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Disciplinary Rituals in Dunhuang Buddhism

By: Ru Zhan

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Disciplinary Rituals in Dunhuang Buddhism

By: Ru Zhan

Drawing on Dunhuang manuscripts and the latest scholarship in Dunhuang and Buddhist Studies, this translation analyzes Buddhist monasticism via such topics as the organizational forms of Dunhuang Buddhist monasteries, the construction and operation of ordination platforms, ordination certificates and government ordination licenses, and meditation retreats, etc. Assuming a pan-Asian perspective, the monograph also made trailblazing contributions to the study of Buddhist Sinicization and Sino-Indian cultural exchanges and is bound to exert long-lasting influences on the worldwide academic study of Buddhism.

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BRILL

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900451757X

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9789004517578

Categories of Chinese Literary Theories in the Middle Ancient Age

By: Furui Zhan

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Categories of Chinese Literary Theories in the Middle Ancient Age

By: Furui Zhan

The book highlights the categories of Chinese literary theories in the Middle Ancient period, such as the mind and feeling theories, literary endowment, literary style, literary change, and trueness to the spirit, shedding new light on the ancient Chinese literature research.

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382

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Balboa Press

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1504316665

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9781504316668

Other-Worldly

Making Chinese Medicine through Transnational Frames

By: Mei Zhan

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Other-Worldly

Making Chinese Medicine through Transnational Frames

By: Mei Zhan

Traditional Chinese medicine is often portrayed as an enduring system of therapeutic knowledge that has become globalized in recent decades. In Other-Worldly, Mei Zhan argues that the discourses and practices called “traditional Chinese medicine” are made through, rather than prior to, translocal encounters and entanglements. Zhan spent a decade following practitioners, teachers, and advocates of Chinese medicine through clinics, hospitals, schools, and grassroots organizations in Shanghai and the San Francisco Bay Area. Drawing on that ethnographic research, she demonstrates that the everyday practice of Chinese medicine is about much more than writing herbal prescriptions and inserting acupuncture needles. “Traditional Chinese medicine” is also made and remade through efforts to create a preventive medicine for the “proletariat world,” reinvent it for cosmopolitan middle-class aspirations, produce clinical “miracles,” translate knowledge and authority, and negotiate marketing strategies and medical ethics. Whether discussing the presentation of Chinese medicine at a health fair sponsored by a Silicon Valley corporation, or how the inclusion of a traditional Chinese medicine clinic authenticates the “California” appeal of an upscale residential neighborhood in Shanghai, Zhan emphasizes that unexpected encounters and interactions are not anomalies in the structure of Chinese medicine. Instead, they are constitutive of its irreducibly complex and open-ended worlds. Zhan proposes an ethnography of “worlding” as an analytic for engaging and illuminating emergent cultural processes such as those she describes. Rather than taking “cultural difference” as the starting point for anthropological inquiries, this analytic reveals how various terms of difference—for example, “traditional,” “Chinese,” and “medicine”—are invented, negotiated, and deployed translocally. Other-Worldly is a theoretically innovative and ethnographically rich account of the worlding of Chinese medicine.

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Duke University Press

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0822392135

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9780822392132

Fundamentals of Membrane Separation Technology

By: Zhan Wang

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Fundamentals of Membrane Separation Technology

By: Zhan Wang

Fundamentals of Membrane Separation Technology provides a comprehensive and systematic introduction to this environmentally friendly separation process. Using a structured format that promotes comprehension and implementation each chapter provides overviews, principles, materials and preparation, and industrial applications. Each chapter then concludes with future prospects, references, and end of chapter exercises. Written for students and professionals, this book is an ideal reference for those who wish to better understand the fundamentals and applications of membrane technology. - Evaluates present and future applications of more recently developed membranes in energy conversion, biomedical components, controlled release devices, and environmental engineering - Provides a comprehensive overview of all aspects of membranes and their applications - Includes numerous industrial case studies, practical examples, and questions

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598

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Elsevier

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0443139059

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9780443139055

Revolutions as Organizational Change

The Communist Party and Peasant Communities in South China, 1926–1934

By: Baohui Zhan

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Revolutions as Organizational Change

The Communist Party and Peasant Communities in South China, 1926–1934

By: Baohui Zhan

By comparing peasant revolutions in Hunan and Jiangxi between 1926 and 1934, Revolutions as Organizational Change offers a new organizational perspective on peasant revolutions. Utilizing newly available historical materials in the People’s Republic of China in the reform era, it challenges the established view that the great Chinese revolution of the twentieth century was a revolution “made” by the Chinese Communist Party (the CCP). The book begins with a puzzle presented by the two peasant revolutions. While outside mobilization by the CCP was largely absent in Hunan, peasant revolutionary behaviors were spontaneous and radical. In Jiangxi, however, despite intense mobilization by the CCP, peasants remained passive and conservative. This study seeks to resolve the puzzle by examining the roles of communal cooperative institutions in the making of peasant revolutions. Historically, peasant communities in many parts of the world were regulated by powerful cooperative institutions to confront environmental challenges. This book argues that different communal organizational principles affect peasants’ perceptions of the legitimacy of their communal orders. Agrarian rebellions can be caused by peasants’ attempts to restructure unjust and illegitimate communal organizational orders, while legitimate communal organizational orders can powerfully constrain the mobilization by outside revolutionary agents such as the CCP. “In this thorough comparative account of the peasant risings in Hunan and Jiangxi and the role of the Communist Party, Professor Zhang casts new light on both the risings themselves, and what they can tell us about peasant risings in general. This work is strong in both theory and detailed historical research.” —Richard Rigby, professor, China Institute, Australian National University “Professor Zhang has beautifully crafted a comparative study of divergent peasant revolutions in two Chinese regions during Mao’s long revolutionary war. He brings to this task a broad and deep knowledge about revolutionary theory, and also a razor-like analytical sensibility, which enables him to examine the pros and cons of existing perspectives.” —Timothy P. Wickham-Crowley, associate professor of sociology, Georgetown University

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Hong Kong University Press

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988820839X

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9789888208395

Handbook of the History of Religions in China I

By: Zhongjian Zhan, Jian Mu

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Handbook of the History of Religions in China I

By: Zhongjian Zhan, Jian Mu

This book is part of an initiative in cooperation with renowned Chinese publishers to make fundamental, formative, and influential Chinese thinkers available to a western readership, providing absorbing insights into Chinese reflections of late, and offering a chance to grasp today’s China. In their influential book Handbook of the History of Religions in China, Zhongjian Mou and Jian Zhang present a panorama of the religions existing in China through time. In their fascinating History, they delineate the emergence and development of Daoism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Islam, and Christianity and explore the roles they played in Chinese society and the interrelations between them. In China, also due to the encompassing Confucian idea of “living together harmoniously while maintaining differences,” religions—including newly arrived ones—came closer together than anywhere else in the world and reached a unique level of peaceful societal coexistence. Despite many frictions and conflicts, communication and reconciliation were indisputably predominant in China throughout history. Buddhism was peacefully introduced into China and, later on, a harmonious, symbiotic syncretism of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Daoism developed—an exemplary process of how a diverse set of different religions can complement each other and contribute to a better life.

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406

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BoD – Books on Demand

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383821207X

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9783838212074

Barite-Fluorite Mineralization in Southeast Sichuan, Yangtze Block, China

By: Hao Zou,Shou-Ting Zhang,Min Li,Zhan-Zhang Xu

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Barite-Fluorite Mineralization in Southeast Sichuan, Yangtze Block, China

By: Hao Zou,Shou-Ting Zhang,Min Li,Zhan-Zhang Xu

This book describes the mineralization process of barite-fluorite deposits in southeastern Sichuan, Yangtze Block, China. Mainly through systematic field geological surveys and detailed indoor research work, the typical barite-fluorite deposits in this area were analyzed using a variety of analysis methods such as single fluid inclusion LA-ICP-MS composition analysis, trace rare earth element analysis, H-O-S-Sr isotope analysis, F element content analysis, and Sm-Nd geochronological analysis. By in-depth analysis of the ore-forming environment, mineralization process and geological characteristics of barite-fluorite deposits, the following were determined: (1) the source of ore-forming fluids of barite-fluorite deposits and (2) the migration, concentration, enrichment, and evolution of ore-forming sources, exploring the formation mechanism of barite-fluorite deposits. Summarizing the mineralization regularity of the deposit in this area of China provides a new insight and basis for the study of similar types of deposits in the world.

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214

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Springer Nature

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9811675627

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9789811675621

Advances in Precision Laser Spectroscopy

By: Kelin Gao,Wuming Liu,Jianping Yin,Jin Wang,Mingsheng Zhan

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Advances in Precision Laser Spectroscopy

By: Kelin Gao,Wuming Liu,Jianping Yin,Jin Wang,Mingsheng Zhan

Provides extensive and thoroughly exhaustive coverage of precision laser spectroscopy Presents chapters written by recognized experts in their individual fields Topics covered include cold atoms, cold molecules, methods and techniques for production of cold molecules, optical frequency standards based on trapped single ions, etc Applicable for researchers and graduate students of optical physics and precision laser spectroscopy

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3110304473

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9783110304473

China's Formal Online Education under COVID-19

Actions from Government, Schools, Enterprises, and Families

By: Zehui Zhan,Liming Huo,Xiao Yao,Baichang Zhong

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China's Formal Online Education under COVID-19

Actions from Government, Schools, Enterprises, and Families

By: Zehui Zhan,Liming Huo,Xiao Yao,Baichang Zhong

This book investigates how schools, enterprises and families in China have coped with the formal online education in the light of government policy throughout the COVID-19 epidemic outbreak, with special focus on the problems they have encountered and possible solutions. Using grounded theory, over 1000 posts retrieved from public online forums were analyzed under a 4*4 framework, referring to four special time nodes (proposal period, exploratory period, full deployed period, exiting period) and four major subjects (government, schools, enterprises, families). The book identifies four main issues faced by massive online education during the epidemic: platform selection in proposal period, teacher training in exploratory period, resource integration in full deployed period, and flexibility of returning to schools in exiting period. These findings enlighten us with a deeper understanding of the process of online learning in an educational emergency, helping to develop best countermeasures in similar situations, as well as to provide paths to follow for other countries. The book will appeal to teachers, researchers and school administrators of the online education and education emergency management, as well as those who are interested in Chinese education during the COVID-19 outbreak in general.

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Routledge

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1000452344

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An Introduction to Semi-tensor Product of Matrices and Its Applications

By: Dai-Zhan Cheng,Yin Zhao

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An Introduction to Semi-tensor Product of Matrices and Its Applications

By: Dai-Zhan Cheng,Yin Zhao

A generalization of Conventional Matrix Product (CMP), called the Semi-Tensor Product (STP), is proposed. It extends the CMP to two arbitrary matrices and maintains all fundamental properties of CMP. In addition, it has a pseudo-commutative property, which makes it more superior to CMP. The STP was proposed by the authors to deal with higher-dimensional data as well as multilinear mappings. After over a decade of development, STP has been proven to be a powerful tool in dealing with nonlinear and logical calculations.This book is a comprehensive introduction to the theory of STP and its various applications, including logical function, fuzzy control, Boolean networks, analysis and control of nonlinear systems, amongst others.

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World Scientific

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9814374695

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9789814374699

Estimation and Control for Networked Systems with Packet Losses without Acknowledgement

By: Hong Lin,Hongye Su,Peng Shi,Zhan Shu,Zheng-Guang Wu

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Estimation and Control for Networked Systems with Packet Losses without Acknowledgement

By: Hong Lin,Hongye Su,Peng Shi,Zhan Shu,Zheng-Guang Wu

This book discusses recent advances in the estimation and control of networked systems with unacknowledged packet losses: systems usually known as user-datagram-protocol-like. It presents both the optimal and sub-optimal solutions in the form of algorithms, which are designed to be implemented easily by computer routines. It also provides MATLAB® routines for the key algorithms. It shows how these methods and algorithms can solve estimation and control problems effectively, and identifies potential research directions and ideas to help readers grasp the field more easily. The novel auxiliary estimator method, which is able to deal with estimators that consist of exponentially increasing terms, is developed to analyze the stability and convergence of the optimal estimator. The book also explores the structure and solvability of the optimal control, i.e. linear quadratic Gaussian control. It develops various sub-optimal but efficient solutions for estimation and control for industrial and practical applications, and analyzes their stability and performance. This is a valuable resource for researchers studying networked control systems, especially those related to non-TCP-like networks. The practicality of the ideas included makes it useful for engineers working with networked control.

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Springer

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3319442120

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9783319442129

Matrix Inequalities

By: Xingzhi Zhan

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Matrix Inequalities

By: Xingzhi Zhan

The main purpose of this monograph is to report on recent developments in the field of matrix inequalities, with emphasis on useful techniques and ingenious ideas. Among other results this book contains the affirmative solutions of eight conjectures. Many theorems unify or sharpen previous inequalities. The author's aim is to streamline the ideas in the literature. The book can be read by research workers, graduate students and advanced undergraduates.

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Springer

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3540454217

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Estimation and Control for Networked Systems with Packet Losses without Acknowledgement

By: Hong Lin,Hongye Su,Peng Shi,Zhan Shu,Zheng-Guang Wu

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Estimation and Control for Networked Systems with Packet Losses without Acknowledgement

By: Hong Lin,Hongye Su,Peng Shi,Zhan Shu,Zheng-Guang Wu

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Book's by Zhan Shu

Disciplinary Rituals in Dunhuang Buddhism

Disciplinary Rituals in Dunhuang Buddhism

Categories of Chinese Literary Theories in the Middle Ancient Age

Categories of Chinese Literary Theories in the Middle Ancient Age

Other-Worldly

Other-Worldly

Fundamentals of Membrane Separation Technology

Fundamentals of Membrane Separation Technology

Revolutions as Organizational Change

Revolutions as Organizational Change

Handbook of the History of Religions in China I

Handbook of the History of Religions in China I

Barite-Fluorite Mineralization in Southeast Sichuan, Yangtze Block, China

Barite-Fluorite Mineralization in Southeast Sichuan, Yangtze Block, China

Advances in Precision Laser Spectroscopy

Advances in Precision Laser Spectroscopy

China's Formal Online Education under COVID-19

China's Formal Online Education under COVID-19

An Introduction to Semi-tensor Product of Matrices and Its Applications

An Introduction to Semi-tensor Product of Matrices and Its Applications

Estimation and Control for Networked Systems with Packet Losses without Acknowledgement

Estimation and Control for Networked Systems with Packet Losses without Acknowledgement

Matrix Inequalities

Matrix Inequalities

Estimation and Control for Networked Systems with Packet Losses without Acknowledgement

Estimation and Control for Networked Systems with Packet Losses without Acknowledgement

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