On the day of the wedding, not only did the bridal sedan chair of his beloved not arrive, it was instead carried into the palace to celebrate for the old emperor. The old emperor passed away, the one in love stepped on her to succeed the throne. As the Conspiracy Consort, her limbs and veins were all cut off by aphrodisiac, and she was buried in the Tomb of the Underground Emperor! In exchange for her death, all the chickens and dogs in the world would be raised to the heavens! When she woke up again, time had flowed back to three years ago. She was still a weak girl, her father was kind and her mother was kind, her sister was cute, and the person in her heart was still a modest gentleman. Huo Mingzhu sneered from the bottom of her heart. All of the peaceful love and camaraderie was just an illusion. She had already lost her life and would never believe their flowery words again.
On the day of the wedding, not only did the bridal sedan chair of his beloved not arrive, it was instead carried into the palace to celebrate for the old emperor. The old emperor passed away, the one in love stepped on her to succeed the throne. As the Conspiracy Consort, her limbs and veins were all cut off by aphrodisiac, and she was buried in the Tomb of the Underground Emperor! In exchange for her death, all the chickens and dogs in the world would be raised to the heavens! When she woke up again, time had flowed back to three years ago. She was still a weak girl, her father was kind and her mother was kind, her sister was cute, and the person in her heart was still a modest gentleman. Huo Mingzhu sneered from the bottom of her heart. All of the peaceful love and camaraderie was just an illusion. She had already lost her life and would never believe their flowery words again.
On the day of the wedding, not only did the bridal sedan chair of his beloved not arrive, it was instead carried into the palace to celebrate for the old emperor. The old emperor passed away, the one in love stepped on her to succeed the throne. As the Conspiracy Consort, her limbs and veins were all cut off by aphrodisiac, and she was buried in the Tomb of the Underground Emperor! In exchange for her death, all the chickens and dogs in the world would be raised to the heavens! When she woke up again, time had flowed back to three years ago. She was still a weak girl, her father was kind and her mother was kind, her sister was cute, and the person in her heart was still a modest gentleman. Huo Mingzhu sneered from the bottom of her heart. All of the peaceful love and camaraderie was just an illusion. She had already lost her life and would never believe their flowery words again.
On the day of the wedding, not only did the bridal sedan chair of his beloved not arrive, it was instead carried into the palace to celebrate for the old emperor. The old emperor passed away, the one in love stepped on her to succeed the throne. As the Conspiracy Consort, her limbs and veins were all cut off by aphrodisiac, and she was buried in the Tomb of the Underground Emperor! In exchange for her death, all the chickens and dogs in the world would be raised to the heavens! When she woke up again, time had flowed back to three years ago. She was still a weak girl, her father was kind and her mother was kind, her sister was cute, and the person in her heart was still a modest gentleman. Huo Mingzhu sneered from the bottom of her heart. All of the peaceful love and camaraderie was just an illusion. She had already lost her life and would never believe their flowery words again.
On the day of the wedding, not only did the bridal sedan chair of his beloved not arrive, it was instead carried into the palace to celebrate for the old emperor. The old emperor passed away, the one in love stepped on her to succeed the throne. As the Conspiracy Consort, her limbs and veins were all cut off by aphrodisiac, and she was buried in the Tomb of the Underground Emperor! In exchange for her death, all the chickens and dogs in the world would be raised to the heavens! When she woke up again, time had flowed back to three years ago. She was still a weak girl, her father was kind and her mother was kind, her sister was cute, and the person in her heart was still a modest gentleman. Huo Mingzhu sneered from the bottom of her heart. All of the peaceful love and camaraderie was just an illusion. She had already lost her life and would never believe their flowery words again.
On the day of the wedding, not only did the bridal sedan chair of his beloved not arrive, it was instead carried into the palace to celebrate for the old emperor. The old emperor passed away, the one in love stepped on her to succeed the throne. As the Conspiracy Consort, her limbs and veins were all cut off by aphrodisiac, and she was buried in the Tomb of the Underground Emperor! In exchange for her death, all the chickens and dogs in the world would be raised to the heavens! When she woke up again, time had flowed back to three years ago. She was still a weak girl, her father was kind and her mother was kind, her sister was cute, and the person in her heart was still a modest gentleman. Huo Mingzhu sneered from the bottom of her heart. All of the peaceful love and camaraderie was just an illusion. She had already lost her life and would never believe their flowery words again.
On the day of the wedding, not only did the bridal sedan chair of his beloved not arrive, it was instead carried into the palace to celebrate for the old emperor. The old emperor passed away, the one in love stepped on her to succeed the throne. As the Conspiracy Consort, her limbs and veins were all cut off by aphrodisiac, and she was buried in the Tomb of the Underground Emperor! In exchange for her death, all the chickens and dogs in the world would be raised to the heavens!When she woke up again, time had flowed back to three years ago. She was still a weak girl, her father was kind and her mother was kind, her sister was cute, and the person in her heart was still a modest gentleman. Huo Mingzhu sneered from the bottom of her heart. All of the peaceful love and camaraderie was just an illusion. She had already lost her life and would never believe their flowery words again.
On the day of the wedding, not only did the bridal sedan chair of his beloved not arrive, it was instead carried into the palace to celebrate for the old emperor. The old emperor passed away, the one in love stepped on her to succeed the throne. As the Conspiracy Consort, her limbs and veins were all cut off by aphrodisiac, and she was buried in the Tomb of the Underground Emperor! In exchange for her death, all the chickens and dogs in the world would be raised to the heavens! When she woke up again, time had flowed back to three years ago. She was still a weak girl, her father was kind and her mother was kind, her sister was cute, and the person in her heart was still a modest gentleman. Huo Mingzhu sneered from the bottom of her heart. All of the peaceful love and camaraderie was just an illusion. She had already lost her life and would never believe their flowery words again.
Ten years of love in exchange for a heart-wrenching pain, she resolutely chose to flee. When she saw her again, there were two little bun by her side."Mr. Li, please behave yourself. The child has nothing to do with you.
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!
On the day of the wedding, not only did the bridal sedan chair of his beloved not arrive, it was instead carried into the palace to celebrate for the old emperor. The old emperor passed away, the one in love stepped on her to succeed the throne. As the Conspiracy Consort, her limbs and veins were all cut off by aphrodisiac, and she was buried in the Tomb of the Underground Emperor! In exchange for her death, all the chickens and dogs in the world would be raised to the heavens! When she woke up again, time had flowed back to three years ago. She was still a weak girl, her father was kind and her mother was kind, her sister was cute, and the person in her heart was still a modest gentleman. Huo Mingzhu sneered from the bottom of her heart. All of the peaceful love and camaraderie was just an illusion. She had already lost her life and would never believe their flowery words again.
In the past decades, quotation theories have developed roughly along three lines—quotation types, meaning effects, and theoretical orientations toward the semantics/pragmatics distinction. Currently, whether the quoted expression is truth-conditionally relevant to the quotational sentence, and if there is a truth-conditional impact, whether it is generated via semantic or pragmatic processes, have become the central concerns of quotation studies. In this book, quotation is clearly defined for the first time as a constituent embedded within yet distinctive from the quotational sentence. Also, as the first monograph to address the semantics/pragmatics boundary dispute over quotation, it argues that the semantic content of quotation amounts to its contribution to the intuitive truth-conditional content of the quotational utterance via two modes of presentation, which are incarnated in the functioning of quotation marks and manifested as use and mention. The use/mention-based analysis in this book can shed light on the semantic theorizing of other metalinguistic phenomena, while the semantics/pragmatics perspective will provide methodological implications for other relevant studies. The new conception of quotation and thought-provoking analysis on use/mention, truth-conditional pragmatics, and the semantics/pragmatics boundary in this book will appeal to scholars and students in philosophy of language and linguistics. It will also serve as a clear guide to the current state of quotation studies and how to formulate a semantic theory of quotation.
This book ambitiously presents the current directions and goals of the Chinese idea of modernization in education. Searching for a neutral way to understand educational reform and policy-making in the midst of many different theories in the field, the authors combine the theories of ecology, regional studies, and educational philosophy to focus on the hot topics relating to the current problems in Chinese education. In addition to the theory of education, it offers an interdisciplinary approach to educational policy and administration, including perspectives from history, evaluation and (big) data processing, modernization, planning-making, curriculum and teaching, element analysis etc. within or beyond the limits of education. This book is a valuable resource for policy-makers and administrators as well as teachers and students majoring in education or related fields. It is also beneficial to those interested in interdisciplinary approaches to educational theory studies and regional studies in education, and practitioners in schools and higher education institutes as well as anyone wanting insights into Chinese education from the perspective of regional studies.
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.
On the day of the wedding, not only did the bridal sedan chair of his beloved not arrive, it was instead carried into the palace to celebrate for the old emperor. The old emperor passed away, the one in love stepped on her to succeed the throne. As the Conspiracy Consort, her limbs and veins were all cut off by aphrodisiac, and she was buried in the Tomb of the Underground Emperor! In exchange for her death, all the chickens and dogs in the world would be raised to the heavens! When she woke up again, time had flowed back to three years ago. She was still a weak girl, her father was kind and her mother was kind, her sister was cute, and the person in her heart was still a modest gentleman. Huo Mingzhu sneered from the bottom of her heart. All of the peaceful love and camaraderie was just an illusion. She had already lost her life and would never believe their flowery words again.
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.
How did ancestral arthropods successfully diversify to colonize the land? How do insects use their wings to exploit terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems by metamorphosis? The causes and consequences of metamorphosis are still poorly understood in biology. This collection of essays examines the molecular basis underlying the metamorphosis regulation of the white wax scale insect (WWS), a fascinating insect that undergoes different metamorphoses between males and females. It shows that the WWS has produced great economic or medical benefits for human beings for thousands of years. This book provides interesting information for scientific and technical personnel, as well as undergraduate and graduate students engaged in entomology, molecular biology and biogeography.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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