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As Xi Jinping begins his historic third term in office, many will
try to understand Xi as both person and leader. This book examines
Xi Jinping from his childhood during China's Cultural Revolution
all the way through his second term as China's paramount leader.
The author analyzes not only Xi Jinping's life and leadership but
also Western perceptions, assessments, and interpretations of Xi
and how this has affected China's dynamic relationship with the
West. It will trace how early and mostly optimistic expectations
gave way first to denial or attempts to explain away his
consolidation of power and then reshaped into the assessment of a
new China under a powerful Xi. The book gives special attention to
the vital US-China relationship and the dynamics between Xi and the
US leadership.
A Compelling Journey from Peking to Washington follows the life of
Chi Wang. We are first introduced to Wang as a young child fleeing
with his family through China from encroaching Japanese forces. We
see the ravages of the Sino-Japanese war from the eyes of someone
who lived through it, only to have the post-war peace quickly
overshadowed by a growing civil war between the Nationalists and
Communists. During this tumultuous period, Wang's father served as
an important Nationalist general, allowing a deeper picture of
these conflicts to emerge. Wang then decides to leave China for the
United States just before the People's Republic of China is formed.
His new life in America begins as the China he grew up in is
changed forever. As Wang adapts to living in America, he also has
to come to terms with the increasing distance from his homeland due
to the ongoing Cold War. He yearns to stay connected with the land
where his family still lives while giving back to his adopted home.
He accomplishes this through a long career where he is actively
involved in fostering U.S.-China understanding and educational
exchanges. Some of the major highlights of his career include a
groundbreaking trip to China on behalf of the U.S. State Department
in 1972, shortly after Nixon's own trip; nearly 50 years working at
the U.S. Library of Congress where he became the head of the
Chinese and Korean Section, successfully growing its collection
from 300,000 volumes to over 1 million; and the founding of the
U.S.-China Policy Foundation in 1995.
This book surveys the complicated history of U.S.-Chinese
relations. After two brief chapters providing historical context,
the focus shifts to the mid-twentieth century, the wartime
alliance, the war's bitter aftermath, and the decades since World
War II, including the path from normalisation to China's hosting of
the 2008 Summer Olympics. The author traces the ways in which the
two countries have managed the blend of common and competitive
interests in their economic and strategic relationships; the
shifting political base for Sino-American relations within each
country; the emergence and dissolution of rival political
coalitions supporting and opposing the relationship; the evolution
of each society's perceptions of the other; and ongoing differences
regarding controversial topics like Taiwan and human rights. The
author's early years in China, American education, and career as a
China expert and an advisor on U.S.-China relations and cultural
affairs for over fifty years, have afforded him unique
opportunities to observe and participate in the development of this
important relationship.
Design systems optimized for deep learning models. Written for
software engineers, this book teaches you how to implement a
maintainable platform for developing deep learning models. In
Engineering Deep Learning Systems you will learn how
to: Transfer your software development skills to deep learning
systems Recognize and solve common engineering challenges for deep
learning systems Understand the deep learning development cycle
Automate training for models in TensorFlow and PyTorch Optimize
dataset management, training, model serving and hyperparameter
tuning Pick the right open-source project for your platform
Engineering Deep Learning Systems is a practical guide for software
engineers and data scientists who are designing and building
platforms for deep learning. It’s full of hands-on examples that
will help you transfer your software development skills to
implementing deep learning platforms. You’ll learn how to build
automated and scalable services for core tasks like dataset
management, model training/serving, and hyperparameter tuning. This
book is the perfect way to step into an exciting—and
lucrative—career as a deep learning engineer. about the
technology Behind every deep learning researcher is a team of
engineers bringing their models to production. To build these
systems, you need to understand how a deep learning system’s
platform differs from other distributed systems. By mastering the
core ideas in this book, you’ll be able to support deep learning
systems in a way that’s fast, repeatable, and reliable.
In this collection of essays written by the former head of the
Library of Congress Chinese Collection, Chi Wang chronicles the
modest beginnings of the Chinese Collection at the Library of
Congress and his crusade to transform it into the largest
collection and Chinese cultural presence outside Asia. For anyone
who has ever wondered what goes on inside the marble walls of one
of the country s oldest federal institutions, Wang relates an
insider s account of the major milestones and changes to the
administration of the Collection over the years. Readers will be
surprised not only to learn about some of the rare and priceless
books that have found their way to the Library of Congress but also
by the candor with which Wang shares his story about serving under
three different Librarians of Congress, each with a different
mandate and mark they wanted to leave behind. Building a Better
Chinese Collection for the Library of Congress has value as
American library history but also serves as a useful introduction
to Chinese historical archives and libraries. Select writings
discuss publication and personnel exchanges with Chinese academic
libraries, Chinese character encoding and library automation, and
publishing activities in China.
The son of a prominent Chinese government official and general and
the former schoolmate of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, Chi Wang
personally experienced one of the most tumultuous periods in
Chinese history, including the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, the
Japanese occupation of Hong Kong and mainland China, and the
Chinese Civil War (1946-1949). In 1949, Wang left China for the
United States, traveling though mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong
Kong during the final days of the Chinese Civil War. After arriving
in America, he quickly made a life for himself and became active in
the development of Sino-American relations. From sitting behind
Secretary of State William Rogers and President Nixon's daughter
during "ping-pong diplomacy," to orchestrating the release of Young
Marshal Zhang Xueliang, to presiding over the exponential growth of
the Chinese collection at the Library of Congress, Wang's memoirs
provide unique Chinese insight in the development of Sino-American
relations at a pivotal time in our shared history.
This book captures the state-of-the-art in the field of Strong
Stability Preserving (SSP) time stepping methods, which have
significant advantages for the time evolution of partial
differential equations describing a wide range of physical
phenomena. This comprehensive book describes the development of SSP
methods, explains the types of problems which require the use of
these methods and demonstrates the efficiency of these methods
using a variety of numerical examples. Another valuable feature of
this book is that it collects the most useful SSP methods, both
explicit and implicit, and presents the other properties of these
methods which make them desirable (such as low storage, small error
coefficients, large linear stability domains). This book is
valuable for both researchers studying the field of
time-discretizations for PDEs, and the users of such methods.
This book explores U.S.-China relations, the most important
bilateral relationship in the world, under the leadership of
President Barack Obama. Obama took office just as China's rise to
global power accelerated; his decisions set the stage for a new era
in U.S.-China relations . In Part I, the book outlines Barack
Obama's own personal worldview and the backgrounds of the advisors
that made up his China team, including Hillary Clinton, Robert
Gates, John Kerry, and Susan Rice. Part II chronologically details
the major events in U.S.-China relations from 2009 to 2014,
including such high-profile cases as Obama's first China visit, the
'Pivot to Asia', the story of blind lawyer Cheng Guangcheng, Xi
Jinping's rise to power, and Edward Snowden's revelations on U.S.
cyberespionage. Part III switches back to a topical organization,
addressing Sino-U.S. relations and interactions with regards to
various issues: economics, military relations, climate change,
human rights, and multilateral cooperation in regional and
international organizations such as the APEC, G20 and the United
Nations. Finally, the book ends with timely suggestions for how to
improve the U.S.-China relationship and ensure a peaceful future.
This book surveys the complicated history of U.S.-Chinese
relations. After two brief chapters providing historical context,
the focus shifts to the mid-twentieth century, the wartime
alliance, the war's bitter aftermath, and the decades since World
War II, including the path from normalisation to China's hosting of
the 2008 Summer Olympics. The author traces the ways in which the
two countries have managed the blend of common and competitive
interests in their economic and strategic relationships; the
shifting political base for Sino-American relations within each
country; the emergence and dissolution of rival political
coalitions supporting and opposing the relationship; the evolution
of each society's perceptions of the other; and ongoing differences
regarding controversial topics like Taiwan and human rights. The
author's early years in China, American education, and career as a
China expert and an advisor on U.S.-China relations and cultural
affairs for over fifty years, have afforded him unique
opportunities to observe and participate in the development of this
important relationship.
The "big data" era is characterized by an explosion of information
in the form of digital data collections, ranging from scientific
knowledge, to social media, news, and everyone's daily life.
Examples of such collections include scientific publications,
enterprise logs, news articles, social media, and general web
pages. Valuable knowledge about multi-typed entities is often
hidden in the unstructured or loosely structured, interconnected
data. Mining latent structures around entities uncovers hidden
knowledge such as implicit topics, phrases, entity roles and
relationships. In this monograph, we investigate the principles and
methodologies of mining latent entity structures from massive
unstructured and interconnected data. We propose a text-rich
information network model for modeling data in many different
domains. This leads to a series of new principles and powerful
methodologies for mining latent structures, including (1) latent
topical hierarchy, (2) quality topical phrases, (3) entity roles in
hierarchical topical communities, and (4) entity relations. This
book also introduces applications enabled by the mined structures
and points out some promising research directions.
A class of finite element methods, the Discontinuous Galerkin
Methods (DGM), has been under rapid development recently and has
found its use very quickly in such diverse applications as
aeroacoustics, semi-conductor device simula tion, turbomachinery,
turbulent flows, materials processing, MHD and plasma simulations,
and image processing. While there has been a lot of interest from
mathematicians, physicists and engineers in DGM, only scattered
information is available and there has been no prior effort in
organizing and publishing the existing volume of knowledge on this
subject. In May 24-26, 1999 we organized in Newport (Rhode Island,
USA), the first international symposium on DGM with equal emphasis
on the theory, numerical implementation, and applications. Eighteen
invited speakers, lead ers in the field, and thirty-two
contributors presented various aspects and addressed open issues on
DGM. In this volume we include forty-nine papers presented in the
Symposium as well as a survey paper written by the organiz ers. All
papers were peer-reviewed. A summary of these papers is included in
the survey paper, which also provides a historical perspective of
the evolution of DGM and its relation to other numerical methods.
We hope this volume will become a major reference in this topic. It
is intended for students and researchers who work in theory and
application of numerical solution of convection dominated partial
differential equations. The papers were written with the assumption
that the reader has some knowledge of classical finite elements and
finite volume methods."
This is the thirteenth issue (Vol. 7, No. 1, July 2019) of the
Notices of the International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians (or
ICCM Notices, for short), the official periodical of the ICCM
organization. This special issue honors Shing-Tung Yau on the
occasion of his 70th birthday. Published semi-annually, the Notices
bring news, research, and presentation of various perspectives,
relevant to Chinese mathematics development and education. Readers
of the Notices will find research papers on various topics by
prominent experts from around the world, interesting and timely
articles on current applications and trends, biographical and
historical essays, profiles of important institutions of research
and learning, and more.
This is the eighteenth issue (Vol. 9, No. 2, December 2021 of the
Notices of the International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians (or
ICCM Notices, for short), the official periodical of the ICCM
organization. Published semi-annually, the Notices bring news,
research, and presentation of various perspectives, relevant to
Chinese mathematics development and education. Readers of the
Notices will find research papers on various topics by prominent
experts from around the world, interesting and timely articles on
current applications and trends, biographical and historical
essays, profiles of important institutions of research and
learning, and more.
This is the seventeenth issue (Vol. 9, No. 1, July 2021 of the
Notices of the International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians (or
ICCM Notices, for short), the official periodical of the ICCM
organization. Published semi-annually, the Notices bring news,
research, and presentation of various perspectives, relevant to
Chinese mathematics development and education. Readers of the
Notices will find research papers on various topics by prominent
experts from around the world, interesting and timely articles on
current applications and trends, biographical and historical
essays, profiles of important institutions of research and
learning, and more.
Handbook on Numerical Methods for Hyperbolic Problems: Applied and
Modern Issues details the large amount of literature in the design,
analysis, and application of various numerical algorithms for
solving hyperbolic equations that has been produced in the last
several decades. This volume provides concise summaries from
experts in different types of algorithms, so that readers can find
a variety of algorithms under different situations and become
familiar with their relative advantages and limitations.
This book explores U.S.-China relations, the most important
bilateral relationship in the world, under the leadership of
President Barack Obama. Obama took office just as China's rise to
global power accelerated; his decisions set the stage for a new era
in U.S.-China relations . In Part I, the book outlines Barack
Obama's own personal worldview and the backgrounds of the advisors
that made up his China team, including Hillary Clinton, Robert
Gates, John Kerry, and Susan Rice. Part II chronologically details
the major events in U.S.-China relations from 2009 to 2014,
including such high-profile cases as Obama's first China visit, the
'Pivot to Asia', the story of blind lawyer Cheng Guangcheng, Xi
Jinping's rise to power, and Edward Snowden's revelations on U.S.
cyberespionage. Part III switches back to a topical organization,
addressing Sino-U.S. relations and interactions with regards to
various issues: economics, military relations, climate change,
human rights, and multilateral cooperation in regional and
international organizations such as the APEC, G20 and the United
Nations. Finally, the book ends with timely suggestions for how to
improve the U.S.-China relationship and ensure a peaceful future.
This is the twelfth issue (Vol. 6, No. 2, December 2018) of the
Notices of the International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians (or
ICCM Notices, for short), the official periodical of the ICCM
organization. Published semi-annually, the Notices bring news,
research, and presentation of various perspectives, relevant to
Chinese mathematics development and education. Readers of the
Notices will find research papers on various topics by prominent
experts from around the world, interesting and timely articles on
current applications and trends, biographical and historical
essays, profiles of important institutions of research and
learning, and more.
Handbook of Numerical Methods for Hyperbolic Problems explores the
changes that have taken place in the past few decades regarding
literature in the design, analysis and application of various
numerical algorithms for solving hyperbolic equations. This volume
provides concise summaries from experts in different types of
algorithms, so that readers can find a variety of algorithms under
different situations and readily understand their relative
advantages and limitations.
This is the fifteenth issue (Vol. 8, No. 1, July 2020) of the
Notices of the International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians (or
ICCM Notices, for short), the official periodical of the ICCM
organization.Published semi-annually, the Notices bring news,
research, and presentation of various perspectives, relevant to
Chinese mathematics development and education. Readers of the
Notices will find research papers on various topics by prominent
experts from around the world, interesting and timely articles on
current applications and trends, biographical and historical
essays, profiles of important institutions of research and
learning, and more.
This book contains an expanded and smoothed version of lecture
notes delivered by the authors at the Advanced School on Numerical
Solutions of Partial Di?- ential Equations: New Trends and
Applications, which took place at the Centre de Recerca Matem atica
(CRM) in Bellaterra (Barcelona) from November 15th to 22nd, 2007.
The book has three parts. The ?rst part, by Silvia Bertoluzza and
Silvia Falletta, is devoted to the use of wavelets to derive some
new approaches in the numerical solution of PDEs, showing in
particular how the possibility of wr- ing equivalent norms for the
scale of Besov spaces allows to write down some new
methods.Thesecondpart, byGiovanniRusso,
providesanoverviewofthemodern finite-volume and finite-difference
shock-capturing schemes for systems of cons- vationandbalancelaws,
with emphasisingiving auni?ed viewofsuchschemesby identifying the
essential aspects of their construction. In the last part Chi-Wang
Shugivesageneralintroductionto thediscontinuousGalerkinmethods
forsolving some classes of PDEs, discussing cell entropy
inequalities, nonlinear stability and error estimates. The school
that originated these notes was born with the objective of p-
viding an opportunity for PhD students, recent PhD doctorates and
researchers in general in ?elds of applied mathematics and
engineering to catch up with - portant developments in the ?elds
and/or to get in touch with state-of-the-art numerical techniques
that are not covered in usual courses at graduate leve
The year 2018 marked the 75th anniversary of the founding of
Mathematics of Computation, one of the four primary research
journals published by the American Mathematical Society and the
oldest research journal devoted to computational mathematics. To
celebrate this milestone, the symposium “Celebrating 75 Years of
Mathematics of Computation” was held from November 1–3, 2018,
at the Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in
Mathematics (ICERM), Providence, Rhode Island. The sixteen papers
in this volume, written by the symposium speakers and editors of
the journal, include both survey articles and new contributions. On
the discrete side, there are four papers covering topics in
computational number theory and computational algebra. On the
continuous side, there are twelve papers covering topics in machine
learning, high dimensional approximations, nonlocal and fractional
elliptic problems, gradient flows, hyperbolic conservation laws,
Maxwell's equations, Stokes's equations, a posteriori error
estimation, and iterative methods. Together they provide a snapshot
of significant achievements in the past quarter century in
computational mathematics and also in important current trends.
This is the fourteenth issue (Vol. 7, No. 2, December 2019) of the
Notices of the International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians (or
ICCM Notices, for short), the official periodical of the ICCM
organization. Published semi-annually, the Notices bring news,
research, and presentation of various perspectives, relevant to
Chinese mathematics development and education. Readers of the
Notices will find research papers on various topics by prominent
experts from around the world, interesting and timely articles on
current applications and trends, biographical and historical
essays, profiles of important institutions of research and
learning, and more.
This study analyzes the United States policies regarding China
during the administration of President George W. Bush. Chi Wang
examines the relationship between the United States and China from
its tense origins to its current stability and shows that the China
policy of the U.S. is ultimately based on pragmatic national
interest that eventually overcomes short-term ideological
difficulties or mistakes by inexperienced American administrations.
Briefly touching on the China-policy legacy of Presidents George
H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton, Wang provides a review of significant
developments in U.S.-China policy during President George W. Bush's
first term in office. By following with an analysis of the varied
agendas of Bush's foreign policy advisors during his second term,
readers are able to trace the influence of advisors on the
president's China policy. Wang chronicles the reordering of U.S.
security priorities after September 11, showing how this prompted
Washington to embrace China in a measured partnership and has
resulted in the short-term stabilization of U.S.-China relations.
This is the tenth issue (Vol. 5, No. 2, December 2017) of the
Notices of the International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians (or
ICCM Notices, for short), the official periodical of the ICCM
organization. Published semi-annually, the Notices bring news,
research, and presentation of various perspectives, relevant to
Chinese mathematics development and education. Readers of the
Notices will find research papers on various topics by prominent
experts from around the world, interesting and timely articles on
current applications and trends, biographical and historical
essays, profiles of important institutions of research and
learning, and more.
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