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A Study of Chinese Painters and Paintings in View of Japanese Medieval Records [PDF]

, 2012
Along with the deepening cultural communication between Japan and China, theexchange of painting and calligraphy has been the subject of much academic scrutiny.This paper will study Chinese painters and paintings through an historical examination of the ...
寿 舒舒
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Meta‐Rod Mechanical Metamaterials With Programmable Reconfiguration

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Existing mechanical metamaterials achieve programmable large deformations in planar square or cubic configurations, restricted by required complex boundary conditions. This research proposes a 1D metamaterial, Meta‐rod, with linear, bending, twisting, area, and volume deformation modes.
Atharva Pande, Lyes Kadem, Hang Xu
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‘Unable to think in my mother’s tongue’: immigrant daughters in Alice Pung’s 'Unpolished Gem' and Hsu-Ming Teo’s 'Behind the Moon' [PDF]

, 2010
Peer-reviewed articleThis paper explores ‘the immigrant’s story in translation’ through the various instances of language spoken between parents and children.
Healy, Alice
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Living between languages: The politics of translation in Leila Aboulela’s Minaret and Xiaolu Guo’s A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers [PDF]

, 2012
This is the author's final draft post-refereeing as published in The Journal of Commonwealth Literature 2012 47: 207 DOI:10.1177/0021989412440433.
Aboulela L, Aboulela L, Aboulela L, Aboulela L, Achebe C, Al Shaykh H, Ashcroft B, Ashe L, Bachner A, Barlas A, Bhabha H, Bhabha H, Bhabha H, Butt N, Cariello M, Chambers C, Chikwava B, Cook M, Dingwaney A, Emecheta B, Foster L, Guo X, Guo X, Guo X, Guo X, Guth S, Kellman SG, Malak A, Mehrez S, Mignolo W, Quinn B, Rachael Gilmour, Rao R, Ross M, Rushdie S, Said E, Salih T, Selvon S, Selvon S, Seyhan A, Shaogong H, Smyth B, Sollors W, Spivak GC, Thiong’o N wa, Tymockzo M, Tymoczko M, Ungar S, Whorf BL, Yeh D, Zangwill I   +50 more
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Actuating and Sensing Composites of Liquid Crystal Elastomers and Poly(ionic liquid)s

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Ionic conductive, mechanically tough, flexible, and stretchable filaments of a composite material comprising a liquid crystal elastomer and a poly(ionic liquid) are produced through 3D printing, which exhibit large actuation strain under stimulation and electrical resistance variation in response to deformation or environmental condition changes. Their
Zeping Liu, Xiaofeng Zheng, Shaoxia Zhang, Long Xu, Meng Liu, Jeremy Baribeault St‐Germain, Yue Zhao   +6 more
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The migrant voice : the politics of writing home between the Sinophone and Anglophone worlds

, 2017
This paper addresses the politics of language, identity, and diasporic Chinese writing in old and emerging Chinese migrant literature. I opt for the idea of a “migrant subject” as brought up by Ha Jin to underscore a diverse verbal strategy and mobile ...
NG, Kenny K. K.
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Multi‐Scale Interface Engineering of MXenes for Multifunctional Sensory Systems

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
MXenes, as two‐dimensional transition metal carbides and nitrides, demonstrate remarkable capabilities for multifunctional sensing applications. This review systematically examines multi‐scale interface engineering approaches that enhance sensing performance, enable diverse detection functionalities, and improve system‐level compatibility in MXene ...
Jiaying Liao, Sin‐Yi Pang, Jianhua Hao
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Acoustic Analysis and Perceptual Evaluation of Second Language Cantonese Tones Produced by Advanced Mandarin-Speaking Learners

Applied Sciences
The tonal system of Cantonese is very different from that of Mandarin, which creates potential challenges for Mandarin speakers when learning Cantonese.
Yike Yang, Jie Hou, Yue Zou, Dong Han
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Peculiarities of teaching Chinese literature and Chinese language to Egyptian students (Analysis of teacher polling)

Litera, 2020
In the year 1954. In accordance with the agreement on cultural cooperation signed by the Chinese and Egyptian governments, Chine sent the first teacher to Cairo University in Egypt. The subject of this research is the analysis of the existing system of teaching Chinese language and literature to Egyptian students.
Jinzhu Liu, Mohamed Bekhit Ibrahim Gomaa Elshennawi   +1 more
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The translated identities of Chinese minority writers : Sinophone Naxi authors

, 2017
This paper will show the interplay between language and identity in the writing of Sinophone Chinese minority writers, who write what can be envisioned as a form of postcolonial literature.
POUPARD, Duncan
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