... information please contact [email protected]. Abstract This study examines carbon-reduction retrofit strategies for aging university buildings, using Nanjing Audit University’s Mochou campus as a case study. The retrofit incorporated high-performance insulation, optimized window-to-wall ratios...

...X J Du; Y Y Sun; D D Pan; Y Wang; C R Ou; J X Cao Nanjing dry-cured duck is a traditionally processed poultry product in China and well accepted in Southeast Asia (Xu et al., 2008 ). Its procedures contain dry-curing, marinating, piling and drying-ripening, which could affect the physicochemical...

...J.‐J. Ding; X. Su; F.‐M. Guo; Y. Shi; H.‐F. Shao; X.‐Z. Meng Abstract Aim: To find a quick and reliable diagnostic technique for penicillin nonsusceptible Streptococcus pneumoniae (PNSSP) from Nanjing, China. Methods and Results: A total of 130 S. pneumoniae clinical...

.... Beginning as a profoundly demotic movement, and going through several phases of missionizing and iconoclasm, by 1850, his followers formed an army that conquered the entire south of China, including the ancient imperial capital of Nanjing. But rather than continue on to the Qing capital at Beijing, Hong...

...This chapter traces the history and memory of the Nanjing Massacre in Japan from 1937 to 1945. Although accounts that escaped censorship did record and condemn the random killings, looting, and rape in Nanjing, at the height of hostilities with China, such brutalities seemed almost indistinct from...

...This chapter analyzes the history and memory of the Nanjing Massacre in China from 1971 to 1989. The year 1982 was a turning point in the history and memory of the Nanjing Massacre in China. Fears of so-called spiritual pollution by Western influences prompted the government to stress the teaching...

...This chapter analyzes the history and memory of the Nanjing Massacre in the United States from 1989 to the present. Publicity regarding the atrocities was fanned by a combination of events and anniversaries. An unprecedented number of individuals in the United States began to take interest...

...This concluding chapter argues that the lengthy dispute over the Nanjing Massacre has brought both benefits and detriments to the discipline of history. While Nanjing has finally become a recognized symbol of the horrors of war and the human capacity for evil, the public memory of Nanjing has been...

...This chapter turns to the Nanjing Massacre on China’s web and discusses how digital resources allow national communities to collectively ‘remember’ their past. The analysis of these processes starts with the online encyclopaedias that China’s major search companies maintain online. How do...

... and Japan’s narrative of the Nanjing Massacre and the Second Sino-Japanese War. Extrapolating from this analysis, the book argues that international pressures increase the likelihood of change in official narratives of dark pasts, while domestic considerations determine the content of such change. European...

.... And indeed, with the Nanjing Treaty, Shanghai became one of five treaty ports. Moreover, three of the other four treaty ports—Guangzhou, Xiamen, and Ningbo—had been chosen by the Qing court in 1684 to serve as headquarters of imperial customs. All three cities grew rich from trade with Japan, Southeast Asia...

... journalism practiced in the treaty ports. Unable to achieve diplomatic progress in abolishing extraterritoriality, the Nanjing government made inroads into the extraterritorial system in specific fronts. Press control was one of them. By issuing postal bans, deporting journalists, and reviewing treaties...

... organized by Tong after the Nanjing Incident of 1937 testified to the efficacy of the new department. Chiang Kai shek Communist Party Kwantung Army Marco Polo Bridge Ministry of Foreign Affairs China Nanjing government Nationalist Party North China propaganda Sino Japanese War second Soviet Union...

...This chapter examines the training camps set up by Dai Li to prepare for the attack of the Japanese armies. It explains that when Dai Li was recalled to Nanjing after the fall of Shanghai, he immediately designated the capital as a special district and put it under the command of Qian Xinmin...

... a duality or tension between representations of Japan as perpetrator and Japan as victim. The second half of his chapter scrutinizes cinematic representations of four recurring icons which have generated much debate: the Comfort Women issue, the Nanjing Massacre, Yasukuni Shrine, and the Atomic Bombs...

...Chapter 4 looks at how Chinese geologists tried to preserve their scientific autonomy against the growing demands of the Guomindang state in the “Nanjing Decade” (1927-1937). Having built up international ties in the previous decade, the Geological Survey of China was able to set its own agenda...

... gardens in the environment of Anqing and publishing Ji Cheng’s Yuanye. Once the family had moved to Nanjing in 1635 after local bandit activity made the Anqing region unsafe, Ruan continued his involvement in garden creation, while lobbying for return to office. While in Nanjing Ruan...

...; the traumatized and aloof Nanjing; the abandoned capital, Xi’an; Taipei under Japanese colonial rule and the subsequent Nationalist Party’s dominance; and Hong Kong from a British Crown Colony to a Special Administrative Region of China. Urban experiences, emotional vicissitudes, and literary topography continue...

... change the stories they tell about dark pasts? Based on a comparative analysis of the trajectories of Turkey’s narrative of the 1915-17 Armenian Genocide and Japan’s narrative of the 1937-8 Nanjing Massacre, Dark Pasts argues that international pressures increase the likelihood of change...

...More than sixty years have passed since the series of historical events now called the Nanjing Massacre (also known as the Nanjing Atrocity and the Rape of Nanjing). The repudiation by certain Japanese of the Nanjing Massacre over roughly the past two decades had contributed to a recrudescence...