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Book Chung Kuo  the Middle Kingdom

Download or read book Chung Kuo the Middle Kingdom written by David Wingrove and published by Dell. This book was released on 1990 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stunning debut of a new storyteller takes place with a vast epic tale of passions and conflicts, of tyranny and the struggle for freedom in a startling and fascinating alternative world--a future when the Chinese rule the Earth.

Book The White Mountain

    Book Details:
  • Author : David Wingrove
  • Publisher : Atlantic Books Ltd
  • Release : 2014-03-06
  • ISBN : 0857898256
  • Pages : 254 pages

Download or read book The White Mountain written by David Wingrove and published by Atlantic Books Ltd. This book was released on 2014-03-06 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A City Under Threat The year is 2207. Currents of unrest and tides of innovation threaten to overwhelm Chung Kuo's stability. And some threats are beyond the immense City's control. When a lethal epidemic strikes the Seven's chief supporters, Li Yuan acts ruthlessly to wipe out the disease. But his actions incur far more fatal consequences for the rule of the Seven. A Ruthless Response While the Seven splinters, Kwibesi, the detention camp for terrorists, continues to establish order. However, rebellion is brutally contained inside the camp and a growing sense of injustice stirs in its guard, Kao Chen, who begins to question his sense of duty. The Seven are divided amongst themselves, and around them allegiances are shifting.

Book Son of Heaven

    Book Details:
  • Author : David Wingrove
  • Publisher : Atlantic Books Ltd
  • Release : 2011-02-03
  • ISBN : 0857891693
  • Pages : 385 pages

Download or read book Son of Heaven written by David Wingrove and published by Atlantic Books Ltd. This book was released on 2011-02-03 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first instalment in the epic 20-volume series, Chung Kuo: a science fiction masterpiece standing alongside Herbert's Dune and Asimov's Foundation The year is 2065, two decades after the great economic collapse that destroyed Western civilization. With its power broken and its cities ruined, life in the West continues in scattered communities. In rural Dorset Jake Reed lives with his 14-year-old son and memories of the great collapse. Back in '43, Jake was a rich, young futures broker, immersed in the datascape of the world's financial markets. He saw what was coming - and who was behind it. Forewarned, he was one of the few to escape the fall. For 22 years he has lived in fear of the future, and finally it is coming - quite literally - across the plain towards him. Chinese airships are in the skies and a strange, glacial structure has begun to dominate the horizon. Jake finds himself forcibly incorporated into the ever-expanding 'World of Levels' a global city of some 34 billion souls, where social status is reflected by how far above the ground you live. Here, under the rule of the mighty Tsao Ch'un, a resurgent China is seeking to abolish the past and bring about world peace through rigidly enforced order. But a civil war looms, and Jake will find himself at the heart of the struggle for the future.

Book The Broken Wheel

    Book Details:
  • Author : David Wingrove
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1991
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The Broken Wheel written by David Wingrove and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book White Moon  Red Dragon

Download or read book White Moon Red Dragon written by David Wingrove and published by Dell. This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2215, a disturbance ripples through space as a ship passes invisibly onward to its destiny. In it is the rebel DeVore, a master of stealth and subterfuge, thought dead by his enemies, but very much alive - and getting ready to bring a terrifying flotilla against the T'ang, the dictators of Earth. On Mars, another rebel, the long-exiled Hans Ebert, meets with a lost African tribe, the Osu, to reveal his audacious plan - to take them home. And on Earth, the mega-cities of the T'ang begin to crumble as war ripples across the planet. It is a time of change, of endings, of beginnings. It is an era when the last of the T'angs, Li Yuan, will make a terrifying alliance...when chaos will strike in the form of human-looking androids programmed to kill...and when Emily Ascher, a woman dedicated to liberty for all the billions the T'ang have kept in chains, will see her vision blossom, though its color will be bloodred and blurred by tears...

Book The Middle Kingdom

    Book Details:
  • Author : David Wingrove
  • Publisher : Atlantic Books (UK)
  • Release : 2012-08
  • ISBN : 9781848877306
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The Middle Kingdom written by David Wingrove and published by Atlantic Books (UK). This book was released on 2012-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year is 2196. After more than a century of peace and stability, Chung Kuo - the great Empire of Ice controlled by seven ruling kings, the T'ang - has finally been shaken. Lwo Kang, Minister of the Edict - the legal instrument that prevents change - has been assassinated; blown away while in the imperial solarium.

Book Nitride Semiconductor Light Emitting Diodes  LEDs

Download or read book Nitride Semiconductor Light Emitting Diodes LEDs written by Jian-Jang Huang and published by Woodhead Publishing. This book was released on 2014-02-14 with total page 673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The development of nitride-based light-emitting diodes (LEDs) has led to advancements in high-brightness LED technology for solid-state lighting, handheld electronics, and advanced bioengineering applications. Nitride Semiconductor Light-Emitting Diodes (LEDs) reviews the fabrication, performance, and applications of this technology that encompass the state-of-the-art material and device development, and practical nitride-based LED design considerations. Part one reviews the fabrication of nitride semiconductor LEDs. Chapters cover molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) growth of nitride semiconductors, modern metalorganic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) techniques and the growth of nitride-based materials, and gallium nitride (GaN)-on-sapphire and GaN-on-silicon technologies for LEDs. Nanostructured, non-polar and semi-polar nitride-based LEDs, as well as phosphor-coated nitride LEDs, are also discussed. Part two covers the performance of nitride LEDs, including photonic crystal LEDs, surface plasmon enhanced LEDs, color tuneable LEDs, and LEDs based on quantum wells and quantum dots. Further chapters discuss the development of LED encapsulation technology and the fundamental efficiency droop issues in gallium indium nitride (GaInN) LEDs. Finally, part three highlights applications of nitride LEDs, including liquid crystal display (LCD) backlighting, infrared emitters, and automotive lighting. Nitride Semiconductor Light-Emitting Diodes (LEDs) is a technical resource for academics, physicists, materials scientists, electrical engineers, and those working in the lighting, consumer electronics, automotive, aviation, and communications sectors. - Reviews fabrication, performance, and applications of this technology that encompass the state-of-the-art material and device development, and practical nitride-based LED design considerations - Covers the performance of nitride LEDs, including photonic crystal LEDs, surface plasmon enhanced LEDs, color tuneable LEDs, and LEDs based on quantum wells and quantum dots - Highlights applications of nitride LEDs, including liquid crystal display (LCD) backlighting, infra-red emitters, and automotive lighting

Book Problems and Solutions on Solid State Physics  Relativity and Miscellaneous Topics

Download or read book Problems and Solutions on Solid State Physics Relativity and Miscellaneous Topics written by Yung-kuo Lim and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1995 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crystal structures and properties (1001-1027) - Electron theory, energy bands and semiconductors (1028-1051) - Electromagnetic properties, optical properties and superconductivity (1052-1076) - Other topics (1077-1081) - Special relativity (2001-2007) - General relativity 2008-2023) - Relativistic cosmology (2024-2028) - History of physics and general questions (3001-3025) - Measurements, estimations and errors (3026-3048) - Mathematical techniques (3049-3056).

Book The Empire of Time

    Book Details:
  • Author : David Wingrove
  • Publisher : Random House
  • Release : 2014-04-03
  • ISBN : 1448177561
  • Pages : 498 pages

Download or read book The Empire of Time written by David Wingrove and published by Random House. This book was released on 2014-04-03 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is only the war. Otto Behr is a German agent, fighting his Russian counterparts across three millennia, manipulating history for moments in time that can change everything. Only the remnants of two great nations stand and for Otto, the war is life itself, the last hope for his people. But in a world where realities shift and memory is never constant, nothing is certain, least of all the chance of a future with his Russian love...

Book Three Dimensional Holographic Imaging

Download or read book Three Dimensional Holographic Imaging written by Chung J. Kuo and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2003-04-08 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive survey of the state of the art in 3-D holographic imaging techniques and applications This book introduces the general concepts of both real-time and non-real-time 3-D holographic imaging techniques for scientific and engineering applications. It offers readers a fundamental understanding of the concepts of 3-D holographic imaging as well as cost-effective design and implementation. World-renowned experts in the field provide in-depth discussion of the following topics: * Holograms of real and virtual point trajectories * Self-stabilized real-time holographic recording * Principles and applications of optical scanning holography * Tangible, dynamic holographic images * Holographic laser radar * Preliminary studies on compression of interference patterns in electronic holography * Photoelectronic principles, components, and applications * Design and implementation of computer-generated hologram and diffractive optical elements * Catastrophe analysis as the basis for visual perception Three-Dimensional Holographic Imaging is the most complete survey available of the fundamental topics in the field, ideal for electrical engineers, optical scientists, and advanced CAD/CAM systems engineers engaged in the design and construction of advanced imaging systems.

Book Lost in Translation

Download or read book Lost in Translation written by Homay King and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2010-08-09 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a nuanced exploration of how Western cinema has represented East Asia as a space of radical indecipherability, Homay King traces the long-standing association of the Orient with the enigmatic. The fantasy of an inscrutable East, she argues, is not merely a side note to film history, but rather a kernel of otherness that has shaped Hollywood cinema at its core. Through close readings of The Lady from Shanghai, Chinatown, Blade Runner, Lost in Translation, and other films, she develops a theory of the “Shanghai gesture,” a trope whereby orientalist curios and décor become saturated with mystery. These objects and signs come to bear the burden of explanation for riddles that escape the Western protagonist or cannot be otherwise resolved by the plot. Turning to visual texts from outside Hollywood which actively grapple with the association of the East and the unintelligible—such as Michelangelo Antonioni’s Chung Kuo: Cina, Wim Wenders’s Notebook on Cities and Clothes, and Sophie Calle’s Exquisite Pain—King suggests alternatives to the paranoid logic of the Shanghai gesture. She argues for the development of a process of cultural “de-translation” aimed at both untangling the psychic enigmas prompting the initial desire to separate the familiar from the foreign, and heightening attentiveness to the internal alterities underlying Western subjectivity.

Book An Inch of Ashes

    Book Details:
  • Author : David Wingrove
  • Publisher : Atlantic Books Ltd
  • Release : 2013-07-04
  • ISBN : 0857898191
  • Pages : 255 pages

Download or read book An Inch of Ashes written by David Wingrove and published by Atlantic Books Ltd. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Restless Peace It is 2206. As Chung Kuo's population continues to swell, the Seven - the ruling T'angs - are forced make further concessions; laws must be relaxed and the House at Weinmar reopened. Change is coming, whether the Seven like it or not. A Secret War The tides of unrest unleashed by earlier wars grow faster even than the population. DeVore secretly allies with newly appointed general, Hans Ebert. It seems that DeVore's plans are coming to fruition. But Ebert has his own schemes and plots - he intends to depose the Seven and control the whole of Chung Kuo.

Book Arts and Crafts of China

    Book Details:
  • Author : Scott Minick
  • Publisher : Thames & Hudson
  • Release : 1996
  • ISBN : 9780500278963
  • Pages : 128 pages

Download or read book Arts and Crafts of China written by Scott Minick and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 1996 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the arts and crafts tradition of China, including textiles, jewelry, lacquer, clay, bamboo, paper, and wood

Book The Indiana Companion to Traditional Chinese Literature

Download or read book The Indiana Companion to Traditional Chinese Literature written by William H. Nienhauser and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ""A vertitable feast of concise, useful, reliable, and up-to-dateinformation (all prepared by top scholars in the field), Nienhauser's now two-volumetitle stands alone as THE standard reference work for the study of traditionalChinese literature. Nothing like it has ever been published."" --Choice The second volume to The Indiana Companion to TraditionalChinese Literature is both a supplement and an update to the original volume. VolumeII includes over 60 new entries on famous writers, works, and genres of traditionalChinese literature, followed by an extensive bibliographic update (1985-1997) ofeditions, translations, and studies (primarily in English, Chinese, Japanese, French, and German) for the 500+ entries of Volume I.

Book Revolution and History

    Book Details:
  • Author : Arif Dirlik
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 1989-09-18
  • ISBN : 9780520067578
  • Pages : 316 pages

Download or read book Revolution and History written by Arif Dirlik and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1989-09-18 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A fascinating contribution to Marxist historiography and to the history of Marxist historiography. Dirlik's story of the reemergence of the modes of production debate in the early years of the Chinese revolution has much to tell us about that debate itself, and not least about its intimate relationship to political practice and revolutionary strategy."—Fredric Jameson, Duke University

Book Daylight on Iron Mountain

    Book Details:
  • Author : David Wingrove
  • Publisher : Atlantic Books Ltd
  • Release : 2011-11-01
  • ISBN : 0857894323
  • Pages : 436 pages

Download or read book Daylight on Iron Mountain written by David Wingrove and published by Atlantic Books Ltd. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CHANGE IS ON THE AIR: The generals of the Middle Kingdom await the decision of the emperor. The campaign to secure the border from China to Iraq has reached a strange impasse. Two blood enemies - Arabs & Jews - have united against their common cause. But with the lives of thousands at his whim, the exalted Tsao Ch'un, the Son of Heaven, cannot decide. Destroy the Middle East in one blinding flash? Or take another path? BUT THE WAY IS UNCLEAR: In the court of Tsao Ch'un, men of power have become smiling lackeys, whose graces conceal their fear, or their ambition. A man that can be trusted absolutely is a rare thing. And so, with his family held hostage by the empire, General Jiang Lei finds himself appointed to a special task: the orchestration of the last great war against the West. The total dominion of America. WAR APPROACHES: But life in the world of levels continues. No hint of war, or want, or discontent can infiltrate the oppressive, ordered society that replaces the world Jake Reed once knew. Since the first airships rolled over the horizon, nothing has been the same. His new life means new thinking, new customs, a new way of behaving, & with his every move scrutinized, Jake can only serve the bureaucracy of new China. But he is not the only citizen who feels discontent with the anodyne new order.

Book The Stone Within

    Book Details:
  • Author : David Wingrove
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1993
  • ISBN : 9780450579639
  • Pages : 627 pages

Download or read book The Stone Within written by David Wingrove and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 627 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science fiction roman om Kina i slutningen af 2100-tallet