In un edificio del Distretto ovest di Shanghai, il signor Ding, noto collaborazionista delle forze di occupazione giapponesi, rimane ucciso in un attentato dinamitardo. Sembrerebbe un caso irrisolvibile, ma a condurre le indagini c'è il Maggiore Hayashi, un ufficiale della Kempeitai determinato a trovare l'assassino, anche a costo di isolare l'intero edificio e di sottoporre i sospettati a privazioni e interrogatori sempre più duri. Sullo sfondo della Shanghai degli anni Trenta, Xiao Bai costruisce un noir ricco di colpi di scena in cui tutto è in divenire e nulla è come sembra, e racconta i giorni dell'isolamento facendo muovere i personaggi in uno spazio chiuso che assume la forma di un palcoscenico.

Una bellissima raccolta di storie cinesi, brevi e semplici per chi si avvicina alla lingua cinese. I due racconti presentati nel volume sono corredati di glossari, esercizi, pinyin, traduzione in italiano alla fine di ogni capitolo ed audio.

Una bellissima raccolta di storie cinesi, brevi e semplici per chi si avvicina alla lingua cinese. Il racconto presentato nel volume è corredato di pinyin, glossari ed esercizi alla fine di ogni capitolo oltre che audio. Età di lettura: da 10 anni.

An acclaimed Chinese writer makes his English language debut with this heart-stopping literary noir, a richly atmospheric tale of espionage and international intrigue, set in Shanghai in 1931—an electrifying, decadent world of love, violence, and betrayal filled with femme fatales, criminals, revolutionaries, and spies.

A boat from Hong Kong arrives in Shanghai harbor, carrying an important official in the Nationalist Party and his striking wife, Leng. Amid the raucous sound of firecrackers, gunshots ring out; an assassin has shot the official and then himself. Leng disappears in the ensuing chaos.

Hseuh, a Franco-Chinese photographer aboard the same boat, became captivated by Leng’s beauty and unconcealed misery. Now, she is missing. But Hsueh is plagued by a mystery closer to home: he suspects his White Russian lover, Therese, is unfaithful. Why else would she disappear so often on their recent vacation? When he’s arrested for mysterious reasons in the French Concession and forced to become a police collaborator, he realizes that in the seamy, devious world of Shanghai, no one is who they appear to be.

Coerced into spying for the authorities, Hseuh discovers that Therese is secretly an arms dealer, supplying Shanghai’s gangs with weapons. His investigation of Therese eventually leads him back to Leng, a loyal revolutionary with ties to a menacing new gang, led by a charismatic Communist whose acts of violence and terrorism threaten the entire country.

His aptitude for espionage draws Hseuh into a dark underworld of mobsters, smugglers, anarchists, and assassins. Torn between Therese and Leng, he vows to protect them both. As the web of intrigue tightens around him, Hsueh plays a dangerous game, hoping to stay alive.

Analyzes and discusses the operating principle, signal processing method, and experimental results of this advanced radar technology

This book systematically discusses the operating principle, signal processing method, target measurement technology, and experimental results of a new kind of radar called synthetic impulse and aperture radar (SIAR). The purpose is to help readers acquire an insight into the concept and principle of the SIAR, to know its operation mode, signal processing method, the difference between the traditional radar and itself, the designing ideals, and the developing method.

It includes 10 chapters. Chapter 1 gives an introduction to the basic principle of SIAR and its characteristic of four antis. Chapter 2 introduces the operating principles and system constitution of SIAR. Chapter 3 presents the main waveforms and the corresponding signal processing methods. Chapter 4 is about the long-time integration technique. Chapter 5 shows the high-accuracy measurement and tracking of 4D parameters of target in SIAR. The range-angle coupling and decoupling are introduced in Chapter 6, where a criteria for transmit frequency optimization of array elements is studied to overcome the coupling among range, azimuth and elevation. In Chapter 7, detection and tracking of targets in strong interference background is investigated. Chapter 8 analyzes quantitatively the influence of array error on the tracking accuracy of SIAR. Expansion of impulse and aperture synthesis to HF band and microwave band are introduced respectively in Chapter 9 and Chapter 10. The operating principle of the novel bi-static surface wave radar system, as well as the experimental system and the experimental results are included in Chapter 9.

Written by a highly experienced author with extensive knowledge of SIAR (Chen), the book can be used as a reference for engineering technical personnel and scientific research personnel working in the research of SIAR, MIMO radar, digital radar or other new type of radar. It can also be a reference for teachers and students in universities who engage in related professional work.

• Details the operating principle, signal processing method, target measurement technology, and experimental results of synthetic impulse and aperture radar (SIAR)
• Expands the technique of impulse and aperture synthesisfrom the VHF band to the HF band and the microwave band
• Written by a leading author with many years’ research and practical experience in sparse array SIAR, a typical MIMO radar

Engineers, researchers and postgraduates working in radar engineering will find this an invaluable resource.

A bordo, Xiao Xue, un fotoreporter di padre francese e madre cinese, e la sua bellissima amante, Therese Irxmayer. Poco più in là, o poco dopo, in un attentato cade Cao Zhenwu, un uomo potente ai vertici del Partito Nazionalista. Gli era accanto la moglie Leng Xiaoman, un'ex rivoluzionaria. Xiao Xue incomincia a indagare, per un suo doppio o triplo interesse dal quale non è estranea la russa di Shanghai, Therese dagli affari, anche amorosi, sospetti. L'indagine lo impelaga sempre più in traffici di danaro e di guerre, in morti e segreti di ogni tipo, a iniziare un gioco rischioso con le autorità corrotte del controspionaggio e della polizia cinesi e occidentali, soprattutto a sfiorare Gu Fuguang, massimo leader dei rivoluzionari. Ma tutti sono spie, doppio e triplo giochisti. E in ballo il controllo della città in vista del tramonto del colonialismo. E la partita è giocata in modo sporco da tutti i contendenti: i nazionalisti, i comunisti, le triadi criminali, i colonialisti, i gruppi affaristici della borghesia compradora. Una folla di personaggi ciascuno con la sua dose di verità, di colpa e crudeltà, che si battono con l'eccitazione e il desiderio erotici che sa accendere il potere: la Shanghai di Xiao Bai commuove e repelle come la Los Angeles di James Ellroy.

The increasingly urbanized world has created various problems of environment, climate, consumption of resources, and public health, which are closely linked to the side-effects of urbanization such as sprawl, congestion, housing affordability and loss of open space. Fundamental to the urban problems are two separate yet related issues: urban structure and urban dynamics. The chapters collected in this book present an excellent profile of the current state of geospatial analysis and modelling, and demonstrate how these approaches can contribute to the study of various urban issues. The book addresses key themes including new ways of capturing data digitally at the individual level, the development of systems based around networks, the notion of linking hierarchy to networks to morphology as in complexity theory, and the development of new ways of integrating diverse urban processes through simulation paying careful attention to the basic econometric and statistical principles of spatial analysis.

With a foreword by Michael Batty and an epilog by Michael F. Goodchild.

Describes the change, loss, re-emergence and resilience of seven herder communities located in distinct socio-ecological settings ranging from the Gobi desert of Mongolia to the Tibetan Plateau regions of China's Sichuan and Gansu Provinces. This book is suitable for policy makers within international development and conservation policy.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering, WISE 2008, held in Auckland, New Zealand, in September 2008.
The 17 revised full papers and 14 revised short papers presented together with two keynote talks were carefully reviewed and selected from around 110 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on grid computing and peer-to-peer systems; Web mining; rich Web user interfaces; semantic Web; Web information retrieval; Web data integration; queries and peer-to-peer systems; and Web services.