DOCSLIB.ORG

2019 China-Australia Civil, Materials and Environment Forum PROGRAM

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
2019 China-Australia Civil, Materials and Environment Forum PROGRAM 2019 China-Australia Civil, Materials and Environment Forum PROGRAM 27-29th December, Tianjin, China Welcome to CAF2019 Dear friends and colleagues: We are pleased to announce that 2019 China-Australia Civil, Materials and Environment Forum (CAF2019) will be held on December 27-29th, 2019 in Tianjin, China. The conference will be hosted by Hebei University of Technology (HEBUT) and Federation of Chinese Scholars in Australia (FOCSA). There are already profound research collaboration and academic connections between China and Australia. The aim of this forum is to bring together experts, scholars, industry practitioners and policy makers in areas of Civil, Materials and Environment from China and Australia to have in-depth discussions on hot issues related to these areas, exchange ideas and experiences, enhance the existing links and identify new opportunities for collaboration. We believe that these interactions and networking opportunities will further foster and deepen the collaborations in science, technology and higher education between China and Australia. The forum will promote the applications of scientific and technological innovations in related fields in the coordinated development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei and the construction of Xiong'an New District. We warmly welcome you to come to the CAF2019 and look forward to seeing you in Tianjin! Sincerely, Prof. Guowei Ma, Vice-president Heibei Universigy of Technology (HEBUT), China Prof. Zhiguo Yuan, AM, FTSE The University of Queensland (UQ), Australia 1 Introduction Hebei University of Technology (HEBUT) is a key university as well as one of the national universities under "Project 211". Situated in Tianjin city, it is also an important co-construction university under the authority of Hebei Province, Tianjin City and China Ministry of Education. Since 2016, HEBUT has been qualified for entering the first-level universities in Hebei Province for the construction of Double First-rate (world-class university and best discipline). It was founded in 1903, and was originally known as Beiyang Technical School. Since its establishment, HEBUT has always adhered to the motto “Diligence, Prudence, Devotion and Loyalty” to coach students and conduct research, and has gradually developed a distinctive school-running characteristics in which academic learning and engineering practice are equally stressed. HEBUT has 69 undergraduate programs, embracing a wide range of disciplines including engineering, science, economics, management, art and law. It is composed of 20 schools/departments, one physical-training teaching department and 2 teaching administrative schools. It has 6 state-level disciplines with specific characteristics and 18 province-level representative programs, 2 national key disciplines, 4 province-level advantageous disciplines and 20 provincial key disciplines. There are 42 disciplines authorized to award doctor degrees, 131 disciplines authorized to offer master’s degrees or professional degree fields. HEBUT is the first engineering-based university to launch MBA program in China. Meanwhile, it is the only university in Hebei province that offers an EMBA education. It possesses 9 post doctoral work stations. 2 The Federation of Chinese Scholars in Australia (FOCSA) is a non-politic, non-religious and not-for-profit organisation for Chinese Australian scholars and professionals. The Federation is registered with ACT Registrar-General's Office. FOCSA is established in 2004 as a federation to represent Chinese scholars in Australia. It currently consists of 13 Chinese professional associations across except Tasmania all States in Australia. The objectives of FOCSA are to promote scientific and technological advances, and promote self-development of Chinese Australian scholars across all disciplines; foster exchanges and cooperation in science, technology and education among Chinese Australian scholars, among Chinese professional associations in Australia; encourage Chinese Australians or their affiliated professional associations to make contributions toward the progress in science and technology, and the economical development both in Australia and China and coordinate among the group members to organise events at the federal level and/or represent Chinese Australian scholars to participate in events at the international level. The Federation is governed by the Council with an Executive Committee as its standing governing body. The Executive Committee conducts its governance through the Secretariat and Professional Committees. The Council is the highest decision making body of the Federation. The Council composes of representatives of group memberships and for a two year term of office. FOCSA holds the Council Annual General Meeting once a year. The Council nominate distinguished individuals in science, technology, education, enterprise and management as its advisor. The Federation organises national and international events including conference, workshop and exhibition. Especially, a joint biennial symposium between Chinese and Australian scholars and professionals in science, technology and education, and the proposed Annual Australian Chinese Scholars Congress will be the routine events of FOCSA. 3 Conference Committee Civil Engineering Chair Guowei Ma Hebei University of Technology Dong Wang Ocean University of China Members (in alphabetical order) Kaiming Bi Curtin University Lei He Southeast University Da Huang Hebei University of Technology Liu Jin Beijing University of Technology Jinhui Li Shenzhen Graduate School of Harbin Institute of Technology Jun Li Curtin University Xu Li Northern Jiaotong University Yinghui Tian Tianjin University Chunwei Zhang Qingdao University of Technology Qianbing Zhang Monash University Gaofeng Zhao Tianjin University Hongyuan Zhou Beijing University of Technology 4 Environment Chair Zhiguo Yuan The University of Queensland Guanyi Chen Tianjin University Members (in alphabetical order) Taicheng An Guangdong University of Technology Jianhua Guo The University of Queensland Longbin Huang The University of Queensland Bo Jin The University of Adelaide Huijuan Liu Tsinghua University Jianyong Liu Shanghai University Yanchen Liu Tsinghua University Hailiang Song Nanjing Normal University Xiuheng Wang Harbin Institute of Technology Hong Yao Beijing Jiaotong University Xin Yu Xiamen University Jianxiong Zeng Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University Shanqing Zhang Griffith University Xiwang Zhang Monash University Heping Zhao Zhejiang University Yaqian Zhao Xi’an University of Technology & University College Dublin Nanwen Zhu Shanghai Jiao Tong University 5 Materials Chair Hao Wang University of Southern Queensland Quanhong Yang Tianjin University Members (in alphabetical order) Junwei Gu Northwestern Polytechnical University Yuantong Gu Queensland University of Technology Ning Hu Hebei University of Technology Yulong Li Northwestern Polytechnical University Xiaozhou Liao The University of Sydney Jianfeng Nie Monash University Pingan Song University of Southern Queensland Ziqi Sun Queensland University of Technology Dawei Wang University of New South Wales Weiyi Xing University of Science and Technology China Shijian Zheng Hebei University of Technology 6 Contact Us Email Address : [email protected] Dr. Chengwang Xiong : 13820958301 Dr. Decheng Zhang : 13651190421 (If you have any other question, please name email as 'Question CAF'.) 7 Forum Program 2019 China-Australia Civil, Materials and Environment Forum Date: 26-29th December 2019 Venue: Holiday Inn Tianjin Riverside, East Haihe Road, Hebei District, 300141, Tianjin 26th December 2019 13:00-21:00 Registration (Hotel Lobby, Holiday Inn Tianjin Riverside) Day 1: 27th December 2019 Opening Ceremony (Banquet Hall -5th Floor) Welcome speech from: Prof. Guowei Ma (Vice-President of Hebei University of Technology Hebei University of Technology) Welcome speech from: Prof. Zhiguo Yuan 9:00 -9:20 (AM, Fellow of Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering. The University of Queensland) Welcome speech from: Prof. Zhongxian Li (President of Tianjin Chengjian University Tianjin Chengjian University) Plenary Lecture Plenary Lecture 1: Pushing the frontiers of materials research and innovation Prof. Max Lu 9:20-10:00 (Foreign Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences University of Surrey) 10:00-10:40 Coffee Break and Photo time Plenary Lecture 2: Towards the sustainable, resilient, and multi-hazard resistant design of civil infrastructure 10:40-11:20 Prof. Hong Hao (Fellow of Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering. Curtin University) Plenary Lecture 3: Membrane Integrated wastewater treatment technology and performance optimization 11:20-12:00 Prof. Xia Huang (Tsinghua University) 12:00-13:30 Buffet Lunch (Cafe Venice-2nd Floor) 8 Day 1: 27th December 2019 Parallel Session of Civil Engineering Disaster Prevention and Reduction of Civil Engineering Structures Chair: Liu Jin & Kaiming Bi Time Speaker Title Chengqing Wu High-velocity projectile impact resistance of Portland 13:30-14:00 (University of Technology cement-based and geopolymer-based ultra-high Sydney) performance concrete (UHPC) Xinqun Zhu Recent development in structural health monitoring based 14:00-14:15 (University of Technology on vehicle-bridge interaction Sydney) Yifei Hao Development of ambient-cured high-strength geopolymer 14:15-14:30 (Tianjin University) concrete for structural and non-structural applications Zhongxian Liu The fast multi-pole boundary element method simulation
Load more

Recommended publications
  • HUI LIAO Management and Organization Department Phone: 301-405-9274 (O) Robert H
    HUI LIAO Management and Organization Department Phone: 301-405-9274 (o) Robert H. Smith School of Business Fax: 301-214-8787 4506 Van Munching Hall E-mail: [email protected] College Park, MD 20742 http://www.rhsmith.umd.edu/directory/hui-liao EDUCATION_________________________________________________________________ July 2002 Ph.D. Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota Organizational Behavior & Human Resources July 1997 B.A. Renmin University of China International Economics ACADEMIC/PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS__________________________________ December 2012 – Present Smith Dean’s Professor in Leadership and Management Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland May 2012 – Present Professor Management and Organization Department Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland Jan 2010 – Dec 2012 Research Director Center for Excellence in Service Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland July 2008 – April 2012 Associate Professor (with Tenure) Management and Organization Department Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland July 2007 – June 2008 Associate Professor (with Tenure) School of Management and Labor Relations Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey July 2003 – June 2007 Assistant Professor School of Management and Labor Relations Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey July 2002 – June 2003 Assistant Professor Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign PRIMARY RESEARCH INTERESTS____________________________________________ . Leadership . Service Quality/ Creativity . Strategic Human Resource Management . Cross-cultural Management 1 MAJOR SCHOLARLY AWARDS AND HONORS__________________________________ . 2012, Named an endowed professorship – Smith Dean’s Professor in Leadership and Management, Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland . 2012, Cummings Scholarly Achievement Award, OB Division, Academy of Management .
    [Show full text]
  • The Road to Literary Culture: Revisiting the Jurchen Language Examination System*
    T’OUNG PAO 130 T’oung PaoXin 101-1-3 Wen (2015) 130-167 www.brill.com/tpao The Road to Literary Culture: Revisiting the Jurchen Language Examination System* Xin Wen (Harvard University) Abstract This essay contextualizes the unique institution of the Jurchen language examination system in the creation of a new literary culture in the Jin dynasty (1115–1234). Unlike the civil examinations in Chinese, which rested on a well-established classical canon, the Jurchen language examinations developed in close connection with the establishment of a Jurchen school system and the formation of a literary canon in the Jurchen language and scripts. In addition to being an official selection mechanism, the Jurchen examinations were more importantly part of a literary endeavor toward a cultural ideal. Through complementing transmitted Chinese sources with epigraphic sources in Jurchen, this essay questions the conventional view of this institution as a “Jurchenization” measure, and proposes that what the Jurchen emperors and officials envisioned was a road leading not to Jurchenization, but to a distinctively hybrid literary culture. Résumé Cet article replace l’institution unique des examens en langue Jurchen dans le contexte de la création d’une nouvelle culture littéraire sous la dynastie des Jin (1115–1234). Contrairement aux examens civils en chinois, qui s’appuyaient sur un canon classique bien établi, les examens en Jurchen se sont développés en rapport étroit avec la mise en place d’un système d’écoles Jurchen et avec la formation d’un canon littéraire en langue et en écriture Jurchen. En plus de servir à la sélection des fonctionnaires, et de façon plus importante, les examens en Jurchen s’inscrivaient * This article originated from Professor Peter Bol’s seminar at Harvard University.
    [Show full text]
  • Liang Feng Associate Professor of Molecular and Cellular Physiology Molecular & Cellular Physiology
    Liang Feng Associate Professor of Molecular and Cellular Physiology Molecular & Cellular Physiology Bio ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS • Associate Professor, Molecular & Cellular Physiology • Member, Bio-X HONORS AND AWARDS • NIH Director's New Innovator Award, NIH (2015) • Klingenstein-Simons Fellow, The Klingenstein Fund and the Simons Foundation (2015) • Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (2014) PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION • PhD, Princeton University (2006) • MPhil, HKUST (2002) • B.S., Tsinghua University (1999) LINKS • Lab stie (under construction): https://sites.google.com/site/fenggroupatstanford/ Research & Scholarship CURRENT RESEARCH AND SCHOLARLY INTERESTS Biological membranes act as selective barriers that separate the interior of cells from their outside environment. Membrane proteins play crucial roles in a wide range of biological and physiological processes and are targeted by a large number of pharmacologically active compounds including ~ 50% of the drugs in use today. Lack of high-resolution structural information has become a bottleneck for the mechanistic understanding of membrane proteins and hinders potential drug development. Our research interest lies primarily in understanding the mechanism and regulation of these dynamic membrane proteins, and developing small molecule modulators based on their structures and functions. We are taking a multi-disciplinary approach, employing structural methods to capture the high-resolution picture of different states, functional assays and biophysical methods to dissect
    [Show full text]
  • Light on the Liao
    A photo essay LIGHT ON THE LIAO n summer 2009, I was fortunate to participate in a summer seminar, ”China’s Northern Frontier,” co-sponsored I by the Silkroad Foundation, Yale University and Beijing University. Lecturers included some of the luminaries in the study of the Liao Dynasty and its history. In traveling through Gansu, Ningxia, Inner Mongolia and Lia- K(h)itan Abaoji in what is now Liaoning Province. At its peak, the Liao Empire controlled much of North China, Mongolia and territories far to the West. When it fell to the Jurchen in 1125, its remnants re-emerged as the Qara Khitai off in Central Asia, where they survived down to the creation of the Mongol empire (for their history, see the pioneering monograph by Michal Biran). While they began as semi-nomadic pastoralists, the Kitan/Liao in recent years from Liao tombs attest to their involvement in international trade and the sophistication of their cultural achievements. As with other states established in “borderlands” they drew on many different sources to create a distinctive culture which is now, after long neglect, being fully appreciated. These pictures touch but a few high points, leaving much else for separate exploration, which, it is hoped, they will stimulate readers to undertake on their own. The history and culture of the Kitan/Liao merit your serious attention, forming as they do an important chapter in the larger history of the silk roads. With the exception of the map and satellite image, the photos are all mine, a very few taken in collections outside of China, but the great majority during the seminar in 2009.
    [Show full text]
  • Multi-Task Learning for Classification with Dirichlet Process Priors
    Journal of Machine Learning Research 8 (2007) 35-63 Submitted 4/06; Revised 9/06; Published 1/07 Multi-Task Learning for Classification with Dirichlet Process Priors Ya Xue [email protected] Xuejun Liao [email protected] Lawrence Carin [email protected] Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Duke University Durham, NC 27708, USA Balaji Krishnapuram [email protected] Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. Malvern, PA 19355, USA Editor: Peter Bartlett Abstract Consider the problem of learning logistic-regression models for multiple classification tasks, where the training data set for each task is not drawn from the same statistical distribution. In such a multi-task learning (MTL) scenario, it is necessary to identify groups of similar tasks that should be learned jointly. Relying on a Dirichlet process (DP) based statistical model to learn the extent of similarity between classification tasks, we develop computationally efficient algorithms for two different forms of the MTL problem. First, we consider a symmetric multi-task learning (SMTL) situation in which classifiers for multiple tasks are learned jointly using a variational Bayesian (VB) algorithm. Second, we consider an asymmetric multi-task learning (AMTL) formulation in which the posterior density function from the SMTL model parameters (from previous tasks) is used as a prior for a new task: this approach has the significant advantage of not requiring storage and use of all previous data from prior tasks. The AMTL formulation is solved with a simple Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) construction. Experimental results on two real life MTL problems indicate that the proposed algorithms: (a) automatically identify subgroups of related tasks whose training data appear to be drawn from similar distributions; and (b) are more accurate than simpler approaches such as single-task learning, pooling of data across all tasks, and simplified approximations to DP.
    [Show full text]
  • A Hypothesis on the Origin of the Yu State
    SINO-PLATONIC PAPERS Number 139 June, 2004 A Hypothesis on the Origin of the Yu State by Taishan Yu Victor H. Mair, Editor Sino-Platonic Papers Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305 USA [email protected] www.sino-platonic.org SINO-PLATONIC PAPERS FOUNDED 1986 Editor-in-Chief VICTOR H. MAIR Associate Editors PAULA ROBERTS MARK SWOFFORD ISSN 2157-9679 (print) 2157-9687 (online) SINO-PLATONIC PAPERS is an occasional series dedicated to making available to specialists and the interested public the results of research that, because of its unconventional or controversial nature, might otherwise go unpublished. The editor-in-chief actively encourages younger, not yet well established, scholars and independent authors to submit manuscripts for consideration. Contributions in any of the major scholarly languages of the world, including romanized modern standard Mandarin (MSM) and Japanese, are acceptable. In special circumstances, papers written in one of the Sinitic topolects (fangyan) may be considered for publication. Although the chief focus of Sino-Platonic Papers is on the intercultural relations of China with other peoples, challenging and creative studies on a wide variety of philological subjects will be entertained. This series is not the place for safe, sober, and stodgy presentations. Sino- Platonic Papers prefers lively work that, while taking reasonable risks to advance the field, capitalizes on brilliant new insights into the development of civilization. Submissions are regularly sent out to be refereed, and extensive editorial suggestions for revision may be offered. Sino-Platonic Papers emphasizes substance over form. We do, however, strongly recommend that prospective authors consult our style guidelines at www.sino-platonic.org/stylesheet.doc.
    [Show full text]
  • Perspectives from the Split-Share Structure Reform$
    Journal of Financial Economics 113 (2014) 500–518 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Journal of Financial Economics journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/jfec China's secondary privatization: Perspectives from the Split-Share Structure Reform$ Li Liao a,n, Bibo Liu b,1, Hao Wang c,2 a Tsinghua University, PBC School of Finance, 43 Chengfu Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100083, China b Tsinghua University and CITIC Securities, Equity Capital Markets Division, CITIC Securities Tower, 48 Liangmaqiao Road, Beijing 100125, China c Tsinghua University, School of Economics and Management, 318 Weilun Building, Beijing 100084, China article info abstract Article history: The Split-Share Structure Reform granted legitimate trading rights to the state-owned Received 23 November 2012 shares of listed state-owned enterprises (SOEs), opening up the gate to China's secondary Received in revised form privatization. The expectation of privatization quickly boosted SOE output, profits, and 24 September 2013 employment, but did not change their operating efficiency and corporate governance. The Accepted 23 October 2013 improvements to SOE performance are positively correlated to government agents’ Available online 27 May 2014 privatization-led incentive of increasing state-owned share value. In terms of privatization JEL classification: methodology, the reform adopted a market mechanism that played an effective informa- G18 tion discovery role in aligning the interests of the government and public investors. G28 & 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. G30 L33 Keywords: The Split-Share Structure Reform Privatization State-owned enterprise Financial reform Market mechanism 1. Introduction enterprises (SOEs) went public to issue minority tradable shares to institutional and individual investors.
    [Show full text]
  • Conference Schedule
    ICBBS 2019 CONFERENCE ABSTRACT CONFERENCE ABSTRACT 2019 8th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Science (ICBBS 2019) October 23-25, 2019 Grand Gongda Jianguo Hotel, Beijing, China Organized by Co-organized by Published and Indexed by http://www.icbbs.org/ ICBBS 2019 CONFERENCE ABSTRACT ICBBS 2019 CONFERENCE ABSTRACT Table of Contents Introduction 4 Conference Committee 5~6 Program at-a-Glance 7~9 Presentation Instruction 10 Keynote Speaker Introduction 11~19 Invited Speaker Introduction 20~21 Oral Session on October 24, 2019 Session 1: Feature Extraction and Image Segmentation 22~26 Session 2: Pattern Recognition and Image Classification 27~31 Session 3: Medical Image Processing and Medical Testing 32~37 Session 4: Data Analysis and Soft Computing 38~42 Session 5: Target Detection 43~47 Session 6: Image Analysis and Signal Processing 48~53 Session 7: Molecular Biology and Biomedicine 54~59 Session 8: Computer Information Technology and Application 60~64 Poster Session on October 25, 2019 65~84 Conference Venue 85~86 Note 87~88 ICBBS 2019 CONFERENCE ABSTRACT Introduction Welcome to 2019 8th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Science (ICBBS 2019) which is organized by Beijing University of Technology and Biology and Bioinformatics (BBS) under Hong Kong Chemical, Biological & Environmental Engineering Society (CBEES), co-organized by Tiangong University and Hebei University of Technology. The objective of ICBBS 2019 is to provide a platform for researchers, engineers, academicians as well as industrial professionals from all over the world to present their research results and development activities in Bioinformatics and Biomedical Science. Papers will be published in the following proceedings: ACM Conference Proceedings (ISBN: 978-1-4503-7251-0): archived in ACM Digital Library, indexed by EI Compendex and SCOPUS, and submitted to be reviewed by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (ISI Web of Science).
    [Show full text]
  • Comment On: “A Bibliometric Analysis and Visualization of Medical Big Data Research” Sustainability 2018, 10, 166
    sustainability Comment Comment on: “A Bibliometric Analysis and Visualization of Medical Big Data Research” Sustainability 2018, 10, 166 Yuh-Shan Ho Trend Research Centre, Asia University, No. 500, Lioufeng Road, Wufeng, Taichung County 41354, Taiwan; [email protected] Received: 25 November 2018; Accepted: 18 December 2018; Published: 19 December 2018 Liao et al. recently published a paper in this journal entitled “A Bibliometric Analysis and Visualization of Medical Big Data Research” [1]. In “Section 2. Data and Methods”, the authors specified the following: ‘We took ”medical big data” as topical retrieval and the time span was defined as “all years” (However, according to the returned results, we know that the first publication in MBD was appeared in 1991). The literature type was defined as “all types”. In total, 988 documents met the selection criteria. Ten document types were found in these 988 publications.’ To check results in the original paper [1], we searched the Clarivate Analytics Web of Science, the online version of the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), and the Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) on 2 November 2018. The databases were searched using the keywords “medical big data” in terms of topic (title, abstract, author keywords, and KeyWords Plus) within the publication years of 1900 to 2017. Only 18 documents could be found, including 15 articles, two meeting abstracts, and one editorial material but not “988 documents” as mentioned in the original paper [1]. The 15 medical big data-related articles were published by Al Hamid et al. [2], Azar and Hassanien [3], Chen et al.
    [Show full text]
  • University of Leeds Chinese Accepted Institution List 2021
    University of Leeds Chinese accepted Institution List 2021 This list applies to courses in: All Engineering and Computing courses School of Mathematics School of Education School of Politics and International Studies School of Sociology and Social Policy GPA Requirements 2:1 = 75-85% 2:2 = 70-80% Please visit https://courses.leeds.ac.uk to find out which courses require a 2:1 and a 2:2. Please note: This document is to be used as a guide only. Final decisions will be made by the University of Leeds admissions teams.
    [Show full text]
  • A Study of Xu Xu's Ghost Love and Its Three Film Adaptations THESIS
    Allegories and Appropriations of the ―Ghost‖: A Study of Xu Xu‘s Ghost Love and Its Three Film Adaptations THESIS Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Arts in the Graduate School of The Ohio State University By Qin Chen Graduate Program in East Asian Languages and Literatures The Ohio State University 2010 Master's Examination Committee: Kirk Denton, Advisor Patricia Sieber Copyright by Qin Chen 2010 Abstract This thesis is a comparative study of Xu Xu‘s (1908-1980) novella Ghost Love (1937) and three film adaptations made in 1941, 1956 and 1995. As one of the most popular writers during the Republican period, Xu Xu is famous for fiction characterized by a cosmopolitan atmosphere, exoticism, and recounting fantastic encounters. Ghost Love, his first well-known work, presents the traditional narrative of ―a man encountering a female ghost,‖ but also embodies serious psychological, philosophical, and even political meanings. The approach applied to this thesis is semiotic and focuses on how each text reflects the particular reality and ethos of its time. In other words, in analyzing how Xu‘s original text and the three film adaptations present the same ―ghost story,‖ as well as different allegories hidden behind their appropriations of the image of the ―ghost,‖ the thesis seeks to broaden our understanding of the history, society, and culture of some eventful periods in twentieth-century China—prewar Shanghai (Chapter 1), wartime Shanghai (Chapter 2), post-war Hong Kong (Chapter 3) and post-Mao mainland (Chapter 4). ii Dedication To my parents and my husband, Zhang Boying iii Acknowledgments This thesis owes a good deal to the DEALL teachers and mentors who have taught and helped me during the past two years at The Ohio State University, particularly my advisor, Dr.
    [Show full text]
  • Surname Methodology in Defining Ethnic Populations : Chinese
    Surname Methodology in Defining Ethnic Populations: Chinese Canadians Ethnic Surveillance Series #1 August, 2005 Surveillance Methodology, Health Surveillance, Public Health Division, Alberta Health and Wellness For more information contact: Health Surveillance Alberta Health and Wellness 24th Floor, TELUS Plaza North Tower P.O. Box 1360 10025 Jasper Avenue, STN Main Edmonton, Alberta T5J 2N3 Phone: (780) 427-4518 Fax: (780) 427-1470 Website: www.health.gov.ab.ca ISBN (on-line PDF version): 0-7785-3471-5 Acknowledgements This report was written by Dr. Hude Quan, University of Calgary Dr. Donald Schopflocher, Alberta Health and Wellness Dr. Fu-Lin Wang, Alberta Health and Wellness (Authors are ordered by alphabetic order of surname). The authors gratefully acknowledge the surname review panel members of Thu Ha Nguyen and Siu Yu, and valuable comments from Yan Jin and Shaun Malo of Alberta Health & Wellness. They also thank Dr. Carolyn De Coster who helped with the writing and editing of the report. Thanks to Fraser Noseworthy for assisting with the cover page design. i EXECUTIVE SUMMARY A Chinese surname list to define Chinese ethnicity was developed through literature review, a panel review, and a telephone survey of a randomly selected sample in Calgary. It was validated with the Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS). Results show that the proportion who self-reported as Chinese has high agreement with the proportion identified by the surname list in the CCHS. The surname list was applied to the Alberta Health Insurance Plan registry database to define the Chinese ethnic population, and to the Vital Statistics Death Registry to assess the Chinese ethnic population mortality in Alberta.
    [Show full text]