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From Mi Jian, the highly acclaimed Chinese dissident, comes a satirical novel about the absurdities of life in a post-Tiananmen China. Two men meet for dinner each week. Over the course of one of these drunken evenings, the writer recounts the stories he would write, had he the courage: a young man buys an old kiln and opens a private crematorium, delighting in his ability to harass the corpses of police officers and Party secretaries, while swooning to banned Western music; a heartbroken actress performs a public suicide by stepping into the jaws of a wild tiger, watched nonchalantly by her ex-lover. Extraordinary characters inspire him, their lives pulled and pummeled by fate and politics, as if they are balls of dough in the hands of an all-powerful noodle maker. Ma Jian's satirical masterpiece allows us a humorous, yet profound, glimpse of those struggling to survive under a system that dictates their every move.

Rødt støv er blitt betegnet som en krysning mellom Goethes "Den unge Werthers lidelser" og Kerouacs "On the Road". Fortelleren er en kinesisk bohem, som tidlig avslører sin svakhet for «malerier, bøker og kvinner». Dette gir ham stadige problemer med myndighetene, og fører til at han forlater Beijing på midten av 1980-tallet. Ma Jian er på reise i tre år. Turen bringer ham gjennom ukjente deler av Kina, Myanmar og Tibet, og den gir ham også tid til å fordype seg i hva det vil si å være buddhist, å leve i tiden etter Maos død - eller for den saks skyld å være Ma Jian. Med lite annet enn et klesskift, to såpestykker, en notisbok, et kamera og Walt Whitmans Leaves of Grass drar han vestover.

"Red Guards meet Kurt Vonnegut . . . powerful " ―Margaret Atwood, via Twitter A Library Journal Best Book of the Year " M]ay be the purest distillation yet of Mr. Ma's talent for probing the country's darkest corners and exposing what he regards as the Communist Party's moral failings." ―Mike Ives, The New York Times Blending fact and fiction, China Dream is an unflinching satire of totalitarianism. Ma Daode, a corrupt and lecherous party official, is feeling pleased with himself. He has an impressive office, three properties, and multiple mistresses who text him day and night. After decades of loyal service, he has been appointed director of the China Dream Bureau, charged with replacing people's private dreams with President Xi Jinping's great China Dream of national rejuvenation. But just as he is about to present his plan for a mass golden wedding anniversary celebration, his sanity begins to unravel. Suddenly plagued by flashbacks of the Cultural Revolution, Ma Daode's nightmare visions from the past threaten to destroy his dream of a glorious future. This darkly comic fable exposes the damage inflicted on a nation's soul when authoritarian regimes, driven by an insatiable hunger for power, seek to erase memory, rewrite history, and falsify the truth. It is a dystopian vision of repression, violence, and state-imposed amnesia that is set not in the future, but in China today.

This monograph introduces readers to new theories and methods applying cognitive computing and geometric space transformation to the field of fault diagnosis and prognostics. It summarizes the basic concepts and technical aspects of fault diagnosis and prognostics technology. Existing bottleneck problems are examined, and the advantages of applying cognitive computing and geometric space transformation are explained. In turn, the book highlights fault diagnosis, prognostic, and health assessment technologies based on cognitive computing methods, including deep learning, transfer learning, visual cognition, and compressed sensing. Lastly, it covers technologies based on differential geometry, space transformation, and pattern recognition.