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Continuity may refer to:

In mathematics:

• The opposing concept to discreteness; common examples include:
  • Continuous probability distribution or random variable in probability and statistics
  • Continuous game, a generalization of games used in game theory
  • Law of Continuity, a heuristic principle of Gottfried Leibniz
• Continuous function; in particular:
  • Continuity (topology), a generalization to functions between topological spaces
  • Scott continuity, for functions between posets
  • Continuity (set theory), for functions between ordinals
  • Continuity (category theory), for functors
  • Graph continuity, for payoff functions in game theory
• Continuity theorem may refer to one of two results:
  • Lévy's continuity theorem on random variables
  • Kolmogorov continuity theorem on stochastic processes
• In geometry:
  • Parametric continuity, for parametrised curves
  • Geometric continuity, a concept primarily applied to the conic sections and related shapes
• Continuity equation for application in electromagnetic theory, fluid dynamics and quantum mechanics

Other uses:

• Continuity (album), an album by electronic indie group Wedlock
• Continuity of Operations Plan, a United States Federal initiative to ensure that agencies are able to continue performance of essential functions under a broad range of circumstances
• Continuity (fiction), the consistency of the characteristics of persons, plot, objects, places and events seen by the reader or viewer
• Continuity supervisor or script supervisor, a member of a film crew responsible for maintaining continuity of the motion picture
• Continuity (broadcasting), messages (other than advertisements) played by broadcasters between programmes
• An unbroken electrical path in an electronic circuit or connector
• Health care continuity
• In ethnography and ethnic nationalism, ethnic continuity or indigenism
• In materials science:
  • a colloidal system consists of a dispersed phase evenly intermixed with a continuous phase
  • a continuous wave is an electromagnetic wave of constant amplitude and frequency
• Continuity editing, a film editing technique used to create logical coherence between shots

See also[link]

• Continuum (disambiguation)
• Contiguity

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Yu Dafu
Born	(1896-12-07)December 7, 1896 Fuyang, Zhejiang, China
Died	September 17, 1945(1945-09-17) (aged 48)
Occupation	Short Story writer and Poet

Yu Dafu (simplified Chinese: 郁达夫; traditional Chinese: 郁達夫; pinyin: Yù Dáfū; Wade–Giles: Yu Ta-fu) (December 7, 1896—September 17, 1945). Born in Fuyang, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, was a modern Chinese short story writer and poet.

Early years[link]

Yu Dafu's father died when he was three, leaving the family poverty-stricken and destitute. He received a number of scholarships through the Chinese government and went on to receive a traditional Chinese education in Hangzhou. Chronologically he studied in Jiangxing-Fu Middle School (before he came to Hangzhou), Hangzhou-Fu Middle School, Yuying Academy^[1] (育英学堂, formerly of Zhejiang University).

In 1912, he entered Hangchow University (later its major part merged into Zhejiang University) preparatory through examination. He was there only for a short period before he was expelled for participation in a student strike.^[2]

He then moved to Japan, where he studied economics at the Tokyo Imperial University between 1913 and 1922, where he met other Chinese intellectuals (namely, Guo Moruo, Zhang Ziping and Tian Han). Together, in 1921 they founded the Chuangzao she 創造社 ("Creation Society"), which promoted vernacular and modern literature. One of his earlier works Chenlun 沉淪, also his most famous, published in Japan in 1921. The work had gained immense popularity in China, shocking the world of Chinese literature with its frank dealing with sex, as well as grievances directed at the incompetence of Chinese government at the time.

In 1922, he returned to China as a literary celebrity and worked as the editor of Creation Quarterly, editing journals and writing short stories. In 1923, after an attack of tuberculosis, Yu Dafu directed his attention to the welfare of the masses.

In 1927, he worked as an editor of the Hongshui literary magazine. He later came in conflict with the Communist Party of China and fled back to Japan.

Second Sino-Japanese war[link]

After the start of the Second Sino-Japanese war, he returned to China and worked as a writer of anti-Japanese propaganda in Hangzhou, and later in Zhejiang. From 1938 to 1942, he worked as a literary editor for the newspaper Sin Chew Jit Poh in Singapore.

In 1942 when the Imperial Japanese Army invaded Singapore, he was forced to flee to Sumatra. Known under a different identity, he settled there among other overseas Chinese and began a brewery business with the help of the locals. Later he was forced to help the Japanese military police as an interpreter when it was discovered that he was one of the few "locals" in the area who could speak Japanese.

In 1945, he was arrested by the Kempeitai when his true identity was finally discovered. It is believed that he was executed by the Japanese shortly after the surrender of Japan.

Works[link]

• Chenlun 沉淪 "Sinking" (1921)
• Riji jiuzhong 日記九種 “Nine Diaries” (1927)
• Guoqu 過去 “The Past" (1927)
• his first novel?? (1928) (moderately successful)
• his second novel?? (1932)
• Chuben 出奔 "Flight" (1935)

His most popular work, breaking all Chinese sales records, was Jih-chi chiu-chung "Nine Diaries", which detailed his affair with the writer Wang Ying-hsin. The most critically acclaimed work is Kuo-ch'u or "The Past", written in 1927.^{[citation needed]}

References[link]

• Encyclopædia Britannica 2005 Ultimate Reference Suite DVD, article- "Yü Ta-fu"

External links[link]

• Works by Yu Dafu at Project Gutenberg