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Interpreting China's Military Power

Doctrine Makes Readiness

By: Ka Po Ng

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Interpreting China's Military Power

Doctrine Makes Readiness

By: Ka Po Ng

Although inter-state tensions have generally been easing after the Cold War, military power remains a dominant factor in Asian regional politics. As China, operating the world's largest army, grows stronger, there are ongoing debates over the implications for Asia's regional security. This book argues that it is imperative to look beyond the empirical observations and conventional materialist reading of Chinese military development to understand its dynamics and directions in doctrinal terms and put it in a readiness context for evaluation. Military doctrine has long been under-studied and is often treated as a subject separate from force development. But, as this study contends, this factor is necessary for interpreting the making and purposes of China's military power because it forms the intellectual foundation of military structural and hardware development. When loaded with political rhetoric, it also communicates to us the intended uses of the military power. The role of doctrine is reinforced in the context of military readiness, which defines what for and how the army is getting ready. Force development is evaluated in structural, operational and directional terms. The importance of this analytical framework based on military doctrine and readiness is demonstrated in a survey of the evolutionof Chinese military doctrine and force development. As the Chinese People's Liberation Army has continued to adjust its military structure and operation to follow the doctrinal lead, its switches between the doctines of local war and total war have seen corresponding changes to the emphasis between operational and structural readiness.

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Routledge

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1135769249

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Bright Moon, White Clouds

Selected Poems of Li Po

By: Li Po

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Bright Moon, White Clouds

Selected Poems of Li Po

By: Li Po

Li Po (701-762) is considered one of the greatest poets to live during the Tang dynasty—what was considered to be the golden age for Chinese poetry. He was also the first Chinese poet to become well known in the West, and he greatly influenced many American poets during the twentieth century. Calling himself the "God of Wine" and known to his patrons as a "fallen immortal," Li Po wrote with eloquence, vividness, and often playfulness, as he extols the joys of nature, wine, and the life of a wandering recluse. Li Po had a strong social conscience, and he struggled against the hard times of his age. He was inspired by the newly blossoming Zen Buddhism and merged it with the Taoism that he had studied all his life. Though Li Po's love of wine is legendary, the translator, J. P. Seaton, includes poems on a wide range of topics—friendship and love, political criticism, poems written to curry patronage, poems of the spirit—to offer a new interpretation of this giant of Chinese poetry. Seaton offers us a poet who learned hard lessons from a life lived hard and offered his readers these lessons as vivid, lively poetry—as relevant today as it was during the Tang dynasty. Over one thousand poems have been attributed to Li Po, many of them unpublished. This new collection includes poems not available in any other editions.

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Shambhala Publications

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0834827786

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9780834827783

Basic Chinese

A Grammar and Workbook

By: Po-ching Yip,Don Rimmington

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Basic Chinese

A Grammar and Workbook

By: Po-ching Yip,Don Rimmington

First Published in 2009. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Taylor & Francis

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0415472164

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Chinese: A Comprehensive Grammar

By: Yip Po-Ching,Don Rimmington

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Chinese: A Comprehensive Grammar

By: Yip Po-Ching,Don Rimmington

Chinese: A Comprehensive Grammar is a complete reference guide to Chinese grammar which presents a fresh and accessible description of the language, concentrating on the real patterns of use in modern Chinese. The volume is organized to promote a thorough understanding of Chinese grammar. It offers a stimulating analysis of the complexities of the language and provides full and clear explanations. Throughout, the emphasis is on Chinese as used by present-day native speakers. An extensive index and numbered paragraphs provide readers with easy access to the information they require. The new edition features a revised and expanded chapter on prosody (Prosody and Syntax), as well as four completely new chapters: • Morphology and Syntax (I) looks at Chinese word formation • Morphology and Syntax (II) explores the interaction between words, expressions and sentences • Intralingual Transpositions reviews the possible conversions between sentential constructions • Interlingual Conversions examines the differences between Chinese and English. The Grammar is an essential reference source for the adult learner and user of Chinese. It is ideal for independent study and for use in schools, colleges, universities and adult classes, up to an advanced level.

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1317556453

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The Constitutional System of the Hong Kong SAR

A Contextual Analysis

By: Albert H Y Chen,Po Jen Yap

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The Constitutional System of the Hong Kong SAR

A Contextual Analysis

By: Albert H Y Chen,Po Jen Yap

This book provides an account of the evolving constitutional arrangement known as One Country, Two Systems, as practised in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (PRC). The British colony of Hong Kong, one of the Four Little Dragons of East Asia, reverted to Chinese rule in 1997. Since then, Hong Kong has continued to be an international financial centre, a free market, and a cosmopolitan city. At the same time, the tensions and contradictions inherent in One Country, Two Systems have given rise to constitutional controversies and social movements, culminating in the Umbrella movement of 2014, the anti-extradition law movement of 2019, the enactment of a National Security Law in 2020, and the electoral overhaul of 2021. This book discusses the structure and operations of Hong Kong's legal, judicial and political systems and their interactions with the national authorities of the PRC. The book provides a useful case study in comparative constitutional law, especially on autonomy and devolution issues within sovereign States. This comparative study is particularly interesting because Hong Kong is a common law jurisdiction within the PRC's socialist legal system. It will therefore be of interest to students and scholars of Chinese law, Hong Kong law and comparative politics, as well as lawyers whose practice involves Hong Kong.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1509956301

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Dressings for Advanced Wound Care

By: Sharon Lam Po Tang

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Dressings for Advanced Wound Care

By: Sharon Lam Po Tang

Dressings for Advanced Wound Care focuses on helping the reader better understand advanced wound care and relevant technologies. It explains how different types of wounds may require different environments to heal and how dressings can help in creating the right environment. It gives an overview of the various dressing technologies that are available to help manage wounds that are difficult to heal. Finally, this book highlights the current trends that may be directing the future of the advanced wound dressing sector. FEATURES: Relates technologies with commercially available end-products, giving the reader a more specific overview of the advanced wound dressing sector Provides a realistic overview of the process of developing an advanced wound care dressing Summarises recent clinical evidence on advanced wound dressings Explains how dressings differ and what works best for which wound type Examines clinical evidence on technologies and on-market products Describes the requirements for launching a new advanced wound dressing This book is aimed at medical clinicians and professionals in the fields of biomedical engineering, textile science, and materials engineering.

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CRC Press

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0429523610

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Tea Production, Land Use Politics, and Ethnic Minorities

Struggling over Dilemmas in China's Southwest Frontier

By: Po-Yi Hung

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Tea Production, Land Use Politics, and Ethnic Minorities

Struggling over Dilemmas in China's Southwest Frontier

By: Po-Yi Hung

In this book, Po-Yi Hung uses tea production as a lens to investigate the tension between nature and society under the market economy in frontier China. By focusing on the landscape of the 'ancient tea forest' (guchalin), this book aims to understand the interactions among tea trees, entrepreneurs, the state, and the Bulang, an ethnic minority population. Intensive ethnographic research conducted by the author examines local Bulang villagers' everyday lives as entrepreneurs in the market economy at a time of changing moralities and cultural renovations. The author explores the dilemmas that arise in this unique region between tradition and modernity, territorial margin and connected space, and nature and development.

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1137494085

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Poems

By: Li Po,Tu Fu

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Poems

By: Li Po,Tu Fu

Li Po (AD 701-62) and Tu Fu (AD 712-70) were devoted friends who are traditionally considered to be among China's greatest poets. Li Po, a legendary carouser, was an itinerant poet whose writing, often dream poems or spirit-journeys, soars to sublime heights in its descriptions of natural scenes and powerful emotions. His sheer escapism and joy is balanced by Tu Fu, who expresses the Confucian virtues of humanity and humility in more autobiographical works that are imbued with great compassion and earthy reality, and shot through with humour. Together these two poets of the T'ang dynasty complement each other so well that they often came to be spoken of as one - 'Li-Tu' - who covers the whole spectrum of human life, experience and feeling.

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0141915250

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9780141915258

Linked Data Visualization

Techniques, Tools, and Big Data

By: Laura Po,Nikos Bikakis,Federico Desimoni,George Papastefanatos

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Linked Data Visualization

Techniques, Tools, and Big Data

By: Laura Po,Nikos Bikakis,Federico Desimoni,George Papastefanatos

Linked Data (LD) is a well-established standard for publishing and managing structured information on the Web, gathering and bridging together knowledge from different scientific and commercial domains. The development of Linked Data Visualization techniques and tools has been followed as the primary means for the analysis of this vast amount of information by data scientists, domain experts, business users, and citizens. This book covers a wide spectrum of visualization issues, providing an overview of the recent advances in this area, focusing on techniques, tools, and use cases of visualization and visual analysis of LD. It presents the basic concepts related to data visualization and the LD technologies, the techniques employed for data visualization based on the characteristics of data techniques for Big Data visualization, use tools and use cases in the LD context, and finally a thorough assessment of the usability of these tools under different scenarios. The purpose of this book is to offer a complete guide to the evolution of LD visualization for interested readers from any background and to empower them to get started with the visual analysis of such data. This book can serve as a course textbook or a primer for all those interested in LD and data visualization.

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Springer Nature

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3031794907

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9783031794902

The Renin-Angiotensin System: Current Research Progress in The Pancreas

The RAS in the Pancreas

By: Po Sing Leung

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The Renin-Angiotensin System: Current Research Progress in The Pancreas

The RAS in the Pancreas

By: Po Sing Leung

Highlighting the role local renin-angiotensin systems (RAS) play in pancreatic disease, this review presents the latest research advances in the field. These findings suggest both preventative measures and treatment for pancreatic disease.

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9048190606

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Diverse Quantization Phenomena in Layered Materials

By: Chiun-Yan Lin,Ching-Hong Ho,Jhao-Ying Wu,Thi-Nga Do,Po-Hsin Shih,Shih-Yang Lin,Ming-Fa Lin

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Diverse Quantization Phenomena in Layered Materials

By: Chiun-Yan Lin,Ching-Hong Ho,Jhao-Ying Wu,Thi-Nga Do,Po-Hsin Shih,Shih-Yang Lin,Ming-Fa Lin

This monograph offers a comprehensive overview of diverse quantization phenomena in layered materials, covering current mainstream experimental and theoretical research studies, and presenting essential properties of layered materials along with a wealth of figures. This book illustrates commonly used synthesis methods of these 2D materials and compares the calculated results and experimental measurements, including novel features not yet reported. The book also discusses experimental measurements of magnetic quantization, theoretical modeling for studying systems and covers diversified magneto-electronic properties, magneto-optical selection rules, unusual quantum Hall conductivities, and single- and many-particle magneto-Coulomb excitations. Rich and unique behaviors are clearly revealed in few-layer graphene systems with distinct stacking configuration, stacking-modulated structures, silicon-doped lattices, bilayer silicene/germanene systems with the bottom-top and bottom-bottom buckling structures, monolayer and bilayer phosphorene systems, and quantum topological insulators. The generalized tight-binding model, the static and dynamic Kubo formulas, and the random-phase approximation are developed/modified to thoroughly explore the fundamental properties and propose the concise physical pictures. Different high-resolution experimental measurements are discussed in detail, and they are consistent with the theoretical predictions. Aimed at readers working in materials science, physics, and engineering this book should be useful for potential applications in energy storage, electronic devices, and optoelectronic devices.

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CRC Press

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1000760650

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9781000760651

The Chinese Lexicon

A Comprehensive Survey

By: Yip Po-Ching

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The Chinese Lexicon

A Comprehensive Survey

By: Yip Po-Ching

The Chinese Lexicon is a detailed study of the words and word combinations used in modern Chinese. Yip Po-Ching defines the general properties of a language's lexicon, or vocabulary, prior to a thorough discussion of the organizational features of the Chinese lexicon. Comparisons are made between Chinese and English, highlighting the similarities and differences between the two lexicons. This fascinating work examines the relationships between word and meanings, and demonstrates the ability of language to combine continuity and change. It surpasses the scope of a dictionary and reveals the systematic nature of vocabulary. Features include: a wealth of language examples clear comparisons between Chinese and English Chinese characters and pinyin romanization throughout a comprehensive index. The Chinese Lexicon surpasses the scope of a dictionary and reveals the systematic nature of vocabulary. It will prove an invaluable resource for all students and teachers of Chinese.

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Routledge

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1136928839

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9781136928833

Focus Manifestation in Mandarin Chinese and Cantonese

A Comparative Perspective

By: Peppina Po-lun Lee

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Focus Manifestation in Mandarin Chinese and Cantonese

A Comparative Perspective

By: Peppina Po-lun Lee

One prominent function of natural language is to convey information. One peculiarity is that it does not do so randomly, but in a structured way, with information structuring formally recognized to be a component of grammar. Among all information structuring notions, focus is one primitive needed to account for all phenomena. Focus Manifestation in Mandarin Chinese and Cantonese: A Comparative Perspective aims to examine from a semantic perspective how syntactic structures and focus adverbs in Mandarin Chinese and semantic particles in Cantonese conspire to encode focus structures and determine focus manifestation in Chinese. With both as tonal languages, Mandarin Chinese and Cantonese manifest different morpho-syntactic configurations to mark focus. A general principle governing focus marking in Mandarin Chinese and Cantonese is given in the book, which aims to give a better understanding on the underlying principles the two used to mark additive and restrictive meanings, and related focus interpretations. Particular attention is also drawn to the co-occurrence of multiple forms of restrictive and additive particles in Cantonese, including adverbs, verbal suffixes and sentence-final particles. Linearity has shown to be an important parameter to determine how focus is structured in Cantonese. This book is aimed at advanced graduate students, researchers and scholars working on Chinese linguistics, syntax and semantics, and comparative dialectal grammar.

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1351339664

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The Blue Frontier

Maritime Vision and Power in the Qing Empire

By: Ronald C. Po

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The Blue Frontier

Maritime Vision and Power in the Qing Empire

By: Ronald C. Po

In this revisionist history of the eighteenth-century Qing Empire from a maritime perspective, Ronald C. Po argues that it is reductive to view China over this period exclusively as a continental power with little interest in the sea. With a coastline of almost 14,500 kilometers, the Qing was not a landlocked state. Although it came to be known as an inward-looking empire, Po suggests that the Qing was integrated into the maritime world through its naval development and customs institutionalization. In contrast to our orthodox perception, the Manchu court, in fact, deliberately engaged with the ocean politically, militarily, and even conceptually. The Blue Frontier offers a much broader picture of the Qing as an Asian giant responding flexibly to challenges and extensive interaction on all frontiers - both land and sea - in the long eighteenth century.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108594174

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9781108594172

Top Dog

The Science of Winning and Losing

By: Po Bronson,Ashley Merryman

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Top Dog

The Science of Winning and Losing

By: Po Bronson,Ashley Merryman

New York Times Bestseller Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman's work changes the national dialogue. Beyond their bestselling books, you know them from commentary and features in the New York Times, CNN, NPR, Time, Newsweek, Wired, New York, and more. E-mail, Facebook, and Twitter accounts are filled with demands to read their reporting (such as "How Not to Talk to Your Kids," "Creativity Crisis," and "Losing Is Good for You"). In Top Dog, Bronson and Merryman again use their astonishing blend of science and storytelling to reveal what's truly in the heart of a champion. The joy of victory and the character-building agony of defeat. Testosterone and the neuroscience of mistakes. Why rivals motivate. How home field advantage gets you a raise. What teamwork really requires. It's baseball, the SAT, sales contests, and Linux. How before da Vinci and FedEx were innovators, first, they were great competitors. Olympians carry Top Dog in their gym bags. It's in briefcases of Wall Street traders and Madison Avenue madmen. Risk takers from Silicon Valley to Vegas race to implement its ideas, as educators debate it in halls of academia. Now see for yourself what this game-changing talk is all about.

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Twelve

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1455515167

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9781455515165

Intermediate Chinese

A Grammar and Workbook

By: Po-Ching Yip,Don Rimmington

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Intermediate Chinese

A Grammar and Workbook

By: Po-Ching Yip,Don Rimmington

Intermediate Chinese is the ideal reference and practice book for students with some knowledge of the language. Each of the 25 units deals with a particular grammatical point and provides associated exercises. Features include: clear, accessible format many useful language examples jargon-free grammar explanations sample drills and exercises with full answer key All Chinese entries are presented in both pinyin romanisation and Chinese characters, and are accompanied, in most cases, by English translations to facilitate self-tuition in both the spoken and the written language. This new edition also includes a glossary of vocabulary and aglossary of grammatical terms. Intermediate Chinese reviews the principal elements presented in its sister volume, Basic Chinese, and introduces more complicated structures. The two books form a compendium of the essentials of Chinese grammar.

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Routledge

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113401130X

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9781134011308

An Introduction to Hmong Culture

By: Ya Po Cha

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An Introduction to Hmong Culture

By: Ya Po Cha

Presenting a holistic perspective of the Hmong way of life, this book touches on every aspect of the Hmong culture, including an overview of their history and traditions, relationships between Hmong parents and their children, the rites and traditions of Hmong wedding and funeral ceremonies, the celebration of the Hmong New Year, home restrictions and other superstitious taboos, arts and politics. The book features and explains many Hmong words, phrases and proverbs. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

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McFarland

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0786459883

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9780786459889

A Companion to the Early Modern Catholic Global Missions

By: Ronnie Po-Chia Hsia

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A Companion to the Early Modern Catholic Global Missions

By: Ronnie Po-Chia Hsia

A survey of the latest scholarship on Catholic missions between the 16th and 18th centuries, this collection of fourteen essays by historians from eight countries offers not only a global view of the organization, finances, personnel, and history of Catholic missions to the Americas, Africa, and Asia, but also the complex political, cultural, and religious contexts of the missionary fields. The conquests and colonization of the Americas presented a different stage for the drama of evangelization in contrast to that of Africa and Asia: the inhospitable landscape of Africa, the implacable Islamic societies of the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal empires, and the self-assured regimes of Ming-Qing China, Nguyen dynasty Vietnam, and Tokugawa Japan. Contributors are Tara Alberts, Mark Z. Christensen, Dominique Deslandres, R. Po-chia Hsia, Aliocha Maldavsky, Anne McGinness, Christoph Nebgen, Adina Ruiu, Alan Strathern, M. Antoni J. Üçerler, Fred Vermote, Guillermo Wilde, Christian Windler, and Ines Zupanov.

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BRILL

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9004355286

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9789004355286

Made by Taiwan

Booming in the Information Technology Era

By: Po-Lung Yu,Junyan Zhang

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Made by Taiwan

Booming in the Information Technology Era

By: Po-Lung Yu,Junyan Zhang

Many nations and states have tried to build successful technological industries, but failed. Taiwan is an exception. Indeed, it is the third-largest production center for integrated circuits and personal computers. How has Taiwan made it, and how to do business successfully with Taiwan? This book aims to provide answers to those questions and to share the successful experience of Taiwan with others. If Taiwan could make it, then other nations, by learning from its experiences and patterns of development, can also make it, or even excel Taiwan. The book presents historical and analytical views covering most aspects of Taiwan''s development patterns, including innovations of management and technology, production and business infrastructures, capital and human resources, education and government policies, and competitive characteristics of people and cultures. Contents: Overview: The Development of Taiwan''s IC Industry: An Overview (C-Y Chang & P-L Yu); Management Innovation: The Three Vs of Global Competitiveness (H-L Li & J-J Shuai); Employee Profit Sharing and Stock Ownership Attracts World-Class Employees (A-P Chen & S-W Wang); IC/PC Industries: The Integrated Circuit Industry: A Technological Powerhouse (C V Trappey & H Chen); IC Foundries: A Booming Industry (M-C Wu); Taiwan''s IC Packaging Industry: A Local Success Story Goes International (P-L Chang & C-T Tsai); The Notebook Niche (J-H Huang); Desktop PCs: A Project Management Revolution (C Yang); Technical and Capital Innovation: Competing in the Knowledge Game: Intellectual Property Rights (S-J Liu); Investment: The Life Blood of Growth (C-Y Hung); Education and Government Policy: The Industrial Park: Government''s Gift to Industrial Development (P-L Chang & C-W Hsu); Intellectual Capital in the Information Industry (G-H Tzeng & M-Y Lee); Culture and People: Five Life Experiences That Shape Taiwan''s Character (P-L Yu & C-Y ChiangLin). Readership: Students and researchers in economics and business management, as well as business leaders and economic planners.

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World Scientific

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9812799613

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Multiple-Criteria Decision Making

Concepts, Techniques, and Extensions

By: Po-Lung Yu

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Multiple-Criteria Decision Making

Concepts, Techniques, and Extensions

By: Po-Lung Yu

This book is an outgrowth of formal graduate courses in multiple-criteria decision making (MCDM) that the author has taught at the University of Rochester, University of Texas at Austin, and University of Kansas since 1972. The purpose is, on one hand, to offer the reader an integral and systematic view of various concepts and techniques in MCDM at an "introductory" level, and, on the other hand, to provide a basic conception of the human decision mechanism, which may improve our ability to apply the techniques we have learned and may broaden our llJ.ind for modeling human decision making. The book is written with a goal in mind that the reader should be able to assimilate and benefit from most of the concepts in the book if he has the mathematical maturity equivalent to a course in operations research or optimiz ation theory. Good training in linear and nonlinear programming is sufficient to digest, perhaps easily, most of the concepts in the book.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1468483951

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A Jesuit in the Forbidden City

Matteo Ricci 1552-1610

By: R. Po-chia Hsia

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A Jesuit in the Forbidden City

Matteo Ricci 1552-1610

By: R. Po-chia Hsia

A 16th century Italian Jesuit, Matteo Ricci was the founder of the Catholic Mission in China and one of the most famous missionaries of all time. A pioneer in bringing Christianity to China, Ricci spent twenty eight years in the country, in which time he crossed the cultural divides between China and the West by immersing himself in the language and culture of his hosts. Even 400 years later, he is still one of the best known westerners in China, celebrated for introducing western scientific and religious ideas to China and for explaining Chinese culture to Europe. The first critical biography of Ricci to use all relevant sources, both Chinese and Western, A Jesuit in the Forbidden City tells the story of a remarkable life that bridged Counter-Reformation Catholic Europe and China under the Ming dynasty. Hsia follows the life of Ricci from his childhood in Macerata, through his education in Rome, to his sojourn in Portuguese India, before the start of his long journey of self-discovery and cultural encounter in the Ming realm. Along the way, we glimpse the workings of the Portuguese maritime empire in Asia, the mission of the Society of Jesus, and life in the European enclave of Macau on the Chinese coast, as well as invaluable sketches of Ricci's fellow Jesuits and portraits of the Chinese mandarins who formed networks indispensible for Ricci's success. Examining a range of new sources, Hsia offers important new insights into Ricci's long period of trial and frustration in Guangdong province, where he first appeared in the persona of a foreign Buddhist monk, before the crucial move to Nanchang in 1595 that led to his sustained intellectual conversation with a leading Confucian scholar and subsequent synthesis of Christianity and Confucianism in propagating the Gospels in China. With his expertise in cartography, mathematics, and astronomy, Ricci quickly won recognition, especially after he had settled in Nanjing in 1598, the southern capital of the Ming dynasty. As his reputation and friendships grew, Ricci launched into a sharp polemic against Buddhism, while his career found its crowning achievement in the imperial capital of Beijing, leaving behind a life, work, and legacy that is still very much alive today.

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OUP Oxford

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0191625116

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Central Processing of Visual Information A: Integrative Functions and Comparative Data

By: H. Autrum,P. O. Bishop,V. Braitenberg,K. L. Chow,R. L. De Valois,R. B. Freeman,W. A. van de Grind,O.-J. Grüsser,U. Grüsser-Cornehls,R. Jung,W. R. Levick,H.-U. Lunkenheimer,D. M. MacKay,M. Snyder,J. Stone,N. J. Strausfeld,I. Thomas

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Central Processing of Visual Information A: Integrative Functions and Comparative Data

The present volume covers the physiology of the visual system beyond the optic nerve. It is a continuation of the two preceding parts on the photochemistry and the physiology of the eye, and forms a bridge from them to the fourth part on visual psychophysics. These fields have all developed as independent speciali ties and need integrating with each other. The processing of visual information in the brain cannot be understood without some knowledge of the preceding mechanisms in the photoreceptor organs. There are two fundamental reasons, ontogenetic and functional, why this is so: 1) the retina of the vertebrate eye has developed from a specialized part of the brain; 2) in processing their data the eyes follow physiological principles similar to the visual brain centres. Peripheral and central functions should also be discussed in context with their final synthesis in subjective experience, i. e. visual perception. Microphysiology and ultramicroscopy have brought new insights into the neuronal basis of vision. These investigations began in the periphery: HARTLINE'S pioneering experiments on single visual elements of Limulus in 1932 started a successful period of neuronal recordings which ascended from the retina to the highest centres in the visual brain. In the last two decades modern electron microscopic techniques and photochemical investigations of single photoreceptors further contributed to vision research.

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3642653529

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9783642653520

Chinese: An Essential Grammar

By: Po-Ching Yip,Don Rimmington

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Chinese: An Essential Grammar

By: Po-Ching Yip,Don Rimmington

First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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1134779836

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Decoding the World

A Roadmap for the Questioner

By: Po Bronson,Arvind Gupta

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Decoding the World

A Roadmap for the Questioner

By: Po Bronson,Arvind Gupta

Find out where our world is headed with this dazzling first-hand account of inventing the future from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of What Should I Do With My Life? and the founder of science accelerator IndieBio. Decoding the World is a buddy adventure about the quest to live meaningfully in a world with such uncertainty. It starts with Po Bronson coming to IndieBio. Arvind Gupta created IndieBio as a laboratory for early biotech startups trying to solve major world problems. Glaciers melting. Dying bees. Infertility. Cancer. Ocean plastic. Pandemics. Arvind is the fearless one, a radical experimentalist. Po is the studious detective, patiently synthesizing clues others have missed. Their styles mix and create a quadratic speedup of creativity. Yin and Yang crystallized. As they travel around the world, finding scientists to join their cause, the authors bring their firsthand experience to the great mysteries that haunt our future. Natural resource depletion. Job-taking robots. China's global influence. Arvind feels he needs to leave IndieBio to help startups do more than just get started. But as his departure draws near, he struggles to leave the sanctum he created. While Po has to prove he can keep the "indie" in IndieBio after Arvind is gone. After looking through their lens, you'll never see the world the same.

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153873432X

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Bewitched, Body and Soul

Miss Elizabeth Bennet

By: P. O. Dixon

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Bewitched, Body and Soul

Miss Elizabeth Bennet

By: P. O. Dixon

**Highlights**The heroine defies convention by arriving unescorted on the doorstep of a single gentleman ...The threat of scandal looms ...The aftermath ...OverviewElizabeth determines to right a wrong against her family by reuniting her sister and the man she loves.Society's expectations and decorum are but a few things standing in her way. Upon discovery, will Elizabeth forgive the one man who has been the means of disappointing the hopes of a most beloved sister?**What Readers Say**“The tension/angst between D&E was perfect throughout the story. It wasn't too much but just enough to keep the readers wanting more.”“I just couldn't stop reading until I finished it.” Robin Helm, author“The ending was perfect.”**Quotes**“The past weeks had taught him that it would take more than time and distance to release him from the spell of the beguiling country miss who managed to captivate him with a nod of her head, a witty turn of phrase, and a teasing smile.” Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy“Undoubtedly, he cares. I am never mistaken about these things.” Miss Elizabeth Bennet“How nonsensical. With such a mother, it was no wonder his daughters were such frivolous creatures.” Mr. Bennet“In my opinion, the course you are set upon is guided less by reason and prudence than by a desire to manipulate events best left to others.” Miss Mary BennetBewitched, Body and Soul: Miss Elizabeth Bennet ~ A Regency historical fiction adaptation of Jane Austen's timeless classic Pride and Prejudice.

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Dixon Enduring Historical Romances

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1475275773

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Stoics and Neostoics

Rubens and the Circle of Lipsius

By: Mark P.O. Morford

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Stoics and Neostoics

Rubens and the Circle of Lipsius

By: Mark P.O. Morford

In a vivid re-creation of late sixteenth-century Flemish intellectual life, Mark Morford explores the intertwined careers of one of the period's most influential thinkers and one of its most original artists: Justus Lipsius and Peter Paul Rubens. He investigates the scholarship of Lipsius (1547-1606), whose revival of Roman Stoicism guided his contemporaries during the revolt of the Netherlands from the rule of Spain and whose teaching prepared future leaders in church and state. Maintaining that Lipsius' thought reached Peter Paul Rubens through his brother, Philip Rubens, Morford analyzes the artist's use of Stoic philosophical and political allegory, beginning with his painting The Four Philosophers. This book discusses the revival of Stoicism in northern Europe, focusing on Lipsius' editions of Tacitus and Seneca, his widely read handbooks on constancy and politics, and his interaction with leading scholars and public figures. As his letters reveal, Lipsius was inconsistent in his life and unsuccessful in reconciling Stoicism with Catholic doctrine; Rubens, although at first sympathetic to the doctrines of Lipsius, is shown to have later transcended their limitations. Originally published in 1991. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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1400887127

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Post-Western International Relations Reconsidered

The Pre-Modern Politics of Gongsun Long

By: Chih-yu Shih,Po-tsan Yu

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Post-Western International Relations Reconsidered

The Pre-Modern Politics of Gongsun Long

By: Chih-yu Shih,Po-tsan Yu

This study offers a critique of international relations from the perspective of a pre-modern Chinese thinker, Gongsun Long. It explores both the potential and the danger of the post-Western quest for geo-cultural distinction.

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1137493216

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The Zen Teachings of Huang Po: On The Transmission Of Mind

By: Huang Po His Yun

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The Zen Teachings of Huang Po: On The Transmission Of Mind

By: Huang Po His Yun

This Historical text from the direct teaching of the Zen master, Huang Po, allows the Western reader to gain an understanding of Zen from the original source, one of the key works in its teachings; it also offers deepening and often startling insights into the rich treasures of Eastern thought. Huang Po, also known as Hsi Yun, is believed to have died as late as 850 A.D. He is regarded in a sense as the founder of the great Lin Chi sect. He lived below the Vulture Peak on Mount Huang Po, in the district of Kao An. Like most Zen masters, Huang Po taught in parables which were delivered as sermons, anecdotes, and dialogues. These have been collected here to present the teachings of the Master himself. He compares the mind to the sun travelling through the sky, sending forth light uncontaminated by the finest particle of dust. For those who have discovered the nature of Reality, he says, there is nothing old or new, concepts become meaningless and reason leads to error. Nowhere is the use of paradox in Zen illustrated better than in the teachings of Huang Po, who shows how the experience of intuitive knowledge which reveals to a man what he really is, cannot be communicated by words. With the help of these paradoxes, beautifully and simply presented in this collection, Huang Po could set his disciples on the right path. It is in this fashion that the Zen master leads his listener into the truth, often by a single phrase designed to destroy his particular demon of ignorance. Many of the dialogues recorded in The Zen Teaching of Huang Po took place in public assembly, generally with hundreds of the Master’s followers in attendance. This text is remarkable for its purity of thought and speech. John Blofeld’s translation reflects his deep understanding of Zen and gives it a crystal clear presentation. In addition, there are an introduction and explanatory notes that make this original and revered text even more valuable to the contemporary reader.

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Pickle Partners Publishing

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1786258862

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Recent Developments in Separation Science

Volume 1

By: Po Li. N N

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Recent Developments in Separation Science

Volume 1

By: Po Li. N N

Volume 1 of the book discusses such topics as absorption, chromatography, crystallization, microcapsules, adsubble methods, chemical complexing, parametric pumping, molecular sieve adsorption, enzyme membrane systems, immobilized solvent membranes and liquid surfactant membranes.

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CRC Press

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1351084682

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Cantonese Particles and Affixal Quantification

By: Peppina Po-lun Lee

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Cantonese Particles and Affixal Quantification

By: Peppina Po-lun Lee

Cantonese, the lingua franca of Hong Kong and its neighboring province, has an unusually rich repertoire of verbal particles. This volume significantly augments the academic literature on their semantics, focusing on three affixal quantifiers, -saai, -hoi and -maai. The author shows how these verbal suffixes display a unique interplay of syntax and semantics: used in a sentence with no focus, they quantify items flexibly, according to an accessibility hierarchy; with focus, focus comes into effect after syntactic selection. This fresh and compelling perspective in the study of particles and quantification is the first in-depth analysis of Cantonese verbal suffixes. It compares the language’s affixal quantification to the alternative determiner and adverbial quantifiers. The book’s syntax-semantics mapping geography deploys both descriptive and theoretical approaches, making it an essential resource for researchers studying the nexus of syntax and semantics, as well as Cantonese itself.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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9400743874

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9789400743878

Chinese

A Comprehensive Grammar

By: Po-ching Yip

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A Comprehensive Grammar

By: Po-ching Yip

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Psychology Press

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0415150329

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9780415150323

Supreme Rules

Volume 5

By: Po Hu

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Supreme Rules

Volume 5

By: Po Hu

By chance, he obtained the Overlord's Blood Bead formed when Chu Overlord killed himself. From then on, Shen Bin, who was constantly suffering from misfortune, walked onto the main road of good fortune, playing the pig to eat the tiger, and many beauties interweaved in his life. Occasionally, he would act arrogantly, bringing with him a kind of playboy who roamed the world. With his deep background and new life, he roamed the underworld and underworld. Power would always be the law in the hands of those powerful individuals ...

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Funstory

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1649482337

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Classical Mythology

By: Mark P. O. Morford,Robert J. Lenardon

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Classical Mythology

By: Mark P. O. Morford,Robert J. Lenardon

Classical Mythology, Sixth Edition, continues to build on its best-selling tradition of focusing on the literary tradition of Greek and Roman mythology through extensive translations of original mythological sources. Its coverage of comparative and interpretative approaches as well as evidencefrom art and archeology is expanded in this edition. Morford and Lenardon's insightful and accessible discussion of classical myths in their historical and cultural settings, as well as their survival in literature, art, music, and film, remains unparalleled: This comprehensive introduction toclassical mythology features new translations, expanded critical coverage, an expanded art program, and a new web site.

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0195143388

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