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**hu Zhu
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Preface: Why China, Engineering, and Ethics?
In the last forty years, China has developed more and more quickly than any other country, society, and (some would even claim) civilization in the history of the world (Kissinger, On China, Penguin Books, 2012).
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Confucian Engineers: Professional Identity, Engineering Practices, and Ethical Ideals
As the most influential Chinese school of thought, Confucianism has guided individual decision-making and social interactions in Chinese societies and other cultures with Confucian heritages, such as Japan, Ko...
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A Reference Software Architecture for Managing, Processing and Serving Multi-field Scientific Data
Scientific data resources typically have the characteristics of rich data types, diverse fields, and close semantic links. Traditional e-scientific technologies cannot simultaneously support the fusion managem...
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The Walls Surrounded on All Sides—The Ruins of the City Wall of the “China’s First City”
Before the walls were discovered, the site of Liangzhu Ancient City was well known for the site which had large elevated platforms and royal cemeteries like Fanshan.
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A Wonderful Place for Ritual Activities—Altar Ruins of Yaoshan and Huiguanshan
Speaking of the altar, many people may think of the Temple of Heaven and the Temple of Earth in Bei**g for at once, which are the places where the supreme rulers of the Ming and Qing Dynasties offered sacrifi...
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The Cultural Location and Status of Liangzhu Ancient City
**yao town in Yuhang district is a geographic administrative location of Liangzhu Ancient City, but the cultural location, in addition to geographic location, also includes its location in the entire distrib...
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A Place of King and God—The Palace Area in the Center of the Inner City
Within the confines of the Ancient City circle, there is a distinctly raised platform in the center, locally known as Mojiaoshan, which used to be the peach forest of Daguanshan Orchard.
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The Realm of King and God, the Emergence of Civilization
So far, archaeological discoveries and archaeological interpretations have presented us with the capital shape and image of Liangzhu Kingdom.
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The Granary Bursting with Grain—The Remains of Grain in the Ancient City
Rice fields have not yet been found in the 6.3 km2 area within Liangzhu Ancient City, but we discovered several carbonized rice accumulations.
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Water Conservancy Projects Built Around—Discovery and Research of Peripheral Hydraulic Systems
The time span from discovery to confirmation of Liangzhu water conservancy system can reach more than 20 years.
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A Few Concepts About “Liangzhu”
We relate “Liangzhu” in the hope that people will bear in mind the visual and palpable impression of the 5,000-year-old Chinese civilization.
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A Kingdom Established in a Central Place—Constructing the Capital City
The idea that “the kings of the ancient times chose the centre of the world to establish a kingdom” probably sprouted when Liangzhu people built their capital city, which signifies the first qualitative change...
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An Epitome of Watertown Life—A Major Discovery in Zhongjiagang Ancient River Course
The life of the Liangzhu people 5,000 years ago was far more sophisticated than we can imagine today.
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Evaluating Displaced People’s Life Satisfaction in Urban Resettlement Community in Nan**g City, China
has led to prevalent rural conversion to state-owned land to meet the demands . One of the critical socio-economic consequences is and of affected rural villagers conversion. The overall well-b...
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China’s Integrated Urban–Rural Development: A Development Mode Outside the Planetary Urbanization Paradigm?
China’s urbanization has garnered increasing attention worldwide, especially the contemporary development mode of urban–rural integration. However, existing literature has been inadequate in explicating the re...
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The Incomparable Ivory Cups: The Story of the Legendary Fu Hao
In ancient China, today’s Henan was a habitat of elephants which had a close relationship with humans since very early times. In ancient China, Henan was the region where people began to use the ivory resource...
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Location Choices of Micro Creative Enterprises in China: Evidence from Two Creative Clusters in Shanghai
The creative industry’s location choice has drawn scholarly and policy attentions. Creative enterprises tend to cluster in particular places, such as disused industrial areas, old towns and districts, sites in...
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Houses of the Dead—A Hierarchical Burial System
From the perspective of the whole distribution area of Liangzhu Culture, tombs are often the most common discoveries in Liangzhu cultural sites.
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Engraved Ornamental Symbols
Different from common symbols, there are two typical symbols in Liangzhu Culture: poked-dot ones and patterns of dragon and bird, respectively, special in their carriers. The former only can be found at the ed...
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Teaching Geography in the Midst of the COVID-19 Pandemic in a Chinese University: A Case Study of Bei**g Normal University
Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have been making higher education confront great challenges globally, while COVID-19 has been speeding up the necessity to overcome them. Traditionally, geogra...
