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  • The Cult of the Fox

    Power, Gender, and Popular Religion in Late Imperial and Modern China

    by Xiaofei Kang ...
    For more than five centuries the shamanistic fox cult has attracted large portions of the Chinese population and appealed to a wide range of social classes. Deemed illicit by imperial rulers and clerics and officially banned by republican and communist leaders, the fox cult has managed to survive and flourish in individual homes and community shrines throughout northern China. In this new work, ... Read more

    $67.49 USD

  • Japanese Idols Go to China

    Cultural Adaptation and Nationalism

    by Xiaofei Tu, Wendy Xie ...
    This book situates the Chinese acceptance of Japanese popular culture, specifically the intriguing and sometimes awkward relationship between the “idol” groups AKB48 and SNH48, within the broad context of nationalist ideology and international relations in East Asia. It aims to enhance the knowledge and understanding of the reader about contemporary East Asian cultural exchanges and nationalist ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Time and Language

    New Sinology and Chinese History

    by Ori Sela, Zvi Ben-Dor Benite, Joshua A. Fogel, Peter C. Perdue, Pingyi Chu, Theodore Huters, Peter Zarrow, Joan Judge0, Janet Y. Chen1, Marten Saarela2, Kang Xiaofei3 ...
    China’s past and present have been in a continuous dialogue throughout history, one that is heavily influenced by time and language: the temporal orientation and the linguistic apparatus used to express and solidify identity, ideas, and practices. Presenting a host of in-depth case studies, Time and Language: New Sinology and Chinese History argues for and demonstrates the significance of “New ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • China's Outward Foreign Investment

    A Political Perspective

    by Xiaofei Li ...
    This book explores the characteristics of China's outward foreign investment, its motivation, its sector distribution, and its geographical distribution in order to illustrate the current pattern of 'merchant-state dualism' in China's overseas foreign direct investment. Merchant-state dualism is a hybrid relationship between the state and society that maintains state control over merchants, while ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Supergrid and Superblock

    Lessons in Urban Structure from China and Japan

    by Xiaofei Chen ...
    Series series Planning, History and Environment Series
    In this superbly illustrated book Xiaofei Chen presents the first analysis in English of a ubiquitous East Asian urban phenomenon: the supergrid and superblock urban structure. The book opens with an introductory essay by Barrie Shelton in which he sets the scene for what is to follow, emphasizing how alien this structure was to Western urban design culture where radial patterns of development ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Water Resources Research in Northern Qinling Mountains, China

    by Peiyue Li, Jianhua Wu, Xiaodong He, Yuanhang Wang, Xiaofei Ren, Lingxi Li ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book provides a comprehensive understanding of the water resources status in the northern areas of the Qinling Mountains, China, which are considered strategically important as the central water tower of China. The book presents the findings of a thorough water resources research conducted in the northern Qinling Mountainous areas from 2019 to 2022. The research included field investigations ... Read more

    $161.09 USD

  • Writing Empire and Self

    Poetic and Cultural Transformation in Early Medieval China

    by Xiaofei Tian ...
    China’s early medieval period, from the fifth through the early seventh century, from the Northern and Southern Dynasties through the unified Sui, was a time of political fragmentation, military strife, and ethnic conflict. It also witnessed brilliant artistic creations as well as a full flowering of court culture, with poetry at its heart. How did poetry come to be regarded as the most potent ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

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  • Enchanted Revolution

    Ghosts, Shamans, and Gender Politics in Chinese Communist Propaganda, 1942-1953

    by Xiaofei Kang ...
    Enchanted Revolution moves religion and gender to center stage in the Chinese Communist revolution, examining the mobilizational dynamics of anti-superstition propaganda in support of the Communist Party's rise from rural backwaters to national dominance. Xiaofei Kang argues that religion was not merely adversary for the revolutionaries-it also served as a model for the ways in which the Party ... Read more

    $93.59 USD

  • ANOVA with Dependent Errors

    by Yuichi Goto, Hideaki Nagahata, Masanobu Taniguchi, Anna Clara Monti, Xiaofei Xu ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    This book presents the latest results related to one- and two-way models for time series data. Analysis of variance (ANOVA) is a classical statistical method for IID data proposed by R.A. Fisher to investigate factors and interactions of phenomena. In contrast, the methods developed in this book apply to time series data. Testing theory of the homogeneity of groups is presented under a wide ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Human Motion Sensing and Recognition

    A Fuzzy Qualitative Approach

    by Honghai Liu, Zhaojie Ju, Xiaofei Ji, Chee Seng Chan, Mehdi Khoury ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book introduces readers to the latest exciting advances in human motion sensing and recognition, from the theoretical development of fuzzy approaches to their applications. The topics covered include human motion recognition in 2D and 3D, hand motion analysis with contact sensors, and vision-based view-invariant motion recognition, especially from the perspective of Fuzzy Qualitative ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

  • Edge AI

    Convergence of Edge Computing and Artificial Intelligence

    by Xiaofei Wang, Yiwen Han, Victor C. M. Leung, Dusit Niyato, Xueqiang Yan, Xu Chen ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    As an important enabler for changing people’s lives, advances in artificial intelligence (AI)-based applications and services are on the rise, despite being hindered by efficiency and latency issues. By focusing on deep learning as the most representative technique of AI, this book provides a comprehensive overview of how AI services are being applied to the network edge near the data sources, and ... Read more

    $152.09 USD

  • Supercharge, Invasion, and Mudcake Growth in Downhole Applications

    by Wilson Chin, Tao Lu, Xiaofei Qin, Yongren Feng, Yanmin Zhou ...
    Series series Advances in Petroleum Engineering
    Mysterious "supercharge effects," encountered in formation testing pressure transient analysis, and reservoir invasion, mudcake growth, dynamic filtration, stuck-pipe remediation, and so on, are often discussed in contrasting petrophysical versus drilling contexts. However, these effects are physically coupled and intricately related. The authors focus on a comprehensive formulation, provide ... Read more

    $204.00 USD