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UNINA9910788214203321 |
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Guo Songfen <1938-2005, > |
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Titolo |
Running mother and other stories / / Guo Songfen ; edited and with an introduction by John Balcom |
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New York : , : Columbia University Press, , 2009 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (272 p.) |
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Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan |
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LITERARY CRITICISM / General |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Foreword: Summer 1961 / Lee, Stella -- Introduction: Guo Songfen, Taiwan's "Lost" Modernist / Balcom, John -- Moon Seal: translated by Michelle Yeh -- Wailing Moon: translated by Yingtsih Balcom -- Running Mother: translated by Yingtsih Balcom -- Clover: translated by Hayes Moore and Lee Yu -- Snow Blind: translated by Foster Robertson and Lee Yu -- Brightly Shine The Stars Tonight: translated by John Balcom |
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Guo Songfen's short stories are masterful psychological portraits that play with the echoes of history and the nature of identity. One of the few modernists to truly capture the fallout from such events as the February 28th Incident and the White Terror, Guo Songfen illuminates the quiet core of his characters through a spare and immediate style that is at once a symptom and an allegory of the trauma in which they live. In "Running Mother," a man is torn between his fear of abandonment and his guilt over leaving his family, and therefore his symbolic home, behind. "Moon Seal" follows a woman caught between traditional and modern worlds. In "Wailing Moon," a wife learns a shocking secret after her husband's death, realizing he was never the man she thought him to be. Set in the United States and Taiwan, "Snow Blind" is a multigenerational triptych that portrays the consequences of spiritual malaise, and in "Brightly Shines the Stars Tonight," a general wrestles with issues of memory and self-perception in the final moments before his execution. Guo Songfen's stories play with the |
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hazards of miscommunication, the malevolence of human will, the arbitrary nature of fate, and the burden of historical circumstance. As the general discovers, life is a game of chess, the outcome of which is never certain though it might be logically designed. Showcasing the best of Taiwan's modernist style, these stories are not only an indictment of the human condition but also a powerful comment on the experience of post retrocession Taiwan. |
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UNINA9910779058703321 |
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Strategies and priorities for information technology at the centers for medicare and medicaid services [[electronic resource] /] / Edward H. Shortliffe and Lynette I. Millet, editors ; Committee on Future Information Architectures, Processes, and Strategies for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services ; Computer Science and Telecommunications Board ; Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences |
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Washington, D.C., : National Academies Press, 2012 |
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0-309-22197-8 |
1-280-12338-9 |
9786613527240 |
0-309-22195-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (192 p.) |
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ShortliffeEdward Hance |
MilletLynette I |
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Information technology |
Medicare |
Medicaid |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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""Front Matter""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgment of Reviewers""; ""Contents""; ""Summary and Recommendations""; ""1 Essential Considerations and Background""; ""2 Toward a Comprehensive |
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Strategic Technology Plan""; ""3 A Meta-Methodology for the Modernization and Transformation of Business and Information Ecosystems""; ""4 Achieving Cultural and Organizational Transformation""; ""5 Anticipating a Data-Centric Future""; ""Appendixes""; ""Appendix A: Statement of Task""; ""Appendix B: Briefers to the Committee""; ""Appendix C: Biosketches of Committee Members and Staff"" |
""Appendix D: Sources and Uses of Data Within the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services""""Appendix E: A Two-Phase Approach to Modernization and Transformation of Business and Information Ecosystems""; ""Appendix F: Glossary""; ""Appendix G: Acronyms"" |
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"The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is the agency in the Department of Health and Human Services responsible for providing health coverage for seniors and people with disabilities, for limited-income individuals and families, and for children--totaling almost 100 million beneficiaries. The agency's core mission was established more than four decades ago with a mandate to focus on the prompt payment of claims, which now total more than 1.2 billion annually. With CMS's mission expanding from its original focus on prompt claims payment come new requirements for the agency's information technology (IT) systems. Strategies and Priorities for Information Technology at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services reviews CMS plans for its IT capabilities in light of these challenges and to make recommendations to CMS on how its business processes, practices, and information systems can best be developed to meet today's and tomorrow's demands. The report's recommendations and conclusions offered cluster around the following themes: (1) the need for a comprehensive strategic technology plan; (2) the application of an appropriate metamethodology to guide an iterative, incremental, and phased transition of business and information systems; (3) the criticality of IT to high-level strategic planning and its implications for CMS's internal organization and culture; and (4) the increasing importance of data and analytical efforts to stakeholders inside and outside CMS. Given the complexity of CMS's IT systems, there will be no simple solution. Although external contractors and advisory organizations will play important roles, CMS needs to assert well-informed technical and strategic leadership. The report argues that the only way for CMS to succeed in these efforts is for the agency, with its stakeholders and Congress, to recognize resolutely that action must be taken, to begin the needed cultural and organizational transformations, and to develop the appropriate internal expertise to lead the initiative with a comprehensive, incremental, iterative, and integrated approach that effectively and strategically integrates business requirements and IT capabilities."--Publisher's description. |
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