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  • River Space in Contemporary Chinese Cinema

    Home, Locality, and Waterbodies

    by Mei Yang ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Film Studies
    River Space in Contemporary Chinese Cinema examines how filmmakers use river imagery to explore themes of home, displacement, and belonging in an era of rapid modernization.Using the term “river space” to describe geographical areas created by rivers or existing alongside them, the author shows how these areas figure in films as alternative, oppositional, or contradictory sites. The book is ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Carrying a Torch

    The Beijing Olympic Torch Relay in the British and Chinese Media

    by Mei Yang ...
    Series Book 2 - New Approaches to Applied Linguistics
    The Olympic torch relay held before the 2008 Games was the moment when East met West on the media stage. This book analyses the torch relay and its representation, offering a discursive construction of Olympic ideology by and through the media in both East and West. The author argues that the discourse used by the media in different social contexts reflected the diversity of ideologies and ... Read more

    $84.79 USD

  • Gifts, Favors, and Banquets

    The Art of Social Relationships in China

    by Mayfair Mei-Hui Yang ...
    Series series The Wilder House Series in Politics, History and Culture
    An elaborate and pervasive set of practices, called guanxi, underlies everyday social relationships in contemporary China. Obtaining and changing job assignments, buying certain foods and consumer items, getting into good hospitals, buying train tickets, obtaining housing, even doing business—all such tasks call for the skillful and strategic giving of gifts and cultivating of obligation, ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • From Wall Street to the Great Wall

    How Investors Can Profit from China's Booming Economy

    by Burton G. Malkiel, Patricia A. Taylor ...
    From the million-copy-selling author of A Random Walk Down Wall Street, the perfect guide to investing in the next economic giant.In From Wall Street to the Great Wall, Burton G. Malkiel and his coauthors show how average investors can tap into the opportunities this affords without losing their shirts. The authors present firsthand knowledge from their research trips to China on how Chinese firms ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • 2018-2019 Biennial Report for Taiwan Hakka Culture Development Center of the Hakka Affairs Council

    by Der-Chyi Wu, Chang-Cheng Wu, Yu-Ching Lai, Min-Chen Yao, Mei-Li Yang, Sheng-Lai Chiang ...
    記錄2018-2019本中心肩負起臺灣客家文化傳承、深耕與推展之業務概況，另一方面更強化策略聯盟與多元學習，建立合作交流平臺，以求各面向業務能更精進、穩定發展。 ... Read more

    $7.76 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Study of the Meaning of Life

    by Zhengyu Sun ...
    Translated by Mei Yang, Ziwei Wang ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Based on the revelation and analysis of the social self-consciousness contained in the individual self-consciousness of the meaning of life, the book discusses the human life-world, spiritual world, cultural world and meaning-world. Then, it states the life-world, modes of thought, values ideas, aesthetic consciousness and ultimate concerns of modern humans. It also systematically expounds on the ... Read more

    $125.99 USD

  • Metamaterials

    Beyond Crystals, Noncrystals, and Quasicrystals

    by Tie Jun Cui, Wen Xuan Tang, Xin Mi Yang, Zhong Lei Mei, Wei Xiang Jiang ...
    Metamaterials: Beyond Crystals, Noncrystals, and Quasicrystals is a comprehensive and updated research monograph that focuses on recent advances in metamaterials based on the effective medium theory in microwave frequencies. Most of these procedures were conducted in the State Key Laboratory of Millimeter Waves, Southeast University, China.The book conveys the essential concept of metamaterials ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • A Brief History of the Relationship Between Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism

    by Zhongjian Mou ...
    Translated by Mei Yang, Peng Tian ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Chinese traditions of Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism have a profoundly philosophical dimension. The three traditions are frequently referred to as three paths of moral teachings. In this book, Mou provides a clear account of the textual corpus that emerges to define each of these traditions and how this canonical axis was augmented by a continuing commentarial tradition as each generation ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Beam to Square Steel Tube Endplate Connection Using Thread-Fixed One-Side Bolts

    Analysis and Design

    by Peijun Wang, Yang You, Mei Liu ...
    Series series Woodhead Publishing Series in Civil and Structural Engineering
    Beam to Square Steel Tube Endplate Connection Using Thread-fixed One-side Bolts: Analysis and Design provides research information on thread-fixed one-side bolt (TOB), which is anchored through screwed threads in the bolt hole. Although beam-column endplate connections have been studied by many researchers and been widely used in engineering applications, the standard high strength bolts are not ... Read more

    $206.99 USD

  • A Philosophical Critique of Thought

    Translated by Jianming Dong, Mei Yang ...
    by Zhengyu Sun ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book is mainly concerned with elaborating an account of the unique theoretical essence and activities of philosophy. What manner of civilization should modern humans forge? On what developmental path should a nation embark? What lifestyle should each individual choose? These are the most fundamental issues of our time. Profoundly implicit in the choices outlined above is a deeper question: ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Workflow Scheduling on Computing Systems

    by Kenli Li, Xiaoyong Tang, Jing Mei, Longxin Zhang, Wangdong Yang, Keqin Li ...
    This book will serve as a guide in understanding workflow scheduling techniques on computing systems such as Cluster, Supercomputers, Grid computing, Cloud computing, Edge computing, Fog computing, and the practical realization of such methods.It offers a whole new perspective and holistic approach in understanding computing systems’ workflow scheduling. Expressing and exposing approaches for ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

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  • Postmodernism and China

    by Wang Ning, Anthony D. King, Abidin Kusno, Ping-Hui Liao ...
    Few countries have been so transformed in recent decades as China. With a dynamically growing economy and a rapidly changing social structure, China challenges the West to understand the nature of its modernization. Using postmodernism as both a global frame of periodization and a way to break free from the rigid ideology of westernization as modernity, this volume’s diverse group of contributors ... Read more

    $28.79 USD