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The Invisibility Cloak

By: Ge Fei

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A lightly surreal story of misfortune, menace, and high-end stereo equipment in the cutthroat, capitalistic world of modern China. An NYRB Classics Original The hero of The Invisibility Cloak lives in contemporary Beijing—where everyone is doing their best to hustle up the ladder of success while shouldering an ever-growing burden of consumer goods—and he’s a loser. Well into his forties, he’s divorced (and still doting on his ex), childless, and living with his sister (her husband wants him out) in an apartment at the edge of town with a crack in the wall the wind from the north blows through while he gets by, just, by making customized old-fashioned amplifiers for the occasional rich audio-obsessive. He has contempt for his clients and contempt for himself. The only things he really likes are Beethoven and vintage speakers. Then an old friend tips him off about a special job—a little risky but just don’t ask too many questions—and can it really be that this hopeless loser wins? This provocative and seriously funny exercise in the social fantastic by the brilliantly original Ge Fei, one of China’s finest living writers, is among the most original works of fiction to come out of China in recent years. It is sure to appeal to readers of Haruki Murakami and other fabulists of contemporary irreality.

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New York Review of Books

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1681370204

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9781681370200

Peach Blossom Paradise

By: Ge Fei

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Peach Blossom Paradise

By: Ge Fei

An enthralling story of revolution, idealism, and a savage struggle for utopia by one of China's greatest living novelists. In 1898 reformist intellectuals in China persuaded the young emperor that it was time to transform his sclerotic empire into a prosperous modern state. The Hundred Days’ Reform that followed was a moment of unprecedented change and extraordinary hope—brought to an abrupt end by a bloody military coup. Dashed expectations would contribute to the revolutionary turn that Chinese history would soon take, leading in time to the deaths of millions. Peach Blossom Paradise, set at the time of the reform, is the story of Xiumi, the daughter of a wealthy landowner and former government official who falls prey to insanity and disappears. Days later, a man with a gold cicada in his pocket turns up at his estate and is inexplicably welcomed as a relative. This mysterious man has a great vision of reforging China as an egalitarian utopia, and he will stop at nothing to make it real. It is his own plans, however, which come to nothing, and his “little sister” Xiumi is left to take up arms against a Confucian world in which women are chattel. Her campaign for change and her struggle to seize control over her own body are continually threatened by the violent whims of men who claim to be building paradise.

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New York Review of Books

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1681374714

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9781681374710

Flock of Brown Birds

Penguin Specials

By: Ge Fei

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Flock of Brown Birds

Penguin Specials

By: Ge Fei

In this avant garde novella, memory and time are subjective. A writer named Ge Fei retreats to the beautiful solitude of the Waterside to finish his novel inspired by the Revelations of St. John. He perceives ominous and portentous signs in the natural landscape around him, particularly in a flock of brown birds that flies periodically past his window. The arrival of a mysterious woman named Qi magnifies his anxiety and sense of temporal disorientation, calling into question his grasp on reality. 'It is impossible to enter the deeper aspects of contemporary Chinese literature without also entering the world of Ge Fei.' Enrique Vila-Matas

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Penguin Group Australia

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1760143170

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9781760143176

Through Time: Concubine Xiang

Volume 1

By: Ge Zidaocao

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Through Time: Concubine Xiang

Volume 1

By: Ge Zidaocao

Dead." He was alive again!Twenty plus years of life were written off in an instant and reregistered back to the ancient era. Fortunately, she was a beauty.However, the sad truth was that, as soon as she became an adult, she was chosen by the extremely evil emperor to enter the palace to become imperial maiden!Can democratic moderns adapt? Could her smile continue to shine within the tall walls of the palace?The love in Deep Palace was filled with a rough fate. "Of the three palaces and six courtyards, seventy-two concubines. Would she be able to single out six palaces?

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Funstory

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1647878578

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9781647878573

Undulate Marriage

Volume 2

By: Wang Ge

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Undulate Marriage

Volume 2

By: Wang Ge

She had loved a scumbag for five years, but had been hacked off when he had finished college. She had been hiding his identity from him all this time.The scumbag's girlfriend mocked her for her ability to seduce her father and be their "mother."I vow to be their "grandmother" in order to fight for my life!After finding my target, I stubbornly confessed and began to tread on the long road to the top position of 'Grandmother' ...

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Funstory

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1647578523

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9781647578527

Immortal Emperor Reborn In City

Volume 4

By: Hou Ge

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Immortal Emperor Reborn In City

Volume 4

By: Hou Ge

An Immortal Emperor reborn in a city, acting tough and slapping his face, courting a girl, and then leaving in a good mood!

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Funstory

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1649556322

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9781649556325

What Is China?

Territory, Ethnicity, Culture, and History

By: Zhaoguang Ge,___

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What Is China?

Territory, Ethnicity, Culture, and History

By: Zhaoguang Ge,___

Ge Zhaoguang addresses sensitive questions of identity that shape the politics of the world's most populous country. This insider's account teases out nuances of China's encounter with the contemporary world, using its past to explain its present and to provide insight into paths the nation might follow as the current century unfolds.

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Harvard University Press

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0674737148

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9780674737143

Connected Vehicular Systems

Communication, Control, and Optimization

By: Ge Guo,Shixi Wen

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Connected Vehicular Systems

Communication, Control, and Optimization

By: Ge Guo,Shixi Wen

CONNECTED VEHICULAR SYSTEMS A framework for the analysis and design of connected vehicle systems, featuring numerous simulations, experimental studies, and problem-solving approaches Connected Vehicular Systems synthesizes the research advances of the past decade to provide readers with practical tools to analyze and design all aspects of connected autonomous vehicle systems, addressing a series of major issues and challenges in autonomous connected vehicles and transportation systems, such as sensing, communication, control design, and command actuating. The text provides direct methodologies for solving important problems such as speed planning, cooperative adaptive cruise control, platooning, and string traffic flow stability, with numerous simulations and experimental studies for implementing algorithms and parameter settings. To help the reader better understand and implement the concepts discussed, the text includes a variety of worked examples, including those related to car following, vehicular platooning problem, string stability, cooperative adaptive cruise control, and vehicular communications. Written by two highly qualified academics with significant experience in the field, Connected Vehicular Systems includes information on: Varying communication ranges, interruptions, and topologies, along with controls for event-triggered communication Fault-tolerant and adaptive fault-tolerant controls with actuator saturation, input quantization, and dead-zone nonlinearity Prescribed performance concurrent controls, adaptive sliding mode controls, and speed planning for various scenarios, such as to reduce inter-vehicle spacing Control paradigms aimed at relaxing communications constraints and optimizing system performance Detailed algorithms and parameter settings that readers can implement in their own work to drive progress in the field Connected Vehicular Systems is an essential resource on the subject for mechanical and automotive engineers and researchers involved with the design and development of self-driving cars and intelligent transportation systems, along with graduate students in courses that cover vehicle controls within the context of control systems or vehicular systems engineering.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1394205481

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9781394205486

Pains and Gains of Ethnic Multilingual Learners in China

An Ethnographic Case Study

By: Ge Wang

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Pains and Gains of Ethnic Multilingual Learners in China

An Ethnographic Case Study

By: Ge Wang

This book introduces an ethnographic case study of two English majors of ethnic minority at YUN, a local university of nationalities in southwest China. Drawing on the theories of post-structuralism and critical multiculturalism, this book mainly studies two female multilingual individuals in Yunnan, China. By scrutinizing university policies, curriculum, personal learning histories, and by discussing the unequal power relationship between national policies, school curricula, and ethnic multilingual learners,this book provides information at a micro-level on how the two ethnic minority students, who have acquired three languages (L1-native, L2-Mandarin Chinese, and L3-English), successfully navigate the Chinese higher education system as multilingual learners despite various tensions, difficulties, and challenges. How these students construct their multiple identities as well as significant factors affecting such identity construction is also discussed. This book will contribute to the scholarship of policy and practice in ethnic multilingual education in China by addressing the challenges for tertiary institutions and ethnic multilingual learners. The author also points out that multiculturalism as a discourse of education might help ease the tension of being an ethnic minority and a Chinese national, and reduce the danger of being assimilated or being marginalized.

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Springer

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981100661X

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9789811006616

Dazzle the Good-for-Nothing Prince

Volume 2

By: Hua Ge

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Dazzle the Good-for-Nothing Prince

Volume 2

By: Hua Ge

Female model crossed into a blockhead? Accept your destiny? Hum! Look down on her!

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Funstory

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1648147194

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9781648147197

Strange Beasts of China

By: Yan Ge

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Strange Beasts of China

By: Yan Ge

A New York Times Editors' Choice and Notable Book of 2021 "Best Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror of 2021"—The Washington Post From one of the most exciting voices in contemporary Chinese literature, an uncanny and playful novel that blurs the line between human and beast… In the fictional Chinese city of Yong’an, an amateur cryptozoologist is commissioned to uncover the stories of its fabled beasts. These creatures live alongside humans in near-inconspicuousness—save their greenish skin, serrated earlobes, and strange birthmarks. Aided by her elusive former professor and his enigmatic assistant, our narrator sets off to document each beast, and is slowly drawn deeper into a mystery that threatens her very sense of self. Part detective story, part metaphysical enquiry, Strange Beasts of China engages existential questions of identity, humanity, love and morality with whimsy and stylistic verve.

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Melville House

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1612199097

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9781612199092

An Intellectual History of China, Volume Two

By: Zhaoguang Ge

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An Intellectual History of China, Volume Two

By: Zhaoguang Ge

A history of traditional Chinese knowledge, thought and belief from the seventh through the nineteenth centuries with a new approach that offers a new perspective. It appropriates a wide range of source materials and emphasizes the necessity of understanding ideas and thought in their proper historical contexts. Its analytical narrative focuses on the dialectical interaction between historical background and intellectual thought. While discussing the complex dynamics of interaction among the intellectual thought of elite Chinese scholars, their historical conditions, their canonical texts and the "worlds of general knowledge, thought and belief," it also illuminates the significance of key issues such as the formation of the Chinese world order and its underlying value system, the origins of Chinese cultural identity, foreign influences, and the collapse of the Chinese world order in the 19th century leading toward the revolutionary events of the 20th century.

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BRILL

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9004281347

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9789004281349

Quantized Algebra and Physics

Proceedings of the International Workshop on Quantized Algebra and Physics, Tianjin, China, 23-26 July 2009

By: Mo-Lin Ge,Chengming Bai,Naihuan Jing

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Quantized Algebra and Physics

Proceedings of the International Workshop on Quantized Algebra and Physics, Tianjin, China, 23-26 July 2009

By: Mo-Lin Ge,Chengming Bai,Naihuan Jing

The book aims to survey recent developments in quantum algebras and related topics. Quantum groups were introduced by Drinfeld and Jimbo in 1985 in their work on Yang?Baxter equations. The subject from the very beginning has been an interesting one for both mathematics and theoretical physics. For example, Yangian is a special example of quantum group, corresponding to rational solution of Yang?Baxter equation. Viewed as a generalization of the symmetric group, Yangians also have close connections to algebraic combinatorics. This is the proceeding for the International Workshop on Quantized Algebra and Physics. The workshop aims to gather experts and young investigators from China and abroad to discuss research problems in integrable systems, conformal field theory, string theory, Lie theory, quantum groups including Yangians and their representations.

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World Scientific

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9814340448

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9789814340441

Intoxicated with the Sword

Volume 1

By: Ge MiNi

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Intoxicated with the Sword

Volume 1

By: Ge MiNi

Four hundred years ago, the Hindu monk Mani came to Central State to pay tribute to the Celestial dynasty with a copy of the Seven Stars Atlas, a copy of the Mountain and River Diagram. Some people said that those who obtained Mountains and Rivers would gain the world, Seven Stars would gain the martial arts world, and the Seven Stars Atlas , which caused a stir in the martial arts world at that time, was subsequently divided into two parts and buried in the tombs of the current emperor and empress respectively. After four hundred years, the《 Seven Stars Atlas》 had reappeared in the mortal world, but few people knew about it ... With the appearance of the Seven Stars, who would become a hero? Brothers, who will have the time to drink and chat merrily? A girl's love can see through the mundane world. Everything in the Sword Song of Drunkenness [kept]

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Funstory

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1648842593

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9781648842597

Computational and Statistical Methods for Analysing Big Data with Applications

By: Shen Liu,James Mcgree,Zongyuan Ge,Yang Xie

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Computational and Statistical Methods for Analysing Big Data with Applications

By: Shen Liu,James Mcgree,Zongyuan Ge,Yang Xie

Due to the scale and complexity of data sets currently being collected in areas such as health, transportation, environmental science, engineering, information technology, business and finance, modern quantitative analysts are seeking improved and appropriate computational and statistical methods to explore, model and draw inferences from big data. This book aims to introduce suitable approaches for such endeavours, providing applications and case studies for the purpose of demonstration. Computational and Statistical Methods for Analysing Big Data with Applications starts with an overview of the era of big data. It then goes onto explain the computational and statistical methods which have been commonly applied in the big data revolution. For each of these methods, an example is provided as a guide to its application. Five case studies are presented next, focusing on computer vision with massive training data, spatial data analysis, advanced experimental design methods for big data, big data in clinical medicine, and analysing data collected from mobile devices, respectively. The book concludes with some final thoughts and suggested areas for future research in big data. - Advanced computational and statistical methodologies for analysing big data are developed - Experimental design methodologies are described and implemented to make the analysis of big data more computationally tractable - Case studies are discussed to demonstrate the implementation of the developed methods - Five high-impact areas of application are studied: computer vision, geosciences, commerce, healthcare and transportation - Computing code/programs are provided where appropriate

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