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Daughters of Hui

Novellas & Stories (1996)

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"Your name or your person. Which is dearer?" In answer to Lao Tzu's ancient riddle, DAUGHTERS OF HUI offers a novella and three stories of four Asian women. All are surnamed Hui, and share at least a casual connection with Boston and New England. And all share that particular Hong Kong world view, one that roots into a past not well understood while reaching out to a future that "speaks too many ... Read more

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"Your name or your person. Which is dearer?" In answer to Lao Tzu's ancient riddle, DAUGHTERS OF HUI offers a novella and three stories of four Asian women. All are surnamed Hui, and share at least a casual connection with Boston and New England. And all share that particular Hong Kong world view, one that roots into a past not well understood while reaching out to a future that "speaks too many
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Chinese Walls

a novel

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"The Master said, 'Men are close to one another by nature. They diverge as a result of repeated practice." This epigraph by Confucius is at the heart of CHINESE WALLS, Xu Xi's controversial literary debut. This novel-in-stories was one of the first to openly address incest in an Asian family. Told by the youngest child and only daughter, Ai-Lin, the narrative begins in her childhood and wends ... Read more

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"The Master said, 'Men are close to one another by nature. They diverge as a result of repeated practice." This epigraph by Confucius is at the heart of CHINESE WALLS, Xu Xi's controversial literary debut. This novel-in-stories was one of the first to openly address incest in an Asian family. Told by the youngest child and only daughter, Ai-Lin, the narrative begins in her childhood and wends
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Dear Hong Kong

An Elegy For A City: Penguin Specials

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Series series Penguin China | Penguin Specials
Xu Xi’s body of work witnesses her turbulent love affair with her home-city of Hong Kong. In this probing memoir, she unravels her recently finalised decision to leave the city for good. She critiques a Hong Kong that has, in her eyes, lost its way. And yet, it is only out of the city’s enduring presence in her life, both in the form of memory and periodic homecomings, that she has carved out a ... Read more

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Xu Xi’s body of work witnesses her turbulent love affair with her home-city of Hong Kong. In this probing memoir, she unravels her recently finalised decision to leave the city for good. She critiques a Hong Kong that has, in her eyes, lost its way. And yet, it is only out of the city’s enduring presence in her life, both in the form of memory and periodic homecomings, that she has carved out a
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Consumer Culture in Transition

Aesthetic Consumption in China's New Middle Class

by Xi Liu, Guilin Liu, Gaoxiang Xu ...

Series series Routledge Studies in Marketing
This book offers case studies on the emergence of aesthetic consumption in China, that is, daily consumption in which aesthetic and spiritual benefits play a dominant role in consumers’ decision-making.The book opens by discussing the rapid economic and cultural development of China, as well as the influence of social media in expressing consumer cultural capital. It then discusses how the country ... Read more

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This book offers case studies on the emergence of aesthetic consumption in China, that is, daily consumption in which aesthetic and spiritual benefits play a dominant role in consumers’ decision-making.The book opens by discussing the rapid economic and cultural development of China, as well as the influence of social media in expressing consumer cultural capital. It then discusses how the country
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This Fish Is Fowl

Essays of Being

by Xu Xi ...

Series series American Lives
In This Fish Is Fowl Xu Xi offers the transnational and feminist perspective of a contemporary “glocalized” American life. Xu’s quirky, darkly comic, and obsessively personal essays emerge from her diverse professional career as a writer, business executive, entrepreneur, and educator. From her origins in Hong Kong as an Indonesian of Chinese descent to her U.S. citizenship and multiple countries ... Read more

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In This Fish Is Fowl Xu Xi offers the transnational and feminist perspective of a contemporary “glocalized” American life. Xu’s quirky, darkly comic, and obsessively personal essays emerge from her diverse professional career as a writer, business executive, entrepreneur, and educator. From her origins in Hong Kong as an Indonesian of Chinese descent to her U.S. citizenship and multiple countries
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Horizon Hong Kong

Selected Stories

by Xu Xi ...

"A collection of heartbreaks and awakenings set to lightning." -Junot Díaz, author, This Is How You Lose HerA siren call to Hong Kong's yesterday, today, and tomorrow, envisioned by one of the city's most prescient and unapologetic writers.One of Hong Kong's leading English writers, Xu Xi investigates and invigorates the transnational, transcultural, and translingual dimensions of her beloved city ... Read more

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"A collection of heartbreaks and awakenings set to lightning." -Junot Díaz, author, This Is How You Lose HerA siren call to Hong Kong's yesterday, today, and tomorrow, envisioned by one of the city's most prescient and unapologetic writers.One of Hong Kong's leading English writers, Xu Xi investigates and invigorates the transnational, transcultural, and translingual dimensions of her beloved city
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Multiscale Theory of Composites and Random Media

by Xi Frank Xu ...

This is the first book to introduce Green-function-based multiscale theory and the corresponding finite element method, which are readily applicable to composites and random media. The methodology is considered to be the one that most effectively tackles the uncertainty of stress propagation in complex heterogeneities of random media, and which presents multiscale theory from distinctive scale ... Read more

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This is the first book to introduce Green-function-based multiscale theory and the corresponding finite element method, which are readily applicable to composites and random media. The methodology is considered to be the one that most effectively tackles the uncertainty of stress propagation in complex heterogeneities of random media, and which presents multiscale theory from distinctive scale
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The Art and Craft of Asian Stories

A Writer's Guide and Anthology

by Professor Robin Hemley, Xu Xi ...

Series series Bloomsbury Writer's Guides and Anthologies
An all-in-one craft guide and anthology, this is the first creative writing book to find inspiration and guidance in the diverse literary traditions of Asia. Including exemplary stories by leading writers from Japan, China, India, Singapore and beyond as well as those from Asian diasporas in Europe and America, The Art and Craft of Asian Stories offers an exciting take on the traditional how-to ... Read more

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An all-in-one craft guide and anthology, this is the first creative writing book to find inspiration and guidance in the diverse literary traditions of Asia. Including exemplary stories by leading writers from Japan, China, India, Singapore and beyond as well as those from Asian diasporas in Europe and America, The Art and Craft of Asian Stories offers an exciting take on the traditional how-to
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Overleaf Hong Kong

Stories and Essays of the Chinese, Overseas

by Xu Xi ...

For the millions of wah kiu or "overseasChinese," life in the world beyond China's borders is fraught with thequestion of identity. In these stories and essays, written over the pastthirty years, Xu Xi explores the joys, fears, idealism,disappointments, dreams and lives of the wah kiu. In Overleaf Hong Kong,she takes us around the globe, from Southeast Asia to Europe to NorthAmerica to the Pacific ... Read more

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For the millions of wah kiu or "overseasChinese," life in the world beyond China's borders is fraught with thequestion of identity. In these stories and essays, written over the pastthirty years, Xu Xi explores the joys, fears, idealism,disappointments, dreams and lives of the wah kiu. In Overleaf Hong Kong,she takes us around the globe, from Southeast Asia to Europe to NorthAmerica to the Pacific
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Hong Kong Noir

by Xu Xi, Marshall Moore ...

Series series Akashic Noir
"Showcases the extremes of one of the world's capitals. From ghost stories, to historical thrills, to underworld brutality . . . endlessly fascinating."— CrimeReadsAkashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book comprises all new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respective city. In ... Read more

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"Showcases the extremes of one of the world's capitals. From ghost stories, to historical thrills, to underworld brutality . . . endlessly fascinating."— CrimeReadsAkashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book comprises all new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respective city. In
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Mixed-Criticality Industrial Wireless Networks

by Xi Jin, Changqing Xia, Chi Xu, Dong Li ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
This open access book introduces how to manage important tasks in industrial wireless networks.Important tasks must be completed on time and with guaranteed quality; that is the consensus reached by system designers and users. However, for too long, important tasks have often been given unnecessary urgency, and people intuitively believe that important tasks should be executedfirst so that their ... Read more

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This open access book introduces how to manage important tasks in industrial wireless networks.Important tasks must be completed on time and with guaranteed quality; that is the consensus reached by system designers and users. However, for too long, important tasks have often been given unnecessary urgency, and people intuitively believe that important tasks should be executedfirst so that their
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Introduction to THz Wave Photonics

by Xi-Cheng Zhang, Jingzhou Xu ...

Series series Engineering (R0)
Terahertz (THz) radiation, which is electromagnetic radiation in a frequency int- val from 0.3 to 10 THz (1 mm–30 ?m wavelength), is the next frontier in science and technology. This band occupies a large portion of the electromagnetic sp- trum between the infrared and microwave bands. Basic research, new initiatives, and developments in advanced sensing and imaging technology with regard to the ... Read more

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Terahertz (THz) radiation, which is electromagnetic radiation in a frequency int- val from 0.3 to 10 THz (1 mm–30 ?m wavelength), is the next frontier in science and technology. This band occupies a large portion of the electromagnetic sp- trum between the infrared and microwave bands. Basic research, new initiatives, and developments in advanced sensing and imaging technology with regard to the
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