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Making the New World Their Own
In Making the New World Their Own, Qiong Zhang offers a systematic study of how Chinese scholars in the late Ming and early Qing came to understand that the earth is shaped as a globe. This notion arose from their encounters with Matteo Ricci, Giulio Aleni and other Jesuits. These encounters formed a fascinating chapter in the early modern global integration of space. It unfolded as a series of mutually constitutive and competing scholarly discourses that reverberated in fields from cosmology, cartography and world geography to classical studies. Zhang demonstrates how scholars such as Xiong Mingyu, Fang Yizhi, Jie Xuan, Gu Yanwu, and Hu Wei appropriated Jesuit ideas to rediscover China’s place in the world and reconstitute their classical tradition. Winner of the Chinese Historians in the United States (CHUS) "2015 Academic Excellence Award"
Discrete Dynamical Systems and Chaotic Machines
For computer scientists, especially those in the security field, the use of chaos has been limited to the computation of a small collection of famous but unsuitable maps that offer no explanation of why chaos is relevant in the considered contexts. Discrete Dynamical Systems and Chaotic Machines: Theory and Applications shows how to make finite machines, such as computers, neural networks, and wireless sensor networks, work chaotically as defined in a rigorous mathematical framework. Taking into account that these machines must interact in the real world, the authors share their research results on the behaviors of discrete dynamical systems and their use in computer science. Covering both t...
Landscapes Clear and Radiant
"Wang Hui, the most celebrated painter of late-seventeenth-century China, played a key role both in reinvigorating past traditions of landscape painting and in establishing the stylistic foundations for the imperially sponsored art of the Qing court. Drawing upon his protean talent and immense ambition, Wang developed an all-embracing synthesis of historical landscape styles that constituted one of the greatest artistic innovations of late imperial China." "This comprehensive study of the painter, the first published in English, features three essays that together consider his life and career, his artistic achievements, and his masterwork - the series of twelve monumental scrolls depicting t...
Supreme Emperor of Swords
Before going to college, an ordinary high school student went to celebrate and got drunk. When he woke up, he found himself in a completely different world. There was a big sect, the approaching sect entrance examination, a slum where his body’s previous owner lived, and a shared memory about a missing young girl. When he got tangled in a fight with a few punks in this different world, he fell off a cliff and miraculously found himself still alive, with two more voices ringing inside his head. They were Sword Master and Saber Master. In the company of them, he continued to find out more about this whole new world. He took the sect entrance examination, entered the sect, met a strange man in black, and even participated in a major competition of the sect to have a chance to win over his peers! In this whole new world, he was born again and got to explore the fantastic martial world!
Knowing Manchuria
"Knowing Manchuria places the creation of knowledge about nature at the center of our understanding of one of the world's most contested borderlands. At the intersection of China, Russia, Korea, and Mongolia, Manchuria is known as a site of war and environmental extremes, where projects of political control intersected with projects designed to make sense of Manchuria's multiple environments. Covering over 500,000 square miles (comparable in size to all the land east of the Mississippi) Manchuria's landscapes included temperate rain forests, deserts, prairies, cultivated plains, wetlands, and Siberian taiga. Ruth Rogaski reveals how paleontologists and indigenous shamans, and many others, made sense of the Manchurian frontier. She uncovers how natural knowledge and thus "the nature of Manchuria" itself changed over time, from a sacred "land where the dragon arose" to a global epicenter of contagious disease; from a tragic "wasteland" to an abundant granary that nurtured the hope of a nation"--
My Cold CEO Fiancee
A Divine level expert in the Hidden Dragon City, on the first day he went to work at the Ice Mountain Fiancée Company, he had actually been arranged to clean the toilet! Just do it, but why is it a ladies' room?
Information Science and Applications 2017
This book contains selected papers from the 8th International Conference on Information Science and Applications (ICISA 2017) and provides a snapshot of the latest issues encountered in technical convergence and convergences of security technology. It explores how information science is core to most current research, industrial and commercial activities and consists of contributions covering topics including Ubiquitous Computing, Networks and Information Systems, Multimedia and Visualization, Middleware and Operating Systems, Security and Privacy, Data Mining and Artificial Intelligence, Software Engineering, and Web Technology. The proceedings introduce the most recent information technology and ideas, applications and problems related to technology convergence, illustrated through case studies, and reviews converging existing security techniques. Through this volume, readers will gain an understanding of the current state-of-the-art information strategies and technologies of convergence security.The intended readerships are researchers in academia, industry and other research institutes focusing on information science and technology.
The Life of a Patron
This volume celebrates Zhou Lianggong's legacy to the study of 17th-century Chinese painting. A high government official, Zhou Lianggong was unlike other typical connoisseurs of that period. Instead of seeking out works by great artists of the past, he focused on contemporary painters as well as seal carvers. Concerned with perserving their names in history, he recorded their biographies which he compiled in his books Da Hua Lu (Lives of Painters) and Yinren Zhuan (Lives of Seal Carvers). In this richly illustrated catalog Dr. Kim has compiled valuable information about Zhou's life and writings and thus shed new light on the study of Chinese painting of the 17th-century.
Eminent Chinese of the Qing Period
Eminent Chinese of the Qing Period was first developed under the auspices of the US Library of Congress during World War II. This much-loved work, edited by Arthur W. Hummel Sr., was meticulously compiled and unique in its scope, and quickly became the standard biographical reference for the Qing dynasty, which lasted from 1644 to 1911/2. Amongst the contributors are John King Fairbank, Têng Ssû-yü, L. Carrington Goodrich, C. Martin Wilbur, Fêng Chia-shêng, Knight Biggerstaff, and Nancy Lee Swann. The 2018 Berkshire edition contains the original eight hundred biographical sketches as well as the original front and back matter, including the preface by Hu Shih, a scholar who had been Chi...
Transmigration: Unloved Crown Princess
"She, the modern office's' hassle note ', the Boyfriend's hack, the intervention of her good friend, had innocently ended her life. Once someone passed through her, she would become the first Second Miss to have a rest before the King. Her father didn't hurt her, and she didn't care, it wasn't related to them in the first place.The first time she sneaked out of the house, she met the man who had changed her fate — the Violet Swallow King's Crown Prince Baili Qianhen. Because of their cooperation, she became her Crown Princess, but she didn't know that all of this was a 'trap' he had set for love.The first time she went on a rampage in Jianghu, she met the man who had fallen for her entire life, the Crown Prince of Nan Zhao Kingdom — — Absolute Huangfu. A plot that had been plotted for a long time had brought everything back to the beginning."Two princes, a transmigrator who decided to be reborn without love, for whom did her heart sink?"
