Chen Chen: 1169 books
Women in Chinese Martial Arts Films of the New Millennium
Narrative Analyses and Gender Politics
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
Women and Gender in Chinese Martial Arts Films of the New Millennium, by Ya-chen Chen, is an excavation of underexposed gender issues focusing mainly on contradictory and troubled feminism in the film narratives. In the cinematic world of martial arts films, one can easily find representations of...
by Chen Chen
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2017
**LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY
WINNER OF THE A. POULIN, JR. POETRY PRIZE
A LIBRARY JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF 2017 SELECTION: POETRY & LITERATURE
ON NPR BOOKS'S LIST OF "POETRY TO PAY ATTENTION TO: 2017'S BEST VERSE"
A PUBLISHERS WEEKLY 2017 HOLIDAY...
The Regulation and Supervision of Banks
The Post Crisis Regulatory Responses of the EU
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Over the past two decades, the banking industry has expanded and consolidated at a stunningly unprecedented speed. In this time banks have also moved from focusing purely on commercial banking activities to being heavily involved in market-based and transaction-oriented wholesale and investment banking...
Big Visual Data Analysis
Scene Classification and Geometric Labeling
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
This book offers an overview of traditional big visual data analysis approaches and provides state-of-the-art solutions for several scene comprehension problems, indoor/outdoor classification, outdoor scene classification, and outdoor scene layout estimation. It is illustrated with numerous natural...
Far East, Down South
Asians in the American South
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
In sharp contrast to the “melting pot” reputation of the United States, the American South—with its history of slavery, Jim Crow, and the civil rights movement—has been perceived in stark and simplistic demographic terms. In Far East, Down South, editors Raymond A. Mohl, John E. Van Sant,...
by An-Chyau Huang, Yung-Feng Chen, Chen-Yu Kai
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
In this book, we collected recent results on the control of underactuated mechanical systems subject to internal uncertainties and external disturbances. The strategy developed is so universal that it is not restricted to a specific system but a large class of underactuated systems. Several benchmark...
Chen Style Taijiquan Collected Masterworks
The History of a Martial Art
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2019
The first-ever English translation of the most important masterworks of Chen Style Taiji, as originally published by the renowned grandmaster Chen Zhaopi
Chen Zhaopi (1893-1972) is universally recognized as a grandmaster of Chen Style Taiji, an ancient martial art that is the foundation of...
by Wen-Hui Chen
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2014
Dr. Hsi-En “Theodore” Chen had a long and distinguished career in higher education, both in the United States and in China. Dr. Chen was the first professor of Chinese ancestry to be granted tenure at the University of Southern California; his hiring opened the gates for Chinese scholars to teach...
by Sarah M. Chen
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Sarah M. Chen’s Anthony Award-nominated and IPPY Award-winning debut.
Life is a constant party for restaurant manager, Finn Roose. When he seduces an underage woman on one of his booze cruises and loses her—literally, it sets off a massive search involving the police, her parents, and a...
Practical Program Evaluation
Theory-Driven Evaluation and the Integrated Evaluation Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
The Second Edition of Practical Program Evaluation shows readers how to systematically identify stakeholders’ needs in order to select the evaluation options best suited to meet those needs. Within his discussion of the various evaluation types, Huey T. Chen details a range of evaluation approaches...
Animacies
Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
In Animacies, Mel Y. Chen draws on recent debates about sexuality, race, and affect to examine how matter that is considered insensate, immobile, or deathly animates cultural lives. Toward that end, Chen investigates the blurry division between the living and the dead, or that which is beyond the...
by Philip Chen
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
Falling Star is about the discovery of mysterious objects buried deep in the ocean and what happens when they wake up and start sending signals to outer space. Mike, pulled back into a clandestine world to help decipher these signals, is attacked by gangs of ordinary Americans bent on killing him....
by Da Chen
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2003
"I was born in southern China in 1962, in the tiny town of Yellow Stone. They called it the Year of Great Starvation."
In 1962, as millions of Chinese citizens were gripped by Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution and the Red Guards enforced a brutal regime of communism, a boy was born...
Staging Chinese Revolution
Theater, Film, and the Afterlives of Propaganda
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
Staging Chinese Revolution surveys fifty years of theatrical propaganda performances in China, revealing a dynamic, commercial capacity in works often dismissed as artifacts of censorship. Spanning the 1960s through the 2010s, Xiaomei Chen reads films, plays, operas, and television shows from an interdisciplinary...