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This book investigates universities’ technology implementation from a cultural perspective. Through an ethnographic study conducted in a Chinese university, the book examines the impact of culture on teachers’ technology adoption at multiple levels, focusing on pedagogical beliefs (personal level), collegial culture (interpersonal level) and managerial culture (institutional level). The finding reveals how culture influenced teachers’ perception, interpretation and engagement with technology, thereby upsetting the university’s efforts to change. With the wholesale, top-down adoption of education technology in the COVID-19 context, this book is a timely treatise on a global understanding of culture’s meaning in change implementation. The culturally anchored issues documented in this book will shed light on the formulation of effective change strategies that focus on the minds of people, and will be especially useful for those who strive to forge a more successful and sustainable future of higher education with technology.

AI Computing Systems: An Application Driven Perspective adopts the principle of "application-driven, full-stack penetration" and uses the specific intelligent application of "image style migration" to provide students with a sound starting place to learn. This approach enables readers to obtain a full view of the AI computing system. A complete intelligent computing system involves many aspects such as processing chip, system structure, programming environment, software, etc., making it a difficult topic to master in a short time. - Provides an in-depth analysis of the underlying principles behind the use of knowledge in intelligent computing systems - Centers around application-driven and full-stack penetration, focusing on the knowledge required to complete this application at all levels of the software and hardware technology stack - Supporting experimental tutorials covering key knowledge points in each chapter provide practical guidance and formalization tools for developing a simple AI computing system

The book studies the educational needs of two disadvantaged groups of children in China (left-behind children in rural areas and migrant children in urban areas), aiming to optimize the social support system so that these disadvantaged children can realize their full potential. The author conducts two separate researches and introduces the research background, methodology, related theories and advanced theories. Main difficulties of left-behind children and migrant children include parents’ lack of attention to their children’s mental health, teachers’ lack of expertise in working with these two groups of children, and a lack of collaboration between schools and NGOs. It suggests promoting systematic reform, helping parents to develop effective parenting skills, and establishing positive interactions among the stakeholders of social support for these disadvantaged children. The book will be of interest to people who work with left-behind children in rural areas and those who work with migrant students in urban areas, including teachers, school administrators, local educational authorities, community-based service providers, and provincial and central departments of education.

"This essential study penetrates the black box of decision-making in China's party-state. As the culmination of two decades of research it decodes Party rules and synthesizes concrete practices to reveal identifiable patterns of individual and institutional choices in corruption, anti-corruption investigations and power struggles at the Politburo"--

This book is the second in a two-volume monograph on the Zidanku Silk Manuscripts. Looted in 1942 from the Warring States-period Chu tomb at Zidanku, Changsha, the manuscripts date to the turn from the 4th to the 3rd centuries BCE and are the only pre-Imperial Chinese manuscripts on silk found to-date. The monograph represents the culmination of almost four decades of research by Professor Li Ling of Peking University. Volume One addresses the circumstances of the discovery of the Zidanku Silk Manuscripts and the subsequent provenance history in China and the United States. Volume Two provides the first complete transcription of the Zidanku Silk Manuscripts in their entirety together with reproductions of the original manuscripts. The transcription is accompanied by comprehensive annotations, with full paleographic and philological analysis of the texts. An English translation of the texts has been added by Professor Donald Harper. For the first time, the Zidanku Silk Manuscripts can be read as a single corpus, constituting a unique source of information that complements and goes beyond what is known from transmitted texts. The Zidanku Silk Manuscripts reveal a range of cosmological and religious ideas, and shed new light on the formation of correlative thought in the Warring States period. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ “This volume represents the continuation of the important study that Professor Li Ling devoted to the history of the discovery of the Chu manuscripts from Zidanku. It includes the photographic reproduction, transcription, and detailed study of three manuscripts and several fragments, identified thanks to the efforts spanning more than four decades by the greatest expert on hemerological texts of the Warring States period.” —Marianne Bujard Professor, École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris “This beautifully produced volume, with full color plates of all the manuscript fragments, does vivid justice to the meticulous, painstaking, and rigorous decades of masterful work that Li Ling, the world’s foremost authority on the subject, has poured into the reconstruction, decipherment, and interpretation of these important textual artifacts, much of which is brought to light here for the first time.” —Scott Cook Tan Chin Tuan Professor of Chinese Studies, National University of Singapore “The collaboration of the two most eminent experts of Chinese paleography, Li Ling in Beijing, and Donald Harper in Chicago, is again a felicitous demonstration of what Sino-American cooperation can achieve.” —Lothar Ledderose Senior Professor, Institute of East Asian Art History, Heidelberg University “This volume compiles and assesses with immaculate accuracy and critical acumen all extant relevant material that Li Ling uncovered during his over forty-year pursuit for answers in and out of China among archaeologists, historians, paleographers, and conservation scientists—a true model of interdisciplinary and international research, and an inspiration to all scholars in early China studies.” —Jenny F. So Senior Curator for Early Chinese Art (1990–2000), National Museums of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution “Professor Li Ling’s splendid book offers to the Western public the first ever comprehensive monograph on the Chu Silk Manuscripts from Zidanku. This masterful research, to which he has devoted more than forty years, is not only a minute investigation—the most extensive of its kind on the famous manuscripts—but also a very valuable contribution to our understanding of the intellectual life of the Late Warring States period.” —Alain Thote Emeritus Professor, École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris “Complemented by high-quality color pictures, old photographs, hand facsimiles of the manuscripts, as well as an updated bibliography and a comprehensive index of the ancient graphs, this English edition should undoubtedly be regarded as the new reference edition for these excavated texts.” —Olivier Venture Professor, École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris

Integrates the theory and practices of supply chain management. This book focuses on how to build a competitive supply chain using viable management strategies, operational models, decision-making techniques, and information technology. It also includes initiatives such as e-commerce, collaborative planning, forecasting, and replenishment (CPFR).

This book focuses on the interface of organizational development and language learning, using mixed methods of qualitative (reflective journals) and quantitative analysis (experimental design, pre- and post-testing exam scores and questionnaires). Employing organizational development interventions (ODIs) in the context of language learning enriches the diversity and expands the possibilities of higher education. The action research cycle employed in the three-semester ODI process offers readers a source of inspiration. As the book shows, the combination of ODI techniques with language learning strategies in a learning community can be both effective and efficient, holding great potential for further research.

"Your Majesty, don't ... No! " Lady Xu half pushed it away and leaned on the emperor, while the Emperor pinched Lady Xu's chin. Lady Xu said in a coquettish tone, "Your Majesty, you're hurting me."The Emperor smiled, but didn't say anything. He didn't lose any strength in his hands either. His gaze then fell on a pair of men walking shoulder to shoulder on the other side of the lake."It hurts, it hurts, Your Majesty!" Beauty Xu's face paled.Emperor Ying gave a snort and pushed Xu Mei to the ground. He flung his sleeves and walked to the edge of the stone fence. He squinted his eyes and stared at the two people on the other side of the lake. The emperor lowered the stone railing forcefully, causing the surrounding eunuchs and Palace Maid s to kneel on the ground.

" The First Shot of Surprises" 初刻拍案惊奇 or Chuke Paian Jingqi is a collection of short stories in the Ming Dynasty of China . It was written by Ling Xiaochu at the end of the Ming Dynasty . It is a collection of short stories written under the direct influence of "Sanyan, or three words", and later called "Three Words" and " Two shots (with another “The Second Shot of Surprises" with same style published later) collectively. "Three Words" refers to "Yu Shi Ming Yan, Clear Words to Understand the World", "Jing Shi Tong Yan, Warnings of the World", "Xing Shi Heng Yan, Constant Words Awakening the World", three collection of short stories in ancient China. " The First Shot of Surprises " finalized in the Ming Tianqi seven years (1627), the following year ( Chongzhen first year) print and publish the Shang Youtang Bookstore, a total of forty volumes for forty separate story. . " The First Shot of Surprises" book in the forty volumes of the nine chapters of the Tang Dynasty , Song seven, Yuan six, Ming 13 articles, five uncertain times. The content of the story is mainly based on " Tai Ping Guang Ji ", " Yi Jian Zhi ", "Scissor New Words", "Scissors of Lights" and other books. It is a portrayal of the Ming Dynasty society. Ling Xiaochu was deeply influenced by Feng Menglong.