This open access book focuses on modern interpretations of topics such as the origin and development, functional value, inheritance and protection, and resource transformation of China's excellent traditional culture. It involves special research on five aspects: cultural heritage, folk literature, folk culture, urban culture, and rural culture. This book contains specific research contents such as the historical and cultural significance of the Sanxingdui bronze straight-eyed human face s...

This book is a timely and much-needed comprehensive compilation that reflects the development of research on consumption and communication in the conflation of the real and digital worlds, bringing together the current state of thinking about the phygital reality market and the cutting-edge challenges that are involved. In this book, the term “phygital reality market” is used, implying that the physical, digital, and virtual realms are fused into one to recognize and understand the market ...

This book primarily investigates the historical development, fundamental theories, and resource utilization of China’s cultural industry, as well as the role of technological innovation in promoting the cultural industry’s growth. It specifically covers the historical choices and experiences of cultural industry development strategies since China’s reform and opening up, the achievements and future strategies of policies on cultural industry since the 18th National Congress, the core eleme...

This book describes and clarifies how certain problems can be resolved in Japan and Asia. For the future, the focus should be on Japan, which can provide "common knowledge" as a public good. The book collects the results of researchers in Japan, China, South Korea, and Indonesia on declining birthrates and aging, rapid technological innovation and societal changes, and recovery from natural disasters.Chapter 1 covers Japanese social welfare system reform and transformation of socia...

This book explores the impact of digital technology on the preservation and transmission of intangible cultural heritage and the evolution of cultural industries. The first section highlights the crucial role of digital technology in the protection and dissemination of intangible heritage. The second section theoretically analyzes the multifaceted relationships in the development of digital and cultural industry and examines the characteristics of cultural consumption in the digital econom...

This book presents a comprehensive and systematic study of the narrative history and narrative methods of Chinese and Western popular fiction from the perspectives of narratology, comparative literature, and art and literature studies by adopting the methodology of parallel comparison. The book is a pioneering work that systematically investigates the similarities and differences between Chinese and Western popular fiction, and traces the root causes leading to the differences. By means of...

This book discusses the security issues in a wide range of wireless devices and systems, such as RFID, Bluetooth, ZigBee, GSM, LTE, and GPS. It collects the findings of recent research by the UnicornTeam at 360 Technology, and reviews the state-of-the-art literature on wireless security. The book also offers detailed case studies and theoretical treatments – specifically it lists numerous laboratory procedures, results, plots, commands and screenshots from real-world experiments. It is a v...

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Critical Plant Studies in Taiwan presents a historical overview of vegetal ecocriticism in Taiwan. Divided into 12 chapters, it examines the human-plant entanglements on the island. Covering a wide spectrum of topics, such as the imperial plant explorations, the military casuarina afforestation, the mangrove conservation movement, the ecofeminist rooftop garden, the Indigenous millet restoration, the underground mycorrhizal network in urban Taipei, etc., it discloses the phyto-pol...

Avec la mondialisation qui affaiblit leurs frontières et leurs souverainetés, les États seraient-ils désormais marginaux sur la scène du monde ? Le débat sur « la fin des États » a pu le laisser croire ; mais on assisterait plutôt à une prolifération des « désirs d’États », divers et contradictoires. Politique étrangère s’interroge sur le rôle et le destin de ces États, si différents selon leurs histoires et leurs environnements.États à reconstruire (Syrie, Irak), chancela...

Spaces of Creative Resistance: Social Change Projects in Twenty-First-Century East Asiabrings together an exciting cross-regional interdisciplinary group of scholars, scholar activists, artists, and others for a collection that addresses the last two decades' hollowing out of social connections, socioeconomic income gaps, and general precarity of life in East Asian societies. Written by authors from China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, each chapter is focused on peopl...

Taiwan has become a new flashpoint in Sino-U.S. relations in recent years. The nation just concluded its presidential and legislative elections in January 2024. The incumbent Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) won a pyrrhic victory—with DPP keeping the presidential seat but losing the majority in Taiwan’s Legislative Yuan (Congress). The political status of Taiwan is one of the few, if not the only, issues that have won bipartisan support. New Developments in the Trilateral Relationshi...