After the Opium War, China has entered a rapid transformation. At the later period of Qing Dynasty, fictions were put to excellent, it was emphasized the actual function of the social. It reflected social conditions and enlighten the people through advocacy fictions. Intellectuals deeply appreciate female issues tightly linked with the fate of the country, and carried out the large-scale feminist movement of the later period of Qing Dynasty. Through against foot-binding, build female schools , promote freedom of marriage, established the independent personality of female, and the liberated women totally. Fictions were written female lives and reflected women' issues at this time. "Huang Hsiu Chiu" reflected female lives and situations very well in many feminist fictions, it was centered foot-binding, female education, women' issues. Miao-Ru Wang had created a a group of new revolutionary female who be strong, be no fear of might by female writing in "Female Prison Flower". These females found themselves in the corresponding relationships of saving the nation, women's rights, and woman's education.

In dieser Arbeit wird eine Beschreibung von Monte-Carlo-Verfahren zur Lösung komplexer Optimierungsaufgaben mit Hilfe von Markov-Ketten durchgeführt. Nach einer kurzen Einführung werden Lösungsmenge solcher Aufgaben und der physikalische Zustandsraum komplexer Systeme identifiziert. Zunächst wird die Dynamik von Zufallswanderern im Zustandsraum mit Hilfe von Master-Gleichungen modelliert. Durch Einführung von Performanzkriterien können verschiedene Optimierungsstrategien quantitativ miteinander verglichen werden. Insbesondere wird das Verfahren Extremal Optimization vorgestellt, dass ebenfalls als Markov-Prozess verstanden werden kann. Es wird bewiesen, dass eine im Sinne der genannten Kriterien beste Implementierung existiert. Da diese von einem sogenannten Fitness Schedule abhängt, wird dieser für kleine Beispielsysteme explizit berechnet. Daran anschließend wird die Zustandsdichte komplexer Systeme betrachtet. Nach einem kurzen Überblick über vorhandene Methoden folgt eine detaillierte Untersuchung des Verfahrens von Wang und Landau. Numerische und analytische Hinweise werden gegeben, nach denen dieser Algorithmus innerhalb seiner Klasse wahrscheinlich der Optimale ist. Eine neue Methode zur Approximation der Zustandsdichte wird vorgestellt, die insbesondere für die Untersuchung komplexer Systeme geeignet ist. Abschließend wird ein Ausblick auf zukünftige Arbeiten gegeben.

This dissertation examines the development of Chinese art film in the 1990s. It explores the mechanisms that were conducive to the emergence of this art wave and its representative cinematic styles. Art film was a historically underdeveloped film practice in China, especially under the mass line-dominated Socialist film system. I argue that Chinese art cinema was fundamentally defined by the second art wave, which was flanked by the first art wave (the Fifth Generation Cinema) of the 1980s, and the full capitalization of the film industry in the new millennium. The key to understanding the second art wave was the paradoxical industrial process of the Socialist film system reform of the 1990s. The controlled top-down reform made the emergence of independent production possible while at the same time denying its legitimacy. As the result, the Chinese art film production breathed new life but was pushed from the mainstream to the realm of the alternative. In alliance with other youth subculture phenomena of the time, such as rock music and avant-garde art, art film came to be defined as a distinctive position in the field of Chinese film production in terms of the mode of production (mostly independent), distribution (international film festivals), and film style. Three styles are examined in detail in this dissertation: the documentary-inspired new realist style represented by films of Jia Zhangke, the modernistic expressionist style represented by films of He Jianjun, Zhang Ming, and others, and the style that falls in-between the new realist and expressionist style represented by early films of Zhang Yuan, Lou Ye, and Wang Xiaoshuai. / text

This thesis examines the political pop art of contemporary Chinese artist Wang Guangyi in light contemporaneous shifts within the political, economic, and artistic space of China from 1978 until the present. Through an analysis of the work of art as an historically determined antagonistic aesthetic praxis, this thesis attempts to reveal the sedimented traces of the alternative modernity which the Chinese government is actively attempting to construct. With its evocative juxtaposition of contrasting ideological forms, the artwork of Wang Guangyi seeks to deconstruct the normative and teleological narratives encountered within the dialectic interplay between state sponsored transnational capitalism and Marxist-Leninist communism. An understanding of the discursive structure upon which these dual modernising narratives has been based, and of the fragmented artistic space they have engendered, should serve to enliven the debate concerning the role of cultural production in questioning and revealing narratives of the nation, of the Self, and of modernity.

Ces travaux de thèse concernent la conception et l'étude d'algorithmes, d'une part pourprédire les quantités thermodynamiques et la structure secondaire des ARN, d'autre part pour l'alignement de séquences.Dans une première partie, nous appliquons un algorithme de Monte-Carlo pour approximer la densité d'états d'énergie des structures secondaires d'une séquence d'ARN, ou d'une hybridation de deux molécules d'ARN données. Nous montrons d'abord que la densité estimée par notre programme est aussi bonne que la densité exacte, et le temps d'exécution de notre programme est beaucoup plus rapide. Nous calculons ensuite la température de dénaturation d'une hybridation de deux molécules d'ARN. Nous montrons que nos températures de dénaturation sont plus proches des valeurs expérimentales que celles des deux autres programmes existants.Puis, dans une deuxième partie, nous implémentons un algorithme de programmation dynamique qui engendre des structures sous-optimales, dédié principalement à la prédiction des deux structures fonctionnelles des riboswitchs. Nous appliquons d'abord notre programme sur un riboswitch TPP dans lequel nous avons réussi à détecter les deux structures fonctionnelles. Nous montrons ensuite que les structures prédites par notre programme sont plus proches de la structure réelle par rapport aux cinq autres programmes existants, sur un échantillon de riboswitch purine.Enfin, dans une troisième partie, nous présentons un algorithme de recherche des alignements sous-optimaux de séquences pour améliorer la qualité d'alignement des séquences. Nous comparons d'abord nos alignement à ceux produits par l'algorithme de Needdleman-Wunsch. Nous prédissons plus d'alignements de référrence par rapport l'algorithme de Needdleman-Wunsch. Nous calculons ensuite les fréquences des paires de bases alignées et les entropies de position spécifique dans nos alignements sous-optimaux. Nous montrons que les entropies calculées à partir de notre programme sont plus corrélées que celles des autres programmes avec les positions des paires de résidus fiablement alignées selon BAliBASE.

This thesis examines the political pop art of contemporary Chinese artist Wang Guangyi in light contemporaneous shifts within the political, economic, and artistic space of China from 1978 until the present. Through an analysis of the work of art as an historically determined antagonistic aesthetic praxis, this thesis attempts to reveal the sedimented traces of the alternative modernity which the Chinese government is actively attempting to construct. With its evocative juxtaposition of contrasting ideological forms, the artwork of Wang Guangyi seeks to deconstruct the normative and teleological narratives encountered within the dialectic interplay between state sponsored transnational capitalism and Marxist-Leninist communism. An understanding of the discursive structure upon which these dual modernising narratives has been based, and of the fragmented artistic space they have engendered, should serve to enliven the debate concerning the role of cultural production in questioning and revealing narratives of the nation, of the Self, and of modernity.

Thesis (M.Phil.)--Hong Kong Baptist University, 2001. / Thesis submitted to the Dept. of Religion and Philosophy. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 178-210).

Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-02T20:04:53Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6510.pdf: 2213423 bytes, checksum: 0c9b206a1b5f88772031ed160e9691b3 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-12-19 / Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos / We proposed a new split-merge MCMC algorithm for image segmentation. We describe how an image can be subdivided into multiple disjoint regions, with each region having an associated latent indicator variable. The latent indicator variables are modeled with a prior Gibbs distribution governed by a spatial regularization parameter. Regions with same label define a component. Pixels within a component are distributed according to a Gaussian distribution. We treat the spatial regularization parameter and the number of components K as unknown. To estimate K, the spatial regularization parameter and the component parameters we propose the Metropolised split-merge (MSM) algorithm. The MSM comprises two type of moves. The first one, is a data-driven split-merge move. These movements change the number of components K in the neighborhood K _ 1 and are accepted according to Metropolis-Hastings acceptance probability. After a split-merge step, the component parameters, the spatial regularization parameter and latent allocation variables are updated conditional on K by using the Gibbs sampling, the Metropolis- Hastings and Swendsen-Wang algorithm, respectively. The main advantage of the proposed algorithm is that it is easy to implement and the acceptance probability for split-merge movements depends only of the observed data. The performance of the proposed algorithm is verified using artificial datasets as well as real datasets. / Nesta tese, modelamos uma imagem através de uma grade regular retangular e assumimos que esta grade é dividida em múltiplas regiões disjuntas de pixels. Quando duas ou mais regiões apresentam a mesma característica, a união dessas regiões forma um conjunto chamado de componente. Associamos a cada pixel da imagem uma variável indicadora não observável que indica a componente a que o pixel pertence. Estas variáveis indicadoras não observáveis são modeladas através da distribuição de probabilidade de Gibbs com parâmetro de regularização espacial _. Assumimos que _ e o número de componentes K são desconhecidos. Para estimação conjunta dos parâmetros de interesse, propomos um algoritmo MCMC denominado de ejeção-absorção metropolizado (EAM). Algumas vantagens do algoritmo proposto são: (i) O algoritmo não necessita da especificação de uma função de transição para realização dos movimentos ejeção e absorção. Ao contrário do algoritmo reversible jump (RJ) que requer a especificação de boas funções de transição para ser computacionalmente eficiente; (ii) Os movimentos ejeção e absorção são desenvolvidos com base nos dados observados e podem ser rapidamente propostos e testados; (iii) Novas componentes são criadas com base em informações provenientes de regiões de observações e os parâmetros das novas componentes são gerados das distribuições a posteriori. Ilustramos o desempenho do algoritmo EAM utilizando conjuntos de dados simulados e reais.

This thesis deals with Vietnamese scholar Nguyễn Thuật and his Diary of Journey to Tiānjīn (Wǎng Jīn rìjì 往津日記; hereinafter the Diary), which contains records of the journey of the Vietnamese diplomatic envoy to China in 1883. The aim is to identify the informative values of the Diary as well as Nguyễn Thuật's perception of China from a political and cultural standpoint by analyzing the content of the Diary. The first chapter provides cultural context of historical events during the second half of the 19th century. The following chapter is the main chapter where Nguyễn Thuật and his Diary are elaborated on. The thesis concludes with hypotheses of Nguyễn Thuật's intentions to write his Diary and assessment of informative values and thus opens the way to deeper comprehension of the historical development of Sino-Vietnamese relations.

Wang Meng, an important figure of modern Chinese literature, is best known as an author experimenting with literary techniques at the turn of the 70s and the 80s. Our paper examines a relatively little-known part of his work inspired by the writer's many-year stay in Xinjiang. Examined proses originate primarily from two collections - In Yili and Hello, Xinjiang. In the analysis of Wang Meng's literary creation we take into account the historical context and we present particular features of the literary image of non-Han culture in the work of a Han writer. We also examine the use of narrative techniques, with particular focus on "stream of consciousness" technique.