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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
Oceanogaphical and geological background
No full textThe South China Sea (SCS) embraces an area of about 3.5 x 106 km2 and extends from the Tropic of Cancer to the Equator, across over 20 degrees of latitude in the west Pacific. Since the last decade, the SCS has become the focus in studying the East Asian monsoon, like the Arabian Sea for the Indian monsoon (Wang B. et al. 2003). The SCS offers an ideal locality for high-resolution paleoceanographic researches in the low-latitude western Pacific because its hemipelagic sediments often register higher deposition rates and its carbonate compensation depth (CCD) is generally deeper than neighboring sea basins (Wang P. 1999).Pinxian Wang and Qianyu L
High-Q bismuth silicate nonlinear glass microsphere resonators
Full text linkThe fabrication and characterization of a bismuth-silicate glass microsphere resonator has been demonstrated. At wavelengths near 1550 nm, high-modes can be efficiently excited in a 179 µm diameter bismuth-silicate glass microsphere via evanescent coupling using a tapered silica fiber with a waist diameter of circa 2 µm. Resonances with Q-factors as high as were observed. The dependence of the spectral response on variations in the input power level was studied in detail to gain an insight into power-dependent thermal resonance shifts. Because of their high nonlinearity and high- factors, bismuth-silicate glass microspheres offer the potential for robustly assembled fully integrated all-optical switching devices
Dynamics Simulation of Remotely Operated Vehicle-Fiber Optic Micro Cable System
Full text linkLi Q, Xu H, Zhang Q, Wang X, Li ZG. Dynamics Simulation of Remotely Operated Vehicle-Fiber Optic Micro Cable System. Presented at the WCICA2008, Chongqing, China
q-Differential equations for q-classical polynomials and q-Jacobi-Stirling numbers
Full text linkWe introduce, characterise and provide a combinatorial interpretation for the so-called q-Jacobi–Stirling numbers.
This study is motivated by their key role in the (reciprocal) expansion of any power of a second order
q-differential operator having the q-classical polynomials as eigenfunctions in terms of other even order operators,
which we explicitly construct in this work. The results here obtained can be viewed as the q-version of
those given by Everitt et al. and by the first author, whilst the combinatorics of this new set of numbers is a
q-version of the Jacobi–Stirling numbers given by Gelineau and the second author
History of the South China Sea - A synthesis
No full textAn overwhelming part of our current knowledge on the geoclimatic history of the South China Sea (SCS) was generated over the last 20–30 years. The amount of paleoceanographic and paleoclimatic data available is tremendous and is still emerging rapidly. A comprehensive synthesis of these data is not easy because the proxy records need to be properly interpreted first. For example, to differentiate whether the observed changes in the SCS were caused by global, regional or local factors remains as a challenge.Pinxian Wang and Qianyu L
Quadraticossus fangi Wang & Ren 2007
No full textQuadraticossus fangi Wang & Ren, 2007 (Fig. 3) 2007 Quadraticossus Wang Y & Ren, p. 41. figure 1 (A–F) Remarks. This species was erected based on both complete forewings and hind wings (Wang & Ren, 2007 a). After re-examining part and counterpart of the holotype, we have reconstructed the hind wing of Q. fangi (Fig. 3). Sc and R are similar to those of Q. eumorphus: Sc parallel with R at base, fused with R at point of origin of Rs, then confluent with R 1 + 2 for short interval, then extended to costal margin at indentation.Published as part of Wang, Ying, Wang, Lin & Ren, Dong, 2008, Revision of genera Quadraticossus, Martynovocossus and Fletcheriana (Insecta, Hemiptera) from the Middle Jurassic of China with description of a new species, pp. 56-64 in Zootaxa 1855 on page 59, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18352
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