Photograph of the Folded Brocade Hill (Diecai Shan) in Guilin, China. In the foreground, a wall is visible with a tree growing out of the left side. A stone tablet stands in front of the wall. Behind the wall, four figures are visible.

Pre-print of a manuscript and dataset later published as a journal article comparing the cognate forms and phoneme inventories of 4 Lolo-Burmese languages: Akha, Hani, Khàtú, and Pìj̀ɔ̀. Includes handwritten notes, examples, and word lists comparing modern forms and Proto-Lolo-Burmese reconstructions.

Recording of JoAnn Kuchera-Morin's A Walk Through Ezra Pound's Canto 90. This is a single movement work for soprano solo, two sopranos, two altos, and computer generated tape. In the text of the Canto, Pound incorporates Latin, English, Chinese and Greek, in order to describe the visual imagery of the poem which begins with a quote from Richard of St Victor. The computer-generated portion of the work is composed of both synthesized sounds and sampled, processed sounds from a collection of Chinese instruments.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the curricular content of elementary music in China between 1912 and 1982. The questions addressed were: (1) What changes in elementary music resulted from China's becoming a republic in 1912? (2) What changes in elementary music resulted from China's becoming a socialist country in 1949? (3) What changes in elementary music in the People's Republic of China resulted from the Anti—Rightist Struggle Movement in 1957? (4) What changes in elementary music in the People's Republic of China resulted from the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976)? (5) Have changes occurred in elementary music in the People's Republic of China since the beginning of the reform movement in 1978? (6) Did any of the changes affect curricular goals, contents, methods, required materials, and instruction time allotted in a like manner, or did some of these components remain the same while others changed? (7) Were the changes important enough to attribute them to a changed political ideology? After translating all pertinent documents, the goals, contents, methods, materials, and time allotted for the elementary music curricula between 1912 and 1982 were listed and identified. Subsequently, the areas of focus within those categories as well as changes in focus …

This Law is established in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution of the People's Republic of China with a view to improving the protection, management and development of grasslands and ensuring their rational use; protecting and improving the ecology; modernizing animal husbandry; enhancing the prosperity of local economies of the national autonomous areas; and meeting the needs of socialism and people's livelihoods. The law was adopted at the 11th Meeting of the Standing Committee of the Sixth National People's Congress and promulgated by Order No. 26 of the President of the People's Republic of China on June 18, 1985, and effective as of October 1, 1985

This Law is formulated for the purpose of preventing and controlling water pollution, protecting and improving the environment, safeguarding human health, ensuring the effective use of water resources and facilitating the development of socialist modernization.

The purpose of this thesis is to provide translation of documents on lu from two primary sources for a study of the theory of ,lu, with the main focus on the interpretation and the signification attached to each of the twelve lu-pitch names. To establish the background information of the lu-10 system, an explanation of its acoustical properties is first presented. Based on the most important and widely used tonal system in ancient China -- the san-fen-sun-i system, the illustration is provided for the process of tone generation. Methods proposed by the main theorists who engaged in the discussion of the system of lu are presented. The introduction of the concept of yin and yang in reference to the twelve lu and the signification of the lu-lu system in relation to the human and natural world will also be discussed. The main body of this study is devoted to the translation of written references on the meaning of the twelve lu. The first part is the translation of the selected passages from The Anthology of the Historical Document of Ancient Chinese Music. edited by Tsai-Ping Liang; the second part is the translation of a modern exegesis from an article written …

Bilingual monthly newspaper from Houston, Texas, published for the local Chinese community, that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.

Bilingual monthly newspaper from Houston, Texas, published for the local Chinese community, that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.

Bilingual monthly newspaper from Houston, Texas, published for the local Chinese community, that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.

Bilingual monthly newspaper from Houston, Texas, published for the local Chinese community, that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.

Bilingual monthly newspaper from Houston, Texas, published for the local Chinese community, that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.

Bilingual monthly newspaper from Houston, Texas, published for the local Chinese community, that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.

Bilingual monthly newspaper from Houston, Texas, published for the local Chinese community, that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.

Bilingual monthly newspaper from Houston, Texas, published for the local Chinese community, that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.

Bilingual monthly newspaper from Houston, Texas, published for the local Chinese community, that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.

Bilingual monthly newspaper from Houston, Texas, published for the local Chinese community, that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.

Bilingual monthly newspaper from Houston, Texas, published for the local Chinese community, that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.

Bilingual monthly newspaper from Houston, Texas, published for the local Chinese community, that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.

Bilingual monthly newspaper from Houston, Texas, published for the local Chinese community, that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.

Bilingual monthly newspaper from Houston, Texas, published for the local Chinese community, that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.

Bilingual monthly newspaper from Houston, Texas, published for the local Chinese community, that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.

Bilingual semi-monthly newspaper from Houston, Texas, published for the local Chinese community, that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.

Bilingual semi-monthly newspaper from Houston, Texas, published for the local Chinese community, that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.