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"Locating China" explores the political economy of place, space and
popular culture in contemporary China. This multidisciplinary
volume examines the mutual articulations between cultural imaginary
and China's continuing drive toward urbanization. The consequences
of this relationship are shown to be the development of new space
and places, and new forms of spatial practices, thus weakening old
concepts of the "local" and "locality."
The international group of scholars incorporate theoretical
inquiries of space with grounded empirical work on multiple locals
throughout China. From village discotheques in Guizhou to tourist
villas, tea houses in Hainan to architectural extravaganzas in
Shanshen the contributors argue that local places and local
cultural practices are not constrained with the local scale. This
therefore raises the question - how does the meaning transfer
between the local, the national and the global?
This book mainly focuses on the multi-media energy prediction
technology and optimization methods of iron and steel enterprises.
The technical methods adopted include swarm intelligence algorithm,
neural network, reinforcement learning, and so on. Energy saving
and consumption reduction in iron and steel enterprises have always
been a research hotspot in the field of process control. This book
considers the multi-media energy balance problem from the
perspective of system, studies the energy flow and material flow in
iron and steel enterprises, and provides energy optimization
methods that can be used for planning, prediction, and scheduling
under different production scenes. The main audience of this book
is scholars and graduate students in the fields of control theory,
applied mathematics, energy optimization, etc.
Taking a multidisciplinary approach, this volume examines the
relationship between space and the production of local popular
culture in contemporary China. The international team of
contributors examine the inter-relationship between the cultural
imaginary of a given place and China's continuing drive towards
urbanization. This has led to the development of new spaces and
places, and new forms of spatial practices that destabilise old
concepts of the 'local' and 'locality'. Delivering ethnographic
observations and theoretical speculations, this text furthers our
understanding of the link between spatial thinking and the
production of consumer culture in China.
"First Step" is an elementary Chinese textbook for students with
no previous background in the language. Focusing on the basics of
modern Chinese phonetics and grammatical structure, the book uses
everyday topics to help students establish a solid foundation in
the Chinese language.
The textbook, which includes color illustrations, contains
thirty lessons, each of which can be covered in a week's worth of
classes. Each lesson features a lively dialogue or a short essay,
representing a real-life situation, which is then followed by
vocabulary lists and grammar notes. Explanatory notes on Chinese
culture and customs are also provided. The companion workbook for
"First Step" is sold separately and includes comprehensive
exercises and character writing sheets with information on the
stroke orders of newly introduced characters. Free online audio
files, accessible on smartphones, tablets, and laptops, allow
students to listen to "First Step" dialogues and practice their
pronunciation at their leisure. This vital audio supplement gives
students the chance to learn Chinese intonation with greater
accuracy.
"First Step" provides students with the necessary tools to begin
practical daily communication in Chinese.Emphasis is on basic
grammar structure and principlesTextbook features both traditional
and simplified characters, pinyin, and English
translationPerforated workbook (which is sold separately)
facilitates easy handling of homeworkFree audio recordings of
dialogues and other content available onlineAppropriate for college
and high school students
This book is dedicated to the analysis of the entrepreneurship in
successful companies by presenting and comparing a series of case
studies in the Asia-Pacific where many new companies have been
growing successfully in the 21th century. In total, 5 cases in the
manufacturing industry, 4 cases in the services industry, and 3
cases related to new business and social innovation are chosen from
The mainland of China, Taiwan, Japan, Australia, Malaysia and
Vietnam. Each case provides insight into the entrepreneur's
aspiration, the processes of personal and business developments,
the factors of success, and the inspirations drawn from the
analysis. These cases are analyzed and compared from the viewpoints
of entrepreneur's motivation, ability of foreseeing changes and
opportunities in the future business environment, core resources
and innovation, knowledge management and culture for the company,
determination and ethos. These are critical factors in value
creation for customers and the society, especially in the future
business environment. Finally, commonalities and uniquenesses in
entrepreneurship relevant to industry sectors and
social-economic-cultural contexts are clarified and a typical
entrepreneurship model in the Asia-Pacific is proposed.
This book is dedicated to the analysis of the entrepreneurship in
successful companies by presenting and comparing a series of case
studies in the Asia-Pacific where many new companies have been
growing successfully in the 21th century. In total, 5 cases in the
manufacturing industry, 4 cases in the services industry, and 3
cases related to new business and social innovation are chosen from
The mainland of China, Taiwan, Japan, Australia, Malaysia and
Vietnam. Each case provides insight into the entrepreneur's
aspiration, the processes of personal and business developments,
the factors of success, and the inspirations drawn from the
analysis. These cases are analyzed and compared from the viewpoints
of entrepreneur's motivation, ability of foreseeing changes and
opportunities in the future business environment, core resources
and innovation, knowledge management and culture for the company,
determination and ethos. These are critical factors in value
creation for customers and the society, especially in the future
business environment. Finally, commonalities and uniquenesses in
entrepreneurship relevant to industry sectors and
social-economic-cultural contexts are clarified and a typical
entrepreneurship model in the Asia-Pacific is proposed.
This book discusses some research results for CMOS-compatible
silicon-based optical devices and interconnections. With accurate
simulation and experimental demonstration, it provides insights on
silicon-based modulation, advanced multiplexing, polarization and
efficient coupling controlling technologies, which are widely used
in silicon photonics. Researchers, scientists, engineers and
especially students in the field of silicon photonics can benefit
from the book. This book provides valuable knowledge, useful
methods and practical design that can be considered in emerging
silicon-based optical interconnections and communications. And it
also give some guidance to student how to organize and complete an
good dissertation.
This book systematically describes the development of manufacturing
servitization in the Asia-Pacific region. It offers a practical and
theoretical reference guide to the manufacturing companies in the
Asia-Pacific region, which is now a major global manufacturing
center. Servitization is a fairly recent trend in the manufacturing
industry: some American and European manufacturing companies have
successfully transformed to service oriented manufacturing
companies over the past three decades, while Asian-Pacific region
companies have only more recently begun to recognize the importance
of servitization. But some Asia-Pacific region companies have been
exploring approaches in the same direction of servitization without
being aware of the concept. One unique aspect of this book is the
fact that it takes into consideration the social and cultural
influences of this region. It introduces companies within and
beyond the region, as well as the academic world, to the current
state of development of the Asia-pacific manufacturing industry and
its servitization trend. This is the first book that focuses on
this topic, one which is of great theoretical and practical
importance.
A scholar and activist tells the story of change makers operating
within the Chinese Communist system, whose ideas of social action
necessarily differ from those dominant in Western, liberal
societies. The Chinese government has increased digital censorship
under Xi Jinping. Why? Because online activism works; it is
perceived as a threat in halls of power. In The Other Digital
China, Jing Wang, a scholar at MIT and an activist in China,
shatters the view that citizens of nonliberal societies are either
brainwashed or complicit, either imprisoned for speaking out or
paralyzed by fear. Instead, Wang shows the impact of a less
confrontational kind of activism. Whereas Westerners tend to equate
action with open criticism and street revolutions, Chinese
activists are building an invisible and quiet coalition to bring
incremental progress to their society. Many Chinese change makers
practice nonconfrontational activism. They prefer to walk around
obstacles rather than break through them, tactfully navigating
between what is lawful and what is illegitimate. The Other Digital
China describes this massive gray zone where NGOs, digital
entrepreneurs, university students, IT companies like Tencent and
Sina, and tech communities operate. They study the policy winds in
Beijing, devising ways to press their case without antagonizing a
regime where taboo terms fluctuate at different moments. What
emerges is an ever-expanding networked activism on a grand scale.
Under extreme ideological constraints, the majority of Chinese
activists opt for neither revolution nor inertia. They share a
mentality common in China: rules are meant to be bent, if not
resisted.
This workbook is a companion volume to "First Step," the
elementary Chinese textbook. Featuring both traditional and
simplified characters along with pinyin and English translation,
the workbook includes comprehensive exercises and character writing
sheets with information on the stroke orders of newly introduced
characters. Perforated pages facilitate student use and easy
handling of homework, and the workbook also includes more than 120
color illustrations. Listening exercises that help students learn
to identify and pronounce the tones used in contemporary spoken
Chinese are paired with free online audio files, accessible on
smartphones, tablets and laptops.
This book summarizes the progress made to functional immobilize G
protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) through site-specific or
orientated recognition in both non-covalent and covalent manners.
The last decade is the dawn of the "post-structural biology" era
for G protein-coupled receptor research. As an emerging approach
for state-of-the-art immobilization, this book discusses efforts to
explore the elegance of naturally-occurring biochemical reactions
by using their high specificity and robust reactivity in the
complex system, such as site-specific conjugation by covalent
recognition between enzymes and their substrates. With the
perspective of protein-drug interactions, this book also reviews
the applications of protein immobilization, with an emphasis on G
protein-coupled receptors, in drug discovery and protein-ligand
interaction analysis. In addition, the merits, opportunities and
disadvantages are analyzed for different immobilization methods,
and a perspective for future directions is presented. Given its
scope, this book appeals to a broad readership, particularly
researchers engaged in the field of analytical chemistry,
bioconjugate chemistry, and chemical biology, and other related
field, as well as teachers of relevant majors in colleges and
universities.
This book addresses problems in the modeling, detection, and
control of emergent behaviors and task coordination in multiagent
systems. It presents a unified solution to such problems in terms
of distributed estimation, distributed control, and optimization of
interaction topologies and dynamics. Four aspects of the technical
solutions in the book are presented: First, the impact of
interaction dynamics on the convergence conditions related to
interaction topologies is discussed, utilizing a discontinuous
cooperative control algorithm of updated design. Second,
distributed least-squares and Kalman filtering algorithms for
agents with limited interactions are elaborated upon. Third, a
general framework of distributed nonlinear control is established,
and distributed adaptive control for nonlinear systems with more
general uncertainties is presented. Based on the proposed
framework, a distributed nonlinear controller is designed to deal
with task coordination of robotic systems with nonholonomic
constraints. Finally, the problem of optimal multiagent task
coordination is addressed and solutions based on approximate
dynamic programming and approximate distributed gradient estimation
are presented. Emergent Behavior Detection and Task Coordination
for Multiagent Systems is of interest to practicing engineers in
areas such as robotics and cyber-physical systems, researchers in
the field of systems, controls, and robotics, and senior
undergraduate and graduate students.
This open access book assesses the potential of data-driven methods
in industrial process monitoring engineering. The process modeling,
fault detection, classification, isolation, and reasoning are
studied in detail. These methods can be used to improve the safety
and reliability of industrial processes. Fault diagnosis, including
fault detection and reasoning, has attracted engineers and
scientists from various fields such as control, machinery,
mathematics, and automation engineering. Combining the diagnosis
algorithms and application cases, this book establishes a basic
framework for this topic and implements various statistical
analysis methods for process monitoring. This book is intended for
senior undergraduate and graduate students who are interested in
fault diagnosis technology, researchers investigating automation
and industrial security, professional practitioners and engineers
working on engineering modeling and data processing applications.
This is an open access book.
This book addresses problems in the modeling, detection, and
control of emergent behaviors and task coordination in multiagent
systems. It presents a unified solution to such problems in terms
of distributed estimation, distributed control, and optimization of
interaction topologies and dynamics. Four aspects of the technical
solutions in the book are presented: First, the impact of
interaction dynamics on the convergence conditions related to
interaction topologies is discussed, utilizing a discontinuous
cooperative control algorithm of updated design. Second,
distributed least-squares and Kalman filtering algorithms for
agents with limited interactions are elaborated upon. Third, a
general framework of distributed nonlinear control is established,
and distributed adaptive control for nonlinear systems with more
general uncertainties is presented. Based on the proposed
framework, a distributed nonlinear controller is designed to deal
with task coordination of robotic systems with nonholonomic
constraints. Finally, the problem of optimal multiagent task
coordination is addressed and solutions based on approximate
dynamic programming and approximate distributed gradient estimation
are presented. Emergent Behavior Detection and Task Coordination
for Multiagent Systems is of interest to practicing engineers in
areas such as robotics and cyber-physical systems, researchers in
the field of systems, controls, and robotics, and senior
undergraduate and graduate students.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which
commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out
and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and
impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes
high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using
print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in
1996.
From the late 1990s until today, China’s sound practice has been
developing in an increasingly globalized socio-political-aesthetic
milieu, receiving attentions and investments from the art world,
music industry and cultural institutes, with nevertheless, its
unique acoustic philosophy remaining silent. This book traces the
history of sound practice from contemporary Chinese visual art back
in the 1980s, to electronic music, which was introduced as a target
of critique in the 1950s, to electronic instrument building fever
in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and to the origins of both
academic and nonacademic electronic and experimental music
activities. This expansive tracing of sound in the arts resonates
with another goal of this book, to understand sound and its
artistic practice through notions informed by Chinese qi-cosmology
and qi-philosophy, including notions of resonance, shanshui
(mountains-waters), huanghu (elusiveness and evasiveness), and
distributed monumentality and anti-monumentality. By turning back
to deep history to learn about the meaning and function of sound
and listening in ancient China, the book offers a refreshing
understanding of the British sinologist Joseph Needham’s
statement that “Chinese acoustics is acoustics of qi.” and
expands existing conceptualization of sound art and contemporary
music at large.
From the late 1990s until today, China’s sound practice has been
developing in an increasingly globalized socio-political-aesthetic
milieu, receiving attentions and investments from the art world,
music industry and cultural institutes, with nevertheless, its
unique acoustic philosophy remaining silent. This book traces the
history of sound practice from contemporary Chinese visual art back
in the 1980s, to electronic music, which was introduced as a target
of critique in the 1950s, to electronic instrument building fever
in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and to the origins of both
academic and nonacademic electronic and experimental music
activities. This expansive tracing of sound in the arts resonates
with another goal of this book, to understand sound and its
artistic practice through notions informed by Chinese qi-cosmology
and qi-philosophy, including notions of resonance, shanshui
(mountains-waters), huanghu (elusiveness and evasiveness), and
distributed monumentality and anti-monumentality. By turning back
to deep history to learn about the meaning and function of sound
and listening in ancient China, the book offers a refreshing
understanding of the British sinologist Joseph Needham’s
statement that “Chinese acoustics is acoustics of qi.” and
expands existing conceptualization of sound art and contemporary
music at large.
Under the Same Blue Sky is the author's second book, the most part
of the stories were suffered by the author himself, part of the
stories were suffered by the auhtor's friends or heard, but all of
them were true mostly. As author's main opinion in the book, as
members of the big human family, everybody should understand each
other much better, help each other more. Under the same blue sky,
of course there are shinning, shadow, raining, snowing,
thunder...Every body maybe easily to suffer all of the different,
But the different mind maybe caused different feelings, so doing
everything depend on the mind to get the different conclutions or
results. The author wish everybody should think about You Good Me
Good. Be like to help otherbody nothing to lost from you and will
constructed a more harmonnious human family.
This book is mostly about the real funny stories, all of were the
author had met in the nearly two years after he setted foot at the
England. These funny stories it wasn't just for joking, laughing.
As a Chinese author, he want build up a bridge between the English
and Chinese through his stories, of course doesn't matter the
bridge was a English style or Chinese style.As the author said:
'Under the morden condition, the globe became a small village, the
human became a big family'. We need know each other as well, these
stories maybe could help you a bit. Anyway, as a Chinese saying:
'Whenever you open a book, you'll be benefited'.
Dai Jinhua is one of contemporary China's most influential
theoreticians and cultural critics. A feminist Marxist, her
literary, film and TV commentary has, over the last decade,
addressed an expanding audience in China, Taiwan and Hong Kong.
"Cinema and Desire" presents Dai Jinhau's best work to date. In it
she examines the Orientalism that made Zhang Yimou the darling of
international film festivals, establishes Huang Shuqin's "Human,
Woman, Demon" as the People's Republic's first genuinely feminist
film, comments on TV representations of the Chinese diaspora in New
York, speculates on the value of Mao Zedong as an icon of
post-revolutionary consumerism, and analyses the rise of shopping
plazas in 1990s' urban China as a strange montage in which the
political memories of Tiananmen Square and the logic of the global
capitalist marketplace are intertwined.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which
commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out
and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and
impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes
high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using
print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in
1996.
Together with the noted Tang dynasty tales, Song dynasty tales have
long been highly valued and widely read in the Chinese world. As
the first English translations of a selected collection of 12 Song
dynasty tales, this book opens a window into the world of
literature, culture, and the colorful lives of the royal house and
common people in the 10th- to 13th-centuries. In addition to the
translation and meticulous annotations, it offers a general
introduction as well as commentaries on each tale.
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