This new volume of the "Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women" spans more than 2,000 years from antiquity to the early seventh century. It recovers the stories of more than 200 women, nearly all of them unknown in the West. The contributors have sifted carefully through the available sources, from the oracle bones to the earliest legends, from Liu Xiang's didactic Biographies to official and unofficial histories, for glimpses and insights into the lives of women. Empresses and consorts, nuns and shamans, women of notoriety or exemplary virtue, women of daring and women of artistic or...
This new volume of the "Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women" spans more than 2,000 years from antiquity to the early seventh century. It recovers...
This text is devoted to complex dynamical behaviours of a class of maps (called endomorphisms) with a vanishing Jacobian and to the bifurications leading to such behaviours, or modifying them. These maps constitute models of discrete dynamic systems encountered in engineering and physics.
This text is devoted to complex dynamical behaviours of a class of maps (called endomorphisms) with a vanishing Jacobian and to the bifurications lead...
