Shen Liu's Books

Cat God's Tales

Volume 10

By: Shen YeFaChou

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If someone else reincarnated, even if they were trash, they would still be human. Why am I reincarnated as a cat? It's fine if I turned into a cat. Other people entering the academy to act cool and have a relationship was fine, but I became a teacher with my life on the line. Furthermore, the class I took was the most useless one in the entire academy. It's not suitable for me to play the pig to eat the tiger. I can only slap my face to make it look fat. Everything is as I remember it ... 

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Reincarnated Martial Master

Volume 1

By: Luan Shen

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Reincarnated Martial Master

Volume 1

By: Luan Shen

The year the martial path fell, a golden star descended from the sky above the Qiankun Continent. It shone brightly and landed on a giant meteorite atop the mountain peak of the mainland. From that moment onwards, there was a new rising star with limitless potential in the Qiankun Continent. The reincarnated Yu Han swore that he would turn the tides of heaven and earth around him right now. Even if the entire Qiankun continent were to be turned upside down, he vowed to restart the martial world, destroy the entire sect, and return to the peak.

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164736471X

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A Martial Odyssey

By: Edmund Shen

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A Martial Odyssey

By: Edmund Shen

Synopsis ""It is said that when a martial exponent reached the highest state of divinity of their arts, they be able to transcend into Celestials, overcoming the limitation of life and death. And as Celestials, they have to overcome seven celestial divinity, Genesis, Enlighten, Emotion, Transverse, Seventh Sense, Crisis and Ascend in order to transcend to the Heavens."" A Martial Odyssey is an epic quasi-fantasy/wuxia fiction spanning three books. The powerful Honor Manor rules the Orthodox Martial Fraternity, yet there are other equally mysterious martial clans that are outside the influence of the orthodox fraternity; like the Eternal Ice Palace, the Virtuous Palace and the Celestial Palace. When the Celestial Fairy of the Eternal Ice Palace is rumored to pass away, it immediately attracted the attention of numerous exponents that undertake the perilous journey to the Heavenly Mountains for the martial secrets of the Eternal Ice Palace.

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Original Sin

Volume 1

By: Shen YuanYouLing

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Original Sin

Volume 1

By: Shen YuanYouLing

It was a weird case. All the clues pointed to the dead ghost as the culprit. No one knew that it was to confuse the crowd. Using a gas poisoning case as a medium, there were two people killed. One was a female police officer who was in charge of the records room at the police station, while the other was a long dead criminal. The condemned man had died before moving into the apartment, and it was terrible how the signs had led him to turn on the gas, a dead man, and to the death of the policewoman. The story slowly became complicated and confusing ...

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1636890733

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Analysis and Synthesis for Networked Multi-Rate Systems

By: Yuxuan Shen,Zidong Wang,Hongli Dong

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Analysis and Synthesis for Networked Multi-Rate Systems

By: Yuxuan Shen,Zidong Wang,Hongli Dong

This book presents novel state estimation methods for several classes of networked multi-rate systems including state estimation methods for networked multi-rate systems with various complex networked-induced phenomena and communication protocols. The systems investigated include stochastic nonlinear systems, time-delay systems, linear repetitive processes, and artificial neural networks. The techniques used are mainly the Lyapunov stability theory, the optimal estimation theory, the lifting technique, and certain convex optimization method. Features Gives a systematic investigation of the state estimation of multi-rate systems Discusses results on state estimation problems under network-induced complexities Studies different kinds of multi-rate systems including multi-rate nonlinear systems, multi-rate neural networks, and multi-rate linear repetitive processes Explores network-enhanced complexities and communication protocols Includes case studies showing the applicability of developed estimation algorithms including practical examples like DC servo systems and continuous stirred tank reactor systems Analysis and Synthesis for Networked Multi-Rate Systems is aimed at graduate students and researchers in signal processing, control systems, and electrical engineering.

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1003810861

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King Of Peak

Volume 1

By: Shen LanZhu

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King Of Peak

Volume 1

By: Shen LanZhu

The Second Young Master of the Zhong Family from the Gu Wu Family who was engrossed in the game had died, inadvertently seizing the body of a weak man because he had a one-night stand with someone. A few years later, when he returned home, he found out that the world's first hologram game's new server had opened, so he entered the game. While he was engrossed in the game, his teacher introduced him to a large company in the country. He didn't expect that the CEO of the company would be ...

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The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art

Companion and Commentary

By: Kangshen Shen,John N. Crossley,Anthony Wah-Cheung Lun

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The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art

Companion and Commentary

By: Kangshen Shen,John N. Crossley,Anthony Wah-Cheung Lun

The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art has been the most important mathematical source in China for the past 2000 years, comparable in significance to Euclid's Elements in the West. The Nine Chapters quickly acquired a distinguished reputation, and was the standard mathematics textbook in China and the surrounding regions until Western science was introduced in about 1600. This volume contains the first complete English translation of the Nine Chapters, together with the illuminating commentary of Liu Hui written in the 3rd century AD and other early century commentaries and further insights provided by the translators. The Nine Chapters contains 246 problems and their solutions, which fall into nine categories that are firmly based on practical needs. There are methods for solving problems in areas such as land measurement, construction, agriculture, commerce, and taxation, while the Chinese commentators provide the algorithms needed to solve the problems, and explanations of how the algorithms work. The translators' commentary provides clear and accessible background material for the Western reader, explanations of technicalities, and notes on the treatment of similar or identical mathematical problems in other countries. This first, full-English translation gives us an idea of the distinctive style and important contributions that have been made by traditional Chinese mathematics.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0198539363

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Playwrights and Literary Games in Seventeenth-Century China

Plays by Tang Xianzu, Mei Dingzuo, Wu Bing, Li Yu, and Kong Shangren

By: Jing Shen

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Playwrights and Literary Games in Seventeenth-Century China

Plays by Tang Xianzu, Mei Dingzuo, Wu Bing, Li Yu, and Kong Shangren

By: Jing Shen

Playwrights and Literary Games in Seventeenth-Century China: Plays by Tang Xianzu, Mei Dingzuo, Wu Bing, Li Yu, and Kong Shangren is a full-length study of chuanqi (romance) drama, a sophisticated form with substantial literary and meta-theatrical value that reigned in Chinese theater from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries and nourished later theatrical traditions including jingju (Beijing Opera). Highly educated dramatists used chuanqi to present in artistic form personal, social, and political concerns of their time. There were six outstanding examples of these trends, considered masterpieces in their time and ever since. This study presents them in their social and cultural context during the long seventeenth century (1580D1700), the period of great experimentation and political transition. The romantic spirit and independent thinking of the late Ming elite stimulated the efflorescence of the chuanqi, and that legacy was inherited and investigated during the second half of the seventeenth-century in early Qing. Jing Shen examinees the texts to demonstrate that the playwrights appropriate, convert, or misinterpret other genres or literary works of enduring influence into their plays to convey subtle and subversive expressions in the fine margins between tradition and innovation, history and theatrical re-presentation. By exploring the components of romance in texts from late Ming to early Qing, Shen reveals creative readings of earlier themes, stories, plays and the changing idea of romanticism for chuanqi drama. This study also shows the engagement of literati playwrights in closed literary circles in which chuanqi plays became a tool by which literati playwrights negotiated their agency and social stature. The five playwrights whose works are analyzed in this book had different experiences pursuing government service as scholar-officials; some failed to achieve high office. But their common concerns and self-conscious literary choices reveal important insights into the culture of the seventeenth century, and into the sociopolitical implications of the chuanqi genre. In addition to classical Chinese commentaries on chuanqi drama, this book uses modern critical theories and terminology on Western drama to enhance the analysis of chuanqi plays.

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073913857X

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Super-visioned Doctor Saint

Volume 5

By: Nai Shen

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Super-visioned Doctor Saint

Volume 5

By: Nai Shen

The intern Zhang Yu occasionally obtains the future medical system, the life here starts to go wild, the arms are thin ring fat, violently beat all the disgruntled! To become the world's respected genius doctor in many years, this was a legend that he alone could not surpass!

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1647811538

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Breaking the Peak

Volume 3

By: Cai Shen

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Breaking the Peak

Volume 3

By: Cai Shen

He, summer, was an orphan. Growing up in an orphanage, on the late autumn night when he was ten years old, there was a fire in the orphanage. In order to save his brothers and sisters, he was caught in fire. Five years later in real life, he heavily ... 

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Mao, Stalin and the Korean War

Trilateral Communist Relations in the 1950s

By: Zhihua Shen

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Mao, Stalin and the Korean War

Trilateral Communist Relations in the 1950s

By: Zhihua Shen

This book examines relations between China and the Soviet Union during the 1950s, and provides an insight into Chinese thinking about the Korean War. This volume is based on a translation of Shen Zihua's best-selling Chinese-language book, which broke the mainland Chinese taboo on publishing non-heroic accounts of the Korean War.The author combined information detailed in Soviet-era diplomatic documents (released after the collapse of the Soviet Union) with Chinese memoirs, official document collections and scholarly monographs, in order to present a non-ideological, realpolitik account of the relations, motivations and actions among three Communist actors: Stalin, Mao Zedong and Kim Il-sung. This new translation represents a revisionist perspective on trilateral Communist alliance relations during the Korean War, shedding new light on the origins of the Sino-Soviet split and the rather distant relations between China and North Korea. It features a critical introduction to Shen's work and the text is based on original archival research not found in earlier books in English. This book will be of much interest to students of Communist China, Stalinist Russia, the Korean War, Cold War Studies and International History in general.

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Routledge

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0415516455

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Control and State Estimation for Dynamical Network Systems with Complex Samplings

By: Bo Shen,Zidong Wang,Qi Li

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Control and State Estimation for Dynamical Network Systems with Complex Samplings

By: Bo Shen,Zidong Wang,Qi Li

This book focuses on the control and state estimation problems for dynamical network systems with complex samplings subject to various network-induced phenomena. It includes a series of control and state estimation problems tackled under the passive sampling fashion. Further, it explains the effects from the active sampling fashion, i.e., event-based sampling is examined on the control/estimation performance, and novel design technologies are proposed for controllers/estimators. Simulation results are provided for better understanding of the proposed control/filtering methods. By drawing on a variety of theories and methodologies such as Lyapunov function, linear matrix inequalities, and Kalman theory, sufficient conditions are derived for guaranteeing the existence of the desired controllers and estimators, which are parameterized according to certain matrix inequalities or recursive matrix equations. Covers recent advances of control and state estimation for dynamical network systems with complex samplings from the engineering perspective Systematically introduces the complex sampling concept, methods, and application for the control and state estimation Presents unified framework for control and state estimation problems of dynamical network systems with complex samplings Exploits a set of the latest techniques such as linear matrix inequality approach, Vandermonde matrix approach, and trace derivation approach Explains event-triggered multi-rate fusion estimator, resilient distributed sampled-data estimator with predetermined specifications This book is aimed at researchers, professionals, and graduate students in control engineering and signal processing.

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1000635473

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Nitride Semiconductor Light-Emitting Diodes (LEDs)

Materials, Technologies, and Applications

By: Jian-Jang Huang,Hao-Chung Kuo,Shyh-Chiang Shen

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Nitride Semiconductor Light-Emitting Diodes (LEDs)

Materials, Technologies, and Applications

By: Jian-Jang Huang,Hao-Chung Kuo,Shyh-Chiang Shen

Nitride Semiconductor Light-Emitting Diodes (LEDs): Materials, Technologies, and Applications, Second Edition reviews the fabrication, performance and applications of the technology, encompassing the state-of-the-art material and device development, along with considerations regarding nitride-based LED design. This updated edition is based on the latest research and advances, including two new chapters on LEDs for large displays and laser lighting. Chapters cover molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) growth of nitride semiconductors, modern metalorganic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) techniques, the growth of nitride-based materials, and gallium nitride (GaN)-on-sapphire and GaN-on-silicon technologies for LEDs. Nanostructured, non-polar and semi-polar nitride-based LEDs, as well as phosphor-coated nitride LEDs, are also discussed. The book also addresses the performance of nitride LEDs, including photonic crystal LEDs, surface plasmon enhanced LEDs, color tuneable LEDs, and LEDs based on quantum wells and quantum dots. Further chapters discuss the development of LED encapsulation technology and fundamental efficiency droop issues in gallium indium nitride (GaInN) LEDs. It is a technical resource for academics, physicists, materials scientists, electrical engineers, and those working in the lighting, consumer electronics, automotive, aviation, and communications sectors. - Features new chapters on laser lighting, addressing the latest advances on this topic - Reviews fabrication, performance, and applications of this technology that encompass the state-of-the-art material and device development - Covers the performance of nitride LEDs, including photonic crystal LEDs, surface plasmon enhanced LEDs, color tuneable LEDs, and LEDs based on quantum wells and quantum dots - Highlights applications of nitride LEDs, including liquid crystal display (LCD) backlighting, infra-red emitters, and automotive lighting - Provides a comprehensive discussion of gallium nitride on both silicon and sapphire substrates

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0081019432

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World of Stunning Beauties

Volume 1

By: Shen MaBuShiFuYun

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World of Stunning Beauties

Volume 1

By: Shen MaBuShiFuYun

It was a completely different experience with women, eunuchs, and men! It was a huge and complicated place. It was a place where the six countries competed for hegemony and the martial arts world surged with commotion! Does Top Four Beauties want it? No, no, no! Do you want the Five Great God Artifact? Who would want it for free! To become a man, one needed to be such a top quality man, the fate of the world. How could Ling Tianfeng, an outsider, change such a thing? Ps1: God said, the collection of this book will be a happy life! Ps2: God also said that the man who subscribes to this book will have endless wealth and beauties.

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A Misunderstood Friendship

Mao Zedong, Kim Il-sung, and Sino-North Korean Relations, 1949-1976: Revised Edition

By: Zhihua Shen,Yafeng Xia

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A Misunderstood Friendship

Mao Zedong, Kim Il-sung, and Sino-North Korean Relations, 1949-1976: Revised Edition

By: Zhihua Shen,Yafeng Xia

Today, the People’s Republic of China is North Korea’s only ally on the world stage, a tightly knit relationship that goes back decades. Both countries portray their partnership as one of “brotherly affection” based on shared political ideals—an alliance “as tight as lips to teeth”—even though relations have deteriorated in recent years due to China’s ascendance and North Korea’s intransigence. In A Misunderstood Friendship, leading diplomatic historians Zhihua Shen and Yafeng Xia draw on previously untapped primary source materials revealing tensions and rivalries to offer a unique account of the China–North Korea relationship. They unravel the twists and turns in high-level diplomacy between China and North Korea from the late 1940s to the death of Mao Zedong in 1976. Through unprecedented access to Chinese government documents, Soviet and Eastern European archives, and in-depth interviews with former Chinese diplomats and North Korean defectors, Shen and Xia reveal that the tensions that currently plague the alliance between the two countries have been present from the very beginning of the relationship. They significantly revise existing narratives of the Korean War, China’s postwar aid to North Korea, Kim Il-sung’s ideological and strategic thinking, North Korea’s relations with the Soviet Union, and the importance of the Sino-U.S. rapprochement, among other issues. A Misunderstood Friendship adds new depth to our understanding of one of the most secretive and significant relationships of the Cold War, with increasing relevance to international affairs today.

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Columbia University Press

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0231553676

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Super Martial Master System

Volume 1

By: Shen Ying

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Super Martial Master System

Volume 1

By: Shen Ying

Super Martial Master System

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1646777530

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Beautiful Rural Cook Girl

Volume 2

By: Shen KuanKuan

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Beautiful Rural Cook Girl

Volume 2

By: Shen KuanKuan

The top chef, Mei Jing, opened his eyes to discover that he had crossed over. When he looked again, it was a good fellow! She was forced to marry an old man and Steamed Bun Dad were hiding at the side laughing?She had the heart of a buddha, the body of a wicked blood relative, the family of a Taoist uncle and aunt, as well as all the advantages of an uncle and aunt! Facing a shabby thatched cottage that was still surrounded by a pack of wolves, Mei Jingtian looked up to the sky and picked up his food. He set up his stall, cooked, opened his restaurant, and brewed wine! The gold and silver that were rolling everywhere came in waves. The trouble of top-grade relatives also came one after another. Mei Jing rolled up his sleeves as he took his mother to the peak of life. As soon as the clinker changes, the matchmaker tramples on the door, and the letter of engagement is like a snowflake. Although it seemed like a congratulatory gift to a general, he was actually planning to marry her!

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1649486928

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Imperfect Paradise

Twenty-four Stories

By: Congwen Shen

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Imperfect Paradise

Twenty-four Stories

By: Congwen Shen

The most comprehensive and authoritative representation in English of the remarkable Shen Congwen canon, ranging from the polished stories that made him a serious contender for the Nobel literary prize in the 1980s to lesser known, extravagant experimental pieces.

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University of Hawaii Press

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082481715X

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Recent Advances in Computational Sciences

Selected Papers from the International Workshop on Computational Sciences and Its Education, Beijing, China, 29-31 August 2005

By: Palle E. T. J?rgensen,Xiaoping Shen,Chiwang Shu

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Recent Advances in Computational Sciences

Selected Papers from the International Workshop on Computational Sciences and Its Education, Beijing, China, 29-31 August 2005

By: Palle E. T. J?rgensen,Xiaoping Shen,Chiwang Shu

This book presents state-of-the-art lectures delivered by international academic and industrial experts in the field of computational science and its education, covering a wide spectrum from theory to practice. Topics include new developments in finite element method (FEM), finite volume method and Spline theory, such as Moving Mesh Methods, Galerkin and Discontinuous Galerkin Schemes, Shape Gradient Methods, Mixed FEMs, Superconvergence techniques and Fourier spectral approximations with applications in multidimensional fluid dynamics; Maxwell equations in discrepancy media; and phase-field equations. It also discusses some interesting topics related to Stokes equations, Schrdinger equations, wavelet analysis and approximation theory. Contemporary teaching issues in curriculum reform also form an integral part of the book.This book will therefore be of significant interest and value to all graduates, research scientists and practitioners facing complex computational problems. Administrators and policymakers will find it is an addition to their mathematics curriculum reform libraries.

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World Scientific

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981270700X

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Treasure Identifying Divine Eyes

Volume 6

By: Guan Shen

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Treasure Identifying Divine Eyes

Volume 6

By: Guan Shen

Lin Xi, the pawnbroker who was about to lose his job, coincidentally obtained a pair of Heaven's Eyes from the jade pendant his master left behind. He wanted to see how Lin Xi would grow up, pick up treasures while growing up, and play the strings of fate. A pair of Heaven's Eyes could detect treasure, avoid disaster, and drive away evil. However, what secrets did it hide ...

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1649481020

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The Art of Modern China

By: Julia F. Andrews,Kuiyi Shen

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The Art of Modern China

By: Julia F. Andrews,Kuiyi Shen

“The Art of Modern China is a long-awaited, much-needed survey. The authors’ combined experience in this field is exceptional. In addition to presenting key arguments for students and arts professionals, Andrews and Shen enliven modern Chinese art for all readers. The Art of Modern China gives just treatment to an expanded field of overlooked artworks that confront the challenges of modernization.”—De-nin Deanna Lee, author of The Night Banquet: A Chinese Scroll through Time.

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0520238141

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Grasslands on the Third Pole of the World

Structure, Function, Process, and Resilience of Social-Ecological Systems

By: Shikui Dong,Yong Zhang,Hao Shen,Shuai Li,Yudan Xu

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Grasslands on the Third Pole of the World

Structure, Function, Process, and Resilience of Social-Ecological Systems

By: Shikui Dong,Yong Zhang,Hao Shen,Shuai Li,Yudan Xu

This book comprehensively covers the topics of origin and distribution, evolution and types, regional and global importance, biodiversity conservation, plant-soil interfaces, ecosystem functions and services, social-ecological systems, climate change adaptations, land degradation and restoration, grazing management and pastoral production, and sustainable future of the grasslands on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (QTP), which is a globally unique eco-region called the "Roof of the World" because of its high elevation, “Third Pole on Earth" because of its alpine environment and the "Water Tower in Asia" because of its headwater location. The grassland ecosystem covers above 60% of QTP, which is about 2.5 million km2, 1/4 of Chinese total territorial lands. The grassland ecosystem of the QTP (the Third Pole) is an important part of the palaearctic region, which features alpine cover and low oxygen. The Third Pole's grasslands not only provide important ecosystem functions such as biodiversity conservation, carbon storage, water resource regulation, climate control, and natural disaster mitigation at a global scale, but also provide critical ecosystem services such as pastoral production, cultural inheritance, and tourism and recreation at local and regional scales. The purposes of this monograph are to address the following questions: (1) What are the special features of the Third Pole's grasslands? (2) How have climate changes and human activities changed the structures and functions of the Third Pole's grasslands? (3) How can we cope with land degradation and climate change through innovative restoration and protective actions for Third Pole's grasslands? And (4) How can we promote the sustainable development of social-ecological systems of the Third Pole's grasslands through best management practices including grazing? The goal of this book is to attract the attention of international audiences to realize the importance of the Third Pole’s grasslands, and to call for the actions of global communities to effectively protect and sustainably use the Third Pole's grasslands. This book can be served as textbooks, teaching materials and documentaries for different audiences. The target audiences include students, teachers, researchers, policy makers, planners, government officials, and NGOs in agricultural, environmental and natural resources sectors.

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Springer Nature

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3031394852

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Mao and the Sino–Soviet Partnership, 1945–1959

A New History

By: Zhihua Shen,Yafeng Xia

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Mao and the Sino–Soviet Partnership, 1945–1959

A New History

By: Zhihua Shen,Yafeng Xia

Based on Chinese archival documents, interviews, and more than twenty years of research on the subject, Zhihua Shen and Yafeng Xia offer a comprehensive look at the Sino-Soviet alliance between the end of the World War II and 1959, when the alliance was left in disarray as a result of foreign and domestic policies. This book is a reevaluation of the history of this alliance and is the first book published in English to examine it from a Chinese perspective.

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1498511708

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Simulation on Hydration of Tricalcium Silicate in Cement Clinker

By: Dejian Shen,Xin Wang

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Simulation on Hydration of Tricalcium Silicate in Cement Clinker

By: Dejian Shen,Xin Wang

This book is written based on authors' research on cement hydration during the past decade. It establishes simulation model to evaluate the influence of crystal defects on the dissolution of tricalcium silicate and morphology change of particles and explores the hydration kinetics and microstructure development of tricalcium silicate under the mixed control of dissolution, diffusion, as well as boundary nucleation and growth. It also provides a theoretical basis for regulating the microstructure and performance of cement-based materials. It is designed as a reference work for professionals or practitioners and as a textbook for undergraduates or postgraduates. This book provides valuable knowledge and useful methods that can be applied in the field of cement hydration.

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9819945984

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Discourse and Style

What Narratology and Stylistics Can Do for Each Other

By: Dan Shen

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Discourse and Style

What Narratology and Stylistics Can Do for Each Other

By: Dan Shen

This book examines overlaps, differences, and complementarities between narratology and stylistics, and shows the consequences of this examination for the practical analysis of prose narrative. Narratology identifies discourse as one of its two main objects of study (story being the other), and stylistics, of course, designates style as its concern. Too often, however, work in each of these fields proceeds without attention to developments in the other. This book corrects that situation by looking beneath the superficial similarities between the “discourse” of narratology and the “style” of fictional stylistics. The author shows that the two seemingly interchangeable terms actually refer to different textual elements. For example, both narratology and stylistics identify point of view as an important element of discourse and style, respectively, but each approach conceives of it differently and thus analyzes it differently. This book argues that the different analyses are complementary and shows how they can be brought together. This synthesis leads to richer conceptions of point of view as well as more comprehensive and precise analyses of its functions and effects in individual narratives. For its theoretical and interpretive contributions, this book will appeal to scholars and students in narrative studies, literary stylistics, and literary theory and criticism.

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1040216463

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9781040216460

Redefining Nationalism in Modern China

Sino-American Relations and the Emergence of Chinese Public Opinion in the 21st Century

By: S. Shen

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Redefining Nationalism in Modern China

Sino-American Relations and the Emergence of Chinese Public Opinion in the 21st Century

By: S. Shen

Why do the Chinese sometimes speak out against U.S. and yet at other times, remain silent? This book uses a variety of previously untapped sources, including a range of news sources within China itself, weblogs, and interviews with prominent figures, to make a powerful new argument about the causes and consequences of the new Chinese nationalism.

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307

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Springer

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0230590004

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9780230590007

The Emperor Landing on the Nine Heavens

Volume 7

By: Kong Shen

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The Emperor Landing on the Nine Heavens

Volume 7

By: Kong Shen

I am the Emperor of the Nine Layered Heavens of the Myriad Domain! My decree is so vast that in this world, there is no one who dares to disobey it! This was the story of an ordinary boy like Lin Dong growing up to become the Nine Heavens Emperor! Experts were as numerous as the clouds, and they could also be seen how Lin Dong managed to carve a path through countless geniuses and powerhouses! If a beauty falls in love, how could the main character choose?

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830

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Funstory

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1647366208

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9781647366209

Emission Factors of Carbonaceous Particulate Matter and Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons from Residential Solid Fuel Combustions

By: Guofeng Shen

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Emission Factors of Carbonaceous Particulate Matter and Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons from Residential Solid Fuel Combustions

By: Guofeng Shen

Emission inventory is basic for the understanding of environmental behaviors and potential effects of compounds, however, current inventories are often associated with relatively high uncertainties. One important reason is the lack of emission factors (EFs), especially for the residential solid fuel combustion in developing countries. In the present study, emission factors of a group of pollutants including particulate matter, organic carbon, elemental carbon (sometimes known as black carbon) and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons were measured for a variety of residential solid fuels including coal, crop straw, wood, and biomass pellets in rural China. The study provided a large number of emission factors that can be further used in emission estimation. Composition profiles and isomer ratios were investigated and compared so as to be used in source apportionment. In addition, the present study identified and quantified the influence of factors like fuel moisture, volatile matter on emission performance. The publication of the study will be of interest and helpful to the readers in the field of air pollution, human health, fuel saving and energy consumption etc. Guofeng Shen works at the Institute of Atmospheric Sciences, Jiangsu Academy of Environmental Sciences, China.

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364239762X

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9783642397622

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