1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996248172303316

Autore

Strand David

Titolo

Rickshaw Beijing : City People and Politics in The 1920s / / David Strand

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, California : , : University of California Press, , [1989]

©1989

ISBN

0-585-10827-7

0-520-91387-6

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xix, 364 p. ) : ill. ;

Disciplina

951.156041

Soggetti

Beijing (China) Politics and government

Beijing (China) Social life and customs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Romanization and Currency -- One. A Twentieth-Century Walled City -- Two. The Rickshaw: Machine for a Mixed-up Age -- Three. Rickshaw Men: Careers of the Laboring Poor -- Four. Policemen as Mediators and Street-Level Bureaucrats -- Five. Jeweler, Banker, and Restaurateur: Power Struggles in the Beijing Chamber of Commerce -- Six. Profits and People's Livelihood: The Politics of Streetcar Development -- Seven. Bosses, Guilds, and Work Gangs: Labor Politics and the Sprouts of Unionism -- Eight. Citizens in a New Public Sphere: Widening Circles of Political Participation -- Nine. City People Under Siege: The Impact of Warlordism -- Ten. Union and Faction: Organized Labor in the Wake of the Northern Expedition -- Eleven. Machine-Breakers: The Streetcar Riot of October 22,1929 -- Twelve. Order and Movement in City Politics -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

In the 1920s, revolution, war, and imperialist aggression brought chaos to China. Many of the dramatic events associated with this upheaval took place in or near China's cities. Bound together by rail, telegraph, and a shared urban mentality, cities like Guangzhou, Shanghai, and Beijing formed an arena in which the great issues of the day--the quest



for social and civil peace, the defense of popular and national sovereignty, and the search for a distinctively modern Chinese society--were debated and fought over. People were drawn into this conflicts because they knew that the passage of armies, the marching of protesters, the pontificating of intellectual, and the opening and closing of factories could change their lives. David Strand offers a penetrating view of the old walled capital of Beijing during these years by examining how the residents coped with the changes wrought by itinerant soldiers and politicians and by the accelerating movement of ideas, capital, and technology. By looking at the political experiences of ordinary citizens, including rickshaw pullers, policemen, trade unionists, and Buddhist monks, Strand provides fascinating insights into how deeply these forces were felt. The resulting portrait of early twentieth-century Chinese urban society stresses the growing political sophistication of ordinary people educated by mass movements, group politics, and participation in a shared, urban culture that mixed opera and demonstrations, newspaper reading and teahouse socializing. Surprisingly, in the course of absorbing new ways of living, working, and doing politics, much of the old society was preserved--everything seemed to change and yet little of value was discarded. Through tumultuous times, Beijing rose from a base of local and popular politics to form a bridge linking a traditional world of guilds and gentry elites with the

contemporary world of corporatism and cadres.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910784038703321

Titolo

Mathematical methods for surface and subsurface hydrosystems [[electronic resource] /] / editors, Deguan Wang, Christian Duquennoi, Alexandre Ern

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Beijing, China, : Higher Education Press

Singapore, : World Scientific, c2006

ISBN

1-281-12110-X

9786611121105

981-270-752-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Collana

Series in contemporary applied mathematics ; ; 7

Altri autori (Persone)

WangDeguan

DuquennoiChristian

ErnAlexandre <1967->

Disciplina

532.5

Soggetti

Hydrology - Mathematical models

Physical geography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Preface; Contents; Series Talks; Invited Talks; P. Ackerer, A. Younes: A Finite Volume Formulation of the Mixed Finite Element Method for Triangular Elements; Alexandre Ern: Finite Element Modeling of Hydrosystems with Fully Saturated, Variably Saturated, and Overland Flows; Patrick Goblet: Sharp Front Modeling; Catherine Gourla y, Marie-Helene, Tusseau- Vuillemin: Numerical Modeling of Biological Processes: Specificities, Difficulties and Challenges; Deguan Wang: Ecological Simulation of Red Tides in Shallow Sea Area

Ling Li: Subsurface Pathways of Contaminants to Coastal Waters: Effects of Oceanic OscillationsTingfang Wang, Sixun Huang, Huadong DU, Gui Zhang: Studies on Retrieval of the Initial Values and Diffusion Coefficient of Water Pollutant Advection and Diffusion Process; Jing Chen, Zhifang Zhou: Application of Tabu Search Method to the Parameters of Groundwater Simulation Models; Xiaomin Xu, Deguan Wang: Several Problems in River Networks Hydraulic Mathematics Model

Jue Yang, Deguan Wang, Ying Zhang: Study on the Character of



Equilibrium Point and Its Impact on the Changing Rate of Phytoplankton Concentration Using a Simple Nutrient-Phytoplankton ModelJie Zhou, Deguan Wang, Haiping Jiang, Xijun Lai: A Numerical Simulation of Thermal Discharge into Tidal Estuary with FVM

Sommario/riassunto

With the increasing awareness of the heavy burden placed on environmental resources and the need for industry and public institutions to cope with more stringent regulations, this timely book focuses on some specific, but very important, environmental problems, namely, surface and subsurface hydrosystems. Covering state-of-the-art techniques to model such systems, the volume will be of great benefit to all researchers in applied mathematics and environmental engineering.