Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Green Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development (GEESD2021)
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 764

Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Green Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development (GEESD2021)

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2021-12-21
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  • Publisher: IOS Press

The need for green technologies and solutions which will deliver the energy requirements of both the developed and developing world to support sustainability and protect the environment worldwide has never been more urgent. This book contains the proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Green Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development (GEESD2021) which, due to the COVID-19 pandemic around the world and with the strict travel restrictions in China, was held as a hybrid conference (both physically and online via Zoom) in Shanghai, China on 26 and 27 June 2021. It provided an opportunity to bring together an international community of leading scientists, researchers, engineers an...

Book of Liang, Chen and Wei (Part I) Dynasty
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1053

Book of Liang, Chen and Wei (Part I) Dynasty

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  • Published: Unknown
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  • Publisher: DeepLogic

The Twenty-Four Histories (Chinese: 二十四史) are the Chinese official historical books covering a period from 3000 BC to the Ming dynasty in the 17th century. The Han dynasty official Sima Qian established many of the conventions of the genre. Starting with the Tang dynasty, each dynasty established an official office to write the history of its predecessor using official court records. As fixed and edited in the Qing dynasty, the whole set contains 3213 volumes and about 40 million words. It is considered one of the most important sources on Chinese history and culture. The title "Twenty-Four Histories" dates from 1775 which was the 40th year in the reign of the Qianlong Emperor. This ...

A Flying Dad
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 290

A Flying Dad

Summary GUO, Li, this name has become a symbol in China’s melamine-tainted infant formula incident, an ordinary man who works tirelessly for real justice and truth. His story is not only the personal experience of a Beijing father fighting for his child’s health, but also a profound interrogation of social justice and the rule of law in China as a whole. GUO has recorded every detail of his rights defending process over the years in a book. This is a true brave and total disclosure, a comprehensive reflection on his own experience, and a serious criticism of Chinese current social situation. He told us from his suffering experience: even in the darkest times, never give up hope.

Shifting Stories
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 333

Shifting Stories

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020-10-26
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  • Publisher: BRILL

Shifting Stories explores the tale literature of eighth- and ninth-century China to show how the written tales we have today grew out of a fluid culture of hearsay that circulated within elite society. Sarah M. Allen focuses on two main types of tales, those based in gossip about recognizable public figures and those developed out of lore concerning the occult. She demonstrates how writers borrowed and adapted stories and plots already in circulation and how they transformed them—in some instances into unique and artfully wrought tales. For most readers of that era, tales remained open texts, subject to revision by many hands over the course of transmission, unconstrained by considerations of textual integrity or authorship. Only in the mid- to late-ninth century did some readers and editors come to see the particular wording and authorship of a tale as important, a shift that ultimately led to the formation of the Tang tale canon as it is envisioned today.

Encyclopedia of Networked and Virtual Organizations
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1938

Encyclopedia of Networked and Virtual Organizations

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  • Published: 2008-03-31
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  • Publisher: IGI Global

[Administration (référence électronique] ; informatique].

Chinese Fiction of the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 308

Chinese Fiction of the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

It has often been said that the nineteenth century was a relatively stagnant period for Chinese fiction, but preeminent scholar Patrick Hanan shows that the opposite is true: the finest novels of the nineteenth century show a constant experimentation and evolution. In this collection of detailed and insightful essays, Hanan examines Chinese fiction before and during the period in which Chinese writers first came into contact with western fiction. Hanan explores the uses made of fiction by westerners in China; the adaptation and integration of western methods in Chinese fiction; and the continued vitality of the Chinese fictional tradition. Some western missionaries, for example, wrote religious novels in Chinese, almost always with the aid of native assistants who tended to change aspects of the work to "fit" Chinese taste. Later, such works as Washington Irving's "Rip Van Winkle," Jonathan Swift's "A Voyage to Lilliput," the novels of Jules Verne, and French detective stories were translated into Chinese. These interventions and their effects are explored here for virtually the first time.

Computer Vision – ECCV 2018
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 861

Computer Vision – ECCV 2018

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-10-06
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  • Publisher: Springer

The sixteen-volume set comprising the LNCS volumes 11205-11220 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 2018, held in Munich, Germany, in September 2018.The 776 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 2439 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on learning for vision; computational photography; human analysis; human sensing; stereo and reconstruction; optimization; matching and recognition; video attention; and poster sessions.

Computer Vision – ECCV 2018 Workshops
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 771

Computer Vision – ECCV 2018 Workshops

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-01-22
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  • Publisher: Springer

The six-volume set comprising the LNCS volumes 11129-11134 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the workshops that took place in conjunction with the 15th European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 2018, held in Munich, Germany, in September 2018.43 workshops from 74 workshops proposals were selected for inclusion in the proceedings. The workshop topics present a good orchestration of new trends and traditional issues, built bridges into neighboring fields, and discuss fundamental technologies and novel applications.

Rural-Urban Migration in China
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 356

Rural-Urban Migration in China

This book attempts to document and analyse the complicated role new media play in the adaptation and integration of China’s new generation of migrant workers. By analysing the interviews and observations of more than 500 migrant workers under the age of 25 between 2010 and 2015, the author tries to understand how new media shape the experiences of this significant group of people at different stages of their lives. This study profiles the daily life of this new generation of migrant workers and examines the intricate connections between media and the reconstruction of migrant workers’ identity, as well as their urban life adaptation and social inclusion. Not only is their interaction wit...

Rereading the Stone
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 344

Rereading the Stone

The eighteenth-century Hongloumeng, known in English as Dream of the Red Chamber or The Story of the Stone, is generally considered to be the greatest of Chinese novels--one that masterfully blends realism and romance, psychological motivation and fate, daily life and mythical occurrences, as it narrates the decline of a powerful Chinese family. In this path-breaking study, Anthony Yu goes beyond the customary view of Hongloumeng as a vivid reflection of late imperial Chinese culture by examining the novel as a story about fictive representation. Through a maze of literary devices, the novel challenges the authority of history as well as referential biases in reading. At the heart of Honglou...