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East Asian Landscapes and Legitimation
The conquest of Sichuan and Vietnam by the Chinese Empire led to very different outcomes. This volume examines the negotiations between central authority and local autonomy, the physical manifestations of socially constructed identities, and the transformation of sacred spaces which reflect broader social, political, and religious currents. It also offers a method to study spatial-social interactions in historical settings that provides insights into dynamics of power imposition and identity negotiation in local contexts. Experiential Architecture Analysis (EAA) serves to explore the interplay of local traditions, transcultural ideology transfer, and sacred water sites in the peripheries of Chinese culture. It analyzes the spatial ensembles of sacred sites regarding their roles for legitimation, dominance, and social resistance, while highlighting the agency of consumers to redefine spatial media. All scholars of Chinese and Southeast Asian History, of Religious Studies or Cultural Anthropology find in this volume valuable insights for their research, especially where it concerns areas lacking reliable written sources.
Reshaping the Frontier Landscape: Dongchuan in Eighteenth-century Southwest China
In Reshaping the Frontier Landscape: Dongchuan in Eighteenth-century Southwest China, Fei HUANG examines the process of reshaping the landscape of Dongchuan, a remote frontier city in Southwest China in the eighteenth century. Rich copper deposits transformed Dongchuan into one of the key outposts of the Qing dynasty, a nexus of encounters between various groups competing for power and space. The frontier landscape bears silent witness to the changes in its people’s daily lives and in their memories and imaginations. The literati, officials, itinerant merchants, commoners and the indigenous people who lived there shaped and reshaped the local landscape by their physical efforts and cultural representations. This book demonstrates how multiple landscape experiences developed among various people in dependencies, conflicts and negotiations in the imperial frontier.
Religion als Ressource und Restriktion im Integrationsprozess
Frederik Elwert thematisiert den Zusammenhang von Migration, Religion und Integration am Beispiel einer wenig beachteten Fallgruppe: russlanddeutschen Aussiedlern in freikirchlichen Gemeinden. Als deutsche Staatsangehörige und evangelische Christen entsprechen sie nicht den gängigen Kategorien der Migrationsforschung und erlauben gerade daher neue Einblicke in die Bedeutung von Religion für Integrationsprozesse. Der Autor diskutiert dabei sowohl die theoretischen Konzepte der Integrationsforschung als auch empirische Befunde eigener biografischer Forschung mit jungen evangelikalen Aussiedlern.
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Yasmin
Lady Yasmin Régnier har ett rykte som föregår henne, bär vågade klänningar och flörtar hejdlöst med alla societetens män. Giles Renwick däremot är seriös, plikttrogen och har aldrig gjort sig till för en kvinna. Men när de två dansar aftonens första dans med varandra händer något mellan dem. Den lekfulla tillvaron övergår plötsligt i något helt annat – något mycket allvarligare och inte helt lämpligt. Giles kan trots vad han har föresatt sig inte hålla sig borta från lady Yasmin. Men vad är det egentligen han dras till? Hon är otänkbar som både hustru och älskarinna. Och de kan absolut inte vara vänner eftersom de häftigt ogillar varandra! Så vad i himlen...
1943
In the grand narrative of modern Chinese history, 1943 is usually passed over with little notice. Great attention has been paid to critical watersheds in Chinese history--the end of the empire in 1911, the outbreak of full-scale war with Japan in 1937, or the triumph of the Chinese Communist revolution in 1949. What can we learn if we focus attention on a less dramatic year? In 1943, in the middle of World War II, the Allies renounced the unequal treaties, Chiang Kai-shek wrote China's Destiny and met with Roosevelt and Churchill at Cairo, and Mme Chiang made her memorable trip to the United States. From the northwestern province of Xinjiang to the southern smuggling entrepôt of Guangzhouwan, the stories of calculating politicians, suspected spies, starving peasants, downtrodden intellectuals, recalcitrant preachers, and star-crossed actors come together to illuminate the significance of this year for China as a whole. In thirteen topical chapters, both the achievements and the disappointments of 1943 are explored in an effort to capture a moment in time when China stood at a crossroads but the road ahead lay shrouded in the impenetrable fog of war.
Een liefdeshuwelijk
Yasmin Ghorami heeft veel om dankbaar voor te zijn: een fijne familie, een veelbelovende carrière als arts en een knappe verloofde, Joe. Als hun trouwdag nadert maken Yasmins ouders kennis met Joe’s moeder, een vrijgevochten feministische medialieveling. Deze door Yasmin gevreesde ontmoeting is het begin van een duizelingwekkende reeks gebeurtenissen waarin al Yasmins verwachtingen – en die van de lezer – op hun kop worden gezet. Rond Yasmin en haar familie bewegen zich allerlei personages, van de briljante jonge advocaat Rania die via halaldating aan de man probeert te komen tot de excentrieke 96-jarige mevrouw Antonova die maar liefst vijf keer getrouwd is geweest. Samen vertellen z...
Soft Computing in Data Science
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Soft Computing in Data Science, SCDS 2023, which was held virtually in January 2023. The 21 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 61 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on artificial intelligence techniques and applications; computing and optimization; data analytics and technologies; data mining and image processing; mathematical and statistical learning.
Soft Computing in Data Science
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Soft Computing in Data Science, SCDS 2018, held in Bangkok, Thailand, in August 2018. The 30 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 75 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on machine and deep learning, image processing, financial and fuzzy mathematics, optimization algorithms, data and text analytics, data visualization.
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