Using the life and work of influential Chinese writer Guo Moruo (1892–1978), reflects on China’s encounters with modernity, Communism, and capitalism.

Interoperability: the ability of a system or a product to work with other systems or products without special effort from the user is a key issue in manufacturing and industrial enterprise generally. It is fundamental to the production of goods and services quickly and at low cost at the same time as maintaining levels of quality and customisation. Composed of over 50 papers, Enterprise Interoperability III ranges from academic research through case studies to industrial and administrative experience of interoperability. The international nature of the authorship continues to broaden. Many of the papers have examples and illustrations calculated to deepen understanding and generate new ideas.A concise reference to the state of the art in software interoperability, Enterprise Interoperability III will be of great value to engineers and computer scientists working in manufacturing and other process industries and to software engineers and electronic and manufacturing engineers working in the academic environment.

Over the course of 1901-1937, China embarked on a course of broad-based judicial reform focused on the establishment of a set of substantive and procedural laws separating criminal and civil proceedings, a multi-level court system would allow for appeals, a trained and disciplined corps of judicial officers, due process underpinned by laws and checked by a regulated legal profession, and reform of punishment and the penal system in accordance with the theories and practices in the West. Xu (history, Christopher Newport U.) explores these reforms in the context of the evolution of the Chinese state. He examines the tensions between the Chinese Ministry of Justice and other agencies in the capital, between the central government and provincial governments, between judicial officials and administrative officials at the provincial level, between provincial officials and county officials, between county government offices and party organs at the county level, and between the various officials and local people. These tensions are discussed in terms of contestation for financial resources, the reach of the state, deviation from central state policy by officials starved for resources, the impact of the extension of judicial modernity on the power of local elites, and the discourses employed by various actors in discussing reform. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

This book focuses on the computational and theoretical approaches to the coupling of fluid mechanics and solids mechanics. In particular, nonlinear dynamical systems are introduced to the handling of complex fluid-solid interaction systems, For the past few decades, many terminologies have been introduced to this field, namely, flow-induced vibration, aeroelasticity, hydroelasticity, fluid-structure interaction, fluid-solid interaction, and more recently multi-physics problems. Moreover, engineering applications are distributed within different disciplines, such as nuclear, civil, aerospace, ocean, chemical, electrical, and mechanical engineering. Regrettably, while each particular subject is by itself very extensive, it has been difficult for a single book to cover in a reasonable depth and in the mean time to connect various topics. In light of the current multidisciplinary research need in nanotechnology and bioengineering, there is an urgent need for books to provide such a linkage and to lay a foundation for more specialized fields.

- Interdisciplinary across all types of engineering
- Comprehensive study of fluid-solid interaction
- Discusses complex system dynamics derived from interactive systems
- Provides mathematic modeling of biological systems

This book is for parents who live in a foreign country and intend to raise their children in their own heritage language(s). It offers helpful suggestions for this challenging situation and provides useful strategies in the daily interactions between parents and children.

China and India's new-found interest in trade and investment with Africa - home to 300 million of the globe's poorest people and the world's most formidable development challenge - presents a significant opportunity for growth and integration of theSub-Saharan continent into the global economy. Africa's Silk Road finds that China and India's South-South commerce with Africa isabout far more than natural resources, opening the way for Africato become a processor of commodities and a competitive supplier of goods and services to these countries - a major departure from its long established relations with the North. A growing number of Chinese and Indian businesses active in Africa operate on a global scale, work with world-class technologies, produce products and services according to the most demanding standards, and foster the integration of African businesses into advanced markets.There are significant imbalances, however, in these emerging commercial relationships. These can be addressed through a series of reforms in all countries:

• 'At-the-border' reforms, such as elimination of China and India's escalating tariffs on Africa's leading exports, and elimination ofAfrica's tariffs on certain inputs that make exports uncompetitive
• 'Behind-the-border' reforms in Africa, to unleash competitive market forces and strengthen its basic market institutions
• 'Between-the-border' improvements in trade facilitation mechanisms to decrease transactions costs
• Reforms that leverage linkages between investment and trade, toallow African businesses to participate in global productionnetworks that investments by Chinese and Indian firms can generate.

The Handbook of Metrics for Research in Operations Management is a compilation of multi-item scales and objective items that can be used to construct surveys and questionnaires in Operations Management. Such surveys can be sent to manufacturing or service managers to collect empirical data on their operations for research purposes. The metrics can be used to measure constructs such as Total Quality Management, Just-In-Time manufacturing, Operations Strategy, Technology Management, Supply Chain Management, performance of operations and related concepts.

Key Features

• Employs a systematic summary of 1803 multi-item, measurement scales, and objective metrics: Derived from 230 published articles, comprehensive summaries for each scale are available in one source.
• Cross-classifies measurement scales in two ways: Each scale is classified by categories that are based on OM research topics accepted by major OM journals and by first author names.
• Provides a discussion of objective measures used in OM research: Illustrative items and examples from 5 questionnaires are given.
• Increases the efficiency and potential rigor of the researcher's efforts: Discussion and selected bibliography on key issues for careful construction of new items encourage further development and refinement of psychometrically sound OM metrics.

Intended Audience

This Handbook is an essential, time-saving resource for virtually all operations, supply chain, and technology scholars and practitioners interested in empirical research. A vital addition to all academic libraries, it is intended to serve as a basic reference and guide for construction of surveys and other structured data collection on OM topics.

Periodic updates and further compilations from other journals are available at http://webpages.csom.umn.edu/oms/schroeder/scalebook/index.html.

Meet author Aleda Roth! http://business.clemson.edu/Managemt/faculty/l3_fac_AledaRoth.html

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The 3rd in the acclaimed Inspector Chen series sets in 1990s Shanghai.

In Evoking Tang, writer Qiu Xiaolong breathes new life into the works of the Tang dynasty masters, introducing their universal these—of love and lament, frienship and longing, the serenity to be found in natural beauty—to a whole new audience of western readers.The Tang period is the golden age of Chinese poetry. In Evoking Tang, a bilingual collection, Xiaolong offers English translations of more than 70 classic Chinese poems. The original texts represent the work of almost 40 poets from the Tang period, whose poems are comparable in importance, for English-speaking readers, to those of Shakespeare, Wordsworth, and Longfellow. The anthology is illustrated with 30 traditional Chinese paintings, which are included to aid interpretation and to stir the imagination of readers as they enter the poetic world.

Acclaimed as one of the most important writers of twentieth-century China, the late Wang Xiaobo (1952-1997) is known for his frank, often antic treatment of sex and his gift for reveling in human absurdity and provoking laughter from horror. Comprised of three novellas, 'The Golden Age,' 'East Palace, West Palace,' and '2015,' this book is the first English translation of his work.
'East Palace, West Palace,' one of the first contemporary Chinese fictional works dealing with male homosexuality, is an S/M-oriented love story between a masochistic gay writer and a handsome policeman unaware of his sadistic tendencies. In 'The Golden Age,' for which Wang Xiaobo is perhaps best known, the protagonist, Wang Er (literally, Wang number two) is a city student sent to the countryside for rustification during the Cultural Revolution. There he meets a lovely young doctor whom he encourages to live up to her undeserved reputation as 'damaged goods.' In '2015,' another Wang Er, after being put into a labor camp for practicing painting without a license, becomes the love object of a sadistic policewoman.
Although the sexual and social roles of Wang Xiaobo's characters intertwine, sexuality functions not as protest but as an absurd metaphor for state power and the voluntary, even enthusiastic, collaboration of those subject to it. Full of deadpan humor and oddball sex, Wang Xiaobo's novellas allow us to see, through a subtly shifting kaleidoscope, scenes from the elaborate dance the individual must do with the state in twentieth-century China.

Quante parole servono per non perdersi nel groviglio di un paese (e di un cuore) stranieri? Z. sbarca a Heathrow dalla Cina. Nulla è come aveva immaginato. Pensa: 'Sto in mezzo alla stanza, sono strana. Questo è l'Occidente'. Ma il viaggio è cominciato, e fuori c'è Londra da vedere, da vivere, da esplorare parola per parola. Il vecchio mondo si specchia e si deforma nei suoi occhi, nei suoi pensieri saggi e stralunati. Si incontrano al cinema, una sera. Lui è inglese e ha 20 anni più di lei. Nella sua casa e nel suo letto Z. scopre l'amore: un tormento sottile che le insegna le parole e al tempo stesso gliele toglie. E come partire un'altra volta, senza mappa e senza dizionario. Romanzo rivelazione di una delle voci più fresche e originali della narrativa contemporanea, 'Piccolo dizionario cinese-inglese per innamorati' parla di noi e degli altri, dell'amore e di quanto sia difficile, e inevitabile, incontrarsi.

A new case for Inspector Chen, when a mutilated body turns up in Shanghai's Bund Park, bearing all the hallmarks of a Triad killing. The appeal of these novels is not only the strong characters and tight plotting but also the portrayal of Chine

Un medico introduce le donne occidentali alla saggezza della medicina cinese e alle pratiche, collaudate da tempo, che da secoli aiutano le donne orientali a migliorare il loro stato di salute fisica ed emotiva. Partendo da episodi concreti, la dottoressa Zhao spiega come ogni donna - con semplici accorgimenti nella dieta, nell'esercizio fisico, nella vita sessuale e nel modo di affrontare lo stress - possa migliorare il rapporto con il proprio corpo e le proprie emozioni, affiancando alla prevenzione e alla cura di sé le conoscenze di una millenaria tradizione. Con un occhio di riguardo per i problemi ginecologici (dall'infertilità alla sindrome da menopausa), la sindrome da fatica cronica e la depressione.

This volume presents a sample of views and visions among some of the growing numbers of Neoproterozoic workers. It includes a set of multidisciplinary reviews on the Neoproterozoic fossil record, evolutionary developmental biology of animals, and molecular clock estimates of phylogenetic divergences. These topics are of continuing interest to geoscientists and bioscientists who are intrigued by the deep history of the Earth and its inhabitants.

High hopes for this crime novel set in Shanghai in 1990. Chief Inspector Chen is a detective and a poet. When called upon to investigate the death of a prominent Communist Party member, he finds himself faced with a difficult choice: bend to th

When a giant tsunami approaches his village, seven-year-old Dinakaran is saved by the family dog.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks, MSN 2005, held in Wuhan, China in December 2005. The volume also contains 12 papers of the MSN workshop on Modeling and the Security in the Next Generation Mobile Information Systems (MSNG 2005).The 112 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 512 submissions. The papers address all current topical areas in mobile ad hoc and sensor networks such as network architecture and protocols, software platforms and development tools, self-organization and synchronization, routing and data dissemination, failure resilience and fault isolation, energy management, data, information, and signal processing, security and privacy, network planning, provisioning, and deployment, network modeling and performance evaluation, developments and applications, as well as integration with other systems.

The new edition of this popular book provides a step-by-step guide on how to use financial management and budgeting tools in the public sector. The book features a practical, case-study approach, and includes plentiful exercises and examples. It is designed as a textbook for courses on public financial management or public budgeting that focus on the application of budgeting and financial management tools. Public service professionals will also benefit from this handy primer.

Shows how Chinese intellectuals with varying politics envisioned the peasantry and its role in changing society during the first half of the twentieth century.

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' a selection of The History Book Club and The Military History Book Club Read a chapter from the book 'In three days the number of so-called 'volunteers' reached over three hundred men. Very quickly they organized us into military units. Just like that I became a North Korean soldier and was on the way to some unknown place.' -- from the book South Korean Lee Young Ho was seventeen years old when he was forced to serve in the North Korean People's Army during the first year of the Korean War. After a few months, he deserted the NKPA and returned to Seoul where he joined the South Korean Marine Corps. Ho's experience is only one of the many compelling accounts found in Voices from the Korean War. Unique in gathering war stories from veterans from all sides of the Korean War -- American, South Korean, North Korean, and Chinese -- this volume creates a vivid and multidimensional portrait of the three-year-long conflict told by those who experienced the ground war firsthand. Richard Peters and Xiaobing Li include a significant introduction that provides a concise history of the Korean conflict, as well as a geographical and a political backdrop for the soldiers' personal stories.