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Wang Shuo and the commercialisation of contemporary Chinese culture
No full textThis thesis examines the commercialisation of Chinese culture that has taken place over the past twenty years in mainland China. It explores the contribution of Wang Shuo, a cultural figure who straddles different fields of culture, moving from literature to the ultimate mass culture medium of television, this study plots Wang Shuo' s development from educational failure, to business failure, to fiction writer, film & TV editor, film director and cultural critic and analyst. His stories, films, TV series and articles have caused shock-waves throughout national cultural circles as he has transformed the terms of the debate from academic discourse to a validation of the role of the market in the culture field. Although Wang Shuo has not been labelled as a dissident, his approach to the culture market has had a more subversive effect on official ideology that those overt dissidents who have had to live in exile or have been imprisoned. He has utilised the language of official ideology to satirise the authorities, turning the ideology and its supporters into figures of fun. Yet his own goals have been strictly personal and economic ones. The authorities recognize the value of Wang Shuo's work in the cultural market but at the same time distrust his works and place him under strict censorship. Examining the way Wang Shuo and people surround him have succeeded in different fields of cultural achievement is a mirror to understanding the process of the transformation of contemporary Chinese culture from a socialist state-controlled culture to a market-oriented mass culture industry
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
Tigridiopalma longmenensis H. F. Wang, H. L. Cao & H. G. Ye 2021, sp. nov.
No full text<i>Tigridiopalma longmenensis</i> H.F. Wang, H.L. Cao & H.G. Ye, <i>sp. nov.</i> (Fig. 4) <p> <b>Type:</b> — CHINA. Guangdong Province: Huizhou City, Longmen County, 23°39′ N, 114°3′ E, 150 m, 12 September 2020, <i>H. F. Wang, H. L. Cao & H. G. Ye 20200912001</i> (holotype, IBSC, barcode number 0858304; isotypes, IBSC, barcode numbers 0858305 & 0858306).</p> <p> <b>Diagnosis:</b> — <i>Tigridiopalma longmenensis</i> is similar to <i>T. magnifica</i> in the herbaceous habit, the 5-merous flowers, dimorphic and unequal stamens, short stamens with the decurrent connective of anthers forming a short spur, and funnelform shaped capsules. However, the former differs from the latter by the inflorescences being polychasia (vs. scorpioid cymes), hypanthia with carinas on angles (vs. winged on angles), and the longer (antesepalous) stamens with a conspicuously white or pink spur (vs. without spurs) at the connective bases of anthers (Table 2, Fig. 2).</p> <p>Perennial herbs. Rhizomes usually woody. Stems erect, short, sparsely pubescent, 1–1.5 mm long. Leaves basal, with soft hairs when young, yellow puberulent when old; petiole terete, 4.4–18.4 cm long, succulent, sparsely pubescent, sulcate when old; blades membranous, narrowly cordate to ovate, 20.8–51.8× 13.6–44.9 cm, margin ciliate and irregular abruptly denticulate, adaxially glabrous, abaxially densely furfuraceous, purplish red, puberulous on veins, secondary veins 2–3 pairs, tertiary veins parallel. Inflorescences axillary, polychasium consisting of 2–5 scorpioid cymes; peduncle 9.4–32.7 cm long, sometimes furfuraceous at base, ribbed when dry; bracts 0.8–8.7× 0.5–4.3 cm, persistent. Pedicel 0.9–1.9 mm long, with carinas on angles, 0.2–0.5 mm wide, sometimes furfuraceous. Hypanthium funnelform to cup-shaped, 5-sided, apex truncate, carina 0.2–0.5 mm wide on angle. Calyx lobes 5, triangular to semiorbicular, 0.3–0.5 mm long. Petals 5, 1.1–1.6× 0.8–0.9 cm, adaxially dark red, abaxially with white lines, broadly obovate, almost rhomboid, apex truncate, oblique, and apiculate. Stamens 10, dimorphic and unequal; longer stamens 5, antesepalous, filaments 1.6–1.9 cm long, anthers 0.8–1.2 cm long, connective decurrent, forming a conspicuous spur abaxially, white or pink, ca. 1 mm long, and two ventral tubercles, yellow, ca. 1 mm long; smaller stamens 5, antepetalous, filaments 1.1–1.4 cm long, anthers 0.5–0.8 cm long, connective decurrent, forming a spur abaxially, ca. 1 mm long and two ventral tubercles, yellow, ca. 1 mm long. Ovary ovoid, 5-celled, apex with membranous crown; crown 5-lobed, with irregularly denticulate margin; style 0.9–1.2 cm long, magenta, terete, slightly curved. Capsule dehiscing into 5 valves from the apex, valves ca. 2–3 mm long, with irregularly denticulate margin. Hypanthium partially covering the capsule, funnel-shaped, 6.5–7.5× 9.1–10.2 mm, 5-sided, angles carinated. Seed numerous, brown, cuneate, 0.6–0.8× 0.3–0.5 mm.</p> <p> <b>Etymology:</b> —The specific epithet is derived from the type locality, Longmen County of Guangdong Province, China.</p> <p> <b>Geographical distribution and habitat:</b> — <i>Tigridiopalma longmenensis</i> is only known from Longmen County, Huizhou City, Guangdong Province, China (Fig. 1). It often occurs on the rock crevices near streamside in forests at low elevations of 93–175 m.</p> <p> <b>IUCN conservation assessment:</b> —One population with more than 2500 individuals has been found in Longmen. There is no any significant or plausible threat to the habitat and the plant up to now. It is therefore evaluated as Endangered (EN B1a) according to IUCN Red List Criteria (IUCN 2019).</p> <p> <b>Phenology:</b> —Flowering from August to October; fruiting from October to November.</p> <p> <b>Additional specimens examined (paratypes):</b> — CHINA. Guangdong Province: Huizhou city, Longmen County, Youtian Forest Farm, 23°38′ N, 114°2′ E, elev. 115 m, 20 August 2020, <i>H. F</i> <i>. Wang & H. F.</i> <i>Zhu 20200820001</i> (IBSC); ibid., 24 October 2020, <i>H. F</i> <i>. Wang & Z. H.</i> <i>Wu 20201024007</i> (IBSC); ibid., 23°39′ N, 114°3′ E, elev. 151 m, 26 November 2020, <i>H. F</i> <i>. Wang, H. Dong & W. G.</i> <i>Zhu 20201126001</i> (IBSC).</p>Published as part of <i>Wang, Hui-Feng, Wang, Zheng-Feng, Qin, Qiao-Mei, Cao, Hong-Lin & Guo, Xiao-Ming, 2021, Tigridiopalma longmenensis (Melastomataceae), a new species from Guangdong, China, pp. 241-247 in Phytotaxa 500 (3)</i> on pages 244-246, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.500.3.8, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/5424632">http://zenodo.org/record/5424632</a>
Letter from A. F. Potter to John H. Page
No full textLetter from A. F. Potter to John H. Page referring his request to build a railway to the District Forester at Albuquerque, New Mexico
Total synthesis of the fumiquinazoline alkaloids: Solid-phase studies
No full textWe have previously described an efficient four-step synthesis of the fumiquinazoline alkaloids (Wang, H.; Ganesan, A. J. Org. Chem. 1998, 63, 2432-2433). Here, we demonstrate that this route is readily adaptable to combinatorial synthesis on solid phase. Linear tripeptides containing a central anthranilate unit were assembled on the Wang resin and subjected to dehydration and cyclative release to yield the pyrazino[2,1-b]quinazoline-3,6-diones in high purity. To demonstrate the scope of this protocol, a small library [ca. 20 compounds] of unnatural analogues was prepared by parallel synthesis
REDESCRIPTION AND SYSTEMATIC STATUS OF NEOCAPILLARIA PHOXINI YU ET WANG, 1994 (NEMATODA: CAPILLARIIDAE)
No full textRe-examination of the syntypes of the capillariid nematode Neocapillaria phoxini Yu et Wang, 1994, the type species of Neocapillaria Yu et Wang, 1994, described from the intestine of the freshwater fish Phoxinus lagowskii variegatus Gunther (Cyprinidae) from China, confirmed its morphological similarity with species of Freitascapillaria Moravec, 1987, to which it is transferred as Freitascapillaria phoxini (Yu et Wang, 1994) comb. n. Consequently, Neocapillaria Yu et Wang, 1994 (a homonym to Neocapillaria Moravec, 1987) and Sinocapillaria Moravec et Spratt, 1998 become junior synonyms of Freitascapillaria. Skrjabinocapillaria gigantea is transferred to Freitascapillaria as F. gigantea (Wang, 1984) comb. n.Re-examination of the syntypes of the capillariid nematode Neocapillaria phoxini Yu et Wang, 1994, the type species of Neocapillaria Yu et Wang, 1994, described from the intestine of the freshwater fish Phoxinus lagowskii variegatus Gunther (Cyprinidae) from China, confirmed its morphological similarity with species of Freitascapillaria Moravec, 1987, to which it is transferred as Freitascapillaria phoxini (Yu et Wang, 1994) comb. n. Consequently, Neocapillaria Yu et Wang, 1994 (a homonym to Neocapillaria Moravec, 1987) and Sinocapillaria Moravec et Spratt, 1998 become junior synonyms of Freitascapillaria. Skrjabinocapillaria gigantea is transferred to Freitascapillaria as F. gigantea (Wang, 1984) comb. n
Polly H. Carder Collection on George F. Root
No full textGeorge Frederick Root (1820-1895) was an American songwriter and music educator. He is perhaps best known for his song "The Battle Cry of Freedom," which was written and rose to popularity during the U.S. Civil War. The Polly H. Carder Collection on George F. Root contains original published scores and songbooks from the period 1852-1907 and photocopied scores collected by Polly H. Carder, author of the book George F. Root, Civil War Songwriter: A Biography. The collection also contains a short article, "The Last Days of George F. Root," written by Root's daughter, Clara Louise Burnham
Non-fragile H infinity control for switched stochastic delay systems with application to water quality process
No full textArticle first published online: 14 JAN 2013
Link to a related website: https://re.public.polimi.it/bitstream/11311/1028692/2/Non-fragile%20H%20control%20for%20switched%20stochastic%20delay%20systems_11311-1028692_Wang.pdf, Open Access via UnpaywallIn this paper, the problem of non-fragile observer-based H ∞ control for discrete-time switched delay systems is investigated. Both data missing and time delays are taken into account in the links from sensors to observers and from controllers to actuators. Because data missing satisfies the Bernoulli distribution, such problem is transformed into an H ∞ control problem for stochastic switched delay systems. Average dwell time approach is used to obtain sufficient conditions on the solvability of such problems. A numerical example and a real example for water quality control are provided to illustrate the effectiveness and potential applications of the proposed techniques.Dong Wang, Peng Shi, Wei Wang and Hamid R. Karim
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