This ground-breaking volume documents women's influence on popular culture in twentieth-century China by examining Yue opera. A subgenre of Chinese opera, it migrated from the countryside to urban Shanghai and morphed from its traditional all-male form into an all-female one, with women cross-dressing as male characters for a largely female audience.Yue opera originated in the Zhejiang countryside as a form of story-singing, which rural immigrants brought with them to the metropolis of Shanghai. There, in the 1930s, its content and style transformed from rural to urban, and its cast changed gender. By evolving in response to sociopolitical and commercial conditions and actress-initiated reforms, Yue opera emerged as Shanghai's most popular opera from the 1930s through the 1980s and illustrates the historical rise of women in Chinese public culture.Jiang examines the origins of the genre in the context of the local operas that preceded it and situates its development amid the political, cultural, and social movements that swept both Shanghai and China in the twentieth century. She details the contributions of opera stars and related professionals and examines the relationships among actresses, patrons, and fans. As Yue opera actresses initiated reforms to purge their theater of bawdy eroticism in favor of the modern love drama, they elevated their social image, captured the public imagination, and sought independence from the patriarchal opera system by establishing their own companies. Throughout the story of Yue opera, Jiang looks at Chinese women's struggle to control their lives, careers, and public images and to claim ownership of their history and artistic representations.

Women Playing Men: Yue Opera and Social Change in Twentieth-Century Shanghai

Literature & Fiction

Jiang, Jin

Dramas & Plays

University of Washington Press

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Autonomous Safety Control of Flight Vehicles

"Aerospace vehicles are regarded as one classical type of safety-critical systems. By virtue of a safety control system, the aerospace vehicle can maintain high performance despite of component malfunctions and multiple disturbances, thereby enhancing the aircraft safety and mission success probability. This book presents a systematic methodology for improving the safety of aerospace vehicles in such aspects: the loss of control effectiveness of actuators and control surface impairments, disturbance observer-based control to against multiple disturbances, actuator faults and model uncertainties in hypersonic gliding vehicles, and faults composed by actuators faults and sensor faults. Several fundamental issues related to safety are explicitly analyzed according to aerospace engineering system characteristics. Focusing on the safety issues, the safety control design problems of aircraft are studied and elaborated in detail by using systematic design methods. The research results illustrate the superiority of the presented safety control approaches. The expected reader group for this book is undergraduate and graduate students but also industry practitioners and researchers"--

Computers & Technology

Guo, Lei

Yu, Xiang

Zhang, Youmin

Computer Science

CRC-Press

Aerospace vehicles are by their very nature a crucial environment for safety-critical systems. By virtue of an effective safety control system, the aerospace vehicle can maintain high performance despite the risk of component malfunction and multiple disturbances, thereby enhancing aircraft safety and the probability of success for a mission. Autonomous Safety Control of Flight Vehicles presents a systematic methodology for improving the safety of aerospace vehicles in the face of the following occurrences: a loss of control effectiveness of actuators and control surface impairments; the disturbance of observer-based control against multiple disturbances; actuator faults and model uncertainties in hypersonic gliding vehicles; and faults arising from actuator faults and sensor faults. Several fundamental issues related to safety are explicitly analyzed according to aerospace engineering system characteristics; while focusing on these safety issues, the safety control design problems of aircraft are studied and elaborated on in detail using systematic design methods. The research results illustrate the superiority of the safety control approaches put forward. The expected reader group for this book includes undergraduate and graduate students but also industry practitioners and researchers. About the Authors: Xiang Yu is a Professor with the School of Automation Science and Electrical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, China. His research interests include safety control of aerospace engineering systems, guidance, navigation, and control of unmanned aerial vehicles. Lei Guo, appointed as "Chang Jiang Scholar Chair Professor", is a Professor with the School of Automation Science and Electrical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, China. His research interests include anti-disturbance control and filtering, stochastic control, and fault detection with their applications to aerospace systems. Youmin Zhang is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, Québec, Canada. His research interests include fault diagnosis and fault-tolerant control, and cooperative guidance, navigation, and control (GNC) of unmanned aerial/space/ground/surface vehicles. Jin Jiang is a Professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada. His research interests include fault-tolerant control of safety-critical systems, advanced control of power plants containing non-traditional energy resources, and instrumentation and control for nuclear power plants.

Fighting Ko

Humor & Entertainment

Yuan, Sidney

Puzzles & Games

Yutopian Enterprises

Go - Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Territory through Connection and Influence. Each player must discover the strategy and tactics necessary for acquiring the most territory. The work of each move is a function of multiple threats to reate or destroy Life, Connection, Influence, and Territory. Utilizing Outward Influence by Jin Jiang and Zhao Zheng provides a study of how to efficiently build and use Influence. Jiang provides numerous examples of how to construct thickness (strongly connected strings of stones that cannot be disconnected) and how to avoid thinness (weakly connected strings of stones that can be disconnected). Also included are abundant examples of sacrifice and ko tactics that can be used for constructing large territorial frame-works (Moyos) out of influence. Seizing control of the center is vital for gaining the most territroy. Additional examples of using pivot points (an intersection on the edge of opposing moyos, which, upon occupation by one side, will expand that sides moyo and reduce the opposing moyo) for seizing control of the center are provided. Utilizing Outward Influence is a book for helping one reach shodan strength and reviewing the tactics and strategies used by dan players. Over 50 problems are included addressing: how to create thickness and avoid thinness in building influence; using influence to create territorial frameworks (moyos); and using influence to create territory by attacking.

Utilizing Outward Influence

Hutchinson, Craig

Crow Brothers/Fox and Monkey

Beautifully illustrated and cleverly designed, this unique flip book features two entertaining tales. In the first tale, two lazy crow brothers watch a hole in their nest get bigger and bigger. Each believes the other will fix it. Will one of them take responsibility before winter arrives? In the second tale, a hungry fox and a monkey agree to work together to get peaches off a tree in the middle of a river and share them. But only one of them can cross the river at a time. Can they trust each other?

Children's Books

Reycraft Books

The book not only presents the thermal analysis, experimental and numerical studies for kinds of high strength steel joints, but also provides clear analysis for the effect of residual stress on mechanical behavior including fatigue performance of welded structure. Readers can get beneficial information on how to do thermal analysis and how to evaluate the impact of the residual stress on fatigue performance of welded structure.

Welded High Strength Steel Structures: Welding Effects and Fatigue Performance

Science & Math

Chemistry

Wiley-VCH

Modern technological systems rely on sophisticated control functions to meet increased performance requirements. For such systems, Fault Tolerant Control Systems (FTCS) need to be developed. Active FTCS are dependent on a Fault Detection and Identification (FDI) process to monitor system performance and to detect and isolate faults in the systems. The main objective of this book is to study and to validate some important issues in real-time Active FTCS by means of theoretical analysis and simulation. Several models are presented to achieve this objective, taking into consideration practical aspects of the system to be controlled, performance deterioration in FDI algorithms, and limitations in reconfigurable control laws.

Active Fault Tolerant Control Systems: Stochastic Analysis and Synthesis (Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences, 287)

Mahmoud, Mufeed

Reference

Springer

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