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Cold Mountain poems Zen poems of Han Shan, Shih Te, and Wang Fan-Chih
No full textThe incomparable poetry of Han Shan (Cold Mountain), Shih Te, and Wang Fan-chih--rebel poets who became icons of Chinese poetry and Zen--by a premier translato
From an individual consumer to Fan Page\ue2\ubcconsumers\ue2 motivation, behavior and satisfaction in participating a Fan Page\ue2\ubc
No full textWith the popularity of the Internet and the growing trend of Web2.0, interaction and knowledge exchanges among the Internet users become active. Facebook, currently the world's most successful social networking website of Web2.0, functions as a social entertainer and further develops as a marketing business platform. In particular, many enterprises and organizations focus on operating the function of Fan Page for the purpose of marketing strategy.
The research will be conducted from the users' viewpoints and the examples of consumption on Facebook and entertaining Fan Pages will be provided to investigate the specialties and functions of the website, causing the users to organize and participate in the Fan Pages, and the behaviorial motives and the gratification obtained from the process.
Substantial and virtual random samplings are utilized in conducting the questionnaire survey. The result shows the obvious difference in the motives of the Fan Page participants based on various levels of education. It also verifies the critical influence of media characteristics on the participation of Fan Page. And, it helps us realize that users with different motives obtain different satisfactions through the participation of Fan Page. In the end, the research investigation can be considered as a basis of enterprise marketing strategies theoretically and practically
Final report on studies of space/time variability of marine boundary layer characteristics
Full text linkAugust 1990.Appendix A originally presented as Melanie A. Wetzel's dissertation (Colorado State University, 1990) under the title: Investigation of a remote sensing technique for droplet-effective radius.Thomas H. Vonder Haar, principal investigator; with contributions by: Melanie A. Wetzel, Chi-Fan Shih, Hung-chi Kuo.ONR Contract no. N00014-86-C-0459
The Relationships between the Shih-huo-chih in the Sung-chao kuo-shih and the Shih-huo-chih in the Sung-shi
Full text linkDuring the Sung dynasty many versions of the national history were compiled. All these national histories included a chapter called Shih-huo-chih 食貨志. These versions of the Shih-huo-chih are not extant now in their original form, but fragments of them have been included in such books as the Sung-shih Shih-huo-chih 宋史食貨志, the Hsü Tzŭ-chih-t’ung-chien ch’ang-pien 續資治通鑑長編, the Wên-hsien t’ung-k’ao 文獻通考, the Yü-hai 玉海, the Huang-chao pien-nien kang-mu pei-yao 皇朝編年綱目備耍, and the Shang-t’ang ch’ün-shu k’ao-so 山堂群書考索. The original form of the Shih-huo-chih, therefore, can be traced to some extent. Among the above works, the preface to the Shih-huo-chih in the Sung-shih states that, though the chapter was based on the Shih-huo-chih in the Sung-chao kuo-shih 宋朝國史, the quotation was limited only to the facts worth quoting because otherwise the chapter would become too voluminous. Comparing, however, the chapter of the Sung-chao kuo-shih with the similar chapters of the above works, the Sung-shih Shih-huo-chih seems to have borrowed in its entirety this chapter in the Sung-chao kuo-shih. In other words, although the Sung-shih Shih-huo-chih is mostly based on the Shih-huo-chih in the Sung-chao kuo-shih, such chapters as the fang-t’ien 方田 were newly added, and the description of the Sung-chao kuo-shih is sometimes corrected or illustrated by new facts. Moreover, for the period after Li-tsung 理宗 at the end of the Southern Sung (1225~1279), the Sung-shih Shih-huo-chih has a unique description because the corresponding part of the Sung-chao kuo-shih is lacking.The author then compares the text of the Sung-shih Shih-huo-chih with that of the above books for the purpose of restoring the original form of the Shih-huo-chih in the Sung-chao kuo-shih. The Hsü Tzŭ-chih t’ung-chien ch’ang-pien not only quotes the Sung-chao kuo-shih most extensively but also exhaustively corrects its errors of the latter. The Wên-hsien t’ung-k’ao also greatly depends upon the Sung-chao kuo-shih without indicating the source, while the Yü-hai, indicating the source, borrows some passages. The Shan-t’ang ch’ün-shu k’ao-so quotes the sections covering the reigns of Chê-tsung 哲宗 and Hui-tsung 徽宗in the Sung-chao kuo-shih which are not clearly recorded in the other books. The Huang-chao pien-nien kang-mu pei-yao quotes, mostly in its notes, the description from the Sung-chao kuo-shih without indicating the source.Thus the Shih-huo-chih in the Sung-chao kuo-shih remains in the form of various versions quoted in other works and from these the author endeavors to restore part of the text of the Shih-huo-chih in the Sung-chao kuo-shih.journal articl
The Treatise on the Yü T'ien 于闐 (Khotan) in the Ming Shih
Full text linkThe account of Khotan in the early Ming period, which occupies the latter part of the Treatise on Yü T’ien in the Ming Shih, was based, as has already been noticed by Dr. E. Bretschneider in his Mediaeval Researches, on the Shih Hsi Yü Chi 使西域記, or the Record of an Embassy to the Western Countries, which was written and presented to the court by Ch’ên Ch’eng 陳誠 on his return from his visit to Herat, Samarkand and fifteen other western countries, in the course of his first embassy to the west from 1414 to 1416. Scholars have long been aware that the Shih Hsi Yü Chi, which became known to the world on its inclusion in the Hsüeh Hai Lei Pien 學海類編, is not the text of the work as submitted by Ch’ên Ch’eng to the court but was taken from the Huang Ming Shih Lu 皇明實録, the Ming archives. However, when in 1944 the Peking Library bought the collection of Mr. Li of Tientsin, it was found that the collection included Ming manuscript copies of a Hsi Yü Hsing Ch’êng Chi 西域行程記, a Record of a Journey to the Western Countries and a Hsi Yü Fan Kuo Chih 西域番國志, an Account of the Foreign Countries of the West, by Ch’ên Ch’eng and Li Hsien 李暹. The latter is considered to be the text of the Shih Hsi Yü Chi, by Ch’ên Ch’'eng, which is included in the Hsüeh.Hai Lei Pien.When we reexamine the latter part of the Treatise on the Yü T’ien in the Ming Shih in the light of this Hsi Yü Fan Kuo Chih, it becomes clear that the account in the Ming Shih was not directly based on the Hsi Yü Fan Kuo Chih, but was taken at second hand from the Huang Ming Ssŭ I K’ao 皇明四夷考, the Study of Foreign Peoples in the Ming Period, by Cheng Hsiao鄭曉 (1499-1566). Moreover, when we compare the accounts given in the Huang Ming Ssŭ I K’ao and the Hsi Yü Fan Kuo Chih (the copy of this work in the Peking Library was once in the possession of Cheng Hsiao), considerations both of content and wording, make it clear that the entries, in the former, which purport to relate to Khotan, relate, in fact, to Bi Shi Ba Li 別失八里, i. e. Moghulistan, at the begining of the 14th century, and that Ch’ên Ch’eng never went to Khotan in the course of his first embassy to the west.journal articl
Cultivating the brand-customer relationship in Facebook fan pages
No full textPurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine the determinants of continuous brand-customer relationship via company-hosted social networking sites (SNSs). Factors that influence fans to continue using fast-fashion brands’ Facebook fan pages and to maintain the brand-customer relationship are discussed first. Subsequently, the predictors of fans’ engagement and affective commitment to a fast-fashion brand are examined with the aim to explore the key elements that nurture the brand-customer relationship via brands’ SNSs.Design/methodology/approachA quantitative research was conducted and the structural equation modelling was used to test the hypotheses on a sample of 202 fast-fashion Facebook fan page users in Taiwan.FindingsThe results demonstrate that engagement, affective commitment and continued intention to use are predominantly influenced by, in turn, social interaction tie, content value and affective commitment.Research limitations/implicationsThe study is limited because it investigated the fast-fashion fan page users in an Asian country, so the findings cannot be generalised to other contexts.Practical implicationsThe findings suggest that fan page managers’ initiation and involvement in conversations, frequent responses, listening to fans’ opinions and improving fans’ experiential value may facilitate them to engage in the brand’s activities at a higher level.Originality/valueThe findings of this integrated model suggest managerial guidelines for brand managers in this industry regarding how to maintain the brand-customer relationship through social media strategy and how they contribute to theory building in continuance intention of SNSs.</jats:sec
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THE "LIU-I SHIH-HUA" OF OU-YANG HSIU (CHINA).
No full textPoetry occupies an eminent position in the history of Chinese literature because almost all the traditional men of letters had experience in composing poems. However, it was not until the Sung Dynasty that the criticism of poetry became very popular; this was singled out by the appearance of a number of books called, shih-hua (icons omitted) (remarks on poetry). Since the Sung period on, shih-hua has received both praise and censure. Traditional critics tended to evaluate shih-hua from a practical viewpoint. For example, Wang Shih-han (icons omitted) criticised the content of shih-hua as trivial because it deviated from the subjects of filial piety, trust, and other Confucian merits. On the other hand, Kuo Shao-yu (icons omitted) proclaimed that shih-hua preserved a great deal of worthy materials for the study of poetry. Modern scholars tend to evaluate shih-hua from the aesthetic viewpoint. For instance, Yen Yuan-shu (icons omitted) describes shih-hua as "vague and obscure" and "lacking systematic discourse." Yet other scholars such as Yeh Wei-lien (icons omitted) claim that the shih-hua offers readers a chance to recapture the world of rich imagery in poetic composition. In order to make a more objective judgement between the above two extremely different evaluations of shih-hua, the following issues must first be resolved: the definition of shih-hua which is related to Ou-yang Hsiu's (icons omitted) Liu-i shih-hua (icons omitted) the first book titled shih-hua, what kind of poetic tradition the Liu-i shih-hua inherited, what kind of person its author was, under what kind of literary environment it was produced, what were the contents of the work, and what kind of influence it exerted on the development of the shih-hua genre. Then we may tentatively reach an answer: the practical criticism of poetry only covers one part of the content of shih-hua. To make a complete evaluation of a shih-hua book or the shih-hua genre itself, a critic must take all the issues above into consideration
[[alternative]]Connect and Dynamic Equation
No full text[[abstract]]The Content-Addressable Memory Problem is one of the most famous in neural nets. This problem is recently settled by Shih-Tsai. In this thesis, we introduce the notion of the connection and give a different approach to some of results obtained in Shih-Tsai. We shall show that the nets will govern the fixed points base, the transient length, and the behavior of the dynamic equation.
Supplemental Material - Factors impacting the demonstration of relational autonomy in medical decision-making: A meta-synthesis
No full textSupplemental Material for Factors impacting the demonstration of relational autonomy in medical decision-making: A meta-synthesis by Dung Le Thi, Shih-Chun Lin, Huang Mei-Chih, Sheng-Yu Fan, and Chi-Yin Kao in Nursing Ethics</p
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