Download or read book The Question of Hu written by Jonathan D. Spence and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-05-04 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lively and elegant book by the acclaimed historian Jonathan D. Spence reconstructs an extraordinary episode in the early intercourse between Europe and China. It is the story of John Hu, a lowly but devout Chinese Catholic, who in 1722 accompanied a Jesuit missionary on a journey to France--a journey that ended with Hu's confinement in a lunatic asylum. At once a triumph of historical detective work and a gripping narrative, The Question of Hu deftly probes the collision of tw ocultures, with their different definitions of faith, madness, and moral obligation.
Download or read book How to Walk on Water and Climb up Walls written by David Hu and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Insects walk on water, snakes slither, and fish swim. Animals move with astounding grace, speed, and versatility: how do they do it, and what can we learn from them? In How to Walk on Water and Climb up Walls, David Hu takes readers on an accessible, wondrous journey into the world of animal motion. From basement labs at MIT to the rain forests of Panama, Hu shows how animals have adapted and evolved to traverse their environments, taking advantage of physical laws with results that are startling and ingenious. In turn, the latest discoveries about animal mechanics are inspiring scientists to invent robots and devices that move with similar elegance and efficiency. Hu follows scientists as they investigate a multitude of animal movements, from the undulations of sandfish and the way that dogs shake off water in fractions of a second to the seemingly crash-resistant characteristics of insect flight. Not limiting his exploration to individual organisms, Hu describes the ways animals enact swarm intelligence, such as when army ants cooperate and link their bodies to create bridges that span ravines. He also looks at what scientists learn from nature's unexpected feats--such as snakes that fly, mosquitoes that survive rainstorms, and dead fish that swim upstream. As researchers better understand such issues as energy, flexibility, and water repellency in animal movement, they are applying this knowledge to the development of cutting-edge technology. Integrating biology, engineering, physics, and robotics, [this book] demystifies the remarkable mechanics behind animal locomotion"--Page 4 of cover.
Download or read book HU the Most Beautiful Prayer written by Harold Klemp and published by Eckankar. This book was released on 2008 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compiled from Harold Klemp's writings, these selections originally appeared in his books published by Eckankar. The accompanying CD contains a recording of the HU song; you can play it for spiritual upliftment, or you can sing along.
Download or read book Greenhouses Lighthouses written by Tung-Hui Hu and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2013-05-04 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A poetic and provocative gesture toward cinematography, Tung-Hui Hu presents the ungraspable among memory, film, and history's tantalizing ephemera
Download or read book Hu Jintao China s Silent Ruler written by Kerry Brown and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2012-03-26 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the six-month period from late 2012 to early 2013, Hu Jintao, the President of the People's Republic of China, Chair of the Central Military Commission, and Party Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), will relinquish at least two of his three positions. According to the constitution of the CCP, his time as Party head will come to an end, given that he has already served for two terms. Well over the supposed retirement age of 68, he will have to hand over the leadership of China to a new generation of leaders at the 18th Party Congress in Beijing. In Chinese politics, the act of retirement is surprisingly difficult, but Hu Jintao is widely known for his reserve and reticence; there is little doubt that he could disappear into a quiet and anonymous retirement if he so desires.This timely volume thus aims to provide an analytical assessment of Hu's period in charge of the world's most populous country. It concentrates briefly on his early life and entry into politics, then considers and evaluates his stewardship of the economy and of international affairs, as well as his ideological contribution and leadership of the communist party. In the process, the reader will also be afforded a broad overview of China's rapid developments over the last decade, since 2002.
Download or read book F written by Mei Zhi and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2013-02-12 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hu Feng, the ‘counterrevolutionary’ leader of a banned literary school, spent twenty-five years in the Chinese Communist Party’s prison system. But back in the Party’s early days, he was one of its best known literary theoreticians and critics—at least until factional infighting, and his short fuse, made him persona non grata among the establishment. His wife, Mei Zhi, shared his incarceration for many years. F is her account of that time, beginning ten years after her and Hu Feng’s initial arrest. She herself was eventually released, after which she navigated the party’s Byzantine prison bureaucracy searching for his whereabouts. Having finally found him, she voluntarily returned to gaol to care for him in his rage and suffering, watching his descent into madness as the excesses of the Cultural Revolution took their toll. Both an intimate portrait of Mei Zhi’s life with Hu Feng and a stark account of the prison system and life under Mao, F is at once beautiful and harrowing. With support from English PEN This book has been selected to receive financial assistance from English PEN’s Writers in Translation programme supported by Bloomberg. English PEN exists to promote literature and its understanding, uphold writers’ freedoms around the world, campaign against the persecution and imprisonment of writers for stating their views, and promote the friendly co-operation of writers and free exchange of ideas. For more information visit www.englishpen.org.
Download or read book A Prehistory of the Cloud written by Tung-Hui Hu and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2015-08-21 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The militarized legacy of the digital cloud: how the cloud grew out of older network technologies and politics. We may imagine the digital cloud as placeless, mute, ethereal, and unmediated. Yet the reality of the cloud is embodied in thousands of massive data centers, any one of which can use as much electricity as a midsized town. Even all these data centers are only one small part of the cloud. Behind that cloud-shaped icon on our screens is a whole universe of technologies and cultural norms, all working to keep us from noticing their existence. In this book, Tung-Hui Hu examines the gap between the real and the virtual in our understanding of the cloud. Hu shows that the cloud grew out of such older networks as railroad tracks, sewer lines, and television circuits. He describes key moments in the prehistory of the cloud, from the game “Spacewar” as exemplar of time-sharing computers to Cold War bunkers that were later reused as data centers. Countering the popular perception of a new “cloudlike” political power that is dispersed and immaterial, Hu argues that the cloud grafts digital technologies onto older ways of exerting power over a population. But because we invest the cloud with cultural fantasies about security and participation, we fail to recognize its militarized origins and ideology. Moving between the materiality of the technology itself and its cultural rhetoric, Hu's account offers a set of new tools for rethinking the contemporary digital environment.
Download or read book Chinese Lion Dance Explained written by William C. Hu and published by Ars Ceramica. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Prophecy of Ra Uru Hu written by Steve Rhodes and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-01-15 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In January 1987, Robert Alan Krakower, a former media producer and magazine publisher from Canada, had a mystical encounter on the Mediterranean island of Ibiza that lasted eight days and eight nights. During this time he did not eat, drink, or sleep. He received information about our universe, the design of all living forms, and most importantly, about a mutation in the human body that will lead to the emergence of a new species, the Rave, in 2027. With it, the evolutionary program will turn its back on humanity. The Industrial Revolution and the nation states as we know them will come to an end.The coming Rave will look human on the outside, but will have little in common with us. In fact, Raves will appear severely disabled. But the moment three of them come together they turn into “one being” with a shared consciousness that can do things that are unimaginable to us humans.Krakower was told the universe is an unborn living entity and that life in Earth will come to an end in about 1,200 years when it will be hit by a meteor. There will be no more biological life after Earth. However, this will be the beginning of yet another journey for us through the solar system with the emergence of the Eron. It will not eat or breathe. It will not die. And it will live as long as the universe exists.
Download or read book The Rave I Ching written by Ra Uru Hu and published by . This book was released on 1999-03-01 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Book of the Beginnings written by Gerald Massey and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book English Writings of Hu Shih written by Hu Shih and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hu Shih (1891-1962),. In the 1910s, Hu studied at Cornell University and later Columbia University, both in the United States. At Columbia, he was greatly influenced by his professor, John Dewey, and became a lifelong advocate of pragmatic evolutionary change. He received his Ph.D. in Philosophy in 1917 and returned to lecture at Peking University. Hu soon became one of the leading and most influential intellectuals during the May Fourth Movement and later the New Culture Movement. His most widely recognized achievement during this period was as a key contributor to Chinese liberalism and language reform in his advocacy for the use of written vernacular Chinese. Hu Shih was the Republic of China’s Ambassador to the United States of America (1938-1942) and later Chancellor of Peking University (1946-1948). In 1939 Hu Shih was nominated for a Nobel Prize in literature and in 1958 became president of the “Academia Sinica” in Taiwan, where he remained until his death in Nangang at the age of 71. This diverse collection brings together his English essays, speeches and academic papers, as well as book reviews, all written between 1919 and 1962. English Writings of Hu Shih represents his thinking and insights on such topics as scientific methodology, liberalism and democracy, and social problems. It can also serve as a helpful resource for those who study Hu Shih and his views on ancient and modern China. The first volume “Chinese Philosophy and Intellectual History” allows readers to trace the development of Chinese thought and see the historical methodology applied therein. The second volume “Literature and Society” mainly includes Hu Shih’s works on language reform, which owing to his advocacy for the use of written vernacular Chinese were a success in both the educational and literary fields. The third volume “National Crisis and Public Diplomacy” mainly collects Hu’s articles and speeches from his term as Ambassador of China to the U.S.A. between 1938 and 1942
Download or read book King Hu s A Touch of Zen written by Stephen Teo and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Touch of Zen is one of the first Chinese-language films to gain recognition in an international film festival (the Grand Prix at the 1975 Cannes Film Festival), creating the generic mould for the "crossover" success of Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon in 2000. The film has achieved a cult status over the years but little has been written about it. This first book-length study of the classic martial arts film therefore redresses its critical neglect, and explores its multi-leveled dimensions and mysteries. One of the central features of the film is the enigmatic knight-lady (xia nü) whose quest for revenge leads her to cross paths with a poor scholar whose interest in military strategy seals their alliance. Teo discusses the psychological manifestations and implications of this relationship and concludes that the film's continuing relevance lies in its portrait of sexuality and the feminist desires of the heroine. Teo also analyzes the film's form as an action piece and the director's preoccupation with Zen as a creative inspiration and as a subject in its own right. As such, he argues that the film is a highly unconventional and idiosyncratic work which attempts to transcend its own genre and reach the heights of universal transcendence. Teo grounds his study in both Western and Chinese literary sources, providing a broad and comprehensive treatise based on the film's narrative concepts and symbols.
Download or read book 1 Step Therapy Just Say Hu written by Michael Sebastian and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-08-21 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HU...the Holy Grail of Life! This book contains a Lost Secret that has the power to transform an individual in an instant. Two simple letters that when combined produce a harmonious, yet powerful vibration, that changes you from the inside out !!! HU is an Ancient yet forgotten Name of God found in most World Religions HU’man Refers to the God Force within Man HU uses the Power of Quantum Physics HU is the One Place where Science and Spirituality Actually Meet HU to Avoid Adversity and Never Get Blind-Sided Again HU to Enhance Intuition and Confi rm Your Gut Hunches HU before Bed and Say Good-bye to Insomnia and Nightmares HU to Unfold Spiritually and Tap into your Higher-Self HU to Overcome Addictions HU to Eliminate Stress and Anxiety 1-Step Therapy - Just Say HU 1 technique, 4 ways to do it, immediate relief, no RX needed, no therapist required! “Now that I HU before bed, when I wake up in the morning, the Xanax is still on the nightstand, the ashtray is still empty and the Diet Coke is still unopened.” -K.D., Michigan “HUing has helped me get over that obsessive, oppressive, urgent, seemingly hopeless drive to kill myself, and see other options...” -W.A., Washington “The HU cured my insomnia, and allowed me to sleep through the night for the fi rst time in as long as I remember.” -J.C., California
Download or read book Hu Feng written by Ruth Y. Y. Hung and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2020-11-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Ruth Y. Y. Hung provides a study of Hu Feng (1902–1985) as a critic, writer, and editor within the context of the People's Republic of China's political ascendancy. A member of the Japanese Communist Party and the Chinese Communist Party, Hu rose to fame in the 1940s and became a representative persecuted intellectual soon after 1949. "The Hu Feng Case" of 1955—more than a decade before the Cultural Revolution—was a significant, large-scale campaign of intellectual persecution. Hung examines Hu's work as a literary critic in this context, and examines the intricate historical and sociopolitical forces against which intellectuals in his milieu in twentieth-century China adopted Marxism as a measure of their critical position. She demonstrates how this first generation of modern Chinese literary critics practiced criticism, examining the skills and arguments they used to negotiate their institutional and ideological relations with state-party power. This exceptional case of intellectual engagement offers broader insight on critical literature's humanistic aims and methods in the context of intellectual globalization and changing political climates.
Download or read book King Hu s Kung Fu Cinematic Art written by Ya-chen Chen and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2024-04-03 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scholarly compendium offers a comprehensive analysis of King Hu’s transformative impact on Chinese martial arts cinema. It begins with a foundational examination of King Hu’s directorial influence, setting the stage for an in-depth exploration of his filmography, including critical works like Dragon Inn and A Touch of Zen. The volume employs advanced theoretical frameworks, such as David Bordwell’s film poetics, to dissect King Hu’s pervasive influence across generations of filmmakers, and the analysis of cultural translation and subtitling practices further illuminates the global dissemination and reception of Hu’s films. A critical focus is placed on King Hu’s oeuvre, analyzing its adaptability and intertextual resonance within broader artistic milieus. The book also critiques Hu’s representation of women in martial arts cinema, interrogating both progressive and problematic elements. Concluding sections emphasize Hu’s mastery in marrying classical Chinese narrative techniques with visual storytelling, highlighting his enduring legacy in the martial arts genre and global cinematic landscape. This volume asserts King Hu as a pivotal cultural auteur, whose work continues to shape cinematic expression and discourse, making it an essential resource for scholars in film studies and aficionados of wuxia cinema.
Download or read book HU the Most Beautiful Prayer written by Harold Klemp and published by ECKANKAR. This book was released on 2012-04-15 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our mother's heartbeat is one of the first sounds we experience in this world, and then comes her voice. When she sings a lullaby, it's a carrier for love to her child. In a similar way HU, the most beautiful prayer, is a carrier of love between you and God. Author Harold Klemp says, "The pure prayer to God is simply a song of love to the Creator. And the best one I know is the song of HU." Anyone can sing HU regardless of age, background, or religion. HU, the most beautiful prayer, is a gift to the world. It's a gift to you. The hardcover version of HU, the Most Beautiful Prayer also includes a CD with the sound of thousands of people singing this majestic love song to God. Whether you sing along with it or just listen, it can elevate your consciousness instantly. "If you want to lift yourself to a higher state of consciousness so that the political issues, the family issues, and social issues of the day do not throw you out of balance, so that you can find a happier, more contented life while you're living here," says author Harold Klemp, "sing HU, the most beautiful prayer." Eckankar is a modern-day spiritual teaching with ancient roots founded in 1965 by Paul Twitchell. Harold Klemp is the current spiritual leader of Eckankar since 1981.
