21 research outputs found
Study of Wang Tao’s (1828-1897) Manyou suilu and Fusang youji with reference to Late Qing Chinese foreign travels
No full textTraditionally, Chinese regarded China as the centre of the world, displaying little interest in foreign lands. Before the 1840s, although there were records of a few brave pilgrims traveling to huge distances, Chinese travel literature was dominated by essays and diaries written about the natural scenery of China. In the late Qing, a period of transformation during which Chinese society was challenged by the West and later Japan, Chinese intellectuals, realizing China’s weakness, traveled to these countries in search of remedies for the state. The resulted burgeoning travel literature contains not only firsthand information of the West and Japan at the time, but also details about individual responses to the foreign lands they visited. Despite the relatively small amount of research done on these writings, they are, indeed, the most significant archival materials for the study of the early perceptions of the Chinese of the West in the modern period.
Among these travelers, Wang Tao (1828-1897) is certainly worthy of discussion. Apart from being a reform pioneer, Wang Tao was also being pioneering to be the first intellectual to travel to Europe and Japan. His two travelogues, Manyou suilu and Fusang youji, however, have only been used as references in biographical research, neglecting the fact that they consist of not only unprecedented journeys of a Chinese intellectual, but also Wang’s constant evaluations of home politics, of which he carefully laid out in the form of travelogue. This dissertation aims to explore the two travelogues, and is particularly concerned of their relationship with the historic context, the author’s motives of writing and other foreign travel writings of the time. The two travelogues stand out both in subject maters and the subtle ways Wang (re)constructed Europe and Japan. They can be seen as a manifesto of Wang’s views on himself, China and the world. While many travelogues of the same period were written in a data or analysis-based style, Wang Tao embodied his observations abroad, his criticism and vision of the future China, his personalities, assumptions and expectations and the spirit of his time with a highly refined language in the two accounts, and had make them intriguing works of literature
An Individual’s Endeavour to Save Sino-Japanese Relations. A Discussion of Wang Tao’s (1828-1897) Travel to Japan based on his Travel Diary
No full textIn the spring of 1879, while the relations between Japan and China was deteriorated by a series of disputes in Korea, Taiwan and the Ryukyu Islands, Wang Tao 王韜 (1828-1897), a Chinese scholar, was invited by a group of prominent Japanese intellectuals, including Kurimoto Joun 栗本鋤雲 (1822-1897), Shigeno Yasutsugu 重野安繹 (1827-1910), Nakamura Masanao 中村正直 (1832-1890), and Oka Senjin 岡千仭 (1833-1914), to travel to Japan, exchanging ideas of reform and discussing the crises of Asian countries with increasing Western invasions. Wang Tao was warmly welcomed as an expert of both Chinese Classics and international affairs. Having the objectives of finding out more about the Meiji Japan and promoting friendship and strategic relations between the two countries, Wang and his hosts inevitably started a discussion on modernization, Westernization and future development of the two neighbouring countries. This was a significant intellectual exchange among Chinese and Japanese men of letters in modern history. During his visit, Wang recorded his journey in Fusang youji 扶桑遊記 (A Travel to Japan). Upon returning to China, Wang presented his diary to Kurimoto Joun and the book was published by Yūbin Hōchi, a leading news printing press in Japan.
Although there are research outlining Wang Tao’s travel to Japan, its significance, especially Wang’s vision of the future development of Sino-Japanese relation has not been fully analysed. His travel diary, an important source to reveal Wang’s thought, has only been seen as a record of travel itinerary and personal romance. In fact, his senses of history and knowledge in current affairs have reminded him the threat of an ambitious Japan. He, therefore, endeavoured to rebuild and maintain the link between the two countries from historic, cultural and strategic aspects during his journey. This paper aims to examine how Wang Tao conveyed his messages in inoffensive but effective ways in his travel diary.</jats:p
The Meaning of Riben in the Inscribed Epitaph of Korean General Mijun: The Keywords Fenggu, Pantao, Haizuo and Yingdong
No full textMuch scholarly attention has been focused of late on the question of whether the tenm "Riben 日本 inscribed on the grave of Paekche 百済 General Mijun 祢軍 refers to Japan's reigning dynasty at the time. Because many literary allusions and numerous obscure words are used in Mijun's epitaph: for example, such perplexing terms as Fenggu 風谷, Pantao 盤桃, Haizuo 海左, and Ying-dong 瀛東.The present article attempts to clarify the meaning of Riben in Mijun's epitaph by examining the meaning of above-mentioned four terms.
The author reaches the following conclusions.
1. Riben, Fenggu, Pantao, as well as Fusang 扶桑 are all used in Mijun's epitaph metaphorically to mean "the East."
2. Specifically, the term Fenggu, which is unrelated to Jibo 箕伯, the god of wind, is synonymous with Niaogu 鳥谷 and Fengqiu 風丘, and it refers to the kingdom of Koguryo 高句麗. Furthermore, Pantao is most probably a metaphorical reference to Paekche.
3. Haizuo and Yingdong cannot be alternative names for Wakoku 倭国, one name for ancient Japan, but rather refer to the Korean Peninsula. Therefore, it seems that Mijun's epitaph doesnot refer to his diplomatic mission to the kingdom of "Wakoku".
4. The statement, "Riben's survivors depended on Fusang to escape execution," possibly refers to the rebellion of Paekche survivors in solidarity with "Koguryo".
In order to promote further discussion of "Riben" used in Mijun's epitaph, What is needed to be done now is to improve understanding of "Wakoku" in Tang Dynasty and to investigate the activities of Mijun in East Asia.journal articl
Discovering Trip Patterns from Incomplete Passenger Trajectories for Inter-zonal Bus Line Planning
No full textPart 5: Data Processing and Big DataInternational audienceCollecting the trajectories occurring in the city and mining the patterns implied in the trajectories can support the ITS (Intelligent Transportation System) applications and foster the development of smart cities. For improving the operations of inter-zonal buses in the cities, we define a new trip pattern, i.e., frequent bus passenger trip patterns for bus lines (FBPT4BL patterns in short). We utilize the passenger trajectories from bus smart card data and propose a two-phase approach to mine FBPT4BL patterns and then recommend inter-zonal bus lines. We conduct extensive experiments on the real data from the Beijing Public Transport Group. By comparing the experimental results with the actual operation of inter-zonal buses at the Beijing Public Transport Group, we verify the validity of our proposed method
Mitigation of UWB Radar Self-Motion for mm-Scale Vibration Detection
No full textInternational audienceTo reliably detect a target's mm-scale vibration with a handheld ultra-wideband (UWB) radar system, it is essential to mitigate radar self-motion (RSM) caused by unavoidable hand shaking. In this paper, to further mitigate the effect of stationary objects surrounding the target in real deployment environment, a more practical RSM signal model is proposed. Affected by adjacent objects and RSM, traditional variance-based target positioning method becomes unreliable and the quality of target signal degrades severely as the target's position is often estimated inaccurately. To tackle this problem, an extended bin selection strategy is adopted by considering multiple range bins around the target and independent component analysis (ICA) is leveraged to separate target motion and RSM. Experiments are conducted to verify the proposed technique, and a mm-scale mechanical vibration is reliably detected from 0.5-2m away with the handheld UWB radar system, achieving a median frequency estimation error rate lower than 3.7% under different adjacent environments
a content-based publish/subscribe system for efficient event notification over vehicular ad hoc networks
No full textPub/Sub systems over VANETs can be employed to disseminate information in terms of events to vehicle users who desire the information. This paper describes the design, implementation, and evaluation of APUS, a content-based Pub/Sub system for VANETs. APUS can handle the subscriptions with complicated spatial-temporal constraints and forward the notifications to the specified areas so that vehicle users can pick up the notifications there. In regards to the implementation, APUS exploits RSUs (RoadSide Units) to relay messages and match subscriptions with events. Simulation experimental results show that APUS achieves high delivery ratios and stable low costs in event notification no matter how the traffic statistics such as vehicle density and vehicle speed change.Kyushu Sangyo Univ (KSU), IEEE, IEEE Comp Soc, IEEE Tech Comm Scalable Comp (TCSC), Informat Proc Soc Japan (IPSJ), Inst Elect, Informat & Commun Engineers (IEICE), FCVB, IPSJ Special Interest Grp Distributed Proc Syst (IPSJ SIG-DPS), IEICE Special Interest Grp Dependable Comp (IEICE SIG-DC), IPSJ Special Interest Grp Comp Secur (IPSJ SIG-CSEC), IPSJ Special Interest Grp Mobile Comp & Ubiquitous Commun (IPSJ SIG-MBL)Pub/Sub systems over VANETs can be employed to disseminate information in terms of events to vehicle users who desire the information. This paper describes the design, implementation, and evaluation of APUS, a content-based Pub/Sub system for VANETs. APUS can handle the subscriptions with complicated spatial-temporal constraints and forward the notifications to the specified areas so that vehicle users can pick up the notifications there. In regards to the implementation, APUS exploits RSUs (RoadSide Units) to relay messages and match subscriptions with events. Simulation experimental results show that APUS achieves high delivery ratios and stable low costs in event notification no matter how the traffic statistics such as vehicle density and vehicle speed change
Exploiting Trip Patterns in Passenger Trajectory Streams for Bus Scheduling Optimization in Real Time
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