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First published in 1983. Professor Paul Chao writes Chinese Kinship in the line of the Chinese tradition; it is in this tradition that cultural complexes, such as family structure and kinship in relation to religious, political and economic organizations, are expounded by analysis of concepts and supported by historical documents. For the anthropological study of kinship is indispensable as a supplement to important historical work on basis of written documents. Professor Chao has made, in the main, a study of kinship in China of all known periods. He has taken the points of view of social anthropology and has also given a history of his topic.
This book reports the complete acta of the first congress of the Space Renaissance International, held on skype in 2011. The 2012 resolution of the SRI Executive Committe, that actualizes the decisions taken by the congress, is also reported. Most of the discussion of the four days congress is also reported. The book summarizes the program of the Space Renaissance for the time interval from 2011 to the next congress, in 2015.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference On Secure Knowledge Management In Artificial Intelligence Era, SKM 2021, held in San Antonio, TX, USA, in 2021. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held online. The 11 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 30 submissions. They were organized according to the following topical sections: intrusion and malware detection; secure knowledge management; deep learning for security; web and social network.
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Hong Kong cinema began attracting international attention in the 1980s. By the early 1990s, Hong Kong had become "Hollywood East" as its film industry rose to first in the world in per capita production, was ranked second to the United States in the number of films it exported, and stood third in the world in the number of films produced per year behind the United States and India. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Hong Kong Cinema contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 600 cross-referenced entries on directors, producers, writers, actors, films, film companies, genres, and terminology. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Hong Kong cinema.