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The politics of fashion: perceptions of power in female clothing and ornamentation as reflected in the sixteenth-century Chinese novel Jin Ping Mei
Full text linkThis thesis examines issues of female power and influence in sixteenth-century China focusing on how women and their roles were perceived in the changing social environment of the mid-late Ming dynasty. Using aspects of a New Historicist approach, information from contemporary literary and historical sources are analysed alongside each other. With its emphasis on the lives of women and preoccupation with the description of material objects, the late Ming novel Jin Ping Mei forms an important element in the thesis. China in the sixteenth century saw expanding urbanisation, the emergence of a new wealthy merchant class, increasing visibility of women and a questioning of traditional morality. Fashion consciousness, as one of the most conspicuous aspects of the new material culture, is a possible indicator of these trends. Traditional Western theories contend that fashion began in the particular context of Renaissance Europe. However, this study argues that a similar fashion awareness existed in China too, and was manifested in a competitive striving for social status, in this case specifically among women. In contrast to previous studies which downplayed the impact women had on defining traditional Chinese culture, this thesis demonstrates how women and their sartorial choices began to redefine the boundaries of material culture, influencing literati discourse which, in turn, re- influenced female behaviour
Ping Pong Cognitive Test
No full textThe questionnaire and cognitive test results of Ping Pong exergame experiments
Guo ce ping lin tian xia yao shu: [18 juan]. v.1
No full text張北拱[張星徽]評點.拾芥園藏板.Shi jie yuan cang ban.Zhang Beigong [Zhang Xinghui] ping dian
An Interview with Dr. Gordon Davis on his Early Career Choices
Full text linkOn April 23, 2015, Dr. Ping Zhang interviewed Dr. Gordon Davis on his early career choices
Virtuality, Nationalism, and Globalization in Zhang\u27s Hero
Full text linkIn her article Virtuality, Nationalism, and Globalization in Zhang\u27s Hero Ping Zhu examines how Yimou Zhang\u27s martial arts film dislodges the historical tale from its spatiotemporal context by creating virtual images, characters, narratives, and ideologies, and presents the virtual idea of tianxia (天下) (all under heaven) as an active mode of participation in the virtual global. Amidst the surge of virtuality in its cinematic space, with Hero Zhang aims to eclipse the national by a higher order: a homogenizing and harmonizing order that originates in traditional Chinese culture and that is compatible with the post-9/11 world order. However, Zhu argues that in the film the homogenizing global force is ruptured by local culture, history, and politics and creates more disjuncture and difference at the level of the local
Mallinella obtusa Zhang, Zhang & Chen, 2011, sp. nov.
No full textMallinella obtusa sp. nov. (Figs 13–15) Type material. Holotype 3, CHINA, Hainan Province: Jianfengling Mountain (19 °07ʹN, 109 ° 13 ʹE), 31 May 2009, leg. C. Zhang [MHBU]. Diagnosis. Male can be distinguished from other Mallinella species by broad membranous area on embolic base, and differs from M. gongi Bao & Yin, 2002 by wide retrolateral apophysis of tibia (Figs 14–15). Etymology. The specific name is a Latin adjective and refers to the shape of retrolateral apophysis of male tibia. Description. Male holotype total length 5.81: prosoma 2.65 long, 1.84 wide; opisthosoma 2.55 long, 1.53 wide. Color. Carapace (Fig. 13) dark brown. Median furrow and radial groove black. Eyes with black ring. Chelicerae reddish brown, terminal part yellowish. Endites and labium brown, terminal part yellowish. Sternum yellow. Femora of legs gray black, coxa yellowish, the other part of legs brown. Dorsum of opisthosoma black and with two pairs of white lateral patches, followed by three transverse white median patches, anterior median brown; lateral part yellowish with black diagonal stripes; venter yellowish covered with two irregular black patches, followed by a brown patch. Spinnerets brown. Prosoma (Fig. 13). Carapace longer than wide and with a longitudinal median furrow, only anterior part and clypeus with several black setae. AER slight procurved and PER procurved in dorsal view. Diameters of eyes: AME 0.05, ALE 0.06, PME 0.06, PLE 0.06. Interdistances of eyes: AME–AME 0.04, AME–ALE 0.05, ALE–ALE 0.33, PME–PME 0.04, PME–PLE 0.09, PLE–PLE 0.39, ALE–PLE 0.02. MOA 0.14 long, front width 0.14, back width 0.16. Clypeal height 0.28. Chelicerae without teeth on margins of fang furrow, fang very short. Apices of chelicerae and endites furnished with dense black scopula. Labium triangular, 0.19 long, 0.20 wide. Sternum 0.64 long, 0.61 wide and furnished with sparse black setae, lateral margin with small, pointed extensions fitting in coxal concavities of legs. Legs. Metatarsi II–IV with ventral hair tufts in the apical part. Measurements of legs: leg I 6.74 (1.84, 0.61, 1.53, 1.43, 1.33), II 5.91 (1.63, 0.61, 1.12, 1.43, 1.12), III 5.89 (1.51, 0.61, 1.12, 1.63, 1.02), IV 8.47 (2.04, 0.61, 1.84, 2.55, 1.43). Leg formula: 4123. Opisthosoma (Fig. 13). Oval, longer than wide. Male palp (Figs 14–15). Retrolateral apophysis of tibia wide, anterior margin wider than base; median apophysis on tegulum large, apex bifid, pointing prolaterad and anteriad; embolus gradually narrowing toward its apex, subterminally with triangular, transparent flange. Distribution. China (Hainan).Published as part of Zhang, Bao-Shi, Zhang, Feng & Chen, Ping, 2011, Species of the genus Mallinella Strand, 1906 (Araneae: Zodariidae) from Hainan Island, China, pp. 55-62 in Zootaxa 2986 on pages 59-61, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20114
Colopalpus hibiscus Xu & Zhang 2021, sp. nov.
No full textColopalpus hibiscus sp. nov. (Figs. 1–15) Type materials. Holotype female. China: Hainan province: Sanya city: Yalong Bay Tropical Paradise Forest Park, ex. Hibiscus sp. (Malvaceae), 19 March 2013, coll. Yun Xu. Paratypes. 12 females, 7 males, 3 deutonymphs, 6 protonymphs, 3 larvae, same data as holotype. The holotype and 11 paratypes (5 females, 3 males, 1 deutonymph, 1 protonymph and 1 larva) will be deposited in the National Zoological Museum of China, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing (NZMC); 20 paratypes (7 females, 4 males, 2 deutonymphs, 5 protonymphs and 2 larvae) were deposited in the Department of Plant Protection, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, China (FAFU).Published as part of Xu, Yun & Zhang, Fei-Ping, 2021, A new species of the genus Colopalpus Pritchard and Baker (Trombidiformes Tenuipalpidae) from China, with ontogenetic patterns in chaetotaxy, pp. 135-156 in Zootaxa 5086 (1) on page 136, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5086.1.10, http://zenodo.org/record/581436
A new species of the genus Mawsonascaris Sprent, 1990 (Nematoda: Ascaridida) from Glaucostegus granulatus (Cuvier) (Rajiformes: Rhinobatidae) in the Taiwan Strait, with remarks on the systematic status of Raphidascaroides myliobatum Yin & Zhang, 1983
No full textLi, Liang, Xu, Zhen, Zhang, Lu-Ping (2012): A new species of the genus Mawsonascaris Sprent, 1990 (Nematoda: Ascaridida) from Glaucostegus granulatus (Cuvier) (Rajiformes: Rhinobatidae) in the Taiwan Strait, with remarks on the systematic status of Raphidascaroides myliobatum Yin & Zhang, 1983. Journal of Natural History 46 (21-22): 1307-1319, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2012.655341, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2012.65534
sj-docx-1-cnr-10.1177_10547738221088897 – Supplemental material for Validation of a Risk Assessment Tool for Unplanned Endotracheal Extubation: An Observational Study
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-cnr-10.1177_10547738221088897 for Validation of a Risk Assessment Tool for Unplanned Endotracheal Extubation: An Observational Study by Ping Zhang and Li-Ping Liu in Clinical Nursing Research</p
Dr. Alan Merten on his Career and the IS Field
Full text linkOn June 8, 2015, Dr. Ping Zhang interviewed one of the founding fathers in the IS field, Dr. Alan Merten, former president of George Mason University
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