Wei Wang

The book explores how ethnic minority culture is integrated into school practices inside and outside classrooms in Southwest China.The author investigates the challenges in teaching and administration teachers have encountered in Chinese ethnic minority regions, specifically problems faced by teachers in ethnic Dai and ethnic Tujia; and how pre-service teachers are trained in current teacher education programmes in ethnic minority regions. Drawing on the theoretical frameworks of multicultural education and internal orientalism, the author contextualises multicultural education by analysing Chinese academic debates on the subject as well as investigating how political, social and cultural forces influence education for ethnic minorities in Southwest China.The book will appeal to scholars and graduate students in the fields of education, cultural studies, China studies and ethnic studies.

Istun yksin hämärässä bambulehdossa,näppäilen luuttuani ja hyräilen pitkään.Kukaan ei tiedä että majailentässä syrjäisessä metsikossä,kun kirkas kuu valaisee minutWang Wei (701-761) oli yksi Tang-dynastian (618-907) merkittävimmistä runoilijoista. Paitsi runoilija, hän oli myös maineikas maisemamaalari, muusikko ja valtiomies. Wang Wei toimi koko aikuisikänsä Tang-kauden hallinnon virkamiehenä. Samaan aikaan hän arvosti ja ihaili erakkoelämää vuorten keskellä.Wang Weitä pidetään kiinalaisen luontorunouden ylittämättömänä mestarina. Wang Wein runot ovat parhaimmillaan pelkistettyjä ja kristallinkirkkaita impressioita luonnosta ja ihmisestä osana luontoa. Wang Wei on osaltaan vaikuttanut myös japanilaisten haiku- ja tankarunojen syntyyn.Tähän suomennosvalikoimaan on otettu mukaan Wang Wein luonto- ja maisemarunoja, buddhalaisuuteen sekä erilaisiin sosiaalisiin tilanteisiin liittyviä runoja. Runot on kiinan kielestä suomentanut sinologi Pertti Seppälä. Hän on kirjoittanut Vuorten sini -valikoimaan myos saatesanat ja selityksiä runoihin.

While migrant workers become the backbone of China’s fast growing economy, internal migration and its impacts on various aspects of social life in China have been an increasing concern of both the Chinese general public and the academics. It is timely, therefore, that identities of and stances towards migrant workers represented in China’s media are subject to discourse analysis and sociolinguistic research. This book examines how identities of and stances towards migrant workers have been constructed, transformed and mediated in China’s media discourse, and it investigates the media strategies and practices constructing these media products. This book provides a comprehensive study of how the media representation of migrant workers is interacting with the sociocultural transformation in China. The findings and discussions of the book offer critical insights into media discourse and practice in contemporary China which will be of interest to scholars and research students in discourse studies, sociolinguistics, media and communication studies, and China studies.

This thesis presents geological, petrological, geochemical, and zircon U–Pb–Lu–Hf isotopic field data for representative Precambrian lithologies in the Western Liaoning-Northeastern Hebei Provinces along the northern margin of the North China Craton (NCC). It describes late Neoarchean (2.64–2.48 Ga) supracrustal metavolcanic rocks and granitoid gneisses; late Paleoproterozoic (1.72–1.68 Ga) Jianping alkaline plutons and Pinggu alkaline volcanic rocks; and newly discovered ~1.23 Ga mafic dykes. The nature of magma sources and genesis of each magmatic episode are investigated, and the Precambrian (~2.6–1.2 Ga) lithospheric mantle evolution and crust-mantle interaction processes are established for the first time –aspects that provide important constraints in our understanding of the Precambrian crustal evolution and geodynamic processes in the region studied.

Scientific explanation, laws of nature, and causation are crucial and frontier issues in the philosophy of science. This book studies the complex relationship between the three concepts, aiming to achieve a holistic synthesis about explanation–laws–causation. By reviewing Hempel's scientific explanation models and Salmon's three conceptions – the epistemic, modal, and ontic conception – the book suggests that laws are essential to explanation and that our understanding of laws will help solve the problems of the latter. Concerning the nature of laws, this book tackles both the problems of regularity approach and necessitarian approach. It also proposes that the ontological order of explanation should be from events (or processes) to causation, then to regularity (laws), and finally to science system, but the epistemological order should be from science system to laws to explanation and causation. In addition, this book examines the legitimacy of ceteris paribus laws, the connection between explanation and reduction, the relation between explanation and interpretation, and some other issues closely related to explanation–laws–causation. This book will attract scholars and students of philosophy of science, natural sciences, social sciences, etc.

Revision with unchanged content. Traditional contrastive rhetoric research is often restricted to the tex-tual level of analysis. By providing both a textual and contextual view of genre across languages and cultures, this book presents a frame-work for contrastive rhetoric research which moves beyond the text into the context of production and interpretation of the text. The book examines the textual patterning of Australian and Chinese commen-taries and interpersonal and intertextual features of the texts, as well as considers possible contextual factors which might contribute to the formation of the newspaper commentaries in the two different languages and cultures. This analysis contributes towards answering the questions: How do writers in different languages and cultures position themselves in relation to the topics that they write about? How do they manipulate the topic and address their readers by the use of various linguistic strategies and devices? How do the roles of the press and opinion discourses mediate and influence constructions of the Chinese and English commentaries? How do discourses of terrorism in these two settings relate to textual and intertextual practices? The book is addressed to researchers in contrastive rhetoric and discourse research. It is also directed towards scholars in intercultural communi-cation and translation.

A selection of definitive works by the acclaimed eighth-century Chinese writer offers insight into his mastery of the short imagistic landscape poem, his assiduous practice of Zen Buddhism, and ability to convey philosophical and sensory concepts in a style that has remained accessible to subsequent generations. Original.

Microfluidics for Chemical Engineering: Flow and Reaction, Microreaction, On-line Detection, and Product Engineering presents the fundamentals of microfluidic flow and dispersion and provides new insights on the use of microfluidics in the field of chemical engineering. The book provides a timely, comprehensive, and detailed overview, demonstrating this state-of-the-art methodology, research advances, and classic instances, and providing insightful, forward-looking perspectives. Content ranges from flow and dispersion in microfluidics, microreaction regulation via the coalesce and transfer of droplets, to product engineering regarding controllable fabrication of microparticles and microfibers with advanced functions. The chapters clearly summarize the design concepts and general strategies involved as well as the involved mechanisms and classic instances. Instructive advice is also featured throughout on rational regulation of multiphase flows and interfaces in microfluidics, thus offering guidance for process intensification of chemical engineering. It is primarily written for advanced graduate/postdoc students and researchers chemical engineering, but with relevance to materials scientists, physical and materials (including polymer) chemists, physicists, biochemists, as well as pharmaceutical and biomedical scientists.

Multi-agent systems are special networked systems full of research interest and practical sense, which are abundant in real life, ranging from mobile robot networks, intelligent transportation management, to multiple spacecraft, surveillance and monitoring. Consensus control is one of the most typical and hot research issues for multi-agent systems. Distributed Adaptive Consensus Control of Uncertain Multi-agent Systems provides innovative technologies to design and analyze distributed adaptive consensus for multi-agent systems with model uncertainties.Based on the basic graph theory and adaptive backstepping control, this monograph:· Describes the state of the art on distributed adaptive control, finite-time consensus control and event-triggered consensus control· Studies distributed adaptive consensus under directed communication graph condition: the methods with linearly parametric reference, hierarchical decomposition, and design of auxiliary filers· Explores adaptive finite-time consensus for uncertain nonlinear systems· Considers distributed adaptive consensus with event-triggered communication via state feedback and output feedback· Investigates distributed adaptive formation control of nonholonomic mobile robots with experimental verification· Provides distributed adaptive attitude synchronization control schemes for multiple spacecraft with event-triggered communicationDistributed Adaptive Consensus Control of Uncertain Multi-agent Systems can help engineering students and professionals to efficiently learn distributed adaptive control design tool for handling uncertain multi-agent systems with directed communication graph, guaranteeing finite-time convergence and saving communication resources.

Die Entwicklung der Nanotechnologie und der energiebezogenen Technologien in den letzten drei Jahrzehnten hat zu einem verst rkten Interesse an der Anwendung von Materialien auf Kohlenstofffaserbasis in elektrochemischen Energiespeichern wie Superkondensatoren und Li/Na-Ionen-Batterien gef hrt. Die elektrochemische Leistung von Materialien auf Kohlenstofffaserbasis h ngt jedoch eng mit ihrer Struktur und ihren Herstellungsverfahren zusammen. Daher ist die Kontrolle der Mikro-Nanostruktur von Materialien auf Kohlenstofffaserbasis und ein tiefes Verst ndnis der Beziehung zwischen ihrer elektrochemischen Leistung, Struktur und Herstellungsmethoden eine wesentliche Voraussetzung f r die Erweiterung der Anwendung dieser Materialien in elektrochemischen Energiespeichern. Dieses Buch bietet einen umfassenden berblick ber die Herstellung von Materialien auf Kohlenstofffaserbasis, die strukturelle Kontrolle und die Optimierung ihrer elektrochemischen Leistung bei der Verwendung als negative Elektroden in Li/Na-Ionen-Batterien. Es soll als Leitfaden f r Forscher und Praktiker auf diesem Gebiet dienen und bietet sowohl theoretische als auch experimentelle Beweise f r die elektrochemischen Anwendungen von Materialien auf Kohlenstofffaserbasis.

O desenvolvimento da nanotecnologia e das tecnologias relacionadas com a energia nas ltimas tr s d cadas conduziu a um interesse crescente na aplica o de materiais base de fibras de carbono em dispositivos electroqu micos de armazenamento de energia, tais como supercapacitores e baterias de i es de l tio e de ons de chumbo. No entanto, o desempenho eletroqu mico dos materiais base de fibras de carbono est intimamente relacionado com a sua estrutura e m todos de fabrico. Por conseguinte, a forma de controlar a micro-nanoestrutura dos materiais base de fibras de carbono e de obter uma compreens o profunda da rela o entre o seu desempenho eletroqu mico, a estrutura e os m todos de fabrico um requisito essencial para expandir a aplica o destes materiais em dispositivos electroqu micos de armazenamento de energia. Este livro fornece uma vis o abrangente da prepara o de materiais base de fibras de carbono, do controlo estrutural e da otimiza o do seu desempenho eletroqu mico quando utilizados como el ctrodos negativos em baterias de i es de l tio/na. Destina-se a servir de guia para investigadores e profissionais da rea, oferecendo provas te ricas e experimentais das aplica es electroqu micas de materiais base de fibras de carbono.

This book is a comprehensive collection of technologies and methods on intelligent information processing, which includes artificial neural network, fuzzy logic, and evolutionary computing. It also introduces the latest research directions and progress in intelligent information processing, such as transfer learning through convolutional neural network, time series prediction, clustering based on fuzzy neural network, test and evaluation of the traveling salesman problem, test and evaluation of continuous optimization problem, and more. This book promotes the development and application of intelligent information processing technology in the field of computational intelligence, effectively improving the intersection and integration of intelligent information processing methods. Researchers in computational intelligence and artificial intelligence technology, as well as teachers, students, and others interested in the subject, will benefit from this book.

Based on three years of fieldwork in Zhanli, a remote Kam Village in Guizhou Province, Wang and Jiang explore the complex dynamics between the discursive practices of the local government and the villagers in relation to the reconstruction of Kam identity in response to social change, particularly the rise of rural tourism. China’s profound demographic and socio-economic transformation has intensified the dominance of Han culture and language and seriously challenged the traditional cultures in ethnic minority areas. The authors draw on multiple empirical sources, including in-depth interviews with Kam villagers and local officials, field observations, media discourse, local archives and government documents. They present an engaging account of the significant compromises that government and villagers have made in relation to ethnic identity in the name of economic development, and of the tensions and struggles that characterise the ongoing process of ethnic identity reconstruction. Students and researchers in sociolinguistics, ethnography, and discourse studies, especially those with an interest in Chinese discourse, and everyone interested in issues around ethnicity (minzu) issues in China, will find this book a valuable resource.

Based on three years of fieldwork in Zhanli, a remote Kam Village in Guizhou Province, Wang and Jiang explore the complex dynamics between the discursive practices of the local government and the villagers in relation to the reconstruction of Kam identity in response to social change, particularly the rise of rural tourism. China’s profound demographic and socio-economic transformation has intensified the dominance of Han culture and language and seriously challenged the traditional cultures in ethnic minority areas. The authors draw on multiple empirical sources, including in-depth interviews with Kam villagers and local officials, field observations, media discourse, local archives and government documents. They present an engaging account of the significant compromises that government and villagers have made in relation to ethnic identity in the name of economic development, and of the tensions and struggles that characterise the ongoing process of ethnic identity reconstruction. Students and researchers in sociolinguistics, ethnography, and discourse studies, especially those with an interest in Chinese discourse, and everyone interested in issues around ethnicity (minzu) issues in China, will find this book a valuable resource.

This book assesses new developments in and reform of China's banking law system following its accession of the WTO. It focuses on the relationship between GATS/WTO national treatment obligations and China's banking law. Tracing the history of national treatment in China, the book compares the treatment of foreign-funded banks with the treatment of Chinese-funded banks and examines the structure and shortcomings of the existing banking law framework in China. Offering suggestions as to how the framework could be restructured and analysing the economic and political bases of an integrated banking law framework, the book argues that reorganization would bring about greater consistency with GATS/WTO national treatment requirements. The book also explores the ambiguous definition of prudential carve-out, the subtle relationship between GATS national treatment and market access based on WTO cases, national treatment clauses in China’s bilateral investment treaties, and special treatment on banking in China’s free trade agreements. This volume is a valuable resource for academics and students as well as professionals and policy-makers working in the field of banking, WTO, Chinese law and foreign trade.