A Magazine of Science Fiction and FantasyISSUE 54, January 2022Lezli Robyn, EditorTaylor Morris, CopyeditorShahid Mahmud, PublisherStories by Lucas Carroll-Garrett, Christopher Henckel, Mike Resnick, Effie Seiberg, Galen Westlake, Robert Silverberg, Mica Scotti Kole, Edward M. Lerner, Wang Yuan, Kristine Kathryn RuschJean Marie Ward Interviews John Scalzi (Part 1)Serialization: Over the Wine Dark Sea by Harry TurtledoveColumns...

Clarkesworld is a Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine. Each month we bring you a mix of fiction, articles, interviews and art. Our December 2021 issue (#183) contains:Original fiction by Aimee Ogden ("The Cold Calculations"), Meghan Feldman ("Beneath the Earth Where the Nymphs Sleep"), David Goodman ("Vegvísir"), Rich Larson ("You Are Born Exploding"), Wang Yuan ("Other Stories"), E. N. Díaz ("Just One Step, and Then the Next"), and Amal ...

Clarkesworld is a Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine. Each month we bring you a mix of fiction (new and classic works), articles, interviews and art.Our December 2016 issue (#123) contains:Original stories by Maggie Clark ("A Tower for the Coming World"), Wang Yuan ("Painter of Stars"), Eleanor Arnason ("Checkerboard Planet"), Yukimi Ogawa ("Blue Grey Blue"), and Yosef Lindell ("A Future Far Too Bright").Reprin...

China's reform and opening-up have contributed to its long-term and rapid economic development, resulting in a much stronger economic strength and much better life for its people. Meanwhile, the deepening economic integration between China and the world has resulted in an increasingly complex environment, growing influencing factors and severe challenges to China's economic development. Under the 'new normal' of the Chinese economy, accurate analysis of the economic situation is essential ...

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the various translations of Journey to the West, including three abridged versions by Arthur Waley, Anthony Yu and Julia Lovell. It examines the translation and retranslation of Journey to the West as a typical case of how literature can be canonised through translation. It also explores how Lovell’s retranslation in the contemporary context differs from Waley’s and Yu’s translations, and why Penguin would include two transla...

The development of information technology has made it possible to collect large amounts of spatial data on a daily basis. It is of enormous significance when it comes to discovering implicit, non-trivial and potentially valuable information from this spatial data. Spatial co-location patterns reveal the distribution rules of spatial features, which can be valuable for application users. This book provides commercial software developers with proven and effective algorithms for detecting and...

Take a journey through Asia and beyond with twenty-three original thought-provoking and moving stories about identities, belonging, and choices—stories about where we come from and where we are going. Recommended by Booklist (American Library Association), Library Journal, and Locus (Gardner Dozois).ALL EMOTIONS ARE UNIVERSAL. WE LIVE, WE DREAM, WE STRIVE, WE DIE...

Are you making enough money?Do you have enough time to do all the things you want to do?Do you have a system that has your back and means you never drop the ball?Imagine how incredible it would feel if you had leads constantly coming in, a process to easily convert those leads into paid bookings and a system that did all those pull-your-hair-out administrative tasks for you, on autopilot…Wouldn’t it be life-...

The Yuan Dynasty: A History of China, carries you across more than a century of Mongol ambition, family conflict, and imperial dreams. From the windswept steppes where Genghis Khan carved out the world's largest contiguous land empire to the glittering capital of Dadu (Khanbaliq, modern Beijing), this book traces the rise and fall of the Mongol dynasty that irrevocably reshaped China. It opens with Genghis's legacy and the reign of Ögedei, showing how his successors wrestl...

The Yuan Dynasty: China Under Foreign Rule tells the dramatic story of China during the century when it was ruled by the Mongols. It is the 5th book in the Dynasties of Ancient China series of graded readers, written for English-speaking readers who are learning Chinese.Beginning with a divided China and the rise of the Mongols, the book describes the country's conquest by Kublai Khan, the founding of the new dynasty, and the challenges of foreign rule. Readers wil...

For study resources and the English-language Chinese Perpetual (Lunar) Calendar, please visit ichingstream.com.About “Hidden Principles Ode” (Chan Ao Ge Zhang) (English Edition)Composed during or after the Song to Yuan period (960 to 1368), “Hidden Principles Ode” is a foundational classic of I Ching Six Lines Divination (Liu Yao), closely connected to Wen Wang Gua and the Na Jia Method. Frequently cited in major compendia such as “The Comp...

In-depth exploration of machine learning techniques applied to UAV operations and communications, highlighting areas of potential growth and research gapsArtificial Intelligence for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles provides a comprehensive overview of machine learning (ML) techniques used in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) operations, communications, sensing, and computing. It emphasizes key components of UAV activity to which ML can significantly contribute includi...