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A major new collection of stories by one of the most exciting and creative voices in contemporary Chinese literature Can Xue&’s stories observe no obvious conventions of plot or characterization. That is the only rule they follow. Instead, they tend to limn a disordered and poetic state given struct... More

A profound, poignant story of a village healer and her community, from one of the world&’s great contemporary novelists  &“A complex and illuminating portrait of a group of healers in China . . . [that] offers profound insights about what it means to pursue and live a fulfilling life.&”—Publishers W... More

The most ambitious work of fiction by a writer widely considered the most important novelist working in China today In this darkly comic novel, a group of women inhabits a world of constant surveillance, where informants lurk in the flowerbeds and false reports fly. Conspiracies abound in a communit... More

In Can Xue's extraordinary book, we encounter a full assemblage of husbands, wives, and lovers. Entwined in complicated, often tortuous relationships, these characters step into each other's fantasies, carrying on conversations that are "forever guessing games." Their journeys reveal the deepest rea... More

Can Xue (pronounced "tsan shway") is considered by many to be the most spirited, fearless, radical fiction writer to come out of contemporary China. Even her name is marked by tenacity (it's a pen name referring to dirty, leftover snow that refuses to melt). Her most important work to date, The Embr... More

Can Xue is a master of the dreamscape, crafting stories that inhabit the space where fantasy and reality, the quotidian and the extraordinary, meet. The stories in this striking and lyrical new collection-populated by old married couples, children, cats, and nosy neighbors, the entire menagerie of t... More

Though the story of Liujin, a young woman seeking a new kind of human freedom, Frontier attempts to unify the grand opposites of life--barbarism and civilization, the spiritual and the material, the mundane and the sublime, beauty and death, Eastern and Western cultures. A layered, multifaceted mas... More

For a single person who had such big feelings, countless women would tell me countless stories every day. Lolita, the young lady, the oneesan … it turns out that the big feelings hurt my kidney so much …... More

For a single person who had such big feelings, countless women would tell me countless stories every day. Lolita, the young lady, the oneesan … it turns out that the big feelings hurt my kidney so much …... More

For a single person who had such big feelings, countless women would tell me countless stories every day. Lolita, the young lady, the oneesan … it turns out that the big feelings hurt my kidney so much …... More

For a single person who had such big feelings, countless women would tell me countless stories every day. Lolita, the young lady, the oneesan … it turns out that the big feelings hurt my kidney so much …... More

Hong Kong's story in the Second World War has been predominantly told as a story of the British forces and their defeat on Christmas Day 1941. But there is another story: the Chinese guerrilla forces who harassed the Japanese throughout the occupation played a crucial part in the escapes from Hong K... More

This book focuses on the performance and application of fluidic nozzle throats for solid rocket motors, discussing their flow details and characterization performance, as well as the influence of the particle phase on their performance. It comprehensively covers a range of fluidic nozzle throats in ... More

This book consists of papers on the recent progresses in the state of the art in natural computation, fuzzy systems and knowledge discovery. The book can be useful for researchers, including professors, graduate students, as well as R & D staff in the industry, with a general interest in natural com... More

New writings—on rooms, buildings, and the spaces and structures that surround us—from Robert Coover, Joyce Carol Oates, Joanna Scott, and more. From huts to houses to high-rises, childhood bedrooms to churches, the spaces we occupy and pass through shape our memories and perceptions, often without... More

Previous analysis on the "Chinese Economic Miracle" mostly talks about macro-economy but neglects the study on the basic element of the Chinese Miracle - the enterprises. With China's economic rise, Chinese enterprises experienced a rapid process of adaptation, change and development, and also beco... More

This book describes various crisis situations in transitional China, and by analyzing the unique characteristics and backgrounds of emergencies and crisis, it argues that crisis management has become a major challenge for the Chinese governments. It then discusses the chronology of crisis, organizat... More

This monograph introduces some current developments in the modelling of the spread of tick-borne diseases. Effective modelling requires the integration of multiple frameworks. Here, particular attention is given to the previously neglected issues of tick developmental and behavioral diapause, tick-b... More

Practical approaches to ensure that analytical methods and instruments meet GMP standards and requirements Complementing the authors' first book, Analytical Method Validation and Instrument Performance Verification, this new volume provides coverage of more advanced topics, focusing on additional an... More

Scientific Computing with MATLAB®, Second Edition improves students’ ability to tackle mathematical problems. It helps students understand the mathematical background and find reliable and accurate solutions to mathematical problems with the use of MATLAB, avoiding the tedious and complex technical ... More

This monograph introduces the authors’ work on model predictive control system design using extended state space and extended non-minimal state space approaches. It systematically describes model predictive control design for chemical processes, including the basic control algorithms, the extension ... More

This book offers several new GP approaches to feature learning for image classification. Image classification is an important task in computer vision and machine learning with a wide range of applications. Feature learning is a fundamental step in image classification, but it is difficult due to the... More

This book highlights the use of one-dimensional transition metal oxides and their analogue nanomaterials for battery applications. The respective chapters present examples of one-dimensional nanomaterials with different architectures, as well as a wide range of applications, e.g. as electrode materi... More

Recycling of Power Lithium-Ion Batteries Explore the past, present, and future of power lithium-ion battery recycling, from the governing regulatory framework to predictions of the future of the industry In Recycling of Power Lithium-Ion Batteries: Technology, Equipment, and Policies, a team of dist... More

"Infinite Horror" November 11, 2020 11: 11: 11, this is a special day..."Do you understand the meaning of life? He wanted to truly … Alive? "This sentence was like a heron to countless people, as did Xiao Sheng. For the sake of life, for the sake of passion, he chose to step into this world full of ... More