Wei Liu Books

This book is based on the spirit of the communique of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 19th CPC Central Committee and the important series of speeches by General Secretary Xi Jinping. With clear logical framework and plain language, it expounds and interprets the 13 significant advantages of China's state system and governance system, and then points out that it has profound theoretical significance, practical significance and global significance to uphold, consolidate, improve and develop the socialist system and the state governance system with Chinese characteristics, which will vigorously promote the development of socialism with Chinese characteristics, actively lead the contemporary Chinese nation to move forward steadily and make China's contribution to the development of human institutional civilization.

Focusing on lifeline earthquake engineering, this book offers a comprehensive exploration of key topics such as structural analysis, network evaluation, and design. It uniquely combines theoretical foundations with practical methodologies for stochastic analysis of structures. The text features innovative probability analytical algorithms utilizing Boolean Algebra for network evaluation, hydraulic analysis for assessing water distribution systems, and advanced network design techniques incorporating genetic algorithms, simulated annealing, and hybrid approaches.

The book explores the excitation of surface plasmons in plasmonic nanostructures, beginning with an introduction to propagating surface plasmon polaritons and localized surface plasmons. It presents a novel mechanism for achieving complete spectral gaps without periodicity through the coupling of modes. The concept of plasmonic potentials is introduced, showcasing beam shaping in modulated structures. Additionally, it examines scattering patterns and optically-induced magnetic responses, achieving unidirectional scattering and polarization-independent Fano resonances. Future challenges and developments are also discussed.

The book provides a comprehensive analysis of China's economic reforms, focusing on institutional changes and their historical value orientations. It examines the justice and progressiveness of social production relations, highlighting the unique aspects of economic growth and macro control. Additionally, it addresses the effectiveness and qualitative improvements in productivity and efficiency during this growth. By exploring the systemic motivations behind China's development, it emphasizes the need for systemic changes to achieve sustainable growth, offering insights into the driving factors of institutional change through value theory.

Focusing on four key transmission mechanisms—interest rate, credit, exchange rate, and asset price—this book investigates the effects of China's monetary policy on these areas. It further examines how these mechanisms influence the macroeconomy, aiming to clarify the overall impact of China's monetary policy on macroeconomic objectives. The analysis provides insights into the intricate relationships between monetary policy and economic performance in China.

This book provides an introduction to the theory of stochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs) of evolutionary type. SPDEs are one of the main research directions in probability theory with several wide ranging applications. Many types of dynamics with stochastic influence in nature or man-made complex systems can be modelled by such equations. The theory of SPDEs is based both on the theory of deterministic partial differential equations, as well as on modern stochastic analysis. Whilst this volume mainly follows the ‘variational approach’, it also contains a short account on the ‘semigroup (or mild solution) approach’. In particular, the volume contains a complete presentation of the main existence and uniqueness results in the case of locally monotone coefficients. Various types of generalized coercivity conditions are shown to guarantee non-explosion, but also a systematic approach to treat SPDEs with explosion in finite time is developed. It is, so far, the only book where the latter and the ‘locally monotone case’ is presented in a detailed and complete way for SPDEs. The extension to this more general framework for SPDEs, for example, in comparison to the well-known case of globally monotone coefficients, substantially widens the applicability of the results. 

Dieser Band der Reihe „Österreichische Literatur in China“ beinhaltet bearbeitete Referate der Tagung „FRAUEN. SCHREIBEN – Österreichische und chinesische Autorinnen im interkulturellen Vergleich“, die in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Elfriede Jelinek-Forschungszentrum der Universität Wien von der Germanistikabteilung der Fudan Universität im Juni 2012 in Shanghai veranstaltet wurde. Die Mehrzahl der VerfasserInnen beschäftigt sich mit Werken von Elfriede Jelinek aus den unterschiedlichsten Sichtweisen, wobei auch auf die Rezeption ihrer Stücke in China eingegangen wird. Neben den Referaten über Bachmann und Mayröcker werden auch Aufsätze, die sich mit Frauenfiguren in der österreichischen Literatur beschäftigen, berücksichtigt. Ebenfalls einbezogen sind die übersetzten Textausschnitte der Lesung der Schriftstellerinnen Chen Danyan und Sabine Gruber, die das Symposium in Shanghai abrundete.