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Wang Shuo and the commercialisation of contemporary Chinese culture
Get PDFThis 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
Get PDFThis 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
Estimation of Methane and Nitrous Oxide Emission from Animal Feeding Sector in Taiwan During 1990 to 2003
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Author Correction: Caspase-11 signaling enhances graft-versus-host disease (Nature Communications, (2019), 10, 1, (4044), 10.1038/s41467-019-11895-2)
Get PDF© 2020, The Author(s). In the original version of this Article, the following author affiliations were inadvertently switched. Affiliation of Qingde Wang and Timothy R. Billiar should be: “Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213 USA”. Haichao Wang\u27s affiliation should be: “The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, Northwell Health, 350 Community Drive, Manhasset, NY11030, USA”. The errors have been corrected in the HTML and PDF versions of this article
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
Spartina alterniflora invasion controls organic carbon stocks in coastal marsh and mangrove soils across tropics and subtropics
Get PDFThis is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Wiley via the DOI in this record.Coastal wetlands are among the most productive ecosystems and store large amounts of organic carbon (C)—the so termed “blue carbon.” However, wetlands in the tropics and subtropics have been invaded by smooth cordgrass (Spartina alterniflora) affecting storage of blue C. To understand how S. alterniflora affects soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks, sources, stability, and their spatial distribution, we sampled soils along a 2500 km coastal transect encompassing tropical to subtropical climate zones. This included 216 samplings within three coastal wetland types: a marsh (Phragmites australis) and two mangroves (Kandelia candel and Avicennia marina). Using δ13C, C:nitrogen (N) ratios, and lignin biomarker composition, we traced changes in the sources, stability, and storage of SOC in response to S. alterniflora invasion. The contribution of S. alterniflora-derived C up to 40 cm accounts for 5.6%, 23%, and 12% in the P. australis, K. candel, and A. marina communities, respectively, with a corresponding change in SOC storage of +3.5, −14, and −3.9 t C ha−1. SOC storage did not follow the trend in aboveground biomass from the native to invasive species, or with vegetation types and invasion duration (7–15 years). SOC storage decreased with increasing mean annual precipitation (1000–1900 mm) and temperature (15.3–23.4℃). Edaphic variables in P. australis marshes remained stable after S. alterniflora invasion, and hence, their effects on SOC content were absent. In mangrove wetlands, however, electrical conductivity, total N and phosphorus, pH, and active silicon were the main factors controlling SOC stocks. Mangrove wetlands were most strongly impacted by S. alterniflora invasion and efforts are needed to focus on restoring native vegetation. By understanding the mechanisms and consequences of invasion by S. alterniflora, changes in blue C sequestration can be predicted to optimize storage can be developed.State's Key Project of Research and Development Plan of ChinaNational Natural Science Foundation of Chin
Simultaneous core partitions: parameterizations and sums
Get PDFFix coprime . We re-prove, without Ehrhart reciprocity, a conjecture
of Armstrong (recently verified by Johnson) that the finitely many simultaneous
-cores have average size , and that the
subset of self-conjugate cores has the same average (first shown by
Chen--Huang--Wang). We similarly prove a recent conjecture of Fayers that the
average weighted by an inverse stabilizer---giving the "expected size of the
-core of a random -core"---is . We also prove
Fayers' conjecture that the analogous self-conjugate average is the same if
is odd, but instead if is even. In principle,
our explicit methods---or implicit variants thereof---extend to averages of
arbitrary powers.
The main new observation is that the stabilizers appearing in Fayers'
conjectures have simple formulas in Johnson's -coordinates parameterization
of -cores.
We also observe that the -coordinates extend to parameterize general
-cores. As an example application with , we count the number of
-cores for coprime , verifying a recent conjecture of
Amdeberhan and Leven.Comment: v4: updated references to match final EJC versio
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