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A History of Contemporary Chinese Literature
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 656

A History of Contemporary Chinese Literature

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2007-10-15
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  • Publisher: BRILL

This groundbreaking book by the eminent Peking University professor Hong Zicheng covers the literary scene in China during the 1949-1999 period, primarily focusing on fiction, poetry, drama, and prose writing. Reprinted sixteen times since its publication in the PRC in 1999 it is now available in English translation at last. The first section of the book deals with the 1949-1976 period. Often derided and ignored as an arid era for literature by both Chinese and overseas critics, Professor Hong describes the literature that was popular and officially acceptable at the time, and the cultural policies and political campaigns that shaped the tastes of readers and the literary creativity of write...

The Chinese Communist Party
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 305

The Chinese Communist Party

A mosaic of lives and voices illustrating the history of the Chinese Communist Party over the last hundred years.

Voicing Concerns
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 292

Voicing Concerns

Eleven essays by scholars of Chinese literature, culture, and politics describe the current state of Chinese critical inquiry, surveying recent Chinese intellectual culture, with attention to popular culture and Chinese models of intellectuality. The role of western literary theory, the influence of the New Confucianism, and the place of scientism and social theory in modern Chinese thought are all covered. The study of history is given particular scrutiny, with consideration to the theory of ultrastable systems, the relationship between patriotism and intellectual curiosity, the interplay of past and future, and the tensions between liberalism and the new left. c. Book News Inc.

Heisenberg Calculus and Spectral Theory of Hypoelliptic Operators on Heisenberg Manifolds
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 150

Heisenberg Calculus and Spectral Theory of Hypoelliptic Operators on Heisenberg Manifolds

This memoir deals with the hypoelliptic calculus on Heisenberg manifolds, including CR and contact manifolds. In this context the main differential operators at stake include the Hormander's sum of squares, the Kohn Laplacian, the horizontal sublaplacian, the CR conformal operators of Gover-Graham and the contact Laplacian. These operators cannot be elliptic and the relevant pseudodifferential calculus to study them is provided by the Heisenberg calculus of Beals-Greiner andTaylor.

Degree Theory for Operators of Monotone Type and Nonlinear Elliptic Equations with Inequality Constraints
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 84

Degree Theory for Operators of Monotone Type and Nonlinear Elliptic Equations with Inequality Constraints

In this paper the authors examine the degree map of multivalued perturbations of nonlinear operators of monotone type and prove that at a local minimizer of the corresponding Euler functional, this degree equals one.

Scattering Resonances for Several Small Convex Bodies and the Lax-Phillips Conjecture
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 90

Scattering Resonances for Several Small Convex Bodies and the Lax-Phillips Conjecture

This work deals with scattering by obstacles which are finite disjoint unions of strictly convex bodies with smooth boundaries in an odd dimensional Euclidean space. The class of obstacles of this type which is considered are contained in a given (large) ball and have some additional properties.

Hypocoercivity
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 154

Hypocoercivity

This memoir attempts at a systematic study of convergence to stationary state for certain classes of degenerate diffusive equations, taking the general form ${\frac{\partial f}{\partial t}}+ L f =0$. The question is whether and how one can overcome the degeneracy by exploiting commutators.

Twisted Pseudodifferential Calculus and Application to the Quantum Evolution of Molecules
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 96

Twisted Pseudodifferential Calculus and Application to the Quantum Evolution of Molecules

The authors construct an abstract pseudodifferential calculus with operator-valued symbol, suitable for the treatment of Coulomb-type interactions, and they apply it to the study of the quantum evolution of molecules in the Born-Oppenheimer approximation, in the case of the electronic Hamiltonian admitting a local gap in its spectrum. In particular, they show that the molecular evolution can be reduced to the one of a system of smooth semiclassical operators, the symbol of which can be computed explicitely. In addition, they study the propagation of certain wave packets up to long time values of Ehrenfest order.

Points and Curves in the Monster Tower
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 154

Points and Curves in the Monster Tower

Cartan introduced the method of prolongation which can be applied either to manifolds with distributions (Pfaffian systems) or integral curves to these distributions. Repeated application of prolongation to the plane endowed with its tangent bundle yields the Monster tower, a sequence of manifolds, each a circle bundle over the previous one, each endowed with a rank $2$ distribution. In an earlier paper (2001), the authors proved that the problem of classifying points in the Monster tower up to symmetry is the same as the problem of classifying Goursat distribution flags up to local diffeomorphism. The first level of the Monster tower is a three-dimensional contact manifold and its integral curves are Legendrian curves. The philosophy driving the current work is that all questions regarding the Monster tower (and hence regarding Goursat distribution germs) can be reduced to problems regarding Legendrian curve singularities.

Center Manifolds for Semilinear Equations with Non-Dense Domain and Applications to Hopf Bifurcation in Age Structured Models
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 84

Center Manifolds for Semilinear Equations with Non-Dense Domain and Applications to Hopf Bifurcation in Age Structured Models

Several types of differential equations, such as delay differential equations, age-structure models in population dynamics, evolution equations with boundary conditions, can be written as semilinear Cauchy problems with an operator which is not densely defined in its domain. The goal of this paper is to develop a center manifold theory for semilinear Cauchy problems with non-dense domain. Using Liapunov-Perron method and following the techniques of Vanderbauwhede et al. in treating infinite dimensional systems, the authors study the existence and smoothness of center manifolds for semilinear Cauchy problems with non-dense domain. As an application, they use the center manifold theorem to establish a Hopf bifurcation theorem for age structured models.