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Changes And Continuities In Chinese Communism

Volume I: Ideology, Politics, And Foreign Policy

By: Yu-ming Shaw

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Changes And Continuities In Chinese Communism

Volume I: Ideology, Politics, And Foreign Policy

By: Yu-ming Shaw

A collection of essays split into 4 sections that cover methodology, ideology, Part and Politics and Foreign Affairs. Published in cooperation with the Institute of International Relations, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China.

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0429712855

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Ten States, Five Dynasties, One Great Emperor

How Emperor Taizu Unified China in the Song Dynasty

By: Hung Hing Ming

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Ten States, Five Dynasties, One Great Emperor

How Emperor Taizu Unified China in the Song Dynasty

By: Hung Hing Ming

Drawn from Chinese classics of history, Hung Hing Ming's biographies introduce China's most emblematic historical figures and the cultural attributes fostered by China's ancient chronicles. This book is about one of the greatest emperors in Chinese history, Zhao Kuang Yin, founder of the Song Dynasty (960–1279). He is honored for having unified China in the extremely chaotic period of 'Five Dynasties and Ten States'. This enjoyable book introduces more of China's heroes and villains, highlighting a modest man yet a great emperor who brought peace and stability to the realm and saved the people from great suffering. Interwoven into the narrative of battles fought and alliances forged or flouted, we find examples of good leadership and bad, hot-headed fighters and disciplined warriors, and lessons on how to assess — and win — people's loyalty.

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Algora Publishing

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1628940727

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Dictionary of Ming Biography, 1368-1644

By: Association for Asian Studies. Ming Biographical History Project Committee,Luther Carrington Goodrich

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Dictionary of Ming Biography, 1368-1644

By: Association for Asian Studies. Ming Biographical History Project Committee,Luther Carrington Goodrich

Based largely upon original Ming documents, the Dictionary explores the lives of nearly 650 representative figures, both Chinese and foreign, who influenced the course of almost three hundred years of Chinese history. The articles span all classes, professions, and fields of endeavor, from emperors to artists, soldiers to missionaries, concubines, physicians, and pirates.

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Columbia University Press

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023103833X

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Historical Dictionary of Taiwan Cinema

By: Daw-Ming Lee

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Historical Dictionary of Taiwan Cinema

By: Daw-Ming Lee

Taiwan was able to solidly build and sustain a film industry only after locally-produced Mandarin films secured markets in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia during the 1960s and 1970s. Though only a small island with a limited population, in its heyday, Taiwan was among the top-10 film producing countries/areas in the world, turning out hundreds of martial arts kung fu films and romantic melodramas annually that were screened in theaters across Southeast Asia and other areas internationally. However, except for one acclaimed film by director King Hu, Taiwan cinema was nearly invisible on the art cinema map until the 1980s, when the films of Hou Hsiao-hsien, Edward Yang, and other Taiwan New Cinema directors gained recognition at international film festivals, first in Europe, and later, throughout the world. Since then, many other Taiwan directors have also become an important part of cinema history, such as Ang Lee and Tsai Ming-liang. The Historical Dictionary of Taiwan Cinema covers the history of cinema in Taiwan during both the Japanese colonial period (1895-1945) and the Chinese Nationalist period (1945-present). This is accomplished through a chronology highlighting the main events during the long period and an introduction which carefully analyses the progression. The bulk of the information, however, appears in a dictionary section including over a hundred very extensive entries on directors, producers, performers, films, film studios and genres. Photos are also included in the dictionary section. More information can be found through the bibliography. Taiwan cinema is truly unique and this book is a good place to find out more about it, whether you are a student, or teacher, or just a fan.

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Scarecrow Press

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0810879220

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Energy Economics

Understanding and Interpreting Energy Poverty in China

By: Yi-Ming Wei,Hua Liao

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Energy Economics

Understanding and Interpreting Energy Poverty in China

By: Yi-Ming Wei,Hua Liao

Energy Economics: Understanding and Interpreting Energy Poverty in China presents a succinct overview of research on China’s Energy Poverty as studied by the Center for Energy & Environmental Policy Research (CEEP), Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT).

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Emerald Group Publishing

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1787567818

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Architecture and Urban Form in Kuala Lumpur

Race and Chinese Spaces in a Postcolonial City

By: Yat Ming Loo

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Architecture and Urban Form in Kuala Lumpur

Race and Chinese Spaces in a Postcolonial City

By: Yat Ming Loo

Kuala Lumpur, the capital city of Malaysia, is a former colony of the British Empire which today prides itself in being a multicultural society par excellence. However, the Islamisation of the urban landscape, which is at the core of Malaysia’s decolonisation projects, has marginalised the Chinese urban spaces which were once at the heart of Kuala Lumpur. Engaging with complex colonial and postcolonial aspects of the city, from the British colonial era in the 1880s to the modernisation period in the 1990s, this book demonstrates how Kuala Lumpur’s urban landscape is overwritten by a racial agenda through the promotion of Malaysian Architecture, including the world-famous mega-projects of the Petronas Twin Towers and the new administrative capital of Putrajaya. Drawing on a wide range of Chinese community archives, interviews and resources, the book illustrates how Kuala Lumpur’s Chinese spaces have been subjugated. This includes original case studies showing how the Chinese re-appropriated the Kuala Lumpur old city centre of Chinatown and Chinese cemeteries as a way of contesting state’s hegemonic national identity and ideology. This book is arguably the first academic book to examine the relationship of Malaysia’s large Chinese minority with the politics of architecture and urbanism in Kuala Lumpur. It is also one of the few academic books to situate the Chinese diaspora spaces at the centre of the construction of city and nation. By including the spatial contestation of those from the margins and their resistance against the state ideology, this book proposes a recuperative urban and architectural history, seeking to revalidate the marginalised spaces of minority community and re-script them into the narrative of the postcolonial nation-state.

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Routledge

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1317179226

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Precarious Balance

Hong Kong Between China and Britain, 1842-1992

By: Ming K. Chan,John D. Young

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Precarious Balance

Hong Kong Between China and Britain, 1842-1992

By: Ming K. Chan,John D. Young

This work closely considers the history and political importance of Hong Kong in the period 1842 to 1992.

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1317462238

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Mainland China

Politics, Economics, And Reform

By: Yu-ming Shaw

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Mainland China

Politics, Economics, And Reform

By: Yu-ming Shaw

Over the past several years, Mainland China has undertaken reforms in various domestic areas, including culture and society, education, the economy, and the Communist Party. In addition, since September 1982 Peking has begun to pursue an independent course in foreign relations. In this volume, based on the Thirteenth Sino-American Conference in Tai

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Mediation and Law in China II

Development and Integration

By: Liao Yong’an,Duan Ming,Zhao Yiyu

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Mediation and Law in China II

Development and Integration

By: Liao Yong’an,Duan Ming,Zhao Yiyu

As the second volume of a two-volume set on mediation in China, this book examines the development of a diversified dispute resolution regime and other major types of mediation in China. Grounded in traditional dispute resolution practices throughout Chinese history, mediation is born out of the Chinese legal tradition and considered to be “Eastern” in nature. This second volume focuses on eight types of mediation prevalent in China in terms of its formation, development, challenges and achievements: people's mediation, court mediation, administrative mediation, industry mediation, commercial mediation, lawyer mediation, online mediation, and a combination of arbitration and mediation. In analyzing these diversified forms of mediation, the authors explain the necessity of integrating emerging forms of mediation with historical ties and traditional practice and thereby reshape a mediation system that incorporates diversified approaches, changing contexts and various dimensions including history and reality, theory and practice, state and society. This title will serve as a crucial reference for scholars, students and related professionals interested in alternative dispute resolution, civil litigation, and especially China’s dispute resolution policy, law, and practice.

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Taylor & Francis

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100087057X

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The Man with the Compound Eyes

A Novel

By: Wu Ming-Yi

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The Man with the Compound Eyes

A Novel

By: Wu Ming-Yi

When a tsunami sends a massive island made entirely of trash crashing into the Taiwanese coast, two very different people—an outcast from a mythical island and a woman on the verge of suicide—are united in ways they never could have imagined. Here is the English-language debut of a new and exciting award-winning voice from Taiwan, who has written an “astonishing” novel (The Independent) that is at once fantasy, reality, and dystopian environmental saga. Fifteen-year-old Atile’i—a native of Wayo Wayo, an island somewhere in the Pacific—has come of age. Following the custom of his people, he is set adrift as a sacrifice to the Sea God but, unlike those who have gone before him, Atile’i is determined to defy precedent and survive. His chances seem slim, but just as it appears that hope is lost, Atile’i comes across a sprawling trash vortex floating in the ocean and climbs onto it. Meanwhile, on the east coast of Taiwan, Alice, a college professor, is overcome with grief. Her husband and son are missing, having disappeared while hiking in the mountains near their home. Alice is so distraught that she decides to end her own life. But her plans are interrupted by a violent storm that causes the trash vortex to collide with the Taiwanese coast, bringing Atile’i along with it. Alice and Atile’i subsequently form an unlikely friendship that helps each of them come to terms with what they have lost. Together they set out to uncover the mystery of Alice’s lost family, following their footsteps into the mountains. Intertwined with Alice and Atile’i’s story are the lives of others affected by the tsunami, from environmentalists to Taiwan’s indigenous peoples—and, of course, the mysterious man with the compound eyes. A work of lyrical beauty that combines magical realism and environmental fable, The Man with the Compound Eyes is an incredible story about the bonds of family, the meaning of love, and the lasting effects of human destruction.

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Vintage

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030790797X

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Foreign Investment and Economic Development in China, 1840-1937

By: Chi-ming Hou

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Foreign Investment and Economic Development in China, 1840-1937

By: Chi-ming Hou

First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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0415190150

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The East Asian Computer Chip War

By: Ming-chin Monique Chu

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The East Asian Computer Chip War

By: Ming-chin Monique Chu

The semiconductor industry is a vital industry for military establishments worldwide, and the control of, or loss of control of, this key industry has enormous strategic implications. This book focuses on the globalization of the strategic semiconductor industry and the security ramifications of this process. It examines in particular the migration of the Taiwanese chip industry to China as part of the globalization of production processes, and the extent to which such a globalization process poses security challenges to the United States, China and Taiwan. Transcending disciplinary boundaries between international political economy, security studies, and the history of science and technology, this multidisciplinary work provides an in-depth understanding of the globalization-security nexus, and disentangles the key policy issues connected to a potential explosive flashpoint in world politics today.

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1317961560

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On Metaphoring

Acultural Hermeneutic

By: Kuang-Ming Wu

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On Metaphoring

Acultural Hermeneutic

By: Kuang-Ming Wu

Metaphor familiarizes things strange with things familiar to enrich old things with things newly made familiar. Thus metaphor is an effective intercultural highway without shared thinking-way, for each culture is a specific thinking-way. This volume shows such intercultural communication.

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BRILL

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9004123024

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Sino-Japanese Relations

Interaction, Logic, and Transformation

By: Ming Wan

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Sino-Japanese Relations

Interaction, Logic, and Transformation

By: Ming Wan

This book examines the transformation of the Sino-Japanese relationship since 1989.

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Stanford University Press

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0804754594

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The A to Z of the Hong Kong SAR and the Macao SAR

By: Ming K. Chan,Sonny Shiu-Hing Lo

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The A to Z of the Hong Kong SAR and the Macao SAR

By: Ming K. Chan,Sonny Shiu-Hing Lo

The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China is located on the southeastern coast of China, and the Macao SAR can be found off of China's southern coast. Both regions have recently been released from European colonial rule: Hong Kong from British control in 1997 and Macao from Portugal in 1999. As SARs, Hong Kong and Macao retain a high degree of autonomy, and they control all issues except those of state (e.g. diplomatic relations and national defense). The A to Z of the Hong Kong SAR and the Macao SAR includes maps, photographs, a list of acronyms, a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on important persons, places, and events as well as political, economic and social background. However, unlike the rest of the series, all these sections are presented in duplicate: one for Hong Kong and one for Macao. The authoritative analysis and informative data presented clearly elucidate the unique situation of these two territories.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0810876337

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Innovate to Dominate

The Rise of the Chinese Techno-Security State

By: Tai Ming Cheung

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Innovate to Dominate

The Rise of the Chinese Techno-Security State

By: Tai Ming Cheung

In Innovate to Dominate, Tai Ming Cheung offers insight into why, how, and whether China will overtake the United States to become the world's preeminent technological and security power. This examination of the means and ends of China's quest for techno-security supremacy is required reading for anyone looking for clues as to the long-term direction of the global order. The techno-security domain, Cheung argues, is where national security, innovation, and economic development converge, and it has become the center of power and prosperity in the twenty-first century. China's paramount leader Xi Jinping recognizes that effectively harnessing the complex interactions among security, innovation, and development is essential in enabling China to compete for global dominance. Cheung offers a richly detailed account of how China is building a potent techno-security state. In Innovate to Dominate he takes readers from the strategic vision guiding this transformation to the nuts-and-bolts of policy implementation. The state-led top-down mobilizational model that China is pursuing has been a winning formula so far, but the sternest test is ahead as China begins to compete head-to-head with the United States and aims to surpass its archrival by mid-century if not sooner. Innovate to Dominate is a timely and analytically rigorous examination of the key strategies guiding China's transformation of its capabilities in the national, technological, military, and security spheres and how this is taking place. Cheung authoritatively addresses the burning questions being asked in capitals around the world: Can China become the dominant global techno-security power? And if so, when?

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Cornell University Press

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1501764357

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Rays of the Searching Sun

The Transcultural Poetics of Yang Mu

By: Lisa Lai-Ming Wong

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Rays of the Searching Sun

The Transcultural Poetics of Yang Mu

By: Lisa Lai-Ming Wong

Yang Mu, the recipient of the 2007 International Prize for Literature Written in Chinese, is a well-known bicultural poet. Born in Taiwan during the last phase of the Japanese occupation, his life and writing have been influenced by competing forces in the historical, political, intellectual, linguistic, and aesthetic realms. Yang Mu's humanist sensibility has offered critical insights into the dangers of binary opposition and ideological thinking. His poetry has appealed to readers worldwide and is accessible in English, French, German, Dutch, Swedish, Japanese, and Korean translations. This study of Yang Mu's poetics examines the writer's literary choices from a cross-cultural perspective, highlighting the relationship between issues of international concern and modern cultural theories. Yang Mu's dialogic lyric voice engages peoples from different eras and cultures. This is achieved by addressing contemporary crises between nations or by responding to philosophical questions about identity, memory, and time. Yang Mu's works exhibit a true transcultural outlook that will significantly contribute to the development of 21st century world poetry.

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Peter Lang

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9052015457

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Nativism and Modernity

Cultural Contestations in China and Taiwan under Global Capitalism

By: Ming-yan Lai

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Nativism and Modernity

Cultural Contestations in China and Taiwan under Global Capitalism

By: Ming-yan Lai

Comparative study of contemporary nativist literary and cultural movements in China and Taiwan.

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SUNY Press

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0791472868

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9780791472866

Chinese Jade

By: Ming Yu

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Chinese Jade

By: Ming Yu

Chinese jade.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521186846

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Li Shi Min, Founding the Tang Dynasty

The Strategies that Made China the Greatest Empire in Asia

By: Hing Ming Hung

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Li Shi Min, Founding the Tang Dynasty

The Strategies that Made China the Greatest Empire in Asia

By: Hing Ming Hung

Li Shi Min was a man of great political and military accomplishments, narrated here with the battle stratagems and clever counsel that carried him forward. This book tells how he helped his father Li Yuan to establish the Tang Dynasty and the contributions he made to unifying China. Author Hung Hing Ming draws on China's historical records and chronicles to recount the battles to conquer the warlords and local strongmen in different parts of China, the wise policies he adopted, and the means by which he inspired officials to put forward good suggestions. His deeds, policies and constructive interactions with his ministers and generals were compiled into guides and teaching materials for successors to the Chinese throne. Much of this leadership training advice is still useful today. This book will be an asset to readers as there are few works in English that introduce these cultural motifs that color the thinking of nation so important to ours.

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0875869807

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Transpacific Articulations

Student Migration and the Remaking of Asian America

By: Chih-ming Wang

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Transpacific Articulations

Student Migration and the Remaking of Asian America

By: Chih-ming Wang

In 1854 Yung Wing, who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Yale University, returned to a poverty-stricken China, where domestic revolt and foreign invasion were shaking the Chinese empire. Inspired by the U.S. and its liberal education, Yung believed that having more Chinese students educated there was the only way to bring reform to China. Since then, generations of students from China—and other Asian countries—have embarked on this transpacific voyage in search of modernity. What forces have shaped Asian student migration to the U.S.? What impact do foreign students have on the formation of Asian America? How do we grasp the meaning of this transpacific subject in and out of Asian American history and culture? Transpacific Articulations explores these questions in the crossings of Asian culture and American history. Beginning with the story of Yung Wing, the book is organized chronologically to show the transpacific character of Asian student migration. The author examines Chinese students’ writings in English and Chinese, maintaining that so-called “overseas student literature” represents both an imaginary passage to modernity and a transnational culture where meanings of Asian America are rearticulated through Chinese. He also demonstrates that Chinese student political activities in the U.S. in the late 1960s and 1970s—namely, the Baodiao movement that protested Japan’s takeover of the Diaoyutai Islands and the Taiwan independence movement—have important but less examined intersections with Asian America. In addition, the work offers a reflection on the development of Asian American studies in Asia to suggest the continuing significance of knowledge and movement in the formation of Asian America. Transpacific Articulations provides a doubly engaged perspective formed in the nexus of Asian and American histories by taking the foreign student figure seriously. It will not only speak to scholars of Asian American studies, Asian studies, and transnational cultural studies, but also to general readers who are interested in issues of modernity, diaspora, identity, and cultural politics in China and Taiwan.

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University of Hawaii Press

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0824839161

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Better City, Better Life

By: Lin Chau Ming,Wenhua Wang,Renata Cardoso Magagnin

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Better City, Better Life

By: Lin Chau Ming,Wenhua Wang,Renata Cardoso Magagnin

The book Better City, Better Life brings together papers from different disciplines of researchers who have in common the theme Sustainability. This book is intended to reflect on current planning strategies and growth of cities, from the perspective of sustainable development. These reflections approach the spatial, economic, political, social, cultural and environmental model. This book is divided into the following themes: "sustainable cities", "environmental sustainability" and "social and economic aspects of sustainability". Better City, Better Life is directed to researchers, graduate students and professionals in the fields related to Architecture and Urban Planning, Urban and Regional Planning, Engineering, Biology, Ecology, and related fields. It is expected that the presented research can contribute to the training of these professionals.

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8579839084

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Has Man a Future?

Dialogues with the Last Confucian

By: Shu Ming Liang,Guy S. Alitto

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Has Man a Future?

Dialogues with the Last Confucian

By: Shu Ming Liang,Guy S. Alitto

Liang Shu-ming (October 18, 1893 – June 23, 1988), was a legendary philosopher, teacher, and leader in the Rural Reconstruction Movement in the late Qing Dynasty and early Republican eras of Chinese history. Liang was also one of the early representatives of modern Neo-Confucianism. Guy S. Alitto, associate Professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations (EALC) at The University of Chicago, is author of, among other things, The Last Confucian: Liang Shu-ming and the Chinese Dilemma of Modernity, and is one of the most active and influential Sinologists in America. In 1980 and again in 1984, at Liang Shu-ming’s invitation, he conducted a series of interviews with Liang in Liang's Beijing home. This book of dialogues between the American sinologist and “The Last Confucian”, Liang Shu-ming, gives a chronological account of the conversations that took place in Beijing in 1980. In these conversations, they discussed the cultural characteristics of Confucianism, Buddhism, Daoism, and their representative figures, and reviewed the important activities of Mr. Liang’s life, along with Liang’s reflection on his contact with many famous people in the cultural and political realms – Li Dazhao, Chen Duxiu, Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, Chiang Kai-shek, Kang Youwei, Hu Shi, etc. Rich in content, these conversations serve as important reference material for understanding and studying Mr. Liang Shuming’s thoughts and activities as well as the social and historical events of modern China.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3642358160

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Urban Paleontology

Evolution of Urban Forms

By: Ming Tang,Dihua Yang

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Urban Paleontology

Evolution of Urban Forms

By: Ming Tang,Dihua Yang

More than ten years ago, when I first read Mario Gandelsonas book The Urban Context, the beautiful abstract diagrams that the book presented -the street network of Chicago- fascinated me with the profound historical and cultural background that they suggested. Without knowing how this would direct me, I started to draw something related with the street network of Beijing. That is the beginning of this book. Among tons of the diagrams that I have created, most of them have not been incorporated into this book, while they have directed me into this fascinating research area which focuses on the "mineralized skeleton," rather than the "soft tissue" of urban forms. It was not until the recent five years when Yang and I came across some theories and approaches in paleontology that we started to integrate them into the street network study in Beijing and Savannah. Paleontology methods lay the foundation and provide a systematic and scientific platform for our research. Then urban paleontology, as a new framework for urban form study, unfolds itself more and more apparently in front of us. It explores the evolution of "urban species" based on their remains- "urban fossils," which describe distinct urban forms with imprints of their street networks. Just as how a biological fossil serves as a factual documentation of certain life forms, an urban fossil provides clues of the existence and transformation of urban forms. The study of urban paleontology inevitably directs us to further exploration in the fields of biology, anatomy, archeology, geology, and the application of computer aided design in the excavation of urban sites. Upon finishing this book, we realize that our work is too inadequate to possibly incorporate all the influence that other disciplines may have on architecture and urban design. What it has suggested is that architecture presents such a wide array of connections with other disciplines and becomes more and more towards an interdisciplinary study. We hope this book has illustrated the diversity of problems that invite further study and can serve as a start point for architects to conceive the total spectrum. -Ming Tang

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1599429497

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The Statistical System of Communist China

By: Choh-Ming Li

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The Statistical System of Communist China

By: Choh-Ming Li

One of the most baffling problems in contemporary Chinese economic studies concerns the validity of official statistics. In the continuing discussion of claims and counter-claims, appeals to common sense are unconvincing. Because of the pressing need for substantial evidence on which to base a judgment, the present inquiry is an important contribution to the literature on Communist China. The book provides a quizzical but objective look at the statistical system of the country, and attempts to appraise the quality of official statistics by analyzing the development and inner working of the sytem. Its approach is broadly historical, beginning with the pre-Communist period (before 1949) and dividing the next dozen years into phases: the foundation of the state statistical system (1952 - 57), the period of decentralization (1958 - 59), and subsequent efforts at reorganization. Li's study of the development of a national statistical system in China is particularly instructive in delineating both the obstacles to such development that may be expected in a densely populated, largely agricultural country and the measure that have been adopted to overcome them. Therefore his hard-headed conclusions concerning the Chinese experience should be of lively intrest in those underdeveloped countries that are now planning or executing development programs. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1962.

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0520357329

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Devil Sovereign Gets Married

Volume 1

By: Cang Ming

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Devil Sovereign Gets Married

Volume 1

By: Cang Ming

Yin Xu was the most talented demonic cultivator in history. Once he failed his tribulation and became a mortal, he was still a reputed good-for-nothing. But so what if he was born useless? I'm cultivating a demonic art! So what if he couldn't ascend? I am still above everyone else. Under this man ... Yin Xu said, "Next time, I want to be up there!" Teng Yong replied, "Sure, if you don't want to pick the sun to replenish your yin energy." Yin Xu said, "Then forget it, my demonic arts are more important.

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1649350228

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9781649350220

Economic Development of Communist China

An Appraisal of the First Five Years of Industrialization

By: Choh-Ming Li

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Economic Development of Communist China

An Appraisal of the First Five Years of Industrialization

By: Choh-Ming Li

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1959.

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0520346408

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9780520346406

From the Mongols to the Ming Dynasty

How a Begging Monk Became Emperor of China, Zhu Yuan Zhang

By: Hing Ming Hung

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From the Mongols to the Ming Dynasty

How a Begging Monk Became Emperor of China, Zhu Yuan Zhang

By: Hing Ming Hung

A beggar, an itinerant monk, leapt to greatness during a tumultuous epoch and went on to found the Ming Dynasty of China (1368--1644). As a destitute peasant with nothing to lose, he started a local rebellion; success built on success. Defeating local warlords, Zhu Yuan Zhang conquered all the southern part of China, then sent his army north and took the rest. By unifying many Chinese lands, he brought peace and prosperity after a long period of tumult. He is honored with the temple name of Ming Taizu, Grand Ancestor of Ming.

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Algora Publishing

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1628941529

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9781628941524

Software Reading Techniques

Twenty Techniques for More Effective Software Review and Inspection

By: Yang‐Ming Zhu

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Software Reading Techniques

Twenty Techniques for More Effective Software Review and Inspection

By: Yang‐Ming Zhu

Learn twenty software reading techniques to enhance your effectiveness in reviewing and inspecting software artifacts such as requirements specifications, designs, code files, and usability. Software review and inspection is the best practice in software development that detects and fixes problems early. Software professionals are trained to write software but not read and analyze software written by peers. As a result, individual reading skills vary widely. Because the effectiveness of software review and inspection is highly dependent on individual reading skills, differential outcomes among software readers vary by a factor of ten. Software Reading Techniques is designed to close that gap. Dr Yang‐Ming Zhu’s depth of experience as a software architect, team leader, and scientist make him singularly well-equipped to bring you up to speed on all the techniques and tips for optimizing the effectiveness and efficiency of your software review and inspection skills. What You'll Learn: Improve software review, inspection procedures, and reading skills Study traditional and modern advanced reading techniques applicable to software artifacts Master specific reading techniques for software requirements specification, software design, and code Who This Book Is For: Software professionals and software engineering students and researchers

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1484223462

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Low-Dimensional Materials

Bridging the Fundamental Principles to Practical Applications

By: Hui-Ming Cheng,Dai-Ming Tang,Xiaolong Zou,Lili Zhang

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Low-Dimensional Materials

Bridging the Fundamental Principles to Practical Applications

By: Hui-Ming Cheng,Dai-Ming Tang,Xiaolong Zou,Lili Zhang

Low Dimensional Materials: Bridging the Fundamental Principles to Practice Applications provides an overview of research on low-dimensional materials, devices, and their applications. There are seven chapters in the book, starting from the basic quantum theory in chapter one, to the control and characterization of the unique structures (chapters two and four), to the relation of the physical and chemical properties with structures (chapter five), and to the practical and promising applications in energy, information, and health (chapter six), before conclusions and future outlook in chapter seven. - Discusses the whole field of low-dimensional materials, from quantum mechanics and low dimensional effects to structure-property relations, various methods of fabrication and assembly techniques, and a characterization of atomic and interface structures - Covers a wide range of topics, making it a 'map' for readers to understand the fundamentals of low-dimensional materials - Written with a 'bottom-up approach, with a solid foundation of quantum mechanics, thermodynamics, and energy transport in low-dimensional systems

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Elsevier

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0443290474

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9780443290473

Chinese Christianity

An Interplay between Global and Local Perspectives

By: Peter Tze Ming Ng

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Chinese Christianity

An Interplay between Global and Local Perspectives

By: Peter Tze Ming Ng

This volume attempts to review the historical development of Chinese Christianity from a “global-local” or “glocalization” perspective. It includes chapters on the Boxer Movement, Chinese indigenous movements, and Christian higher education and also contains seven biographical chapters. The author expounds upon the interplay of “universal” and “particular” aspects as well as the global and local forces which shaped the characteristics of Chinese Christianity in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. This work focused on China could have wider implications for modern scholarship, both in the fields of comparative history of education and modern Chinese church history, for those scholars who are exploring the dialogical interplay between global and local Christianities.

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BRILL

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9004225757

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9789004225756

Evidence-based Clinical Chinese Medicine - Volume 14: Unipolar Depression

By: Yuan Ming Di,Lingling Yang

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Evidence-based Clinical Chinese Medicine - Volume 14: Unipolar Depression

By: Yuan Ming Di,Lingling Yang

This book is the fourteenth volume in the Evidence-based Clinical Chinese Medicine series and is essential for Chinese medicine practitioners interested in treating unipolar depression using Chinese medicine. It uses a 'whole evidence' approach and provides an in-depth analysis of Chinese medicine treatments for depression, including a summary of Chinese medicine treatments used in classical Chinese medicine literature, as well as treatments that have been tested in clinical trials.High-quality and rigorous scientific methodology is used to evaluate the clinical trial literature of Chinese medicine treatments for unipolar depression, treatment modalities including Chinese herbal medicine, acupuncture and other Chinese medicine therapies. The findings are analyzed and potential implications for clinical practice and research are explored.Chinese medicine practitioners and students who want to keep up to date with the latest research to support and incorporate into their clinical practice, this book is ideal.The different modalities of treatment for unipolar depression covered in this book includes herbal medicine, acupuncture and combination of these therapies. Treatment effects for depression are described in change in depression severity, change in quality of life and relapse rate. Further, herbal formulae, herb ingredients and acupuncture points are analyzed and discussed in relation to treatment. Findings from this book can provide guidance for Chinese medicine practitioners when treating depression.

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World Scientific

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981120599X

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9789811205996

The Minnesota Code Manual of Electrocardiographic Findings

By: Ronald J. Prineas,Richard S. Crow,Zhu-ming Zhang

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The Minnesota Code Manual of Electrocardiographic Findings

By: Ronald J. Prineas,Richard S. Crow,Zhu-ming Zhang

The manual is suitable for training electrocardio- without digital recording and that are accompanied graphers and technicians and can be accompanied by other uniquely rich data. Despite my expectations by sets of training ECGs already coded by trainers. during the 1960s that such archives would cease to It is our expectation that the manual will serve as a be used after the introduction of digital recording, reference, guide, and training source for those con- the tide of such treasures has hardly ebbed. ducting studies that require objective evidence of The changes included in this edition arise from cardiac disease, both prevalent and incident, by non- more than a quarter of a century of directing central invasive, highly standardized, inexpensive record- ECG reading and research centers and collectively ing of the electrocardiogram. In our own ECG Read- 60+ large and small epidemiologic studies and m- ing Center, this has included epidemiologic studies ticenter national and international clinical trials. The among healthy populations, diabetics, psychiatric changes include the description of a new measuring patients, pregnant women, cohorts of patients with loupe in Chap. 3, developed over the past decade, to clinical heart disease, populations exposed to envi- better serve a more ef? cient and a more extensive ronmental contaminants such as arsenic, populations span for measurement of relevant durations, voltages, exposed to Chagas disease, and in clinical trials of and deviations from the isoelectric line. In Chap.

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1848827784

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9781848827783

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