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Museums in China

Power, Politics and Identities

By: Tracey Lie Dan Lu

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Museums in China

Power, Politics and Identities

By: Tracey Lie Dan Lu

From the earliest museums established by Western missionaries in order to implement religious and political power, to the role they have played in the formation of the modern Chinese state, the origin and development of museums in mainland China differ significantly from those in the West. The occurrence of museums in mainland China in the late nineteenth century was primarily a result of internal and external conflicts, Westernization and colonialism, and as such they were never established solely for enjoyment and leisure. Using a historical and anthropological framework, this book provides a holistic and critical review on the establishment and development of museums in mainland China from 1840 to the present day, and shows how museums in China have been used by a wide range of social, political, and state actors for a number of economic, religious, political and ideological purposes. Indeed, Tracey L-D Lu examines the key role played by museums in reinforcing social segmentation, influencing the economy, protecting cultural heritage and the construction and enhancement of ethnic identities and nationalism, and how they have throughout their history helped the powerful to govern the less powerful or the powerless. More broadly, this book provides important comparative insights on museology and heritage management, and questions who the key stakeholders are, how museums reflect broader social and cultural changes, and the relationship between museum and heritage management. Drawing on extensive archival research and anthropological fieldwork, as well as the author’s experience working as a museum curator in mainland China in the late 1980s, Museums in China such will be of great interest to students and scholars working across museology, heritage studies, tourism studies Chinese culture and Chinese history.

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1134081626

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Accidental Incest, Filial Cannibalism, and Other Peculiar Encounters in Late Imperial Chinese Literature

By: Tina Lu

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Accidental Incest, Filial Cannibalism, and Other Peculiar Encounters in Late Imperial Chinese Literature

By: Tina Lu

Described as “all under Heaven,” the Chinese empire might have extended infinitely, covering all worlds and cultures. That ideology might have been convenient for the state, but what did late imperial people really think about the scope and limits of the human community? Writers of late imperial fiction and drama were, the author argues, deeply engaged with questions about the nature of the Chinese empire and of the human community. Fiction and drama repeatedly pose questions concerning relations both among people and between people and their possessions: What ties individuals together, whether permanently or temporarily? When can ownership be transferred, and when does an object define its owner? What transforms individual families or couples into a society? Tina Lu traces how these political questions were addressed in fiction through extreme situations: husbands and wives torn apart in periods of political upheaval, families so disrupted that incestuous encounters become inevitable, times so desperate that people have to sell themselves to be eaten.

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True to Her Word

The Faithful Maiden Cult in Late Imperial China

By: Weijing Lu

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True to Her Word

The Faithful Maiden Cult in Late Imperial China

By: Weijing Lu

This path-breaking book examines the broad cultural, social, and gender meanings of the "faithful maiden" cult in late imperial China (1368–1911). Across the empire, an increasing number of young women or "faithful maidens," defied their parents' wishes and chose either to live out their lives as widows upon the death of a fiancé or killed themselves to join their fiancé in death. The book analyzes the familial conflicts, government policies, ideological controversies, and personal emotions surrounding the cult. Concentrating on the dramatic acts of spirit wedding and suicide, the faithful maidens' unique code of conduct, and the extraordinary life journey of "virgin mothers," Lu documents the ideological, psychological, cultural, and economic aspects of these young women's mentality and behavior, and the implications of this behavior for their families and the broader society. The book's narrative of the faithful maiden cult interweaves late imperial political, cultural, social and intellectual history, thus, providing a new window onto the history of the late imperial period.

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Stanford University Press

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080478678X

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Multi-Level Decision Making

Models, Methods and Applications

By: Guangquan Zhang,Jie Lu,Ya Gao

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Multi-Level Decision Making

Models, Methods and Applications

By: Guangquan Zhang,Jie Lu,Ya Gao

This monograph presents new developments in multi-level decision-making theory, technique and method in both modeling and solution issues. It especially presents how a decision support system can support managers in reaching a solution to a multi-level decision problem in practice. This monograph combines decision theories, methods, algorithms and applications effectively. It discusses in detail the models and solution algorithms of each issue of bi-level and tri-level decision-making, such as multi-leaders, multi-followers, multi-objectives, rule-set-based, and fuzzy parameters. Potential readers include organizational managers and practicing professionals, who can use the methods and software provided to solve their real decision problems; PhD students and researchers in the areas of bi-level and multi-level decision-making and decision support systems; students at an advanced undergraduate, master’s level in information systems, business administration, or the application of computer science.

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3662460599

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Arranged Companions

Marriage and Intimacy in Qing China

By: Weijing Lu

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Arranged Companions

Marriage and Intimacy in Qing China

By: Weijing Lu

Although commonly associated with patriarchal oppression, arranged marriages have adapted over the centuries to changing cultural norms and the lived experiences of men and women. In Arranged Companions, historian Weijing Lu chronicles how marital behaviors during the early and High Qing (mid-seventeenth through mid-nineteenth centuries) were informed by rich and complex traditions and mediated by the historical conditions of the period, during which marital affection was celebrated as a basic ingredient of an ideal marriage. Lu finds public representation and private communication of marital affection in personal records, including poetry, biographies, letters, and memoirs. During this unique historical moment, ideals of marital companionship and love came to fruition while social changes also created new tensions for couples and extended families. Offering surprising revelations about conjugal relations during this time of change, Arranged Companions raises provocative questions about the cultural construction of intimacy and the meaning of a “happy marriage.”

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University of Washington Press

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029574913X

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Rumor in Early Chinese Empires

By: Zongli Lu

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Rumor in Early Chinese Empires

By: Zongli Lu

A major historical study of the formation, spread and impact of rumor in the early Chinese empires.

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Cambridge University Press

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China’s Death Penalty

History, Law and Contemporary Practices

By: Hong Lu,Terance D. Miethe

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China’s Death Penalty

History, Law and Contemporary Practices

By: Hong Lu,Terance D. Miethe

This book examines the death penalty within the changing socio-political context of China. The authors' treatment of China's death penalty is legal, historical, and comparative, focusing on its theory and the actual practice.

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Appearance Politics

Legitimacy Building in Late Imperial and Modern China

By: Lex Lu

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Appearance Politics

Legitimacy Building in Late Imperial and Modern China

By: Lex Lu

Lex Lu argues in Appearance Politics that crafting an appealing and powerful outward image has long been an essential political instrument in China. Its traces may be found in historical records, imperial portraits, physiognomic prognostications, photographs, posters, statues, and digital images. Employing rare archival materials from Beijing, Shanghai, and Nanjing, Lu tells the story of these political maneuverings. We learn the ways in which political actors and their agents designed their images, and we observe the shifting standards of male beauty that guided their decisions. Appearance Politics examines five case studies: the usurpation of Ming Prince Zhu Di; the rise of Manchu masculinity and its mixed standards of Han Chinese and Manchu beauty at the Yongzheng court; the use of modern photography and Western male beauty standards at the turn of the twentieth century; the making of the Republican founding father Sun Yat-sen; and the creation of visual templates of Mao Zedong. Lu's rich empirical study counters systematic stereotypical descriptions of Chinese male leadership embedded in Western media and scholarship.

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Cornell University Press

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The Global Circulation of Chinese Materia Medica, 1700–1949

A Microhistory of the Caterpillar Fungus

By: Di Lu

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The Global Circulation of Chinese Materia Medica, 1700–1949

A Microhistory of the Caterpillar Fungus

By: Di Lu

This book explores the dissemination of knowledge around Chinese medicinal substances from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries in a global context. The author presents a microhistory of the caterpillar fungus, a natural, medicinal substance initially used by Tibetans no later than the fifteenth century and later assimilated into Chinese materia medica from the eighteenth century onwards. Tracing the transmission of the caterpillar fungus from China to France, Britain, Russia and Japan, the book investigates the tensions that existed between prevailing Chinese knowledge and new European ideas about the caterpillar fungus. Emerging in eighteenth and nineteenth-century Europe, these ideas eventually reached communities of scientists, physicians and other intellectuals in Japan and China. Seeking to examine why the caterpillar fungus engaged the attention of so many scientific communities across the globe, the author offers a transnational perspective on the making of modern European natural history and Chinese materia medica.

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303124723X

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Confucianism and Phenomenology

An Exploration of Feeling, Value and Virtue

By: Yinghua Lu

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Confucianism and Phenomenology

An Exploration of Feeling, Value and Virtue

By: Yinghua Lu

With a focus on Confucian descriptions, this book carefully examines feeling, value and virtue and reveals the order of the heart by a phenomenological clarification of our personal and interpersonal experience.

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9004319093

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Beyond the Neon Lights

Everyday Shanghai in the Early Twentieth Century

By: Hanchao Lu

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Beyond the Neon Lights

Everyday Shanghai in the Early Twentieth Century

By: Hanchao Lu

How did ordinary people live through the extraordinary changes that have swept across modern China? How did peasants transform themselves into urbanites? How did the citizens of Shanghai cope with the epic upheavals—revolution, war, and again revolution—that shook their lives? Even after decades of scholarship devoted to modern Chinese history, our understanding of the daily lives of the common people of China remains sketchy and incomplete. In this carefully researched study, Hanchao Lu weaves rich documentary data with ethnographic surveys and interviews to reconstruct the fabric of everyday life in China's largest and most complex city in the first half of this century.

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052093167X

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Dice and Gods on the Silk Road

Chinese Buddhist Dice Divination in Transcultural Context

By: Brandon Dotson,Constance A. Cook,Zhao Lu

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Dice and Gods on the Silk Road

Chinese Buddhist Dice Divination in Transcultural Context

By: Brandon Dotson,Constance A. Cook,Zhao Lu

What do dice and gods have in common? What is the relationship between dice divination and dice gambling? This interdisciplinary collaboration situates the tenth-century Chinese Buddhist “Divination of Maheśvara” within a deep Chinese backstory of divination with dice and numbers going back to at least the 4th century BCE. Simultaneously, the authors track this specific method of dice divination across the Silk Road and into ancient India through a detailed study of the material culture, poetics, and ritual processes of dice divination in Chinese, Tibetan, and Indian contexts. The result is an extended meditation on the unpredictable movements of gods, dice, divination books, and divination users across the various languages, cultures, and religions of the Silk Road.

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9004464379

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Recommender Systems: Advanced Developments

By: Jie Lu,Qian Zhang,Guang-quan Zhang

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Recommender Systems: Advanced Developments

By: Jie Lu,Qian Zhang,Guang-quan Zhang

Recommender systems provide users (businesses or individuals) with personalized online recommendations of products or information, to address the problem of information overload and improve personalized services. Recent successful applications of recommender systems are providing solutions to transform online services for e-government, e-business, e-commerce, e-shopping, e-library, e-learning, e-tourism, and more.This unique compendium not only describes theoretical research but also reports on new application developments, prototypes, and real-world case studies of recommender systems. The comprehensive volume provides readers with a timely snapshot of how new recommendation methods and algorithms can overcome challenging issues. Furthermore, the monograph systematically presents three dimensions of recommender systems — basic recommender system concepts, advanced recommender system methods, and real-world recommender system applications.By providing state-of-the-art knowledge, this excellent reference text will immensely benefit researchers, managers, and professionals in business, government, and education to understand the concepts, methods, algorithms and application developments in recommender systems.

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9811224641

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A New Study on the Judicial Administrative System with Chinese Characteristics

By: Yong'an Ren,Xianyang Lu

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A New Study on the Judicial Administrative System with Chinese Characteristics

By: Yong'an Ren,Xianyang Lu

This book offers a comprehensive introduction to China’s judicial administration system. It presents in-depth analyses of the country’s current judicial administration system, as well as a new theory on the system that is based on the realities of today’s China, and provides guidance on reform. The book examines the system as a whole, as well as various specific aspects of judicial administration, putting forward bold theoretical proposals for improving China’s judicial administration system and judicial system in general.

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9811541825

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Shanghai Tai Chi

The Art of Being Ruled in Mao's China

By: Hanchao Lu

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Shanghai Tai Chi

The Art of Being Ruled in Mao's China

By: Hanchao Lu

Shanghai Tai Chi offers a masterful portrait of daily urban life under socialism in a rich social and political history of one of the world's most complex cities. Hanchao Lu explores the lives of people from all areas of society - from capitalists and bourgeois intellectuals to women and youth. Utilizing the metaphor of Tai Chi, he reveals how people in Shanghai experienced and adapted to a new Maoist political culture from 1949. Exploring the multifaceted complexity of everyday life and material culture in Mao's China, Lu addresses the survival of old bourgeois lifestyles under the new proletarian dictatorship, the achievements of intellectuals in an age of anti-intellectualism, the pleasure that urban youth derived from reading taboo literature, the emergence of women's liberation and the politics of greening and horticulture. This captivating, epitomizing, and vivid history transports readers to history as lived on Shanghai's streets and back alleyways.

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1009191160

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Deadly Plot

Volume 2

By: Lu XiaoChuan

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Deadly Plot

Volume 2

By: Lu XiaoChuan

A "meticulously planned murder plot," a conspiracy that spanned tens of years! From the moment a famous actress' nude 'died in the hotel, a splendid revenge' assassination 'was quietly unveiled! A police officer who was expelled from the police force, a police officer who was in active service but had a dishonorable past, and a retired spy who was both righteous and evil but could not differentiate between the two, met each other on the killing stage. Truth, evil, lies, deceit. Where would one find the light of justice in this place filled with unknown dangers? With a single thought, he would become the Great Wisdom, and with a single thought, he would become the Great Wisdom. Everything was for nothing.

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Funstory

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1648973965

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Automatic Generation of Computer Animation

Using AI for Movie Animation

By: Ruqian Lu,Songmao Zhang

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Automatic Generation of Computer Animation

Using AI for Movie Animation

By: Ruqian Lu,Songmao Zhang

We are both fans of watching animated stories. Every evening, before or after d- ner, we always sit in front of the television and watch the animation program, which is originally produced and shown for children. We find ourselves becoming younger while immerged in the interesting plot of the animation: how the princess is first killed and then rescued, how the little rat defeats the big cat, etc. But what we have found in those animation programs are not only interesting plots, but also a big chance for the application of computer science and artificial intelligence techniques. As is well known, the cost of producing animated movies is very high, even with the use of computer graphics techniques. Turning a story in text form into an animated movie is a long and complicated procedure. We came to the c- clusion that many parts of this process could be automated by using artificial - telligence techniques. It is actually a challenge and test for machine intelligence. So we decided to explore the possibility of a full life cycle automation of c- puter animation generation. By full life cycle we mean the generation process of computer animation from a children s story in natural language text form to the final animated movie. It is of course a task of immense difficulty. However, we decided to try our best and to see how far we could go.

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3540455906

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Contemporary Chinese Cinema and Visual Culture

Envisioning the Nation

By: Sheldon Lu

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Contemporary Chinese Cinema and Visual Culture

Envisioning the Nation

By: Sheldon Lu

Honourable Mention, Best Monograph Award, BAFTSS Publication Awards 2022 Sheldon Lu's wide-ranging new book investigates how filmmakers and visual artists from mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan have envisioned China as it transitions from a socialist to a globalized capitalist state. It examines how the modern nation has been refashioned and re-imagined in order to keep pace with globalization and transnationalism. At the heart of Lu's analysis is a double movement in the relationship between nation and transnationalism in the Chinese post-socialist state. He considers the complexity of how the Chinese economy is integrated in the global capitalist system while also remaining a repressive body politic with mechanisms of control and surveillance. He explores the interrelations of the local, the national, the subnational, and the global as China repositions itself in the world. Lu considers examples from feature and documentary film, mainstream and marginal cinema, and a variety of visual arts: photography, painting, digital video, architecture, and installation. His close case studies include representations of class, masculinity and sexuality in contemporary Taiwanese and Chinese cinema; the figure of the sex worker as a symbol of modernity and mobility; and artists' representations of Beijing at the time of the 2008 Olympics.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350234192

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Evidence-based Clinical Chinese Medicine - Volume 1: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

By: Charlie Changli Xue,Chuanjian Lu,Johannah Shergis,Lei Wu

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Evidence-based Clinical Chinese Medicine - Volume 1: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

By: Charlie Changli Xue,Chuanjian Lu,Johannah Shergis,Lei Wu

Evidence-based Clinical Chinese Medicine: Vol. 1 Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease provides a 'whole evidence' analysis of the Chinese medicine management of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Evidence from the classical Chinese medicine literature, contemporary clinical literature, and the outcomes of clinical trials and experimental studies are reviewed, analysed and synthesised. The data from all these sources are condensed to provide evidence-based statements which will inform clinical practice and guide future research.This book has been designed to be an easy reference at the point of care. During a patient consultation, Chinese medicine practitioners can refer to this book for guidance on which Chinese herbal medicine formulas, specific herbs, or acupuncture points, can best treat their patient, and be confident there is evidence which supports its use.Currently, Chinese medicine practitioners who develop a special interest in a particular health condition such as COPD have to consult a variety of sources to further their knowledge. Typically, they use the contemporary clinical literature to understand the theory, aetiology, pathogenesis and obtain expert opinions on the Chinese medicine management of COPD. They search the electronic literature to identify systematic reviews of clinical trials, if any exists, to obtain assessments of the current state of the clinical evidence for particular interventions. If they have the skills and resources, they may search the classical Chinese medicine literature for an historical perspective on treatments that have stood the test of time.This book provides all of this information for practitioners in one handy, easy to use reference. This allows practitioners to focus on their job of providing high quality healthcare, with the knowledge it is based on the best available evidence.

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World Scientific

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9814723118

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Chinese Modernity and Global Biopolitics

Studies in Literature and Visual Culture

By: Sheldon H. Lu

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Chinese Modernity and Global Biopolitics

Studies in Literature and Visual Culture

By: Sheldon H. Lu

This ambitious work is a multimedia, interdisciplinary study of Chinese modernity in the context of globalization from the late nineteenth century to the present. Sheldon Lu draws on Chinese literature, film, art, photography, and video to broadly map the emergence of modern China in relation to the capitalist world-system in the economic, social, and political realms. Central to his study is the investigation of biopower and body politics, namely, the experience of globalization on a personal level. Lu first outlines the trajectory of the body in modern Chinese literature by focusing on the adventures, pleasures, and sufferings of the male (and female) body in the writings of selected authors. He then turns to avant-garde and performance art, tackling the physical self more directly through a consideration of work that takes the body as its very theme, material, and medium. In an exploration of mass visual culture, Lu analyzes artistic reactions to the multiple, uneven effects of globalization and modernization on both the physical landscape of China and the interior psyche of its citizens. This is followed by an inquiry into contemporary Chinese urban space in popular cinema and experimental photography and art. Examples are offered that capture the daily lives of contemporary Chinese as they struggle to make the transition from the vanishing space of the socialist lifestyle to the new capitalist economy of commodities. Lu reexamines the history and implications of China’s belated integration into the capitalist world system before closing with a postscript that traces the genealogy of the term "postsocialism" and points to the real relevance of the idea for the investigation of everyday life in China in the twenty-first century.

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University of Hawaii Press

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0824861868

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The Reborn Landlord Lady

Volume 2

By: Lu ShiNv

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The Reborn Landlord Lady

Volume 2

By: Lu ShiNv

See how Gao Gan trained to become a landlady See how an illegitimate daughter cultivates to become a bookworm "With space in hand, you can cultivate your fields, and you can gain wisdom from trading with the system." Demonic spirits are not scary. What's scary is the fake benefactor who promises to help you with a smile The woman she had been grateful to for so many years was the devil who had killed them both ... In the end, it was all because she was the daughter of the third child who failed to ascend to the throne ... She is the so-called crystal of love of the failed product I've tasted all the pain and suffering I can imagine To start over again, she thought, it's hard to be a good person, but it's easier to learn to be a bad person ... The System was right next to her, but she was the top student in the academy. She was the unbefitting one ...

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Funstory

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1636890962

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Diary of a Madman and Other Stories

By: Lu Xun

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Diary of a Madman and Other Stories

By: Lu Xun

Here at last is an accurate and enjoyable rendering of Lu Xun's fiction in an American English idiom that masterfully captures the sardonic wit, melancholy pathos, and ironic vision of China's first truly modern writer." -Michael S. Duke, University of British Columbia The inventor of the modern Chinese short story, Lu Xun is universally regarded as twentieth century China’s greatest writer. This long awaited volume presents new translations of all Lu Xun’s stories, including his first, “Remembrances of the Past,” written in classical Chinese. These new renderings faithfully convey both the brilliant style and the pungent expression for which Lu Xun is famous. Also included are a substantial introduction by the translator and sufficient annotation to make the stories fully accessible, enabling readers approaching Lu Xun for the first time to appreciate why these stories occupy a permanent place not only in Chinese literature but in world literature as well.

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0824841700

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Combat Techniques of Taiji, Xingyi, and Bagua

Principles and Practices of Internal Martial Arts

By: Lu Shengli

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Combat Techniques of Taiji, Xingyi, and Bagua

Principles and Practices of Internal Martial Arts

By: Lu Shengli

The combat techniques of Tai Ji, Ba Gua, and Xing Yi were forbidden during China's Cultural Revolution, but the teachings of grandmaster Wang Pei Shing have survived. This comprehensive guide, written by one of his students, selects core movements from each practice and gives the student powerful tools to recognize the unique strategies and skills, and to develop a deeper understanding, of each style. It contains complete instructions for a 16-posture form to gain mastery of combat techniques. The book helps practitioners achieve a new level of practice, where deeply ingrained skills are brought forth in a more fluid, intuitive, and fast-paced fashion.

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Blue Snake Books

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1583941452

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Ma Xiangbo and the Mind of Modern China

By: Ruth Hayhoe,Yongling Lu

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Ma Xiangbo and the Mind of Modern China

By: Ruth Hayhoe,Yongling Lu

An in-depth study of Ma Xiangbo, one of the most prominent Catholic thinkers in modern China.

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1315480247

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Handsome Divine Sovereign

Volume 6

By: Lu GeEnKe

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Handsome Divine Sovereign

Volume 6

By: Lu GeEnKe

What?!" Because she looks too adorable, the Demon Princess wants to snatch me back to be her younger sister's consort? No! I am a man of principle! He wouldn't be a pretty boy! He was going to cheat some things before thinking of a way to escape! "What?!" Because your talent is too good, senior, you want to frame me and collude with the demon race? So what if he fell off the cliff? I have the main character halo, so I will naturally have the help of a noble! "What?!" You say that there is no God in this world? Alright, then I'll be first! A protagonist who relied on his face to pretend to be tender wasn't anything special ... [Close]

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1648846785

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China, Transnational Visuality, Global Postmodernity

By: Hsiao-peng Lu,Sheldon H. Lu

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China, Transnational Visuality, Global Postmodernity

By: Hsiao-peng Lu,Sheldon H. Lu

By focusing on Chinese cultural formations and critical discourses of the last decade of the century, the author dissects the intellectual, economic, and political contradictions of a turbulent era. This wide-ranging, deeply interdisciplinary work demarcates the cultural terrain by examining diverse media: film, television, avant-garde art, and literature, as well as critical theory and intellectual history.

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0804742049

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A Ming Confucian’s World

Selections from Miscellaneous Records from the Bean Garden

By: Lu Rong

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A Ming Confucian’s World

Selections from Miscellaneous Records from the Bean Garden

By: Lu Rong

A forgotten century marks the years between the Ming dynasty's (1368–1644) turbulent founding and its sixteenth-century age of exploration and economic transformation. In this period of social stability, retired scholar-official Lu Rong chronicled his observations of Chinese society in Miscellaneous Records from the Bean Garden (Shuyuan zaji). Openly expressing his admirations and frustrations, Lu provides a window into the quotidian that sets Bean Garden apart from other works of the biji genre of "informal notes." Mark Halperin organizes a translated selection of Lu's accounts from Miscellaneous Records from the Bean Garden to create a panorama of Ming life. A man of unusual curiosity, Lu describes multiple social classes, ethnicities, and locales in his accounts of political intrigues, farming techniques, religious practices, etiquette, crime, and family life. Centuries after their composition, Lu's words continue to provide a richly textured portrait of China on the cusp of the early modern era.

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University of Washington Press

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0295749946

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9780295749945

Crime Files

Volume 5

By: Lu XiaoChuan

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Crime Files

Volume 5

By: Lu XiaoChuan

Police officer Lu Xiaochuan was involved in a strange skinning case when he followed his father to the north. Only when the facts of the case gradually became clear did the crowd realize that this was only the beginning of an ancient mystery ... A book, sixteen cases, showing you the deepest darkness of human nature, making you understand the other side of the world that few people know about.

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Funstory

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1648979092

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9781648979095

Electrical Conductive Adhesives with Nanotechnologies

By: Yi (Grace) Li,Daniel Lu,C.P. Wong

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Electrical Conductive Adhesives with Nanotechnologies

By: Yi (Grace) Li,Daniel Lu,C.P. Wong

“Electrical Conductive Adhesives with Nanotechnologies” begins with an overview of electronic packaging and discusses the various adhesives options currently available, including lead-free solder and ECAs (Electrically Conductive Adhesives). The material presented focuses on the three ECA categories specifically, Isotropically Conductive Adhesives (ICAs) Anisotropically Conductive Adhesives/Films (ACA/ACF) and Nonconductive Adhesives/Films (NCA/NCF). Discussing the advantages and limitations of each technique, and how each technique is currently applied. Lastly, a detailed presentation of how nano techniques can be applied to conductive adhesives is discussed, including recent research and development of nano component adhesives/nano component films, their electrical properties, thermal performance, bonding pressure and assembly and reliability.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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0387887830

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9780387887838

Networking And Mobile Computing

Third International Conference, ICCNMC 2005, Zhangjiajie, China, August 2-4, 2005, Proceedings

By: Xicheng Lu

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Networking And Mobile Computing

Third International Conference, ICCNMC 2005, Zhangjiajie, China, August 2-4, 2005, Proceedings

By: Xicheng Lu

Welcome to Zhangjiajie for the 3rd International Conference on Computer Network and Mobile Computing (ICCNMC 2005). We are currently witnessing a proliferation in mobile/wireless technologies and applications. However, these new technologies have ushered in unprecedented challenges for the research community across the range of networking, mobile computing, network security and wireless web applications, and optical network topics. ICCNMC 2005 was sponsored by the China Computer Federation, in cooperation with the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Computer Society. The objective of this conference was to address and capture highly innovative and stateof-the-art research and work in the networks and mobile computing industries. ICCNMC 2005 allowed sharing of the underlying theories and applications, and the establishment of new and long-term collaborative channels aimed at developing innovative concepts and solutions geared to future markets. The highly positive response to ICCNMC 2001 and ICCNMC 2003, held in Beijing and Shanghai, respectively, encouraged us to continue this international event. In its third year, ICCNMC 2005 continued to provide a forum for researchers, professionals, and industrial practitioners from around the world to report on new advances in computer network and mobile computing, as well as to identify issues and directions for research and development in the new era of evolving technologies.

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3540281029

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9783540281023

A Brief History of Chinese Fiction

By: Lu Hsun

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A Brief History of Chinese Fiction

By: Lu Hsun

Lu Hsun, pioneer and standard-bearer of modern Chinese literature, wrote this book during the early twenties. It is a study of the historical development of Chinese fiction from early myths and legends down to well-developed long novels written at the end of the Ching Dynasty.The characteristics of various forms of fiction through the centuries, the development of these forms and their influence on each other are lucidly presented, while such major works as the novels Hung Lou Meng (A Dream of Red Mansions) and Shue Hu Chuan (Water Margin) are reviewed in detail.Chinese fiction had its roots in story telling, and the feudal ruling class despised folk literature of this kind. The May 4th Movement of 1919 dealt a mortal blow to the feudal forces in Chinese culture. Then the study of this form of literature began to make headway, Lu Hsun being one of the first to carry out research in this field.This book, the earliest systematic study of the history of Chinese fiction by a Chinese writer, still exercises a great influence among Chinese scholars.This English translation is illustrated with reproductions of early Chinese woodcuts.

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The Minerva Group, Inc.

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0898751543

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9780898751543

Politics and Identity in Chinese Martial Arts

By: Lu Zhouxiang

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Politics and Identity in Chinese Martial Arts

By: Lu Zhouxiang

Chinese martial arts is considered by many to symbolise the strength of the Chinese and their pride in their history, and has long been regarded as an important element of Chinese culture and national identity. Politics and Identity in Chinese Martial Arts comprehensively examines the development of Chinese martial arts in the context of history and politics, and highlights its role in nation building and identity construction over the past two centuries. This book explores how the development of Chinese martial arts was influenced by the ruling regimes’ political and military policies, as well as the social and economic environment. It also discusses the transformation of Chinese martial arts into its modern form as a competitive sport, a sport for all and a performing art, considering the effect of the rapid transformation of Chinese society in the 20th century and the influence of Western sports. The text concludes by examining the current prominence of Chinese martial arts on a global scale and the bright future of the sport as a unique cultural icon and national symbol of China in an era of globalisation. Politics and Identity in Chinese Martial Arts is important reading for researchers, students and scholars working in the areas of Chinese studies, Chinese history, political science and sports studies. It is also a valuable read for anyone with a special interest in Chinese martial arts.

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Routledge

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1351610031

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9781351610032

Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 5, Chemistry and Chemical Technology, Part 4, Spagyrical Discovery and Invention: Apparatus, Theories and Gifts

By: Joseph Needham,Ho Ping-Yu,Lu Gwei-Djen,Nathan Sivin

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Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 5, Chemistry and Chemical Technology, Part 4, Spagyrical Discovery and Invention: Apparatus, Theories and Gifts

By: Joseph Needham,Ho Ping-Yu,Lu Gwei-Djen,Nathan Sivin

The fifth volume of Dr Needham's immense undertaking, like the fourth, is subdivided into parts for ease of assimilation and presentation, each part bound and published separately. The volume as a whole covers the subjects of alchemy, early chemistry, and chemical technology (which includes military invention, especially gunpowder and rockets; paper and printing; textiles; mining and metallurgy; the salt industry; and ceramics).

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Cambridge University Press

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052108573X

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9780521085731

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