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Late one night in December 2008, police arrived at the home of Liu Xiaobo—China’s leading dissident, a key figure in the prodemocracy manifesto Charter 08—and took him away. When Liu won the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize as a political prisoner, the award was bestowed on an empty chair. Inside China, the regime sought to erase every trace of his existence. Liu died of liver cancer in 2017 without ever having been allowed to return home. I Have No Enemies is the definitive biography of Liu Xiaobo, offering a meticulously researched account of the twists and turns of a remarkable life. Perry Link and Wu Dazhi explore Liu’s upbringing, immersion in classical Chinese poetry and philosophy, bold...
This book explores the ethical and legal dilemmas of nanotechnology with a focus on human rights. As in nanotechnology and nanomedicine, it utilizes a similar approach in law to address present and future issues in nanotechnology that looks to past and present law with new understanding to not only prepare for the future but address existing contemporary issues – a ‘Janus Approach’. Nanotechnology brings unprecedented technological revolution. However, it comes with heightened ethical and legal concerns. Nanotechnology is now present in every aspect of life, without full public awareness. Some branches of nanotechnology utilize human DNA, and affect humans in a multitude of unprecedent...
This volume contains the proceedings of UIC 2009, the 6th International C- ference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing: Building Smart Worlds in Real and Cyber Spaces. The UIC 2009 conference was technically co-sponsored by the IEEE and the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Scalable Computing. The conference was also sponsored by the Australian Centre of - cellence in Information and Communication Technologies (NICTA). UIC 2009 was accompanied by six workshops on a variety of research challenges within the area of ubiquitous intelligence and computing. The conference was held in Brisbane, Australia, July 7–9, 2009. The event was the sixth meeting of this conference series. ...
This volume contains the proceedings of the third international symposium on Chemical Mechanical Planarization integrated circuit device manufacturing held at the 196th Meeting of the Electrochemical Society in Honolulu, Hawaii. ( October 20 -22 1999).
Yin Yao was a lucky woman. Jiang Chen's appearance had saved her when she was about to be sold to a brothel by a debtor. He proposed that the two of them get married, and promised that they could save Yin Yao's mother, who was seriously ill. Yin Yao was forced by reality to agree. Yin Yao was an unfortunate woman. As their marriage neared, Aunt Jiang found her and said, "A lowly woman like you shouldn't dream of stepping into my house!" Yin Yao was struck by lightning. She finally realized that the Jiang family had never welcomed her. Thus, she rejected Jiang Chen's proposal. Jiang Chen, however, pursued relentlessly. "You're the first person I've ever loved. No matter what, I'll give you this title." However, she later discovered that this man who doted on her actually had a blood feud with her.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking, ICDCN 2006, held in Guwahati, India in December 2006. Coverage in this volume includes ad hoc networks, distributed computing and algorithms, security, grid and P2P computing, performance evaluation, internetworking protocols and applications, optical networks and multimedia, sensor networks, and wireless networks.
Bai Xiao had married two men in her life. The first was someone she had chased for sixteen years, someone she had loved for sixteen years, someone who was already the most precious part of her life. However, on the anniversary of their wedding, she told him that she had already fallen in love with another person and cruelly swore a divorce oath. Secondly, he used his utmost love to pry open her closed heart. However, when she thought that she had regained her happiness, he told her that everything was just a method to get revenge and push her into hell with his own hands ... Wounded and wounded, she fled in panic. Four years later, she, who had completely transformed, would return in a strong manner, and she would repay for all that she had suffered. Yet, she did not expect that she would be caught unprepared by one truth after another, and what she had to do, and how she had to choose ...
As the world’s only English-language historical dictionary of the Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966-1976), this book offers a comprehensive coverage of major historical figures, events, political terms, and other matters relevant to this unique period of modern Chinese history that had profound influence on social and cultural movements of the world in the 1960s and 1970s. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of the Chinese Cultural Revolution covers its history through a chronology, an introductory essay, glossary, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 400 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about this important period in Chinese history.
The Cultural Revolution in the People's Republic of China started in 1966 and lasted about a decade. This revolutionary upsurge of Chinese students and workers, led by Mao Zedong, wreaked havoc in the world's most populous country, often turning things upside down and undermining the party, government, and army while simultaneously weakening the economy, society, and culture. Tens of millions of people were killed, injured, or imprisoned during this period and relatively few benefited, aside from Mao Zedong and the Gang of Four, the group that would eventually receive the blame for the events of the Cultural Revolution. Given the turbulence and confusion, it is hard to know just what happene...
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International IFIP-TC6 Networking Conference, NETWORKING 2007, held in Atlanta, GA, USA in May 2007. The 99 revised full papers and 30 poster papers cover ad hoc and sensor networks, wireless networks, and the next generation internet.