Qi Wang

Memory, Subjectivity and Independent Chinese Cinema provides a historically informed examination of independent moving image works made between 1990 and 2010 in China. Showcasing an evolving personal mode of narrating memory, documenting reality, and inscribing subjectivity in over sixteen selected works that range from narrative film and documentary to experimental video and digital media (even including a multimedia avant-garde play), this book presents a provocative portrait of the independent filmmakers as a peculiarly pained yet active group of historical subjects of the transitional, post-socialist era. Through a connected investigation of cultural and cinematic concepts including historical consciousness, personal memory, narrative, performance, subjectivity, spatiality, and the body, Wang weaves a critical narrative of the formation of a unique post-socialist cultural consciousness that enables independent cinema and media to become a highly significant and effective conduit for historical thinking in contemporary China. Covering directors such as Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige, Jia Zhangke, Jiang Wen, Lou Ye, Meng Jinghui, Wang Bing, Wang Guangli, Duan Jinchuan, Cui Zi'en, Shi Tou, and Tang Danhong, this book is essential reading for all students and scholars in Chinese film.

Memory, Subjectivity and Independent Chinese Cinema

Zhuolin Feng

Niancai Liu

This open access book is the second edition of Education in China and the World: Achievements and Contemporary Issues. It builds upon the commitment to provide a comprehensive analysis on education in China to a global audience. Focusing on seven education segments, from basic to post-secondary education, this edition draws on the latest literature, official data, and statistical resources to reflect the trends and development in Chinese education. Based on the groundwork built previously, this edition further explores the excellence index to assess Chinese education as compared to its international counterparts. It also provides updated influential case studies of educational practices and inspiring educators and renews a comprehensive literature review on current research and national policy, to support the development of a modern education system with Chinese characteristics and global standards. The featured analysis in this edition highlights China’s significant growth in education attainment and research output, underscored by substantial government support. Concurrently, the analysis also reveals disparities in quality performance, particularly in educational resource allocation. It calls for further efforts to promote academic excellence and to address public educational needs comprehensively. This book serves as a valuable resource for students, scholars, and policy makers in the field of education studies, as well as readers who are interested in Chinese education.

National Development and Global Benchmarking

Education in China and the World

Marina Svensson

Pauline Stoltz

Sun Zhongxin

This comparative volume examines the ways in which current controversies and political, legal, and social struggles for gender equality raise conceptual questions and challenge our thinking on political theories of equality, citizenship and human rights. Bringing together scholars and activists who reflect upon challenges to gender equality, citizenship, and human rights in their respective societies; it combines theoretical insights with empirically grounded studies. The volume contextualises feminist political theory in China and the Nordic countries and subsequently puts it into a global perspective. It tackles a complex set of tensions across a dense and shifting landscape and addresses issues including labour, health, democracy, homosexuality, migration and racism. By cutting across geographical and disciplinary boundaries, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of comparative politics, gender studies, human rights and also those interested in Scandinavian and Asian politics.

Controversies and Challenges in China and the Nordic Countries

Gender Equality, Citizenship and Human Rights

Jie Yan

Jianfeng Liu

Qian Ren

Molecular mechanisms of substance abuse and its neurotoxicity

With the recent advances in remote sensing technologies for Earth observation, many different remote sensors are collecting data with distinctive properties. The obtained data are so large and complex that analyzing them manually becomes impractical or even impossible. Therefore, understanding remote sensing images effectively, in connection with physics, has been the primary concern of the remote sensing research community in recent years. For this purpose, machine learning is thought to be a promising technique because it can make the system learn to improve itself. With this distinctive characteristic, the algorithms will be more adaptive, automatic, and intelligent. This book introduces some of the most challenging issues of machine learning in the field of remote sensing, and the latest advanced technologies developed for different applications. It integrates with multi-source/multi-temporal/multi-scale data, and mainly focuses on learning to understand remote sensing images. Particularly, it presents many more effective techniques based on the popular concepts of deep learning and big data to reach new heights of data understanding. Through reporting recent advances in the machine learning approaches towards analyzing and understanding remote sensing images, this book can help readers become more familiar with knowledge frontier and foster an increased interest in this field.

Learning to Understand Remote Sensing Images

Lan Ni

Bey-Ling Sha

Part 1. Theoretical foundations -- Foundational theories in public relations management -- History and foundational theories of intercultural communication -- Conflict management and negotiation -- Part 2. Intercultural public relations at various levels -- Interpersonal level: competencies and practices -- Intra-organizational level: identifying and communicating with publics -- Intra-organizational level: relationship management -- Intra-organizational level: conflict management and negotiation -- Organizational level: organizational identity -- Social media -- Conclusions

Theories for Managing Relationships and Conflicts with Strategic Publics

Intercultural Public Relations

This book presents cutting-edge research on memory in the age of the Internet and social media. The empirical studies reported in the ten chapters address the influence of the digital age on remembering in three broad areas: offloading memory and the associated costs, benefits, and boundary conditions; autobiographical memory online; and false memory at a time of fake news and misinformation. These studies employ innovative and rigorous methodological approaches that are ecologically valid in the online context. Their findings reveal complex and dynamic characteristics of human memory in a digitally mediated world that shapes our learning, our sense of self, and our beliefs and decision making. Collectively, the chapters in this volume provide rich theoretical insights into the workings and functions of memory. This book ushers in a new era of research on memory in the age of digitization. Memory Online will be a beneficial read for students and scholars of Psychology, Cognitive Science, Communication, and Media Studies. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Memory.

Memory Online

Di Wen

Yixiao Luo

Fanglin Guan

Zeng Xiao Feng

Stimulant Use and Addictive Disorder

This book traces the developmental, social, cultural, and historical origins of the autobiographical self - the self that is made of memories of the personal past and of the family and the community. It combines rigorous research, compelling theoretical insights, sensitive survey of real memories and memory conversations, and fascinating personal anecdotes to convey a message: the autobiographical self is conditioned by one's time and culture.

The Autobiographical Self in Time and Culture

Anne Weber

Volker Gast

Janusz Malak

Anders Holmberg

Anna Cardinaletti

Giuliana Giusti

M. Rita Manzini

Leonardo M. Savoia

Joseph Emonds

Vahram Atayan

Anita Bagi

Benedetta Baldi

Michaela Čakányová

Yi-ming Marc Chou

Tamás Csontos

Mojmír Dočekal

Bettina Fetzer

Ildikó Hoffmann

Karolina Janacsek

Ester Kárpáti

Marie Krappmann

Chang Liu

Markéta Malá

Mark Newson

Taisuke Nischigauchi

Tomáš Novotný

Ana Ojea

Iveta Šafratová

Denisa Šebestová

Krisztina Szécsényi

Tibor Szécsényi

István Szendi

Anna Szeteli

Marta Tagliani

Lujza Beatrix Tóth

Guido Vanden Wyngaerd

The twenty-three articles in this volume are based on papers and posters presented at the Olomouc Linguistics Colloquium (OLINCO) at Palacký University in the Czech Republic in June 7-9, 2018. This conference welcomed papers that combined analyses of language structure with generalizations about language use. The thematic sections are as follows: Part I. Micro-syntax: The Structure and Interpretation of Verb Phrases; Part II. Micro-syntax: Word-Internal Morphosyntax in Nominal Projections; Part III. Macro-syntax: Structure and Interpretation of Discourse Markers and Projections; Part IV: Empirical Approaches to Contrastive Linguistics and Translation Studies. Články v tomto sborníku vycházejí z příspěvků prezentovaných na konferenci Olomouc Linguistics Colloquium (OLINCO), pořádané Univerzitou Palackého v Olomouci ve dnech 7. 6. - 9. 6. 2018. Jako téma byl zvolen "Jazyk jako prostředek a lingvistická struktura", což mělo umožnit prezentaci referátů ze všech současných lingvistických disciplín, pokud se zabývají vědeckým (empirickým, formálním) popisem jazykového systému. Články jsou rozděleny do následujících tematických sekcí: Part I. Micro-syntax: The Structure and Interpretation of Verb Phrases; Part II. Micro-syntax: Word-Internal Morphosyntax in Nominal Projections; Part III. Macro-syntax: Structure and Interpretation of Discourse Markers and Projections; Part IV: Empirical Approaches to Contrastive Linguistics and Translation Studies.

Proceedings of the Olomouc Linguistics Colloquium 2018

Language Use and Linguistic Structure

Shucai Li

Bei Jiang

This book examines the field of surrounding rock control mechanisms and support technologies in underground engineering, and proposes a high-strength support system to address the complex conditions in underground engineering, such as high stress, extremely soft rocks, fault fracture zone and strong mining activity. It also comprehensively discusses the concept and bearing mechanisms of the supporting system, design calculation methods, field application and key construction technologies. The book describes the design and construction of a large-scale mechanical test system, independently developed by the author for high- strength confined concrete arches, which can also be used to define the mechanism of deformation and failure of confined concrete arches. Further, the book explores the application of the confined concrete support system in underground engineering with complex conditions, and its control effect on soft surrounding rock. The first international book presenting the theory and key technologies of high-strength, confined concrete support, it is a valuable reference resource for design, construction and supervision staff in the field of geotechnical engineering, as well as for teachers, students and researchers.

Theory and Key Technology

High Strength Support for Soft Surrounding Rock in Deep Underground Engineering

Qi Wang

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