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The politics of fashion: perceptions of power in female clothing and ornamentation as reflected in the sixteenth-century Chinese novel Jin Ping Mei
No full textThis thesis examines issues of female power and influence in sixteenth-century China focusing on how women and their roles were perceived in the changing social environment of the mid-late Ming dynasty. Using aspects of a New Historicist approach, information from contemporary literary and historical sources are analysed alongside each other. With its emphasis on the lives of women and preoccupation with the description of material objects, the late Ming novel Jin Ping Mei forms an important element in the thesis. China in the sixteenth century saw expanding urbanisation, the emergence of a new wealthy merchant class, increasing visibility of women and a questioning of traditional morality. Fashion consciousness, as one of the most conspicuous aspects of the new material culture, is a possible indicator of these trends. Traditional Western theories contend that fashion began in the particular context of Renaissance Europe. However, this study argues that a similar fashion awareness existed in China too, and was manifested in a competitive striving for social status, in this case specifically among women. In contrast to previous studies which downplayed the impact women had on defining traditional Chinese culture, this thesis demonstrates how women and their sartorial choices began to redefine the boundaries of material culture, influencing literati discourse which, in turn, re- influenced female behaviour
MATHEMATICS OF HUNG-PING TSAO II: BUSINESS MATHEMATICS
No full textTsao, Hung-ping (2023). Mathematics of Hung-Ping Tsao II: Business Mathematics.In: "Evolutionary Progress in Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics (STEAM)", Wang, Lawrence K. and Tsao, Hung-ping (editors). 5 (4), April ; 238 p. Lenox Institute Press, MA, USA ..... ABSTRACT: During my seventeen years (1985-2002) of teaching at College of Business, San Francisco State University, the tailor-made textbook “College Mathematics” for my classes has been out of print for over twenty years now. I would like to share its contents, except for problem sections, with readers who might benefit from quite a few innovative ideas in pedagogical perspectives. The purpose of this sequel of “MATHEMATICS OF HUNG-PING TSAO” (see the link h-tsao-2020-hcommons.org) is to share, retrospectively, with readers the stem of my teaching resources. I would especially like to refresh my Kung-fu analogy of those differentiation rules, new approach in solving optimization problems in calculus and the cross-multiplication method for solving linear programming problems. All in all, my doctoral dissertation “Some Extremal Problems in Ordered Structures” played an important role in my tortuous career, Part I and Part II of which were published more than ten years after their submissions to the Journal of Discrete Mathematics. I was mistreated by the Journal of Discrete Mathematics when Daniel J. Kleitman was the Chief Editor. To support my claim, I present in the end a rejection letter from Daniel J. Kleitman in 1975 with a referee’s comments, contrary to what the reviewer of Mathematical Review said about Part I of my doctoral dissertation. Partly because of my frustration, I pursued eight years of actuarial career, for which I have no remorse. As a matter of fact, I had benefited a lot from it. In “MATHEMATICS OF HUNG-PING TSAO” , I have included many tidbits in Actuarial Mathematics that I previously published in Transactions and ARCH of the Society of Actuaries
The Poetry of Ping-Pong
No full textIn this chapter, the author looks at the poetry of Ping-Pong, his favorite sport. According to Marty Reisman, the game of Ping-Pong died in Bombay, India, in 1952. Reisman, nicknamed “The Needle,” was favored to win the World Table Tennis Championship that day. The author says he has always loved Ping-Pong because you can get into a rhythm, hit the ball back and forth across the net for hours, with any racquet, and simply talk. Ping-Pong, like poetry, is a players' sport, not ideal for spectators. Bob Mankoff, the cartoon editor of The New Yorker, claims that there is palpable humor in the game. With Ping-Pong, the author insists that we are all capable of attuning ourselves to the hidden life of sports, a relationship that is about kinesthesia and embodiment.</p
The Hsiang-ping 鄕兵 at the Close of the Northern Dynasty
No full textThe fu-ping 府兵 or provincial guards created in the middle of the sixth century by Western Wei constitute a good material for studying the nature of the Sui and T'ang Dynasties. There are not a few studies on the origin of the fu-ping system. One of the theories is that the fu-ping system sprang up from the provincial guards or militia organized under the leadership of the gentry, i.e., hsiang-ping, and this theory has been causing controversy. The present author, who is inclined to support the hsiang-ping origin of the fu-ping system, discusses the structure of hsiang-ping bands in their historical development. In the critical period of the Northern Wei Dynasty the gentry of north China, who were facing a crisis as a social class, picked up strong people from among the fellow-provincials, and organized them into military organization. Consequently, the relations between the leader and the soldiers were rather free as compared with those in the older ping-hu 兵戸 (military household) system. The hsiang-ping were given certain official ranks according to their capabilities as prescribed by the Northen Wei Government, and this principle was also applied to the lowly who were under the rule of the gentry, leading to a change in a status-bound society where lineage predominated. The gentry who came largely from the clans of noble lineage conceded the increasing demand of the people for lifting social discrimination. This concession on the part of the genntry in turn, resulted in consolidating their own power and paved the way to the birth of the Sui and T'ang aristocracy
A Study on the English Translation of Fu Ping from the Perspective of Translator Behavior Criticism
No full textFu Ping is a Chinese novel written by Wang Anyi. It’s a story of the country girl named Fu Ping, who settled down in Shanghai and found her true self. Taking Fu Ping’s life as the perspective, the novel depicts a series of characters who have endured the hardships and yearned for the city life, thus painting a vivid picture of the mundane, delicate, and down-to-earth life of the lower class people in Shanghai. Using Translation Behavior Criticism as the tool, this paper analyses the translator behavior reflected in the English translation of Fu Ping. The translation maintains the Chinese culture of the source language and respects the writing style of the original. At the same time, it considers the readers of the target language, producing a translation which is in accordance with the poetics of the target language.The translation methods, translation strategies and translator behavior of Howard Goldblatt are described and presented on a whole by utilizing the theoretical framework of Zhou Lingshun’ s Translator Behavior Criticism
Du shi ou ping: san juan, bie juan. v.1
No full text[沈德潛選評].綫裝, 1函.框12.8x10.3公分, 8行15字, 小字雙行同. 黑口, 左右雙邊, 雙魚尾. 版心中鐫題名, 冊次, 葉次及小題, 下鐫"籀肆印行". 行間圈點及評語.題名據第二卷卷端 ; 版式據卷一第二葉首半葉.是書沈德潛敍, 目錄及凡例皆列於第四冊《別卷》 ; 《別卷》末有長洲潘承松記及"番禺桂阿石室寫雕,雙闕書市籀肆印行"見《香港中文大學圖書館中國古籍目錄》(2004, p. 375)Library's copy: 藏本不全, 缺第一冊第一葉.Xian zhuang, 1 han.Kuang 12.8 x 10.3 gong fen, 8 hang 15 zi, xiao zi shuang hang tong. Hei kou, zuo you shuang bian, shuang yu wei. Ban xin zhong juan ti ming, ce ci, ye ci ji xiao ti, xia juan "Zhou si yin xing". Hang jian quan dian ji ping yu.Ti ming ju di er juan juan duan ; ban shi ju juan yi di er ye shou ban ye.Shi shu Shen Deqian xu, mu lu ji fan li jie lie yu di si ce "bie juan" ; "bie juan" mo you chang zhou pan cheng song ji ji "Panyu Gui e shi shi xie diao, shuang que shu shi zhou si yin xing"Jian "Xianggang Zhong wen da xue tu shu guan Zhongguo gu ji mu lu" (2004, p. 375)[Shen Deqian xuan ping].Library's copy: cang ben bu quan, que di yi ce di yi ye
Ping-Pong-Pang Instrumentation Amplifier
No full textThis thesis describes the implementation of a Precision Instrumentation Amplifier using a Current Feedback Instrumentation Amplifier topology (CFIA). CFIAs are attractive for sensor readout, because of their high CMRR and their ability to interface with ground-referenced sensors. Several chopping and auto-zeroing techniques have been developed to reduce the offset and 1/f noise of such amplifiers to the ?V level. As a result, their dominant source of error is now gain error, which is limited by mismatch to at best 0.1%. This paper describes a CFIA that applies dynamic element matching (DEM) to achieve a gain error of less than 0.04%. Moreover, it presents the first silicon implementation of the ping-pong-pang (PPP) auto-zeroing scheme, which enables a 3.5× reduction in power consumption and 2.5× improvement in gain error as compared to state-of-the-art ping-pong auto-zeroed CFIAs.Electronic InstrumentationMicroelectronics & Computer EngineeringElectrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Scienc
The genus Conocephalus Thunberg (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Conocephalinae) in Hainan, China with description of one new species
No full textShi, Fu-Ming, Wang, Ping (2015): The genus Conocephalus Thunberg (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Conocephalinae) in Hainan, China with description of one new species. Zootaxa 3994 (1): 142-144, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3994.1.
Sediment Transport Characteristic of the Ping River Basin, Thailand
No full textAbstractThis study examined the river sediment transport characteristics of the Ping River basin, which is one of the major river basins in Thailand. River surveys of the Ping River were carried out nine times between 2011 and 2013. Survey data included river cross sections, flow velocities, suspended sediment concentration, and bed load transport in the river. Analyzes of these data indicated that suspended transport rates in the Ping River during normal flow conditions in 2012-2013 ranged between 107 and 9,562 metric tons/day (mt/d), but increased to 35,300 mt/d during high flooding conditions (Thailand's Great Flood of 2011). The rate of bed load transport was 1,401 mt/d during the Flood of 2011. However, the measured bed load in 2012-2013 varied between 0 and 482 mt/d. The bed-to-suspended load ratio in the Ping River fluctuated in the broad range of 0-2.0. Estimates of total sediment transport in the Ping River were made using some of the classic equations from the hydrologic literature. The results obtained from the different methods show that the Laursen-Copeland formula gives the best estimate of total sediment transport rate of the Ping River compared to other methods. Results from this study also reveal that the Bhumibol Dam, constructed in 1964, has had a significant effect on suspended sediment load reduction downstream of the dam
[[alternative]]Stories, Memories, and Identity－－A Cultural Study of Chia-Yi He-Ping Judo Dojo
No full text[[abstract]]Established in 1961, He-Ping Judo Dojo in Chia-Yi has been a place where outstanding Judo players practice and stay. It has also consecutively achieved seven years championship of the Taiwan Provincial Athletic Games. However, following the death of Mr. Chen Wu-in, who has run He-Ping Judo Dojo for thirty years, the Dojo has stumbled into its low tide. In recent years, pupils of He-Ping have endeavored to search for another place in Chia-Yi to relocate the training hall and to continue its Judo training and popularizing works. As a result, He-Ping Judo Dojo has gradually retained its prosperity.
Basic Judo trainings have always been difficult. However, keen in reviving the honor and achievements of He-Ping Judo Dojo, the pupils willingly undertook the mission of the trainings. This revealed that, in He-Ping Judo Dojo, ‘training’ is not merely a physical matter, but rather, it represents an embodiment of He-Ping’s past dreams and ideals.
There were ‘stories’ filling the spaces of He-Ping Judo Dojo. Some stories belonged to the space itself, and the others were told and spread by people. Nowadays, these stories are also a collective memory of the pupils. The collective memory of the pupils became a platform for identifying themselves and each others. By this, an ‘imagined community’ was formed in spite of the death of Mr. Chen and the disuse of the previous training hall. Collective memories enhance cohesion within the members of He-Ping Judo Dojo. Therefore, members bear in mind the task of preserving He-Ping’s tradition, and the great mission of the revival of its highest peak.
This essay adopted the method of interview to sort out the formation and operation of the culture of He-Ping Judo Dojo in its early days. It also applied the method of ethnography to examine how, after Mr. Chen has passed away, the members of He-Ping ‘recollect the past’ and form a shared memory by eulogizing the stories of the Dojo. Furthermore, the researcher scrutinizes how the ‘identity’, engendered by the collective memory, brings the members together and, at the same time, creates/represents the tradition of He-Ping Judo Dojo in the regenerated training hall. Rituals and ongoing storytelling in He-Ping Judo Dojo connect its new members with past memories. This allows the imagined community of He-Ping to last and exist as they wish.
Keywords: judo, He-Ping Judo Dojo, memory, identity, cultural studies
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