Download or read book Bad Elements written by Ian Buruma and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2002-11-12 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who speaks for China? Is it the old men of the politbureau or an activist like Wei Jingshsheng, who spent eighteen years in prison for writing a democratic manifesto? Is China’s future to be found amid the boisterous sleaze of an electoral campaign in Taiwan or in the maneuvers by which ordinary residents of Beijing quietly resist the authority of the state? These are among the questions that Ian Buruma poses in this enlightening and often moving tour of Chinese dissidence. Moving from the quarrelsome exile communities of the U. S. to Singapore and Hong Kong and from persecuted Christians to Internet “hacktivists,” Buruma captures an entire spectrum of opposition to the orthodoxies of the Communist Party. He explores its historical antecedents its conflicting notions of freedom and the paradoxical mix of courage and cussedness that inspires its members. Panoramic and intimate, disturbing and inspiring, Bad Elements is a profound meditation on the themes of national identity and political struggle.
Download or read book Eight Outcasts written by Yang Kuisong and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2019-12-17 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1949 Communist Revolution marked a period of earthshaking change in China. Political, economic, ideological, and cultural movements galvanized the country, culminating in dramatic social transformations at all levels, including the persecution of hundreds of thousands of the country’s citizens. Based on normally inaccessible records of confessions, interrogations, trial transcripts, and depositions, Eight Outcasts tells the stories of eight victims of the Maoist dictatorship. It introduces readers to individuals accused of infractions such as corruption, political wrong thinking, homosexuality, illicit sexual activity, foreign ties, or “historical problems” (connections to the former Kuomintang regime) in the period between the revolution and Mao’s death in 1976. Each chapter brings stories of China’s voiceless citizens to light, broadening our knowledge of this important transitional period.
Download or read book Cracking Programming Interviews written by Sergei Nakariakov and published by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-02-07 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part I Algorithms and Data Structures 1 Fundamentals Approximating the square root of a number Generating Permutation Efficiently Unique 5-bit Sequences Select Kth Smallest Element The Non-Crooks Problem Is this (almost) sorted? Sorting an almost sorted list The Longest Upsequence Problem Fixed size generic array in C++ Seating Problem Segment Problems Exponentiation Searching two-dimensional sorted array Hamming Problem Constant Time Range Query Linear Time Sorting Writing a Value as the Sum of Squares The Celebrity Problem Transport Problem Find Length of the rope Switch Bulb Problem In, On or Out The problem of the balanced seg The problem of the most isolated villages 2 Arrays The Plateau Problem Searching in Two Dimensional Sequence The Welfare Crook Problem 2D Array Rotation A Queuing Problem in A Post Office Interpolation Search Robot Walk Linear Time Sorting Write as sum of consecutive positive numbers Print 2D Array in Spiral Order The Problem of the Circular Racecourse Sparse Array Trick Bulterman’s Reshuffling Problem Finding the majority Mode of a Multiset Circular Array Find Median of two sorted arrays Finding the missing integer Finding the missing number with sorted columns Re-arranging an array Switch and Bulb Problem Compute sum of sub-array Find a number not sum of subsets of array Kth Smallest Element in Two Sorted Arrays Sort a sequence of sub-sequences Find missing integer Inplace Reversing Find the number not occurring twice in an array 3 Trees Lowest Common Ancestor(LCA) Problem Spying Campaign 4 Dynamic Programming Stage Coach Problem Matrix Multiplication TSP Problem A Simple Path Problem String Edit Distance Music recognition Max Sub-Array Problem 5 Graphs Reliable distribution Independent Set Party Problem 6 Miscellaneous Compute Next Higher Number Searching in Possibly Empty Two Dimensional Sequence Matching Nuts and Bolts Optimally Random-number generation Weighted Median Compute a^n Compute a^n revisited Compute the product a × b Compute the quotient and remainder Compute GCD Computed Constrained GCD Alternative Euclid’ Algorithm Revisit Constrained GCD Compute Square using only addition and subtraction Factorization Factorization Revisited Decimal Representation Reverse Decimal Representation Solve Inequality Solve Inequality Revisited Print Decimal Representation Decimal Period Length Sequence Periodicity Problem Compute Function Emulate Division and Modulus Operations Sorting Array of Strings : Linear Time LRU data structure Exchange Prefix and Suffix 7 Parallel Algorithms Parallel Addition Find Maximum Parallel Prefix Problem Finding Ranks in Linked Lists Finding the k th Smallest Element 8 Low Level Algorithms Manipulating Rightmost Bits Counting 1-Bits Counting the 1-bits in an Array Computing Parity of a word Counting Leading/Trailing 0’s Bit Reversal Bit Shuffling Integer Square Root Newton’s Method Integer Exponentiation LRU Algorithm Shortest String of 1-Bits Fibonacci words Computation of Power of 2 Round to a known power of 2 Round to Next Power of 2 Efficient Multiplication by Constants Bit-wise Rotation Gray Code Conversion Average of Integers without Overflow Least/Most Significant 1 Bit Next bit Permutation Modulus Division Part II C++ 8 General 9 Constant Expression 10 Type Specifier 11 Namespaces 12 Misc 13 Classes 14 Templates 15 Standard Library
Download or read book The Cambridge History of China Volume 15 The People s Republic Part 2 Revolutions Within the Chinese Revolution 1966 1982 written by John K. Fairbank and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1991-11-29 with total page 1142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International scholars and sinologists discuss culture, economic growth, social change, political processes, and foreign influences in China since the earliest pre-dynastic period.
Download or read book Maoism at the Grassroots written by Jeremy Brown and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maoism at the Grassroots challenges state-centered views of China under Mao, providing insights into the lives of citizens across social strata, ethnicities, and regions. It reveals how ordinary people risked persecution and imprisonment in order to assert personal beliefs and identities, despite political repression and surveillance.
Download or read book Small Groups and Political Rituals in China written by Martin King Whyte and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1974.
Download or read book Algorithms and Computation written by Rudolf Fleischer and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2004-12-03 with total page 951 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation, ISAAC 2004, held in Hong Kong, China in December 2004. The 76 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 226 submissions. Among the topics addressed are computational geometry, graph computations, computational combinatorics, combinatorial optimization, computational complexity, scheduling, distributed algorithms, parallel algorithms, data structures, network optimization, randomized algorithms, and computational mathematics more generally.
Download or read book Incidence Of Love Demystified And Decoded written by Santosh Jha and published by Santosh Jha. This book was released on 2017-06-01 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Million questions in love, about love – How to be sure, I am in love? What does it feel to be in love? Is this true love? Does she/he love me or love me not? What exactly is love? How to be an ideal lover, how to love the best possible way…? All 3Ms – Mystery, Marvel and Magic about love that create 3Cs – Confusion, Conflict and Chaos, now demystified. It is easy, simple, honest and impacting. New millennium; time to Unlearn archaic and populist Perceptions about the celebration of life-living called Love. Contemporary and factually logical Knowledge offers singular answer to millions of questions about Love. This book Deciphers and Decodes everything the idea and reality of Love can take in, to stand you as Empowered-Endowed Lover. Wisdom is Wellness. Let it sink in. What sinks, stays.
Download or read book Good Products Bad Products Essential Elements to Achieving Superior Quality written by James Adams and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2012-01-06 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the secret behind every successful product? Why are people willing to pay more for a BMW than a Chevrolet? How could Apple iPhones represent only 4% of the world’s cell phone market in 2011 but take in 50% of the profits? The answer is quality. In this provocative new book, bestselling author James L. Adams provides a brilliant, in-depth look at the powerful but elusive qualities that can make or break a product’s success. A must-read for managers, designers, manufacturers, and marketers, this groundbreaking approach will change the way you think about your product—and show you why it’s more important than ever to deliver the highest quality possible. In Good Products, Bad Products, you’ll learn how to: : Maximize your product’s performance—and minimize the cost Appeal to your customer’s emotions—with elegance and sophistication Make sure your product is a perfect fit—that’s human, cultural, and global With competition growing stronger and fiercer every year, product quality has become the number-one factor in a company’s success. Adams points out that there will always be a stable demand for a high-quality product. By addressing every aspect of product quality—from the technical to the practical to the aesthetic—you can develop a product that your company will be proud of and your customers will love. Along the way, you’ll hear fascinating case studies of famous brands that became victims of their own success—like Kodak, IBM, Zenith, and GM—and struggled to recover lost ground. You’ll see how some countries like Japan surged ahead by offering better products than anyone on the globe. You’ll learn how some U.S. manufacturers remained successful in spite of the foreign market’s lower wages. And you’ll discover the top industry secrets for prioritizing quality throughout the company, delivering products that are the best in their class. Now more than ever, quality matters. Good Products, Bad Products gives you the edge—so you can give your customers the best product possible. James L. Adams is professor emeritus at Stanford University, where he chaired several programs, taught courses on design and creativity, and participated in many executive programs. Trained as an engineer and artist, he has conducted corporate workshops around the world and has written the bestselling guide to creativity and innovation, Conceptual Blockbusting.
Download or read book The Criminal Process in the People s Republic of China 1949 1963 written by Jerome Alan Cohen and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1968 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume represents the fruits of a preliminary inquiry into one aspect of contemporary Chinese law-the criminal process. Investigating what he calls China's "legal experiment," Mr. Cohen raises large questions about Chinese law. Is the Peoples Republic a lawless power, arbitrarily disrupting the lives of its people? Has it sought to attain Marx's vision of the ultimate withering away of the state and the law? Has Mao Zedong preferred Soviet practice to Marxist preaching? If so, has he followed Stalin or Stalin's heirs? To what extent has it been possible to transplant a foreign legal system into the world's oldest legal tradition? Has the system changed since 1949? What has been the direction of that change, and what are the prospects for the future? Today, immense difficulties impede the study of any aspect of China's legal system. Most foreign scholars are forbidden to enter the country, and those who do visit China find solid data hard to come by. Much of the body of law is unpublished and available only to officialdom, and what is publicly available offers an incomplete, idealized, or outdated version of Chinese legal processes. Moreover, popular publications and legal journals that told much about the regime's first decade have become increasingly scarce and uninformative. In order to obtain information for this study, Mr. Cohen spent 1963-64 in Hong Kong, interviewing refugees from the mainland and searching out and translating material on Chinese criminal law. From the interviews and published works, he has endeavored to piece together relevant data in order to see the system as a whole. The first of the three parts of the book is an introductory essay, providing an overview of the evolution and operation of the criminal process from 1949 through 1963. The second part, constituting the bulk of the book, systematically presents primary source material, including excerpts from legal documents, policy statements, and articles in Chinese periodicals. In order to show the law in action as well as the law on the books, the author has included selections from written and oral accounts by persons who have lived in or visited the People's Republic. Interspersed among these diverse materials are Mr. Cohen's own comments, questions, and notes. Part III contains an English-Chinese glossary of the major institutional and legal terms translated in Part II, a bibliography of sources, and a list of English-language books and articles that are pertinent to an understanding of the criminal process in China.
Download or read book Combinatorial Algorithms written by Cristina Bazgan and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-05-29 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 33rd International Workshop on Combinatorial Algorithms, IWOCA 2022, which took place as a hybrid event in Trier, Germany, during June 7-9, 2022.The 35 papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 86 submissions. They deal with diverse topics related to combinatorial algorithms, such as algorithms and data structures; algorithmic and combinatorical aspects of cryptography and information security; algorithmic game theory and complexity of games; approximation algorithms; complexity theory; combinatorics and graph theory; combinatorial generation, enumeration and counting; combinatorial optimization; combinatorics of words; computational biology; computational geometry; decompositions and combinatorial designs; distributed and network algorithms; experimental combinatorics; fine-grained complexity; graph algorithms and modelling with graphs; graph drawing and graph labelling; network theory and temporal graphs; quantum computing and algorithms for quantum computers; online algorithms; parameterized and exact algorithms; probabilistic andrandomized algorithms; and streaming algorithms.
Download or read book Probability written by Jim Pitman and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a text for a one-quarter or one-semester course in probability, aimed at students who have done a year of calculus. The book is organised so a student can learn the fundamental ideas of probability from the first three chapters without reliance on calculus. Later chapters develop these ideas further using calculus tools. The book contains more than the usual number of examples worked out in detail. The most valuable thing for students to learn from a course like this is how to pick up a probability problem in a new setting and relate it to the standard body of theory. The more they see this happen in class, and the more they do it themselves in exercises, the better. The style of the text is deliberately informal. My experience is that students learn more from intuitive explanations, diagrams, and examples than they do from theorems and proofs. So the emphasis is on problem solving rather than theory.
Download or read book IDIOT LOVE and the Elements of Intimacy written by David Stromberg and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book turns our search for intimacy on its head, suggesting that our way to creativity in love may be through idiocy. The book takes its readers on a journey through the work of Plato and Melanie Klein in theorizing the dynamics of intimacy while exploring some of the paradoxical aspects of love in works by Fyodor Dostoevsky and French filmmaker Catherine Breillat. Revisiting core concepts of how we think about relationships, the book lays out a model for relational breakdown—the idiot lovecycle—in which we are constantly in the flux between seeing ourselves and seeing the other. Effecting close readings of literary, philosophical, and psychoanalytical sources, the book draws on parallels between these fields of inquiry while tracing their shared intellectual genealogy, suggesting that the tension between Narcissus and Cassandra, with its inherent conflicts, is also the space through which love emerges from intimacy.
Download or read book Class and Social Stratification in Post Revolution China written by James L. Watson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-24 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1984 book deals with those social transformations which occurred in Chinese society since the revolution in 1949. During the 1950s the Chinese Communist Party introduced a rigid system of class labels (e.g. landlord, rich peasant, middle peasant, landless labourer) based on pre-revolutionary notions of exploitation and property ownership. The class label system was a source of much social discontent during the 1960s and mid-1970s; the official use of labels ceased by the time of this book's publication, but the effects of the system are still felt by millions of Chinese. The book will be of interest to a wide range of readers, not just those who specialise in Chinese social history. Contributors include two anthropologists, one historian, three political scientists, and three sociologists.
Download or read book Mao s Road to Power Revolutionary Writings 1912 49 v 4 The Rise and Fall of the Chinese Soviet Republic 1931 34 written by Zedong Mao and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 1291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This projected ten-volume edition of Mao Zedong's writings provides abundant documentation in his own words regarding his life and thought. It has been compiled from all available Chinese sources, including the many new texts that appeared in 1993, Mao's centenary.
Download or read book Understanding Robust and Exploratory Data Analysis written by David C. Hoaglin and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2000-06-02 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in hardcover in 1982, this book is now offered in a Wiley Classics Library edition. A contributed volume, edited by some of the preeminent statisticians of the 20th century, Understanding of Robust and Exploratory Data Analysis explains why and how to use exploratory data analysis and robust and resistant methods in statistical practice.
Download or read book Advances in Cryptology EUROCRYPT 2017 written by Jean-Sébastien Coron and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-04-10 with total page 713 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The three-volume proceedings LNCS 10210-10212 constitute the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 36th Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques, EUROCRYPT 2017, held in Paris, France, in April/May 2017. The 67 full papers included in these volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from 264 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections named: lattice attacks and constructions; obfuscation and functional encryption; discrete logarithm; multiparty computation; universal composability; zero knowledge; side-channel attacks and countermeasures; functional encryption; elliptic curves; symmetric cryptanalysis; provable security for symmetric cryptography; security models; blockchain; memory hard functions; symmetric-key constructions; obfuscation; quantum cryptography; public-key encryption and key-exchange.
