HORIZONS IN TONGCHENG

HORIZONS IN TONGCHENG
Author: Maureen Armstrong
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2024-01-02
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1665576952

College students from Tongcheng Teachers College in Anhui Province of China share in foreign teacher’s daily life. Various topics from classrooms, of college apartments, trying city shopping or walking outdoors and invitations to indoor activities are after becoming resident in small remote city of subtropics in Tongcheng.

ESSENCES OF TONGCHENG

ESSENCES OF TONGCHENG
Author: Maureen Armstrong
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2023-12-26
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 166556296X

College students from Tongcheng Teachers College in Anhui Province of China share in foreign teacher’s daily life. Various topics from classrooms, of college apartments, trying city shopping or walking outdoors and invitations to indoor activities are after becoming resident in small remote city of subtropics in Tongcheng.

JULY’S DREAM BOOK 1

JULY’S DREAM BOOK 1
Author: Maureen Armstrong
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 124
Release: 2023-11-23
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Meet Carole and Sylvii; together they research their own new fresh truths. Carole, a recent widow, suffers financial and personal family betrayals with her husband’s death. Sylvii, their suburban friend, stays beside Carole and assists with reporting to the police and agencies. Traveling interstate Carole returns to familiar places to replenish her optimism, and while keeping in touch with Sylvii defines themselves with loyalty. News of her friend’s husband’s death and experiences with their friends’ children become known to Sylvii, who brings Carole’s details to others throughout Missouri. Carole’s nightmare awaits in her return to her native state, Nebraska, and for memories of family, past hopes and her future. Finding abandoned acreage creates an opportunity for Carole with previous financial planning. Her venture onto her new land Carole referred to as the Olde Homestead, while clearing up this abandoned property Carole writes in her diary of details for July’s Dream, and Carole begins to design with planning to create her own future.

Emerging from the Horizon of History

Emerging from the Horizon of History
Author: Yue Meng
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2023-11-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9819940044

This book systematically studies the literary output of female writers in contemporary China within the frame of literary theories of feminism. With tools from psychoanalysis, structuralism and deconstructionism, the two female authors, Meng and Dai, analyze 9 important female writers from 1919 to 1949, including Yin Lu, Xin Bing, Ning Ding, Ailing Zhang. By decade, the authors provide a comprehensive depiction of these female writers' historic-cultural background as well as their reception by critics and audiences. Navigating the complex relation between mainstream literary trends and female writers’ practice, this text represents a landmark of practice of literary feminist criticism within the Chinese language.

A Companion to Modern Chinese Literature

A Companion to Modern Chinese Literature
Author: Yingjin Zhang
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 699
Release: 2015-08-13
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1118451600

This wide-ranging Companion provides a vital overview of modern Chinese literature in different geopolitical areas, from the 1840s to now. It reviews major accomplishments of Chinese literary scholarship published in Chinese and English and brings attention to previously neglected, important areas. Offers the most thorough and concise coverage of modern Chinese literature to date, drawing attention to previously neglected areas such as late Qing, Sinophone, and ethnic minority literature Several chapters explore literature in relation to Sinophone geopolitics, regional culture, urban culture, visual culture, print media, and new media The introduction and two chapters furnish overviews of the institutional development of modern Chinese literature in Chinese and English scholarship since the mid-twentieth century Contributions from leading literary scholars in mainland China and Hong Kong add their voices to international scholarship

An Outline of Chinese Literature II

An Outline of Chinese Literature II
Author: Yuan Xingpei
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2017-07-20
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1315277883

Different from previous researches weighted toward historical description and individual writer and work, this book establishes a general analytical system and a multi-angled methodology to examine Chinese literature. In ancient China, there was no definite concept of pure literature. Considering both modern ideas of literature and the corresponding traditional concept, this book broadly discusses Shi and Fu poetry, Ci poems and Qu verses, novels and essays. The four chapters deal with the origins, evolutions, structures and styles of the various genres respectively, analyzing some representative works. It's worth mentioning that the book is written from an individual perspective. Based on his own appreciation as a reader, the author expresses the depth of his various related impressions on Chinese literature. In addition, it conveys many fresh points of views, which will enrich and inspire related researches. This book will appeal to scholars and students of Chinese literature and comparative literature. People who are interested in Chinese literature and Chinese culture will also benefit from this book.

The China Model

The China Model
Author: Daniel A. Bell
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 355
Release: 2016-08-23
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1400883482

How China's political model could prove to be a viable alternative to Western democracy Westerners tend to divide the political world into "good" democracies and “bad” authoritarian regimes. But the Chinese political model does not fit neatly in either category. Over the past three decades, China has evolved a political system that can best be described as “political meritocracy.” The China Model seeks to understand the ideals and the reality of this unique political system. How do the ideals of political meritocracy set the standard for evaluating political progress (and regress) in China? How can China avoid the disadvantages of political meritocracy? And how can political meritocracy best be combined with democracy? Daniel Bell answers these questions and more. Opening with a critique of “one person, one vote” as a way of choosing top leaders, Bell argues that Chinese-style political meritocracy can help to remedy the key flaws of electoral democracy. He discusses the advantages and pitfalls of political meritocracy, distinguishes between different ways of combining meritocracy and democracy, and argues that China has evolved a model of democratic meritocracy that is morally desirable and politically stable. Bell summarizes and evaluates the “China model”—meritocracy at the top, experimentation in the middle, and democracy at the bottom—and its implications for the rest of the world. A timely and original book that will stir up interest and debate, The China Model looks at a political system that not only has had a long history in China, but could prove to be the most important political development of the twenty-first century.

Networked Filtering and Fusion in Wireless Sensor Networks

Networked Filtering and Fusion in Wireless Sensor Networks
Author: Magdi S. Mahmoud
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 578
Release: 2014-12-20
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1482250969

By exploiting the synergies among available data, information fusion can reduce data traffic, filter noisy measurements, and make predictions and inferences about a monitored entity. Networked Filtering and Fusion in Wireless Sensor Networks introduces the subject of multi-sensor fusion as the method of choice for implementing distributed systems. The book examines the state of the art in information fusion. It presents the known methods, algorithms, architectures, and models of information fusion and discusses their applicability in the context of wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Paying particular attention to the wide range of topics that have been covered in recent literature, the text presents the results of a number of typical case studies. Complete with research supported elements and comprehensive references, this teaching-oriented volume uses standard scientific terminology, conventions, and notations throughout. It applies recently developed convex optimization theory and highly efficient algorithms in estimation fusion to open up discussion and provide researchers with an ideal starting point for further research on distributed estimation and fusion for WSNs. The book supplies a cohesive overview of the key results of theory and applications of information-fusion-related problems in networked systems in a unified framework. Providing advanced mathematical treatment of fundamental problems with information fusion, it will help you broaden your understanding of prospective applications and how to address such problems in practice. After reading the book, you will gain the understanding required to model parts of dynamic systems and use those models to develop distributed fusion control algorithms that are based on feedback control theory.

Seductive Ex-wife

Seductive Ex-wife
Author: Hua BaiBai
Publisher: Funstory
Total Pages: 1321
Release: 2020-09-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1636456456

Bai Xiao had married two men in her life. The first was someone she had chased for sixteen years, someone she had loved for sixteen years, someone who was already the most precious part of her life. However, on the anniversary of their wedding, she told him that she had already fallen in love with another person and cruelly swore a divorce oath. Secondly, he used his utmost love to pry open her closed heart. However, when she thought that she had regained her happiness, he told her that everything was just a method to get revenge and push her into hell with his own hands ... Wounded and wounded, she fled in panic. Four years later, she, who had completely transformed, would return in a strong manner, and she would repay for all that she had suffered. Yet, she did not expect that she would be caught unprepared by one truth after another, and what she had to do, and how she had to choose ...