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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
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
Estimation of Methane and Nitrous Oxide Emission from Animal Feeding Sector in Taiwan During 1990 to 2003
No full textEvidence for the decay B0→J/ψω and measurement of the relative branching fractions of meson decays to J/ψη and J/ψη′
Full text linkFirst evidence of the B 0 → J / ψ ω decay is found and the B s 0 → J / ψ η and B s 0 → J / ψ η ′ decays are studied using a dataset corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1.0 fb -1 collected by the LHCb experiment in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of sqrt(s) = 7 TeV. The branching fractions of these decays are measured relative to that of the B 0 → J / ψ ρ 0 decay:frac(B (B 0 → J / ψ ω), B (B 0 → J / ψ ρ 0)) = 0.89 ± 0.19 (stat) - 0.13 + 0.07 (syst),frac(B (B s 0 → J / ψ η), B (B 0 → J / ψ ρ 0)) = 14.0 ± 1.2 (stat) - 1.5 + 1.1 (syst) - 1.0 + 1.1 (frac(f d, f s)),frac(B (B s 0 → J / ψ η ′), B (B 0 → J / ψ ρ 0)) = 12.7 ± 1.1 (stat) - 1.3 + 0.5 (syst) - 0.9 + 1.0 (frac(f d, f s)), where the last uncertainty is due to the knowledge of f d / f s, the ratio of b-quark hadronization factors that accounts for the different production rate of B 0 and B s 0 mesons. The ratio of the branching fractions of B s 0 → J / ψ η ′ and B s 0 → J / ψ η decays is measured to befrac(B (B s 0 → J / ψ η ′), B (B s 0 → J / ψ η)) = 0.90 ± 0.09 (stat) - 0.02 + 0.06 (syst)
Deltoplastis mamillata Park & S. Wang, sp. nov.
No full textDeltoplastis mamillata Park & S. Wang, sp. nov. (Figs. 3 e, 5 f) Type material. Holotype ♂, Thailand: Chiang Mai, Doui Pakia, 1500 m, 1–4.IX. 1987, coll. S. Moriuti, T. Saito, Y. Arita & Y. Yoshiyasu, genitalia slide No. CIS- 6218 /Park. Paratype: Thailand: 1 ♂, Chiang Mai, Doui Pui, 1300 m, 5–7.IX. 1987, coll. S. Moriuti, T. Saito, Y. Arita & Y. Yoshiyasu. The holotype is deposited in OPUJ and the paratype in KNA. Description. Adult (Fig. 3 e) with wingspan 13.0 mm. Head grayish brown. Antenna yellowish brown, grayish white on ventral surface. Labial palpus ochreous brown; second segment grayish white on inner surface, with appressed scales; third segment slender, longer than second segment. Thorax and tegula brown. Forewing with costal margin slightly arched, apex produced triangularly, termen slightly concave medially; ground color brown, distal 1 / 3 with dense dark brown scales; markings blackish brown, edged with yellowish white: humeral patch a small spot; costal patch at basal 2 / 5, somewhat inverted triangular; median patch extending from upper margin of cell to dorsum, its outer margin nearly straight, inner margin convex medially; discocellular stigmata two, elliptical; subterminal fascia yellowish white, angled outwardly at anterior 2 / 5, then obliquely straight inward to dorsum; terminal dots distinct; fringe yellow, tinged with dark gray. Hindwing and fringe gray. Fore and mid legs yellowish white, with brown belts on dorsal surface; hind leg with femur yellowish brown, tibia dark brown, white at apex, tarsus with each tarsomere blackish brown in basal half, white distal half. Male genitalia (Fig. 5 f): Uncus with basal half broad, distal half gradually narrowed, slightly curved toward ventral surface, pointed apically. Gnathos with basal 2 / 5 broad, rectangular, distal 3 / 5 gradually narrowed to gently hooked tip. Valva broad basally, slightly narrowed to 2 / 5; costa with basal 1 / 3 arched, concave medially; ventral margin with basal half nearly straight, distal half blunt; sacculus weak; cucullus slightly widened, about same width as basal part, narrowed to rounded apex distally, setose. Juxta nearly quadrate, anterior margin nearly straight, caudal margin concave in V shape medially; caudal lobe mastoid, bearing setae on dorsal surface. Vinculum narrow. Aedeagus stout, about 3 / 5 length of valva, broad at base, slightly curved at basal 1 / 3; cornuti consisting of dense teeth ranging from near base to middle and dense spines in distal half. Female unknown. Diagnosis. This species is superficially similar to D. apostatis (Meyrick, 1932) and D. lobigera Gozmány, 1978. It can be easily distinguished from them by the mastoid caudal lobes of the juxta in the male genitalia. In D. apostatis, the caudal lobes of the juxta are digitate (Fig. 4 b); in D. lobigera, the caudal lobes of the juxta are triangular (Fig. 5 e). Distribution. Thailand. Etymology. The specific name is derived from the Latin mamillatus (mastoid), referring to the shape of the caudal lobes of the juxta.Published as part of Wang, Yuqi, Park, Kyu-Tek & Wang, Shuxia, 2015, Taxonomic review of the Genus Deltoplastis Meyrick (Lepidoptera: Lecithoceridae) in China and its neibouring countries, with a world catalogue of the genus, pp. 210-230 in Zootaxa 4057 (2) on pages 223-224, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4057.2.3, http://zenodo.org/record/23169
Library 2.011 World-wide Virtual Conference, "The Future of Libraries in the Digital Age", November 2-4, 2011
No full textThe purpose of this paper is to present a conference report on the unique organizational features and the common themes found among the three keynote speeches of the Library 2.011 World Wide Virtual Conference held on the internet on November 2-4, 2011. This report was generated based on the author’s personal participation and observation of a virtual conference and a descriptive method was used to report on and summarize the major subjects of three keynote presentations. The paper finds that Library 2.0 is still a live practice among libraries, and the concept itself has become an inspiring theoretical starting point for re-examining information profession, information literacy, and information management behaviours. This article sorts out the theoretical directions of Library 2.0’s research, which will provide a reflective and guiding tool for evaluating current library practice and designing future innovative library services.The published version of this article is available at: 10.1108/07419051111202637. This article is (c) Emerald Group Publishing and permission has been granted for this version to appear here. Emerald does not grant permission for this article to be further copied/distributed or hosted elsewhere without the express permission from Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Wang Wang Blues
No full textFirst Line: I've got the bluest blues, I'm just as blue as can beFirst Line of Chorus: Wang Wang blues, she's gone and left me with the Wang Wang bluesKey: F Majo
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