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Pioneers of Modern China
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 574

Pioneers of Modern China

Amongst the Chinese exists great cultural variety and diversity. The Cantonese care more for profit than face and are good businessmen, whereas Fujian R(r)n are frank, blunt and outspoken but daring and generous. Beijing R(r)n are more aristocratic and well-mannered, having stayed in a city ruled by emperors of different dynasties. Shanghai R(r)n are more enterprising, adventurous and materialistic but less aristocratic, having been at the center of pre-war gangsterism. Hainan R(r)n are straightforward, blunt and stubborn. Hunan R(r)n are more warlike and have produced more marshals and generals than any other province. Pioneers of Modern China is a fascinating book that paints a vivid picture of the unique cultural characteristics and behavior of the Chinese in the various provinces. Using leaders in the modern history of China, such as Sun Yat Sen, Chiang Kai Shek, Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao as representatives, it offers an in-depth look into the psyche of the Chinese people. It also pays tribute to writers, painters and kungfu experts, who have helped to develop the country socially and artistically."

Portrait of a Community
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 500

Portrait of a Community

Portrait of a Community examines emerging kinship structures as embedded in the social and cultural history of a river valley in a central coastal Fujian province from the ninth through thirteenth centuries. The book demonstrates how cultural innovation often begins at a local level.

On the Mahayana, I am the only one respected
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 302

On the Mahayana, I am the only one respected

The content is still being processed, please reorder the original intention later. In front of Duan Qingyun, there are five waist-high glass containers filled with Huang Chengcheng's liquid. "Director zhang, your family is the best capacity for liquor I have ever seen. Even the guy who drinks beer is different. " Duan Qingyun stare big eyes a face of passionate expression. In fact, he already knew what was in these containers, but his bones were quite contemptuous of such a hypocritical person as Director Zhang, so he threw out a look of innocence and lost no time to satirize Director Zhang.

The Maple Conspiracy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 424

The Maple Conspiracy

What if Canada had fallen prey to a rearmed Germany in the 1930s? For Evan Macroy, a Royal Canadian Air Force military fighter pilot and intelligence adviser in Toronto, the very real threat of German intrusion catalyzes a mission of espionage, aviation, and international intrigue. The Maple Conspiracy tells the story of squadron leader Macroy who is travelling across the world in 1936 in search of a new fighter aircraft and leadership to replace old aircraft and strategies that would modernize the RCAF. As an ascendant Germany becomes an increasing threat to Canada and the rest of the world, Macroy's mission changes into an urgent matter of national security when he is unwittingly caught up...

Wang Anshi and Song Poetic Culture
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 360

Wang Anshi and Song Poetic Culture

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2022-03-07
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  • Publisher: BRILL

A poetic culture consists of a body of shared values and conventions that shape the composition and interpretation of poetry in a given historical period. This book on Wang Anshi (1021–1086) and Song poetic culture—the first of its kind in any Western language—brings into focus a cluster of issues that are central to the understanding of both the poet and his cultural milieu. These issues include the motivations and consequences of poetic contrarianism and the pursuit of novelty, the relationship between anthology compilation and canon formation, the entanglement of poetry with partisan politics, Buddhist orientations in poetic language, and the development of the notion of late style. Though diverse in nature and scope, the issues all bear the stamp of the period as well as Wang Anshi’s distinct personality. Conceived of largely as a series of case studies, the book’s individual chapters may be read independently of each other, but together they form a varied, if only partial, mosaic of Wang Anshi’s work and its critical reception in the larger context of Song poetic culture.

Advanced Manufacturing and Automation XII
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 905

Advanced Manufacturing and Automation XII

This book is a compilation of selected papers from the 12th International Workshop of Advanced Manufacturing and Automation (IWAMA 2022), held in Jimei University, Xiamen, China on 01 - 02 November, 2022. Topics focusing on novel techniques for manufacturing and automation in Industry 4.0 are now vital factors for the maintenance and improvement of the economy of a nation and the quality of life. It will help academic researchers and engineering to implement the concept, theory and methods in Industry 4.0 which has been a hot topic. These proceedings will make valuable contributions to academic researchers, engineers in the industry for the challenges in the 4th industry revolution and smart factories.

Censorship, Surveillance, and Privacy: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 2215

Censorship, Surveillance, and Privacy: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-10-05
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  • Publisher: IGI Global

The censorship and surveillance of individuals, societies, and countries have been a long-debated ethical and moral issue. In consequence, it is vital to explore this controversial topic from all angles. Censorship, Surveillance, and Privacy: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications is a vital reference source on the social, moral, religious, and political aspects of censorship and surveillance. It also explores the techniques of technologically supported censorship and surveillance. Highlighting a range of topics such as political censorship, propaganda, and information privacy, this multi-volume book is geared towards government officials, leaders, professionals, policymakers, media specialists, academicians, and researchers interested in the various facets of censorship and surveillance.

Cutting the Mass Line
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 340

Cutting the Mass Line

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2024-07-02
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  • Publisher: JHU Press

"This book is aimed at rethinking social scientific approaches to collective action by exploring China's ongoing water crisis from the vantage point of Huize County, a water-stressed, ecologically damaged, multi-ethnic area of rural Yunnan Province"--

China's Elite Politics: Political Transition And Power Balancing
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 467

China's Elite Politics: Political Transition And Power Balancing

China's Elite Politics provides a new theoretical perspective on elite politics in China and uses this theoretical perspective to explain power transfer from Jiang Zemin to Hu Jintao and political dynamics between different factional groups since the Sixteenth Party Congress of November 2002. It explains the transition in structural terms, presents characteristics of China's political elites, and analyzes the balance of power among formal institutions as well as among factional groups. It also examines political interactions between Jiang Zemin and his cronies on the one side and Hu Jintao and his allies on the other over a number of issues: the epidemic of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS); ideological institutionalization; the politics over economic overheating; Jiang Zemin's complete retirement; and Hu Jintao's power consolidation in both ideological and personnel terms. /a

A History of Shaolin
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 305

A History of Shaolin

Shaolin Monastery at Mount Song is considered the epicentre of the Chan school of Buddhism. It is also well known for its martial arts tradition and has long been regarded as a special cultural heritage site and an important symbol of the Chinese nation. This book is the first scholarly work in English to comprehensively examine the full history of Shaolin Monastery from 496 to 2016. More importantly, it offers a clear grasp of the origins and development of Chan Buddhism through an examination of Shaolin, and highlights the role of Shaolin and Shaolin kung fu in the construction of a national identity among the Chinese people in the past two centuries.