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In this article, I examine the place of second-generation \"remnant subjects\" in the struggle to reconstruct Han literati collective identity following the traumatic Ming–Qing transition. The work of one such figure-Yu Binshuo (d. 1722), son of the better-known Yu Huai (1616–1696)-can be read as a response to inherited cultural trauma. Temporally removed from the Ming past, Yu's Survey of the Ancient Sites of Jinling presents a subtly different kind of engagement with Ming cultural heritage than works of the eyewitness generation, yet Yu's reimagining of Nanjing's spatial order represents a discursive coping strategy that attempts to reclaim subjectivity in a time of loss. Understanding that loss as cultural trauma-a threat to both past and future identity-helps us to make sense of people's experience of the extended cultural transition from Ming to Qing, as well as the operation and transmission of trauma more generally.

The consumption of Asian luxury goods in early modern Europe has generated a large volume of scholarly research, much of it exploring connections between the exotic object and the identity of the consumer. Links between luxury goods and perceptions of producers in the early modern world remain relatively unexplored. To what extent did European travelers imagine a connection between material culture and Chinese identity or \"Chineseness\"? Through a close reading of seventeenth- and eighteenthcentury travel accounts, this article traces changing European perceptions of material culture and the \"other,\" that is, perceived links between luxury objects and their Chinese producers.

The multidisciplinary articles in this special issue were developed in conjunction with a research project on the cultures of porcelain in global history, hosted by the Global History and Culture Centre at the University of Warwick. These articles all situate porcelain within wider contexts of material and visual culture. This approach reveals the complexities of the processes involved in the appropriation of Chinese ceramics in England and Iran and in the diffusion of Chinese-style ceramics in the western Indian Ocean, and explores the ways in which ideas about Chineseness were formed, and a global visual culture on the theme of porcelain production emerged.

We consider the inverse boundary value problem for Maxwell’s equations that takes into account the chirality of a body in R3{\\mathbb R}^3. More precisely, we show that knowledge of a boundary map for the electromagnetic fields determines the electromagnetic parameters, namely the conductivity, electric permittivity, magnetic permeability and chirality, in the interior. We rewrite Maxwell’s equations as a first order perturbation of the Laplacian and construct exponentially growing solutions, and obtain the result in the spirit of complex geometrical optics.

For anisotropic attenuating media, the albedo operator determines the scattering and the attenuation coefficients up to a gauge transformation. We show that such a determination is stable.

We consider the inverse problem of determining the electromagnetic material parameters of a body from information obtainable only at the boundary of the body; such information comes in the form of a boundary map which we assume to be known. In particular we consider the question in the case of a chiral body. In such a body, the relationship between the electromagnetic fields depends not only on the conductivity, electric permittivity and magnetic permeability of the body, but further on the chirality. We consider two problems. The first is determination of the parameters and their normal derivatives at the boundary of the body. We show that in both the chiral and non-chiral cases, such information is obtainable for all the parameters. We also show how a layer stripping algorithm may be derived to estimate the unknown parameters near the boundary in both situations. The approach is to calculate an explicit asymptotic expansion for the symbol of the boundary map which is shown to be a pseudo-differential operator; this expansion is shown in each case to determine the unknown parameters at the boundary. The second problem is that of interior determination. We show that knowledge of the boundary map determines the electromagnetic parameters in the interior under the assumption that we know the parameters to infinite order at the boundary. We rewrite Maxwell's equations as a first order perturbation of the Laplacian and construct exponentially growing solutions, and obtain the result in the spirit of complex geometrical optics.

Having retired to an unlicensed Buddhist monastery in 1588 following a difficult and largely unfulfilling official career, he had shaved his head yet grown a long beard, a visual manifestation of his unwillingness or inability to conform entirely to Buddhist or Confucian social norms. In Fenshu, he writes: \"[In] A Book to Burn...my words get right to the point and criticize the intractable errors of today's scholars. Since I get right to the heart of their terminal illnesses, they certainly will wish to kill me. The discrepancy between the author's calls for his books' destruction and the active role he took in their distribution constitutes an act of bluff, for it generates grave doubts about the sincerity of Li's words\" (p. 65).