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Chinese Fiction, World Literature

By: Jiwei Xiao

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Chinese Fiction, World Literature

By: Jiwei Xiao

What is a detail? How is it different from xijie, its Chinese counterpart? Is "reading for the details" fundamentally different from "reading for the plot"? Did xijie xiaoshuo, the Chinese novel of details, give the world its earliest form of modern fiction? Inspired by studies of vision and modernity as well as cinema, this book gazes out on the larger world through the small aperture of the detail, highlighting how concrete literary minutiae become "telling" as they reveal the dynamics of seeing and hearing, the vibrations of the mind, the complexity of the everyday, and the imperative to recognize the minute, the humble, and the hidden. In a strain of masterpieces of xijie xiaoshuo, such details play a key role in pivoting the novel from didacticism towards a capacious modern form. Examining the Chinese detail as both a common idiom and a unique concept, and extrapolating it from individual works to the culture at large, reveals under-explored areas of the Chinese novel: its psychological depths, its connections with other genres and forms, its partaking in Chinese material life and capitalist modernity, as well as repressions and difficulties surrounding its reception in national and international contexts. With carefully chosen case studies, Xiao’s book not only exemplifies the value of deep reading in approaching complex works of Chinese fiction as world literature, it also throws light on the aesthetics and politics of "the unseen," which has become central to a humanist tradition that flows across literature, cinema, and other art forms.

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Routledge

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100053331X

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9781000533316

Moral China in the Age of Reform

By: Jiwei Ci

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Moral China in the Age of Reform

By: Jiwei Ci

Three decades of dizzying change in China's economy and society have left a tangible record of successes and failures. Less readily accessible but of no less consequence is the story, as illuminated in this book, of what China's reform has done to its people as moral and spiritual beings. Jiwei Ci examines the moral crisis in post-Mao China as a mirror of deep contradictions in the new self as well as in society. He seeks to show that lack of freedom, understood as the moral and political conditions for subjectivity under modern conditions of life, lies at the root of these contradictions, just as enhanced freedom offers the only appropriate escape from them. Rather than a ready-made answer, however, freedom is treated throughout as a pressing question in China's search for a better moral and political culture.

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241

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Cambridge University Press

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1316061183

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9781316061183

Non-monotonic Approach to Robust H∞ Control of Multi-model Systems

By: Jiwei Wen,Alireza Nasiri,Sing Kiong Nguang,Dhafer J. Almakhles

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Non-monotonic Approach to Robust H∞ Control of Multi-model Systems

By: Jiwei Wen,Alireza Nasiri,Sing Kiong Nguang,Dhafer J. Almakhles

Non-monotonic Approach to Robust H8 Control of Multi-model Systems focuses on robust analysis and synthesis problems for multi-model systems based on the non-monotonic Lyapunov Functionals (LFs) approach that enlarges the stability region and improves control performance. By fully considering the diversity of switching laws, the multi-step time difference, the multi-step prediction, and the expansion of system dimension, the non-monotonic LF can be properly constructed. The focus of this book is placed on the H8 state feedback control, H8 filtering and H8 output feedback control for multi-model systems via a non-monotonic LF approach. The book's authors provide illustrative examples to show the feasibility and efficiency of the proposed methods, along with practical examples that demonstrate the effectiveness and potential of theoretical results. - Offers tools for the analysis and design of control processes where the process can be represented by multi-models - Presents a comprehensive explanation of recent developments in non-monotonic approaches to robust H-infinity control of multi-model systems - Gives numerical examples and simulation results in each chapter to demonstrate engineering potential

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224

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Academic Press

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0128148691

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9780128148693

Chinese Economists on Economic Reform - Collected Works of Lou Jiwei

By: Lou Jiwei

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Chinese Economists on Economic Reform - Collected Works of Lou Jiwei

By: Lou Jiwei

This book is part of a series which makes available to English-speaking audiences the work of the individual Chinese economists who were the architects of China’s economic reform. The series provides an inside view of China’s economic reform, revealing the thinking of the reformers themselves, unlike many other books on China’s economic reform which are written by outside observers. Lou Jiwei (1950-) has been a leading researcher on economic restructuring and macroeconomic policy in a range of Chinese policy-making organisations. He has made important contributions to policy in the fields of tax, accounting, finance and banking. In the 1990s a vice minister of finance, and from 2007 deputy secretary-general of the State Council, he is also at present head of China’s sovereign wealth fund. The book is published in association with China Development Research Foundation, one of the leading economic and social think tanks in China, where many of the theoretical foundations and policy details of economic reform were formulated.

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303

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Routledge

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1135082464

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9781135082468

Democracy in China

The Coming Crisis

By: Jiwei Ci

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Democracy in China

The Coming Crisis

By: Jiwei Ci

A respected Chinese political philosopher calls for the Communist Party to take the lead in moving China along the path to democracy before it is too late. With Xi Jinping potentially set as president for life, China’s move toward political democracy may appear stalled. But Jiwei Ci argues that four decades of reform have created a mentality in the Chinese people that is just waiting for the political system to catch up, resulting in a disjunction between popular expectations and political realities. The inherent tensions in a largely democratic society without a democratic political system will trigger an unprecedented crisis of legitimacy, forcing the Communist Party to act or die. Two crises loom for the government. First is the waning of the Communist Party’s revolutionary legacy, which the party itself sees as a grave threat. Second is the fragility of the next leadership transition. No amount of economic success will compensate for the party’s legitimacy deficit when the time comes. The only effective response, Ci argues, will be an orderly transition to democracy. To that end, the Chinese government needs to start priming its citizens for democracy, preparing them for new civil rights and civic responsibilities. Embracing this pragmatic role offers the Communist Party a chance to survive. Its leaders therefore have good reason to initiate democratic change. Sure to challenge the Communist Party and stir debate, Democracy in China brings an original and important voice to an issue with far-reaching consequences for China and the world.

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Harvard University Press

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0674242157

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9780674242159

Evolution Of Global Crustal Uplift And Depression, The: Changes Of Sea And Land

By: Yuzhu Kang,Zhihong Kang,Zhijiang Kang,Jiwei Wang

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Evolution Of Global Crustal Uplift And Depression, The: Changes Of Sea And Land

By: Yuzhu Kang,Zhihong Kang,Zhijiang Kang,Jiwei Wang

The dynamic mechanism of plate tectonics remains a reasonable theory, but one with shortcomings such as insufficient bases for plate division, unclear plate boundaries, and unclear geological characteristics. This book proposes that the world's continents should not be divided by plates, and that their formation is not due to plate tectonics but rather due to global crustal uplift evolution and sea-land evolution. This proposal is based on the authors' broad theoretical foundation and comprehensive professional knowledge, built up over more than ten years of in-depth research by many scholars on the evolution of the Earth's continents.In this book, many case studies are better explained by global crustal uplift and sea-land evolution. Namely, that the entire continents of the world are indivisible, and the changes of each land block over geological periods resulted from the sea-land changes.The book further develops the original 'geomechanics theory' created by the famous geologist Li Siguang. As a vibrant and highly rigorous work, Prof Li's book offered important theoretical guidance that enriched the global geological community and led to a re-development within geological science. The strong response highlights the significance of geomechanics theory and our theories that build upon it in this book.

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World Scientific

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9811286086

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9789811286087

Dialectic of the Chinese Revolution

From Utopianism to Hedonism

By: Jiwei Ci

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Dialectic of the Chinese Revolution

From Utopianism to Hedonism

By: Jiwei Ci

In this progression, which the author describes as the unfolding of the hedonistic potential of utopianism, Marxism became China's road to capitalism and consumerism.

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Stanford University Press

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0804723737

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9780804723732

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Moral China in the Age of Reform

Moral China in the Age of Reform

Non-monotonic Approach to Robust H∞ Control of Multi-model Systems

Non-monotonic Approach to Robust H∞ Control of Multi-model Systems

Chinese Economists on Economic Reform - Collected Works of Lou Jiwei

Chinese Economists on Economic Reform - Collected Works of Lou Jiwei

Democracy in China

Democracy in China

Evolution Of Global Crustal Uplift And Depression, The: Changes Of Sea And Land

Evolution Of Global Crustal Uplift And Depression, The: Changes Of Sea And Land

Dialectic of the Chinese Revolution

Dialectic of the Chinese Revolution

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