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Sphaeromacrops Schillhammer new to China with description of a new species (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae)
No full textTang, Liang, Cheng, Zhi-Fei (2020): Sphaeromacrops Schillhammer new to China with description of a new species (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae). Zootaxa 4779 (2): 297-300, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4779.2.1
Fei-yen wai-zhuan the true era of its birth and investigation of its author
No full textFei-yen wai-zhuan 飛燕外傳 (The Unofficial Biography of [Zhao] Fei-yen) is one of the classical-language fictions in traditional China, describing the famous romance between Emperor Cheng-di 成帝 and Zhao Fei-yen 趙飛燕 sisters in the Former Han Dynasty. The author is attributed with Ling Xüan 伶玄, who definitely had confessed that he was living with the Former Han Dynasty in his brief autobiography. However, it was too suspicious to believe, from the beginning of its appearance in the Southern Song Dynasty, scholars have been puzzled to determine the true era of its birth. Through their discussions, now it is widely accepted that Fei-yen wai-zhuan was born during the Six Dynasties, not in the Tang Dynasty, though it is still lacking in conclusive evidence. But some insist that it could be compared with the great masterpieces of Tang-tales, like Ying-ying zhuan 鶯鶯傳, Li Wa zhuan 李娃傳, Huo Xiao-yü zhuan 霍小玉傳, which belonged to the Tang Dynasty. Then should we say that Fei-yen wai-zhuan was a premature masterpiece? It still remains a great mystery to all, including its author Ling Xüan himself. This study, paying attention to the text itself, proves this tale should belong to the Tang Dynasty. Its main keywords are two, Zhen-la 眞臘 and Qi-chu Ling-hua jing 七出菱花鏡 (Water-chestnut flower shaped bronze mirror, circled by seven petals). The former, used first in the historical records in China was in the Sui Dynasty Da-ye 大業 12years(616), and the latter one likely appeared after reign of Empress Wu(690--705). These facts simply tell us Fei-yen wai-zhuan was born in the Tang Dynasty. The true author of this tale is Niu Seng-ru 牛僧孺, a famous prime minister of late Tang and was also a well-known writer of Tang-tales, who authored Xüan-guai lu 玄怪錄. We could know the close affinities between Fei-yen wai-zhuan and Xüan-guai lu. As a drafted scholar-official, all of Niu's life had been under the strife in bureaucracy with the factional parties at that time. Once the opposition party blamed Niu for violating his majesty, to write the tale Zhou Qin xing-ji 周秦行記 named Niu Seng-ru. Though its writer was anonymous, Niu was nearly accused of injury to the majesy (Lèse majesté). I contend Niu decided to write Fei-yen wai-zhuan under a pseudonym to make counterattack against a recreant writer in the same manner and to regain true pride for himself
The political role of the people's liberation army 1949-1973
No full textThis thesis is to study the political role of the People's Liberation Army from the approach of structure and function. The framework of the thesis consists of three major parts, first, the influence of Chinese traditional political culture on, and the formation of, the political role of the PL A; second, the influence of domestic political struggles and external military conflicts on the development of the political role of the PLA; and the third, the analysis of the transition of the PLA's political role from the structure and personnel arrangements of the CCPCC Within the above-mentioned three scopes, this thesis make a thorough discussion on the following: (1) The relationship between the structure of the PRC and the formation of the PLA's political role; (2) How has ideology influenced the army's political role; (3) What is Mao's viewpoint and his influence on the development of the army's political role; (4) What is the link between the army and the party, and how has this developed; (6) What accounts for the expansion of the PLA's political functions; (7) What is the influence of political factional struggles on the PLA's political role; (8) Is it political institution or military institution that controls the recruitment of the military elite; (9) What are the disparities between the military elite in handling international conflicts and what are their political considerations; (10) What is the Party's position in the army; (11) How have the Party’s important meetings and personnel arrangements influenced the rise and fall of the PLA's political role
A new species of Hygrogeus Mulsant & Rey, 1880 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Omaliinae: Anthophagini) from Xizang, China
No full textCheng, Zhi-Fei, Peng, Zhong (2019): A new species of Hygrogeus Mulsant & Rey, 1880 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Omaliinae: Anthophagini) from Xizang, China. Zootaxa 4695 (1): 90-94, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4695.1.
A new species and additional records of brachypterous Paederus (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) of mainland China and Taiwan
No full textCheng, Zhi-Fei, Peng, Zhong (2019): A new species and additional records of brachypterous Paederus (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) of mainland China and Taiwan. Zootaxa 4686 (1): 127-132, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4686.1.
Wages and employment status of China's migrant workers
No full textFei Guo, Zhiming Cheng, Graeme Hugo, and Wenshu Ga
Two new species of Clidicus Laporte, 1832 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Scydmaeninae) from Yunnan, China
No full textCheng, Zhi-Fei, Yin, Zi-Wei (2019): Two new species of Clidicus Laporte, 1832 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Scydmaeninae) from Yunnan, China. Zootaxa 4623 (2): 321-330, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4623.2.
Coordination in a single-retailer two-supplier supply chain under random demand and random supply with disruption
No full textThis paper studies the coordination issue of a supply chain consisting of one retailer and two suppliers, a main supplier and a backup supplier. The main supplier’s yield is subject to disruption and the retailer faces a random demand. We determine the retailer’s optimal ordering policy and the main supplier’s production quantity that maximize expected profit of the centralized supply chain. We also analyze the decentralized scenario, and a combination of overproduction risk sharing and buy-back contracts with a side payment from/to the backup supplier is provided to coordinate the supply chain. Numerical examples are given to gain some qualitative insights.Fei Hu, Cheng-Chew Lim, Zudi Lu, and Xiaochen Su
FIGURES 1, 2 in Sphaeromacrops Schillhammer new to China with description of a new species (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae)
No full textFIGURES 1, 2. Habitus of Sphaeromacrops yunnanensis. Scale bars: 2 mm.Published as part of Tang, Liang & Cheng, Zhi-Fei, 2020, Sphaeromacrops Schillhammer new to China with description of a new species (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae), pp. 297-300 in Zootaxa 4779 (2) on page 298, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4779.2.11, http://zenodo.org/record/383346
FIGURE 2 in A new species of Hygrogeus Mulsant & Rey, 1880 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Omaliinae: Anthophagini) from Xizang, China
No full textFIGURE 2. Aedeagus features of Hygrogeus chinensis male. A–C., in dorsal (A), lateral (B), and ventral (C) view. Scale bar: 0.5 mm.Published as part of Cheng, Zhi-Fei & Peng, Zhong, 2019, Zootaxa 4695 (1) on pages 90-94, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4695.1.8, http://zenodo.org/record/353014
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