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Wang Meng and contemporary Chinese literature: the vicissitudes of a committed writer
No full textThis thesis examines the way Wang Meng has developed as a writer from the 1950s to the 1990s in the context of New China's political and literary background. It looks at the compromises he was forced to make between his political beliefs in the Communist Party and his chosen role as a professional writer. After his disastrous early foray into what was deemed to be unacceptable political criticism with The Young Newcomer in the Organisation Department in the 1950s, when the opportunity came to start publishing again in the late 1970s he was boldly innovative in style, helping to transform New Period literature, but conservative in content, sticking to politically acceptable topics. It was only with Hard Porridge in 1989 that he ventured again, and very successfully, into political comment. There is no outstanding leading writer in contemporary China, but Wang Meng is a leading contender for the title
Migrant workers, collaborative research and spatial pressures : an interview with Meng Yue
No full textIn July last year I had the opportunity to interview Meng Yue, literary scholar and author of Shanghai and the Edges of Empire (2006). Meng Yue has been collaborating with Toronto-based architect and artist Adrian Blackwell for a number of years, with their students from literature and architecture undertaking highly interesting research on the peripheral zones of Beijing. Questions of peri-urban food production, land use, resource distribution and the multiplication of labour skills have framed these investigations. The interview below is extracted from a considerably longer discussion we had in Beijing during the late summer of 2007, half of which was lost to the faulty battery of an ipod (the rest remains to be transcribed from video…)
Correction to: Visible lattice points along curves
No full textThe article “Visible lattice points along curves”, written by Kui Liu and Xianchang Meng, was originally published electronically on the publisher’s internet portal on 27 July 2020 without open access. With the author(s)’ decision to opt for Open Choice the copyright of the article changed on 9 July 2021 to © The Author(s) 2020 and the article is forthwith distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Sequels to honglou meng : how gu taiqing continues the story in honglou meng ying
No full textAfter Honglou meng (1791) was published, a number of sequels appeared that redefined its major characters, rewrote its ending, and continued the story of life within the two Jia households. One of these was Honglou meng ying (1877), by female poet, Gu Taiqing. Despite its status as the earliest extant novel written by a woman, few studies have been devoted to examining it. Building on research that Ellen Widmer has provided on Gu Taiqing and her work, including Honglou meng ying, I will explore the novel further in terms of its relationship to the parent work and to other sequels written by men, and also examine it on its own terms as a literary work. Some of the main questions that I will address include: how does it compare to other sequels to Honglou meng? How does Gu Taiqing’s continuation of Honglou meng depart from the parent novel? I have organized my discussion by providing an introduction to Gu Taiqing, whilst providing contextual information about women’s education, their relationship to fiction, and the impact of Honglou meng. Chapter One will deal with the broad issue of sequels in the Chinese context, the popularity of writing sequels during the Ming and Qing dynasties, and conclude with some observations about Honglou meng sequels in particular. The second chapter will deal exclusively with Gu Taiqing’s Honglou meng ying, evaluating it in terms of how the author continues the parent work, how she refashions its characters and themes, and how her sequel reflects her own unique concerns (which may not have been part of the original parent work). Finally, I will conclude with some remarks about Honglou meng ying in terms of its relation to sequel writing in late imperial China and its contribution to our understanding of women’s reading and writing in the final years of the Qing dynasty.Arts, Faculty ofAsian Studies, Department ofGraduat
Neimengomys MENG & NI & LI & BEARD & GEBO & WANG & WANG 2007, new genus
No full textNeimengomys, new genus TYPE SPECIES: Neimengomys qii, new species ETYMOLOGY: Nei-Meng is Chinese (in pinyin) for ‘‘Inner Mongolia’’; mys is Greek for ‘‘mouse’’, in analogy with Alagomys and Tribosphenomys. DIAGNOSIS: Differs from Alagomys but resembles Tribosphenomys in having a buccal shelf and a hypocone on upper molars, a more transverse M3 with conical cusps, and a narrower talonid basin. Differs from Tribosphenomys in having a P4 with a weak buccal shelf, a more inflated protocone on upper molars, a more inflated and buccally positioned hypocone, and a smaller hypoconulid on lower molars.Published as part of MENG, JIN, NI, XIJUN, LI, CHUANKUI, BEARD, K. CHRISTOPHER, GEBO, DANIEL L., WANG, YUANQING & WANG, HONGJIANG, 2007, New Material Of Alagomyidae (Mammalia, Glires) From The Late Paleocene Subeng Locality, Inner Mongolia, pp. 1-32 in American Museum Novitates 3597 (1) on page 15, DOI: 10.1206/0003-0082(2007)3597[1:NMOAMG]2.0.CO;2, http://zenodo.org/record/473536
Evidencing the "robot phase transition" in experimental human-algorithmic markets
No full textJohnson, Zhao, Hunsader, Meng, Ravindar, Carran, and Tivnan (2012) recently suggested the existence of a phase transition in the dynamics of financial markets in which there is free interaction between human traders and algorithmic trading systems ("robots"). Above a particular time-threshold, humans and robots trade with one another; below the threshold all transactions are robot-to-robot. We refer to this abrupt system transition as the "robot phase transition". Here, we conduct controlled experiments where human traders interact with 'robot' trading agents in minimal models of electronic financial markets to see if correlates of the two regimes suggested by Johnson et al. (2012) occur in such laboratory conditions. Our results indicate that when trading robots act on a super-human timescale, the market starts to fragment, with statistically lower human-robot interactions than we would expect from a fully mixed market. We tentatively conclude that this is the first empirical evidence for the robot phase transition occurring under controlled experimental conditions
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“Meng” - Live Coding in Virtual Reality
No full textWe discuss live coding inside of a virtual reality environment using specialized virtual reality equipment. While prior research on live coding has primarily focused on using keyboard and mouse input, we argue this is not appropriate for virtual reality environments, where users cannot see a physical keyboard. We have created a new environment, named “Meng”, that focuses on embodied gestures, voice recognition, and in-world graphic user interfaces to enable users to program in a more embodied style while immersed in the virtual world they are creating. We conducted a user study to evaluate our environment; however, due to COVID-19 restrictions participants used an alternative version of our software meant for use with typical desktop computers. Participants indicated that Meng is a live coding system that has immersive visual effects, and that most readily adapted to using the new input mechanisms we placed in the environment. We released Meng—and two associated plugins for voice input and rendering ray marchers—as open-source plugins for Unreal Engine 4
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“Meng” - Live Coding in Virtual Reality
No full textWe discuss live coding inside of a virtual reality environment using specialized virtual reality equipment. While prior research on live coding has primarily focused on using keyboard and mouse input, we argue this is not appropriate for virtual reality environments, where users cannot see a physical keyboard. We have created a new environment, named “Meng”, that focuses on embodied gestures, voice recognition, and in-world graphic user interfaces to enable users to program in a more embodied style while immersed in the virtual world they are creating. We conducted a user study to evaluate our environment; however, due to COVID-19 restrictions participants used an alternative version of our software meant for use with typical desktop computers. Participants indicated that Meng is a live coding system that has immersive visual effects, and that most readily adapted to using the new input mechanisms we placed in the environment. We released Meng—and two associated plugins for voice input and rendering ray marchers—as open-source plugins for Unreal Engine 4
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“Meng” - Live Coding in Virtual Reality
No full textWe discuss live coding inside of a virtual reality environment using specialized virtual reality equipment. While prior research on live coding has primarily focused on using keyboard and mouse input, we argue this is not appropriate for virtual reality environments, where users cannot see a physical keyboard. We have created a new environment, named “Meng”, that focuses on embodied gestures, voice recognition, and in-world graphic user interfaces to enable users to program in a more embodied style while immersed in the virtual world they are creating. We conducted a user study to evaluate our environment; however, due to COVID-19 restrictions participants used an alternative version of our software meant for use with typical desktop computers. Participants indicated that Meng is a live coding system that has immersive visual effects, and that most readily adapted to using the new input mechanisms we placed in the environment. We released Meng—and two associated plugins for voice input and rendering ray marchers—as open-source plugins for Unreal Engine 4
On Meng Sen's teaching and lecture notes of Ming and Qing history at Peking University during the 1930s
No full textWhile teaching the histories of the Ming and Qing dynasties, Meng Sen (1869-1937), developed three textbooks in the 1930s: Lecture Notes on the Ming History (.... Mingshi jiangyi), Lecture Notes on the Qing History (.... Qingshi jiangyi), and Lecture Notes on the History of the Founding of the Manchu State (....... Manzhou kaiguo shi jiangyi). In these book titles, the term " history" refers specifically to "standard history."In tracing Meng Sen's original intention in producing these textbooks, all three works suggest the author's desire to write history. He wrote Lecture Notes on the Ming History to prepare a future revision of the History of the Ming (.. Mingshi); similarly he wrote Lecture Notes on the Qing History and Lecture Notes on the History of the Founding of the Manchu State with the intention to revise the Draft History of the Qing (... Qingshi gao). Meng Sen summarized Sima Guang's (..., 1019-86) view of history as " imitating the good and avoiding the bad," which he believed represented the "essential meaning of history." Meng followed Sima Guang's model in compiling the Lecture Notes on the Ming History and Lecture Notes on the Qing History, as shown in their style and format. By comparison, his writing of the Lecture Notes on the History of the Founding of the Manchu State attempted to merge the traditional annals-biographic style with narrative history from the West, or to pour old wine into a new bottle. Meng Sen presented his innovative efforts at Peking University, introducing young scholars to standards for history writing, and doing his utmost to guide and encourage his students; some of whom became noted scholars in the study of Ming and Qing histories.A&HCIARTICLE2119-1545
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