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Chinese Martial Arts Training Manuals
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 352

Chinese Martial Arts Training Manuals

Secret training manuals, magic swords, and flying kung fu masters—these are staples of Chinese martial arts movies and novels, but only secret manuals have a basis in reality. Chinese martial arts masters of the past did indeed write such works, along with manuals for the general public. This collection introduces Western readers to the rich and diverse tradition of these influential texts, rarely available to the English-speaking reader. Authors Brian Kennedy and Elizabeth Guo, who coauthor a regular column for Classical Fighting Arts magazine, showcase illustrated manuals from the Ming Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty, and the Republican period. Aimed at fans, students, and practitioners, the b...

A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 383
Computer Vision – ECCV 2022
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 811

Computer Vision – ECCV 2022

The 39-volume set, comprising the LNCS books 13661 until 13699, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 2022, held in Tel Aviv, Israel, during October 23–27, 2022. The 1645 papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 5804 submissions. The papers deal with topics such as computer vision; machine learning; deep neural networks; reinforcement learning; object recognition; image classification; image processing; object detection; semantic segmentation; human pose estimation; 3d reconstruction; stereo vision; computational photography; neural networks; image coding; image reconstruction; object recognition; motion estimation.

The History of Science and Technology in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period
  • Language: en

The History of Science and Technology in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: Unknown
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  • Publisher: DeepLogic

The book is the volume of “The History of Science and Technology in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period” among a series of books of “Deep into China Histories”. The earliest known written records of the history of China date from as early as 1250 BC, from the Shang dynasty (c. 1600–1046 BC) and the Bamboo Annals (296 BC) describe a Xia dynasty (c. 2070–1600 BC) before the Shang, but no writing is known from the period The Shang ruled in the Yellow River valley, which is commonly held to be the cradle of Chinese civilization. However, Neolithic civilizations originated at various cultural centers along both the Yellow River and Yangtze River. These Yellow Ri...

Roaming into the Beyond: Representations of Xian Immortality in Early Medieval Chinese Verse
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 429

Roaming into the Beyond: Representations of Xian Immortality in Early Medieval Chinese Verse

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-06-27
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  • Publisher: BRILL

This book examines representations of Daoist xian immortality in a broad range of versified literature from the Han until the end of the Six Dynasties and explores the complex interaction between poetry and Daoist religion in early medieval China.

Transactions of the International Astronomical Union
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 912

Transactions of the International Astronomical Union

IAU Transactions XXIIB summarizes the work of the XXIInd General Assembly. The discourses given during the Inaugural and Closing Ceremonies are reproduced in Chapters I and III, respectively. The proceedings of the two sessions of the General Assembly will be found in Chapter II, which includes the Resolutions and the report of the Finance Committee. The Statutes, Bye-Laws and a few working rules of the Union are published in Chapter IV. The Accounts and other aspects of the administration of the Union are recorded in Chapter V, together with the report of the Executive Committee for this last triennium, and provide the permanent record for the Union in the period 1991-1994. This volume also contains the Commission reports from The Hague compiled by the Presidents of the Commissions (Chapter VI). Finally, Chapter VII contains the list of countries adhering to the Union and the alphabetical, geographical and commission membership lists of about 8000 individual members. The IAU still appears to be unique among the scientific Unions in maintaining this category of individual membership which contributes in a crucial way to the spirit and the aims of the Union.

Hexenbiest pet boyfriends
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 2814

Hexenbiest pet boyfriends

  • Categories: Art

Rinrin bell-get up! Rinrin bell-get up! ! " A harsh voice sounded indoors, and a humanoid creature stretched out a hand from the air-conditioned quilt to catch the alarm clock, but the running alarm clock was rolling around the room at the moment, and someone couldn't catch it at all if he didn't get up

I became the master of a clan
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 2714

I became the master of a clan

  • Categories: Art

A complete picture scroll slowly emerged in his mind, and the seal in the lower right corner of the picture scroll was immediately recognized by him, which was the half he got. But at this time, the picture scroll has been completed, but the words on it have disappeared, leaving only a blank scroll

The Saga of Anthropology in China: From Malinowski to Moscow to Mao
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 329

The Saga of Anthropology in China: From Malinowski to Moscow to Mao

This book studies the development of the four fields of anthropology in China. Looking at both the political and social contexts, Greg Guldin demonstrates how political turmoil has shaped China's twentieth century anthropological landscape.

Chieftains Into Ancestors
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 274

Chieftains Into Ancestors

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013
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  • Publisher: UBC Press

Chieftains into Ancestors describes the intersection of imperial administration and chieftain-dominated local culture in the culturally diverse southwestern region of China. Contemplating the rhetorical question of how one can begin to rewrite the story of a conquered people whose past was never transcribed in the first place, the authors combine anthropological fieldwork with historical textual analysis to build a new regional history.