By analyzing a group of literary (wenyan) novellas, this study of late-Ming material culture focuses on an erotic fiction genre, the marketing and consuming strategies behind it, and the Daoist…

At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, a series of crises broke out after years of accumulated unrest, and uprisings against the regime erupted everywhere. The Yuan Dynasty was on…

China is one of the most important players in the global investment scene. However, with the rapid growth of overseas investment, there is also sharp increase of the investment risks…

A volume of proceedings from the 2nd International Conference on Structural Stability and Dynamics, 2002. It contains 153 papers covering the topics of structural stability and dynamics, computational methods, wave…

This book offers a novel approach to data privacy by unifying side-channel attacks within a general conceptual framework. Next, the book explores privacy-preserving traffic padding in Web applications, first via…

By illuminating the role princes played in local religion during the Ming dynasty (1368-1644), Richard Wang demonstrates in The Ming Prince and Daoism that the princedom served to mediate between…

Compared with traditional products, the connection attributes and intelligence attributes of the smart product are their differentiated competitive advantages. In order to understand how smart product attributes affect consumer attitudes…

In this Ming-era novel, historical narrative, raucous humor, and the supernatural are interwoven to tell the tale of an attempt to overthrow the Song dynasty. Quelling the Demons’ Revolt is…