Shang LI

This book reports the achievements in hydropower construction and the efforts of sustainable hydropower development made by various countries around the globe. These existing innovative studies and applications stimulate new ideas for the renewal of hydropower infrastructure and the further improvement of hydropower development and utilization efficiency.

Qiang is a four-year-old little rebel, possessed of a pair of luminous eyes and a precociously indomitable will. His father deposits him at a well-appointed residential kindergarten in post-1949 Beijing, since his parents are often away. Life at the kindergarten appears rich and colourful, made up of a variety of cheerfully sunny rituals and games meant to train these children to be good members of society.

Winner of Best New Performer (for Lee Chien Na) at the 2010 Golden Horse Awards, Taiwan film Juliets has also garnered much love at international film festivals in Tokyo, Pusan, Dubai, Manila, and Panaji. The romance anthology features three standalone short films from three acclaimed directors, who each gives his own take on the Shakespearean character who loses herself in the perplexing thing called love. Telling three stylistically distinct stories about love and loss, the trilogy stars actors who may seem unexpected choices at first glance but give very compelling performances nevertheless.

The 121 revised full papers and 52 short papers presented together with the abstracts of 3 invited papers and those of the keynote speeches were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 467 submissions. The papers cover a wide range of topics, including e-learning platforms and tools, learning resource management, practice and experience sharing, e-learning standards, mobile learning, education and remote classrooms, effectiveness of VR for education, life long learning, collaborative environments, remote group simulations, collaborative learning, virtual reality in education, game design and development, game engine development, game AI and artificial life, game physics, game rendering, virtual characters/agents, online/mobile game/video game, storytelling and game narrative, affective interaction in games, digital museum, digital heritage, animation techniques, augmented reality, and mixed reality.

This album presents a selection of early piano works by six of China’s most internationally lauded composers.