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Biographical Dictionary of the People's Republic of China

By: Yuwu Song

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Biographical Dictionary of the People's Republic of China

By: Yuwu Song

This biographical dictionary is an indispensable research tool for information about the prominent persons of the past seven decades in China. The book documents nearly 600 Chinese individuals who contributed, for better or worse, to the development of Chinese life and culture since the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949. Though the book is weighted toward political figures, it includes persons in business, the military, academia, medicine, social movements, the arts, entertainment and athletics. In addition to an objective description of the person's life, an analysis is provided that identifies the individual's contributions and importance.

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McFarland

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1476602980

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9781476602981

Test Prep Workbook for Basic TCM Theory

By: Bai-song Zhong

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Test Prep Workbook for Basic TCM Theory

By: Bai-song Zhong

This book is designed as a study guide for either students or practitioners needing additional information on basic TCM theory. It is also designed to be extremely helpful for those preparing for the basic TCM theory portion of the NCCAOM exam. The book is divided into seven tests containing 125 questions each. Each test includes an answer sheet and an answer key. Practitioners may also find the information contained in this book useful in their everyday clinical practice.

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Blue Poppy Enterprises, Inc.

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1891845438

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9781891845437

Chinese Technology in the Seventeenth Century

By: Yingxing Song,E-tu Zen Sun,Shiou-chuan Sun

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Chinese Technology in the Seventeenth Century

By: Yingxing Song,E-tu Zen Sun,Shiou-chuan Sun

This 1637 classic on the history of traditional Chinese technology, profusely illustrated with 152 original woodcuts, covers agriculture, textiles, mining, metallurgy, chemical engineering, boat-building weapons manufacture, and more. Rich in scientific and historical background, its many annotations round out an impressive survey of technological progress.

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Courier Corporation

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0486295931

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An Introduction to Formal Languages and Machine Computation

By: Song Y. Yan

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An Introduction to Formal Languages and Machine Computation

By: Song Y. Yan

This book provides a concise and modern introduction to Formal Languages and Machine Computation, a group of disparate topics in the theory of computation, which includes formal languages, automata theory, turing machines, computability, complexity, number-theoretic computation, public-key cryptography, and some new models of computation, such as quantum and biological computation. As the theory of computation is a subject based on mathematics, a thorough introduction to a number of relevant mathematical topics, including mathematical logic, set theory, graph theory, modern abstract algebra, and particularly number theory, is given in the first chapter of the book. The book can be used either as a textbook for an undergraduate course, for a first-year graduate course, or as a basic reference in the field.

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World Scientific

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9810234228

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Surgical Atlas of Perforator Flaps

A Microsurgical Dissection Technique

By: Chunlin Hou,Shimin Chang,Jian Lin,Dajiang Song

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Surgical Atlas of Perforator Flaps

A Microsurgical Dissection Technique

By: Chunlin Hou,Shimin Chang,Jian Lin,Dajiang Song

The aims of this Atlas are to introduce the clinical applications of perforator flaps in plastic surgery and skin replacement. After a brief introduction of the concept and surgical rationale of perforator flaps, the book presents 24 different flaps from donor sites including upper limb, lower limb and the trunk. It shows the surgical dissection techniques of each flap step by step, from vascular anatomy, flap design and elevation to harvest and transfer. The book is composed of operative pictures, drawings and concise interpretation. Written by a group of micro surgeons and hand surgeons working in the fields of orthopedic, trauma, hand, plastic and reconstructive surgery, this Atlas offers a valuable reference work for medical researchers and doctors in microsurgery, orthopedic surgery and plastic and reconstructive surgery.

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Springer

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9401798346

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Chinese Sculpture

By: Angela Falco Howard,Wu Hung,Li Song,Yang Hong

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Chinese Sculpture

By: Angela Falco Howard,Wu Hung,Li Song,Yang Hong

Spanning some 7000 years, 'Chinese Sculpture' explores a beautiful and diverse world of objects, many of which have only come to light in the later half of the 20th century. The authors analyse and present, mostly in colour, some 500 examples of Chinese sculpture.

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Yale University Press

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0300100655

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9780300100655

Apricot's Revenge

A Crime Novel

By: Song Ying

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Apricot's Revenge

A Crime Novel

By: Song Ying

Apricot’s Revenge is an absorbing detective novel and more. Song Ying uses an ingenious plot to investigate social problems in modern China, which makes the book a profound and captivating read, leaving readers thinking long after reaching the last page. A business tycoon in China is found dead; he apparently suffered a heart attack while swimming. His body is washed onto a beach in a popular resort known as the Hawaii of the East. But soon it becomes clear that he was murdered. Three immediate beneficiaries of his death become the suspects: the vice president of the company, Zhou, who is in line to take over his position; his young widow, Zhu, who stands to inherit a huge amount of wealth; and his arch business rival, Hong, who is competing in a bid over a piece of hot property. Nie Feng, a young investigative reporter for a magazine, interviewed the victim just a few days before he died. Through his own research, Nie Feng discovers a new suspect who is not on the police’s radar.

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Minotaur Books

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1466873981

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Modernism in Late-Mao China

Architecture for Foreign Affairs in Beijing, Guangzhou and Overseas, 1969–1976

By: Ke Song

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Modernism in Late-Mao China

Architecture for Foreign Affairs in Beijing, Guangzhou and Overseas, 1969–1976

By: Ke Song

This book investigates the architectural history of China in the Mao era (1949–1976), focusing on the rise of modernism in the last seven years of the Cultural Revolution from 1969 to 1976. It highlights the new architecture of this period, exemplified by three clusters of buildings for foreign affairs, namely buildings for foreign diplomacy in Beijing, buildings for foreign trade in Guangzhou and China’s foreign aid projects overseas. The emergence of new architecture in the early 1970s is closely associated with China’s political and diplomatic shift of the time, from a radical emphasis on ideological struggle to a dynamic balance between leftist ideology and pragmatic concerns. In this context, China’s relations with the West quickly improved, culminating with American president Richard Nixon’s visit to China in 1972. The increasing foreign affairs brought new opportunities to Chinese architects who referenced both Western modernism and Chinese architectural traditions to create a new version of Chinese modernism. The book brings dimensions of form, politics and knowledge to the analysis of architecture, to construct an understanding of architectural design as an aesthetic, political and intellectual practice. Modernism in Late-Mao China will be an enriching and useful reference for students and scholars who are interested in the global architectural history of the twentieth century, especially Cold War modernism.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000865681

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9781000865684

Sample Size Calculations for Clustered and Longitudinal Outcomes in Clinical Research

By: Chul Ahn,Moonseoung Heo,Song Zhang

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Sample Size Calculations for Clustered and Longitudinal Outcomes in Clinical Research

By: Chul Ahn,Moonseoung Heo,Song Zhang

This book explains how to determine sample size for studies with correlated outcomes, which are widely implemented in medical, epidemiological, and behavioral studies. For clustered studies, the authors provide sample size formulas that account for variable cluster sizes and within-cluster correlation. For longitudinal studies, they present sample size formulas that account for within-subject correlation among repeated measurements and various missing data patterns. For multiple levels of clustering, the authors describe how randomization impacts trial administration, analysis, and sample size requirement.

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CRC Press

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1466556277

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Dr. Zhong’S Pediatric Essentials

A Clinical Guide for Treating Children in the Traditional Chinese Medicine Clinic

By: Dr. Zhong Bai Song PhD LAc

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Dr. Zhong’S Pediatric Essentials

A Clinical Guide for Treating Children in the Traditional Chinese Medicine Clinic

By: Dr. Zhong Bai Song PhD LAc

Seven years in the making, Dr. Zhongs Pediatric Essentials opens with an introduction to the history of pediatric applications of Chinese medicine techniques, going back to 168 BCE. The author discusses how childrens physiology differs from adult physiology, and notes the unique aspects of the onset, types, and evolution of disease in pediatric medicine. The author offers useful, complete descriptions of physical examination, diagnosis, and treatment strategies for the various organ systems from newborns through adolescents. Separate chapters cover infectious diseases, parasitosis, and a dozen specific syndromes such as profuse sweating, night crying, and growth disorders. In each example, detailed diagnostic guidelines are accompanied by a description of the therapeutic principle governing treatment and a list of specific TCM formulas, including herbs, Tui Na, moxibustion, and acupuncture, as well as advice about prevention and use of patent medicines. Dr. Zhong has been learning, practicing, researching, and teaching traditional Chinese medicine pediatrics for three decades. His unique work will be useful as a complete reference to aid clinicians in formulating a plan from diagnosis to treatment, as well as a textbook for students of pediatric TCM.

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iUniverse

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1491797037

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Smart Cities

Foundations, Principles, and Applications

By: Houbing Song,Ravi Srinivasan,Tamim Sookoor,Sabina Jeschke

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Smart Cities

Foundations, Principles, and Applications

By: Houbing Song,Ravi Srinivasan,Tamim Sookoor,Sabina Jeschke

Provides the foundations and principles needed for addressing the various challenges of developing smart cities Smart cities are emerging as a priority for research and development across the world. They open up significant opportunities in several areas, such as economic growth, health, wellness, energy efficiency, and transportation, to promote the sustainable development of cities. This book provides the basics of smart cities, and it examines the possible future trends of this technology. Smart Cities: Foundations, Principles, and Applications provides a systems science perspective in presenting the foundations and principles that span multiple disciplines for the development of smart cities. Divided into three parts—foundations, principles, and applications—Smart Cities addresses the various challenges and opportunities of creating smart cities and all that they have to offer. It also covers smart city theory modeling and simulation, and examines case studies of existing smart cities from all around the world. In addition, the book: Addresses how to develop a smart city and how to present the state of the art and practice of them all over the world Focuses on the foundations and principles needed for advancing the science, engineering, and technology of smart cities—including system design, system verification, real-time control and adaptation, Internet of Things, and test beds Covers applications of smart cities as they relate to smart transportation/connected vehicle (CV) and Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) for improved mobility, safety, and environmental protection Smart Cities: Foundations, Principles, and Applications is a welcome reference for the many researchers and professionals working on the development of smart cities and smart city-related industries.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119226392

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Shaping and Reshaping Chinese American Identity

New York's Chinese during the Depression and World War II

By: Jingyi Song

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Shaping and Reshaping Chinese American Identity

New York's Chinese during the Depression and World War II

By: Jingyi Song

Shaping and Reshaping Chinese American Identity: New York's Chinese in the Years of the Depression and World War II explores the role played by Chinese Americans in New York in the 1930's who laid the foundation for future generations to fight for civil rights as American citizens. The stories of Chinese Americans during the Depression years and World War II are under-represented in the existing literature that has been confined to the early days of the settlement of Chinese Americans on the west coast of the United States. They were usually depicted as passive victims of exclusion as a result of Chinese Exclusion Laws. This book focuses on the active participation of the Chinese American in New York City in mainstream political, economic, and social life that helped them to forge new identity as Chinese Americans. Their active participation in federal and local elections as a means of claiming their rights as American citizens demonstrated their growing political consciousness. Chinese New Yorkers' support of both China and United States during the war reflected their dual identity as both Chinese and Americans. Their contributions to the war front and to the home front after Pearl Harbor eventually forced the reconsideration of the Chinese Exclusion Laws. The book concludes by relating the active participation of the Chinese in New York during the war years to the national movement for racial equality that resulted in new federal civil rights legislation.

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Lexington Books

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0739143093

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9780739143094

Historical Dictionary of the Chinese Cultural Revolution

By: Guo Jian,Yongyi Song,Yuan Zhou

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Historical Dictionary of the Chinese Cultural Revolution

By: Guo Jian,Yongyi Song,Yuan Zhou

As the world’s only English-language historical dictionary of the Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966-1976), this book offers a comprehensive coverage of major historical figures, events, political terms, and other matters relevant to this unique period of modern Chinese history that had profound influence on social and cultural movements of the world in the 1960s and 1970s. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of the Chinese Cultural Revolution covers its history through a chronology, an introductory essay, glossary, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 400 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about this important period in Chinese history.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1442251727

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Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery

9th International Conference, DaWaK 2007, Regensburg, Germany, September 3-7, 2007, Proceedings

By: Il Yeol Song,Johann Eder,Tho Manh Nguyen

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Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery

9th International Conference, DaWaK 2007, Regensburg, Germany, September 3-7, 2007, Proceedings

By: Il Yeol Song,Johann Eder,Tho Manh Nguyen

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery, DaWak 2007, held in Regensburg, Germany, September 2007. Coverage includes ETL processing, multidimensional design, OLAP and multidimensional model, cubes processing, data warehouse applications, frequent itemsets, ontology-based mining, clustering, association rules, miscellaneous applications, and classification.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540745521

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The A to Z of the Chinese Cultural Revolution

By: Guo Jian,Yongyi Song,Yuan Zhou

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The A to Z of the Chinese Cultural Revolution

By: Guo Jian,Yongyi Song,Yuan Zhou

The Cultural Revolution in the People's Republic of China started in 1966 and lasted about a decade. This revolutionary upsurge of Chinese students and workers, led by Mao Zedong, wreaked havoc in the world's most populous country, often turning things upside down and undermining the party, government, and army while simultaneously weakening the economy, society, and culture. Tens of millions of people were killed, injured, or imprisoned during this period and relatively few benefited, aside from Mao Zedong and the Gang of Four, the group that would eventually receive the blame for the events of the Cultural Revolution. Given the turbulence and confusion, it is hard to know just what happened. The A to Z of the Chinese Cultural Revolution tackles this task. First, in an extensive chronology, which traces the events from year to year and month to month, then in an introduction puts these events in context and helps to explain them. But most importantly, the bulk of the information is provided in a dictionary section with numerous cross-referenced entries on important persons, places, institutions, and movements. A bibliography points to further sources of information and a glossary will help those researching in Chinese.

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Scarecrow Press

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0810870339

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The Reasoning Of Traditional Chinese Medicine

By: Song Xuan Ke

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The Reasoning Of Traditional Chinese Medicine

By: Song Xuan Ke

This book is intended as an introduction to Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) for students, practitioners, or lay people with a general interest in Chinese medicine. It provides a clear and compact delivery of TCM's reasoning, history, philosophy, theory, and treatment principles. The author has approached this from the perspective of the reasoning behind Chinese medicine, its philosophical foundations, and its approach to treatment. The text is accompanied by clear and bold graphical illustrations to allow for an easier understanding.

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World Scientific

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1800613091

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The Nystrom Method in Electromagnetics

By: Mei Song Tong,Weng Cho Chew

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The Nystrom Method in Electromagnetics

By: Mei Song Tong,Weng Cho Chew

A comprehensive, step-by-step reference to the Nyström Method for solving Electromagnetic problems using integral equations Computational electromagnetics studies the numerical methods or techniques that solve electromagnetic problems by computer programming. Currently, there are mainly three numerical methods for electromagnetic problems: the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD), finite element method (FEM), and integral equation methods (IEMs). In the IEMs, the method of moments (MoM) is the most widely used method, but much attention is being paid to the Nyström method as another IEM, because it possesses some unique merits which the MoM lacks. This book focuses on that method—providing information on everything that students and professionals working in the field need to know. Written by the top researchers in electromagnetics, this complete reference book is a consolidation of advances made in the use of the Nyström method for solving electromagnetic integral equations. It begins by introducing the fundamentals of the electromagnetic theory and computational electromagnetics, before proceeding to illustrate the advantages unique to the Nyström method through rigorous worked out examples and equations. Key topics include quadrature rules, singularity treatment techniques, applications to conducting and penetrable media, multiphysics electromagnetic problems, time-domain integral equations, inverse scattering problems and incorporation with multilevel fast multiple algorithm. Systematically introduces the fundamental principles, equations, and advantages of the Nyström method for solving electromagnetic problems Features the unique benefits of using the Nyström method through numerical comparisons with other numerical and analytical methods Covers a broad range of application examples that will point the way for future research The Nystrom Method in Electromagnetics is ideal for graduate students, senior undergraduates, and researchers studying engineering electromagnetics, computational methods, and applied mathematics. Practicing engineers and other industry professionals working in engineering electromagnetics and engineering mathematics will also find it to be incredibly helpful.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119284880

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Young China

National Rejuvenation and the Bildungsroman, 1900-1959

By: Mingwei Song

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Young China

National Rejuvenation and the Bildungsroman, 1900-1959

By: Mingwei Song

The rise of youth is among the most dramatic stories of modern China. Since the last years of the Qing dynasty, youth has been made a new agent of history in Chinese intellectuals’ visions of national rejuvenation through such tremendously popular notions as “young China” and “new youth.” The characterization of a young protagonist with a developmental story has also shaped the modern Chinese novel. Young China takes youth as a central literary motif that was profoundly related to the ideas of nationhood and modernity in twentieth-century China. A synthesis of narrative theory and cultural history, it combines historical investigations of the origin and development of the modern Chinese youth discourse with close analyses of the novelistic construction of the Chinese Bildungsroman, which depicts the psychological growth of youth with a symbolic allusion to national rejuvenation. Negotiating between self and society, ideal and action, and form and reality, such a narrative manifests as well as complicates the various political and cultural symbolisms invested in youth through different periods of modern Chinese history. In this story of young China, the restless, elusive, and protean image of youth both perpetuates and problematizes the ideals of national rejuvenation.

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BRILL

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1684175607

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Fundamentals of Horizontal Wellbore Cleanout

Theory and Applications of Rotary Jetting Technology

By: Xianzhi Song,Gensheng Li,Zhengming Xu,Subhash Shah

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Fundamentals of Horizontal Wellbore Cleanout

Theory and Applications of Rotary Jetting Technology

By: Xianzhi Song,Gensheng Li,Zhengming Xu,Subhash Shah

Fundamentals of Horizontal Wellbore Cleanout delivers the latest methods regarding effective sand cleanout tools in horizontal wellbores. Providing the most relevant information, including sand bed formation, sand settling velocity, friction and hydraulics, this book covers the most effective tools and emerging technologies. Sections discuss the settling characteristics of sand and the effects of particle shape and size on drag coefficients, along with models for drag coefficients using experimental data. Numerical studies on sand transport efficiency as well as prediction models of sand concentration and an evaluation of friction between pipe and sand bed are also included. Illustrative case studies include cleanout with varying nozzle assemblies leading to optimum design on operation procedures, bottomhole assembly, and other lessons learned from known field experience. Rounding out with future research on cost-saving strategies including CO2 used as a washing fluid in water-sensitive formations, Fundamentals of Horizontal Wellbore Cleanout gives today's petroleum and drilling engineers alternative methods to hole cleaning in today's horizontal wells. - Presents flowcharts, methods and field studies to help readers develop cost-saving strategies and optimal performance - Helps users build their own models using the experimental data provided - Guides readers on how to build research and operation capabilities by providing extensive literature reviews and references

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Gulf Professional Publishing

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0323858775

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9780323858779

Defrosting for Air Source Heat Pump

Research, Analysis and Methods

By: Mengjie Song,Shiming Deng

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Defrosting for Air Source Heat Pump

Research, Analysis and Methods

By: Mengjie Song,Shiming Deng

Defrosting for Air Source Heat Pumps: Research, Analysis and Methods presents a detailed analysis of the methods, processes and problems relating to defrosting, a necessary requirement to maintain the performance of ASHP units. Readers will gain a deeper understanding of control strategies and system design optimization methods that improve the performance and reliability of units. The book discusses the most recent experimental and numerical studies of reverse cycle defrosting and the most widely used defrosting method for ASHP. Techno-economic considerations are also presented, as is the outlook for the future. This book is a valuable resource for research students and academics of thermal energy and mechanical engineering, especially those focusing on defrosting for ASHP, heating, ventilation and energy efficiency, as well as engineers and professionals engaged in the development and management of heat pump machinery. - Includes MATLAB codes that allow the reader to implement the knowledge they have acquired in their own simulations and projects - Discusses experimental and numerical studies to provide a well-rounded analysis of technologies, methods and available systems - Presents techno-economic considerations and a look to the future

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Woodhead Publishing

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0081025181

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Conservation Effectiveness and Concurrent Green Initiatives

By: Li An,Conghe Song,Qi Zhang,Eve Bohnett

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Conservation Effectiveness and Concurrent Green Initiatives

By: Li An,Conghe Song,Qi Zhang,Eve Bohnett

The book examines concurrent green initiatives and their spillover effects on environmental conservation and management to reveal their impact on conservation effectiveness, drawing on a range of international case studies. Green initiatives are programs, payments, or endeavors that restore, sustain, or improve nature’s capacity, with examples including payments for ecosystem services and the development of nature reserves and protected areas. This book explicitly examines concurrent green initiatives, where initiatives overlap either geographically or in terms of recipients of multiple payments. The book provides a detailed analysis of case studies in the USA and China, including the USA-based Conservation Reserve Program and the Environmental Quality Incentives Program, and the China based Grain-to-Green Program and the Forest Ecological Benefit Compensation Fund. Through this comparison, the book shows the impact of concurrent green initiatives, including additional or unintended benefits for conservation and local communities as well as negative spillover effects. The book complements these case studies by drawing on other global examples ranging in size from local to continental, including planting native trees and shrubs in Australia and green initiatives in the Baltic Sea region. Overall, this book demonstrates the importance of analyzing concurrent green efforts to better understand both the positive and negative impacts to ensure the optimal effectiveness of these policies and programs for conservation and environmental management. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of environmental conservation and management, land use, ecosystem services and environmental policy, as well as policymakers and practitioners working on environmental initiatives and programs.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000689182

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Social Network Analysis

By: David Knoke,Song Yang

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Social Network Analysis

By: David Knoke,Song Yang

David Knoke and Song Yang's Social Network Analysis, Third Edition provides a concise introduction to the concepts and tools of social network analysis. The authors convey key material while at the same time minimizing technical complexities. The examples are simple: sets of 5 or 6 entities such as individuals, positions in a hierarchy, political offices, and nation-states, and the relations between them include friendship, communication, supervision, donations, and trade. The new edition reflects developments and changes in practice over the past decade. The authors also describe important recent developments in network analysis, especially in the fifth chapter. Exponential random graph models (ERGMs) are a prime example: when the second edition was published, P* models were the recommended approach for this, but they have been replaced by ERGMs. Finally, throughout the volume, the authors comment on the challenges and opportunities offered by internet and social media data.

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SAGE Publications

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1506389309

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A Deep Analysis of the Chinese Hukou System

Facts, Impacts, and Reform Paths

By: Yang Song

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A Deep Analysis of the Chinese Hukou System

Facts, Impacts, and Reform Paths

By: Yang Song

This book explores China's hukou system, by which individuals are registered in a specific geographic region, and the prospects for reform. The history of the hukou system and its instrumental role in Chinese urbanization and labor markets is explained, and readers get a sense of what issues are prioritized by Chinese policymakers as they contemplate reform or change to this system, from hukou-based labor market discrimination, inequality of opportunity, multi-dimensional poverty of rural migrants, the public health consequences of non-hukou migration, and old age insurance for migrants without hukous. The author concludes with a stirring and practical call for hukou reform, articulating a cost-benefit model and providing an array of policy suggestions. This book will interest scholars of Chinese society, demographics and future urbanization.

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Springer Nature

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9819935016

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9789819935017

Making Borders in Modern East Asia

The Tumen River Demarcation, 1881–1919

By: Nianshen Song

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Making Borders in Modern East Asia

The Tumen River Demarcation, 1881–1919

By: Nianshen Song

Until the late nineteenth century, the Chinese-Korean Tumen River border was one of the oldest, and perhaps most stable, state boundaries in the world. Spurred by severe food scarcity following a succession of natural disasters, from the 1860s, countless Korean refugees crossed the Tumen River border into Qing-China's Manchuria, triggering a decades-long territorial dispute between China, Korea, and Japan. This major new study of a multilateral and multiethnic frontier highlights the competing state- and nation-building projects in the fraught period that witnessed the Sino-Japanese War, the Russo-Japanese War, and the First World War. The power-plays over land and people simultaneously promoted China's frontier-building endeavours, motivated Korea's nationalist imagination, and stimulated Japan's colonialist enterprise, setting East Asia on an intricate trajectory from the late-imperial to a situation that, Song argues, we call modern.

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Cambridge University Press

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131680044X

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Televising Chineseness

Gender, Nation, and Subjectivity

By: Geng Song

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Televising Chineseness

Gender, Nation, and Subjectivity

By: Geng Song

Offers new understandings of gender construction and nation-building through the lens of recent Chinese television programs.

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University of Michigan Press

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0472055291

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9780472055296

Ceramic Electrolytes For All-solid-state Li Batteries

By: Masashi Kotobuki,Shu-feng Song,Chen Chao,Li Lu

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Ceramic Electrolytes For All-solid-state Li Batteries

By: Masashi Kotobuki,Shu-feng Song,Chen Chao,Li Lu

All-solid-state batteries have gained much attention as the next-generation batteries. This book is about various Li ion ceramic electrolytes and their applications to all-solid-state battery. It contains a wide range of topics from history of ceramic electrolytes and ion conduction mechanisms to recent research achievements. Here oxide-type and sulfide-type ceramic electrolytes are described in detail. Additionally, their applications to all-solid-state batteries, including Li-air battery and Li-S battery, are reviewed.Consisting of fundamentals and advanced technology, this book would be suitable for beginners in the research of ceramic electrolytes; it can also be used by scientists and research engineers for more advanced development.

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The Revival of Private Enterprise in China

By: Shunfeng Song

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The Revival of Private Enterprise in China

By: Shunfeng Song

The re-emergence of private enterprises is one of the most important factors in China's recent economic development. They will play a key role in maintaining China's high growth rate and honouring its commitments to the WTO. Despite this they face obstacles to growth, including borrowing restrictions, high taxes, ineffective legal protection and lack of technical and information support. The authors in this book discuss these obstacles and propose measures for improving private enterprise development. They consider how private enterprises can help China mitigate its macroeconomic problems, such as unemployment, income inequality, financial disintermediation and cyclical boom and bust. Finally they examine the lessons to be learnt from other countries in promoting privatization.

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Routledge

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1317017862

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The Semantics of Chinese Classifiers and Linguistic Relativity

By: Song Jiang

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The Semantics of Chinese Classifiers and Linguistic Relativity

By: Song Jiang

The Semantics of Chinese Classifiers and Linguistic Relativity focuses on the semantic structure of Chinese classifiers under the cognitive linguistics framework, and the implications thereof on linguistic relativity and language acquisition. It examines the semantic correlation between a given classifier and its associated nouns. Nouns in Chinese, which are assigned specific classifiers according to their selected characteristics, reflect the process of human categorization. The concrete categories formed by the relationship between nouns and classifiers may serve to explain the conceptual structure of the Chinese language and certain underlying aspects of culture and human cognition. Song Jiang is Assistant Professor of Chinese for the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures at university of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.

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1351967304

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Cybercryptography: Applicable Cryptography for Cyberspace Security

By: Song Y. Yan

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Cybercryptography: Applicable Cryptography for Cyberspace Security

By: Song Y. Yan

This book provides the basic theory, techniques, and algorithms of modern cryptography that are applicable to network and cyberspace security. It consists of the following nine main chapters: Chapter 1 provides the basic concepts and ideas of cyberspace and cyberspace security, Chapters 2 and 3 provide an introduction to mathematical and computational preliminaries, respectively. Chapters 4 discusses the basic ideas and system of secret-key cryptography, whereas Chapters 5, 6, and 7 discuss the basic ideas and systems of public-key cryptography based on integer factorization, discrete logarithms, and elliptic curves, respectively. Quantum-safe cryptography is presented in Chapter 8 and offensive cryptography, particularly cryptovirology, is covered in Chapter 9. This book can be used as a secondary text for final-year undergraduate students and first-year postgraduate students for courses in Computer, Network, and Cyberspace Security. Researchers and practitioners working in cyberspace security and network security will also find this book useful as a reference.

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Tokamak Engineering Mechanics

By: Yuntao Song,Weiyue Wu,Shijun Du

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Tokamak Engineering Mechanics

By: Yuntao Song,Weiyue Wu,Shijun Du

Tokamak Engineering Mechanics offers concise and thorough coverage of engineering mechanics theory and application for tokamaks, and the material is reinforced by numerous examples. Chapter topics include general principles, static mechanics, dynamic mechanics, thermal fluid mechanics and multiphysics structural mechanics of tokamak structure analysis. The theoretical principle of the design and the methods of the analysis for various components and load conditions are presented, while the latest engineering technologies are also introduced. The book will provide readers involved in the study of mechanical/fusion engineering with a general understanding of tokamak engineering mechanics. Yuntao Song is Head of the Tokamak Design Division at the Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academic of Science (ASIPP), China.

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Poetry and Power of Judgment

The Aesthetic Unity of Chinese Classical Poetry

By: Song Ye

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Poetry and Power of Judgment

The Aesthetic Unity of Chinese Classical Poetry

By: Song Ye

This book examines Chinese traditional poetry with an emphasis on the sources of pleasure in creating and appreciating classical Chinese poems and the basis for valid aesthetic judgments about poetry. The pleasure derived from art plays a crucial role in people’s evaluation of its worth. This book shows that Chinese classical poetics and Western aesthetics agree on the sources of aesthetic pleasure. Both hold, despite their obvious differences, that aesthetic taste essentially involves cognition. The book explores important ideas in traditional Chinese poetry, emphasizing that “Poetry is founded upon the power of judgement (shi).” This central idea guides other key concepts throughout the history of Chinese poetics, revealing the fundamental principles of creating and appreciating poetic art. The author presents new views of traditional Chinese poetry and poetics by unifying these long-dispersed basic propositions into a new coherent cognitivist framework that also gives due importance to emotion. Scholars and students studying Chinese literature, poetics, philosophy of art, and philosophy of mind will find this book interesting.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040048013

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Taiwan Cinema as Soft Power

Authorship, Transnationality, Historiography

By: Song Hwee Lim

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Taiwan Cinema as Soft Power

Authorship, Transnationality, Historiography

By: Song Hwee Lim

Why has Taiwanese film been so appealing to film directors, critics, and audiences across the world? This book argues that because Taiwan is a nation without hard political and economic power, cinema becomes a form of soft power tool that Taiwan uses to attract global attention, to gain support, and to build allies. Author Song Hwee Lim shows how this goal has been achieved by Taiwanese directors whose films win the hearts and minds of foreign audiences to make Taiwan a major force in world cinema. The book maps Taiwan's cinematic output in the twenty-first century through the three keywords in the book's subtitle-authorship, transnationality, historiography. Its object of analysis is the legacy of Taiwan New Cinema, a movement that begun in the early 1980s that has had a lasting impact upon filmmakers and cinephiles worldwide for nearly forty years. By examining case studies that include Hou Hsiao-hsien, Ang Lee, and Tsai Ming-liang, this book suggests that authorship is central to Taiwan cinema's ability to transcend borders to the extent that the historiographical writing of Taiwan cinema has to be reimagined. It also looks at the scaling down of soft power from the global to the regional via a cultural imaginary called little freshness, which describes films and cultural products from Taiwan that have become hugely popular in China and Hong Kong. In presenting Taiwan cinema's significance as a case of a small nation with enormous soft power, this book hopes to recast the terms and stakes of both cinema studies and soft power studies in academia.

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Oxford University Press

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0197503373

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Smart Supply Chain Finance

By: Hua Song

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Smart Supply Chain Finance

By: Hua Song

This book focuses on the connotation and the basic structure of smart supply chain finance and on this basis, systematically explores the elements of smart supply chain finance innovation, and further proposes a five-dimensional model for the realization of smart supply chain finance-SMART. The book also explores the risk management issues of smart supply chain finance from the perspective of industrial risk management.

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9811659974

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Mapping Modern Beijing

Space, Emotion, Literary Topography

By: Weijie Song

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Mapping Modern Beijing

Space, Emotion, Literary Topography

By: Weijie Song

Mapping Modern Beijing investigates the five methods of representing Beijing-a warped hometown, a city of snapshots and manners, an aesthetic city, an imperial capital in comparative and cross-cultural perspective, and a displaced city on the Sinophone and diasporic postmemory-by authors travelling across mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and overseas Sinophone and non-Chinese communities. The metamorphosis of Beijing's everyday spaces and the structural transformation of private and public emotions unfold Manchu writer Lao She's Beijing complex about a warped native city. Zhang Henshui's popular snapshots of fleeting shocks and everlasting sorrows illustrate his affective mapping of urban transition and human manners in Republican Beijing. Female poet and architect Lin Huiyin captures an aesthetic and picturesque city vis- -vis the political and ideological urban planning. The imagined imperial capital constructed in bilingual, transcultural, and comparative works by Lin Yutang, Princess Der Ling, and Victor Segalen highlights the pleasures and pitfalls of collecting local knowledge and presenting Orientalist and Cosmopolitan visions. In the shadow of World Wars and Cold War, a multilayered displaced Beijing appears in the Sinophone postmemory by diasporic Beijing native Liang Shiqiu, Taiwan sojourners Zhong Lihe and Lin Haiyin, and migr martial arts novelist Jin Yong in Hong Kong. Weijie Song situates Beijing in a larger context of modern Chinese-language urban imaginations, and charts the emotional topography of the city against the backdrop of the downfall of the Manchu Empire, the rise of modern nation-state, the 1949 great divide, and the formation of Cold War and globalizing world. Drawing from literary canons to exotic narratives, from modernist poetry to chivalric fantasy, from popular culture to urban planning, Song explores the complex nexus of urban spaces, archives of emotions, and literary topography of Beijing in its long journey from imperial capital to Republican city and to socialist metropolis.

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Oxford University Press

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0190200677

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Donkey Baby

From Beijing to Berkeley and Beyond

By: Sonia J. Song

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Donkey Baby

From Beijing to Berkeley and Beyond

By: Sonia J. Song

Carried by a donkey during the People’s Liberation Army’s triumphant march to Beijing in 1948-49, a newborn at the birth of New China. Spent her formative years in an idyllic showcase boarding kindergarten, sometimes sitting on the lap of frequent visitor Ho Chi Minh. Daughter of a cabinet minister and member of the communist elite, she saw up-close the power struggles as the turbulent years unfolded: purges, the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution, and reform attempts. Marched with Che Guevara through Tiananmen Square while in middle school. Faced a crowd of thousands calling her names during the Cultural Revolution. She was forced to watch her mother being tortured by Red Guards. Treated ailing villagers as a barefoot doctor in a commune. Swam across the Yangtze with a rifle on her back when she was a soldier in the People’s Liberation Army. Defied the commissars by folk-dancing in England when she was a government exchange student and under tight control. Trekked the roof of the world in Tibet and Nepal as a tour guide, and savored a high-altitude romance with her mountaineering French lover. Interpreted for Chinese delegations in UN and private meetings with George H. W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, Ferdinand Marcos, and Pope John Paul II. Entered UC Berkeley and earned a master’s and a Ph.D. in comparative legal studies. Saw her dreams for China dashed as students in Tiananmen Square fell under gunfire in June 1989. She refused to back down when the Chinese consulate confiscated her passport for her pro-democracy activities, and stood up to a false accusation that she was a double agent. Survived a vicious frame-up and million-dollar lawsuit. She seized opportunity from adversity and founded Human Harmony ADR, the Bay Area’s first Chinese-English bilingual mediation service. Endured abortion, miscarriage, and acquaintance rape. She raised two good sons as a single mother. Her memoir intertwines intimate personal experience with major events in modern China. Unflagging in her idealism, she never stopped searching for something new to believe in after Mao. Politically active, spiritually grounded, and enjoying soul-satisfying relationships, Sonia Song now lives in Marin County, California and continues to pursue her dream of being a bridge between East and West, China and America. She offers this memoir to her hometown at the time of the Olympics in Beijing. Donkey Baby is her story.

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1467867918

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Number Theory for Computing

By: Song Y. Yan

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Number Theory for Computing

By: Song Y. Yan

This book provides a good introduction to the classical elementary number theory and the modern algorithmic number theory, and their applications in computing and information technology, including computer systems design, cryptography and network security. In this second edition proofs of many theorems have been provided, further additions and corrections were made.

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366204773X

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Traces of Grand Peace

Classics and State Activism in Imperial China

By: Jaeyoon Song

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Traces of Grand Peace

Classics and State Activism in Imperial China

By: Jaeyoon Song

Since the second century BC the Confucian Classics, endorsed by the successive ruling houses of imperial China, had stood in tension with the statist ideals of “big government.” In Northern Song China (960–1127), a group of reform-minded statesmen and thinkers sought to remove the tension between the two by revisiting the highly controversial classic, the Rituals of Zhou: the administrative blueprint of an archaic bureaucratic state with the six ministries of some 370 offices staffed by close to 94,000 men. With their revisionist approaches, they reinvented it as the constitution of state activism. Most importantly, the reform-councilor Wang Anshi’s (1021–1086) new commentary on the Rituals of Zhou rose to preeminence during the New Policies period (ca. 1068–1125), only to be swept into the dustbin of history afterward. By reconstructing his revisionist exegesis from its partial remains, this book illuminates the interplay between classics, thinkers, and government in statist reform, and explains why the uneasy marriage between classics and state activism had to fail in imperial China.

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1684170826

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