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Book Synopsis The Yangtze Illusion by : Emanuele F. Portolese
Download or read book The Yangtze Illusion written by Emanuele F. Portolese and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-06 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Author of the highly acclaimed novel, SECRET VALOR, has struck again with another page turning political thriller that races along like the mighty Yangtze River, which inspired it. THE YANGTZE ILLUSION is a masterpiece of conflict, suspense and drama. Like the great river, this novel carries the reader on a perilous journey from the high mountains of the Tibetan Plateau to the South China Sea, and along the turbulent and violent journey the author hints at some of the world's most guarded secrets.
Book Synopsis English-Chinese Translation as Conquest and Resistance in the Late Qing 1811-1911 by : Xiaojia Huang
Download or read book English-Chinese Translation as Conquest and Resistance in the Late Qing 1811-1911 written by Xiaojia Huang and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-05-11 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how translation facilitated the Western conquest of China and how it was in turn employed by the Chinese as a weapon to resist the invasion in the late Qing 1811-1911. It brings out the question on the role of translation as part of the Western conquest of Late Qing China, with special attention drawn to the deceptions and manipulations in the translation of the Sino-foreign unequal treaties signed during 1840-1911. The readers will benefit from the assertion that translation did not remain innocent, but rather became intermingled with power abuses in the Chinese milieu as well.
Book Synopsis Embassies and Illusions by : John E. Wills
Download or read book Embassies and Illusions written by John E. Wills and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study shows how peculiar circumstances in the early Ch'ing led to the application of inherited routines of the tribute embassy to relations with the Europeans. Chinese records of these embassies strengthened the illusion, persisting into the Opium War period, that the tribute system was relevant to the conduct of Sino-European relations. From archival and printed sources in seven languages, John Wills traces the progress of four embassies to the court of K'ang-hsi in the seventeenth century.
Book Synopsis Great Dragon Fantasy, The: A Lacanian Analysis Of Contemporary Chinese Thought by : Guanjun Wu
Download or read book Great Dragon Fantasy, The: A Lacanian Analysis Of Contemporary Chinese Thought written by Guanjun Wu and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2014-05-21 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China has undergone a unique path of development in the post-Maoist era. Especially, the last decade witnessed China's rapid rise to economic wealth and superpower status vis-à-vis the severe developmental predicaments of the West (financial crises, socio-political turbulences, etc.). This book analyzes how the leading Chinese thinkers understand China's prosperity and rapid development today, and whether there is any hidden mechanism that has been playing a crucial role of forming contemporary Chinese thinkers' shared passionate endeavor of resuscitating classical Chinese ideas, and thus shows how the fervor for discovering “essential characteristics” of Chinese thought reveals a hidden psychological mechanism.
Book Synopsis False Love and Other Romantic Illusions by : Stan J. Katz
Download or read book False Love and Other Romantic Illusions written by Stan J. Katz and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 1988-09-06 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The quest for true love appeals to us all — and yet the real thing is painfully elusive. According to Dr. Stan Katz, men and women today don't really know what to look for in a mate, or even how to love once we find one. No one teaches us. What's more, the images of love we absorb from society, the media, and popular culture are superficial and misleading. The result is false love — relationships based on illusions of what we think love should be rather than an appreciation of what it is. False Love and Other Romantic Illusions is about the mistakes we all make in love, why we make them, and how we can correct them. Using in-depth case histories, Dr. Katz traces the course of false love from early childhood conditioning to adolescent crushes to adult relationships. He shows how our first misconceptions about love lead to mistakes, and how mistakes become patterns. But the patterns of false love can be broken, and Dr. Katz points the way, with a practical, far-reaching program for achieving and sustaining true love. This timely, intelligent book will alter not only the way we seek intimate relationships, but the way we live them.
Book Synopsis Illusions of Location Theory: Consequences for Blue Economy in Africa by : Douglas Yates
Download or read book Illusions of Location Theory: Consequences for Blue Economy in Africa written by Douglas Yates and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Illusions of Location Theory: Consequences for Blue Economy in Africa" questions the relevance of ‘location theory’ in explaining the coastal-hinterland continuum and the implications for the utilization of blue economy ecosystem in such a contested space in Africa. It pays more attention to territorial contestations, maritime disputes, vulnerabilities of landlocked states, and expansionist policies as displayed through spatial organizational regimes. These areas of investigation have previously been largely studied from the narrow perspective of ‘location’, unduly focusing on comparative advantages of ‘distance’, while neglecting the influence of ‘forces’ such as technology, ideology, and the power of mental mapping in spatial decision making. This volume puts forward the argument that the harmonious relationship between states, and efficient exploitation of the blue economy ecosystem in ways that promote peace between states, lies not only in the structural transformation of markets, but also in bridging the spatial and social divide between the coastal and hinterland societies. Thus, this work proffers possibilities for a holistic regime for managing Africa’s coastal-hinterland continuum through innovative strategies such as SMART blue economies and the infusion of the geopolitical dimension into the management of maritime and territorial diplomacy. The combination of theoretical and empirical analysis, buttressed by in-depth case studies of what works in the management of blue economy ecosystem and what does not work, make this volume ideal for researchers, students, and practitioners interested in African regional studies, African political economy, political geography, strategic military studies, governance of seas and oceans, and maritime science/diplomacy.
Book Synopsis The Great Dragon Fantasy by : Guanjun Wu
Download or read book The Great Dragon Fantasy written by Guanjun Wu and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2014 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China has undergone a unique path of development in the post-Maoist era. Especially, the last decade witnessed China''s rapid rise to economic wealth and superpower status vis-a-vis the severe developmental predicaments of the West (financial crises, socio-political turbulences, etc.). This book analyzes how the leading Chinese thinkers understand China''s prosperity and rapid development today, and whether there is any hidden mechanism that has been playing a crucial role of forming contemporary Chinese thinkers'' shared passionate endeavor of resuscitating classical Chinese ideas, and thus shows how the fervor for discovering OC essential characteristicsOCO of Chinese thought reveals a hidden psychological mechanism. Contents: The Fantasmatic Narrative of Contemporary Chinese Thought; OC Descendants of a Blurry-Eyed DragonOCO New Enlightenment as Modernization; OC TraumaticOCO Encounters with Postmodernism; Liberals and New Leftists as OC Discursive EnemiesOCO China''s New Nationalism and Its Obscene Core; Traversing the Fantasmatic Past and Future. Readership: Academics, professionals, Sinologists, advanced undergraduate and graduate students interested in China studies.
Book Synopsis South of the Yangtze by : Bill Porter
Download or read book South of the Yangtze written by Bill Porter and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chinese civilization first developed 5,000 years ago in North China along the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River. And the Yellow River remained the center of Chinese civilization for the next 4,000 years. Then a thousand years ago, this changed. A thousand years ago, the center of Chinese civilization moved to the Yangtze. And the Yangtze, not the Yellow River, has remained the center of its civilization. A thousand years ago, the Chinese came up with a name for this new center of its civilization. They called it Chiangnan, meaning "South of the River," the river in question, of course, being the Yangtze. The Chinese still call this region Chiangnan. Nowadays it includes the northern parts of Chekiang and Kiangsi provinces and the southern parts of Anhui and Kiangsu. And some would even add the northern part of Hunan. But it's not just a region on the map. It's a region in the Chinese spirit. It's hard to put it into words. Ask a dozen Chinese what "Chiangnan" means, and they'll give you a dozen different answers. For some the word conjures forests of pine and bamboo. For others, they envision hillsides of tea, or terraces of rice, or lakes of lotuses and fish. Or they might imagine Zen monasteries, or Taoist temples, or artfully–constructed gardens, or mist–shrouded peaks. Oddly enough, no one ever mentions the region's cities, which include some of the largest in the world. Somehow, whatever else it might mean to people, Chiangnan means a landscape, a landscape and a culture defined by mist, a landscape and a culture that lacks the harder edges of the arid North. In the Fall of 1991, Bill Porter decided to travel through this vaporous land, following the old post roads that still connected its administrative centers and scenic wonders, its most famous hometowns and graves, its factories and breweries, its dreamlike memories and its mist, and he was joined on this journey by his poet and photographer friends, Finn Wilcox and Steve Johnson. South of the Yangtze is a record in words and black and white images of their trip.
Book Synopsis Literati Lenses by : Mia Yinxing Liu
Download or read book Literati Lenses written by Mia Yinxing Liu and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2019-07-31 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chinese cinema has a long history of engagement with China’s art traditions, and literati (wenren) landscape painting has been an enduring source of inspiration. Literati Lenses explores this interplay during the Mao era, a time when cinema, at the forefront of ideological campaigns and purges, was held to strict political guidelines. Through four films—Li Shizhen (1956), Stage Sisters (1964), Early Spring in February (1963), and Legend of Tianyun Mountain (1979)—Mia Liu reveals how landscape offered an alternative text that could operate beyond political constraints and provide a portal for smuggling interesting discourses into the film. While allusions to pictorial traditions associated with a bygone era inevitably took on different meanings in the context of Mao-era cinema, cinematic engagement with literati landscape endowed films with creative and critical space as well as political poignancy. Liu not only identifies how the conventions and aesthetics of traditional literati landscape art were reinvented and mediated on multiple levels in cinema, but also explores how post-1949 Chinese filmmakers configured themselves as modern intellectuals in the spaces forged among the vestiges of the old. In the process, she deepens her analysis, suggesting that landscape be seen as an allegory of human life, a mirror of the age, and a commentary on national affairs.
Book Synopsis A History of Chinese Philosophy by : Youlan Feng
Download or read book A History of Chinese Philosophy written by Youlan Feng and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its original publication in Chinese in the 1930s, this work has been accepted by Chinese scholars as the most important contribution to the study of their country's philosophy. In 1952 the book was published by Princeton University Press in an English translation by the distinguished scholar of Chinese history, Derk Bodde, "the dedicated translator of Fung Yu-lan's huge history of Chinese philosophy" (New York Times Book Review). Available for the first time in paperback, it remains the most complete work on the subject in any language. Volume I covers the period of the philosophers, from the beginnings to around 100 B.C., a philosophical period as remarkable as that of ancient Greece. Volume II discusses a period lesser known in the West--the period of classical learning, from the second century B.C. to the twentieth century.
Book Synopsis Old Friends, New Enemies: Strategic illusions, 1936-1941 by : Arthur Jacob Marder
Download or read book Old Friends, New Enemies: Strategic illusions, 1936-1941 written by Arthur Jacob Marder and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis How the Chinese Reds Hoodwink Visiting Foreigners by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities
Download or read book How the Chinese Reds Hoodwink Visiting Foreigners written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Neuroscience, Robotics and Virtual Reality: Internalised vs Externalised Mind/Brain by : Irini Giannopulu
Download or read book Neuroscience, Robotics and Virtual Reality: Internalised vs Externalised Mind/Brain written by Irini Giannopulu and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-02-22 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first volume in the Cognitive Computation Trends book series, summarising our understanding on the neural correlate of memory, perception-representation, action, language, emotion and consciousness and their mutual interactions. Integrating research in the field of the Neuroscience, Robotics and Virtual Reality, this book is an original and attainable resource that has not been developed in any other writing. In 5 chapters, the author considers that representations are based on allegorical traces and are consciously and/or unconsciously embrained, and that the creation of robots is the expression of the mind. Whole-body virtual motion is thought of as the archetypal expression of virtual reality. Therefore, visual reality is analysed in a context of visuo-vestibular and somesthetic conflict while mixed and augmented reality are scrutinised in a context of visuo-vestibular and somesthetic interaction. This monograph is an indispensable handbook for students and investigators engaged in history of science, philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, engineering and those interested in there interconnections. The ambition of the book is to give students and investigators ideas on which they can build their future research in this new blooming area.
Book Synopsis Pacific Illusions by : John C. Gripentrog
Download or read book Pacific Illusions written by John C. Gripentrog and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The History of Chinese Animation by : Lijun Sun
Download or read book The History of Chinese Animation written by Lijun Sun and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-02-25 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China has been one of the first countries to develop its own aesthetic for dynamic images and to create animation films with distinctive characteristics. In recent years, however, and subject to the influence of Western and Japanese animation, the Chinese animation industry has experienced several new stages of development, prompting the question as to where animation in China is heading in the future. This book describes the history, present and future of China’s animation industry. The author divides the business’s 95-year history into six periods and analyses each of these from an historical, aesthetic, and artistic perspective. In addition, the book focuses on representative works; themes; directions; artistic styles; techniques; industrial development; government support policies; business models; the nurturing of education and talent; broadcasting systems and animation. Scholars and students who are interested in the history of Chinese animation will benefit from this book and it will appeal additionally to readers interested in Chinese film studies.
Book Synopsis The Shorter Columbia Anthology of Traditional Chinese Literature by : Victor H. Mair
Download or read book The Shorter Columbia Anthology of Traditional Chinese Literature written by Victor H. Mair and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2001-01-03 with total page 902 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its fresh translations by newer voices in the field, its broad scope, and its flowing style, this anthology places the immense riches of Chinese literature within easy reach. Ranging from the beginnings to 1919, this abridged version of The Columbia Anthology of Traditional Chinese Literature retains all the characteristics of the original. In putting together these selections Victor H. Mair interprets "literature" very broadly to include not just literary fiction, poetry, and drama, but folk and popular literature, lyrics and arias, elegies and rhapsodies, biographies, autobiographies and memoirs, letters, criticism and theory, and travelogues and jokes.
Download or read book Nanking written by Masahiro Yamamoto and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2000-08-30 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The December 1937 incident that has come to be known as the Rape of Nanking is, without doubt, a tragedy that will not soon be forgotten. While acknowledging that a tremendous loss of life occurred, this study challenges the current prevailing notion that the incident was a deliberate, planned effort on the part of the Japanese military and analyzes events to produce an accurate estimate of the scale of the atrocities. Drawing on Chinese, Japanese, and English sources, Yamamoto determines that what happened at Nanking were unfortunate atrocities of conventional war with precedents in both Eastern and Western military history. He concludes that post-war events such as the war crimes trials and the impact of the Holocaust in Europe affected public opinion regarding Nanking and led to a dramatic reinterpretation of events. The Rape of Nanking consisted of two distinct phases: the mass execution of prisoners of war (as well as conscription age men who appeared to be combatants) and the delinquent acts of individual soldiers. The first phase, which occurred immediately after Nanking's fall and which claimed most of the atrocity victims, was the result of the Japanese military's attempt to clear the city of Chinese soldiers thought to be in plain clothes. The second phase, which lasted approximately six weeks, was horrible, but resulted in a much smaller number of fatalities. It was characterized by numerous criminal acts, ranging from rape and murder to arson and theft, committed by unrestrained Japanese soldiers. The root cause for both phases was the Japanese military's bureaucratic inefficiency and command irresponsibility. While both Chinese and American contemporary sources initially attributed the incident to these causes, subsequent Japanese atrocities against both military and civilian Allied personnel during World War II and evidence presented at war crimes trials would come to reshape perceptions of the Nanking events as an Asian counterpart to the Nazi Holocaust.
