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  • A Story of Ruins

    Presence and Absence in Chinese Art and Visual Culture

    by Wu Hung ...
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    This richly illustrated book examines the changing significance of ruins as vehicles for cultural memory in Chinese art and visual culture from ancient times to the present. The story of ruins in China is different from but connected to ‘ruin culture’ in the West. This book explores indigenous Chinese concepts of ruins and their visual manifestations, as well as the complex historical interactions ... Read more

    $66.49 CAD

  • The Art of the Yellow Springs

    Understanding Chinese Tombs

    by Wu Hung ...
    No other civilization in the pre-modern world was more obsessed with creating underground burial structures than the Chinese. For at least five thousand years, from the fourth millennium BCE to the early twentieth century, Chinese people devoted an extraordinary amount of wealth and labour to building tombs and furnishing them with exquisite objects and images.In art history these ancient burial ... Read more

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  • The Full-Length Mirror

    A Global Visual History

    by Wu Hung ...
    This book tells two stories about the full-length mirror. One story, through time and space, crisscrosses the globe to introduce a broad range of historical actors: kings and slaves, artists and writers, merchants and craftsmen, courtesans and commoners. The other story explores the connections between object, painting and photography, the full-length mirror providing a new perspective on ... Read more

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  • Zooming In

    Histories of Photography in China

    by Wu Hung ...
    From the first sets of photographic records made by Western travellers to the emergence of ‘Chinese photography’ imbued with national anxiety and individual desire, and from doctored portraits of Chairman Mao to ‘experimental’ representations of urban transformation and avant-garde performances of the post-Cultural Revolution era, the development of photography in China has followed divergent paths ... Read more

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  • The Double Screen

    Medium and Representation in Chinese Painting

    by Wu Hung ...
    Series series Essays in Art and Culture
    This book contemplates a large problem: what is a traditional Chinese painting? Wu Hung answers this question through a comprehensive analysis of the screen, a major format and a popular pictorial motif in traditional China. With a broad array of examples ranging from the early centuries C.E. to the 1800s, he explores the screen’s position in art – as an important site for artistic imagination, as ... Read more

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  • Spatial Dunhuang

    Experiencing the Mogao Caves

    by Wu Hung ...
    Constructed over a millennium from the fourth to fourteenth centuries CE near Dunhuang, an ancient border town along the Silk Road in northwest China, the Mogao Caves comprise the largest, most continuously created, and best-preserved treasure trove of Buddhist art in the world. Previous overviews of the art of Dunhuang have traced the caves' unilinear history. This book examines the caves from ... Read more

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  • Neural Computing for Advanced Applications

    6th International Conference, NCAA 2025, Hong Kong, China, July 4–6, 2025, Proceedings, Part I

    Series Book 1 - Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This two-volume set CCIS 2664 and 2665 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Neural Computing for Advanced Applications, NCAA 2025, held in Hong Kong, China, during July 4–6, 2025.The 62 full papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 160 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections:Part I: Neural ... Read more

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  • Neural Computing for Advanced Applications

    6th International Conference, NCAA 2025, Hong Kong, China, July 4–6, 2025, Proceedings, Part II

    Series Book 2 - Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This two-volume set CCIS 2664 and 2665 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Neural Computing for Advanced Applications, NCAA 2025, held in Hong Kong, China, during July 4–6, 2025.The 62 full papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 160 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections:Part I: Neural ... Read more

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  • Chinese Art and Dynastic Time

    by Hung Wu ...
    Series series Bollingen Series
    A sweeping look at Chinese art across the millennia that upends traditional perspectives and offers new pathways for art historyThroughout Chinese history, dynastic time—the organization of history through the lens of successive dynasties—has been the dominant mode of narrating the story of Chinese art, even though there has been little examination of this concept in discourse and practice until ... Read more

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  • Diversifying Schools

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    Series series Education (R0)
    This book discusses the strategies that the Singapore Education System has embarked to encourage school change and innovations. It documents the change journey of Specialized Schools and Future Schools in Singapore with a view to understand the key tenets that enable school wide change and reform. The intents for change and reform are to anchor the education system to the basic foundations and ... Read more

    $153.69 CAD

  • Earth Data Analytics for Planetary Health

    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Planetary health involves complex spatial–temporal interactions among agents, hosts, and earth environment. Due to rapid technical development of geomatics, including geographic information systems (GIS) and remote sensing (RS) in the era of big data analytics, therefore, earth data analytics has become one of the important approaches for monitoring earth surface process and measuring of the ... Read more

    $179.39 CAD

  • Learning Geography Beyond the Traditional Classroom

    Examples from Peninsular Southeast Asia

    Series series Education (R0)
    This book provides a collection of critical pieces that support the idea that good teaching and learning of geography in fieldwork and using technology should consider the dimensions of curriculum design, instructional design and resource provision, as well as assessment for such learning activities. Further, it clearly describes the thinking, experiences and critical comments concerning two broad ... Read more

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