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Wang Shuo and the commercialisation of contemporary Chinese culture
Full text linkThis 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
Full text linkThis 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
Measurement of w-InN/h-BN Heterojunction Band Offsets by X-Ray Photoemission Spectroscopy
No full textX-ray photoelectron spectroscopy has been used to measure the valence band offset (VBO) of the w-InN/h-BN heterojunction. We find that it is a type-II heterojunction with the VBO being -0.30 +/- A 0.09 eV and the corresponding conduction band offset (CBO) being 4.99 +/- A 0.09 eV. The accurate determination of VBO and CBO is important for designing the w-InN/h-BN-based electronic devices
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
Non-fragile H infinity control for switched stochastic delay systems with application to water quality process
Full text linkArticle 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
Autosticha microphilodema Wang 2004
No full textAutosticha microphilodema Wang, 2004 Autosticha microphilodema Wang, 2004: 41. TL: China (Henan). Material examined. Nantou Hueisun Exp. Forest, Taiwan, China (elev. 650 m), 5♂, 1♀, 24−29 October 1998, coll. W. Mey & W. Speidel, genitalia slide No. MNHU-NK 135♂; Nantou Hueisun Exp. Forest, Taiwan, China (elev. 600 m), 3♂, 25−27 April 1999, coll. W. Mey & Ebert, genitalia slide Nos. MNHU-NK135, MNHU-NK136 (MNHU). Distribution. China (Chongqing, Hebei, Henan, Hubei, Shanxi, Taiwan, Zhejiang). Notes. This species is newly recorded for Taiwan.Published as part of Wang, Yuqi & Wang, Shuxia, 2017, Genus Autosticha Meyrick (Lepidoptera: Autostichidae) from Taiwan, China, pp. 508-513 in Zoological Systematics 42 (4) on page 511, DOI: 10.11865/zs.201722, http://zenodo.org/record/536547
Heme oxygenase-1, carbon monoxide, and bilirubin induce tolerance in recipients toward islet allografts by modulating T regulatory cells
No full textHeme oxygenase-1 (HO-1) induction in, or carbon monoxide (CO), or bilirubin administration to, donors and/or recipients frequently lead to long-term survival (>100 days) of DBA/2 islets into B6AF1 recipients. We tested here whether similar treatments show value in a stronger immunogenetic combination, i.e., BALB/c to C57BL/6, and attempted to elucidate the mechanism accounting for tolerance. Induction of HO-1, administering CO or bilirubin to the donor, the islets or the recipient, prolonged islet allograft survival to different extents. Combining all the above treatments (the "combined" protocol) led to survival for >100 days and antigen-specific tolerance to 60% of the transplanted grafts. A high level of forkhead box P3 (Foxp3) and transforming growth factor beta (TGF-beta) expression was detected in the long-term surviving grafts. With the combined protocol, significantly more T regulatory cells (Tregs) were observed surrounding islets 7 days following transplantation. No prolongation of graft survival was observed using the combined protocol when CD4(+)CD25(+) T cells were predepleted from the recipients before transplantation. In conclusion, our combined protocol led to long-term survival and tolerance to islets in the BALB/c to C57BL/6 combination by promoting Foxp3(+) Tregs; these cells played a critical role in the induction and maintenance of tolerance in the recipient.--Lee, S. S., Gao, W., Mazzola, S., Thomas, M. N., Csizmadia, E., Otterbein, L. E., Bach, F. H., and Wang, H. Heme oxygenase-1, carbon monoxide, and bilirubin help recipients tolerate islet allografts by modulating T regulatory cells
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