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Transformative Journeys

Travel and Culture in Song China

By: Cong Ellen Zhang

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Transformative Journeys

Travel and Culture in Song China

By: Cong Ellen Zhang

During the Song (960-1279), all educated Chinese men traveled frequently, journeying long distances to attend school and take civil service examinations. They crisscrossed the country to assume government posts, report back to the capital, and return home between assignments and to attend to family matters. Based on a wide array of texts, Transformative Journeys analyzes the impact of travel on this group of elite men and the places they visited. In the first part of the book, Cong Ellen Zhang considers the practical aspects of travel during the Song in the context of state mobilization of and assistance to government travelers, including the infrastructure of waterways and highways, the bureaucratic procedures entailed in official travel, and the means of transport and types of lodging. The second part of the book focuses on elite activities on the road, especially the elaborate farewell banquets, welcoming ceremonies, and visits to famous places. Zhang argues convincingly that abundant travel experience became integral to Song elite identity and status, greatly strengthening the social and cultural coherence of the practitioners. In promoting their experience of traveling across a large empire, Song elite men firmly established their position as the country’s political, social, and cultural leaders. The literary compositions and physical traces they left behind also formed an overlapping web of collective memories, continually enhancing local pride and defining the place of various localities in the cultural geography of the country. Transformative Journeys sheds new light on the nature of Chinese literati, their dominance of culture and society, and China’s social and cultural integration. Those interested in premodern China and travel literature will find a wealth of material previously unavailable to Western readers.

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University of Hawaii Press

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0824860683

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An Amorous History of the Silver Screen

Shanghai Cinema, 1896-1937

By: Zhang Zhen

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An Amorous History of the Silver Screen

Shanghai Cinema, 1896-1937

By: Zhang Zhen

Illustrating the cultural significance of film and its power as a vehicle for social change, this book reveals the intricacies of the cultural movement and explores its connections to other art forms such as photography, drama, and literature.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226982378

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Buddhism and Tales of the Supernatural in Early Medieval China

A Study of Liu Yiqing's (403–444) Youming lu

By: Zhenjun Zhang

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Buddhism and Tales of the Supernatural in Early Medieval China

A Study of Liu Yiqing's (403–444) Youming lu

By: Zhenjun Zhang

This book demonstrates the historical changes in early medieval China as seen in the tales of the supernatural—thematic transformation from traditional demonic retribution to Karmic retribution, from indigenous Chinese netherworld to Buddhist concepts of hell, and from the traditional Chinese savior to a new savior, Buddha. It also examines Buddhist imagery and the flourish of new motifs in the fantastic dreamworld and their relationship with Buddhism. This study relates the Youming lu to the development of popular Chinese Buddhist beliefs, attempting to single out ideas that differ from the beliefs found in Buddhist scriptures as well as miraculous tales written especially to promote Buddhism.

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9004277846

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A Social History of Medieval China

By: Ruixi Zhu,Bangwei Zhang,Fusheng Liu,Chongbang Cai,Zengyu Wang

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A Social History of Medieval China

By: Ruixi Zhu,Bangwei Zhang,Fusheng Liu,Chongbang Cai,Zengyu Wang

A valuable reference work for the social history of China in the period 960-1279 from leading Chinese scholars.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107167868

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A Brief Modern Chinese History

By: Haipeng Zhai, Jinyi Zhang

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A Brief Modern Chinese History

By: Haipeng Zhai, Jinyi Zhang

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. Haipeng Zhang and Jinyi Zhai provide us with a history of China's struggle for national independence and prosperity, reflecting the “humiliation” in the “sinking” period and the “struggle” during the “rising” period. After the Japanese aggressions against China had caused more damage to China than all previous invasions, Chinese society not only avoided the continued "sinking", but also laid the foundation for China's modernization and the recent success story to the present day.

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3838214412

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PROCEEDINGS OF THE SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON GLOBALIZATION: CHALLENGES FOR TRANSLATORS AND INTERPRETERS

By: Youbin Zhao,Wei Lin,Zhiqing Zhang

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PROCEEDINGS OF THE SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON GLOBALIZATION: CHALLENGES FOR TRANSLATORS AND INTERPRETERS

By: Youbin Zhao,Wei Lin,Zhiqing Zhang

This two-volume book contains the refereed proceedings of The Second International Conference on Globalization: Challenges for Translators and Interpreters organized by the School of Translation Studies, Jinan University (China) on its Zhuhai campus, October 27-29, 2016. The interrelation between translation and globalization is essential reading for not only scholars and educators, but also anyone with an interest in translation and interpreting studies, or a concern for the future of our world’s languages and cultures. The past decade or so, in particular, has witnessed remarkable progress concerning research on issues related to this topic. Given this dynamic, The Second International Conference on Globalization: Challenges for Translators and Interpreters organized by the School of Translation Studies, Jinan University (China) organized by the School of Translation Studies, Jinan University (China), was held at the Zhuhai campus of Jinan University on October 27-29, 2016. This conference attracts a large number of translators, interpreters and researchers, providing a rare opportunity for academic exchange in this field. The 135 full papers accepted for the proceedings of The Second International Conference on Globalization: Challenges for Translators and Interpreters organized by the School of Translation Studies, Jinan University (China) were selected from 350 submissions. For each paper, the authors were shepherded by an experienced researcher. Generally, all of the submitted papers went through a rigorous peer-review process.

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American Academic Press

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1631818619

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The Constitution of China

A Contextual Analysis

By: Qianfan Zhang

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The Constitution of China

A Contextual Analysis

By: Qianfan Zhang

This book on China's constitution and its tradition of constitutionalism is one of the first in the English language, and as such provides a much needed overview of China's constitutional history and present arrangements. The nine chapters are divided into three parts. The first part (Chapters 1 & 2) deals with China's constitutional history, its indigenous and Confucian antecedents, as well as the turbulent century which led up to the 1982 Constitution and the new order which this ushered in. The second chapter deals with the distinctive features of its current constitution. The second part (Chapters 3-6) introduces the institutional structure defined in the current constitution - the relationship between the Centre and the Regions, the role of the party and the role of the People's Congress, the meaning of the socialist rule of law, and the independence of the judiciary. The third part (Chapters 7-9) discusses the major developments in human rights and their deficiencies - the protection offered to life, liberty, property and equality, and at the same time the currently dormant areas of political and religious freedom. The book concludes with a chapter looking forward to the future of the People's Congress and Chinese constitutionalism. In sum, the book offers a readable account of the salient features of Chinese constitutional developments in all major areas.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1847319912

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Industrial and Applied Mathematics in China

By: Pingwen Zhang,Ta-tsien Li

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Industrial and Applied Mathematics in China

By: Pingwen Zhang,Ta-tsien Li

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9812838759

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Urban Metabolism

Theory, Methods and Applications

By: Yan Zhang

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Urban Metabolism

Theory, Methods and Applications

By: Yan Zhang

This book provides the basic theory, method framework and application results of urban metabolism. Urban metabolism is an important research philosophy and approach for analyzing urban mega organism and its ecological environmental problems. It has constantly formed quantitative network research framework and analysis methods in a metaphor way and expanded its application in different scales such as global, national, urban agglomeration and city to support the process of multi-scale regional sustainable development.

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Springer Nature

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9811991235

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Frontiers and Prospects of Contemporary Applied Mathematics

By: Daqian Li,Pingwen Zhang

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Frontiers and Prospects of Contemporary Applied Mathematics

By: Daqian Li,Pingwen Zhang

This collection of articles covers the hottest topics in contemporary applied mathematics. Multiscale modeling, material computing, symplectic methods, parallel computing, mathematical biology, applied differential equations and engineering computing problems are all included. The book contains the latest results of many leading scientists and provides a window on new trends in research in the field. Sample Chapter(s). Chapter 1: An Iterative BEM for the Inverse Problem of Detecting Corrosion in a Pipe (467 KB). Contents: An Iterative BEM for the Inverse Problem of Detecting Corrosion in a Pipe (J Cheng et al.); Optimal Order Integration on the Sphere (K Hesse & I H Sloan); Inverse Problems in Bioluminescence Tomography (M Jiang et al.); Global Dynamic Properties of Protein Networks (F-T Li et al.); Distance Geometry Problem and Algorithm Based on Barycentric Coordinates (H-X Huang & C-J Wang); On Ill-Posedness and Inversion Scheme for 2-D Backward Heat Conduction (J-J Liu); Error Analysis on Scrambled Quasi-Monte Carlo Quadrature Rules Using Sobol Points (R-X Yue); and other papers. Readership: Graduate students and researchers in applied mathematics.

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981277419X

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Transfer Learning

By: Qiang Yang,Yu Zhang,Wenyuan Dai,Sinno Jialin Pan

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Transfer Learning

By: Qiang Yang,Yu Zhang,Wenyuan Dai,Sinno Jialin Pan

Transfer learning deals with how systems can quickly adapt themselves to new situations, tasks and environments. It gives machine learning systems the ability to leverage auxiliary data and models to help solve target problems when there is only a small amount of data available. This makes such systems more reliable and robust, keeping the machine learning model faced with unforeseeable changes from deviating too much from expected performance. At an enterprise level, transfer learning allows knowledge to be reused so experience gained once can be repeatedly applied to the real world. For example, a pre-trained model that takes account of user privacy can be downloaded and adapted at the edge of a computer network. This self-contained, comprehensive reference text describes the standard algorithms and demonstrates how these are used in different transfer learning paradigms. It offers a solid grounding for newcomers as well as new insights for seasoned researchers and developers.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108860087

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The Two-Dimensional Riemann Problem in Gas Dynamics

By: Jiequan Li,Tong Zhang,Shuli Yang

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The Two-Dimensional Riemann Problem in Gas Dynamics

By: Jiequan Li,Tong Zhang,Shuli Yang

The Riemann problem is the most fundamental problem in the entire field of non-linear hyperbolic conservation laws. Since first posed and solved in 1860, great progress has been achieved in the one-dimensional case. However, the two-dimensional case is substantially different. Although research interest in it has lasted more than a century, it has yielded almost no analytical demonstration. It remains a great challenge for mathematicians. This volume presents work on the two-dimensional Riemann problem carried out over the last 20 years by a Chinese group. The authors explore four models: scalar conservation laws, compressible Euler equations, zero-pressure gas dynamics, and pressure-gradient equations. They use the method of generalized characteristic analysis plus numerical experiments to demonstrate the elementary field interaction patterns of shocks, rarefaction waves, and slip lines. They also discover a most interesting feature for zero-pressure gas dynamics: a new kind of elementary wave appearing in the interaction of slip lines-a weighted Dirac delta shock of the density function. The Two-Dimensional Riemann Problem in Gas Dynamics establishes the rigorous mathematical theory of delta-shocks and Mach reflection-like patterns for zero-pressure gas dynamics, clarifies the boundaries of interaction of elementary waves, demonstrates the interesting spatial interaction of slip lines, and proposes a series of open problems. With applications ranging from engineering to astrophysics, and as the first book to examine the two-dimensional Riemann problem, this volume will prove fascinating to mathematicians and hold great interest for physicists and engineers.

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Routledge

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1351408887

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9781351408882

Mount Lu Hun

Volume 1

By: Zhang Dai

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Mount Lu Hun

Volume 1

By: Zhang Dai

All your three kingdoms are in the world, while the world of the flat pea is in a mountain. Your three kingdoms all go out to collect your brothers and sisters to fish for beautiful girls and boast, but the world of flat peas, is only the morning dew against the sunset, the grass against the winter, the sky above the earth, against the spring and autumn and the earth above the mountains.

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Funstory

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164781572X

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Binary Neural Networks

Algorithms, Architectures, and Applications

By: Baochang Zhang,Sheng Xu,Mingbao Lin,Tiancheng Wang,David Doermann

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Binary Neural Networks

Algorithms, Architectures, and Applications

By: Baochang Zhang,Sheng Xu,Mingbao Lin,Tiancheng Wang,David Doermann

Deep learning has achieved impressive results in image classification, computer vision, and natural language processing. To achieve better performance, deeper and wider networks have been designed, which increase the demand for computational resources. The number of floatingpoint operations (FLOPs) has increased dramatically with larger networks, and this has become an obstacle for convolutional neural networks (CNNs) being developed for mobile and embedded devices. In this context, Binary Neural Networks: Algorithms, Architectures, and Applications will focus on CNN compression and acceleration, which are important for the research community. We will describe numerous methods, including parameter quantization, network pruning, low-rank decomposition, and knowledge distillation. More recently, to reduce the burden of handcrafted architecture design, neural architecture search (NAS) has been used to automatically build neural networks by searching over a vast architecture space. Our book will also introduce NAS and binary NAS and its superiority and state-of-the-art performance in various applications, such as image classification and object detection. We also describe extensive applications of compressed deep models on image classification, speech recognition, object detection, and tracking. These topics can help researchers better understand the usefulness and the potential of network compression on practical applications. Moreover, interested readers should have basic knowledge of machine learning and deep learning to better understand the methods described in this book. Key Features Reviews recent advances in CNN compression and acceleration Elaborates recent advances on binary neural network (BNN) technologies Introduces applications of BNN in image classification, speech recognition, object detection, and more

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1003816797

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Generalized Principle of Pattern Multiplication and Its Applications

By: Junping Geng,Chaofan Ren,Kun Wang,Erwei Liu,Jing Zhang

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Generalized Principle of Pattern Multiplication and Its Applications

By: Junping Geng,Chaofan Ren,Kun Wang,Erwei Liu,Jing Zhang

This book investigates in detail the generalized principle of the pattern multiplication (GPPM) and its application to new phased array with high performances. It introduces the generalized element factor (GEF) to small aperture with multi-modes. Based on the GEF, the GPPM can be used to construct the wide-angle scanning array with the dual-port phase mode antenna. Further, a dual-port phase mode SSPPs antenna is proposed to scan in 3D free space. It is extended to two kinds of 1D arrays with 4 elements; both of them perform good 3D scanning with high gain and large range, which will improve future radar design and wireless communication. This book proposes a new method to develop the potentialities of the GPPM and the new phase array. And the readers can study the method or ideas of the GEF, GPPM, even graft the methods to new phase mode antenna and array. It is intended for undergraduate and graduate students who are interested in new phase mode antenna and array technology, researchers investigating high-performance antenna, and antenna design engineers working on phase array applications.

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Springer Nature

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9811935599

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9789811935596

The Adaptive Markets Hypothesis

An Evolutionary Approach to Understanding Financial System Dynamics

By: Andrew W. Lo,Ruixun Zhang

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The Adaptive Markets Hypothesis

An Evolutionary Approach to Understanding Financial System Dynamics

By: Andrew W. Lo,Ruixun Zhang

The Adaptive Markets Hypothesis is a formal and systematic exposition. Lo and Zhang develop the mathematical foundations of the simple yet powerful evolutionary model and show that the most fundamental economic behaviours that we take for granted emerge solely through natural selection.

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Oxford University Press

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0199681147

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THE CONSTITUTIONAL LANDSCAPE IN CONTEMPORARY CHINA

By: Qianfan Zhang (张千帆）

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THE CONSTITUTIONAL LANDSCAPE IN CONTEMPORARY CHINA

By: Qianfan Zhang (张千帆）

In the past two decades, China has endured, together with the rest of the world, two pandemics originating in Guangdong and Wuhan. While the severity and management of these pandemics varied, they both stemmed from the same root cause—the absence of constitutional enforcement and protection of fundamental rights such as freedom of speech and press. In the global village today, especially given China’s size and impact, the Chinese constitutional democracy is critical not only for China itself, but also for the whole world. Largely following China’s current (1982) Constitution, this book aims to produce a contemporary “landscape” of Chinese constitutional developments in essentially all major areas. Despite the lack of constitutional enforcement and serious backlashes in recent years, the author believes that the Constitution still matters, as China has achieved significant de facto progress in human rights and the rule of law since its Reform and Opening in 1978. Particularly, increasing number of citizens are becoming aware of their constitutional rights, which they are eager to defend in their interest. Ultimately, the future of China (and the world) depends on the efforts of the people themselves to promote its constitutional reforms and enforcement

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Bouden House

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Mathematics Experiments

By: Falai Chen,Jiansong Deng,Shangzhi Li,Yaohua Wu,Yunhua Zhang

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Mathematics Experiments

By: Falai Chen,Jiansong Deng,Shangzhi Li,Yaohua Wu,Yunhua Zhang

Owing to the advent of computers, experiments are becoming an increasingly important part of mathematics. This book provides guidance to students doing experiments in mathematics. The aim is to stimulate interest in mathematics through examples and experiments.Each experiment in the book starts with an interesting problem. The students are expected to work with these problems on computers, try to find the solutions themselves, and experience the scientific exploration in the process.The problems which the authors have chosen cover a wide spectrum in mathematics, ranging from calculus, number theory, coding and probability to geometry and chaos. They are introduced in a simple way and yet show great depth. The discussions are thorough but not lengthy.This book is useful not only to mathematics students, but also to students in all areas of sciences who are interested in learning some of the mathematical tools. It provides a hands-on approach to the most fundamental issues in mathematics — an approach which may help to revolutionize the teaching of mathematics.

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World Scientific Publishing Company

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9813102438

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9789813102439

Neural Networks in Optimization

By: Xiang-Sun Zhang

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Neural Networks in Optimization

By: Xiang-Sun Zhang

The book consists of three parts. The first part introduces concepts and algorithms in optimization theory, which have been used in neural network research. The second part covers main neural network models and their theoretical analysis. The third part of the book introduces various neural network models for solving nonlinear programming problems and combinatorial optimization problems. Audience: Graduate students and researchers who are interested in the intersection of optimization theory and artificial neural networks. The book is appropriate for graduate courses.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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0792365151

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9780792365150

Request Strategies

A Comparative Study in Mandarin Chinese and Korean

By: Yong-Ju Rue,Grace Qiao Zhang

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Request Strategies

A Comparative Study in Mandarin Chinese and Korean

By: Yong-Ju Rue,Grace Qiao Zhang

This book investigates request strategies in Mandarin Chinese and Korean, and is one of the first attempts to address cross-cultural strategies employed in the speech act of requests in two non-Western languages. The data, drawn from role-plays and naturally recorded conversations, complement each other in terms of exhaustiveness and authenticity. This study explores the similarities and differences of the request patterns that emerged in the Chinese and Korean data, and the intricate relation between request strategies and social factors (such as power and distance). The findings raise questions about the influence of methodology on data, and the applicability of so called universals to East Asian languages. They also offer new insights into generally held ideas of directness and requesting behaviours in Chinese and Korean, and the problems of cross-cultural and cross-linguistic communication.This research is suggestive for the disciplines of cross-cultural pragmatics, cross-cultural communication, contrastive linguistics, applied linguistics and discourse analysis.

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John Benjamins Publishing

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9027254214

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On-Orbit Operations Optimization

Modeling and Algorithms

By: Leping Yang,Yanwei Zhu,Xianhai Ren,Yuanwen Zhang

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On-Orbit Operations Optimization

Modeling and Algorithms

By: Leping Yang,Yanwei Zhu,Xianhai Ren,Yuanwen Zhang

On-orbit operations optimization among multiple cooperative or noncooperative spacecraft, which is often challenged by tight constraints and shifting parameters, has grown to be a hot issue in recent years. The authors of this book summarize related optimization problems into four planning categories: spacecraft multi-mission planning, far-range orbital maneuver planning, proximity relative motion planning and multi-spacecraft coordinated planning. The authors then formulate models, introduce optimization methods, and investigate simulation cases that address problems in these four categories. This text will serve as a quick reference for engineers, graduate students, postgraduates in the fields of optimization research and on-orbit operation mission planning.

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1493908383

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Drifting with Clouds, Living by Poetry

The Rivers and Lakes Poets of the Southern Song

By: Hongsheng Zhang

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Drifting with Clouds, Living by Poetry

The Rivers and Lakes Poets of the Southern Song

By: Hongsheng Zhang

How did poets from the "Rivers and Lakes," a realm defined by its remoteness from the central government, navigate and transform the field of classical poetry, a "high" genre of the scholar-officials class? What did it mean for them to "make a living" out of poetry? Zhang Hongsheng answers those questions in this comprehensive study of the Rivers and Lakes Poetry Movement (Jianghu shipai).

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9004522956

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A Comparative Study of Chinese and Western Legal Language and Culture

By: Falian Zhang

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A Comparative Study of Chinese and Western Legal Language and Culture

By: Falian Zhang

This book involves a variety of aspects and levels, including the diachronic and synchronic dimensions. Law profoundly affects our daily lives, but its language and culture can at times be nearly impossible to understand. As a comparative study of Chinese and Western legal language and legal culture, this book investigates the similarities and differences of both sides and identifies their respective advantages and disadvantages. Accordingly, it considers both social and cultural functions, and both theoretical and practical values. Firstly, the book addresses the differences, that is, the basic frameworks and disparities between the Chinese and Western legal languages and legal cultures. Secondly, it explores relevant changes over time, that is, the historical evolution and the basic driving forces that were at work before the Chinese and Western legal languages and cultures “met.” Lastly, the book elaborates on their fusion, that is, the conflicts and changes in Chinese and Western legal languages and cultures in China in the modern era, as well as the introduction, transplantation and transformation of Western legal culture.

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Springer Nature

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9811593477

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Xi Jinping

What Does He Want from the USA?

By: Zhong Wen/Zhang Jie

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Xi Jinping

What Does He Want from the USA?

By: Zhong Wen/Zhang Jie

During the cultural revolution, Xi Jinping was sent to a juvenile detention center for group fighting in the street. During this time, Xi Jinping was a marginalized member of society, with no one to turn to and no one to depend on. He was lice infested and was not well mentally or physically. Xi Jinping's experience at the bottom was similar to that of Qin Shi Huang Ying Zheng, who was sent to Zhao as a hostage, suffering humiliation and hardship. He not only tasted the bitter fruits of the Party struggle, but also dimly realized the philosophy of the Party struggle —— the loser is the prisoner, the winner is the emperor —— such a political philosophy began to germinate in his mind, and eventually developed into his thicket of political struggle. Xi Jinping is a mystery. It is a mystery that he came to power; it is a mystery that he has tossed China into internal and external trouble for nine years and it is an even bigger mystery how he will step down in the future. It is not easy to say what Xi Jinping wants to do because his governing style is not quite like Mao Zedong's and not quite like Deng Xiaoping's. In fact, Xi's ambitions have far exceeded those of Mao and Deng but his prestige, knowledge and abilities are far less than those of Mao and Deng. Xi Jinping is caught between Mao and Deng and is himself a contradiction.

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1006010505

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Religion and Prison Art in Ming China (1368–1644)

Creative Environment, Creative Subjects

By: Ying Zhang

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Religion and Prison Art in Ming China (1368–1644)

Creative Environment, Creative Subjects

By: Ying Zhang

Approaching the prison as a creative environment and imprisoned officials as creative subjects in Ming China (1368-1644), Ying Zhang introduces important themes at the intersection of premodern Chinese religion, poetry, and visual and material culture. The Ming is known for its extraordinary cultural and economic accomplishments in the increasingly globalized early modern world. For scholars of Chinese religion and art, this era crystallizes the essential and enduring characteristics in these two spheres. Drawing on scholarship on Chinese philosophy, religion, aesthetics, poetry, music, and visual and material culture, Zhang illustrates how the prisoners understood their environment as creative and engaged it creatively. She then offers a literature survey on the characteristics of premodern Chinese religion and art that helps situate the questions of “creative environment” and “creative subject” within multiple fields of scholarship.

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9004432299

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The Semantic Salience Hierarchy Model

The L2 Acquisition of Psych Predicates

By: Jingyu Zhang

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The Semantic Salience Hierarchy Model

The L2 Acquisition of Psych Predicates

By: Jingyu Zhang

This empirical study examines the learning problem of the argument structure of psych predicates such as «The dog frightens John» and the related V-ing adjectives such as «The dog is frightening to John». The problem is theoretically interesting because of the marked nature of the thematic role mapping of these sentences in relation to the principle of the Uniformity of Theta Assignment Hypothesis (UTAH). The problem is highly relevant to our understanding of second language acquisition, as this is known to be a prevalent difficulty among language learners. The author has framed the learning problem within a coherent parametric framework drawing on a sophisticated critical review of the syntax/semantics literature and theories of L2 development. The author has specifically developed a theory, the «Semantic Salience Hierarchy Model» (SSHM), to explain the learning process. The significance of the model is not confined only to this particular study, as the issues related to the L2 acquisition of other causative verbs can also be examined within this model. The findings of this study also bear implications to TESOL.

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Peter Lang

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3039113003

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9783039113002

From Wang Shiwei to Liu Xiaobo

Prisoners of Literary Inquisition Under Communist Rule in China (1947-2010)

By: Yu Zhang

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From Wang Shiwei to Liu Xiaobo

Prisoners of Literary Inquisition Under Communist Rule in China (1947-2010)

By: Yu Zhang

The harshness of the modern Communist regime has far exceeded that of all past despots, as the PRC’s founder Mao Zedong openly acknowledged: “What was Emperor Qin Shi Huang? He only buried 460 scholars, but we buried 46,000. During the suppression of counter-revolutionaries, didn’t we kill some counterrevolutionary intellectuals? I’ve discussed this with pro-democracy advocates: ‘You call us Qin Shi Huang as an insult, but we’ve surpassed Qin Shi Huang a hundred-fold.’ Some people curse us as dictators like Qin Shi Huang. We must categorically accept this as factually accurate. Unfortunately, you haven’t said enough and leave it to us to say the rest”. In fact, the number of writers killed under CPC rule far exceeds 46,000, and the number imprisoned is incalculable. This volume collects 64 cases occurring from 1947 to 2010, with one emblematic case for each year, but these represent just the tip of the iceberg. The CPC has officially acknowledged that 550,000 people were labeled “Rightists” from 1957 to 1959, mostly through various types of literary inquisition, making the 130-plus cases of the Qianlong period pale in comparison. This volume describes the cases of 12 “Rightist” victims – Sun Mingxun, Feng Xuefeng, Lin Xiling, Ding Ling, Ai Qing, Lin Zhao, Wang Ruowang, Wang Zaoshi, Chen Fengxiao, Yuan Changying, Nie Gannu and Liu Binyan, obviously only a minute proportion. In the single case of the “anti-Party” novel Liu Zhidan, more than 10,000 people were persecuted, the most wide-ranging literary inquisition in Chinese history. In the case of Wang Shenyou’s love letter, Wang ripped up the letter before sending it, but he was forced to rewrite it and was then executed for his “unspoken criticism”. A multitude of such cases demonstrates that literary inquisition has reached its fullest flowering under CPC rule.

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503

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Independent Chinese PEN Center

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ISBN 10

1989763170

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9781989763179

Spoof Surface Plasmon Polaritons Antenna

By: Junping Geng,Chaofan Ren,Kun Wang,Han Zhou,Jing Zhang

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Spoof Surface Plasmon Polaritons Antenna

By: Junping Geng,Chaofan Ren,Kun Wang,Han Zhou,Jing Zhang

This book investigates in detail some new spoof surface plasmon polaritons (SSPPs) structures and their applications to antenna. It introduces the working principle and radiation characteristics of directional antenna, omnidirectional antenna, reconfigurable antenna and phase-mode antenna based on SSPPs structure. Especially, the irregular SSPPs structure, such as T-shaped and m-shaped SSPPs structures, is introduced to low-profile end-fire antenna with vertical polarization; the rotated SSPPs structure is applied to CP end-fire antenna and omnidirectional antenna; PIN circuit combining with SSPPs structure is used to pattern reconfigurable antenna; the novel phase-mode SSPPs antennas with multi-modes are performed too. This book proposes a continuous method to develop the potentialities of the SSPPs antenna. And the readers can study the method or ideas of the SSPPs antenna, even graft the methods to other SSPPs antenna. The book is intended for undergraduate and graduate students who are interested in SSPPs antenna technology, researchers investigating high-performance antenna, and antenna design engineers working on multi-function antenna applications.

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193

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Springer Nature

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9811647216

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9789811647215

E-Commerce

Concepts, Principles, and Application

By: Zheng Qin,Qinghong Shuai,Guolong Wang,Pu Zhang,Mengyu Cao,Mingshi Chen

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E-Commerce

Concepts, Principles, and Application

By: Zheng Qin,Qinghong Shuai,Guolong Wang,Pu Zhang,Mengyu Cao,Mingshi Chen

This book mainly discusses the background of e-commerce, the basic knowledge of e-commerce, the basic models of e-commerce, the basic principles of e-commerce and the cases of e-commerce. This book has formed a theoretical system of e-commerce with a clear integration boundary. The introduction of the systematic theory is guided by the background of e-commerce, centered on the model of e-commerce, paved with the principles of e-commerce and integrated with the cutting-edge cases. This book defines the basic concepts, models and principle of e-commerce in the form of mathematical analysis and analyzes the basic theory of e-commerce from the perspective of mathematical model. This enables readers to form an abstract understanding of the connotation and extension of e-commerce. It establishes a knowledge system with the background of social ecology, engineering ecology and innovative ecology, taking the models of e-commerce as the core, the principles of e-commerce as the process, the architecture of e-commerce as the platform and the operation and management of e-commerce as the means to integrate the knowledge into application. This book uses case study to comprehensively analyze and apply the knowledge system involved in e-commerce, combining theoretical research with engineering research. Through this book, readers can systematically master all kinds of theories involved in e-commerce. This book aims at different professional and diverse reader groups. It can be used as the basic books for students of various e-commerce-related specialties.

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