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Rev Rene ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
pp. e72190
Author(s):  
Marcos Venícios de Oliveira Lopes

In late 2019, the first cases of a disease, which would come to be known as COVID-19, emerged in a Chinese city, known for being the home to a market where wild animals were relatively common and to a virology laboratory of the highest security level. Coincidence or not, the debate about the origin of the disease involves these two places, and a lot of political interest. On the other hand, the tragedy that became one of the deadliest pandemics ever recorded has several other elements that are more or less important, depending on the moment and context.


2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tingcong Lin ◽  
Ping Su

In the second half of the 19th century, Shamian was established and developed as a colonial island enclave in the Chinese city of Guangzhou. Simultaneously, literary and cultural imaginations, depictions, and narrations of the place produced a discourse of Shamian as a utopian island: geographically insular and bounded, environmentally beautiful and peaceful, socially exclusive and harmonious, and technologically progressive and advantageous. This paper examines contemporaneous (predominantly English) literary and cultural representations of Shamian as a colonial utopia and their interrelations with the island’s spatial formation and evolution. These texts (primarily written and pictorial descriptive, non-fictional accounts) reflected the spatial reality but also promoted spatial practices that reinforced the physical utopian island. This process exemplifies the theories of performative geographies in island studies and intertextuality in geocriticism, showing how a place’s spatial representations and reality are mutually constructed. Adopting a conceptual model of intertextual performative geographies, this paper investigates the dynamic interplay of these literary and cultural texts with the spatial reality, arguing that literary and cultural representations of Shamian (re)produced the colonial enclave as a utopian island, both conceptually and practically.


2021 ◽  
Vol 175 ◽  
pp. 105861
Author(s):  
Ke Wang ◽  
Jianjun Zhang ◽  
Bofeng Cai ◽  
Sen Liang

Cities ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 119 ◽  
pp. 103414
Author(s):  
Wenzheng Lu ◽  
Yuzhe Wu ◽  
Charles L. Choguill ◽  
Shih-Kung Lai ◽  
Jiaojiao Luo

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
pp. 6029-6039
Author(s):  
Yu Bingwen ◽  
Zhang Chang

Economic development is not only about quantity, but also about quality, so it’s important to regulate the tobacco, and make the development in a low carbon and smokeless way. Relying on the Chinese city-level dynamic panel data of 2005–2018 and using GMM estimation, this study founded that corruption aggravates carbon emission as well as the pollution effects of urbanization. When the environmental effect of corruption via urbanization is controlled, urbanization can reduce carbon emissions. Furthermore, the inverted U-shaped relationship between urbanization and carbon emission exists with turning point at 3.60, that means when the corruption level is below (above) 3.60, urbanization can improve (aggravate) environmental quality. The results also suggested that urbanization improved environmental quality in 32 cities, including Beijing, Shanghai, while in others, it aggravated environmental pollution. Namely that urbanization can improve the local environmental quality only when the corruption level is low; otherwise, it would aggravate the local environmental pollution. By calculating the average corruption level for different city administrative level—above prefecture-level cities, prefecture-level cities, and county-level cities—the values of which were estimated as 3.48, 3.82, and 4.02 respectively, we also founded that urbanization has improved environmental quality only in the above prefecture-level cities, while in the other cities, urbanization has aggravated the local environmental pollution.


Author(s):  
Liusyi A.P. Liusyi A.P. ◽  
Zhou Lu

After the Civil War, Harbin became the “capital” of the Russian emigration in China, the source of the salutary memory, which made it possible to revive Russian culture in the memory. The “Chinese mind” brought mythologemes of space and chaos into the poetry of the Far East abroad. Their interaction with the event plan of consciousness has created a set of stable motive-figurative and semantic dominants. The Harbin myth as a utopian myth about the re-creation of pre-revolutionary Russia in a Chinese city has become a semantic invariant of the first “Chinese text”. Second, the Soviet “Chinese text” is accompanied by a “drunken” discourse, a discourse of inspiration and obsession, presenting the Chinese revolution as a sacred process of cleansing from violence and colonialism.


Author(s):  
Roopa Kumari ◽  
Neena Gupta ◽  
Narender Kumar

Covid-19, a disease that originated in the Chinese city of Wuhan, has spread across almost the entire globe. Pneumonia, which infects the lungs, is one of the symptoms of this disease. In the past X-ray images were used to segment various diseases such as pneumonia, tuberculosis, or lung cancer. Recent studies showed that Covid-19 affects the lungs. As a result, an X-ray imaging could help to detect and diagnose Covid-19 infection. This study presents a novel hybrid algorithm (CHDPSOK) for segmenting a Covid-19 infected X-ray image. To find Covid-19 contamination in the lungs, we use a segmentation-based approach using K-means and Dynamic PSO algorithm. In the present paper, segmentation of infected regions in the X-ray image uses a cumulative histogram to initialize the population of the PSO algorithm. In a dynamic PSO algorithm, the velocity of the particle changes dynamically which is useful to avoid the local minima. K-means is used to change the position of the particle dynamically for better convergence. To validate the segmentation performance of our algorithm, we used the Kaggle dataset in our experiments. The performance of the proposed method is analyzed both qualitatively and quantitatively. The results explicitly demonstrate the outperformance of the proposed algorithm.


2021 ◽  
Vol IX(257) (75) ◽  
pp. 74-75
Author(s):  
O. Trunova

The article considers the specifics of the theme of Chinese city Nanjing as one of the main and significant images in the Bai Hua’s poetry during his stay in this city in 1988 – 1992. Poems from the poetry collection “In Nanjing” were translated and analyzed, the influence of the city on the author’s inner world and on his further artistic work was studied. It is noted that the city made a pleasant impression on the poet and contributed Bai Hua to the transition to lyric poetry. The influence of Nanjing’s spring landscapes on the poet’s life and poetic mood is substained on the examples of the poems “Freedom”, “Holiday” and “Spring Day”.


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