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Wei Zhang

    Zhang Wei is a Chinese author renowned for his expansive literary contributions. His work often delves into the depths of Chinese history and culture, exploring complex human relationships and the search for meaning within a changing world. Wei masterfully employs language, crafting vivid imagery and a fluid narrative that draws readers into distinctive atmospheres. His novels are characterized by psychological depth in character portrayal and a poetic style, establishing him as a significant voice in contemporary Chinese literature.

    Academic Adaptation Experiences of Chinese Graduate Students in Japan
    Assessing Digital Literacy
    The Gross-Zagier Formula on Shimura Curves
    The Ancient Ship
    Heidegger, Rorty, and the Eastern Thinkers
    What Is Enlightenment: Can China Answer Kant's Question?
    • 2024

      Performance Across Chinese Borders

      • 236 pages
      • 9 hours of reading

      The exploration of Asian theatre and dance along the ancient Silk Road highlights the cultural exchanges that shaped artistic practices across borders. By examining these dynamic interactions, the book reveals how diverse traditions influenced each other, fostering a rich tapestry of performance art that extends beyond China to various Asian cultures and beyond.

      Performance Across Chinese Borders
    • 2024

      Taming the Wild Horse of Shadow Education

      The Global Expansion of Private Tutoring and Regulatory Responses

      • 152 pages
      • 6 hours of reading

      The book offers a comprehensive analysis of private supplementary tutoring, examining the differences between countries with stringent regulations and those with minimal or no oversight. By exploring this global phenomenon, it highlights the implications of regulatory frameworks on educational practices and outcomes, providing insights into the varying impacts on students and families across different cultural contexts.

      Taming the Wild Horse of Shadow Education
    • 2021

      Assessing Digital Literacy

      • 160 pages
      • 6 hours of reading

      Focusing on the development of digital literacy skills, this book outlines an innovative assessment model for a university-level English curriculum in China. It details how students at Peking University engage in semester-long digital research projects, evaluated through a comprehensive framework that includes tailored rubrics assessing Content, Clarity, and Creative/Critical Thinking. The work combines quantitative and qualitative methods across multiple implementation cycles, offering practical guidance and authentic student examples to enhance digital literacy assessment in English education.

      Assessing Digital Literacy
    • 2021
    • 2020

      Chinese Adaptations of Brecht

      Appropriation and Intertextuality

      • 216 pages
      • 8 hours of reading

      The book explores the reciprocal influences between Brecht's theatrical works and Chinese culture, particularly in the context of Chinese productions from the end of the Cultural Revolution to the early twenty-first century. Wei Zhang analyzes how Chinese theatre artists have adapted Brecht's plays to address contemporary sociopolitical and cultural changes in China. This examination highlights the interplay of Chinese philosophical and ethical traditions with Brechtian aesthetics, showcasing the dynamic interactions that shape modern Chinese theatre.

      Chinese Adaptations of Brecht
    • 2018

      Focusing on health monitoring technology for Liquid Rocket Engines (LRE), this book delves into failure analysis, fault diagnosis, and prediction. It uniquely addresses the failure patterns and mechanisms from a system perspective, providing insights not found in other publications. The inclusion of diverse application cases validates the proposed fault diagnosis and prediction methods. Readers will gain knowledge in system stage modeling, analysis, and testing, making it an invaluable resource for researchers and students in aerospace technology and fault detection.

      Failure Characteristics Analysis and Fault Diagnosis for Liquid Rocket Engines
    • 2016

      This book is a grand review of the centurial development of rule of law in China. It covers the most important issues in this area and presents “political constitution,” a new interpretative framework that allows the Chinese experience of rule of law to be more fully and correctly expressed. It is especially useful to scholars involved in the study of modern China. The main chapters of this book include: The Constituent Movement in the Late Qing Dynasty; The Xinhai (1911) Revolution; Constitution-making at the Beginning of the Republic of China; The Great Revolution in the 1920s; The Rise of the Party State and its Transition; The Founding of 1949 New China and its Early Constitutional Development; and The Dualist System of Rule of Law in the Reforming Times.

      The road to the rule of law in modern China
    • 2014

      The Ancient Ship

      • 464 pages
      • 17 hours of reading
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      Set in the fictional northern town of Wali, this award-winning novel explores the intertwined lives of three generations from the Sui, Zhao, and Li families against the backdrop of China's tumultuous postliberation era. Originally published in 1987, just prior to the Tiananmen Square protests, the narrative delves into the complexities of family dynamics and societal changes during a pivotal time in Chinese history.

      The Ancient Ship
    • 2012

      The Gross-Zagier Formula on Shimura Curves

      (Ams-184)

      • 272 pages
      • 10 hours of reading

      The book delves into the Gross-Zagier formula concerning Shimura curves over totally real fields, exploring the relationship between the heights of Heegner points on abelian varieties and L-series derivatives. It highlights new applications of this formula, particularly in the context of the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture and Diophantine equations, making it a significant contribution to the field of number theory.

      The Gross-Zagier Formula on Shimura Curves
    • 2012

      2012 International Conference on Software Engineering, Knowledge Engineering and Information Engineering (SEKEIE 2012) will be held in Macau, April 1-2, 2012 . This conference will bring researchers and experts from the three areas of Software Engineering, Knowledge Engineering and Information Engineering together to share their latest research results and ideas. This volume book covered significant recent developments in the Software Engineering, Knowledge Engineering and Information Engineering field, both theoretical and applied. We are glad this conference attracts your attentions, and thank your support to our conference. We will absorb remarkable suggestion, and make our conference more successful and perfect.

      Software engineering and knowledge engineering