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Japanese Idols Go to China

Cultural Adaptation and Nationalism

By: Xiaofei Tu,Wendy Xie

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Japanese Idols Go to China

Cultural Adaptation and Nationalism

By: Xiaofei Tu,Wendy Xie

This book situates the Chinese acceptance of Japanese popular culture, specifically the intriguing and sometimes awkward relationship between the “idol” groups AKB48 and SNH48, within the broad context of nationalist ideology and international relations in East Asia. It aims to enhance the knowledge and understanding of the reader about contemporary East Asian cultural exchanges and nationalist expressions in concrete forms. Additionally, this book attempts to discover heretofore overlooked aspects of nationalism’s metamorphosis in both China and Japan and challenge the existing scholarly and popular understandings of nationalism. By interrogating the nationalism factor in popular culture in Chinese and Japanese contexts, this books concludes that popular culture fandom can both be a culprit in promoting hegemonic political ideologies and serve as a potential antidote.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1793608180

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9781793608185

Contesting the Yellow Dragon

Ethnicity, Religion, and the State in the Sino-Tibetan Borderland, 1379-2009

By: Xiaofei Kang,Donald S. Sutton

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Contesting the Yellow Dragon

Ethnicity, Religion, and the State in the Sino-Tibetan Borderland, 1379-2009

By: Xiaofei Kang,Donald S. Sutton

Winner of the 2016 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award This book is the first long-term study of the Sino-Tibetan borderland. It traces relationships and mutual influence among Tibetans, Chinese, Hui Muslims, Qiang and others over some 600 years, focusing on the old Chinese garrison city of Songpan and the nearby religious center of Huanglong, or Yellow Dragon. Combining historical research and fieldwork, Xiaofei Kang and Donald Sutton examine the cultural politics of northern Sichuan from early Ming through Communist revolution to the age of global tourism, bringing to light creative local adaptations in culture, ethnicity and religion as successive regimes in Beijing struggle to control and transform this distant frontier.

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BRILL

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9004319239

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9789004319233

Family Instructions for the Yan Clan and Other Works by Yan Zhitui (531–590s)

By: Xiaofei Tian

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Family Instructions for the Yan Clan and Other Works by Yan Zhitui (531–590s)

By: Xiaofei Tian

Yan Zhitui (531–590s) was a courtier and cultural luminary who lived a colourful life during one of the most chaotic periods, known as the Northern and Southern Dynasties, in Chinese history. Beginning his career in the southern Liang court, he was taken captive to the north after the Liang capital fell, and served several northern dynasties. Today he remains one of the best-known medieval writers for his book-length “family instructions” (jiaxun), the earliest surviving and the most influential of its kind. Completed in his last years, the work resembles a long letter addressed to his sons, in which he discusses a wide range of topics from family relations and remarriage to religious faith, philology, cultural arts, and codes of conduct in public and private life. It is filled with vivid details of contemporary social life, and with the author’s keen observations of the mores of north and south China. This is a new, complete translation into English, with critical notes and introduction, and based on recent scholarship, of Yan Zhitui’s Family Instructions, and of all of his extant literary works, including his self-annotated poetic autobiography and a never-before-translated fragmentary rhapsody, as well as of his biographies in dynastic histories.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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1501503138

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9781501503139

Supergrid and Superblock

Lessons in Urban Structure from China and Japan

By: Xiaofei Chen

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Supergrid and Superblock

Lessons in Urban Structure from China and Japan

By: Xiaofei Chen

In this superbly illustrated book Xiaofei Chen presents the first analysis in English of a ubiquitous East Asian urban phenomenon: the supergrid and superblock urban structure. The book opens with an introductory essay by Barrie Shelton in which he sets the scene for what is to follow, emphasizing how alien this structure was to Western urban design culture where radial patterns of development were the norm. Then, in her first chapter, Chen explains the make-up of the supergrid and superblock urban structure and its contrasting Chinese and Japanese forms. In the following three chapters she digs deep into the history, cultural origins, and underlying design philosophy of the supergrid and superblock to show how, under different cultural influences, the model has developed into two distinct forms. Two further chapters (5 and 6) provide detailed analysis of two sample superblocks in China (in Xi’an and Nanjing) and two in Japan (in Kyoto and Osaka) to reveal the relative advantages and disadvantages of how the structure is manifest in the two countries. In her conclusion she discusses her findings to show how and why the supergrid and superblock structure is a valuable urban design model which, with regional adjustments, can be used effectively in cities other than those of East Asia.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000737314

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9781000737318

Beacon Fire and Shooting Star

The Literary Culture of the Liang (502–557)

By: Xiaofei Tian

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Beacon Fire and Shooting Star

The Literary Culture of the Liang (502–557)

By: Xiaofei Tian

The Liang dynasty (502-557) is one of the most brilliant and creative periods in Chinese history and one of the most underestimated and misunderstood. Under the Liang, literary activities, such as writing, editing, anthologizing, and cataloguing, were pursued on an unprecedented scale, yet the works of this era are often dismissed as "decadent" and no more than a shallow prelude to the glories of the Tang. This book is devoted to contextualizing the literary culture of this era--not only the literary works themselves but also the physical process of literary production such as the copying and transmitting of texts; activities such as book collecting, anthologizing, cataloguing, and various forms of literary scholarship; and the intricate interaction of religion, particularly Buddhism, and literature. Its aim is to explore the impact of social and political structure on the literary world.

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BRILL

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1684170478

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9781684170470

The Cult of the Fox

Power, Gender, and Popular Religion in Late Imperial and Modern China

By: Xiaofei Kang

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The Cult of the Fox

Power, Gender, and Popular Religion in Late Imperial and Modern China

By: Xiaofei Kang

For more than five centuries the shamanistic fox cult has attracted large portions of the Chinese population and appealed to a wide range of social classes. Deemed illicit by imperial rulers and clerics and officially banned by republican and communist leaders, the fox cult has managed to survive and flourish in individual homes and community shrines throughout northern China. In this new work, the first to examine the fox cult as a vibrant popular religion, Xiaofei Kang explores the manifold meanings of the fox spirit in Chinese society. Kang describes various cult practices, activities of worship, and the exorcising of fox spirits to reveal how the Chinese people constructed their cultural and social values outside the gaze of offical power and morality.

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Columbia University Press

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0231133383

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9780231133388

The Halberd at Red Cliff

Jian'an and the Three Kingdoms

By: Xiaofei Tian

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The Halberd at Red Cliff

Jian'an and the Three Kingdoms

By: Xiaofei Tian

The turn of the third century CE—known as the Jian’an era or Three Kingdoms period—holds double significance for the Chinese cultural tradition. Its writings laid the foundation of classical poetry and literary criticism. Its historical personages and events have also inspired works of poetry, fiction, drama, film, and art throughout Chinese history, including Internet fantasy literature today. There is a vast body of secondary literature on these two subjects individually, but very little on their interface.The image of the Jian’an era, with its feasting, drinking, heroism, and literary panache, as well as intense male friendship, was to return time and again in the romanticized narrative of the Three Kingdoms. How did Jian’an bifurcate into two distinct nostalgias, one of which was the first paradigmatic embodiment of wen (literary graces, cultural patterning), and the other of wu (heroic martial virtue)? How did these largely segregated nostalgias negotiate with one another? And how is the predominantly male world of the Three Kingdoms appropriated by young women in contemporary China? The Halberd at Red Cliff investigates how these associations were closely related in their complex origins and then came to be divergent in their later metamorphoses.

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BRILL

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1684170923

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9781684170920

Motion Pictures and the Image of the City

A Documentary Interpretation

By: Xiaofei Hao

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Motion Pictures and the Image of the City

A Documentary Interpretation

By: Xiaofei Hao

If you’ve ever had a special attachment to a film, and also an attachment to the city it was shot in, Xiaofei Haos book will give you a fresh eye on how the city is expressed in the film by the filmmaker. From the perspective of social science, each face of the city in a film comes from a choice – shown only on the basis of the filmmakers’ selection criteria. In this process, the film becomes the cognitive map of that city. The interweaving of the city space and film language will be elaborated first from the perspective of urban studies. Then some viewpoints of tourism studies will be provided to explore the relation between the image of the city in the film and in reality. Two films about the city Taipei are looked at as case studies: A One and a Two (Yi Yi, Director Edward Yang, 2000) and Au Revoir Taipei (Director Arvin Chen, 2010).

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Springer

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3658143401

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9783658143404

Integrating Edge Intelligence and Blockchain

What, Why, and How

By: Xiaofei Wang,Chao Qiu,Xiaoxu Ren,Zehui Xiong,Victor C. M. Leung,Dusit Niyato

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Integrating Edge Intelligence and Blockchain

What, Why, and How

By: Xiaofei Wang,Chao Qiu,Xiaoxu Ren,Zehui Xiong,Victor C. M. Leung,Dusit Niyato

This book examines whether the integration of edge intelligence (EI) and blockchain (BC) can open up new horizons for providing ubiquitous intelligent services. Accordingly, the authors conduct a summarization of the recent research efforts on the existing works for EI and BC, further painting a comprehensive picture of the limitation of EI and why BC could benefit EI. To examine how to integrate EI and BC, the authors discuss the BC-driven EI and tailoring BC to EI, including an overview, motivations, and integrated frameworks. Finally, some challenges and future directions are explored. The book explores the technologies associated with the integrated system between EI and BC, and further bridges the gap between immature BC and EI-amicable BC. Explores the integration of edge intelligence (EI) and blockchain (BC), including their integrated motivations, frameworks and challenges; Presents how BC-driven EI can realize computing-power management, data administration, and model optimization; Describes how to tailor BC to better support EI, including flexible consensus protocol, effective incentive mechanism, intellectuality smart contract, and scalable BC system tailoring; Presents some key research challenges and future directions for the integrated system.

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Springer Nature

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3031101863

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9783031101861

Edge AI

Convergence of Edge Computing and Artificial Intelligence

By: Xiaofei Wang,Yiwen Han,Victor C. M. Leung,Dusit Niyato,Xueqiang Yan,Xu Chen

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Edge AI

Convergence of Edge Computing and Artificial Intelligence

By: Xiaofei Wang,Yiwen Han,Victor C. M. Leung,Dusit Niyato,Xueqiang Yan,Xu Chen

As an important enabler for changing people’s lives, advances in artificial intelligence (AI)-based applications and services are on the rise, despite being hindered by efficiency and latency issues. By focusing on deep learning as the most representative technique of AI, this book provides a comprehensive overview of how AI services are being applied to the network edge near the data sources, and demonstrates how AI and edge computing can be mutually beneficial. To do so, it introduces and discusses: 1) edge intelligence and intelligent edge; and 2) their implementation methods and enabling technologies, namely AI training and inference in the customized edge computing framework. Gathering essential information previously scattered across the communication, networking, and AI areas, the book can help readers to understand the connections between key enabling technologies, e.g. a) AI applications in edge; b) AI inference in edge; c) AI training for edge; d) edge computing for AI; and e) using AI to optimize edge. After identifying these five aspects, which are essential for the fusion of edge computing and AI, it discusses current challenges and outlines future trends in achieving more pervasive and fine-grained intelligence with the aid of edge computing.

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Springer Nature

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9811561869

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9789811561863

Tao Yuanming and Manuscript Culture

The Record of a Dusty Table

By: Xiaofei Tian

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Tao Yuanming and Manuscript Culture

The Record of a Dusty Table

By: Xiaofei Tian

Winner of a 2006 Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title Award As medieval Chinese manuscripts were copied and recopied through the centuries, both mistakes and deliberate editorial changes were introduced, thereby affecting readers' impressions of the author's intent. In Tao Yuanming and Manuscript Culture, Xiaofei Tian shows how readers not only experience authors but produce them by shaping texts to their interpretation. Tian examines the mechanics and history of textual transmission in China by focusing on the evolution over the centuries of the reclusive poet Tao Yuanming into a figure of epic stature. Considered emblematic of the national character, Tao Yuanming (also known as Tao Qian, 365?-427 c.e.) is admired for having turned his back on active government service and city life to live a simple rural life of voluntary poverty. The artlessness of his poetic style is held as the highest literary and moral ideal, and literary critics have taken great pains to demonstrate perfect consistency between Tao Yuanming's life and poetry. Earlier work on Tao Yuanming has tended to accept this image, interpreting the poems to confirm the image. Tao Yuanming and Manuscript Culture is a study of how this cultural icon was produced and of the elusive traces of another, historical Tao Yuanming behind the icon. By comparing four early biographies of the poet, Tian shows how these are in large measure constructed out of Tao Yuanming's self-image as projected in his poetry and prose. Drawing on work in European medieval literature, she demonstrates the fluidity of the Chinese medieval textual world and how its materials were historically reconfigured for later purposes. Tian finds in Tao's poetic corpus not one essentialized Tao Yuanming, but multiple texts continuously produced long after the author's physical demise. Her provocative look at the influence of manuscript culture on literary perceptions transcends its immediate subject and has special resonance today, when the transition from print to electronic media is shaking the literary world in a way not unlike the transition from handwritten to print media in medieval China.

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University of Washington Press

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029580193X

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9780295801933

Enchanted Revolution

Ghosts, Shamans, and Gender Politics in Chinese Communist Propaganda, 1942-1953

By: Xiaofei Kang

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Enchanted Revolution

Ghosts, Shamans, and Gender Politics in Chinese Communist Propaganda, 1942-1953

By: Xiaofei Kang

Enchanted Revolution moves religion and gender to center stage in the Chinese Communist revolution, examining the mobilizational dynamics of anti-superstition propaganda in support of the Communist Party's rise from rural backwaters to national dominance. Xiaofei Kang argues that religion was not merely adversary for the revolutionaries-it also served as a model for the ways in which the Party mobilized support and constructed legitimacy. In this parallel and often paradoxical process, the Party attacked "superstitions" that had long supported the foundations of Chinese religious life. At the same time, Party propaganda co-opted these same religious resources for its own political ends. Kang demonstrates that the persuasive power of Party propaganda relied heavily on recasting the cosmic forces of yin and yang that sustained the traditional gender hierarchy and ritual order. Moreover, revolutionary art and literature revamped old narratives of female ghosts and ritual exorcism to inject the people with a new masculinist vision of the Party-state endowed with both scientific potency and the heavenly mandate. Gendered language and symbolism in Chinese religion thus remained central to inspiring pathos, ethos, and logos for the revolution. Enchanted Revolution sheds light on the contemporary significance of the Maoist legacy in China through a deft exploration of the complex interplay of religion, gender, and revolution.

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Oxford University Press

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0197654479

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9780197654477

Super Evil Queen to Ghost King

Volume 1

By: Wang XiaoFei

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Super Evil Queen to Ghost King

Volume 1

By: Wang XiaoFei

Ten years had passed, and she had lost her sight. She did not know that scum of a man was cruel and cruel, and did not know that scum of a woman was a fake snake or a scorpion! He had his hands and feet cut off, and his shoulder blades were gouged out. He had died a miserable death in the depths of the cold palace! Once she was reborn, she slashed through everything as she moved closer to Shangguan Hong. "Shangguan Hong, why would I, Murong Sheng, let you go?! Even if I die, I will bring you along with me on the path to the Yellow Springs!

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Funstory

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1647363748

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Japanese Idols Go to China

Japanese Idols Go to China

Contesting the Yellow Dragon

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Family Instructions for the Yan Clan and Other Works by Yan Zhitui (531–590s)

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Supergrid and Superblock

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Beacon Fire and Shooting Star

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The Halberd at Red Cliff

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Motion Pictures and the Image of the City

Motion Pictures and the Image of the City

Integrating Edge Intelligence and Blockchain

Integrating Edge Intelligence and Blockchain

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Edge AI

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Tao Yuanming and Manuscript Culture

Enchanted Revolution

Enchanted Revolution

Super Evil Queen to Ghost King

Super Evil Queen to Ghost King

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