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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
Wang Li (1900-1986)
No full textWang Li (Wang Liaoyi) was one of the three most prominent linguists in China in the 20th century. He was born August 10, 1900, in what is now Bobai County of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Area
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Enhanced colour encoding of materials discrimination information for multiple view dual-energy x-ray imaging
No full textThis thesis reports an investigation into dual-energy X-ray discrimination techniques. These techniques are designed to provide colour-coded materials discrimination information in a sequence of perspective images exhibiting sequential parallax. The methods developed are combined with a novel 3D imaging technique employing depth from motion or kinetic depth effect (KDE). This technique when applied to X-ray images is termed KDEX imaging and was developed previously by the university team for luggage screening applications at security checkpoints. A primary motivation for this research is that the dual-energy X-ray techniques, which are routinely incorporated into ‘standard’ 2D luggage scanners, provide relatively crude materials discrimination information. In this work it was critical that robust materials discrimination and colour encoding process was implemented as the sequential parallax exhibited by the KDEX imagery may introduce colour changes, due to the different X-ray beam paths associated with each perspective image. Any introduction of ‘colour noise’ into the resultant image sequences could affect the perception of depth and hinder the ongoing assessment of the potential utility of the dual-energy KDEX technique. Two dual-energy discrimination methods have been developed, termed K-II and W-E respectively. Employing the total amount of attenuation measured at each energy level and the weight fraction of layered structures, a combination of the K-II and the W-E techniques enables the computation and extraction of a target objects’ effective atomic number (Zeff) and its surface density (ρS) in the presence of masking layers
Traces and shards of self-injury: Strange accounting with “Author X”
No full textIn this strange account autoethnography, three or four authors explore their lived experiences with self-injury. Strange accounting is both a post-modern style of text, and a method for keeping identities concealed when risks and secrets are in play. Author X, a post-modern place-keeper for an anonymous author who may or may not have contributed to this manuscript, introduces a new dimension and layer of concealment. With Author X in-play and under erasure, the reader will never be sure if there were three or four authors on this manuscript. Through strange accounting, a post-structuralist/postmodernist frame will be applied to understanding the self-injury experience. We frame self-injury as a social practice and, for some, an everyday norm, while remaining acutely aware of the stigma surrounding the topic of self-injury. Each of us, coupled with Author X, provide the others cover to trace stories of self-injury through the literature, our flesh, and our lives
Gnathocinara boi Wang, X. & Zolotuhin, sp. nov.
No full text29. Gnathocinara boi Wang, X. & Zolotuhin, sp. nov. (FIGURES 18 C, 18 F) Type locality: T ongzhong Forest Farm, Shangsi County, Shiwandashan National NR, Fangchenggang City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China. Diagnosis. This species can be distinguished easily from G. situla based on the following characters: wings pale gray with dark gray bands; dorsum of abdomen gray without black patches; apex of the abdomen covered with gray hairs; uncus bifid; gnathos slim; saccus swollen apically. Description. Male: wingspan 32–38 mm; forewing length 16–18 mm;, body length 12–15 mm. Head. Vertex densely covered with white scales; compound eyes large and elliptical dense black scales around them; labial palpus yellow, elongated downwards; antenna bipectinate, about 1 / 3 length of forewing, dark brown dorsally, basal 1 / 4 white. Thorax. Dorsum yellowish-brown, covered with dense yellow scales. Fore- and hindwings grayish-white, covered with dense white scales; antemedial line broad and gray, from CuA 2 to inner margin; discal cell with a reniform stigma and a small gray dot; postmedial line broad and curved from M 1 curved to inner margin, represented by black scaling on the veins from M 1 to the costa; terminal line broader and gray, along the outer margin. Postmedial and terminal lines of hindwing not incomplete, unclear; discal cell with a gray spot; inner margin with 3 black spots. Postmedial and terminal lines on forewing underside broad and gray; discal cell with a small dot. Fore- and midlegs black, hindleg orange; tibia covered in brown scales. Abdomen. Dorsum gray, without black patches, apex covered with gray long scales. Male genitalia. Uncus bifurcate, each branch with a dorsal, sharply pointed process; valvae fused basally, deeply bifid to near the base, costa long and sickle-shaped; sacculus apically blunt, with sparse long scales, clearly thinner than costa; saccus well-developed, swollen distally, about 2 / 5 length of the whole male genitalia; aedeagus slender and long, smooth, the middle thinner than either end; coecum penis with a bifurcate apical process. Tergite VIII goblet-shaped, anterior margin with two long, very thin, laterally directed bars. Sternite VIII broad, posterior margin medially invaginated, V-shaped, apically with two pairs of processes, the outer broad and apically blunt, the inner longer, curved and sharply pointed; anterior margin with two long processes, apically curved outward and expanded. Female. Unknown. Specimens examined. Holotype, male, Dongzhong Forest Farm, Shangsi County, Shiwandashan National NR, Fangchenggang City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China, 8.IV. 2002, light trapping, Min Wang & Guo- Hua Huang leg. (HUNAU). Paratypes: 1 male, same data as holotype (HUNAU); 3 males, Milv Village, Shiwandashan National NR, Fangchenggang City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China, 6.IV. 2002, light trapping, Min Wang & Guo-Hua Huang leg. (SCAU); 5 males, Renzhuang Village, Jingxi County, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China, 10–15.VII. 2006, Wei Xiong & Liu-Sheng Chen leg. (SCAU); 1 male, Daoyin Village, Yinggeling National NR, Hainan Province, China, 4.XII. 2005, Min Wang & Wei Xiong leg. (KUM); 1 male, Jianfengling National NR, Ledong County, Hainan Province, China, 23.X. 2007, Min Wang leg. (HUNAU). Bionomics. The larval host is unknown. Adults fly from late spring to winter. Etymology. The species is named in honor of Dr. L.-Y. Bo, who was the supervisor of the senior author during her postdoctoral fellowship. Distribution. Mainland China (Guangxi) and Hainan. Remarks. The new species appears to be endemic to South China.Published as part of Wang, Xing, Wang, Min, Zolotuhin, Vadim V., Hirowatari, Toshiya, Wu, Shipher & Huang, Guo-Hua, 2015, The fauna of the family Bombycidae sensu lato (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Bombycoidea) from Mainland China, Taiwan and Hainan Islands, pp. 1-138 in Zootaxa 3989 (1) on pages 49-50, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3989.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/23871
Periacma acriuncta Wang, Li & Liu 2001
No full textPeriacma acriuncta Wang, Li & Liu, 2001 (Figure 20) Periacma acriuncta Wang, Li & Liu, 2001: 272. Wing expanse: 17.0–19.0 mm. Material examined: Holotype: „, Mt. Qingchen (30 ° 58 9 N, 103 ° 31 9 E), Sichuan Province, 11 July 1980. Additional material: 1 „, Xianfeng (29 ° 40 9 N, 109 ° 08 9 E), Hubei Province, 1280 m, 22 July 1999, coll. Houhun Li et al. Distribution: China, Hubei (Sichuan). Remarks: This species is distinguished by the uncus with a pointed process at the apex, the valva gradually narrowed from the base to the apex, and the sacculus without a distinct distal process.Published as part of Wang, S. X. & Li, H. H., 2006, Review of the genus Periacma Meyrick (Lepidoptera, Oecophoridae) from China, with descriptions of four new species, pp. 2371-2393 in Journal of Natural History 40 (41 - 43) on page 2384, DOI: 10.1080/00222930601088123, http://zenodo.org/record/523174
Giandante X: Il Giardino della Memoria
No full textNominare un giardino evoca molte belle immagini: i fiori con i loro colori, i toni verdi dell'erba, le farfalle variopinte, il sole. Le opere di Giandante X ci portano in un giardino di ricordi del suo tempo, con immagini di bellezza e dolore che devono essere interpretate
Periacma simaoensis Li, Wang & Yan 1996
No full textPeriacma simaoensis Li, Wang & Yan, 1996 (Figure 14) Periacma simaoensis Li, Wang & Yan, 1996: 205. Wing expanse: 16.5 mm. Material examined: Holotype: „, Simao (22 ° 48 9 N, 100 ° 58 9 E), Yunnan Province, 1325 m, 24 April 1995, coll. Guangyun Yan. Distribution: China (Yunnan). Remarks: This species resembles P. fengxianensis, but can be distinguished from the latter by the uncus not dilated apically, the sacculus heavily sclerotized distally, and the aedeagus with distal 1/6 divided into two parts.Published as part of Wang, S. X. & Li, H. H., 2006, Review of the genus Periacma Meyrick (Lepidoptera, Oecophoridae) from China, with descriptions of four new species, pp. 2371-2393 in Journal of Natural History 40 (41 - 43) on page 2382, DOI: 10.1080/00222930601088123, http://zenodo.org/record/523174
Periacma acutignatha Wang, Li & Liu 2001
No full textPeriacma acutignatha Wang, Li & Liu, 2001 (Figure 23) Periacma acutignatha Wang, Li & Liu, 2001: 275. Wing expanse: 12.5–14.5 mm. Material examined: Holotype: „, Neixiang (33 ° 02 9 N, 111 ° 50 9 E), Henan Province, 650 m, 12 July 1998, coll. Houhun Li. Paratypes: 4 „„, 3 ♀♀, 10–12 July 1998, same locality data as holotype (1 „, 1 ♀, in IZCAS). Distribution: China (Henan). Remarks: This species is related to P. erawanensis, but can be separated by the shape of the fore wing maculation, and the aedeagus with several sclerotized tooth-like distal spines in the male genitalia.Published as part of Wang, S. X. & Li, H. H., 2006, Review of the genus Periacma Meyrick (Lepidoptera, Oecophoridae) from China, with descriptions of four new species, pp. 2371-2393 in Journal of Natural History 40 (41 - 43) on page 2385, DOI: 10.1080/00222930601088123, http://zenodo.org/record/523174
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