Zhu biography, Zhu discography
Vital force (qi), principle (li), and the Great Ultimate (taiji)
2.The investigation of things and the extension of knowledge
2.Taoist and Buddhist influence on Zhu Xi
4 Zhu Xi's influence
5 Achievements of Zhu Xi in the art of calligraphy
5.Zhu Xi was originally from Fujian, where his father worked as the head of various departments, but left due to disgust with government connivance with Mongol invaders.Confucian tradition of Cheng Hao and Cheng Yi.He rebuilt and taught at the famous White Deer Grotto Academy for some time.Throughout his life Zhu Xi was perpetually a temple guardian, preferring to study, write, and talk with other scholars in the quiet.In 1179 he was appointed a prefect and got demoted 3 years later for attacking the incompetency of some officials.There were several instances of receiving an appointment and subsequently being demoted.In 1241 his tablet was placed in the Confucian Temple.The Four Books
During the Song Dynasty, Zhu Xi's teachings were considered to be unorthodox.Confucians, he chose to emphasize the Four Books: the Great Learning, the Doctrine of the Mean, the Analects of Confucius, and the Mencius as the core curriculum for aspiring scholar officials.The Four Books served as the basis of civil service examinations all the way down to 1905.Vital force (qi), principle (li), and the Great Ultimate (taiji)
Zhu Xi maintained that all things are brought into being by the union two universal aspects of reality: qi, sometimes translated as vital (or physical, material) force; and li, sometimes translated as rational principle (or law).Giles: Tai Chi), meaning the Great Ultimate.The source of qi is not so clearly stated by Zhu Xi, leading some authorities to maintain that he was a metaphysical monist and others to maintain that he was a metaphysical dualist.According to Zhu Xi's theory, every physical object and every person has its li and therefore has contact in its metaphysical core with the Taiji.What is referred to as the human soul, mind, or spirit is understood as the Taiji, or the supreme regulative principle, as it works its way out in a person.Qi and li operate together in mutual dependence.They are mutually aspective in all creatures in the universe.These two aspects are manifested in the creation of substantial entities.When their activity is waning (slow or contractive), that is the yin energy mode.The yang and yin phases constantly interact, each gaining and losing dominance over the other.In the process of the waxing and waning, the alternation of these fundamental vibrations, the so called five elements (fire, water, wood, metal, and earth) evolve.In terms of li and qi, Zhu Xi's system strongly resembles Buddhist ideas of li (again, principle) and shi (affairs, matters), though Zhu Xi and his followers strongly argued that they were not copying Buddhist ideas.Zhu Xi discussed how he saw the Great Ultimate concept to be compatible with principle of Taoism, but his concept of Taiji was different from the understanding of Tao in Daoism.Where Taiji is a differentiating principle that results in the emergence of something new, Dao is still and silent, operating to reduce all things to equality and indistinguishability.He argued that there is a central harmony that is not static or empty but was dynamic, and that the Great Ultimate is itself in constant creative activity.Human nature
Zhu Xi considered the earlier Confucian Xun Zi to be a heretic for departing from Mencius' idea of innate human goodness.Zhu Xi's metaphysics is that everything contains li and qi.Li is the principle that is in everything and governs the universe.As such, individuals should act perfectly moral.However, while li is the underlying structure, qi is also part of everything.Qi obscures our perfect moral nature.Knowledge and action
According to Zhu Xi, knowledge comes first, but action is more important.This is in contrast to Wang Yangming's doctrine of the unity of knowledge and action.The investigation of things and the extension of knowledge
Zhu Xi advocated gewu, the investigation of the things.Religion
Zhu Xi did not hold to traditional ideas of God or Heaven (Tian), though he discussed how his own ideas mirrored the traditional concepts.Although he practiced some forms of ancestor worship, he disagreed that the souls of ancestors existed, believing instead that ancestor worship is a form of remembrance and gratitude.On teaching, learning, and the creation of an academy
Zhu Xi heavily focused his energy on teaching, claiming that learning is the only way to sagehood.He lamented more modern printing techniques and the proliferation of books that ensued.This, he believed, made students less appreciative and focused on books, simply because there were more books to read than before.In fact, disappointed by local schools in China, he established his own academy, White Deer Hollow Academy, to instruct students properly and in the proper fashion.Taoist and Buddhist influence on Zhu Xi
Zhu Xi wrote what was to became the orthodox Confucian interpretation of a number of concepts in Taoism and Buddhism.Zhu Xi's influence
From 1313 to 1905, Zhu Xi's commentaries on the Four Books formed the basis of civil service examinations in China.Confucians such as Wang Fuzhi, though dissenters would later emerge such as Wang Yangming and the School of Mind two and a half centuries later.His philosophy survived the Intellectual Revolution of 1917, and later Feng Youlan would interpret his conception of li, qi, and taiji into a new metaphysical theory.Throughout his life, as he never ceased practicing, he has reached a distinctive level in the art characteristic of overpowering strength, and superbness.Whilst he had bequeathed at posterity quite a number of calligraphy which had been highly acclaimed in history, it is regrettable that most of them were lost.Moreover, since the Yuan dynasty, his school of thoughts had been adopted as the official ideology of China.He was hailed as one of the ten philosophers of the Confucianism School.Calligraphy Style
The calligraphy of Zhu Xi had been acclaimed as acquiring the style of the Han and Wei dynasties .He maintained that while rules had to be observed for each word, there should be room for tolerance, multiplicity and naturalness.In other words, calligraphy had to observe rules and at the same time not bound by them so as to express the quality of naturalness.Ming dynasty:
The brush strokes in his calligraphy were swift without attempting at formality, yet none of his strokes and dots were not in conformity with the rules of calligraphy.Zhu Xi:
People in the olden days said that there was embedded the bones of loyal subject in the calligraphy of Yan Zhenqing.Observing the execution of brush strokes by Zhu Xi, I am indeed convinced of the truth of this opinion.Zhu Xi:
Master Zhu was loyal, learned and a great scholar through out ages .Zhu Xi:
The writings are enticing, delicate, elegant and outstanding.Truly such calligraphy piece is the wonder of nature.The Complete Works of Chu Hsi, section 26 in Chan 1963: 609.Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1963.Liang's Challenge to Chu Hsi (1982)
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Science Dept.My advisor is Rajeev
Motwani.My coadvisor is Leo Guibas.Gagan Aggarwal, Tomas Feder, Krishnaram Kenthapadi, Samir Khuller, Rina Panigrahy, Dilys Thomas, and An Zhu.Achieving Anonymity via Clustering in a Metric Space.Nowell, Erik Vee, and An Zhu.Finding Longest Increasing and Common Subsequences in Streaming Data.International Computing and Combinatorics Conference (COCOON) (Aug 2005).Invited to the special issue of the Journal of Combinatorial Optimization
An Zhu.Gagan Aggarwal, Tomas Feder, Krishnaram Kenthapadi, Rajeev Motwani, Rina Panigrahy, Dilys Thomas, and An Zhu.Journal version to appear in J.Gagan Aggarwal, Tomas Feder, Rajeev Motwani, Rina Panigrahy, and An Zhu.Gagan Aggarwal, Tomas Feder, Rajeev Motwani, and An Zhu.International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming (ICALP) (July 2004).Konstantinos Psounis, An Zhu, Balaji Probhakar, and Rajeev Motwani.Traces and Implications for Designing Replacement Policies.Nowell, Erik Vee, and An Zhu.Finding Longest Increasing and Common Subsequences in Streaming Data.Laboratory for Computer Science MIT,
November 2003.Tomas Feder, Rajeev Mowani, Steve Seiden, Rob van Stee, and An Zhu.Theoretical Computer Science, Special Issue on Online Algorithms, In Memoriam: Steve Seiden.Gagan Aggarwal, Rajeev Motwani, Devavrat Shah, and An Zhu.Switch Scheduling via Randomized Edge Coloring.Gagan Aggarwal, Rajeev Motwani, and An Zhu.Nir Andelman, Yishay Mansour, and An Zhu.Competitive Queueing Policies for QoS Switches.Samir Khuller and An Zhu.Tomas Feder, Rajeev Motwani, Rina Panigrahy, and An Zhu.Guibas,
John Hershberger, Li Zhang, and An Zhu.Computing (MobiHoc), (Oct 2001), Long Beach, California.Guibas, John
Hershberger, Li Zhang, and An Zhu.Chandra Chekuri, Sanjeev Khanna, and
An Zhu.Leana Golubchik, Sanjeev Khanna,
Samir Khuller, Ramki Thurimella, and An Zhu.Journal version submitted to
SICOMP.Samir Khuller, Balaji Raghavachari,
and An Zhu.Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA), (Jan '99), Baltimore.After all, I still think
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on my trip to Korea for the World Cup in 2002.Detecting and
responding to environmental perturbations are important for all living
organisms.Our lab is interested in the molecular mechanisms underlying plant
responses to harsh environments such as soil salinity, drought and cold
temperatures.Soil
salinity is a severe and increasing constraint on the productivity of
agricultural crops.High
concentrations of salts in the soil have a strongly inhibitory effect on the
growth and harvestable yield of all crop species.We are interested in the signaling cascades controlling Na+
homeostasis in the model multicellular organism Arabidopsis
thaliana.SOS
genes, we have discovered a novel signaling pathway that mediates ion
homeostasis and salt tolerance in Arabidopsis (Figure 1).SOS3, senses
cytosolic calcium changes elicited by salt stress.SOS3 physically interacts with and activates the protein kinase, SOS2.H+ exchanger encoded
by the SOS1 gene.Our current research is focused on the putative sensory role of SOS1, and
the characterization of additional regulatory components as well as new targets
of the SOS signaling pathway.Members of the
two protein families interact specifically to form distinct protein kinase
complexes, and our work has implicated several of them in decoding calcium
signals elicited by various environmental and hormonal stimuli.The function of the remaining SCaBP and PKS proteins are being
investigated using biochemical and reverse genetics approaches.Drought
is the most significant limiting factor for plant agriculture worldwide.RD29A, ZAT10 or CBFs), we have isolated many
Arabidopsis mutants that are defective in cold signal transduction and cold
tolerance.Other work in our laboratory has shown a complex regulation of cold
signaling and tolerance by an RNA helicase, a bifunctional enolase, and by the
functional state of mitochondria.Little is known about the initial trigger for DNA methylation that is
important for stable TGS.In
particular, the cellular mechanisms for the active suppression of TGS are not
known.ROS (repressor of
silencing) factors are mutated (Figure 4).DNA methylation or participate in the active demethylation of the
DNA (Figure 4).LUC transgene repeat generates
small RNAs that are proposed to be the diffusible signal for triggering the
hypermethylation of the RD29A promoter
at both the transgene and endogenous loci on two different chromosomes.ROS1 is proposed to counter the silencing activity of the small RNAs by
active demethylation of the promoter DNA.Current Professional Activities
Program Committee: ICML 2008,
AAAI 2008,
ACL 2008
Program Committee: ICML 2007 (SPC),
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ECML 2007
Ph.It is of great theoretical interest because natural systems, including ourselves, seem to learn from both labeled and unlabeled data too.Students
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