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Yves-Heng Lim
No full textYves-Heng Lim est enseignant-chercheur au Département d’Etudes de Sécurité et de Criminologie de l’Université Macquarie, Sydney. Il est l’auteur de China’s Naval Power: An Offensive Realist Approach (Ashgate, 2014). Yves-Heng Lim is a lecturer at the Department of Security Studies and Criminology, Macquarie University. He is the author of China’s Naval Power: An Offensive Realist Approach (Ashgate, 2014)
Supplementary_Tables_1_and_2 - High-Frequency External Muscle Stimulation Reduces Depressive Symptoms in Older Male Veterans: A Pilot Study
No full textSupplementary_Tables_1_and_2 for High-Frequency External Muscle Stimulation Reduces Depressive Symptoms in Older Male Veterans: A Pilot Study by Mu-N Liu, Heng-Liang Yeh, Ai Seon Kuan, Shih-Jen Tsai, Ying-Jay Liou, Vincent Walsh and Chi-Ieong Lau in Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry and Neurology</p
Capital budgeting in investment and project appraisal / Wong Soon Heng
No full textThis article critically evaluates the relative attractions of the Net Present Value (NPV) method in capital budgeting. The author argues for the NPV method over the Internal Rate of Return (IRR) method. The implications of inflation for
investment appraisal are discussed in the later part of this article. The author opines that in capital budgeting, particularly for projects with a long life, the inflation factor cannot be ignored
A Human Settlement's Assessment with GIS on Niche Suitability in Heng Yang City of China
No full textIn order to assess the cities' human settlement, this paper proposes a new method according to the elements of niche suitability by the following: (1) the author selects meticulously 25 leading indicators what can reflect the best coupling between the reality niche and the best approximate niche; (2) the author sets up a new quantitative model of multiplies indices using niche suitability on assessing the cities' human settlements. By the way, the indices those the author uses to set up the model are form the economical, social and environmental niche respectively. The new method and the model are used to assessing the Heng Yang City of Hu Nan Province in China in order to take an example for its effect. With the help of the SuperMap-GIS software in his experiment, the author acquires a thematic map of Heng Yang Cities' human settlement, the results of this experiment display that this method and its model are very practicable for assessing a cities' inner human settlement. By the results of this paper, the author expresses his viewpoints for promotion the cities' human settlement that this paper does a research.</jats:p
“EMPER TERBUKA” PADA DESAIN RUMAH TOKO KELUARGA HO A HENG KARYA FRIEDRICH SILABAN
No full textAbstrak_ Pada periode akhir karirnya, Friedrich Silaban merancang Rumah Toko Keluarga Ho A Heng di daerah Suryakencana Bogor yang merupakan satu-satunya proyek huniannya untuk rumah toko tunggal. Tulisan ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis metode yang digunakan oleh Silaban dalam mendesain “emper terbuka” pada Rumah Toko Keluarga Ho A Heng dan membandingkannya dengan tipologi rumah toko Tionghoa. Dengan pendekatan historikal, penulis menganalisis komposisi tata ruang dan desain atap emper terbuka melalui dokumen arsip Silaban untuk proyek ini. Selanjutnya pendekatan komparatif digunakan untuk membandingkan desain rumah toko ini dengan tipologi rumah toko Tionghoa di Cina Selatan dan Bogor. Melalui desainnya Silaban memadukan pola tata ruang rumah toko nonlinier yang fungsional dan taman dalam sebagai pusat yang dikelilingi oleh emper terbuka dengan naungan atap berteritisan lebar dan elemen pembayangan. Emper terbuka dan taman tengah menjadi bagian dari metode desain Silaban sebagai solusi masalah iklim tropis lembab pada rumah toko modern.
Kata kunci : Friedrich Silaban; Emper Terbuka; Rumah Toko; Komposisi Tata Ruang; Desain
Abstract_ At the end of his career period, Friedrich Silaban designed a shophouse for the family of Ho A Heng at Suryakencana Bogor remarked as his only housing project for a single shophouse. This paper aims to analyze Silaban’s design method for creating the “open veranda” in the shophouse for Ho A Heng and compare it to the Chinese shophouse typology. Using a historical method, the author analyzed the open veranda’s spatial composition and roof design by examining Silaban’s archive documents for this project. Furthermore, the author used a comparative method to collate this shophouse design with Chinese shophouse typology in Southern China and Bogor. Through his design, Silaban integrated a functional non-linear spatial composition and a central courtyard was surrounded by the open veranda beneath wide roof eaves and shading elements. The open veranda and central courtyard become a part of Silaban’s design method to solve the problem of the hot-humid climate in modern shophouse design.
Keywords : Friedrich Silaban; Open Veranda; Shophouse; Spatial Composition; Desig
Heng ch'an so yen, Chinese Family Precepts
No full textHeng ch’an so yen is a collection of family precepts left to posterity by Chang Ying, 1638-1708, a scholar who served and was close to Emperor, K’ang-hsi. The text emphasizes the security of investment in land as compared to that in commerce and discusses the secret of making the former more profitable. The author came from one of the influential famines native to T’ung-ch’eng County, An-ch’ing Prefecture, Anhwei Province, and one of his sons, Chang T’ing-yü, 1672-1755, later became a powerful minister in the reigns of Yung-cheng and Ch’ien-lung.At the time of writing Heng ch’an so yen, it seems, Chang Ying was the owner of more than one-thousand mou of cultivated lands, and his income consisted mostly of the proceeds from the rice collected as rent from the lands and sold for cash. It is a safe guess that his yearly income from the lands, after deducting expenses necessary for reproduction and livelihood and tax duties, amounted to a sum in silver enough for purchasing more than one-hundred mou. Thus it was possible for him to expand steadily the lands he owned.In spite of such highly secure nature of the management of his lands, Chang Ying could not help warning his descendants in his precepts against the danger of their downfall through selling away the lands. It was because he had witnessed too many of such unfortunate examples, in which the sons of a landowner would fall into poverty caused by the thin profit margin on land management, or be ruined after selling away their land holdings and going into commercial activities seeking higher profit. Low profitability of investment in land was a frequent subject of discussion in Ch’ing Chinese literature. It is interesting to note that Chang Ying hardly considered it relevant to discuss the heavy tax burden and the anti-rent resistance by the tenants, two great problems in the Yangtzekiang Delta, but regarded the low profitability as mainly caused by the poor crop resulting from the landowner’s neglect of the land management and the lower price of grain in comparison to other commodities. Moreover, he felt that the two main causes of difficulty could be overcome if the landowner stopped living in town and returned to the countryside so that his lands would be put to optimum use to make him self-supporting in livelihood. Such a view of Chang Ying’s appears to reflect the economic situation at T’ung-ch’eng, where market economy had not yet penetrated the countryside at that time.journal articl
Le Sitishu shi de Wei Heng (252-291) - Première traité chinois de calligraphie
No full textWei Heng (252-291), the author of the first compilation of Chinese texts on the art of calligraphy, the Sitishu shi, The Art of the Four Styles of Calligraphy, was himself part of an important family in calligraphic history and in the Chinese aristocracy under the Western Jin dynasty. His father, Wei Guan, who was a famous calligrapher working closely with the imperial court, was the witness of important archaeological finds in the field of calligraphy that inspired his son to write this essay on the "beauty" (shi) of Chinese scripts as viewed by himself and his contemporaries. One generation later, a niece of Wei Heng, named Wei Shuo (272-349), also called Wei Furen, Lady Wei, was to become the calligraphy teacher of the most renowned artist in the field in the whole of Chinese history: Wang Xizhi (321-379 or 307-365).
As is suggested by the title of the text which is partially translated in this article (a full translation of the first chapter concerning ancient scripts guwen, is given here; the other three chapters are summarized and analyzed), it deals with four styles of writing and calligraphy: ancient scripts (guwen), seal scripts (zhuanshu), clerical script (lishu), and cursive script (caoshu). Each of the four "chapters" of the text is itself divided into two main sections; the first section is devoted to the historical background of the style and is followed by a critical commentary, a descriptive eulogy written in a colorful poetic language to describe its "beauty".
This article is an attempt to present the cultural and historical environment of Wei Heng and his circles and to explain why such a text which made its way into the official dynastic history (it can be found in the Jinshu, within the biography of the author's father) can be considered as a valuable foundation for all the calligraphy treatises that were written afterwards. I believe that with this organized presentation and description of the scripts, this text was also a major support and encouragement for the practice of the cursive cao which had been previously severely attacked by what is considered the earliest text on calligraphy, the famous Feicaoshu, Against the Cursive Script, by Zhao Yi of the latter Han dynasty.Kneib André. Le Sitishu shi de Wei Heng (252-291) - Première traité chinois de calligraphie. In: Cahiers d'Extrême-Asie, vol. 9, 1996. Mémorial Anna Seidel. Religions traditionnelles d'Asie orientale. Tome II. pp. 99-129
Aubusson et la renaissance de la tapisserie
No full textSoon after the 1939-45 War, the renaissance of French tapestry was celebrated as a major though sudden event. The author shows that it was prepared for long : the reform of technical principles, initiated during the 19th C, was completed before the war ; at the same period, a tendency in favour of a mural art of social purpose compelled recognition ; paradoxically, the support of the Vichy government to arts and crafts was going to give the material possibility of a sufficient production. Lurçat’s role was to take advantage of the occasion ; but the technique of the numbered cartoon, though it had obvious economic advantages, was bound to lead to a sclerosis and to the death of this «renaissance ».Heng Michèle. Aubusson et la renaissance de la tapisserie. In: Histoire de l'art, N°11, 1990. Varia. pp. 61-73
Seng Heng Bank: History and Acquisition by Industrial and Commercial Bank of China
No full textThis book examines the success story of Seng Heng Bank (SHB), the successful acquisition of SHB by Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC), and the continuing sound management and performance of ICBC (Macau). It shows how a loss-making small bank grew into one of the best banks in Macao and highlights the achievement, awards, and recognition of SHB. The authors detail the SHB acquisition process by ICBC, the biggest bank in the world in terms of total assets. They identify the main contributing factors for the success of SHB and draw conclusions and implications for bank managers in the region and beyond. This book will be of interest to finance professionals and business scholars. © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021
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