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The Immortal Woman
A Novel
- by
- Su Chang
2025
EN
Longlisted, 2025 Toronto Book AwardsFinalist, Foreword INDIES 2025 Book of the YearA CBC Best Book of 2025A sweeping generational story of heartbreak, resilience, and yearning, revealing an insider’s view of the fractured lives of Chinese immigrants and those they leave behind.Lemei, once a student Red Guard leader in 1960s Shanghai and a journalist at a state newspaper, was involved in a brut...
From Two to Three
Motivations and Outcomes in Chinese-initiated Tripartite Cooperation Infrastructure and Construction Projects
- by
- Chang Su
- Series -
- Economics and Finance (R0)
2026
EN
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Since 2015, China has actively promoted “third-party market cooperation” as a new model of international economic engagement. This approach brings together China, advanced economies, and beneficiary countries to jointly develop infrastructure and construction projects, moving beyond traditional bilateral cooperation framework. Official narratives portray tripartite cooperation as a “triple-win” arrangement that combines China’s manufacturing capacity, partner countries’ advanced technologi...
Interactive Segmentation Techniques
Algorithms and Performance Evaluation
2013
EN
This book focuses on interactive segmentation techniques, which have been extensively studied in recent decades. Interactive segmentation emphasizes clear extraction of objects of interest, whose locations are roughly indicated by human interactions based on high level perception. This book will first introduce classic graph-cut segmentation algorithms and then discuss state-of-the-art techniques, including graph matching methods, region merging and label propagation, clustering methods, a...
Unabridged
9 hours 54 min
2025
EN
By turns wry and lyrical, The Immortal Woman reveals an insider's view of the fractured lives of new Chinese immigrants and those they leave behind.A Chinese mother and daughter wrestle with the demons of their past. Lemei, once a student Red Guard leader in 1960s Shanghai and a journalist at a state newspaper, was involved in a brutal act of violence during the Tiananmen Square protests and lost all hope for her country. Her daughter, Lin, is a student at...
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- by
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