Cyril Birch

Datos Biográficos

ID697827
NOMBRECyril Birch
NOMBRESCyril
APELLIDOBirch
FIRMABIRCH C
AFILIACIONESUniversity of Leeds
ORCID0000-0001-9384-2810
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS30
TOTAL DE CITAS4
TOTAL COMO AUTOR29
TOTAL COMO EDITOR1
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1955
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2023
ÍNDICE H1

  • "Mothers get really exhausted!" The lived experience of pregnancy in extreme heat

    Open AccessF Scorgie, Adelaide Lusambili et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2023Citada por: 4Referencias: 38

    Heat exposure in pregnancy is associated with a range of adverse health and wellbeing outcomes, yet research on the lived experience of pregnancy in high temperatures is lacking. We conducted qualitative research in 2021 in two communities in rural Kilifi County, Kenya, a tropical savannah area currently experiencing severe drought. Pregnant and postpartum women, their male spouses and mothers-in-law, community health volunteers, and local health…

  • Unprecedented climate extremes in South Africa and implications for maize production

    Open AccessCatherine P Bradshaw, Catherine D Bradshaw et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2022

    Maize is the most important crop grown in South Africa, but yields can be severely reduced by extreme high summer average temperatures and low precipitation, potentially adversely affecting both domestic consumption and regional food security exports. To help understand and manage climate risks to food security in Southern Africa it is essential to quantify the present-day likelihood and magnitude of climate extremes in South Africa’s maize-growi…

  • Past and projected climate change impacts on heat-related child mortality in Africa

    Open AccessSarah Chapman, Cyril Birch et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2022

    Children (<5 years) are highly vulnerable during hot weather due to their reduced ability to thermoregulate. There has been limited quantification of the burden of climate change on health in sub-Saharan Africa, in part due to a lack of evidence on the impacts of weather extremes on mortality and morbidity. Using a linear threshold model of the relationship between daily temperature and child mortality, we estimated the impact of climate change o…

  • The value of weather and climate information to the Tanzanian disaster risk reduction sector using non-monetary approaches

    Open AccessHellen E Msemo, Hellen Msemo et al.ARTICLEWeather, Climate, and Society2021

    This paper investigates the value of weather and climate information at different timescales for decision making in the Tanzanian disaster risk reduction sector using non-monetary approaches. Interviews and surveys were conducted with institutions responsible for disaster management at national, regional and district level. A range of values were identified including: 1) making informed decisions for disaster preparedness, response, recovery and …

  • Assessing the impact of climate change on soil erosion in East Africa using a convection-permitting climate model

    Open AccessSarah Chapman, Cyril Birch et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2021

    East Africa is highly reliant on agriculture and has high rates of soil erosion which negatively impact agricultural yields. Climate projections suggest that rainfall intensity will increase in East Africa, which is likely to increase soil erosion. Soil erosion estimates require information on rainfall erosivity, which is calculated using sub-daily storm characteristics that are known to be biased in traditional parameterized convection climate m…

  • Impact of climate change on crop suitability in sub-Saharan Africa in parameterized and convection-permitting regional climate models

    Open AccessSarah Chapman, Cyril Birch et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2020

    Due to high present-day temperatures and reliance on rainfed agriculture, sub-Saharan Africa is highly vulnerable to climate change. We use a comprehensive set of global (CMIP5) and regional (CORDEX-Africa) climate projections and a new convection-permitting pan-Africa simulation (and its parameterized counterpart) to examine changes in rainfall and temperature and the impact on crop suitability of maize, cassava and soybean in sub-Saharan Africa…

  • Building narratives to characterise uncertainty in regional climate change through expert elicitation

    Open AccessDessai, Ajay Bhave et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2018

    Knowledge about regional and local climate change can inform climate risk assessments and adaptation decisions. However, estimates of future precipitation change at the regional and local level are deeply uncertain for many parts of the world. A novel methodology was developed that uses climate processes and expert elicitation to build narratives of future regional precipitation change. The narratives qualitatively describe physically plausible e…

  • The credibility challenge for global fluvial flood risk analysis

    Open AccessMark A Trigg, Cyril Birch et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2016

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  • Mistress and Maid (Jiohong ji) by Meng Chengshun

    Chengshun Meng, Cyril BirchBOOKMistress & maid2001

    Mistress & Maid, one of the greatest tragedies of Chinese drama, is here available for the first time in English. Acclaimed translator Cyril Birch presents the bittersweet tale of Bella, daughter of the Wang family, her maid Petal, and the young scholar Shen Chun. After her father reneges on her marital pact, Bella refuses to renounce her love for Shen, with whom she has vowed to share "in life one room, in death one tomb." The subversion of both…

  • Literature under communism

    Open AccessCyril BirchCHAPTERThe Cambridge History of China1991

    During China's past three decades, literature under communism has stocked the cultural desert of the Chinese countryside with nourishment of a kind. It has provided heroes, role models, lessons in practical socialism. A number of established poets who had spent the war and postwar years in the Kuomintang-controlled areas of China made attempts, following the establishment of the People's Republic, to bring their work into accord with the new spir…

  • The Cambridge History of China

    Open AccessDenis Crispin Twitchett, Stuart R Schram et al.BOOKThe Cambridge History of China1991

    Volume 15 of The Cambridge History of China is the second of two volumes dealing with the People's Republic of China since its birth in 1949. The harbingers of the Cultural Revolution were analyzed in Volume 14 and Volume 15 traces a course of events still only partially understood by most Chinese. It begins by analysing the development of Mao's thought since the Communist seizure of power, and, in doing so, attempts to understand why he launched…

  • The Peony Pavilion (Mudan Ting) by Tang Xianzu

    David T Roy, Tang Xianzu et al.ARTICLEHarvard Journal of Asiatic Studies1982

  • Studies in Chinese Literary Genres

    C H Wang, Cyril BirchARTICLEComparative Literature1977

  • The Peach Blossom Fan

    K’ung Shang-Jen, Cyril Birch et al.BOOKPeach Blossom Fan1976

    A tale of battling armies, political intrigue, star-crossed romance, and historical cataclysm, The Peach Blossom Fan is one of the masterpieces of Chinese literature, a vast dramatic composition that combines the range and depth of a great novel with the swift intensity of film. In the mid-1640s, famine sweeps through China. The Ming dynasty, almost 300 years old, lurches to a bloody end. Peking falls to the Manchus, the emperor hangs himself, an…

  • Studies of Ming Literature

    Cyril Birch, Robert E HegelARTICLEMing Studies1976

    On the theory that the tortoise may gain more than the hare when an earthquake hits their track, it seems likely that the study of Ming literature will receive an even greater stimulus than historical studies from the appearance of the Ming Biographical Dictionary

  • The Romantic Generation of Modern Chinese Writers

    Cyril Birch, Leo Ou-Fan LeeARTICLEHarvard Journal of Asiatic Studies1976

  • Studies in Chinese Literary Genres

    Cyril BirchBOOKStudies in Chinese Literary Genres1974

  • Anthology of Chinese Literature

    Li Chi, Cyril BirchARTICLEPacific Affairs1973

  • Tragedy and melodrama in early ch'uan-ch'i plays

    Open AccessCyril BirchARTICLEBulletin of the School of…1973

    This paper is intended first as a tribute to my teacher, and second as a small contribution to the perennial discussion of the place or extent of the tragic in Chinese literature. I shall plead limited space as excuse for refraining from philosophical discussion, definition, or comparison with Classical Greek or Shakespearean manifestations of the tragic. My suggestion will be simply that P'i-p'a chi 'Lute song' (hereafter 'Lute') may be added to…

  • The Language of Chinese Literature

    Cyril BirchARTICLENew Literary History1972

    f Y THE EIGHTH CENTURY, the time of flourishing T'ang, Chinese poets had evolved forms which compacted the resources of the language into diamond intensity. Critics call these forms Style, but the term refers to the severe new formal conventions rather than to any great modernity in diction: vocabulary and syntax still preserve classical features and are at a remove from the colloquial of the time. The language of the is still essentially monosyl…

  • The Classic Chinese Novel

    Cyril Birch, C T HsiaARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…1971

  • Anthology of Chinese Literature from Early Times to the Fourteenth Century

    John L Bishop, Cyril BirchARTICLEBooks Abroad1966

  • Anthology of Chinese Literature from Early Times to the Fourteenth Century

    Herbert Franke, Cyril Birch et al.ARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…1966

    Internationally renowned Chinese literature scholar Cyril Birch was the first to assemble the finest translations of these seminal pieces in his now classic and still definitive introductory anthologies. The selections in this first volume span a two-thousand-year period: from the Chou Dynasty (1122221 B.C.) to the Y an Dynasty (A.D. 12801367), from the ancient Songs to the dramas of the fourteenth century, every major genre of Chinese literature…

  • Anthology of Chinese Literature, From Early Times to the Fourteenth Century

    Li Chi, Chi Li et al.ARTICLEPacific Affairs1966

  • Chinese communist literature

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