3 research outputs found
Database of Hokkien Dictionaries and Textbooks
No full text<p>Hokkien (a.k.a. Minnan 閩南話, Southern Min, Taiwanese) is a variety of Chinese spoken in the southern part of Fujian province (China), Taiwan and by a large number of overseas Chinese all over Southeast Asia. Hokkien dictionaries and textbooks have been published since the 16th century in a number of locations and in a variety of languages (Classical Chinese, Dutch, English, Hokkien, Japanese, Latin, Mandarin, Spanish) for purposes such as education for locals, Christian missionary work and colonial administration.</p>
<p>In this post I would like to share a database project I created for the "Working with Digital Data for Historians" class taught by Prof. Tara Andrews at Uni Vienna in the autumn semester of 2018/19. The project work is based on my 3-years MA studies at Xiamen University (Fujian prov., China) and is connected to an article of mine (<em>Xiamen at the Crossroads of Sino-Foreign Interaction During the Late Qing and Republican Periods: The Issue of Hokkien Phoneticization) </em>already peer-reviewed and accepted for publication in the journal <em>Crossroads - Studies on the History of Exchange Relations in the East Asian World</em>. The database is an Excel spreadsheet-based SQL database containing 121 titles of Hokkien linguistic works, connected to relevant information (author, place/date of publishing, publisher, language, transcription method, etc.).</p>
<p>Hereby, I submit the dump version of the database (a .sql file containing the SQL scheme and the data as well) and a zip collection containing further relevant materials (project description, original spreadsheets, SQL command scheme, .ipynb documentation of converting the Excel spreadsheets into the SQL database using Jupyter Notebook).</p>
<p>Since during my research work I focused on the pre-WWII period, data regarding the post-WWII is highly insufficient. Therefore, the database is up for further expansion. (My e-mail address: [email protected])</p>
Interpretations and evaluations of China's imperial tradition in recent global historiography
No full textDie vorliegende Thesis untersucht den aktuellen akademischen Diskurs in Festlandchina über das sinozentrische Tributsystem Asiens in der Frühen Neuzeit (Ming-Qing-Dynastien, 1368-1912 u. Z.). Die Dissertation basiert auf dem Diskurs-Historischen Ansatz (DHA) der Kritischen Diskursanalyse (CDA) und konzentriert sich auf die Identifizierung von Ideologie, Macht, Intertextualität und Interdiskursivität im Diskurs. Die Arbeit versucht den Diskurs über das Tributsystem im weiteren festlandchinesischen Diskurs über Globalgeschichte zu positionieren. Die Thesis argumentiert, dass der Diskurs über das Tributsystem maßgeblich von der modernen Tradition beeinflusst wird, den Nationalstaat als primäre Einheit der welt-/globalgeschichtlichen Analyse zu betrachten. Darüber hinaus zeichnet es sich durch Eurozentrismus auf der Ebene teleologischer Ansätze und konzeptioneller Rahmenbedingungen, Sinozentrismus auf der Ebene der Narrativen aus und basiert in erster Linie auf vergleichenden Bewertungen des sinozentrischen Tributsystems gegenüber den eurozentrischen westfälischen und kolonialen Ordnungen. In der Thesis wird auch argumentiert, dass gleichzeitig aufgrund der sich ändernden regionalen und globalen Machtverhältnisse und Chinas Selbstwahrnehmung als wieder aufkommende Weltmacht, der Diskurs zunehmend auch die Einschätzung des Tributsystems als potenziell referentiell wertvoll für die Konstruktion der gegenwärtigen und zukünftigen regionalen Ordnung betrifft und dreht zunehmend über den vermeintlichen Pazifismus und Stabilität des Systems während der frühen Neuzeit.The present thesis investigates the current mainland Chinese academic discourse on the early modern (Ming-Qing dynasties, 1368-1912 CE) Sinocentric tributary system of Asia. The thesis is based on the Discourse-Historical Approach (DHA) of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and focuses on the identification of ‘ideology’, ‘power’, ‘intertextuality’ and ‘interdiscursivity’ in the discourse, situating it in the broader mainland Chinese discourse on global history. The thesis argues that the discourse on the tributary system is still considerably influenced by the modern-era tradition of seeing the nation-state as the primary unit of world/global historical analysis. Furthermore, it is characterized by Eurocentrism at the level of teleological approaches and conceptual frameworks, Sinocentrism at the level of narratives and is primarily based on comparative evaluations of the Sinocentric tributary system vis-à-vis the Eurocentric Westphalian and colonial orders. The thesis also argues that at the same time due to changing regional and global power relations and China’s self-perception as a reemerging global power, the discourse also increasingly concerns the evaluation of the tributary order as potentially having referential value for the construction of the present and future Sinocentric regional order, increasingly revolving around its supposed pacifism and stability in the early modern period
Combination of terminal sliding mode and finite-time state-dependent Riccati equation: Flapping-wing flying robot control
No full textA novel terminal sliding mode control is introduced to control a class of nonlinear uncertain systems in finite time. Having command on the definition of the final time as an input control parameter is the goal of this work. Terminal sliding mode control is naturally a finite-time controller though the time cannot be set as input, and the convergence time is not exactly known to the user before execution of the control loop. The sliding surface of the introduced controller is equipped with a finite-time gain that finishes the control task in the desired predefined time. The gain is found by partitioning the state-dependent differential Riccati equation gain, then arranging the sub-blocks in a symmetric positive-definite structure. The state-dependent differential Riccati equation is a nonlinear optimal controller with a final boundary condition that penalizes the states at the final time. This guides the states to the desired condition by imposing extra force on the input control law. Here the gain is removed from standard state-dependent differential Riccati equation control law (partitioned and made symmetric positive-definite) and inserted into the nonlinear sliding surface to present a novel finite-time terminal sliding mode control. The stability of the proposed terminal sliding mode control is guaranteed by the definition of the adaptive gain of terminal sliding mode control, which is limited by the Lyapunov stability condition. The proposed approach was validated and compared with state-dependent differential Riccati equation and conventional terminal sliding mode control as independent controllers, applied on a van der Pol oscillator. The capability of the proposed approach of controlling complex systems was checked by simulating a flapping-wing flying robot. The flapping-wing flying robot possesses a highly nonlinear model with uncertainty and disturbance caused by flapping. The flight assumptions also limit the input law significantly. The proposed terminal sliding mode control successfully controlled the illustrative example and flapping-wing flying robot model and has been compared with state-dependent differential Riccati equation and conventional terminal sliding mode control.The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This work is supported by the European Research Council as part of GRIFFIN ERC advanced Grant 2017, Action 788247, and by the European Commission H2020 Program AERIAL-CORE, contract no. 871479. Partial funding received by the Plan Andaluz de Investigacion, Desarrollo e Innovacion (PAIDI) 2020 through the Project HOMing Pigeon bOT (HOMPOT) under Grant PY20_00597
