Foundations of the Chinese Internet: Calculations, Concepts, Culture
Title | Foundations of the Chinese Internet: Calculations, Concepts, Culture PDF eBook |
Author | Vogt |
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Pages | 0 |
Release | 1753 |
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Historical Dictionary of Chinese Culture
Title | Historical Dictionary of Chinese Culture PDF eBook |
Author | Lawrence R. Sullivan |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 531 |
Release | 2021-03-29 |
Genre | Reference |
ISBN | 1538146045 |
Covering wide-ranging topics from the arts and entertainment to customs and traditions from the ancient imperial and modern eras, Historical Dictionary of Chinese Culture provides more than 300 separate entries along with a comprehensive chronology, glossary of Chinese cultural terms, and an extensive bibliography of Western and Chinese-language sources. Dictionary entries of the decorative and fine arts include ceramics and porcelains, handicrafts, jade and seal carving, jewelry, and painting. The literary subjects range from fiction to non-fiction, but especially poetry. Major entertainment venues of cinema and film, classical puppetry, and theater, both ancient and modern are also covered. In addition to the arts, the authors include major customary practices from childbirth and childrearing to marriage and weddings to funerals and burial practices. Other aspects of the culture are also examined, including crime, foot-binding, pornography, and prostitution, and the government policies aimed at their eradication. Throughout the text, Chinese-language translations of key terms are presented in italics and parenthesis, along with biographies of figures central to the creation of China’s magnificent cultural heritage.
Structural Change and Evolution of China’s Internet Society
Title | Structural Change and Evolution of China’s Internet Society PDF eBook |
Author | Liu Shaojie |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Pages | 273 |
Release | 2022-11-28 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1000800830 |
This title investigates China’s network society, both its online cyber society and offline real world society, by analyzing the trends and social foundations of society as network and the social challenges it poses, as well as structural changes in social space and social interaction. The first part of the book examines how network society in China forms and develops, analyzing the challenges and structural changes it poses. The author studies network power and uncertainties that lies in the supply, flow, and reception of a massive amount of information, revealing how this influences the government's administrative power as well as governance measures to stabilize social cohesion. The second part first discusses the social restructuring and characteristics of network social space in China. Based on case studies of several momentous social events, the spatial change characterized by an integration of absence and presence space and its influence on social interaction and experience is elucidated, including active absence interaction, mediated experience, spatial representation, and social identities of network aggregation. The book will be a crucial reference for scholars and students studying sociology, network sociology, and contemporary Chinese society.
Speech and Society in Turbulent Times
Title | Speech and Society in Turbulent Times PDF eBook |
Author | Monroe Price |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 355 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 1107190126 |
This book explores the underlying philosophies and values that inform the speech rules that a government or community institutes.
Design and Political Dissent
Title | Design and Political Dissent PDF eBook |
Author | Jilly Traganou |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 325 |
Release | 2020-10-27 |
Genre | Design |
ISBN | 135118797X |
This book examines, through an interdisciplinary lens, the relationship between political dissent and processes of designing. In the past twenty years, theorists of social movements have noted a diversity of visual and performative manifestations taking place in protest, while the fields of design, broadly defined, have been characterized by a growing interest in activism. The book’s premise stems from the recognition that material engagement and artifacts have the capacity to articulate political arguments or establish positions of disagreement. Its contributors look at a wide array of material practices generated by both professional and nonprofessional design actors around the globe, exploring case studies that vary from street protests and encampments to design pedagogy and community-empowerment projects. For students and scholars of design studies, urbanism, visual culture, politics, and social movements, this book opens up new perspectives on design and its place in contemporary politics.
Modern China
Title | Modern China PDF eBook |
Author | Xiaobing Li |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Pages | 433 |
Release | 2015-11-23 |
Genre | Social Science |
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Providing an indispensable resource for students, educators, businessmen, and officials investigating the transformative experience of modern China, this book provides a comprehensive summary of the culture, institutions, traditions, and international relations that have shaped today's China. In Modern China, author Xiaobing Li offers a resource far beyond a conventional encyclopedia, providing not only comprehensive coverage of Chinese civilization and traditions, but also addressing the values, issues, and critical views of China. As a result, readers will better understand the transformative experience of the most populous country in the world, and will grasp the complexity of the progress and problems behind the rise of China to a world superpower in less than 30 years. Written by an author who lived in China for three decades, this encyclopedia addresses 16 key topics regarding China, such as its geography, government, social classes and ethnicities, gender-based identities, arts, media, and food, each followed by roughly 250 short entries related to each topic. All the entries are placed within a broad sociopolitical and socioeconomic contextual framework. The format and writing consistency through the book reflects a Chinese perspective, and allows students to compare Chinese with Western and American views.
e-Learning, e-Education, and Online Training
Title | e-Learning, e-Education, and Online Training PDF eBook |
Author | Guan Gui |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 376 |
Release | 2024-01-16 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 3031514653 |
This four-volume set constitutes the post-conference proceedings of the 9th EAI International Conference on e-Learning, e-Education, and Online Training, eLEOT 2023, held in Yantai, China, during August 17-18, 2023. The 104 full papers presented were selected from 260 submissions. The papers reflect the evolving landscape of education in the digital age. They were organized in topical sections as follows: IT promoted teaching platforms and systems; AI based educational modes and methods; automatic educational resource processing; educational information evaluation.