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An Object of Seduction

Chinese Silk in the Early Modern Transpacific Trade, 1500–1700

By: Xiaolin Duan

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An Object of Seduction

Chinese Silk in the Early Modern Transpacific Trade, 1500–1700

By: Xiaolin Duan

The first book-length English-language study focusing on the early modern export of Chinese silk to New Spain from the sixteenth to the seventeenth century, An Object of Seduction compares and contrasts the two regions from perspectives of the sericulture development, the widespread circulation of silk fashion, and the government attempts at regulating the use of silk. Xiaolin Duan argues that the increasing demand for silk on the worldwide market on the one hand contributed to the parallel development of silk fashion and sericulture in China and New Spain, and on the other hand created conflicts on imperial regulations about foreign trade and hierarchical systems. Incorporating evidence from local gazetteers, correspondence, manual books, illustrated treatises, and miscellanies, this book explores how the growing desire for and production of raw silk and silk textiles empowered individuals and societies to claim and redefine their positions in changing time and space, thus breaking away from the traditional state control.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1793614911

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9781793614919

The Rise of West Lake

A Cultural Landmark in the Song Dynasty

By: Xiaolin Duan

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The Rise of West Lake

A Cultural Landmark in the Song Dynasty

By: Xiaolin Duan

Lovely West Lake, near scenic Hangzhou on China’s east coast, has been celebrated as a major tourist site since the twelfth century. Now as then, visitors boat to its islands, stroll through its gardens, worship in its temples, and immortalize it in poetry and painting. Hangzhou and West Lake have long served as icons of Chinese landscape appreciation, literary and artistic expression, and tourism. In the first in-depth English-language study of this picturesque locale, Xiaolin Duan examines the interplay between human enterprise and the natural environment during the Song dynasty (960–1279). After the Song lost north China to the Jurchens and the imperial court fled south, a new capital was established at Hangzhou, making the area the national political and cultural center. West Lake became a model for idealized nature, fashioned by the diverse activities of its visitors. Duan shows how engagements in, on, and around West Lake influenced visitors’ conceptualization of nature and sparked the emergence of the lake as a tourist destination, highlighting how the natural landscape played a role in shaping social and cultural constructs. Incorporating evidence from miscellanies, local and temple gazetteers, paintings, maps, poems, and anecdotes, The Rise of West Lake explores the complexity of the lake as an interactive site where ecological and economic concerns contended and where spiritual pursuits overlapped with aesthetic ones.

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University of Washington Press

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0295747110

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9780295747118

State and Ethnicity in China's Southwest

By: Xiaolin Guo

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State and Ethnicity in China's Southwest

By: Xiaolin Guo

Twentieth century China has seen local societies undergo unprecedented transformations accompanied by a remarkable continuity in state practice. In this path-breaking study of two ethnically different communities, the matrilineal Mosuo and the patrilineal Han, in northwest Yunnan province, the author traces cultural change from a historical perspective in relation to the ecological environment and political systems. The treatment of state penetration into local society challenges the conventional binary narratives of state-society and Han/non-Han relations. With its interdisciplinary approach, the book enriches the anthropology of China by framing ethnicity issues in terms of local politics and inter-relationships between levels of government, and at the same time extends the analytical perimeter of the study of the Chinese state to the national periphery.

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357

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BRILL

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9047433629

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9789047433620

Decision Making, Planning, and Control Strategies for Intelligent Vehicles

By: Haotian Cao,Mingjun Li,Song Zhao,Xiaolin Song

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Decision Making, Planning, and Control Strategies for Intelligent Vehicles

By: Haotian Cao,Mingjun Li,Song Zhao,Xiaolin Song

The intelligent vehicle will play a crucial and essential role in the development of the future intelligent transportation system, which is developing toward the connected driving environment, ultimate driving safety, and comforts, as well as green efficiency. While the decision making, planning, and control are extremely vital components of the intelligent vehicle, these modules act as a bridge, connecting the subsystem of the environmental perception and the bottom-level control execution of the vehicle as well. This short book covers various strategies of designing the decision making, trajectory planning, and tracking control, as well as share driving, of the human-automation to adapt to different levels of the automated driving system. More specifically, we introduce an end-to-end decision-making module based on the deep Q-learning, and improved path-planning methods based on artificial potentials and elastic bands which are designed for obstacle avoidance. Then, the optimal method based on the convex optimization and the natural cubic spline is presented. As for the speed planning, planning methods based on the multi-object optimization and high-order polynomials, and a method with convex optimization and natural cubic splines, are proposed for the non-vehicle-following scenario (e.g., free driving, lane change, obstacle avoidance), while the planning method based on vehicle-following kinematics and the model predictive control (MPC) is adopted for the car-following scenario. We introduce two robust tracking methods for the trajectory following. The first one, based on nonlinear vehicle longitudinal or path-preview dynamic systems, utilizes the adaptive sliding mode control (SMC) law which can compensate for uncertainties to follow the speed or path profiles. The second one is based on the five-degrees-of-freedom nonlinear vehicle dynamical system that utilizes the linearized time-varying MPC to track the speed and path profile simultaneously. Toward human-automation cooperative driving systems, we introduce two control strategies to address the control authority and conflict management problems between the human driver and the automated driving systems. Driving safety field and game theory are utilized to propose a game-based strategy, which is used to deal with path conflicts during obstacle avoidance. Driver's driving intention, situation assessment, and performance index are employed for the development of the fuzzy-based strategy. Multiple case studies and demos are included in each chapter to show the effectiveness of the proposed approach. We sincerely hope the contents of this short book provide certain theoretical guidance and technical supports for the development of intelligent vehicle technology.

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128

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Springer Nature

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3031015061

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9783031015069

Multidimensional Poverty Measurement

Theory and Methodology

By: Xiaolin Wang

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Multidimensional Poverty Measurement

Theory and Methodology

By: Xiaolin Wang

This book addresses and compensates for the lack of poverty measurement research in China. With regard to the multi-dimensional measurement of poverty, it is clear that the situation of Chinese farmers is problematic in terms of five major aspects: sanitation facilities, health insurance, durable consumer goods, productive assets and modern fuels. Based on these criteria, the book provides a clear direction for policy intervention to comprehensively improve farmers’ standard of living and tackle the key problems of poverty alleviation and development in the region. In addition, its analysis of poverty among ethnic minorities, the elderly and children offers valuable reference material for poverty alleviation and the development of special groups.

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278

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Springer Nature

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9811911894

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9789811911897

Dynamic Data-driven Simulation: Real-time Data For Dynamic System Analysis And Prediction

By: Xiaolin Hu

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Dynamic Data-driven Simulation: Real-time Data For Dynamic System Analysis And Prediction

By: Xiaolin Hu

This comprehensive book systematically introduces Dynamic Data Driven Simulation (DDDS) as a new simulation paradigm that makes real-time data and simulation model work together to enable simulation-based prediction/analysis.The text is significantly dedicated to introducing data assimilation as an enabling technique for DDDS. While data assimilation has been studied in other science fields (e.g., meteorology, oceanography), it is a new topic for the modeling and simulation community.This unique reference text bridges the two study areas of data assimilation and modelling and simulation, which have been developed largely independently from each other.

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World Scientific

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9811267197

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9789811267192

Behavior Analysis and Modeling of Traffic Participants

By: Xiaolin Song,Haotian Cao

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Behavior Analysis and Modeling of Traffic Participants

By: Xiaolin Song,Haotian Cao

A road traffic participant is a person who directly participates in road traffic, such as vehicle drivers, passengers, pedestrians, or cyclists, however, traffic accidents cause numerous property losses, bodily injuries, and even deaths to them. To bring down the rate of traffic fatalities, the development of the intelligent vehicle is a much-valued technology nowadays. It is of great significance to the decision making and planning of a vehicle if the pedestrians' intentions and future trajectories, as well as those of surrounding vehicles, could be predicted, all in an effort to increase driving safety. Based on the image sequence collected by onboard monocular cameras, we use the Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) based network with an enhanced attention mechanism to realize the intention and trajectory prediction of pedestrians and surrounding vehicles. However, although the fully automatic driving era still seems far away, human drivers are still a crucial part of the road‒driver‒vehicle system under current circumstances, even dealing with low levels of automatic driving vehicles. Considering that more than 90 percent of fatal traffic accidents were caused by human errors, thus it is meaningful to recognize the secondary task while driving, as well as the driving style recognition, to develop a more personalized advanced driver assistance system (ADAS) or intelligent vehicle. We use the graph convolutional networks for spatial feature reasoning and the LSTM networks with the attention mechanism for temporal motion feature learning within the image sequence to realize the driving secondary-task recognition. Moreover, aggressive drivers are more likely to be involved in traffic accidents, and the driving risk level of drivers could be affected by many potential factors, such as demographics and personality traits. Thus, we will focus on the driving style classification for the longitudinal car-following scenario. Also, based on the Structural Equation Model (SEM) and Strategic Highway Research Program 2 (SHRP 2) naturalistic driving database, the relationships among drivers' demographic characteristics, sensation seeking, risk perception, and risky driving behaviors are fully discussed. Results and conclusions from this short book are expected to offer potential guidance and benefits for promoting the development of intelligent vehicle technology and driving safety.

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3031015096

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The Rise of West Lake

A Cultural Landmark in the Song Dynasty

By: Xiaolin Duan

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A Cultural Landmark in the Song Dynasty

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An Object of Seduction

Chinese Silk in the Early Modern Transpacific Trade, 1500–1700

By: Xiaolin Duan

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Chinese Silk in the Early Modern Transpacific Trade, 1500–1700

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Book's by Xiaolin Duan

An Object of Seduction

An Object of Seduction

The Rise of West Lake

The Rise of West Lake

State and Ethnicity in China's Southwest

State and Ethnicity in China's Southwest

Decision Making, Planning, and Control Strategies for Intelligent Vehicles

Decision Making, Planning, and Control Strategies for Intelligent Vehicles

Multidimensional Poverty Measurement

Multidimensional Poverty Measurement

Dynamic Data-driven Simulation: Real-time Data For Dynamic System Analysis And Prediction

Dynamic Data-driven Simulation: Real-time Data For Dynamic System Analysis And Prediction

Behavior Analysis and Modeling of Traffic Participants

Behavior Analysis and Modeling of Traffic Participants

The Rise of West Lake

The Rise of West Lake

An Object of Seduction

An Object of Seduction

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