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Vessels
What is a vessel? As objects made for human interaction and handling, both containing and bounded by space, vessels can take many forms and be constructed of a wide variety of materials. However, they are all unified in signifying a potential for practical functioning, whether or not a particular object is in fact used in this way in its particular context. In this second volume in the Visual Conversations in Art & Archaeology series, and the first in the Center for Global Ancient Art sub-series, four essays by leading scholars tackle the category of vessels in ancient Greece, late antique Rome, pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, and ancient China. By considering the material properties of the objec...
Intelligent Computing Methodologies
This book – in conjunction with the volumes LNCS 8588 and LNBI 8590 – constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Intelligent Computing, ICIC 2014, held in Taiyuan, China, in August 2014. The 85 papers of this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections such as soft computing; artificial bee colony algorithms; unsupervised learning; kernel methods and supporting vector machines; machine learning; fuzzy theory and algorithms; image processing; intelligent computing in computer vision; intelligent computing in communication networks; intelligent image/document retrievals; intelligent da...
The Ashgate Research Companion to Chinese Foreign Policy
The Ashgate Research Companion to Chinese Foreign Policy draws out the full range of topics and issues that characterise China's external affairs. The volume is intended to provide an overview of Chinese foreign policy that will be relevant both to experts in the field as well as those that are just starting to grapple with Beijing's international outlook. The investigation of Chinese foreign policy offered by the volume is divided into seven parts: - Part I focuses on the historical evolution of Chinese foreign policy by detailing the specific traditions and the altering paradigms of Beijing's external outlook proffered for the explanation and understanding of Chinese foreign policy - Part ...
Trials of Engagement
In the last decade public diplomacy has become one of the most important concepts in the development and implementation of foreign policy. Trials of Engagement: The Future of US Public Diplomacy, with contributors from leading scholars in disciplines from international relations to communications, considers the challenges for this ‘new’ public diplomacy, especially as it is pursued by the US Government. It highlights the challenges of aligning policy and projection, overcoming bureaucratic tensions, and the language used by public diplomats. Most importantly, the volume illustrates that the issues for public diplomacy are more than those of a producer seeking to win the hearts and minds of passive ‘audiences’. Trials of Engagement portrays public diplomacy as an increasingly public project. To overcome the trials of engagement, public diplomacy must provide more than a rhetorical nod to a “two-way” process. Ultimately, a collaborative public diplomacy must be built on a broad understanding of those involved, the recognition of stakeholders as peers, and effective interaction with networks made up of traditional and new interlocutors.
Cultural Interactions during the Zhou period (c. 1000-350 BC)
This volume concerns the cultural interactions during the Zhou period of China (c.a. 1000-350 BCE) between the Suizao corridor (near the present-day Yangtze River region) and its contemporaries within or outside the Zhou realm. It mainly, but not exclusively, concentrates on bronze ritual vessels from the Suizao corridor.
Battlefronts Real and Imagined
This collection examines the cultural and intellectual dimensions of war and its resolution between Han Chinese and the various ethnically dissimilar peoples surrounding them during the crucial 'middle period' of Chinese history.
Mr. Sheng's Hidden Honey
Gu Zheng Zheng, the unpopular young miss of the Wealthy Class. There was only one reason for her marriage, and that was to give birth to the heir to Gu Sheng's family. She had an ex-boyfriend, he had a girlfriend, they were not interested in a clandestine marriage. Three years later, this calm marriage suddenly started to have waves. Under the reputation of "country's husband", a certain someone would have a tender model, a network of netizens, and every few days, they would have to fulfill their plan of making a new person with her. She could only mutter, "Mr. Sheng, be careful of your kidney!" However, because her aunt had been sent to the hospital, he had stuck her to the bed with a thump. He said coldly, "Mrs. Sheng, pay attention to your identity."
Tao II
Millions of people are searching for secrets,wisdom, knowledge, and practical techniques to heal, rejuvenate, prolong life, and move toward immortality. The way to accomplish all of these is to reach and meld with Tao. This book, the successor to Tao I: The Way of All Life, reveals the highest secrets and most powerful practical techniques for the Tao journey, which includes one’s physical healing and rejuvenation journey and one’s entire spiritual journey. Its essence can be summarized in one sentence: Jin Dan Da Tao Xiu Lian is the way to heal, rejuvenate, prolong life, and move in the direction of immortality. Shou Yi Yan Jin Ye is the most important daily practice for reaching Tao. ...
Intelligent Computing Theories
This book constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Intelligent Computing, ICIC 2013, held in Nanning, China, in July 2013. The 74 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions and are organized in topical sections on neural networks, nature inspired computing and optimization, cognitive science and computational neuroscience, knowledge discovery and data mining, evolutionary learning and genetic algorithms machine learning theory and methods, natural language processing and computational linguistics, fuzzy theory and models, soft computing, unsupervised and reinforced learning, intelligent computing in finance, intelligent computing in petri nets, intelligent data fusion and information security, virtual reality and computer interaction, intelligent computing in pattern recognition, intelligent computing in image processing, intelligent computing in robotics, complex systems theory and methods.
History of Ming Dynasty (Part I)
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 ...
