由旅美作家南希创作的长篇小说《娥眉月》，是一部褪尽青涩恋情的《山楂树之恋》，是一部抒写青春年华的西洋版《人生》，是唱响激情燃烧岁月的青春之歌。小说以中国大陆六七十年代为宏阔的时代背景，从知青安德烈与青梅的懵懂恋情起始，到本世纪初大洋彼岸的团圆爱情收尾，穿越三十余载，横跨万里之遥，情节跌宕起伏，人物鲜活生动，语言流畅抒情，内容丰富多彩；作者以饱蘸深情的灵动笔触，叙述了一对青年男女为时代洪流所挟裹，从相遇相识到相爱相知，与时代梦想、社会剧变、爱恨情仇、相互纠缠的传奇人生。生动描绘了主人公历经曲折、遭遇变故、命运多舛、悲欣交集的坎坷人生；真实展示了主人公从城市到乡村，从国内到国外的爱情、希望、奋斗、寻梦的曲折经历和心路历程。从一个侧面描摹了时代大动荡时期的风云际会，以及各色人物悲欢离合和命运沉浮，对特殊时代进行了艺术的再现、深层的审视与反思。这是一部刻骨铭心的爱情记忆，一曲感人肺腑青春恋歌，读来令人荡气回肠，唏嘘慨叹。

This is a study of Chinese gentry women’s poems on the theme of travel written during the late imperial period (ca.1600–1911), when Chinese women’s literature and culture flourished as never before. It challenges the clichéd image of completely secluded and immobile women anxiously waiting inside their prescribed feminine space, the so-called inner quarters, for the return of traveling husbands or other male kin. The travel poems discussed in this book, while not necessarily representative...

The bestselling novel by cult writer Wang Xiaobo, a satire of the Cultural Revolution, in its first full English translation'Wang Xiaobo is a truly unique writer, and there are very few writers like him' Ai Weiwei'Fills the reader with aching poignancy, and yet makes them want to laugh out loud' Jung Chang, author of Wild SwansTwenty-one year old Wang Er, stationed in a remote mountain comm...

Like Gary Shteyngart or Michel Houellebecq, Wang Xiaobo is a Chinese literary icon whose satire forces us to reconsider the ironies of history.Wang Er, a twenty-one-year-old ox herder, is shamed by the local authorities and forced to write a confession of his crimes, but he instead takes it upon himself to write a modernist literary tract. Later, as a lecturer at a chaotic, newly built university, Wang Er navigates the bureaucratic maze of 1980’s China, boldly writ...

***'*A very captivating book. Wang Xiaobo's unique blend of rationality, serenity, candor, and sense of humour serves as an embodiment of the liberalism he ardently believes in' Ai WeiweiThe dazzling essays of the beloved, subversive Chinese writer Wang Xiaobo, a continual bestseller in China, now in English for the first time**Wang Xiaobo made his name as a novelist but his essays, too, have become ongoing bestsellers in China since their publication in the 1990s. Bringing...

Up-to-date discussions of the challenges and solutions in multi-agent vehicle-road interaction systemsIn State Estimation of Multi-Agent Vehicle-Road Interaction Systems, a team of distinguished researchers introduces a novel conceptual framework that defines a system comprising vehicles and local road segments within a connected vehicle (V2X) environment—referred to as the vehicle neighborhood system. Creative estimation methods for both states and parame...

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...

This book compares the enlightenment thought of China and Japan amid 19th-century Western imperialism, offering a groundbreaking analysis of how two iconic thinkers shaped their nations’ divergent paths to modernity.Through 12 analytical chapters, the book explores how Yan Fu of China and Fukuzawa Yukichi of Japan navigated the paradox of tradition versus progress. Key themes include their contrasting approaches to Western science, political freedom, economic reform, and cultural i...

Highly comprehensive resource for studying neural networks, complex networks, synchronization, passivity, and associated applicationsDynamical Behaviors of Multiweighted Complex Network Systems discusses the dynamical behaviors of various multiweighted complex dynamical networks, with detailed insight on synchronization for directed and undirected complex networks (CNs) with multiple state or delayed state couplings subject to recoverable attacks, along wi...

A contemporary evaluation of switching power design methods with real world applicationsWritten by a leading author renowned in his fieldFocuses on switching power supply design, manufacture and debuggingSwitching power supplies have relevance for contemporary applications including mobile phone chargers, laptops and PCsBased on the authors' successful "Switching Power Optimized Design 2nd Edition" (in Chinese)Highly il...

Chinese Animation: Multiplicities in Motion is the first edited volume that explores the multiple histories, geographies, industries, technologies, media, and transmedialities of Chinese animation, from early animated special effects to socialist classics, from computer-generated-imagery (CGI) blockbusters to edgy independent films, and from stop-motion to virtual reality.Its fifteen chapters, grouped under the five themes of junctures, gender, identities,...

Developing countries have for decades been trying to catch up with the industrialized high-income countries, but only a few have succeeded. Historically, structural transformation has been a powerful engine of growth and job creation. Traditional development aid is inadequate to address the bottlenecks for structural transformation, and is hence ineffective. In this book, Justin Yifu Lin and Yan Wang use the theoretical foundations of New Structural Economics to examine South-South develop...