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Book Youth Peak

    Book Details:
  • Author : Dao Yan
  • Publisher : Funstory
  • Release : 2020-06-05
  • ISBN : 164948254X
  • Pages : 1032 pages

Download or read book Youth Peak written by Dao Yan and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-06-05 with total page 1032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dark path was too lonely and extreme! For love? For justice? For power? For money? Li Wenfeng, this godlike man, was brought to the peak of the underworld.

Book Performance  Masculinity  and Self Injury

Download or read book Performance Masculinity and Self Injury written by Lucy Weir and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-08-20 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an ambitious and expansive examination of the visual language of self-injury in performance art from the 1960s to the present. Inspired by the gendered nature of discussion around self-harm, the book challenges established readings of risk-taking and self-injury in global performance practice. The interdisciplinary methodology draws from art history and sociology to provide a new critical analysis of the relationship between masculinity and self-inflicted injury. Based upon interviews with a range of artists around the world, it offers an innovative understanding of the diverse meanings behind self-injury in performance, and delves into the gendered coding of self-harming bodies. Individual chapters examine the work of Ron Athey, Günter Brus, Wafaa Bilal, Franko B, André Stitt, Pyotr Pavlensky, and Yang Zhichao, offering a new perspective on the forms and functions of self-injury in performance art. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, performance studies, gender studies, and cultural studies.

Book Performance Art in China

    Book Details:
  • Author : Thomas J. Berghuis
  • Publisher : Timezone 8 Limited
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 9789889926595
  • Pages : 328 pages

Download or read book Performance Art in China written by Thomas J. Berghuis and published by Timezone 8 Limited. This book was released on 2006 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Performance Art in China takes as its subject one of the most dynamic and controversial areas of experimental art practice in China. In his comprehensive study, Sydney-based theorist and art historian Thomas J. Berghuis introduces and investigates the idea of the "role of the mediated subject of the acting body in art," a notion grounded in the realization that the body is always present in art practice, as well as its subsequent, secondary representations. Through a series of in-depth case studies, Berghuis reveals how, during the past 25 years, Chinese performance artists have "acted out" their art, often in opposition to the principles governing correct behavior in the public domain. In addition to a 25-year chronology of events, a systematic index of places, names and key terms, as well as a bibliography and a glossary in English and Chinese, this study also offers the reader numerous previously unpublished photos and documents.

Book Information Security and Privacy

Download or read book Information Security and Privacy written by Joonsang Baek and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-11-03 with total page 715 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 26th Australasian Conference on Information Security and Privacy, ACISP 2021, held in Perth, WA, Australia, in November 2021. The 35 full papers presented were carefully revised and selected from 157 submissions. The papers present and discuss all aspects of information security and privacy as well as machine learning for privacy and much more.

Book Clinical and basic research on endovascular repair and branch reconstruction for the treatment of lesions involving the aortic arch

Download or read book Clinical and basic research on endovascular repair and branch reconstruction for the treatment of lesions involving the aortic arch written by Hongkun Zhang and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2023-08-22 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Asian Histories and Heritages in Video Games

Download or read book Asian Histories and Heritages in Video Games written by Yowei Kang and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-08-28 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the representations of national Asian histories in digital games. Situated at the intersection of regional game studies and historical game studies, this book offers chapters on histories and heritages of Japan, China, Iran, Iraq, Taiwan, South Korea, Indonesia, Singapore, Turkey, and Russia. The volume looks beyond the diversity of the local histories depicted in games, and the audience reception of these histories, to show a diversity of approaches which can be used in examining historical games– from postcolonialism to identity politics to heritage studies. It demonstrates various methodological approaches to historical/regional game studies: case studies of nationally produced historical games that deal with local history, studies of media reception of history/heritage-themed games, text-mining methods studying attitudes expressed by players of such games, and educational perspectives on games in teaching cultural heritage. Through the lens of videogames, the authors explore how nations struggle with the legacies of war, colonialism and religious strife that have been a part of nation-building - but also how victimized cultures can survive, resist, and sometimes prevail. Appealing primarily to scholars in the fields of game studies, heritage studies, postcolonial criticism, and media studies, this book will be particularly useful for the subfields of historical game studies and postcolonial game studies.

Book Beyond Sinology

    Book Details:
  • Author : Andrea Bachner
  • Publisher : Columbia University Press
  • Release : 2014-01-21
  • ISBN : 0231536305
  • Pages : 297 pages

Download or read book Beyond Sinology written by Andrea Bachner and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2014-01-21 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New communication and information technologies provide distinct challenges and possibilities for the Chinese script, which, unlike alphabetic or other phonetic scripts, relies on multiple signifying principles. In recent decades, this multiplicity has generated a rich corpus of reflection and experimentation in literature, film, visual and performance art, and design and architecture, within both China and different parts of the West. Approaching this history from a variety of alternative theoretical perspectives, Beyond Sinology reflects on the Chinese script to pinpoint the multiple connections between languages, scripts, and medial expressions and cultural and national identities. Through a complex study of intercultural representations, exchanges, and tensions, the text focuses on the concrete "scripting" of identity and alterity, advancing a new understanding of the links between identity and medium and a critique of articulations that rely on single, monolithic, and univocal definitions of writing. Chinese writing—with its history of divergent readings in Chinese and non-Chinese contexts, with its current reinvention in the age of new media and globalization—can teach us how to read and construct mediality and cultural identity in interculturally responsible ways and also how to scrutinize, critique, and yet appreciate and enjoy the powerful multi-medial creativity embodied in writing.

Book Cryptology and Network Security

Download or read book Cryptology and Network Security written by Yi Mu and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-10-11 with total page 535 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Cryptology and Network Security, CANS 2019, held in Fuzhou, China, in October 2019. The 21 full papers and 8 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 55 submissions. The papers focus on topics such as homomorphic encryption; SIKE and Hash; lattice and post-quantum cryptography; searchable encryption; blockchains, cloud security; secret sharing and interval test, LWE; encryption, data aggregation, and revocation; and signature, ML, payment, and factorization.

Book Frontiers in Cyber Security

Download or read book Frontiers in Cyber Security written by Bazhong Shen and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-11-08 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the proceedings of the Second International Conference on Frontiers in Cyber Security, FCS 2019, held in Xi'an, China, in November 2019. The 20 full papers along with the 2 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 67 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on: symmetric key cryptography; public key cryptography; post-quantum cryptography: signature; attack and behavior detection; authenticated key agreement; blockchain; system and network security.

Book Urban Rural Transformation Geography

Download or read book Urban Rural Transformation Geography written by Yansui Liu and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-10-25 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book attempts to introduce the theory of system science and engineering technology into the geographic research of urban-rural transformation, reveals the level-structure-function of urban-rural transformation, and promotes the scientific research on urban-rural transformation. Focusing on the systematic diagnosis of new-type urbanization, urban-rural land use, industrial structure transformation and public facilities allocation, this book explores the long-term mechanism, innovative model, and scientific way of urban-rural land optimal allocation and spatial reconstruction and develops urban-rural transformation geography. In terms of the contents, the book constructs the theory and method system of urban-rural transformation geography, analyzes the process, pattern, mechanism, and response of urban-rural transformation, reveals the evolution characteristics, types, and regional differences of urban-rural regional system, and finally puts forward the optimal decision-making of urban-rural transformation. This book not only provides references for graduate and researchers in geography, regional development, urban and rural planning, resource science, environmental science, human-earth system science, sustainability science, and other related fields but also guides the decision-making of planners and government officials.

Book Information and Communications Security

Download or read book Information and Communications Security written by Cristina Alcaraz and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-08-23 with total page 649 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This LNCS 13407 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Information and Communications Security, ICICS 2022, held in Canterbury, UK,, in September 2022. The 34 revised full papers presented in the book were carefully selected from 150 submissions The papers are organized around the following topics: Cryptography, Authentication, Privacy and Anonymity, Attacks and Vulnerability Analysis, Artificial Intelligence for Detection, and Network Security and Forensics.

Book China Live

    Book Details:
  • Author : Daniel Brine
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 160 pages

Download or read book China Live written by Daniel Brine and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: England between the wars was a paradise of calm and leisure for the very, very rich. Into this enclave is born Mrs. Emmeline Lucas—La Lucia, as she is known—a woman determined to lead a life quite different from the subdued formality of her class. With her cohort, Georgie Pillson, and her husband, Peppino, Lucia upends the greats of high society: the imperious Lady Ambermere and her equally imperious dog, Pug; the odious Piggy and Goosie Antrobus; the Christian Scientist Daisy Quantrock, with her penchant for the foreign; and all the rest of the small English town that the British rich call their country home. Beset on all sides by pretenders to her social throne, Lucia brings culture, fine arts, excitement, and intrigue into this cloistered realm.

Book Intelligent computing research with applications in biotechnology

Download or read book Intelligent computing research with applications in biotechnology written by Yu Xue and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2024-01-22 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Environmentally Benign Machining

Download or read book Environmentally Benign Machining written by Şenol Bayraktar and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2024-09-05 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides essential information on environmentally benign/sustainable machining processes including innovations and developments in conventional machining, considering economy, safety, and productivity. Developments in machine tools, recent research on green lubricants and lubrication techniques, process hybridization, and the role of optimization techniques are discussed. Green machining of difficult-to-machine materials and composites is also explained with attempts towards making electric discharge and electrochemical machining technologies. Features: Covers up to date and latest information on environmentally benign machining technologies. Includes current approaches regarding the machinability properties of biomaterials, smart materials, and difficult-to-cut materials. Reviews theoretical understanding and practical aspects of using different technological approaches to attain sustainability in machining. Includes sustainability aspects for both conventional and modern machining. Aids industrial users in the optimum selection of machining parameters with regard to sustainability. This book is aimed at researchers and professionals in manufacturing and mechanical engineering, and sustainable processes.

Book From Underground to Independent

Download or read book From Underground to Independent written by Paul G. Pickowicz and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2006-08-11 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking book presents a critical introduction to the cultural and political dimensions of contemporary Chinese cinema. Leading Western and Chinese scholars trace the changing dynamics of Chinese film culture since the early 1990s as it moves away from underground and toward independence in the new century. Yet as the rich case studies illustrate, the sheer variety of alternative film culture itself provides sufficient opportunities for different—at times contradictory—configurations of cinematic products. Drawing on vigorous interdisciplinary scholarship, the book investigates the objects of its study from various methodological perspectives, ranging from historical and literary to sociological and ethnographic. In addition to offering critical readings of specific texts, this book explores alternative film culture through personal interviews, on-site observations, and media interrogations, from traditional print media to the visual media of film, television, and video, including the new digital media of the Internet. The contributors also consider the flourishing independent documentary filmmaking scene, highlighting a crucial part of alternative film that has been previously obscured by an almost exclusive attention on the fifth- and sixth-generation directors of fictional movies. With its fresh and knowledgeable analysis of Chinese underground and independent filmmaking, this book will be essential reading for all those interested in a society caught between socialism and global currents. Contributions by: Chris Berry, Jim Cheng, Valerie Jaffee, Matthew David Johnson, Tonglin Lu, Chen Mo, Seio Nakajima, Paul G. Pickowicz, Zhiwei Xiao, and Yingjin Zhang.

Book Human iPS Cells in Disease Modelling

Download or read book Human iPS Cells in Disease Modelling written by Keiichi Fukuda and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-03-30 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human iPS cells have a great potential to be cell sources for regenerative medicine because of the promise of infinite self-renewal and the capability to differentiate into multiple cell types. This book focuses on another great potential of human iPS cells, which is the establishment of human disease models using patient-specific iPS cells. Human iPS cells can be easily obtained from a patient’s somatic cells and provide the entire information on the patient’s genome. Accordingly, we can generate disease models for inheritable diseases in cell culture dishes using iPS cells. This is a quite new technique but holds tremendous potential for our increased understanding of pathogenesis, and will then be the basis for novel drug development industries. All the authors are leading researchers in this field and they have reported many kinds of patient-derived iPS cells. In this book, they introduce the aspects that could be recapitulated in terms of disease modelling as well as further innovative findings such as novel pathogenetic insights and novel therapies.

Book Security and Privacy in Social Networks and Big Data

Download or read book Security and Privacy in Social Networks and Big Data written by Weizhi Meng and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-10-23 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes revised and selected papers from the 5th International Symposium on Security and Privacy in Social Networks and Big Data, SocialSec 2019, held in Copenhagen, Denmark, in July 2019. The 18 full papers and 3 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 76 submissions. The papers in the volume cover a broad range of topics on security in Internet-of-things, Social Networks, User Authentication, Algorithm design, Artificial Intelligence, and Big Data.