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Book Review: The Prince and the Dressmaker, Jen Wang
No full textBook Review: The Prince and the Dressmaker / Written and illustrated by Jen Wang / First Second, 2018, 288 pp. / ISBN: 9781626723634This material published in WOW Review is made available by the Worlds of Words: Center of Global Literacies and Literatures, College of Education at the University of Arizona, and the University of Arizona Libraries. If you have questions, please contact [email protected], (520) 621-9340
Multi-wavelength heterodyne-detected scattering-type scanning near-field optical microscopy
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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
Water Quality Indices from Unbalanced Spatio-Temporal Monitoring Designs
No full textThis chapter investigates a variety of water quality assessment tools for reservoirs with balanced/unbalanced monitoring designs and focuses on providing informative water quality assessments to ensure decision-makers are able to make risk-informed management decisions about reservoir health. In particular, two water quality assessment methods are described: non-compliance (probability of the number of times the indicator exceeds the recommended guideline) and amplitude (degree of departure from the guideline). Strengths and weaknesses of current and alternative water quality methods will be discussed. The proposed methodology is particularly applicable to unbalanced designs with/without missing values and reflects the general conditions and is not swayed too heavily by the occasional extreme value (very high or very low quality). To investigate the issues in greater detail, we use as a case study, a reservoir within South-East Queensland (SEQ), Australia. The purpose here is to obtain an annual score that reflected the overall water quality, temporally, spatially and across water quality indicators for each reservoir
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
Direct Near-Field Optical Investigation of Phase-Change Medium in Blue-Ray Recordable and Erasable Disc
No full textPanorpa filina Chou & Wang 1987
No full textPanorpa filina Chou & Wang, 1987 Panorpa filina Chou & Wang in Chou et al., 1987: 203, fig. 4; Wang & Hua, 2018: 261, figs 3-123-1 & 2. Emended diagnosis. 1) In forewings, apical band broad with few hyaline spots, pterostigmal band with tapering apical branch and detached basal branch, basal band large spot along hind margin; 2) male A6 with shallow emargination dorsally and forming pair of triangular lobes; 3) male paramere bifurcated, with ventral branch slender and short, and dorsal branch stout, long and greatly curved sub-basally. Female unknown. Distribution. CHINA: southern Hunan (Fig. 2).Published as part of Wang, Ji-Shen & Gong, You-Jing, 2021, Taxonomy of the Panorpaguttata group (Mecoptera: Panorpidae), withdescriptions of fourteen new species from China, pp. 241-274 in Zootaxa 4981 (2) on page 244, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4981.2.3, http://zenodo.org/record/492027
Panorpa decolorata Chou & Wang 1981
No full textPanorpa decolorata Chou & Wang, 1981 (Fig. 1B) Panorpa decolorata Chou & Wang in Chou et al., 1981: 10, figs 38 & 39; Wang & Hua, 2018: 257, figs 3-120-1 & 2. Emended diagnosis. 1) In forewings, apical band with large hyaline spot along apical cross-veins, pterostigmal band with fading apical branch and detached basal branch, basal band wide spot along hind margin; 2) male hypovalves shorter than stalk of hypandrium; 3) male paramere simple; and 4) main plate of female medigynium rounded. Distribution. CHINA: Gansu, Hubei and Shaanxi (Fig. 2).Published as part of Wang, Ji-Shen & Gong, You-Jing, 2021, Taxonomy of the Panorpaguttata group (Mecoptera: Panorpidae), withdescriptions of fourteen new species from China, pp. 241-274 in Zootaxa 4981 (2) on page 244, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4981.2.3, http://zenodo.org/record/492027
Panorpa reflexa Wang & Hua 2016
No full textPanorpa reflexa Wang & Hua, 2016 (Fig. 1F) Panorpa reflexa Wang & Hua, 2016: 153, figs 1–3, 4A; id., 2018: 301, figs 3-152-1 & 2. Emended diagnosis. 1) Head with M-shaped black spot on occiput and subpentagonal black spot enclosing ocellar triangle; 2) wings with greatly reduced pterostigmal band reduced to spots, and lacking other markings; in males, 3) stalk of hypandrium greatly reduced; 4) parameres bifurcated and 3-shaped, with basal branch stretching towards base of genital bulb; 5) aedeagus columnar with pair of dorsal processes extending beyond apex of gonocoxites; in females, 6) A9 greatly elongated, approximately twice as long as A8, with vase-shaped subgenital plate; 7) medigynium with axis entirely concealed in main plate, and main plate with pair of anterior arms. Materials examined. CHINA: Yunnan: 3♂ 2♀ (CN20Pa00025– CN20Pa00029), Mt.Tangli, 2560 m, 24°02’56’’ N, 99°13’56’’ E, 29.vii.2020, leg. Ji-Shen Wang. Distribution. CHINA: Yunnan (Mts Daxue and Tangli) (Fig. 2).Published as part of Wang, Ji-Shen & Gong, You-Jing, 2021, Taxonomy of the Panorpaguttata group (Mecoptera: Panorpidae), withdescriptions of fourteen new species from China, pp. 241-274 in Zootaxa 4981 (2) on page 246, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4981.2.3, http://zenodo.org/record/492027
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