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Playwrights and Literary Games in Seventeenth-Century China: Plays by Tang Xianzu, Mei Dingzuo, Wu Bing, Li Yu, and Kong Shangren is a full-length study of chuanqi (romance) drama, a sophisticated form with substantial literary and meta-theatrical value that reigned in Chinese theater from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries and nourished later theatrical traditions including jingju (Beijing Opera). Highly educated dramatists used chuanqi to present in artistic form personal, social, and political concerns of their time. There were six outstanding examples of these trends, considered masterpieces in their time and ever since. This study presents them in their social and cultural context du...
The Chinese Society of Aeronautics and Astronautics holds the Youth Science and Technology Forum biannually, which aims to assess the state of aviation science and technology, recognize advanced scientific and technological accomplishments, foster the development of young aviation science and technology talents, and provide a platform for young science and technology workers to track the frontier of science and technology, exchange novel ideas, and accurately meet the needs of the aviation industry. This book contains original, peer-reviewed research papers from the conference. Topics covered include, but are not limited to, navigation, guidance and control technologies, key technologies for...
During the Ming-Qing transition (roughly from the 1570s to the 1680s), literati-officials in China employed public forms of writing, art, and social spectacle to present positive moral images of themselves and negative images of their rivals. The rise of print culture, the dynastic change, and the proliferating approaches to Confucian moral cultivation together gave shape to this new political culture. Confucian Image Politics considers the moral images of officials—as fathers, sons, husbands, and friends—circulated in a variety of media inside and outside the court. It shows how power negotiations took place through participants’ invocations of Confucian ethical ideals in political at...
In this wide-ranging collection of essays on emotions, the social history of China, international relations of the empire, philosophy and literature volume numerous well-known scholars, among which L.Lanciotti, A. Lévy, M. Gálik, W. Kubin, M. Doleželová-Velingerová, pay their tribute to their friend the sinologist Paolo Santangelo, reflecting the wide scope of his research interests over the past decades. A must-read for all those who take an interest the field of the humanities in and on China.
Our second Research Topic in this series, Computational tools in inferring cancer tissue-of-origin and molecular classification towards personalized cancer therapy, Volume II (https://fro.ntiers.in/14361) has over 8 accepted articles and further manuscripts currently under review. Due to the continued success of these Research Topics and the interest in the subject, we will launch a third volume on the same topic. Inferring cancer tissue-of-origin and molecular classification are two critical problems in personalized cancer therapy. It is known that there are about 5% cancers of unknown primary (CUP) site. These kinds of patients are under empirical chemotherapy, which leads to a very low su...
The Story of a Lady County Magistrate in the 1990s
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