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Asian American History

A Very Short Introduction

By: Madeline Yuan-yin Hsu

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Asian American History

A Very Short Introduction

By: Madeline Yuan-yin Hsu

This title provides a narrative interpretation of key themes that emerge in the history of Asian migrations to North America, highlighting how Asian immigration has shaped the evolution of ideological and legal interpretations of America as a 'nation of immigrants'.

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Oxford University Press

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0190219769

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JingShin Theoretical Physics Symposium in Honor of Professor Ta-You Wu

By: Jong-Ping Hsu,Leonardo Hsu

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JingShin Theoretical Physics Symposium in Honor of Professor Ta-You Wu

By: Jong-Ping Hsu,Leonardo Hsu

Prof T-Y Wu is not only an eminent physicist with an encyclopedic knowledge, but also a motivational teacher and an influential policy maker in science and technology. The young Wu was inspired by Prof Y-T Yao, whose course on modern physics sparked an interest that burned during a long and productive career. Among Wu's achievements are 14 books and more than 120 papers covering subjects from atomic and molecular physics to plasmas and gases to atmospheric physics to relativity theory. Even at the age of 90 he remains active, publishing papers and lecturing on physics.Prof Wu feels grateful that he had the opportunity to educate a group of extremely talented students and, in particular, to discover T D Lee's remarkable talent. Although creative talent is no doubt a product of nature, it must also be nurtured. Prof Wu has played a crucial role for an entire generation of physicists in China and has won great respect from former students such as C N Yang, T D Lee, K Huang, and countless others. Prof Wu's love of physics and his dedication in teaching and research will always be remembered.

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World Scientific

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9810233728

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The Transcendental and the Mundane

Chinese Cultural Values in Everyday Life

By: Hsu Cho-yun

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The Transcendental and the Mundane

Chinese Cultural Values in Everyday Life

By: Hsu Cho-yun

Through investigation of Chinese cultural ideals and life practices, Prof. Cho-yun Hsu constructs an original portrait of Chinese spiritual life. Apart from focusing on the exalted subtleties of the scholarly elite, Prof. Hsu pays more attention to the everyday people's cultural idea. By examining their daily practices (including eating, living, medical practices, poems, songs, art, and literature) and "collective memory" such as legends, he seeks to clarify Chinese ideas concerning the universe, human life and nature, from traditional times down to the present day. Different from Judeo-Christian tradition centered on "God," the spiritual life of the Chinese people develops around ideas of being "human," and thus cultivating an interactive relationship between man, time, and space. Cho-yun Hsu considers the mode and direction of Chinese culture will impact the future of the entire world. Based on his observation, Western civilization represented by Europe and America nowadays is on the verge of a great change. The problems they are facing, including various crises of alienation and separation from nature, are, in terms of their basic origins, problems for which Western civilization lacks the resources to arrive at a solution. Thus, Chinese culture centered on the man and on the idea of intimate, interdependent relations between man and nature, might offer another solution. It is expected that, by integrating its features into modern civilization, Chinese culture can continue to prosper and be of benefit to the future of the world.

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The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press

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9882372120

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9789882372122

Feng Menglong's Treasury of Laughs

A Seventeenth-Century Anthology of Traditional Chinese Humour

By: Pi-ching Hsu

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Feng Menglong's Treasury of Laughs

A Seventeenth-Century Anthology of Traditional Chinese Humour

By: Pi-ching Hsu

The Treasury of Laughs is a treasure house for students of literature, psycholinguistics, history, sociology, and cultural anthropology. Feng Menglong systematically collected and edited 700-odd humourous skits that presented the entire spectrum of traditional Chinese jokes, and wrote commentaries of great philosophical insight. The anthology offers satirical caricatures of human follies from the cradle to the grave and reveals tension in all sectors of human societies and institutions. Hsu Pi-ching reconstructs the complete Ming Chinese original with meticulous editorial work, in modern punctuated typesetting, and provides the only complete English translation available, with useful footnotes on word plays, literary allusions, and historical background. Readers should find the introductory essays on the connections between humour and emotions/states of mind particularly illuminating.

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BRILL

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900429323X

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9789004293236

The Construction of National Identity in Taiwan's Media, 1896-2012

By: Chien-Jung Hsu

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The Construction of National Identity in Taiwan's Media, 1896-2012

By: Chien-Jung Hsu

National identity has been an ongoing political issue in Taiwan since the late-1890s. The Construction of National Identity in Taiwan’s Media, 1896-2012 breaks new ground with the most comprehensive analysis of the development of Taiwan’s media and the construction of national identity in Taiwan’s media. Using a variety of media contents including newspapers, opposition magazines, broadcasting radio, news TV stations and the Internet as well as numerous interviews with journalists, senior media staffs and academics, Dr Hsu provides many original insights into the formation of national identity in Taiwan's media. Taiwan's media began to demonstrate a variety of new identities under democratization. Part of this change responded to market conditions as a majority of Taiwan's population stressed their Taiwan identity.

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BRILL

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9004227695

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9789004227699

The Common Law System in Chinese Context

Hong Kong in Transition

By: Berry Fong-Chung Hsu

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The Common Law System in Chinese Context

Hong Kong in Transition

By: Berry Fong-Chung Hsu

The future of the Common Law judicial system in Hong Kong depends on the perceptions of it by Hong Kong's Chinese population, judicial developments prior to July 1, 1997, when Hong Kong passes from British to Chinese control, and the Basic Law. These critical issues are addressed in this book.

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M.E. Sharpe

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0873328450

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The Good Immigrants

How the Yellow Peril Became the Model Minority

By: Madeline Y. Hsu

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The Good Immigrants

How the Yellow Peril Became the Model Minority

By: Madeline Y. Hsu

Conventionally, US immigration history has been understood through the lens of restriction and those who have been barred from getting in. In contrast, The Good Immigrants considers immigration from the perspective of Chinese elites—intellectuals, businessmen, and students—who gained entrance because of immigration exemptions. Exploring a century of Chinese migrations, Madeline Hsu looks at how the model minority characteristics of many Asian Americans resulted from US policies that screened for those with the highest credentials in the most employable fields, enhancing American economic competitiveness. The earliest US immigration restrictions targeted Chinese people but exempted students as well as individuals who might extend America's influence in China. Western-educated Chinese such as Madame Chiang Kai-shek became symbols of the US impact on China, even as they patriotically advocated for China's modernization. World War II and the rise of communism transformed Chinese students abroad into refugees, and the Cold War magnified the importance of their talent and training. As a result, Congress legislated piecemeal legal measures to enable Chinese of good standing with professional skills to become citizens. Pressures mounted to reform American discriminatory immigration laws, culminating with the 1965 Immigration Act. Filled with narratives featuring such renowned Chinese immigrants as I. M. Pei, The Good Immigrants examines the shifts in immigration laws and perceptions of cultural traits that enabled Asians to remain in the United States as exemplary, productive Americans.

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Princeton University Press

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0691176213

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9780691176215

Fuzzy and Multi-Level Decision Making: Soft Computing Approaches

By: Chi-Bin Cheng,Hsu-Shih Shih,E. Stanley Lee

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Fuzzy and Multi-Level Decision Making: Soft Computing Approaches

By: Chi-Bin Cheng,Hsu-Shih Shih,E. Stanley Lee

This book offers a comprehensive overview of cutting-edge approaches for decision-making in hierarchical organizations. It presents soft-computing-based techniques, including fuzzy sets, neural networks, genetic algorithms and particle swarm optimization, and shows how these approaches can be effectively used to deal with problems typical of this kind of organization. After introducing the main classical approaches applied to multiple-level programming, the book describes a set of soft-computing techniques, demonstrating their advantages in providing more efficient solutions to hierarchical decision-making problems compared to the classical methods. Based on the book Fuzzy and Multi-Level Decision Making (Springer, 2001) by Lee E.S and Shih, H., this second edition has been expanded to include the most recent findings and methods and a broader spectrum of soft computing approaches. All the algorithms are presented in detail, together with a wealth of practical examples and solutions to real-world problems, providing students, researchers and professionals with a timely, practice-oriented reference guide to the area of interactive fuzzy decision making, multi-level programming and hierarchical optimization.

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Springer

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3319925253

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China

A New Cultural History

By: Cho-yun Hsu

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China

A New Cultural History

By: Cho-yun Hsu

An internationally recognized authority on Chinese history and a leading innovator in its telling, Cho-yun Hsu constructs an original portrait of Chinese culture. Unlike most historians, Hsu resists centering his narrative on China's political evolution, focusing instead on the country's cultural sphere and its encounters with successive waves of globalization. Beginning long before China's written history and extending through the twentieth century, Hsu follows the content and expansion of Chinese culture, describing the daily lives of commoners, their spiritual beliefs and practices, the changing character of their social and popular thought, and their advances in material culture and technology. In addition to listing the achievements of emperors, generals, ministers, and sages, Hsu builds detailed accounts of these events and their everyday implications. Dynastic change, the rise and fall of national ambitions, and the growth and decline of institutional systems take on new significance through Hsu's careful research, which captures the multiple strands that gave rise to China's pluralistic society. Paying particular attention to influential relationships occurring outside of Chinese cultural boundaries, he demonstrates the impact of foreign influences on Chinese culture and identity and identifies similarities between China's cultural developments and those of other nations.

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Columbia University Press

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0231528183

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A Floating Chinaman

Fantasy and Failure Across the Pacific

By: Hua Hsu

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A Floating Chinaman

Fantasy and Failure Across the Pacific

By: Hua Hsu

A Floating Chinaman is, in the broadest sense, a book about who gets to speak for China. The title is taken from a lost manuscript by H.T. Tsiang, an eccentric Chinese immigrant writer who self-published a series of visionary novels in the 1930s, a time when China was recast as a rich, unexplored mystery to the American public. At this time the United States "rediscovered" China, and the book traces its causes and cues in a variety of sites: the comfortable, middlebrow literature of Pearl Buck, Alice Tisdale Hobart and Lin Yutang; the journalism of Carl Crow and Henry Luce; exuberant reports from oil executives proclaiming a new era in global trade. On the margins--in Chinatowns, on college campuses, in the failed avant-gardism of Tsiang--a different conversation about the possibilities of a transpacific future was taking place. The book is about the circulation of ideas about China; but it is also a book about writers, rivalries, and the acquisition of authority. It is about the creation and refinement of those ideas, as well as the spirit of competition that underlies all critical endeavors. These were decades when China represented a new area of inquiry, and the stakes for writers to flex their expertise were at once intellectual, professional, and deeply personal. The author considers a range of texts--from best-sellers to self-published paperbacks, travel literature to corporate newsletters, FBI surveillance files to flowery letters from an Ellis Island detention center--and considers the competing notions of a transpacific future that animated the literary imagination as well as some satisfying moments of revenge."--Provided by publisher.

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Harvard University Press

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0674967909

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9780674967908

Policing the Police in Asia

Police Oversight in Japan, Hong Kong, and Taiwan

By: Lawrence Ka-Ki Ho,Jason Kwun-hong Chan,Garth den Heyer,Jen-shuo Hsu,Arata Hirai

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Policing the Police in Asia

Police Oversight in Japan, Hong Kong, and Taiwan

By: Lawrence Ka-Ki Ho,Jason Kwun-hong Chan,Garth den Heyer,Jen-shuo Hsu,Arata Hirai

This brief offers an overview of the prevailing debates in police oversight and accountability through an analysis of policing in Hong Kong, Japan, and Taiwan. It places emphasis on three major controversies of oversight: professionalism, representation, and empowerment. Arguing that traditional models do not accurately depict variations in police systems in Asia, the volume aims to bring attention to the implementation of these three concepts and clearly articulate the power relationship within these Asian police oversight mechanisms. This brief will be a useful resource for researchers in policing as well as criminologists, political scientists, and sociologists, particularly those specializing in East Asia.

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Springer Nature

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3030829812

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9783030829810

A Girl From Shanghai

By: Lillian Hsu

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A Girl From Shanghai

By: Lillian Hsu

「為了日後能完全獨立，我知道我必須先獲得良好教育。在我那個年代，女人有三種最好的出路——老師、護士或醫生。而我，選擇當醫生。」在這本知名遺傳學家徐裕芬教授的自傳封面上，有這麼一段感性的獨白。出生於上海的她，歷經二次大戰與國共戰爭的劫難，在大陸顛沛流離，卻始終不忘奮發求學。之後她輾轉回到臺灣，在臺大醫學院實踐了她的夢想。畢業後轉赴美國謀職，更歷經了種種考驗與磨難…… 本書以感性口吻述說了這位臺大校友波瀾壯闊的一生，當中更富含不屈不撓的努力與圓融的人生智慧，值得推薦給每位讀者。

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國立臺灣大學出版中心

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9860112800

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9789860112801

Handbook of Radiosurgery in CNS Disease

By: Wesley Hsu, MD,Lawrence R. Kleinberg, MD,Michael Lim, MD,Daniele Rigamonti, MD

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Handbook of Radiosurgery in CNS Disease

By: Wesley Hsu, MD,Lawrence R. Kleinberg, MD,Michael Lim, MD,Daniele Rigamonti, MD

Handbook of Radiosurgery in CNS Disease is a concise and practical manual offering radiation oncology, neurology, and neurosurgery residents, trainees, fellows, and clinicians up-to-date information on the role of radiosurgery within the overall context of CNS disease management. The emphasis is on decision making and the evaluation of radiosurgery as a viable option among the suite of potentially applicable treatments, including frame-based systems, non-invasive body immobilization, and image-guided targeting. The book examines radiosurgery as a treatment modality for various CNS pathologies, discussing relevant radiobiology, current technology, and the technical aspects of specific procedures. Chapters organized by pathology provide practical coverage of clinical evaluations, patient selection and management decision-making, and relevant points in radiosurgical applications for the entity under discussion. Pertinent cases are presented to demonstrate the process for each treatment paradigm. A unique collaboration of editors with an international reputation for excellence in radiation oncology, vascular neurosurgery, and neurosurgical oncology will offer insights into the role of radiosurgery in the entire central nervous system (i.e. both brain and spine). Handbook of Radiosurgery in CNS Disease features: Practical focus on key clinical issues in radiosurgery of CNS disease: patient selection, radiosurgery in context with other modalities, pitfalls Coverage of cranial and extracranial disease Relevant cases illustrate discussion of each treatment paradigm Outstanding editorial team Concise format makes for an easy review or quick reference, in contrast to large texts

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Demos Medical Publishing

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161705089X

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9781617050893

Logic Non-volatile Memory

The NVM Solutions from EMemory

By: Charles Ching-Hsiang Hsu,Yuan-Tai Lin,Evans Ching-Sung Yang

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Logic Non-volatile Memory

The NVM Solutions from EMemory

By: Charles Ching-Hsiang Hsu,Yuan-Tai Lin,Evans Ching-Sung Yang

Would you like to add the capabilities of the Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) as a storage element in your silicon integrated logic circuits, and as a trimming sector in your high voltage driver and other silicon integrated analog circuits? Would you like to learn how to embed the NVM into your silicon integrated circuit products to improve their performance? This book is written to help you. It provides comprehensive instructions on fabricating the NVM using the same processes you are using to fabricate your logic integrated circuits. We at our eMemory company call this technology the embedded Logic NVM. Because embedded Logic NVM has simple fabrication processes, it has replaced the conventional NVM in many traditional and new applications, including LCD driver, LED driver, MEMS controller, touch panel controller, power management unit, ambient and motion sensor controller, micro controller unit (MCU), security ID setting tag, RFID, NFC, PC camera controller, keyboard controller, and mouse controller. The recent explosive growth of the Logic NVM indicates that it will soon dominate all NVM applications. The embedded Logic NVM was invented and has been implemented in users' applications by the 200+ employees of our eMemory company, who are also the authors and author-assistants of this book. This book covers the following Logic NVM products: One Time Programmable (OTP) memory, Multiple Times Programmable (MTP) memory, Flash memory, and Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory (EEPROM). The fundamentals of the NVM are described in this book, which include: the physics and operations of the memory transistors, the basic building block of the memory cells and the access circuits. All of these products have been used continuously by the industry worldwide. In-depth readers can attain expert proficiency in the implementation of the embedded Logic NVM technology in their products.

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World Scientific

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9814460915

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9789814460910

Economic Reform in Asia

China, India, and Japan

By: Sara Hsu

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Economic Reform in Asia

China, India, and Japan

By: Sara Hsu

Economic Reform in Asia compares and analyzes the reform and development patterns of China, India, and Japan from both historical and developmental perspectives. Sara Hsu specifically focuses on China’s reform and opening-up in 1979, India’s accelerated liberalization in 1991, and the outset of the Meiji Restoration in Japan in 1878. This detailed overview of growth patterns in Asia’s largest economies is invaluable, especially in its determination to understand which development policies work, what role institutions play in development, and what issues may arise during said development. The book first provides an overview of the countries’ development trajectories and introduces the theoretical constructs associated with them. The text focuses on key aspects of development for comparison, such as poverty and inequality, rural to urban migration, human capital, and the impact of development on the environment, trade, and economic future of these three countries. The relative success of reforms and their political and economic effects are also discussed. This comprehensive book will be of interest to students, as it provides an impressive overview of three Asian countries’ development, as well as for scholars in the field who are looking for a thoughtful and complex discussion of reform from different perspectives.

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Edward Elgar Publishing

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1784711543

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9781784711542

Pulse Diagnosis in Early Chinese Medicine

The Telling Touch

By: Elisabeth Hsu

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Pulse Diagnosis in Early Chinese Medicine

The Telling Touch

By: Elisabeth Hsu

A study of the earliest extensive account of Chinese pulse diagnosis, focusing on a biography of Chunyu Yi.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521516625

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9780521516624

Sword Polisher's Record

The Way of Kung-Fu

By: Adam Hsu

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Sword Polisher's Record

The Way of Kung-Fu

By: Adam Hsu

The Sword Polisher's Record, originally a monthly column that appeared for more than a decade in three magazines, including Kungfu magazine and Black Belt magazine, brought a sense of authenticity to the kung fu, which had long been overly-commercialized and filled with misconceptions. Highlighted with over 60 illustrations, The Sword Polisher's Record: The Way of Kung-Fu, is an anthology of the monthly column, is organized into eight inter-connected sections, each examining a different aspect of kung-fu including its foundations, theories, important concepts and principles related to kung-fu styles and forms, usage, and training, and discussions on the future of kung-fu and its place in our lives.

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Tuttle Publishing

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1462917550

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9781462917556

Gravitation and Astrophysics

On the Occasion of the 90th Year of General Relativity : Proceedings of the VII Asia-Pacific International Conference : National Central University, Taiwan, 23-26 November 2005

By: James M. Nester,Chiang-Mei Chen,Jong-Ping Hsu

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Gravitation and Astrophysics

On the Occasion of the 90th Year of General Relativity : Proceedings of the VII Asia-Pacific International Conference : National Central University, Taiwan, 23-26 November 2005

By: James M. Nester,Chiang-Mei Chen,Jong-Ping Hsu

The ICGA series of conferences is specially aimed to serve the needs of the workers in this research area in the Asia-Pacific region. The previous conferences of this series have attracted a growing number of local, regional and international participants. 2005 was an auspicious year. Not only was it the International Year of Physics, commemorating Einstein's great achievements of 1905, it also was the anniversary of Einstein's development of General Relativity: he submitted the final form of his field equations on 25 November, 1915. Nine decades years later, around 40 Taiwan-based participants were joined by over 40 distinguished visitors from Canada, China, France, Japan, Korea, Russia, and the USA, and this volume includes many of the papers that were presented. The depth and breadth of these contributions reflect the high quality of the meeting and the development of the field in the Asia-Pacific region.

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World Scientific

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9812569502

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