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Electromagnetic Wave Control Techniques of Metasurfaces and Metamaterials
In the ever-evolving landscape of electromagnetic wave control, researchers face the pressing challenge of keeping pace with the rapid advancements in metasurface and metamaterial methods. As these technologies become increasingly integral to various engineering applications, educators and researchers seek a comprehensive resource that outlines the current state of the field and offers insights into its future prospects. Electromagnetic Wave Control Techniques of Metasurfaces and Metamaterials emerges as a timely solution, providing a detailed overview and a forward-looking perspective on wave control research using metasurfaces and metamaterials. With a firm focus on bridging the gap betwee...
Metamaterial Technology and Intelligent Metasurfaces for Wireless Communication Systems
Metamaterials and metasurfaces are enabling modern 5G/6G wireless systems to achieve high performance while maintaining efficient costs and sizes. In the wireless industry, transmission lines play a fundamental role in the development of guided wave elements, antennas, radio frequency identification (RFID) tags, and sensors whose efficiency may be enhanced using metamaterials. Additionally, a metamaterial absorber can solve the bandwidth issue of the internet of things (IoTs) backhaul network. Metasurfaces are also potential candidates for implementing reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) due to their special wireless communication capabilities. Metamaterial Technology and Intelligent Metasurfaces for Wireless Communication Systems compiles and promotes metamaterials research and sheds light on how metamaterials and metasurfaces will be used in the 5G era and beyond. Covering topics such as active and passive metamaterials, metasurfaces-inspired antennas, and metamaterials for RFID and sensors, this book is ideal for researchers, students, academicians, and professionals.
Modeling, Analysis, and Control of Smart Energy Systems
The increasing demand for cleaner and more intelligent energy solutions poses a challenge that resonates across academic, engineering, and policymaking spheres. The complexity of integrating renewable energy sources, energy storage solutions, and advanced communication technologies demands a comprehensive understanding, rigorous analysis, and innovative control strategies. The academic community, in particular, seeks a guiding light through this intricate maze of evolving energy dynamics. Modeling, Analysis, and Control of Smart Energy Systems is a groundbreaking publication that offers more than theoretical exploration; it is a roadmap equipped with the knowledge and tools required to shape the future of energy systems. From laying conceptual foundations to unraveling real-world case studies, the book seamlessly bridges the gap between theory and application. Its comprehensive coverage of mathematical modeling, dynamic system analysis, intelligent control strategies, and the integration of renewable energy sources positions it as an authoritative reference for researchers, engineers, and policymakers alike.
Geo-Narratives of a Filial Son
Huang Xiangjian, a mid-seventeenth-century member of the Suzhou local elite, journeyed on foot to southwest China and recorded its sublime scenery in site-specific paintings. Elizabeth Kindall’s innovative analysis of the visual experiences and social functions Huang conveyed through his oeuvre reveals an unrecognized tradition of site paintings, here labeled geo-narratives, that recount specific journeys and create meaning in the paintings. Kindall shows how Huang created these geo-narratives by drawing upon the Suzhou place-painting tradition, as well as the encoded experiences of southwestern sites discussed in historical gazetteers and personal travel records, and the geography of the ...
Unbounded Loyalty
Unbounded Loyalty investigates how frontiers worked before the modern nation-state was invented. The perspective is that of the people in the borderlands who shifted their allegiance from the post-Tang regimes in North China to the new Liao empire (907–1125). Naomi Standen offers new ways of thinking about borders, loyalty, and identity in premodern China. She takes as her starting point the recognition that, at the time, "China" did not exist as a coherent entity, neither politically nor geographically, neither ethnically nor ideologically. Political borders were not the fixed geographical divisions of the modern world, but a function of relationships between leaders and followers. When l...
A Biographical Dictionary of Later Han to the Three Kingdoms (23-220 AD)
This publication is the long-awaited complement to Michael Loewe's acclaimed Biographical Dictionary of the Qin, Former Han and Xin Periods (2000). With more than 8,000 entries, based upon historical records and surviving inscriptions, the comprehensive Biographical Dictionary of Later Han to the Three Kingdoms (23-220 AD) now provides information on men and women of the Chinese world who lived at the time of Later (or Eastern) Han, from Liu Xiu, founding Emperor Guangwu (reg. 24-57), to the celebrated warlord Cao Cao (155-220) at the end of the dynasty. The entries, including surnames, personal names, styles and dates, are accompanied by maps, genealogical tables and indexes, with lists of books and special accounts of women. These features, together with the convenient surveys of the history and the administrative structure of the dynasty, will make Rafe de Crespigny's work an indispensable tool for any further serious study of a significant but comparatively neglected period of imperial China.
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Printing for Profit
From the eleventh through the seventeenth centuries, the publishers of Jianyang in Fujian province played a conspicuous role in the Chinese book trade. Unlike the products of government and educational presses, their publications were destined for the retail book market. These publishers survived by responding to consumer demands for dictionaries, histories, geographies, medical texts, encyclopedias, primers, how-to books, novels, and anthologies. Their publications reflect the varied needs of the full range of readers in late imperial China and allow us to study the reading habits, tastes, and literacy of different social groups. The publishers of Jianyang were also businessmen, and their e...
Going to the People
"It is generally believed that Mao Zedong’s populism was an abrupt departure from traditional Chinese thought. This study demonstrates that many of its key concepts had been developed several decades earlier by young May Fourth intellectuals, including Liu Fu, Zhou Zuoren, and Gu Jiegang. The Chinese folk-literature movement, begun at National Beijing University in 1918, changed the attitudes of Chinese intellectuals toward literature and toward the common people. Turning their backs on “high culture” and Confucianism, young folklorists began “going to the people,” particularly peasants, to gather the songs, legends, children’s stories, and proverbs that Chang-tai Hung here describes and analyzes. Their focus on rural culture, rural people, and rural problems was later to be expanded by the Chinese Communist revolutionaries."
Filial Obsessions
This book employs a broad analysis of Chinese patriliny to propose a distinctive theoretical conceptualization of the role of desire in culture. It utilizes a unique synthesis of Marxian and psychoanalytic insights in arguing that Chinese patriliny is best understood as, simultaneously, “a mode of production of desire” and as “instituted fantasy.” The argument advances through discussions and analyses of kinship, family, gender, filial piety, ritual, and (especially) mythic narratives. In each of these domains, P. Steven Sangren addresses the complex sentiments and ambivalences associated with filial relations. Unlike most earlier studies which approach Chinese patriliny and filial piety as irreducible markers of cultural difference, Sangren argues that Chinese patriliny is better approached as a topic of critical inquiry in its own right.
