fractal features such as self-similarity, hierarchy, and recursiveness in the general structure of the firm system, the sector system and the national economic system, thereby integrating micro-, meso- and macro-economics into a unified theoretical framework. This integration is interdisciplinary, and has gone beyond the economics. It can be regarded as the fourth grand synthesis in the history of economics after John Stuart Mill (1806-1873), Alfred Marshall (1842-1924) and Samuelson (1915-2009).

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Springer Nature

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981198803X

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Another Practical Guide to Christianity

By: Samuel Ken-En Gan

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Another Practical Guide to Christianity

By: Samuel Ken-En Gan

Why do so many people on this planet believe in a divine being? Is it even sensible to believe in one? With increasing progression in human knowledge of the natural world around, there seems little reason to believe in a divine being. With this, the pressure increases on both the agnostic and Christian to abandon their search for the answer. Yet on the other front, the Christian also begins to face the rise of old enemies that once plagued Christian orthodoxy. Similar to its predecessor, this book and its compilation of themed articles addresses the issues in the logic, philosophy and thoughts of Christianity from an analytical point of view. Some of these articles serve to expand and clarify the points raised in its predecessor, and some on completely new topics. Yet unlike the predecessor, this book focuses more on the doctrine and basis of Orthodox Christian beliefs, and how Christians can apply them to everyday life through articles that academic, reflective, and argumentative. Just like ‘A Practical Guide to the Logic, Philosophy, and Thoughts of Christianity’, this book is the result of a single individual’s search for God. It promises to be challenging and thought provoking for the genuinely open-minded and interested. Even so, the articles are meant to be understood by any interested agnostic and Christian with a slow yet provocative push into the basis of Christianity and her doctrines.

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APD SKEG Pte Ltd

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9810984146

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Time Reversal Acoustics

By: Woon Siong Gan

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Time Reversal Acoustics

By: Woon Siong Gan

This book highlights time reversal acoustics, techniques based on the symmetry properties of acoustic fields. It has the unique feature that the first eleven chapters of the book are on the indepth studies of the theories of time reversal acoustics. The remaining chapters are on the four major applications of time reversal acoustics, together with their experimental setups and case studies: underwater communication, seismic exploration,nondestructive evaluation, and medical ultrasound imaging.. The gauge invariance approach to acoustic fields, proposed by the author in 2007, is confirmed by the successful fabrication of acoustical metamaterials and the applications of time reversal acoustics to superresolution. The book also presents groundbreaking applications of time reversal acoustics to underwater communication technology and the application of metamaterials to time reversal acoustics.

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Springer Nature

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9811632359

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9789811632358

A Concise Reader of Chinese Culture

By: Chunsong Gan

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A Concise Reader of Chinese Culture

By: Chunsong Gan

This book uses the mutual interactions between Chinese and Western culture as a point of departure in order to concisely introduce the origins and evolution of Chinese culture at the aspects of constitution, thinking, values and atheistic. This book also analyzes utensil culture, constitution culture and ideology culture, which were perfected by absorbing classic arguments from academia. As such, the book offers an essential guide to understanding the development, civilization and key ideologies in Chinese history, and will thus help to promote Chinese culture and increase cultural awareness.

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9811388679

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Fruit Chan's Durian Durian

A Unique Feature of the Hong Kong Legislative Council (with CD)

By: Wendy Gan

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Fruit Chan's Durian Durian

A Unique Feature of the Hong Kong Legislative Council (with CD)

By: Wendy Gan

This book examines how Fruit Chan's Durian Durian sensitively portrays the unsettling seismic shifts affecting the inhabitants of both China and Hong Kong in a post-1997 context. The study covers different aspects of Durian Durian: its relation to the Hong Kong independent film sector and traditions of Hong Kong social realism; its representations of mainland Chinese women; and its representations of cross-border relations and issues of post-1997 identity for both inhabitants of Hong Kong and China. Gan argues that Durian Durian is an attempt to re-think Hong Kong and China as a single entity, a single imagined community in a post-1997 era. The film is an exploration of "one country, two systems" not just in political but in spatial and affective terms. This is one of the first studies of Fruit Chan's work and presents him as one of Hong Kong's key filmmakers, worthy of serious critical study. Durian Durian is one of Chan's masterpieces and its study is of interest to anyone who is concerned with post-1997 realities in Hong Kong and China as visualized on film.

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Hong Kong University Press

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962209743X

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9789622097438

Interconnect Reliability in Advanced Memory Device Packaging

By: Chong Leong, Gan,Chen-Yu, Huang

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Interconnect Reliability in Advanced Memory Device Packaging

By: Chong Leong, Gan,Chen-Yu, Huang

This book explains mechanical and thermal reliability for modern memory packaging, considering materials, processes, and manufacturing. In the past 40 years, memory packaging processes have evolved enormously. This book discusses the reliability and technical challenges of first-level interconnect materials, packaging processes, advanced specialty reliability testing, and characterization of interconnects. It also examines the reliability of wire bonding, lead-free solder joints such as reliability testing and data analyses, design for reliability in hybrid packaging and HBM packaging, and failure analyses. The specialty of this book is that the materials covered are not only for second-level interconnects, but also for packaging assembly on first-level interconnects and for the semiconductor back-end on 2.5D and 3D memory interconnects. This book can be used as a text for college and graduate students who have the potential to become our future leaders, scientists, and engineers in the electronics and semiconductor industry.

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3031267087

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History of Modern Optics and Optoelectronics Development in China

By: Fuxi Gan

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History of Modern Optics and Optoelectronics Development in China

By: Fuxi Gan

This book presents a collection of memoir papers on the development of modern and contemporary optics and optoelectronics in China from the 18th to 20th centuries. The papers were written by famous scientists in China, including members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering, sharing their experience in different fields of optics and optoelectronics development. This is a unique book in understanding the natural science history of optics and optoelectronics. It gives you the general idea about how the western optical science spread to China in the 17th to 18th century; the cradle of the contemporary optics in China; Birth, development and application of lasers in China; high energy and high power lasers for laser antiballistic missile and laser nuclear fusion; development of Chinese optical communication and optical information storage; laser and infrared optics research for space science; development of Chinese optical instruments, etc. Contents: West Science vs. East (Gan Fuxi); Optical Science and Technology in China in the First Half of 20th Century (Gan Fuxi); The Cradle of the Contemporary Optics in China (Gan Fuxi); The History of Research and Development of Optical Glass in China (Gan Fuxi); Birth and Early Development of Lasers in China (Gan Fuxi); Laser ABM OCo One of the Strategic Defense Means in Early Time (Gan Fuxi); Memory of the Early Days OCo Quantum Electronics Research in the Institute of Electronics (Lin Fucheng); Chinese Laser Research Opened to the World (Gan Fuxi); Breakthroughs and Development of Semiconductor Lasers in China (Wang Qiming and Huang Yong-Zhen); Development of the Solid State Laser Materials in China (Gan Fuxi); Development of High Power Lasers in China (Fan Dianyuan); Establishment of the Daheng Company OCo A Pioneering Work of Chinese Scientific and Technological System Reform (Gan Fuxi); National 863 High Technology Program Promoted the Development of Optoelectronics in China (Gan Fuxi); Open Up the Optical Information Storage Technology in China (Gan Fuxi); Progress of Optical Communications in China OCo Fragments of Personal Reminiscences (Fang Zujie); The Course of Development of Astronomical Optical Instruments (Pan Junhua); Infra Red Optics Research and Application in Satellite Monitoring (Xue Yongqi); High Speed Imaging and Monitoring Research and Development (Hou Xun); Research on Laser Cooling and Time Standard in Optical Wavelength Range (Wang Yuzhu); Industrial Development of Optical Instruments in China (Zhuang Songlin). Readership: Students and scientists who are interested in the history of optics and optoelectronics in China.

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World Scientific

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981451876X

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9789814518765

How to Do Business with China

An Inside View on Chinese Culture and Etiquette

By: Dr. Shengfei Gan

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How to Do Business with China

An Inside View on Chinese Culture and Etiquette

By: Dr. Shengfei Gan

This book is aimed to provide practical and useful tips on doing business with China and the Chinese people either for big or small deals based on the authors 20-year personal experience in living and working in China and the western world. The advices, glimpse and learning points included in the book will guarantee to improve your ability for making more money and enjoying a better life in the process of business interaction with the middle kingdom which is emerging as the new Superpower of the world. Dr Shengfei Gans book on China is a remarkable work, written by a Chinese geologist who has not only grown up in China but has lived abroad for many years. The book therefore offers a perspective on China through both Chinese and Western eyes. The book is written in a plain and highly readable format which provides a remarkable insight into China from almost every aspect covering its history, politics, religion, customs, lifestyle, etiquette, economic affairs and ways to approach business in and with China. I believe it will become mandatory reading for anyone interested in China, whether as a student, academic, business executive, tourist, politician or simply someone trying learn more about China and understand the complexities of its culture, politics and long-term vision compared to the West. I can heartily endorse this book as a most readable and interesting analysis of the greatest economic and cultural phenomenon of the twenty first century. Tony Trahar, Former Chief Executive, Anglo American Plc.

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AuthorHouse

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1496991087

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Overbearing Husband Sleeps Beside

Volume 3

By: Gan Tian

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Overbearing Husband Sleeps Beside

Volume 3

By: Gan Tian

After the first time, the person lying beside her was not her fiancé. A conspiracy had destroyed her family and forced her to a dead end. Before he could escape the wolf's den, he had fallen back into the tiger's den. Fortunately, this tiger didn't eat humans and was as gentle as a kitten towards her.

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Funstory

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1648462030

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Advances in Geosciences

Ocean Science

By: Jianping Gan,W.-H. Ip

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Advances in Geosciences

Ocean Science

By: Jianping Gan,W.-H. Ip

This invaluable volume set of Advances in Geosciences continues the excellent tradition of the Asia-Oceania scientific community in providing the most up-to-date research results on a wide range of geosciences and environmental science. This information will be vital to the understanding the effects of climate change, extreme weathers on the most populated region and fastest moving economies in the world. Besides reviews, these volumes contain original papers from many prestigious research institutions which are doing cutting edge study in atmospheric physics, hydrological science and water resource, ocean science and coastal study, planetary exploration and solar system science, seismology, tsunamis, upper atmospheric physics and space science.

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World Scientific

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9812838139

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9789812838131

Crush Under the Starry Night

The First Chinese Christian Novel

By: Sui Lin Gan

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Crush Under the Starry Night

The First Chinese Christian Novel

By: Sui Lin Gan

The very first Chinese Christian novel now is appeared. This is a romantic story happens in both Tibet and Shanghai which can deeply touch your heart. You will see how God is leading these people’s way to heaven. God still exists and never leaves us. She went to Tibet in the year 2013 and came back with lots of creative art resource. Tibet trip has changed her life because God is using it to produce the first Christian romance novel. After she became a Christian in the year 2018, she started rewriting her novel books, so this book came back to life with God’s spirit inside of it. This is the second novel that she has finished, she has more novels to meet you in the future. She spent three months translating the novel from Chinese to English alone with God in the year 2019. She also does all kinds of painting and Christian music, you will see some of her paintings on her website: www.roseceline.com. The cover page is her Christian oil painting which is a precious gift from our Heavenly Father.

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WestBow Press

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1973680556

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9781973680550

Sick Husband So Gentle

Volume 1

By: Xi Gan

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Sick Husband So Gentle

Volume 1

By: Xi Gan

In her previous life, she didn't distinguish between good and evil, nor did she defend against traitors. This led to his own miserable death. He had been reborn in one night. He had abused the scum of a man and fought the scum of a woman. He had also gained an unexpected amount of love.

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Funstory

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163689013X

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Lives of Notable Asian Americans

Arts, Entertainment, Sports

By: Geraldine Gan

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Lives of Notable Asian Americans

Arts, Entertainment, Sports

By: Geraldine Gan

Discusses the lives of some Asian Americans primarily known for their writing, including Amy Tan, David Henry Kwang, Dharati Mukherjee, Jessica Hagedorn, and Laurence Yep.

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Chelsea House

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0791021882

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9780791021880

Semiconductor Process Reliability in Practice

By: Zhenghao Gan,Waisum Wong,Juin J. Liou

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Semiconductor Process Reliability in Practice

By: Zhenghao Gan,Waisum Wong,Juin J. Liou

Proven processes for ensuring semiconductor device reliability Co-written by experts in the field, Semiconductor Process Reliability in Practice contains detailed descriptions and analyses of reliability and qualification for semiconductor device manufacturing and discusses the underlying physics and theory. The book covers initial specification definition, test structure design, analysis of test structure data, and final qualification of the process. Real-world examples of test structure designs to qualify front-end-of-line devices and back-end-of-line interconnects are provided in this practical, comprehensive guide. Coverage includes: Basic device physics Process flow for MOS manufacturing Measurements useful for device reliability characterization Hot carrier injection Gate-oxide integrity (GOI) and time-dependent dielectric breakdown (TDDB) Negative bias temperature instability Plasma-induced damage Electrostatic discharge protection of integrated circuits Electromigration Stress migration Intermetal dielectric breakdown

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McGraw Hill Professional

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0071754288

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9780071754286

The Inclusion-Based Boundary Element Method (iBEM)

By: Huiming Yin,Gan Song,Liangliang Zhang,Chunlin Wu

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The Inclusion-Based Boundary Element Method (iBEM)

By: Huiming Yin,Gan Song,Liangliang Zhang,Chunlin Wu

The Inclusion-Based Boundary Element Method (iBEM) is an innovative numerical method for the study of the multi-physical and mechanical behaviour of composite materials, linear elasticity, potential flow or Stokes fluid dynamics. It combines the basic ideas of Eshelby's Equivalent Inclusion Method (EIM) in classic micromechanics and the Boundary Element Method (BEM) in computational mechanics. The book starts by explaining the application and extension of the EIM from elastic problems to the Stokes fluid, and potential flow problems for a multiphase material system in the infinite domain. It also shows how switching the Green's function for infinite domain solutions to semi-infinite domain solutions allows this method to solve semi-infinite domain problems. A thorough examination of particle-particle interaction and particle-boundary interaction exposes the limitation of the classic micromechanics based on Eshelby's solution for one particle embedded in the infinite domain, and demonstrates the necessity to consider the particle interactions and boundary effects for a composite containing a fairly high volume fraction of the dispersed materials. Starting by covering the fundamentals required to understand the method and going on to describe everything needed to apply it to a variety of practical contexts, this book is the ideal guide to this innovative numerical method for students, researchers, and engineers. - The multidisciplinary approach used in this book, drawing on computational methods as well as micromechanics, helps to produce a computationally efficient solution to the multi-inclusion problem - The iBEM can serve as an efficient tool to conduct virtual experiments for composite materials with various geometry and boundary or loading conditions - Includes case studies with detailed examples of numerical implementation

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