Tubular Structures IX

Based on a close reading of Japanese director Yasujiro Ozu’s extant films, this book provides insights into the ways the director created narrative structures and used symbolism to construct meaning in his films. Against critics’ insistence that Ozu was indifferent to plot and unlikely to use symbols, Geist demonstrates otherwise, revealing the director’s subtle iconographic paradigms. Her incisive understanding of the historical and cultural context in which the films were conceived amplifies her analysis of the films’ structure and meaning. Ozu: A Closer Look guides the reader through Ozu’s early, silent films and his sound films made during Japan’s wars in Asia and the subsequent American Occupation, then takes up specific themes relevant to his later, better-known films. These themes include religion, gender, and the influence of traditional Japanese painting. Geist also examines the impact that Ozu’s films had on specific directors in Europe, America, and Japan. Intended for film

In Painting Architecture: Jiehua in Yuan China, 1271–1368, Leqi Yu has conducted comprehensive research on jiehua or ruled-line painting, a unique painting genre in fourteenth-century China. This genre relies on tools such as rulers to represent architectural details and structures accurately. Such technical consideration and mechanical perfection linked this painting category with the builder’s art, which led to Chinese elites’ belittlement and won Mongol patrons’ admiration. Yu suggests that painters in the Yuan dynasty made new efforts towards a unique modular system and an unsurpassable plain-drawing tradition. She argues that these two strategies made architectural paintings in the Yuan dynasty entirely different from their predecessors, as well as making the art form extremely difficult for subsequent painters to imitate.

At the end of the nineteenth century a slice of imperial China was abruptly incorporated into the British Crown Colony of Hong Kong. It became known as the New Territories.The people of this remote an

Portrait of a Community: Society, Culture, and the Structures of Kinship in the Mulan River Valley (Fujian) from the late Tang through the Song is a study of emerging kinship structures as embedded in

The main objective of this book is to familiarize the reader with a subset of the learning difficulties and common errors in ESL/EFL pronunciation and lexico-grammatical structures encountered by Chin

Public service reform, or public sector reform, has been a hot topic among political scientists in recent years as most existing government structures are inadequate to cope with the ever-changing env

Public service reform, or public sector reform, has been a hot topic among political scientists in recent years as most existing government structures are inadequate to cope with the ever-changing env

金志宙令金慈宇被魔龍捲帶走，不知所終……宋傑明白拯救神秘谷的唯一辦法，是找尋第一度宇宙的轉捩點，確定紅袍巫師的良心是何時何地被消磨，陷入萬劫不復之地……八月正式成為「時間女神」，她作好心理準備，隨時犧牲一己，為挽救第二度宇宙中的神秘谷……

殺人犯鎖定目標，步步迫近，危機一觸即發，你有本事逃離現場嗎？無辜稚子被重鎚擊斃、因財失義而暴虐分屍、一聲責罵即殘殺雙親、嫉妒換來遺憾的悽慘情殺，幕幕動魄驚心。悲劇一個個釀成，兇手毫無悔意，故意混淆視聽，以為真相無人知曉。作者再次帶你走進犯罪現場，破解令人毛骨悚然的殺人案件，拆開精心策劃的佈局，道盡殘酷背後的對錯。屍體藏?不為人知的秘密，往往就是解開謎底的關鍵。有人說天網恢恢，疏而不漏，殺人者始終會

Moving world-systems analysis into the cultural realm, Richard E. Lee locates the cultural studies movement within a broad historical and geopolitical framework. He illuminates how order and conflict

雲南，中國西南部邊陲省份，毗連越南、老撾及緬甸三個東盟國家。國家經濟改革開放後，雲南的發展一直落後於沿海省市，且經濟差距日漸擴大。然而，隨著經濟全球化和區域一體化的趨勢，以及國家發展策略的調整，雲南得到了新的發展機遇。 在「十一五」期間（2006-2010），雲南的工作重點放在改善民生和收窄城鄉差距、加大扶貧和「三農」工作的投入，力求改變貧困人口眾多的情況，提高全省人民的基本生活水平。其次，省政府