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Chinese Narratives of "National Humiliation" and Japan's Role in the Construction of China's National Identity, 1915 to the early 2000s
The sense of national humiliation in China derives from a huge psychological gap between a glorious Empire and a peripheral nation-state which invaded by foreign imperialists in the 19th century and the early 20th century. This gap let Chinese people tend to define the period from 1840s to 1940s as the “Century of National Humiliation”. Although, Chinese people suffer a lot during this “Century”, direct experience and the meaning attached it are not the same. Apart from history itself, this thesis argues that narratives of national humiliation are significant in constructing China’s national identity. In this sense, it will focus on China’s humiliation narratives in different periods, and try to find out what kind of role Japan plays in the construction of China’s national identity. In the first place, this thesis will focus on the narratives of humiliation/victim in different periods of China since its popularization in 1915, and try to give a comprehensive picture of the origin and evolution of this narrative. More specifically, it will examine Chinese humiliation narratives in the following three main periods chronologically: the origins and evolution of “national humiliation” in the pre-1949 era, the absence of “national humiliation” from the 1950s to the 1980s, and the reinvention of “national humiliation” in the post-1989 era. It argues that the narratives of the national past help construct China’s identities in different periods with different meanings. In the second place, this thesis examines not only the discourse of humiliation per se, but also the role that Japan assumes in both victim narratives and the none-victim narratives, and will utilize a social “self/other” approach to analyze Japan’s role in the construction of Chinese national identity. Overall, looking back on Chinese humiliation narratives in three main periods, this thesis concludes that China's national humiliation discourse is an integral part of the shaping of national identity and Japan plays an important role in this process. It also finds out that there is no certain consistency in the interpretations of the national humiliation throughout the last 100 years in China. The national humiliation discourse had once disappeared in China during Mao’s era from 1950s to 1980s. However, whether humiliation discourse dominants Chinese civil society or not, the ruling governments always play an essential role in shaping the nation’s identity. Besides, Japan has been an indispensable “other” in China’s construction of national identity. The popularization and intensification of humiliation discourse in China have always associated with anti-Japanese sentiments. Therefore, in Chinese context, Japan always assumes the role as an “enemy” when the humiliation/victim narrative dominates the civil society
LED receiver impedance and its effects on LED-LED visible light communications
This paper experimentally demonstrates that the AC impedance spectrum of the
LED as a photodetector heavily depends on the received optical power, which may
cause the impedance mismatch between the LED and the post trans-impedance
amplifier. The optical power dependent impedance of the LED is well fitted by a
modified dispersive carrier transport model for inorganic semiconductors. The
bandwidth of the LED-LED visible light communication link is further shown to
decrease with the optical power received by the LED. This leads to a trade-off
between link bandwidth and SNR, and consequently affects the choice of the
proper dada modulation scheme.Comment: 9 pages, 9 figures, submitted to Optics Expres
Predicting the Quality of Short Narratives from Social Media
An important and difficult challenge in building computational models for
narratives is the automatic evaluation of narrative quality. Quality evaluation
connects narrative understanding and generation as generation systems need to
evaluate their own products. To circumvent difficulties in acquiring
annotations, we employ upvotes in social media as an approximate measure for
story quality. We collected 54,484 answers from a crowd-powered
question-and-answer website, Quora, and then used active learning to build a
classifier that labeled 28,320 answers as stories. To predict the number of
upvotes without the use of social network features, we create neural networks
that model textual regions and the interdependence among regions, which serve
as strong benchmarks for future research. To our best knowledge, this is the
first large-scale study for automatic evaluation of narrative quality.Comment: 7 pages, 2 figures. Accepted at the 2017 IJCAI conferenc
An Analysis of “Emotion, Reason and Law” in Chinese Traditional Legal Culture
Characteristics of the ancient Chinese law could be well summarized by the three words of “Emotion (Qing), Reason (Li) and Law (Fa)” which have formed the core spirit of the traditional Chinese legal culture. This paper is intend to clarify the relationship between the three words and consider that concepts of emotion, reason, and law are not independent but a union, showing different sides of the same procedure. Meanwhile, the dynamics of these three concepts form a more generalized concept of “law” in which “emotion (Qing)” is the basis and reason; “reason (Li)” represents the actual social norms and “law (Fa)” is the method to maintain social order
Study on multi-SVM systems and their applications to pattern recognition
制度:新 ; 報告番号:甲3136号 ; 学位の種類:博士(工学) ; 授与年月日:2010/7/12 ; 早大学位記番号:新541
Automatically Documenting Software Artifacts
Software artifacts, such as database schema and unit test cases, constantly change during evolution and maintenance of software systems. Co-evolution of code and DB schemas in Database-Centric Applications (DCAs) often leads to two types of challenging scenarios for developers, where (i) changes to the DB schema need to be incorporated in the source code, and (ii) maintenance of a DCAs code requires understanding of how the features are implemented by relying on DB operations and corresponding schema constraints. On the other hand, the number of unit test cases often grows as new functionality is introduced into the system, and maintaining these unit tests is important to reduce the introduction of regression bugs due to outdated unit tests. Therefore, one critical artifact that developers need to be able to maintain during evolution and maintenance of software systems is up-to-date and complete documentation. In order to understand developer practices regarding documenting and maintaining these software artifacts, we designed two empirical studies both composed of (i) an online survey of contributors of open source projects and (ii) a mining-based analysis of method comments in these projects. We observed that documenting methods with database accesses and unit test cases is not a common practice. Further, motivated by the findings of the studies, we proposed three novel approaches: (i) DBScribe is an approach for automatically documenting database usages and schema constraints, (ii) UnitTestScribe is an approach for automatically documenting test cases, and (iii) TeStereo tags stereotypes for unit tests and generates html reports to improve the comprehension and browsing of unit tests in a large test suite. We evaluated our tools in the case studies with industrial developers and graduate students. In general, developers indicated that descriptions generated by the tools are complete, concise, and easy to read. The reports are useful for source code comprehension tasks as well as other tasks, such as code smell detection and source code navigation
Energy-recycling Blockchain with Proof-of-Deep-Learning
An enormous amount of energy is wasted in Proofof-Work (PoW) mechanisms
adopted by popular blockchain applications (e.g., PoW-based cryptocurrencies),
because miners must conduct a large amount of computation. Owing to this, one
serious rising concern is that the energy waste not only dilutes the value of
the blockchain but also hinders its further application. In this paper, we
propose a novel blockchain design that fully recycles the energy required for
facilitating and maintaining it, which is re-invested to the computation of
deep learning. We realize this by proposing Proof-of-Deep-Learning (PoDL) such
that a valid proof for a new block can be generated if and only if a proper
deep learning model is produced. We present a proof-of-concept design of PoDL
that is compatible with the majority of the cryptocurrencies that are based on
hash-based PoW mechanisms. Our benchmark and simulation results show that the
proposed design is feasible for various popular cryptocurrencies such as
Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, and Litecoin.Comment: 5 page
A Neural Multi-sequence Alignment TeCHnique (NeuMATCH)
The alignment of heterogeneous sequential data (video to text) is an
important and challenging problem. Standard techniques for this task, including
Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) and Conditional Random Fields (CRFs), suffer from
inherent drawbacks. Mainly, the Markov assumption implies that, given the
immediate past, future alignment decisions are independent of further history.
The separation between similarity computation and alignment decision also
prevents end-to-end training. In this paper, we propose an end-to-end neural
architecture where alignment actions are implemented as moving data between
stacks of Long Short-term Memory (LSTM) blocks. This flexible architecture
supports a large variety of alignment tasks, including one-to-one, one-to-many,
skipping unmatched elements, and (with extensions) non-monotonic alignment.
Extensive experiments on semi-synthetic and real datasets show that our
algorithm outperforms state-of-the-art baselines.Comment: Accepted at CVPR 2018 (Spotlight). arXiv file includes the paper and
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