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The West As the Other

A Genealogy of Chinese Occidentalism

By: Wang Mingming

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The West As the Other

A Genealogy of Chinese Occidentalism

By: Wang Mingming

Long before the Europeans reached the East, the ancient Chinese had elaborate and meaningful perspectives of the West. In this groundbreaking book, Wang explores their view of the West as other by locating it in the classical and imperial China, leading the reader through the history of Chinese geocosmologies and worldscapes. Wang also delves into the historical records of Chinese "world activities", journeys that began from the Central Kingdom and reached towards the "outer regions". Such analysis helps distinguish illusory geographies from realistic ones, while drawing attention to their interconnected natures. Wang challenges an extensive number of critical studies of Orientalist narratives (including Edward Said’s Orientalism), and reframes such studies from the directionological perspectives of an "iental" civilization. Most significantly, the author offers a fundamental reimagining of the standard concept of the other, with critical implications not only for anthropology, but for philosophy, literature, history, and other interrelated disciplines as well.

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The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press

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9629964899

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9789629964894

Nonlinear Modeling Analysis and Predistortion Algorithm Research of Radio Frequency Power Amplifiers

By: Jingchang Nan,Mingming Gao

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Nonlinear Modeling Analysis and Predistortion Algorithm Research of Radio Frequency Power Amplifiers

By: Jingchang Nan,Mingming Gao

This book is a summary of a series of achievements made by the authors and colleagues in the areas of radio frequency power amplifier modeling (including neural Volterra series modeling, neural network modeling, X-parameter modeling), nonlinear analysis methods, and power amplifier predistortion technology over the past 10 years. The book is organized into ten chapters, which respectively describe an overview of research of power amplifier behavioral models and predistortion technology, nonlinear characteristics of power amplifiers, power amplifier behavioral models and the basis of nonlinear analysis, an overview of power amplifier predistortion, Volterra series modeling of power amplifiers, power amplifier modeling based on neural networks, power amplifier modeling with X-parameters, the modeling of other power amplifiers, nonlinear circuit analysis methods, and predistortion algorithms and applications. Blending theory with analysis, this book will provide researchers and RF/microwave engineering students with a valuable resource.

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379

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CRC Press

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1000409589

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9781000409581

Experimental Study of the Structure and Dynamics of Cavitating Flows

By: Guangjian Zhang,Mingming Ge,Olivier Coutier-Delgosha,Desheng Zhang,Chuan Wang

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Experimental Study of the Structure and Dynamics of Cavitating Flows

By: Guangjian Zhang,Mingming Ge,Olivier Coutier-Delgosha,Desheng Zhang,Chuan Wang

Cavitation refers to a distinctive occurrence within liquid flows where there is a phase change process involving the rapid transformation of liquid into vapour in regions of low pressure, followed by collapsing or implosion when pressure rises again. The study of cavitation dates back to the late 19th century. While the term “cavitation” was originally coined by R. E. Froude and first documented by Barnaby and Thornycroft in 1895, the concept had been speculated upon much earlier by L. Euler in his 1754 theory on water turbines. However, the phenomenon of cavitation was initially observed and examined by Barnaby and Parsons in 1893. They identified that the formation of vapour bubbles on propeller blades had led to the failure of the sea trial of the British high-speed warship HMS Daring in 1885. In 1895, Parsons established the first water tunnel dedicated to cavitation research, revealing the connection between cavitation and propeller damage. The theoretical groundwork for cavitation research was laid by Rayleigh in 1917, as he successfully addressed the collapse of an empty cavity within a substantial liquid mass. Since then, numerous research work has been published on cavitating flow.

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Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. USA

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1649977328

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9781649977328

Empire and Local Worlds

A Chinese Model for Long-Term Historical Anthropology

By: Mingming Wang

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Empire and Local Worlds

A Chinese Model for Long-Term Historical Anthropology

By: Mingming Wang

Mingming Wang, one of the most prolific anthropologists in China, has produced a work both of long-term historical anthropology and of broad social theory. In it, he traces almost a millennium of history of the southern Chinese city of Quangzhou, a major international trading entrepot in the 13th century that declined to a peripheral regional center by the end of the 19th century. But the historical trajectory understates the complex set of interrelationships between local structures and imperial agendas that played out over the course of centuries and dynasties. Using urban structure, documentary analysis, and archaeological artifacts, Wang shows how the study of Quangzhou represents a Chinese template for civilizational studies, one distinctly different from Eurocentric models propounded by such theorists as Sahlins, Wolf, and Elias.

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355

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Routledge

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1315429713

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9781315429717

Grassroots Charisma

Four Local Leaders in China

By: Stephan Feuchtwang,Wang Mingming

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Four Local Leaders in China

By: Stephan Feuchtwang,Wang Mingming

This book relates the stories of four leaders under very different political regimes: Colonial, Nationalist and Communist. The authors compare Chinese notions of respect and inspiration with their equivalents in other religious and political histories of colonial and post-colonial modernity, thereby producing a thorough re-working of the idea of charisma. The result is an intriguing study of the relationship between religious and political authority in a changing world.

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Routledge

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1136372164

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9781136372162

Advanced Optimal Control and Applications Involving Critic Intelligence

By: Ding Wang,Mingming Ha,Mingming Zhao

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Advanced Optimal Control and Applications Involving Critic Intelligence

By: Ding Wang,Mingming Ha,Mingming Zhao

This book intends to report new optimal control results with critic intelligence for complex discrete-time systems, which covers the novel control theory, advanced control methods, and typical applications for wastewater treatment systems. Therein, combining with artificial intelligence techniques, such as neural networks and reinforcement learning, the novel intelligent critic control theory as well as a series of advanced optimal regulation and trajectory tracking strategies are established for discrete-time nonlinear systems, followed by application verifications to complex wastewater treatment processes. Consequently, developing such kind of critic intelligence approaches is of great significance for nonlinear optimization and wastewater recycling. The book is likely to be of interest to researchers and practitioners as well as graduate students in automation, computer science, and process industry who wish to learn core principles, methods, algorithms, and applications in the field of intelligent optimal control. It is beneficial to promote the development of intelligent optimal control approaches and the construction of high-level intelligent systems.

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Springer Nature

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9811972915

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9789811972911

Goal Frustration in Academic Achievement Settings

Theories and Applications

By: Mingming Zhou

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Goal Frustration in Academic Achievement Settings

Theories and Applications

By: Mingming Zhou

This book provides in-depth description, explanation, and discussion of goal frustration. It brings together a repertoire of perspectives and strategies that educators and scholars from diverse educational contexts have conceptualized and/or implemented in order to monitor, control, or overcome the occurrence of frustration. This book describes the new technologies can be applied in the conceptualization and operationalization of goal frustration. It also discusses the strategies and pedagogies we can use to cope with this emotion. This book offers evidence-based reports of goal frustration as well as data-driven approaches by presenting both theoretical account and empirical evidence that are grounded in educational and psychological research. This work will appeal to a wider readership from practitioners, parents, to educational researchers.

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Springer Nature

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9811974772

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9789811974779

Iron Ores Bioprocessing

By: Mingming Zhang

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Iron Ores Bioprocessing

By: Mingming Zhang

This book describes leading research in bioengineering for development of novel technologies for ferrous metal extraction. The author includes new developments in molecular biology, biochemistry, microbiology, cell metabolism, and engineering principles and applies them to the conventional iron ore industry - proposing innovative solutions to various industry challenges. The book focuses on applied approaches and describes emerging and established industrial processes, as well as the underlying theory of the process, and the biology of the microorganisms involved. Elaborates on bioprocessing technologies applicable for extraction of ferrous metals using cross-pollination of microbiology and extractive metallurgy; Presents a systematic overview of bioprocessing technologies encompassing laboratory research, pilot scale studies, and industrial process flowsheet design; Provides comprehensive coverage of the engineering principles behind bioprocesses of iron ores including material and energy balances, transport processes, reactions and reactor engineering.

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180

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Springer Nature

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3031101022

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Varieties of Alternatives

Focus Particles and wh-Expressions in Mandarin

By: Mingming Liu

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Varieties of Alternatives

Focus Particles and wh-Expressions in Mandarin

By: Mingming Liu

This book concerns two focus particles (jiu, dou) and wh-expressions (shenme = ‘what’, na geren = ‘which person’) in Mandarin Chinese. These items are systematically ‘ambiguous’ and have played important roles in various aspects of Mandarin grammar. An idea based on alternatives and varieties of alternatives in particular – following Chierchia’s 2013 analysis of the polarity system – is pursued to account for the systematic ambiguities. The unambiguous semantics of jiu, dou and wh-expressions are maintained and ‘ambiguity’ explained through varieties of alternatives interacting with other independently motivated aspects of the structure they occur in. By examining these aspects in detail, the book will help readers gain a better understanding of a broad range of phenomena that involve these items – including exhaustivity, distributivity, questions and conditionals.

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9811062080

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9789811062087

Empire and Local Worlds

A Chinese Model for Long-Term Historical Anthropology

By: Mingming Wang

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A Chinese Model for Long-Term Historical Anthropology

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Advanced Optimal Control and Applications Involving Critic Intelligence

By: Ding Wang,Mingming Ha,Mingming Zhao

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Advanced Optimal Control and Applications Involving Critic Intelligence

By: Ding Wang,Mingming Ha,Mingming Zhao

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Grassroots Charisma

Four Local Leaders in China

By: Stephan Feuchtwang,Mingming Wang

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Four Local Leaders in China

By: Stephan Feuchtwang,Mingming Wang

This book relates the stories of four leaders under very different political regimes: colonial, Nationalist and Communist. The result is an insight into the relationship between religious and political authority in a changing world.

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Psychology Press

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0415244188

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The West As the Other

The West As the Other

Nonlinear Modeling Analysis and Predistortion Algorithm Research of Radio Frequency Power Amplifiers

Nonlinear Modeling Analysis and Predistortion Algorithm Research of Radio Frequency Power Amplifiers

Experimental Study of the Structure and Dynamics of Cavitating Flows

Experimental Study of the Structure and Dynamics of Cavitating Flows

Empire and Local Worlds

Empire and Local Worlds

Grassroots Charisma

Grassroots Charisma

Advanced Optimal Control and Applications Involving Critic Intelligence

Advanced Optimal Control and Applications Involving Critic Intelligence

Goal Frustration in Academic Achievement Settings

Goal Frustration in Academic Achievement Settings

Iron Ores Bioprocessing

Iron Ores Bioprocessing

Varieties of Alternatives

Varieties of Alternatives

Empire and Local Worlds

Empire and Local Worlds

Advanced Optimal Control and Applications Involving Critic Intelligence

Advanced Optimal Control and Applications Involving Critic Intelligence

Grassroots Charisma

Grassroots Charisma

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