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Optical communication networks have played and will continue to play a prominent role in the development and deployment of communication network infrastructures. New optical systems and protocols will enable next generation optical networks to meet the diverse requirements from a wide range of new applications and services. Optical networks have evolved to become more flexible, intelligent and reliable. New optical switching architectures, technologies, and sophisticated control and management protocols have already enabled optical networks to be used not only in the core but also the metropolitan and access networks. The widespread deployment of optical communication networks will continue to have a big impact on our future lifestyle. Current Research Progress of Optical Networks is aimed to provide an overview on recent research progresses in optical networking with proposed solutions, survey and tutorials on various issues and topics in optical network technologies and services. Twelve chapters contain original research work or survey and tutorials that have the potential to shape the technologies and services of next generation optical networks.

Optical communications. --- Optical communications --- Electrical & Computer Engineering --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Telecommunications --- Telecommunication. --- Electric communication --- Mass communication --- Telecom --- Telecommunication industry --- Communications, Optical --- Light communications --- Engineering. --- Microwaves. --- Optical engineering. --- Electrical engineering. --- Microwaves, RF and Optical Engineering. --- Communications Engineering, Networks. --- Photonics --- Telecommunication --- Communication --- Information theory --- Telecommuting --- Hertzian waves --- Electric waves --- Electromagnetic waves --- Geomagnetic micropulsations --- Radio waves --- Shortwave radio --- Electric engineering --- Engineering --- Mechanical engineering

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Adopting the perspective of anthropology of art and combining it with global academic insights, this book helps the readers to recognize that “history is, in great measure, the record of human activity which spreads from the local to the regional, from the regional to the global, and from the global to the universal.” Readers will learn that China was not only the first country to create porcelain, but also the first to export it to the world, both the products and its techniques. Therefore, the history of Chinese ceramics reflects the history of Chinese foreign trade on the one hand and depicts the expansion of Chinese ceramic techniques and cultures on the other. In addition to ceramics types, molds, decoration, and techniques, the book analyzes the spiritual impacts and aesthetic conceptions embodied in the utensils of daily use by the Chinese literati. Therefore, it reaches the conclusion that ideological systems and not technological systems are what bring about social revolutions. In addition, the book is richly illustrated with pictures of earthenware and finely glazed pieces from later periods.

Cultural property. --- Archaeology. --- Art—History. --- Asia—History. --- Social history. --- Historiography. --- History—Methodology. --- World history. --- Archaeology and Heritage. --- Art History. --- Asian History. --- Social History. --- Historiography and Method. --- World History, Global and Transnational History. --- Universal history --- History --- Historical criticism --- Authorship --- Descriptive sociology --- Social conditions --- Social history --- Sociology --- Archeology --- Anthropology --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Antiquities --- Cultural heritage --- Cultural patrimony --- Cultural resources --- Heritage property --- National heritage --- National patrimony --- National treasure --- Patrimony, Cultural --- Treasure, National --- Property --- World Heritage areas --- Criticism --- Historiography --- Porcelain, Chinese. --- Pottery, Chinese. --- Chinese pottery --- Lowestoft, Oriental --- Lowestoft porcelain, Oriental

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"The relationship between the government and the market lies at the heart of Economics as a discipline. This title approaches this issue with a new lens termed mezzoeconomics-a branch of modern economics that mainly studies regional economic entities and the allocation of regional resources after they are generated. Combining mezzoeconomic theory with practice in the light of China's Reform and Opening-up, the author analyzes regional governments' participation in market competition, enterprises and regional governments as dual entities of market competition, and a mature market economy featuring a strong form of effective government and efficient market. Three corresponding theories are proposed, the Regional Government Competition Theory, the Dual-Entity of Market Competition Theory (DEMC), and the "Double Strong Forms" Theory. The author hopes that these theories of mezzoeconomics can build a new, effective theoretical model and serve as a guidance for regional governments to reform and innovate their governance philosophy and policies. This book will be of keen interest to students and scholars of economics and regional governance"--

Regional economics --- China --- Economic conditions. --- Economic policy.

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In recent decades, a growing concern in studies in Chinese intellectual history is that Chinese classics have been forced into systems of classification prevalent in Western philosophy and thus imperceptibly transformed into examples that echo Western philosophy. Lin Ma and Jaap van Brakel offer a methodology to counter this approach, and illustrate their method by carrying out a transcultural inquiry into the complexities involved in understanding shi and fei and their cognate phrases in the Warring States texts, the Zhuangzi in particular. The authors discuss important features of Zhuangzi's stance with regard to language-meaning, knowledge-doubt, questioning, equalizing, and his well-known deconstruction of the discourse in ancient China on shifei. Ma and van Brakel suggest that shi and fei apply to both descriptive and prescriptive languages and do not presuppose any fact/value dichotomy, and thus cannot be translated as either true/false or right/wrong. Instead, shi and fei can be grasped in terms of a pre-philosophical notion of fitting. Ma and van Brakel also highlight Zhuangzi's idea of "walking-two-roads" as the most significant component of his stance. In addition, they argue that all of Zhuangzi's positive recommendations are presented in a language whose meaning is not fixed and that every stance he is committed to remains subject to fundamental questioning as a way of life.

Methodology. --- Philosophy, Comparative. --- Zhuangzi. --- Comparative philosophy --- Humanities Methodology --- Methodology --- Chuang Tzu --- Chwang Tszĕ --- Dschuang Dsi --- Tchouang-Tseu --- Tschuang-tse --- Tsjwang-Tze --- Tswang Tse