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The Chinese Postmodern

Trauma and Irony in Chinese Avant-garde Fiction

By: Xiaobin Yang

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The Chinese Postmodern

Trauma and Irony in Chinese Avant-garde Fiction

By: Xiaobin Yang

An insightful look into contemporary Chinese avant-garde fiction and the problem of Chinese postmodernity

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University of Michigan Press

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ISBN 10

0472112414

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9780472112418

21st Century Maritime Silk Road: A Peaceful Way Forward

By: Chongwei Zheng,Ziniu Xiao,Wen Zhou,Xiaobin Chen,Xuan Chen

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21st Century Maritime Silk Road: A Peaceful Way Forward

By: Chongwei Zheng,Ziniu Xiao,Wen Zhou,Xiaobin Chen,Xuan Chen

This book focuses on understanding the characteristics of the marine environment; overall characteristic of the marine resources (especially the marine new energy) and their current utilization; important routes, channels, and ports; and the Maritime Silk Road from the perspective of international law. It also discusses the significance and opportunities of the Maritime Silk Road initiative, analyzes the challenges involved in the construction of the Maritime Silk Road and provides corresponding countermeasures. Based on the above research, this book also proposes to construct a comprehensive application platform for the Maritime Silk Road that will be a practical tool for decision-making. This book is one of the series publications on the 21st century Maritime Silk Road (shortened as “Maritime Silk Road”). This series publications cover the characteristics of the marine environment and marine new energy, remote islands and reefs construction, climate change, early warning of wave disasters, legal escort, marine environment and energy big data construction, etc. contributing to the safe and efficient construction of the Maritime Silk Road. It aims to improve our knowledge of the ocean, thus to improve the capacity for marine construction, enhance the viability of remote islands and reefs, ease the energy crisis and protect the ecological environment, improve the quality of life of residents along the Maritime Silk Road, and protect the rights, interests of the countries and regions participating in the construction of the Maritime Silk Road. It will be a valuable reference for decision-makers, researchers, and marine engineers working in the related fields.

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186

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Springer

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9811079773

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9789811079771

Feathered Serpent

A Novel

By: Xu Xiaobin

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Feathered Serpent

A Novel

By: Xu Xiaobin

ONE OF THE FOREMOST WORKS OF TWENTIETH-CENTURY CHINESE LITERATURE This beautifully portrayed epic family history spans one hundred years, from the 1890s during the later stages of the Qing Dynasty to the 1990s, traversing the experiences of five generations of women. Yu is the central character, whose life story is woven through the lives of her grandmother, mother, sisters, and niece. She loves her parents but at a tender age realizes they do not love her. After committing two unforgivable sins, she is sent away to live in the city but is soon abandoned. Yu's life becomes a quest for love; she is fragile but resilient, lonely but determined. Now, in the 1980s, Yu becomes caught up in the political storm and comes close to love but falls short. Her last chance at getting what she desires will ultimately come at a tragic cost. A political satirist in the guise of a mystical writer, Xu Xiaobin masterfully creates an atmosphere where distinctions are blurred; memories of the past and present are intertwined; realities and illusions are fused without a clear trace; and events occur in unspecified places but tinted with fairylike imaginations. Xu Xiaobin is a rare talent with a vast knowledge of history, religion, and culture, and occupies a unique place in modern Chinese literature. When Feathered Serpent won China's inaugural Creative Writing Award for women's literary fiction, it was described as "a breakthrough, a record-setting novel in China's women's literature" and "the best fiction at the end of the century in China.

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385

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Simon and Schuster

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141658420X

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9781416584209

Dunhuang Dream

By: Xu Xiaobin

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Dunhuang Dream

By: Xu Xiaobin

Named one of the Top Ten Novels of the Year in China, this award-winning novel is about three tourists who fall into a strange entanglement of love. Set against the magical backdrop of Dunhuang, China, home to thousands of painted cave murals, Dunhuang Dreams magically blends the stories of three protagonists: Xiao Xingxing, a talented young female artist, Zhang Shu, a laboratory technician from a Beijing research institute who recently quit his job, and Xiang Wuye, a medical student. These three individuals seek refuge in Dunhuang from their troubled lives, but soon find themselves in a love triangle and involved in a scandalous theft. Original and dynamic, Dunhuang Dreams harmoniously combines a contemporary story with ancient and modern Buddhist themes. It is a tale of searching, escaping from the past, and longing for true love.

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210

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Simon and Schuster

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1416584218

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9781416584216

Historical Farmland in China During 1661-1980

Reconstruction and Spatiotemporal Characteristics

By: Xiaobin Jin,Yinkang Zhou,Xuhong Yang,Yinong Cheng

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Historical Farmland in China During 1661-1980

Reconstruction and Spatiotemporal Characteristics

By: Xiaobin Jin,Yinkang Zhou,Xuhong Yang,Yinong Cheng

This book explores various approaches to reconstruct the spatial and temporal distribution of historical farmland in China. The book contains background information about political regimes, economic and social development, population changes and land resource utilization in the past 300 years in China. A literature review focuses on the assumptions, methodologies and models of reconstructing historical land-use datasets while addresses accuracy evaluation issues. Historical population size, its growth rate, and the evolution of spatial-temporal patterns of farmland in China have also been discussed. Almost all available historical data about farmland such as historical documents, archives, taxation records, statistics and research outcomes have been collected to reconstruct the amount of historical farmland. With a few principles and assumptions, a delicate Cellular Automaton (CA) and Multi-Agents (MAS) model based on bottom-up management scheme has been applied to derive the spatial-temporal distribution of farmland with the 1km*1km grid resolution for the period between 1661 and 1980 in China. Suggestions for future studies related to reconstructing historical land-use changes are then provided.

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147

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Springer

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ISBN 10

3319718797

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9783319718798

Design Technology of System-Level EMC Engineering

By: Xiaobin Tang,Bin Gao,Yu Zhang

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Design Technology of System-Level EMC Engineering

By: Xiaobin Tang,Bin Gao,Yu Zhang

This book introduces the state-of-the-art research progress of system-level EMC, including theories, design technologies, principles and applications in practice. The engineering design, simulation, prediction, analysis, test, stage control as well as effectiveness evaluation are discussed in detail with extensive project experiences, making the book an essential reference for researchers and industrial engineers.

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390

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3110562820

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9783110562828

Perform Suzhou

A Course in Intermediate to Advanced Spoken Mandarin

By: Xiaobin Jian,Jianfen Wang,Junqing Jia,Chenghua Feng

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Perform Suzhou

A Course in Intermediate to Advanced Spoken Mandarin

By: Xiaobin Jian,Jianfen Wang,Junqing Jia,Chenghua Feng

Perform Suzhou is a task- and performance-oriented textbook course for Chinese study abroad programs serving intermediate- to advanced-level learners. Performance is the key concept; developing communication skills through role playing. Field performance tasks enable students learning Chinese to refine and solidify communication skills by executing real-life tasks in the target culture, before reporting on their experiences in the classroom. The dialogues presented form the basis for improvisation for related contexts, equipping students to respond appropriately in new situations. Perform Suzhou is composed of staged units, drills, exercises and culture notes with accompanying audio. The textbook is accompanied by audio and Action! China, the supporting workbook.

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328

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Routledge

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0429957319

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9780429957314

21st Century Maritime Silk Road: A Peaceful Way Forward

By: Chongwei Zheng,Ziniu Xiao,Wen Zhou,Xiaobin Chen,Xuan Chen

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21st Century Maritime Silk Road: A Peaceful Way Forward

By: Chongwei Zheng,Ziniu Xiao,Wen Zhou,Xiaobin Chen,Xuan Chen

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Feathered Serpent

A Novel

By: Xu Xiaobin

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A Novel

By: Xu Xiaobin

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Simon and Schuster

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141658420X

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Dunhuang Dream

By: Xu Xiaobin

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By: Xu Xiaobin

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1416584218

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Chinese Revolution and Chinese Literature

By: Tao Dongfeng,Rosemary Roberts,Yang Xiaobin

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Chinese Revolution and Chinese Literature

By: Tao Dongfeng,Rosemary Roberts,Yang Xiaobin

This volume has brought together essays to explore, analyse and interpret the revolutionary tradition in modern Chinese literature over the past century from various angles. The authors examines the bodily or carnal dimension, especially the hidden implication of sexual passion, in revolutionary literature, formulate feminist critiques of the conception of women in literary expressions of revolution, explore the function of revolution as historical discourse and in historiographical representation, and discuss the reworking of “revolutionary classics” in recent literary and artistic endeavours. Here, revolution (in history and in literature) is conceptualized neither as an unquestionably progressive and creative force for a new world, nor an absolutely pejorative concept that necessarily leads to sociopolitical turmoil and tragedy. Insofar as “postrevolutionary writings” cannot but reappropriate the revolutionary spirit as their unavoidable and inseparable traumatic kernel, studies in revolutionary literature and culture, too, go through the zigzag experience of revolution in order to scrutinize its complex implications.

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330

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1443810371

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9781443810371

Feathered Serpent

A Novel

By: Xu Xiaobin

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Feathered Serpent

A Novel

By: Xu Xiaobin

Traces five generations of the family of Yu, a love-seeking Chinese woman who in young adulthood pursues redemption after committing a devastating act of rebellion and in her adult years is swept up in China's Cultural Revolution.

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Atria Books

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1416583807

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9781416583806

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The Chinese Postmodern

The Chinese Postmodern

21st Century Maritime Silk Road: A Peaceful Way Forward

21st Century Maritime Silk Road: A Peaceful Way Forward

Feathered Serpent

Feathered Serpent

Dunhuang Dream

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Historical Farmland in China During 1661-1980

Historical Farmland in China During 1661-1980

Design Technology of System-Level EMC Engineering

Design Technology of System-Level EMC Engineering

Perform Suzhou

Perform Suzhou

21st Century Maritime Silk Road: A Peaceful Way Forward

21st Century Maritime Silk Road: A Peaceful Way Forward

Feathered Serpent

Feathered Serpent

Dunhuang Dream

Dunhuang Dream

Chinese Revolution and Chinese Literature

Chinese Revolution and Chinese Literature

Feathered Serpent

Feathered Serpent

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