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A history of the porcelain industry in Jingdezhen
Full text linkThis study examines the history of the porcelain
industry in Jingdezhen from the Ming dynasty to the
present day, but with special emphasis on the Ming and
Qing periods. After a chronological survey of the
town's history from earliest times to 1949, various
aspects of the production and distribution of porcelain
are considered: the raw materials used and their
manufacture, transport and marketing, management and
labour,finance and overseas trade, and their significance
in the industry's development is assessed.
Among the problems that are examined throughout
the study and in the conclusion are the reasons for the
establishment of the industry in Jingdezhen in the first
place, its great progress during the Ming dynasty and
failure to modernise in the late nineteenth and early
twentieth centuries, and the connections between economic
development, state involvement and technological progres
Can tilt tests provide correct insight regarding frictional behavior of sliding rock block under seismic excitation?
No full textInterpretations on how the macroscopic mechanical behavior of sandstone affected by microscopic properties – revealed by bonded-particle model
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The Western Chin Poet Chang Hsieh
Full text linkChang Hsieh lived in the latter half of the third century, contemporary with the poets Lu Chi, P'an Yüeh and Tso Ssu. Outside of the ten "Miscellaneous Poems" and one "Historical Poem" contained in the Wen hsüan, however, nothing remains of his work except a few poems and fragments of a collection of rhymed pieces of various types originally in ten or more sections. Yet, within the general poetic fashion of the time which sought primarily for elegance and extravagance of expression, even these few works reveal characteristics of their own. Chang Hsieh's works excel in new modes of expression and fresh turns of phrase, particularly in his descriptions of landscapes. In addition they contain phrases which bear a striking resemblance to the works of T'ao Yüan-ming who lived some hundred years later. This resemblance does not end with a similarity of isolated phrases. Like T'ao Yüan-ming after him, Chang Hsieh was attempting to give a more direct expression to human thoughts and emotions which had heretofore been hampered by the bonds of formalism, and to achieve a simpler and more forceful expression of poetic spirit. Hence the mastery with which he employed the impromptu type of poem which, for lack of a more appropriate classification, is referred to as "Miscellaneous Poems" (tsa-shih). Thus although Chang Hsieh's works cannot compare in complexity of thought and expression with those of T'ao Yüan-ming, they may be counted as one of the sources of inspiration which T'ao Yüan-ming later drew upon
Human-Centric Knowledge Seeking Strategies In Organizational Context - A Stakeholder Perspective
No full textInvestigating the applicability of the hierarchical relationship between brand image perceptions and urchasing behavior
No full textThe algebraic functional equation of Selmer groups for CM fields
No full textAbstractBecause the analytic functional equation holds for Katz p-adic L-function for CM fields, the algebraic functional equation of the Selmer groups for CM fields is expected to hold. In this note we prove it following the specialization principle developed by T. Ochiai (2005) in [Och05]
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