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Textile production is a very complex industrial process, whose planning still depends on experts' knowledge and experience. With traditional techniques, a great many process parameters have to be repeatedly computed and the optimization of process parameters is also getting more and more difficult. However the proliferation of a huge mass of data from real production has been creating many new opportunities for those working in textile science, engineering and business. The field of data mining (DM) and knowledge discovery from database (KDD) has emerged as a new discipline in engineering and computer science. This paper investigates data mining methods from the industrial database, and presents a novel DM-based intelligent model (DMIM) for worsted process decisions through an integral application of case-based reasoning (CBR) and artificial neural network (ANN) techniques. First, from the rich existing process database, CBR is able to retrieve and recommend a similar process case as a process template; then, by means of modification on these parameters in the existing cases, ANN model is used to predict the yarn quality and make the best process decision. The basic concept and system modeling are presented in this paper. An applied case with DMIM is also given to demonstrate that the best process decision can be made and important process parameters such as those for raw materials can be optimized.

During the centennial anniversary of Xinhai Revolution in 2011, the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference and the State Administration of Radio, Film, and Television supported the production of 1911 for celebrating such an important event that lead to the rise of the Republic of China in the contemporary Chinese history. This paper aims to reflect upon this film in relation to China’s propagation of “Greater China” for the Empire-building project.

By scrutinizing the film text and following the strait controversies over the film, this paper demonstrates how the Chinese Communist agents employed the coproduction model with Hong Kong for globalizing a cinematic discourse of Greater China in part of their Empire-building project.

The study challenges how contemporary Chinese history is ideologically and politically manipulated for advancing the Chinese Communist propaganda over Taiwan. The overall objective is to reflect upon the longstanding historical divergences that stand on the current geopolitical envision and strategy of China for reunification.

This paper provides an interdisciplinary reflection upon the intricate post-Cold War politics in part of the contemporary Chinese cinema under the China–Hong Kong coproduction model. The findings advance novel and timely insights into China’s current envision and strategy for reunification.