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  • Wheel-Rim River

    The Mountain Poems and Paintings

    by Wang Wei ...
    Translated by David Hinton ...
    Renowned in ancient China’s artistic tradition, the Wheel-Rim River poems and paintings come to life in exquisite translations and 40 full-color reproductions.The famed T’ang-Dynasty poet Wang Wei once said that his poems were paintings and his paintings poems. This book presents a legendary instance of that conjunction. One autumn in eighth century China, Wang’s friend P’ei Ti came to visit, and ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

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  • The Lyrical in Epic Time

    Modern Chinese Intellectuals and Artists Through the 1949 Crisis

    by David Der-wei Wang ...
    In this book, David Der-wei Wang uses the lyrical to rethink the dynamics of Chinese modernity. Although the form may seem unusual for representing China's social and political crises in the mid-twentieth century, Wang contends that national cataclysm and mass movements intensified Chinese lyricism in extraordinary ways.Wang calls attention to the form's vigor and variety at an unlikely juncture ... Read more

    $78.39 CAD

  • Why Fiction Matters in Contemporary China

    by David Der-wei Wang ...
    Series series The Mandel Lectures in the Humanities at Brandeis University
    Contemporary discussions of China tend to focus on politics and economics, giving Chinese culture little if any attention. Why Fiction Matters in Contemporary China offers a corrective, revealing the crucial role that fiction plays in helping contemporary Chinese citizens understand themselves and their nation. Where history fails to address the consequences of man-made and natural atrocities, ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • A New Literary History of Modern China

    Edited by David Der-wei Wang ...
    Literature, from the Chinese perspective, makes manifest the cosmic patterns that shape and complete the world—a process of “worlding” that is much more than mere representation. In that spirit, A New Literary History of Modern China looks beyond state-sanctioned works and official narratives to reveal China as it has seldom been seen before, through a rich spectrum of writings covering Chinese ... Read more

    $49.49 CAD

  • Urban Villages in the New China

    Case of Shenzhen

    by Da Wei David Wang ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Focusing on Shenzhen as a representation of the general urban village phenomenon in China, this book considers the impact of China’s economic reform on urbanization and urban villages over the past three decades. Shenzhen’s urban villages are some of the first of their kind in China, unique in their diversity and organizational capacity, but most notably in their ability to protect village culture ... Read more

    $83.29 CAD

  • Quelling the Demons' Revolt

    A Novel from Ming China

    by Guanzhong Luo ...
    Translated by Patrick Hanan ...
    Series series Translations from the Asian Classics
    In this Ming-era novel, historical narrative, raucous humor, and the supernatural are interwoven to tell the tale of an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the Song dynasty. A poor young girl meets an old woman who gives her a magic book that allows her to create rice and money. Her father, terrified that his daughter's demonic nature might be discovered, marries her off. Forced to flee, she and ... Read more

    $31.19 CAD

  • Emotion and Proactivity at Work

    Prospects and Dialogues

    by Hannes Zacher, Francesco Cangiano, Zhijun Chen, Shunhong Ji, Nai-Wen Chi, Malcolm Patterson, Hector Madrid, Zhenyu Liao, Fenghao Wang, Wu Liu, Chenwei Li, Cynthia Lee, Bingjie Yu, Emily Guohua Huang, Kan Ouyang, Laura Venz, Sandra Ohly, Neal Mark Ashkanasy, Daniya Kamran-Morley, David Lebel, Uta Bindl, Wanlu Li ...
    EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.Individuals’ behaviours at work are known to be shaped by cold, or cognitive-motivational, processes as well as hot, or affect-motivational, processes. To date, employee proactivity research has mainly focused on the ‘cold’ side. But emotion has been proposed to ‘energize’ employees’ proactivity, especially in interdependent and ... Read more

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  • The Last of the Whampoa Breed

    Stories of the Chinese Diaspora

    Edited by Pang-Yuan Chi, David Der-wei Wang ...
    Series series Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan
    Whampoa Military Academy was China's first modern military institution. For decades the "Spirit of Whampoa" was invoked as the highest praise to all Chinese soldiers who guarded their nation heroically. But of all the battles these soldiers have fought, the most challenging one was the civil war that resulted in the "great divide" of China in the mid-twentieth century. In 1949 the Communists ... Read more

    $39.19 CAD

  • GPU Solutions to Multi-scale Problems in Science and Engineering

    Edited by David A. Yuen, Long Wang, Xuebin Chi, Lennart Johnsson, Wei Ge, Yaolin Shi ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book covers the new topic of GPU computing with many applications involved, taken from diverse fields such as networking, seismology, fluid mechanics, nano-materials, data-mining , earthquakes ,mantle convection, visualization. It will show the public why GPU computing is important and easy to use. It will offer a reason why GPU computing is useful and how to implement codes in an everyday ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

  • Taiwan Under Japanese Colonial Rule, 1895–1945

    History, Culture, Memory

    Edited by Ping-hui Liao, David Der-wei Wang ...
    Series series Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
    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, painting a complex and nuanced portrait of a ... Read more

    $78.39 CAD

  • Rough Sets and Knowledge Technology

    10th International Conference, RSKT 2015, Held as Part of the International Joint Conference on Rough Sets, IJCRS 2015, Tianjin, China, November 20-23, 2015, Proceedings

    Edited by Davide Ciucci, Guoyin Wang, Sushmita Mitra, Wei-Zhi Wu ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed conference proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Rough Sets and Knowledge Technology, RSKT 2015, held in Tianjin, China, in November 2015, as part of the International Joint Conference on Rough Sets, IJCRS 2015, together with the 15th International Conference on Rough Sets, Fuzzy Sets, Data Mining and Granular Computing, RSFDgrC 2015. The ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • Quelling the Demons' Revolt

    A Novel from Ming China

    by Guanzhong Luo ...
    Translated by Patrick Hanan ...
    Series series Translations from the Asian Classics
    In this Ming-era novel, historical narrative, raucous humor, and the supernatural are interwoven to tell the tale of an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the Song dynasty. A poor young girl meets an old woman who gives her a magic book that allows her to create rice and money. Her father, terrified that his daughter's demonic nature might be discovered, marries her off. Forced to flee, she and ... Read more

    $31.19 CAD