Teaching Material Culture and Chinese Gardens at American Colleges
The ASIANetwork Exchange: A Journal for Asian Studies in the Liberal Arts, 2012 The paper reflects on the experience of designing and teaching a course on material culture and Chinese gardens. Involving traditional philosophy, ethics, religion, painting, calligraphy, craft, literature, architecture and horticulture, a classical ...
Li Han
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The Illegible Pan: Racial Formation, Hybridity, and Chinatown in Sui Sin Far’s “‘Its Wavering Image’” [PDF]
, 2015 Drawing upon Judith Butler’s theory of performativity, this article offers an interpretation of “‘Its Wavering Image’” that explains the biracial main character, Pan’s, process of racialization. The argument is two fold: first, the paper contends that in
Porter, Caroline
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A Bibliometric Analysis of Research on Chinese Wooden Architecture Based on CNKI and Web of Science
BuildingsIn the context of the growing emphasis on sustainable development and building safety performance, wooden architecture will attract increasing attention due to its low-carbon characteristics and excellent seismic resistance.
Dongyu Wei +7 more
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Treebank-based acquisition of a Chinese lexical-functional grammar [PDF]
, 2004 Scaling wide-coverage, constraint-based grammars such as Lexical-Functional Grammars (LFG) (Kaplan and Bresnan, 1982; Bresnan, 2001) or Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammars (HPSG) (Pollard and Sag, 1994) from fragments to naturally occurring ...
Bodomo, Adams +7 more
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Dual Long Short-Term Memory Networks for Sub-Character Representation Learning
, 2018 Characters have commonly been regarded as the minimal processing unit in Natural Language Processing (NLP). But many non-latin languages have hieroglyphic writing systems, involving a big alphabet with thousands or millions of characters.
Feng, Yi +6 more
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Chinese wood frame buildings and the changing dimensions of their structural components in different time periods [PDF]
Journal of Design and the Built Environment, 2012 The Features of the Chinese wood frame buildings are same in character from dynasty to dynasty. The study concentrates on 9 Chinese wood frame buildings from Tang to Yuan dynasty and tries to relate these buildings with the text described in a building ...
Nujaba Binte Kabir
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Uncertainty and design practice in China. The “apparatus” of Shanghai experimental architecture
Journal of Architecture and Urbanism, 2017 Professional architects and scholars in China have pointed out the issue of uncertainty in the everyday realm of the design practice. Experimental architecture firms, the Chinese-born ateliers committed to seeking the “Chinese Identity” of architecture ...
Ettore Santi
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Recent Chinese Buyout Activity and the Implications for Global Architecture [PDF]
We discuss recent cases of Chinese buyout activity in the OECD (especially in the US and the EU) in resource and manufacturing sectors. While most of the buyout attempts have been unsuccessful, they can serve as a catalyst for a wider discussion on the ...
Agata Antkiewicz, John Whalley
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The Construction of Touristic Modernity in Xizhou [PDF]
, 2016 Tim Oakes’ (1998) concept of touristic modernity accurately describes how the Chinese national discourse surrounding tourism, as both a tool for economic growth and nation-building, has shaped what the local reality has become for many towns and villages
Benton, Katherine E.
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Проект БайкалI imagine time To be a flowing liquid; Time cannot be caught in a net, And a sieve is useless to capture it. (Time cannot become a solid body.
Константин Лидин
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