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Video Content Analysis Using Multimodal Information

For Movie Content Extraction, Indexing and Representation

By: Ying Li,C.C. Jay Kuo

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Video Content Analysis Using Multimodal Information

For Movie Content Extraction, Indexing and Representation

By: Ying Li,C.C. Jay Kuo

Video Content Analysis Using Multimodal Information For Movie Content Extraction, Indexing and Representation is on content-based multimedia analysis, indexing, representation and applications with a focus on feature films. Presented are the state-of-art techniques in video content analysis domain, as well as many novel ideas and algorithms for movie content analysis based on the use of multimodal information. The authors employ multiple media cues such as audio, visual and face information to bridge the gap between low-level audiovisual features and high-level video semantics. Based on sophisticated audio and visual content processing such as video segmentation and audio classification, the original video is re-represented in the form of a set of semantic video scenes or events, where an event is further classified as a 2-speaker dialog, a multiple-speaker dialog, or a hybrid event. Moreover, desired speakers are simultaneously identified from the video stream based on either a supervised or an adaptive speaker identification scheme. All this information is then integrated together to build the video's ToC (table of content) as well as the index table. Finally, a video abstraction system, which can generate either a scene-based summary or an event-based skim, is presented by exploiting the knowledge of both video semantics and video production rules. This monograph will be of great interest to research scientists and graduate level students working in the area of content-based multimedia analysis, indexing, representation and applications as well s its related fields.

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1475737122

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Betting on the Civil Service Examinations

The Lottery in Late Qing China

By: En Li

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Betting on the Civil Service Examinations

The Lottery in Late Qing China

By: En Li

Weixing was a highly-organized lottery practice wherein people bet on the surnames of which candidates would pass the civil and military examinations in China. This book reconstructs the inner mechanisms of Weixing and other lottery games and traces a series of institutional revenue innovations surrounding lottery regulation from the 1850s to the early 1900s, depicting an expansive community created by the lottery with cultural and informational channels stretching around the world."--

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1684176832

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Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Wavelet Analysis and Its Applications (WAA)

Chongqing, PR China, 29-31 May 2003

By: Jian Ping Li

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Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Wavelet Analysis and Its Applications (WAA)

Chongqing, PR China, 29-31 May 2003

By: Jian Ping Li

This book captures the essence of the current state of research in wavelet analysis and its applications, and identifies the changes and opportunities OCo both current and future OCo in the field. Distinguished researchers such as Prof John Daugman from Cambridge University and Prof Victor Wickerhauser from Washington University present their research papers. Contents: Volume 1: Accelerating Convergence of Monte Carlo Simulations and Measuring Weak Biosignals Using Wavelet Threshold Denoising (M V Wickerhauser); One of Image Compression Methods Based on Biorthogonal Wavelet Transform and LBG Algorithm (J Lin et al.); A Video Watermarking Algorithm Using Fast Wavelet (J Zhang et al.); Structural and Geometric Characteristics of Sets of Convergence and Divergence of Multiple Fourier Series of Functions which Equal Zero on Some Set (I L Bloshanskii); Sequence Images Data Fusion Based on Wavelet Transform Approach (H Tao et al.); Radar Detection of Minimum Altitude Flying Targets Based on Wavelet Transforms (H Li et al.); Precursors of Engine Failures Revealed by Wavelet Analysis (I M Dremin); Volume 2: Demodulation by Complex-Valued Wavelets for Stochastic Pattern Recognition: How Iris Recognition Works (J Daugman); Wavelets and Image Compression (V A Nechitailo); Fast Wavelet-Based Video Codec and its Application in an IP Version 6-Ready Serverless Videoconferencing (H L Cycon et al.); On a Class of Optimal Wavelets (N A Strelkov & V L Dol''nikov); A Wavelet-Based Digital Watermarking Algorithm (H Q Sun et al.); Research of the Gyro Signal De-Noising Method Based on Stationary Wavelets Transform (J Guo et al.); Adaptive De-Noising of Low SNR Signals (D Isar & A Isar); Analysis of the DLA-Process with Gravitational Interaction of Particles and Growing Cluster (A Loskutov et al.); and other papers. Readership: Graduate students, academics and researchers in computer science and engineering.

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9812796762

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Migrating Fujianese

Ethnic, Family, and Gender Identities in an Early Modern Maritime World

By: Guotong Li

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Migrating Fujianese

Ethnic, Family, and Gender Identities in an Early Modern Maritime World

By: Guotong Li

With the Fujian coast at its center, this book reveals the intellectual, migratory and gendered relationships that tied Fijian to the Chinese imperial domain and to its overseas networks. This Fujian study also offers ways to analyze local histories of late imperial China from a more global perspective. Based on a wide range of sources, such as business contracts, legal documents, women’s writings, and folksongs, Migrating Fujianese elucidates China’s southeast coast and its migration patterns. Examining this multi-ethnic migrant community through the lens of ethnicity shows the complex operation of linked chain migration (overseas male emigration and overland family migration by the ethnic She people) and its impact on the gender relations and family strategies of the coastal people. The study argues that examination of Fujianese migration through the lenses of gender and ethnicity is crucial to understanding the relationship between the flow of people and the society nourishing that flow.

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9004327215

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Hazard-causing System and Assessment of Water and Mud Inrush in Tunnel

By: Shucai Li,Zhenhao Xu,Xin Huang,Yuchao Du

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Hazard-causing System and Assessment of Water and Mud Inrush in Tunnel

By: Shucai Li,Zhenhao Xu,Xin Huang,Yuchao Du

This book is composed of eight chapters, introducing the authors’ research and application achievements in the hazard-causing system and disaster evaluation of water and mud inrush in tunnels over the past 10 years. Through a large number of case studies and analysis, and on the basis of existing research, this book puts forward 3 categories and 11 types of tunnel water and mud inrush hazard-causing systems and 4 typical water and mud inrush disaster-forming modes. The authors carefully study the typical cases of tunnel water and mud inrush hazard-causing system, discuss the types of karst water system, structural characteristics, macro-geological identification, engineering identification, karst tunnel route selection principles and evaluation methods in detail, and then develop a dynamic evaluation method of tunnel water and mud inrush construction risk interval and an evaluation method for the resistance body. Ultimately, the authors put forward a systematic identification method of tunnel water and mud inrush disaster, which integrates geological identification, geophysical exploration identification, and drilling identification, and construct a dynamic management and analysis platform for tunnel water and mud inrush cases. This book is used as a reference book for teachers, graduate students, and undergraduates in colleges and universities of civil engineering, transportation, water conservancy and hydropower, mining, geology, etc., and also as a reference for technicians in related engineering fields.

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9811995230

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Reinventing Modern China

Imagination and Authenticity in Chinese Historical Writing

By: Huaiyin Li

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Reinventing Modern China

Imagination and Authenticity in Chinese Historical Writing

By: Huaiyin Li

This work offers the first systematic analysis of writings on modern Chinese history by historians in China from the early twentieth century to the present. It traces the construction of major interpretive schemes, the evolution of dominant historical narratives, and the unfolding of debates on the most controversial issues in different periods. Placing history-writing in the context of political rivalry and ideological contestation, Huaiyin Li explicates how the historians’ dedication to faithfully reconstructing the past was compromised by their commitment to an imagined trajectory of history that fit their present-day agenda and served their needs of political legitimation. Beginning with an examination of the contrasting narratives of revolution and modernization in the Republican period, the book scrutinizes changes in the revolutionary historiography after 1949, including its disciplinization in the 1950s and early 1960s and radicalization in the rest of the Mao era. It further investigates the rise of the modernization paradigm in the reform era, the crises of master narratives since the late 1990s, and the latest development of the field. Central to the author’s analysis is the issue of truth and falsehood in historical representation. Li contends that both the revolutionary and modernization historiographies before 1949 reflected historians’ lived experiences and contained a degree of authenticity in mirroring the historical processes of their own times. In sharp contrast, both the revolutionary historiography of the Maoist era and the modernization historiography of the reform era were primarily products of historians’ ideological commitment, which distorted and concealed the past no less than revealed it. In search of a more effective approach to rewriting modern Chinese history, Reinventing Modern China proposes a within-time, open-ended perspective, which allows for different directions in interpreting the events in modern China and views modern Chinese history as an unfinished process remaining to be defined as the country entered the twenty-first century.

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University of Hawaii Press

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0824837266

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Power Of Ideas, The: The Rising Influence Of Thinkers And Think Tanks In China

By: Cheng Li

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Power Of Ideas, The: The Rising Influence Of Thinkers And Think Tanks In China

By: Cheng Li

China's momentous socioeconomic transformation is not taking place in an intellectual vacuum: Chinese scholars and public intellectuals are actively engaged in fervent discussions about the country's domestic and foreign policies, demographic constraints, and ever-growing integration into the world community. This book focuses on China's major think tanks where policies are initiated, and on a few prominent thinkers who influence the way in which elites and the general public understand and deal with the various issues confronting the country.The book examines a number of factors contributing to the rapid rise of Chinese think tanks in the reform era. These include the leadership's call for 'scientific decision-making,' the need for specialized expertise in economics and finance as China becomes an economic powerhouse, the demand for opinion leaders in the wake of a telecommunication revolution driven by social media, the accumulation of human and financial capital, and the increasing utility of the 'revolving door' nature of think tanks.It has been widely noted that think tanks and policy advisors have played an important role in influencing the strategic thinking of the top leadership, including the formation of ideas such as the 'Three Represents,' 'China's peaceful rise,' 'One Belt, One Road,' and the founding of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB). In 2014, President Xi Jinping made think tank development a national strategy, and he claimed that 'building a new type of think tank with Chinese characteristics is an important and pressing mission.'Though the media outside China has often reported on this important development, it has all but escaped rigorous scholarly scrutiny. This book will categorize Chinese think tanks by their various forms, such as government agencies, university-based think tanks, private think tanks, business research centers or consultancies, and civil society groups. It will not only analyze the problems and challenges in China's think tank development, but also reveal the power of ideas.

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9813100257

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A Catalog of Benevolent Items

Li Shizhen's Compendium of Classical Chinese Knowledge

By: Shizhen Li

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A Catalog of Benevolent Items

Li Shizhen's Compendium of Classical Chinese Knowledge

By: Shizhen Li

The Ben cao gang mu was the world's most comprehensive encyclopedia of natural history and medicine when it was published in China in 1593. In fifty-two chapters, the physician Li Shizhen evaluated the wisdom of two millennia about plants, animals, minerals, and artificial substances used in medicine and collected it with countless verbatim quotations and his own supplementary comments. A Catalog of Benevolent Items provides the first single-volume introduction to this vast record of the classical Chinese world. Edited and translated by Paul U. Unschuld, a leading expert on historical Chinese medical texts, this anthology offers little-known details of China's historical knowledge of nature; traditional Chinese medicine and its theoretical foundations; social and cultural facets of ancient Chinese civilization not documented elsewhere; and the information management of a sixteenth-century Chinese scholar. Thoughtfully curated and organized by theme, A Catalog of Benevolent Items provides an accessible gateway to this foundational work"--

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0520404238

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Microstructure and Properties of Materials

By: James Chen-Min Li

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Microstructure and Properties of Materials

By: James Chen-Min Li

This is the second volume of an advanced textbook on microstructure and properties of materials. (The first volume is on aluminum alloys, nickel-based superalloys, metal matrix composites, polymer matrix composites, ceramics matrix composites, inorganic glasses, superconducting materials and magnetic materials). It covers titanium alloys, titanium aluminides, iron aluminides, iron and steels, iron-based bulk amorphous alloys and nanocrystalline materials.There are many elementary materials science textbooks, but one can find very few advanced texts suitable for graduate school courses. The contributors to this volume are experts in the subject, and hence, together with the first volume, it is a good text for graduate microstructure courses. It is a rich source of design ideas and applications, and will provide a good understanding of how microstructure affects the properties of materials.Chapter 1, on titanium alloys, covers production, thermomechanical processing, microstructure, mechanical properties and applications. Chapter 2, on titanium aluminides, discusses phase stability, bulk and defect properties, deformation mechanisms of single phase materials and polysynthetically twinned crystals, and interfacial structures and energies between phases of different compositions. Chapter 3, on iron aluminides, reviews the physical and mechanical metallurgy of Fe3Al and FeAl, the two important structural intermetallics. Chapter 4, on iron and steels, presents methodology, microstructure at various levels, strength, ductility and strengthening, toughness and toughening, environmental cracking and design against fracture for many different kinds of steels. Chapter 5, on bulk amorphous alloys, covers the critical cooling rate and the effect of composition on glass formation and the accompanying mechanical and magnetic properties of the glasses. Chapter 6, on nanocrystalline materials, describes the preparation from vapor, liquid and solid states, microstructure including grain boundaries and their junctions, stability with respect to grain growth, particulate consolidation while maintaining the nanoscale microstructure, physical, chemical, mechanical, electric, magnetic and optical properties and applications in cutting tools, superplasticity, coatings, transformers, magnetic recordings, catalysis and hydrogen storage.

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9810241801

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A Rising China and Security in East Asia

Identity Construction and Security Discourse

By: Rex Li

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A Rising China and Security in East Asia

Identity Construction and Security Discourse

By: Rex Li

A Rising China and Security in East Asia provides a systematic and in-depth analysis of the security discourse of Chinese elites on the major powers in East Asia, namely the US, Japan and Russia, and how China perceives their global security strategy.

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1134059612

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Hydro-mechanical Analysis of Rainfall-Induced Landslides

By: Lizhou Wu,Runqiu Huang,Xu Li

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Hydro-mechanical Analysis of Rainfall-Induced Landslides

By: Lizhou Wu,Runqiu Huang,Xu Li

Most landslides are triggered by rainfall. In previous studies, slope stability is often evaluated based on the infiltration analysis. Hydro-mechanical coupling is significant to rainfall-caused landslide evolution. This book covers theoretical models of unsaturated infiltration, and provides hydro-mechanical models for rainfall-induced landslides. The influences of rainfall patterns, boundary conditions, layered structures, and SWCC hysteresis on the coupled unsaturated infiltration and deformation are discussed. Laboratory testing of rainfall-induced landslides is performed to study the developing process of landslide upon rainfall infiltration. The results provide a better understanding of rainfall-induced landslides.

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9811507619

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Reform Of The International Monetary System: Chinese Perspectives And Strategies

By: Xiao Li

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Reform Of The International Monetary System: Chinese Perspectives And Strategies

By: Xiao Li

This book proposes that the short-term goal of the current reform of the international monetary system should be a combination of controlling 'imbalances' and 'the risk of the dollar', namely using the balance of payments coordination mechanism to suppress risks by exchange rate cooperation. The reforms of international reserve currencies, international financial institutions, and international financial regulation provide a good external environment for the stable development of the world economy. The book discusses the mechanisms that will continue to support the hegemony of the US dollar and the US dollar system in the future, including the commodity dollar return mechanism, the international debt repayment mechanism, the petroleum dollar pricing mechanism and the dollar rescue mechanism in financial crisis. The book predicts that the current international currency system dominated by the US dollar will remain sustainable for a long time. Finally, the book proposes four strategies for China's participation in the reform of the international monetary system.

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9811218889

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Women and National Trauma in Late Imperial Chinese Literature

By: Wai-yee Li

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Women and National Trauma in Late Imperial Chinese Literature

By: Wai-yee Li

The Ming–Qing dynastic transition in seventeenth-century China was an epochal event that reverberated in Qing writings and beyond; political disorder was bound up with vibrant literary and cultural production. Women and National Trauma in Late Imperial Chinese Literature focuses on the discursive and imaginative space commanded by women. Encompassing writings by women and by men writing in a feminine voice or assuming a female identity, as well as writings that turn women into a signifier through which authors convey their lamentation, nostalgia, or moral questions for the fallen Ming, the book delves into the mentality of those who remembered or reflected on the dynastic transition, as well as those who reinvented its significance in later periods. It shows how history and literature intersect, how conceptions of gender mediate the experience and expression of political disorder. Why and how are variations on themes related to gender boundaries, female virtues, vices, agency, and ethical dilemmas used to allegorize national destiny? In pursuing answers to these questions, Wai-yee Li explores how this multivalent presence of women in different genres provides a window into the emotional and psychological turmoil of the Ming–Qing transition and of subsequent moments of national trauma. 2016 Joseph Levenson Book Prize, Pre-1900 Category, China and Inner Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies

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1684170761

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Planar Dynamical Systems

Selected Classical Problems

By: Yirong Liu,Jibin Li,Wentao Huang

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Planar Dynamical Systems

Selected Classical Problems

By: Yirong Liu,Jibin Li,Wentao Huang

In 2008, November 23-28, the workshop of ”Classical Problems on Planar Polynomial Vector Fields ” was held in the Banff International Research Station, Canada. Called "classical problems", it was concerned with the following: (1) Problems on integrability of planar polynomial vector fields. (2) The problem of the center stated by Poincaré for real polynomial differential systems, which asks us to recognize when a planar vector field defined by polynomials of degree at most n possesses a singularity which is a center. (3) Global geometry of specific classes of planar polynomial vector fields. (4) Hilbert’s 16th problem. These problems had been posed more than 110 years ago. Therefore, they are called "classical problems" in the studies of the theory of dynamical systems. The qualitative theory and stability theory of differential equations, created by Poincaré and Lyapunov at the end of the 19th century, had major developments as two branches of the theory of dynamical systems during the 20th century. As a part of the basic theory of nonlinear science, it is one of the very active areas in the new millennium. This book presents in an elementary way the recent significant developments in the qualitative theory of planar dynamical systems. The subjects are covered as follows: the studies of center and isochronous center problems, multiple Hopf bifurcations and local and global bifurcations of the equivariant planar vector fields which concern with Hilbert’s 16th problem. The book is intended for graduate students, post-doctors and researchers in dynamical systems. For all engineers who are interested in the theory of dynamical systems, it is also a reasonable reference. It requires a minimum background of a one-year course on nonlinear differential equations.

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3110389142

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Chinese Materia Medica

Combinations and Applications

By: Xu Li

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Chinese Materia Medica

Combinations and Applications

By: Xu Li

This clearly written, comprehensively indexed, and reader-friendly manual contains more than 350 monographs -- each describing the functions, indications, combinations, and applications of commonly used Chinese Materia Medica. Comprehensive monographs contain: details of main ingredients, taste and nature, channels entered, functions and indications, common dosage, precautions and contraindications. Unique tabular format lists provide "at-a-glance" accessibility. Summary tables in each chapter help you obtain quick overviews of the material covered. Unique coverage on toxicity and legal status. Comprehensive list of appendices and indices -- listings are by pinyin, pharmaceutical, and English names for easy reference.

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1901149021

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Illustrated Book Of Traditional Chinese Sport

By: Qilin Sun,Lijuan Mao,Chongshen Li

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Illustrated Book Of Traditional Chinese Sport

By: Qilin Sun,Lijuan Mao,Chongshen Li

Through the use of archaeology, anthropology, sociology, and iconography, this book utilizes a multidisciplinary approach to research Chinese sports. A unique aspect of this book is that it documents the history and culture of Chinese sports through relics of mythology, rock paintings, painted pottery, oracle bones, bronzes, tomb bricks, paintings, porcelain, copper mirrors, and ancient books and literature. Through illustrations and text, the book traces the origin, development, evolution, and dissemination of ancient Chinese sports through various historical periods.

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9811271828

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Special Master-hand In City

Volume 2

By: Mo Li

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Special Master-hand In City

Volume 2

By: Mo Li

The special forces king ye tian had returned to the capital surrounded by beautiful women. He had begun living a life of three different jobs together how could he dare to act in front of his grandfather you must be joking i am the one pretending to be cool alright.

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1648976956

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The Fragrant Companions

A Play About Love Between Women

By: Li Yu

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The Fragrant Companions

A Play About Love Between Women

By: Li Yu

Two young gentry women meet by chance at a nunnery in Yangzhou, where they fall in love at first sight. After they exchange poetry and recognize each other’s literary talents, their emotional bond deepens. They conduct a mock wedding ceremony at the nunnery and hatch a plan to spend the rest of their lives together. Their schemes are stymied by a series of obstacles, but in the end the two women find an unlikely resolution—a ménage-à-trois marriage. The Fragrant Companions is the most significant work of literature that portrays female same-sex love in the entire premodern Chinese tradition. Written in 1651 by Li Yu, one of the most inventive and irreverent literary figures of seventeenth-century China, this play is at once an unconventional romantic comedy, a barbed satire, and a sympathetic portrayal of love between women. It offers a sensitive portrait of the two women’s passion for each other, depicts their intellectual pursuits and resourcefulness, and celebrates their partial triumph over social convention. At the same time, Li caustically mocks the imperial examination system and deflates the idealized image of the male scholar. The Fragrant Companions is both an indispensable source for students and scholars of gender and sexuality in premodern China and a compelling work of literature for all readers interested in China’s rich theatrical traditions.

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0231556403

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The Making of the Modern Chinese State

1600–1950

By: Huaiyin Li

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The Making of the Modern Chinese State

1600–1950

By: Huaiyin Li

The Making of the Modern Chinese State: 1600–1950 offers an historical analysis of the formation of the modern Chinese state from the seventeenth century to the mid-twentieth centuries, providing refreshing and provocative interpretations on almost every major issue regarding the rise of modern China. This book explores the question of why today’s China is unlike any other nation-state in size and structure. It inquires into the reasons behind the striking continuity in China's territorial and ethnic compositions over the past centuries, and explicates the genesis and tenacity of the Chinese state as a highly centralized and unified regime that has been able to survive into the twenty-first century. Its analysis centres on three key variables, namely geopolitical strategy, fiscal constitution, and identity building, and it demonstrates how they worked together to shape the outcome of state transformation in modern China. Enhanced by a selection of informative tables and illustrations, The Making of the Modern Chinese State: 1600–1950 is ideal for undergraduates and graduates studying East Asian history, Chinese history, empires in Asia, and state formation.

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0429777892

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Graphene Oxide: Physics and Applications

By: Jijun Zhao,Lizhao Liu,Fen Li

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Graphene Oxide: Physics and Applications

By: Jijun Zhao,Lizhao Liu,Fen Li

This book gives a comprehensive overview of graphene oxides (GO) from atomic structures and fundamental properties to technological applications. Atomic structural models, electronic properties, mechanical properties, optical properties, and functionalizing and compositing of GO are illustrated. Moreover, the excellent physical and chemical properties offer GO promising applications in electronic nanodevices, chemical sensors and catalyst, energy storage, and biotechnology, which are also presented in this book. Therefore, this book is of interest to researchers in physics, chemistry, materials science, and nanoscience.

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3662448297

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Pollutant Dispersion in Built Environment

By: Tingzhen Ming,Chong Peng,Tingrui Gong,Zhengtong Li

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Pollutant Dispersion in Built Environment

By: Tingzhen Ming,Chong Peng,Tingrui Gong,Zhengtong Li

This book discusses energy transfer, fluid flow and pollution in built environments. It provides a comprehensive overview of the highly detailed fundamental theories as well as the technologies used and the application of heat and mass transfer and fluid flow in built environments, with a focus on the mathematical models and computational and experimental methods. It is a valuable resource for researchers in the fields of buildings and environment, heat transfer and global warming.

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981103821X

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Tracking Control of Networked Systems via Sliding-Mode

By: Meng Li,Yong Chen,Ikram Ali

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Tracking Control of Networked Systems via Sliding-Mode

By: Meng Li,Yong Chen,Ikram Ali

The book focuses on the research methods of networked control systems via sliding mode. The problems with network disturbances, network induced delay, out-of-sequence and packet loss, and network attacks are studied in detail. The content studied in this book is introduced in detail and is verified by simulation or experiment. It is especially suitable for readers who are interested in learning the control scheme of networked systems. This book can benefit researchers, engineers, and students in related fields such as electrical, control, automation, and cyber security.

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9811665141

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