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Beyond Borders

Stories of Yunnanese Chinese Migrants of Burma

By: Wen-Chin Chang

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Beyond Borders

Stories of Yunnanese Chinese Migrants of Burma

By: Wen-Chin Chang

The Yunnanese from southwestern China have for millennia traded throughout upland Southeast Asia. Burma in particular has served as a "back door" to Yunnan, providing a sanctuary for political refugees and economic opportunities for trade explorers. Since the Chinese Communist takeover in 1949 and subsequent political upheavals in China, an unprecedented number of Yunnanese refugees have fled to Burma. Through a personal narrative approach, Beyond Borders is the first ethnography to focus on the migration history and transnational trading experiences of contemporary Yunnanese Chinese migrants (composed of both Yunnanese Han and Muslims) who reside in Burma and those who have moved from Burma and resettled in Thailand, Taiwan, and China.Since the 1960s, Yunnanese Chinese migrants of Burma have dominated the transnational trade in opium, jade, and daily consumption goods. Wen-Chin Chang writes with deep knowledge of this trade's organization from the 1960s of mule-driven caravans to the use of modern transportation, and she reconstructs trading routes while examining embedded sociocultural meanings. These Yunnanese migrants’ mobility attests to the prevalence of travel not only by the privileged but also by different kinds of people. Their narratives disclose individual life processes as well as networks of connections, modes of transportation, and differences between the experiences of men and women. Through traveling they have carried on the mobile livelihoods of their predecessors, expanding overland trade beyond its historical borderlands between Yunnan and upland Southeast Asia to journeys further afield by land, sea, and air.

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Cornell University Press

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0801454506

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Stories Of Nine Cities

Volume 1

By: Wen DaoYanDeng

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Stories Of Nine Cities

Volume 1

By: Wen DaoYanDeng

In the past, her wish was very small, small enough to only have a home was enough. Even if she had to helplessly watch her beloved marry someone else, she would still be able to smile and offer her blessings. But why couldn't such a simple wish be fulfilled? What went wrong? She didn't understand. This enmity and hatred between countries, the common people in this world, it was just a joke in the human world.

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923

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Funstory

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1636669727

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9781636669724

Advances in Neural Networks - ISNN 2009

6th International Symposium on Neural Networks, ISNN 2009 Wuhan, China, May 26-29, 2009 Proceedings

By: Wen Yu,Haibo He

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Advances in Neural Networks - ISNN 2009

6th International Symposium on Neural Networks, ISNN 2009 Wuhan, China, May 26-29, 2009 Proceedings

By: Wen Yu,Haibo He

The three volume set LNCS 5551/5552/5553 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Neural Networks, ISNN 2009, held in Wuhan, China in May 2009. The 409 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 1.235 submissions. The papers are organized in 20 topical sections on theoretical analysis, stability, time-delay neural networks, machine learning, neural modeling, decision making systems, fuzzy systems and fuzzy neural networks, support vector machines and kernel methods, genetic algorithms, clustering and classification, pattern recognition, intelligent control, optimization, robotics, image processing, signal processing, biomedical applications, fault diagnosis, telecommunication, sensor network and transportation systems, as well as applications.

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1278

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3642015123

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9783642015120

Current Topics in Osteoporosis

By: Hong-wen Deng,Yao-Zhong Liu

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Current Topics in Osteoporosis

By: Hong-wen Deng,Yao-Zhong Liu

This book reviews important topics in osteoporosis, with the emphasis on both clinical management and basic research of the disease. From the clinical perspective, topics covering pathogenesis, diagnosis, and treatment of osteoporosis are extensively elaborated. Several more chapters complement clinical overview of osteoporosis, that discuss the effects of nutrition and exercise to bone health, the application of biochemical markers in osteoporosis diagnosis, novel potential drug targets for osteoporosis treatment, and osteoporosis in males and in children. As the prevalence of osteoporosis now reaches epidemiological levels, epidemiology and social impacts of osteoporosis is also reviewed in the book. Basic research on osteoporosis is also highlighted in the book, with a number of chapters dedicated to the review of genetics of osteoporosis, animal models for osteoporosis, and statistical methods in osteoporosis study.

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World Scientific

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9812561536

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9789812561534

My Super Pretty Wife

Volume 18

By: Wen Ding

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My Super Pretty Wife

Volume 18

By: Wen Ding

Mercenary King Chen Yang returned to the city to protect his comrade's sister, the goddess. In the bustling city, Chen Yang was like a fish in water, carefree and at ease. And to see how the previous generation's soldiers would use their iron fists and wits to build a business empire...

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970

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Funstory

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1636459943

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Cooperative Control of Complex Network Systems with Dynamic Topologies

By: Guanghui Wen,Wenwu Yu,Yuezu Lv,Peijun Wang

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Cooperative Control of Complex Network Systems with Dynamic Topologies

By: Guanghui Wen,Wenwu Yu,Yuezu Lv,Peijun Wang

Far from being separate entities, many social and engineering systems can be considered as complex network systems (CNSs) associated with closely linked interactions with neighbouring entities such as the Internet and power grids. Roughly speaking, a CNS refers to a networking system consisting of lots of interactional individuals, exhibiting fascinating collective behaviour that cannot always be anticipated from the inherent properties of the individuals themselves. As one of the most fundamental examples of cooperative behaviour, consensus within CNSs (or the synchronization of complex networks) has gained considerable attention from various fields of research, including systems science, control theory and electrical engineering. This book mainly studies consensus of CNSs with dynamics topologies - unlike most existing books that have focused on consensus control and analysis for CNSs under a fixed topology. As most practical networks have limited communication ability, switching graphs can be used to characterize real-world communication topologies, leading to a wider range of practical applications. This book provides some novel multiple Lyapunov functions (MLFs), good candidates for analysing the consensus of CNSs with directed switching topologies, while each chapter provides detailed theoretical analyses according to the stability theory of switched systems. Moreover, numerical simulations are provided to validate the theoretical results. Both professional researchers and laypeople will benefit from this book.

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CRC Press

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1000400182

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9781000400182

Heaven Slaughtering Sword God

Volume 4

By: Wen Anliang

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Heaven Slaughtering Sword God

Volume 4

By: Wen Anliang

The young eagle wanted to expand Ling Yunzhi, and he had refined the Thousand Hammer Heart Tempering Stone. To shake the heavens and the earth, what need was there to be afraid of the cold and blazing sun?! Thousand year Sword Spirit, reincarnated. With the help of the dragon vein, as well as the cultivation of a heaven rank cultivation technique, let's see how he kills the heavens with his divine sword in this life!

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1647573734

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Distributed Cooperative Control of Multi-agent Systems

By: Wenwu Yu,Guanghui Wen,Guanrong Chen,Jinde Cao

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Distributed Cooperative Control of Multi-agent Systems

By: Wenwu Yu,Guanghui Wen,Guanrong Chen,Jinde Cao

A detailed and systematic introduction to the distributed cooperative control of multi-agent systems from a theoretical, network perspective Features detailed analysis and discussions on the distributed cooperative control and dynamics of multi-agent systems Covers comprehensively first order, second order and higher order systems, swarming and flocking behaviors Provides a broad theoretical framework for understanding the fundamentals of distributed cooperative control

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254

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119246202

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9781119246206

Innovative Computational Intelligence: A Rough Guide to 134 Clever Algorithms

By: Bo Xing,Wen-Jing Gao

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Innovative Computational Intelligence: A Rough Guide to 134 Clever Algorithms

By: Bo Xing,Wen-Jing Gao

The first notable feature of this book is its innovation: Computational intelligence (CI), a fast evolving area, is currently attracting lots of researchers’ attention in dealing with many complex problems. At present, there are quite a lot competing books existing in the market. Nevertheless, the present book is markedly different from the existing books in that it presents new paradigms of CI that have rarely mentioned before, as opposed to the traditional CI techniques or methodologies employed in other books. During the past decade, a number of new CI algorithms are proposed. Unfortunately, they spread in a number of unrelated publishing directions which may hamper the use of such published resources. These provide us with motivation to analyze the existing research for categorizing and synthesizing it in a meaningful manner. The mission of this book is really important since those algorithms are going to be a new revolution in computer science. We hope it will stimulate the readers to make novel contributions or even start a new paradigm based on nature phenomena. Although structured as a textbook, the book's straightforward, self-contained style will also appeal to a wide audience of professionals, researchers and independent learners. We believe that the book will be instrumental in initiating an integrated approach to complex problems by allowing cross-fertilization of design principles from different design philosophies. The second feature of this book is its comprehensiveness: Through an extensive literature research, there are 134 innovative CI algorithms covered in this book.

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469

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3319034049

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9783319034041

Cute Princess Goes Downhill

Volume 1

By: Xiao Wen

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Cute Princess Goes Downhill

Volume 1

By: Xiao Wen

Furthermore, there was also a little County Princess of a Essence Monster. She had always been a Title of the Princess, but it was just that she had not lived for a day with the Patriarch of the Upper County. Her name was Lin Rong.Not only was she a Ancient Spirit Essence Monster, she was also very mischievous. Even the hermit Cultivator on the mountain could not stand her ruckus and thought of ways to chase her down the mountain. Today was the day Lin Rong would go down the mountain.

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401

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Funstory

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1647960827

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Sacrifices of Mo's Supporters

Volume 1

By: Wen Li

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Sacrifices of Mo's Supporters

Volume 1

By: Wen Li

At the end of the Warring States Period, the Qin Kingdom began to become more and more powerful after the Shang Martingale Change Method was adopted. After the internal strife of Lao Ai and Lu Buwei, the First Emperor, Ying Zheng, appointed Li Si as the prime minister, and Wang Jian and Huan Gonggong as the grand generals. This action infuriated all the people in the world. Some of them raised their hands to fight back, and the most powerful force was the Mo family. Since the Mo family had always followed the strategy of "loving each other but attacking each other", the world's righteous scholars all responded, and those who responded threw life and death away, and the people of the martial world all revered them as "ink people". Faced with the pressure of the Blizzard Qin, could the Mo family turn the tide? This was how a life-and-death duel would begin? [Previous Chapter] [Table of Contents] [Next Chapter]

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Funstory

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1648843026

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The Alienated Academy

Culture and Politics in Republican China, 1919–1937

By: Wen-hsin Yeh

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The Alienated Academy

Culture and Politics in Republican China, 1919–1937

By: Wen-hsin Yeh

The enormous changes in twentieth-century Chinese higher education up to the Sino-Japanese War are detailed in this pioneering work. Yeh examines the impact of instruction in English and of the introduction of science and engineering into the curriculum. Such innovations spurred the movement of higher education away from the gentry academies focused on classical studies and propelled it toward modern middle-class colleges with diverse programs. Yeh provides a typology of Chinese institutions of higher learning in the Republican period and detailed studies of representative universities. She also describes student life and prominent academic personalities in various seats of higher learning. Social changes and the political ferment outside the academy affected students and faculty alike, giving rise, as Yeh contends, to a sense of alienation on the eve of war.

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BRILL

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1684172861

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9781684172863

Beyond Borders

Stories of Yunnanese Chinese Migrants of Burma

By: Wen-Chin Chang

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Beyond Borders

Stories of Yunnanese Chinese Migrants of Burma

By: Wen-Chin Chang

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Cornell University Press

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0801454506

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Beyond Borders

Beyond Borders

Stories Of Nine Cities

Stories Of Nine Cities

Advances in Neural Networks - ISNN 2009

Advances in Neural Networks - ISNN 2009

Current Topics in Osteoporosis

Current Topics in Osteoporosis

My Super Pretty Wife

My Super Pretty Wife

Cooperative Control of Complex Network Systems with Dynamic Topologies

Cooperative Control of Complex Network Systems with Dynamic Topologies

Heaven Slaughtering Sword God

Heaven Slaughtering Sword God

Distributed Cooperative Control of Multi-agent Systems

Distributed Cooperative Control of Multi-agent Systems

Innovative Computational Intelligence: A Rough Guide to 134 Clever Algorithms

Innovative Computational Intelligence: A Rough Guide to 134 Clever Algorithms

Cute Princess Goes Downhill

Cute Princess Goes Downhill

Sacrifices of Mo's Supporters

Sacrifices of Mo's Supporters

The Alienated Academy

The Alienated Academy

Beyond Borders

Beyond Borders

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