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This book explores the hypothesis that the types of inscription or text used by a given community of practitioners are designed in the very same process as the one producing concepts and results. The book sets out to show how, in exactly the same way as for the other outcomes of scientific activity, all kinds of factors, cognitive as well as cultural, technological, social or institutional, conjoin in shaping the various types of writings and texts used by the practitioners of the sciences. To make this point, the book opts for a genuinely multicultural approach to the texts produced in the context of practices of knowledge. It is predicated on the conviction that, in order to approach any t...
In a luxurious cabin, a girl of about thirteen or fourteen years old anxiously repeated these words. Although she was watching her, she tried her best to pull the teenager lying on the wide couch, but the girl's strength was too small, and her voice was as thin as cotton water, which still could not shake the teenager who was sleeping soundly
This book examines Chinese film in the twenty-first century. Organized around the themes "movements," "genres," and "intermedia," it reflects on how Chinese cinema has changed, adapted, and evolved over past decades and prognosticates as to its future trajectories. It considers how established film genres in China have adapted and transformed themselves, and discusses current shifts in documentary filmmaking, the ethos and practices of "grassroots intellectual" independent filmmakers, and the adaption of foreign film genres to serve the ideological and political needs of the present. It also explores how film is drawing on the socio-historical and political contexts of the past to create new...
Part PART I in the DP/NP -- chapter 1 NP as argument -- chapter 2 Copying variables -- chapter 3 Classi?ers and the count/mass distinction -- chapter 4 The demonstratives in modern Japanese -- part PART II of functional structure -- chapter 5 On the Re-Analysis of nominalizers in Chinese, Japanese and Korean -- chapter 6 Three types of existential quantification in Chinese -- chapter 7 On the history of place words and localizers in Chinese: A cognitive approach -- chapter PART III principles of organization -- chapter 8 Judgments, point of view and the interpretation of causee noun phrases -- chapter 9 A computational approach to case and word order in Korean -- chapter 10 Adjuncts and word order typology in east asian languages -- chapter 11 The distribution of negative NPS and some typological correlates.
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This book examines the political economy of the cotton processing industry, analyzes the process of cotton policy making and looks at how local governments and the former monopolist cope with the changes brought about by marketization.
This book reveals the significant differences between Chinese and western culture: the epistemology and values originated from Pre-qin Period and from ancient Greek culture, as well as keeping social stability and subsistence. Despite the hierarchy is the essence of structural properties of human society, the continental civilization of the ancient Chinese agrarian economy is different from the Marine civilization of the economy of ancient Egypt, ancient India, ancient Babylon, ancient Greek and Roman from the perspective of touch point of thinking driven by material and linear way of thinking dominated by the visual horizon. In other words, the way of people’s survival is vital to the for...