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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
Ming Tu Collection
No full textThis collection is a result of a funded grant awarded to Dr. Ming Tu. Her research centers on infant and toddler music behaviors and their interactivity with the iPad; music and autism; and the early impact on general intelligence and linguistic skills. The music is created with the use of percussion instruments the children make that imitate the sounds of animals
High Corruption Income in Ming and Qing China
No full textWe develop an economic model that explains historical data on government corruption in Ming and Qing China. In our model, officials extensive powers result in corrupt income matching lands share in output. We estimate corrupt income to be between 14 to 22 times official income resulting in about 22% of agricultural output accruing to 0.4% of the population. The results suggest that eliminating corruption through salary reform was possible in early Ming but impossible by mid-Qing rule. Land reform may also be ineffective because officials could extract the same rents regardless of ownership. High officials incomes and the resulting inequality may have also created distortions and barriers to change that could have contributed to Chinas stagnation over the five centuries 1400-1900s.Corruption, China
K'un-ming (Yünnanfu)
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The IEEE symposium on Computers and Communications
No full textISCC 2010 General Chairs: A. Corradi; M. Daneshmad - Technical Program Co-Chairs: P. Bellavista; Chi-Ming Chen; H. Hossanein. Proceedings of the 15th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications 2010, Riccione, Italy, June 22-25, 2010
Swearing in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties
No full textAbstract
Swearing is a verbal act in which the main language structure is composed of multiple swear words. The reasons for
studying swearing include the need to know what lexical items might be used for swearing. For this reason, it is critical to
determine the pragmatic principles and cultural beliefs which underlie curse words. This paper constructs a thesaurus of the
swearing vocabulary used in the late-Yuan and early-Ming dynasty novel, Shuǐhǔ zhuàn (水浒传). It analyzes the pragmatic principles and cultural beliefs
surrounding swearing during those dynasties by means of exhaustive measurement, offering a better understanding of those
pragmatics and beliefs and showing how Chinese people swore or used abusive language at that time. This paper indicates that those
Yuan and Ming pragmatic principles and cultural beliefs also underlie the ways in which modern Chinese people swear.</jats:p
Special issue: Process safety in times of a pandemic
No full textGreen Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Safety and Security Scienc
A history of the porcelain industry in Jingdezhen
No full textThis 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
The Ming world /
No full text"The Ming World draws together scholars from all over the world to bring China's Ming Dynasty (1368-1662) to life, exploring recent scholarly trends and academic debates that highlight the dynamism of the Ming and its key place in the early modern world""The Ming World draws together scholars from all over the world to bring China's Ming Dynasty (1368-1662) to life, exploring recent scholarly trends and academic debates that highlight the dynamism of the Ming and its key place in the early modern world
A novel design for an RF MEMS resistive switch on PCB substrate
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