There a Petal Silently Falls is a selection of works from contemporary Korean author Ch'oe Yun. Elegantly crafted and quietly moving, Ch'oe Yun's stories are among the most incisive portrayals of the psychological and spiritual reality of post-World War II Korea.
Saving the Nation through Culture tells the little-known story of how a group of Chinese scholars attempted to use low culture to promote national unity during a long period of crisis.
This book provides a view of low-rank and sparse computing, especially approximation, recovery, representation, scaling, coding, embedding and learning among unconstrained visual data. The book includes chapters covering multiple emerging topics in this new field. It links multiple popular research fields in Human-Centered Computing, Social Media, Image Classification, Pattern Recognition, Computer Vision, Big Data, and Human-Computer Interaction. Contains an overview of the low-rank and sparse modeling techniques for visual analysis by examining both theoretical analysis and real-world applications.
This book provides a timely and unique survey of next-generation social computational methodologies. The text explains the fundamentals of this field, and describes state-of-the-art methods for inferring social status, relationships, preferences, intentions, personalities, needs, and lifestyles from human information in unconstrained visual data. Topics and features: includes perspectives from an international and interdisciplinary selection of pre-eminent authorities; presents balanced coverage of both detailed theoretical analysis and real-world applications; examines social relationships in human-centered media for the development of socially-aware video, location-based, and multimedia applications; reviews techniques for recognizing the social roles played by people in an event, and for classifying human-object interaction activities; discusses the prediction and recognition of human attributes via social media analytics, including social relationships, facial age and beauty, and occupation.
This study makes a linguistic case for the twentieth century revolution in Chinese language and literature. It offers a history of reform and change in the Chinese language throughout the country’s history, and focuses on the concept of ‘baihua’, a language reform movement championed by Hu Shi and other scholars which laid the foundation for the May fourth New Literature Movement, the larger New Culture Movement and which now defines modern Chinese. Examining the differences between classical and modern Chinese language systems alongside an investigation into the relevance and impact of translation in this language revolution - notably addressing the pivotal role of May Fourth leader Lu Xun - this book provides a rare insight into the evolution of the Chinese language and those who championed its development.
Qigong-Energieheilung ist die Stärkung der Lebensenergie durch Klang, Timing, Ernährung, bestimmte Qi-Mudras und die fünf Verjüngungsübungen. Dabei bilden die Fünf Elemente - als Basis der gesamten östlichen Philosophie und Naturheilkunde - die Grundlage für Revitalisierung des energetischen Feldes von Körper und Geist. Abgestimmt auf den persönlichen Typus, den jeder mit Hilfe des Buches leicht ermitteln kann, zeigen „Qi-Codes“ die jeweils beste Tageszeit, geeignete Klänge, hilfreiche Mudras und vitalisierende Fünf-Elemente-Verjüngungsübungen. Es handelt sich um sehr kurze aber wirkungsvolle meditative Movements, die den Qi-Fluß bewegen und lenken. Master Gao Yun und Master Bai Yin sind erfahrene Qigong-Therapeuten, die weltweit bereits Hunderttausende von Menschen in Qigong unterrichtet haben und auch hierzulande Seminare geben und Trainer ausbilden.