This book provides a historical review of the transformation of China’s image around the world since the 1978 Reform and Opening Up. Based on a synthetic model that the author constructs for evaluating national images, together with a historical review and quantitative analysis, it discusses the issues and challenges confronting China’s image around the world since the Opening Up. To help rectify the situation that most of the research on China’s reform efforts focuses on hard power (esp. economic power), this book, which mainly focuses on China’s soft power, reviews and assesses its global image from the three perspectives of politics, economy and culture. In the process, it sheds valuable new light on the presentation of China’s image and the world’s perceptions of China.

"Past, present and future "The archaeological materials recovered from the Anyang excavations ... in the period between 1928 and 1937 ... have laid a new foundation for the study of ancient China (Li, C. 1977: ix)." When inscribed oracle bones and enormous material remains were found through scientific excavation in Anyang in 1928, the historicity of the Shang dynasty was confirmed beyond dispute for the first time (Li, C. 1977: ix-xi). This excavation thus marked the beginning of a modern Chinese archaeology endowed with great potential to reveal much of China's ancient history.. Half a century later, Chinese archaeology had made many unprecedented discoveries which surprised the world, leading Glyn Daniel to believe that "a new awareness of the importance of China will be a key development in archaeology in the decades ahead (Daniel 1981: 211). This enthusiasm was soon shared by the Chinese archaeologists when Su Bingqi announced that "the Golden Age of Chinese archaeology is arriving (Su, B. 1994: 139--140)". In recent decades, archaeology has continuously prospered, becoming one of the most rapidly developing fields in social science in China"--

The topics covered in these notes are selective and tend to emphasize more on kinetic-theory approaches to waves and instabilities in both uniform and non-uniform plasmas, students are assumed to have some basic knowledge of plasma dynamics in terms of single-particle and fluid descriptions.

攝影界大師張照堂口中的「八眼蜘蛛」 台灣劇照師劉振祥首次公開，從未曝光的珍貴影像！ 「劇照攝影師更像是片場的旁觀者， 用自己的視角捕捉電影鏡頭未涵蓋的故事⋯⋯ 我不僅是在拍攝電影劇照，還是在用紀實攝影的方式， 記錄著一個真實發生的故事。」——劉振祥 不只是攝影，一部見證臺灣社會與文化時代變遷與脈動的作品 《戀戀風塵》是台灣經典代表電影之一，也是造就了多位優秀的藝術電影相關人士的重要作品。 本書透過台灣劇照師劉振祥全程、專業的電影側拍記錄，以及幕後工作照的完整記錄，不僅細膩地捕捉了電影以及電影之外的各種情境和細節，也提供讀者更宏觀的觀看視野，得以一窺電影的戲內以及戲外。 本書內容分三部分： 第一部，以紙上電影方式再現台灣經典代表電影《戀戀風塵》，透過翻閱書本的方式，讓影像躍然於紙上，彷彿觀看電影的饗宴。 第二部收錄《戀戀風塵》電影職人對談。由本書作者劇照師劉振祥、連同電影《戀戀風塵》的重要推手：陳懷恩（助導）、王耿瑜（場記），以及藝術評論家謝佩霓老師，四手聯談電影拍攝背後的職人美學和堅持。 第三部收錄劉振祥老師從未公開過的《戀戀風塵》工作照，捕捉下許多珍貴難得的畫面，更讓讀者可以一窺那個讓所有台灣人戀戀不捨的年代。 本書特色 收錄電影幕後細談職人美學：由謝佩霓、劉振祥劇照師、陳懷恩、王耿瑜，四位重量級電影老師，聯手話當年，細說《戀戀風塵》電影拍攝背後的職人美學和堅持，如何成就一部代表台灣庶民生活的重量級電影。 紙上電影：完整再現電影的拍攝過程記錄，透過第一手從未完整公開的電影側拍全記錄攝影，從開拍、電影拍攝、拍攝中途到完成，以及幕後花絮，還原這部代表台灣共同回憶的美好電影。 圖文並茂，文章中英對照：完整的電影劇照和工作記錄之外，收錄的文章更提供英文對照，打破閱讀和語言國界。 一致強推 王耿瑜（電影人） 吳念真（導演） 陳明章（音樂人） 陳懷恩（導演） 聞天祥（台北金馬影展執行委員會執行長） 謝佩霓（藝術評論家） （按姓氏筆畫排序）