The fourteen contemporary novellas and stories in Running Wild represent the best of new Chinese writers from China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, the U.S., and New Zealand.
David Hinton, whose much-acclaimed translations of Li Po and Tu Fu have become classics, now completes the triumvirate of China's greatest poets with "The Selected Poems of Wang Wei." Wang Wei (701-761 C.E.) is often spoken of, with his contemporaries Li Po and Tu Fu, as one of the three greatest poets in China's 3,000-year poetic tradition. Of ...
Many phenomena in social, natural and engineering fields are governed by wave, potential, parabolic heat-conduction, hyperbolic heat-conduction and dual-phase-lagging heat-conduction equations. These equations are not only appropriate for describing heat conduction at various scales, but also the most important mathematical equations in physics. ...
This volume offers a survey of Chinese Literature in the second half of the twentieth century. It has three goals: (1) to introduce the figures, works, movements, and debates that constitute the dynamics of Chinese literature from 1949 to the end of the century; (2) to depict the reality of Chinese cultural politics; and (3) to observe the ...
The focus of "Mining Sequential Patterns from Large Data Sets" is on sequential pattern mining. In many applications, such as bioinformatics, web access traces, system utilization logs, etc., the data is naturally in the form of sequences. This information has been of great interest for analyzing the sequential data to find its inherent ...
This novel portrays the horror and absurdity that the land-reform movement brings to a southern village in China during the early 1950s. Contrary to the hopes of the peasants in this story, the redistribution of land does not mean an end to hunger.
"Writing Taiwan" is the first volume in English to examine the entire span of modern Taiwan literature, from the first decades of the twentieth century to the present. In this collection, leading literary scholars based in Taiwan and the United States examine prominent Taiwanese authors and works in genres including poetry, travel writing, and ...
"Turning Bricks into Jade" is an idiomatic translation of the Chinese proverb "throw bricks, attract jade". The authors like to think of each critical incident as a brick, which, when combined with other similar bricks - good sense and effort - can be used to build relationships more valuable than jade. The critical incidents are stories about ...
In ancient China a monster called Taowu was known for both its vicious nature and its power to see the past and the future. Over the centuries Taowu underwent many incarnations until it became identifiable with history itself. Since the seventeenth century, fictive accounts of history have accommodated themselves to the monstrous nature of Taowu. ...
Most Chinese-language textbooks today cater to beginners and intermediate-level students, but virtually none address the unique needs of advanced students seeking to expand or reinforce their language skills in one semester. "Readings in Contemporary Chinese Cinema" fills this gap through the use of critically acclaimed Chinese films to teach ...
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the joint 9th Asia-Pacific Web Conference, APWeb 2007, and the 8th International Conference on Web-Age Information Management, WAIM 2007, held in Huang Shan, China in June 2007. The 47 revised full papers and 36 revised short papers presented together with 4 invited papers and the abstracts of 4 ...
The research of Grid computing has made rapid progress in the last few years, developing and evolving in almost all key areas. A comprehensive discussion of recent advances in Grid computing, this book summarizes the concepts, methods, technologies, and applications. Unlike other recent books on the subject that deal only with parts of Grid ...
Providing the first comprehensive treatment of the subject, this groundbreaking work is solidly founded on a decade of concentrated research, some of which is published here for the first time, as well as practical, "hands on" classroom experience. The clarity of presentation and abundance of examples and exercises make it suitable as a graduate ...
The reigning view of literary historians has been that the May Fourth movement of 1919 marks the division between the traditional and the modern in Chinese literature. This book argues that signs of reform and innovation can be discerned long before May Fourth, and that as China entered the arena of modern, international history in the late Qing, ...
This volume addresses cultural and literary transformation in the late Ming (1550-1644) and late Qing (1851-1911) eras. Although conventionally associated with a devastating sociopolitical crisis, each of these periods was also a time when Chinese culture was rejuvenated. Focusing on the twin themes of crisis and innovation, the seventeen chapters ...
The first study of colonial Taiwan in English, this volume brings together seventeen essays by leading scholars to construct a comprehensive cultural history of Taiwan under Japanese rule. Contributors from the United States, Japan, and Taiwan explore a number of topics through a variety of theoretical, comparative, and postcolonial perspectives, ...
A charming Chinese fable teaches children about the virtues of sharing. With its colorful, impressionist palette and gentle moral, this tale will appeal to all, especially those seeking exposure to Asian culture and values. Full-color illustrations.
Wang Wei (AD 699-761), who was writing during a golden age of poetry which included Li Po and Tu Fu, is one of the greatest poets in Chinese literature. He specialized in delicate descriptions of landscapes, which affirmed his belief in a natural order. This is a collection of his poems.
Based on the highly successful Legal Developments in China: Market Economy and Law conference, organised by the City University of Hong Kong and Peking University, this text covers a wide range of topics relating to the legal developments associated with China's economic reforms. With contributions from China, Hong Kong, and India, it incorporates ...
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