Queer Representations in Chinese-language Film and the Cultural Landscape provides a cultural history of queer representations in Chinese-language film and media, negotiated by locally produced knowledge, local cultural agency, and lived histories. Incorporating a wide range of materials in both English and Chinese, this interdisciplinary project investigates the processes through which Chinese tongzhi/queer imaginaries are articulated, focusing on four main themes: the Chinese fa...

Overcome challenges in building transactional guarantees on rapidly changing data by using Apache Hudi. With this practical guide, data engineers, data architects, and software architects will discover how to seamlessly build an interoperable lakehouse from disparate data sources and deliver faster insights using your query engine of choice.Authors Shiyan Xu, Prashant Wason, Bhavani Sudha Saktheeswaran, and Rebecca Bilbro provide practical examples and insights to help you unlock t...

The Three Kingdoms, a foremost Chinese historical novel, has exemplified famous enactments in military strategies:Leave one side of the net openLure the tiger out of the mountainMurder with a borrowed knifeChain the enemy with a fleet of boatsSuch stratagems are also depicted in the award-winning movie production Red Cliff, which celebrates the ingenuity of the strategist Zhuge Liang against the schemes and wiles of commander Cao C...

An Yu opens the Black Book and discovers that his companions' death records have been crossed out a full hundred times. Every alteration is accompanied by a bizarre collapse of the laws of time in reality. The old order has just perished, and the Time Hunters lurking in the shadows are already tailing him like phantoms. They do not kill; they merely erase existence.To survive, An Yu tries to piece together the true motives of the Time Hunters, only to realize that the deeper he dig...

An Yu sat in the back row, letting his classmates splash cold water onto his disabled legs while the entire class mocked the destitute transfer student with no background. No one knew that as the school bell rang, the Black Book in his pocket was recording a sacrifice spanning five hundred years. To reverse the fate of a ghost sect master who had bitterly waited for his lover, An Yu had just turned the hands of destiny in twisted time and space, forcibly erasing that doomed tragic ending a...

The Time Emporium trades lifetimes, memories and chances to change fate.Every visitor comes for a wish.Every wish comes with a price.When a grieving young man strikes a deal to bring back someone he lost,he uncovers the shop’s buried truth.The merchant who sells time is trapped by time himself.No bargain can break the eternal rule: nothing is for nothing.

As the last grain of sand slipped through the black hourglass in the antique shop, Adam, clutching the bloodied dagger that had pierced his lover's chest, purchased a one-way ticket twenty thousand years into the past.He tried to alter history caught between a brutal queen and a vampire count, hoping to rescue his deceased lover from a clan-annihilation crisis, only to find his temporal flow completely misaligned with the era; even a single warning about the future would bring a de...

Plunged into an inescapable dead end where time itself stands completely still, An Yu faces the ultimate betrayal as his trusted companions are manipulated by dark sorcery to turn against him. With his back against the wall, he has no choice but to rely on the formidable martial protection of the mysterious girl Chun, forcing a desperate leap a thousand years into the past to find a way to break the deadlock.Yet when he finally attempts to sever the insidious curse at its very sour...

This book highlights research and survey articles dedicated to big data techniques for cyber-physical system (CPS), which addresses the close interactions and feedback controls between cyber components and physical components. The book first discusses some fundamental big data problems and solutions in large scale distributed CPSs. The book then addresses the design and control challenges in multiple CPS domains such as vehicular system, smart city, smart building, and digital microfluidic...

This book focuses on the transition of hundreds of rural households in ten villages in Zhejiang from 1986 to 2002, based on the theme of rural household sustainable development. Drawing on a large amount of first-hand data collected from fixed observation sites for 17 consecutive years, this book has depicted the changes in household behaviour in rural Zhejiang, and analysed the origins of such changes. The contents of the book contain examinations at household and village level. Chapters ...

This monograph interprets China’s macro-economic reform concerning the countryside, agriculture and farmers (known as Sannong) from the micro perspective of rural households. It makes full use of the survey data of hundreds of villages from the fixed observation sites for decades, and the first-hand data of rural households in different representative regions, ensuring the book to be reliable in evidence, meaningful in historical study, and systematic in comparative examination, thus provi...

The use of light for probing and imaging biomedical media is promising for the development of safe, noninvasive, and inexpensive clinical imaging modalities with diagnostic ability. The advent of ultrafast lasers has enabled applications of nonlinear optical processes, which allow deeper imaging in biological tissues with higher spatial resolution. This book provides an overview of emerging novel optical imaging techniques, Gaussian beam optics, light scattering, nonlinear optics, and nonl...