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The Sing-song Girls of Shanghai

By: Bangqing Han

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The Sing-song Girls of Shanghai

By: Bangqing Han

Desire, virtue, courtesans (also known as sing-song girls), and the denizens of Shanghai's pleasure quarters are just some of the elements that constitute Han Bangqing's extraordinary novel of late imperial China. Han's richly textured, panoramic view of late-nineteenth-century Shanghai follows a range of characters from beautiful sing-song girls to lower-class prostitutes and from men in positions of social authority to criminals and ambitious young men recently arrived from the country. Considered one of the greatest works of Chinese fiction, The Sing-song Girls of Shanghai is now available for the first time in English. Neither sentimental nor sensationalistic in its portrayal of courtesans and their male patrons, Han's work inquires into the moral and psychological consequences of desire. Han, himself a frequent habitué of Shanghai brothels, reveals a world populated by lonely souls who seek consolation amid the pleasures and decadence of Shanghai's demimonde. He describes the romantic games played by sing-song girls to lure men, as well as the tragic consequences faced by those who unexpectedly fall in love with their customers. Han also tells the stories of male patrons who find themselves emotionally trapped between desire and their sense of propriety. First published in 1892, and made into a film by Hou Hsiao-hsien in 1998, The Sing-song Girls of Shanghai is recognized as a pioneering work of Chinese fiction in its use of psychological realism and its infusion of modernist sensibilities into the traditional genre of courtesan fiction. The novel's stature has grown with the recent discovery of Eileen Chang's previously unknown translation, which was unearthed among her papers at the University of Southern California. Chang, who lived in Shanghai until 1956 when she moved to California and began to write in English, is one of the most acclaimed Chinese writers of the twentieth century.

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Columbia University Press

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0231529457

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Literature Journals in the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression in China (1931-1938)

By: Sunny Han Han

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Literature Journals in the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression in China (1931-1938)

By: Sunny Han Han

This book examines the development of Chinese literature journals and social ideologies from 1931 to 1938, combining first-hand historical materials, historical data and four important literature journals to study the competition and cooperation between various powers such as the Kuomintang, the CCP, the “Third Party”, and intellectuals. This book describes the most influential Chinese literature journals and their political background during that period, and explains the relations between disparate political and social powers, helping to decipher Chinese intellectuals’ cultural positions during this time. The author concludes with the provocative thesis that there was a progression in literature of the Nanjing Decade from an emphasis on class struggle to national salvation to a humanism that transcended these differences. ——Arif Dirlik, author of "Culture and History in Postrevolutionary China: The Perspective of Global Modernity" The author looks into sources drawn from various camps and areas, identifies ideological and affective contestations, debates theoretical agendas, and ponders the consequences of literature as a unique manifestation of wartime engagements. Both historically informed and methodologically engaged, Han’s book is a most important source for anyone interested in the cultural and political dynamics of modern China in an extraordinary time. ——David Der-wei Wang, Professor of Harvard University

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9811064482

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Freak Concubine

Volume 4

By: Han YanBing

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Freak Concubine

Volume 4

By: Han YanBing

Your father already has a son, even if he doesn't want to admit it, he can't!""Fuck, what happened to the Son?" So what if he had a son? I just won't admit it! ""Brat, you're still a bit too inexperienced. When you grow up in the future, go find your wife! Your mother is your father's! "Powerful women were more powerful, beautiful men were many, and there was a dark family with a perverted genius in each family. They were a bunch of eccentrics. One old and one young, watching how they fought for a woman ...

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1646775171

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Grassland Ecosystems of China

A Synthesis and Resume

By: Linghao Li,Jiquan Chen,Xingguo Han,Wenhao Zhang,Changliang Shao

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Grassland Ecosystems of China

A Synthesis and Resume

By: Linghao Li,Jiquan Chen,Xingguo Han,Wenhao Zhang,Changliang Shao

This book provides a comprehensive overview of grassland ecosystems based on publications by Chinese scholars. It offers an up-to-date review of the recent advances in grassland research in China, discusses the climatic and physical conditions governing the grasslands, describes their types and distribution, and introduces a new classification scheme for grassland ecosystems. Further, it details the plant, animal, and microbial compositions of each grassland ecosystem type, examining the above and below ground relationships between phytomass, vegetation succession, and past/current management practices with a particular focus on the steppes in China. It also includes references that are only available in the Chinese language. This scientifically rigorous book offers insights into knowledge gaps for the scientific community and identifies pressing issues facing practitioners of grassland ecology and management. It can be used as a textbook for undergraduate and graduate students in ecology, environmental science, natural resource management, agriculture, and other relevant fields, and is also a valuable reference resource for researchers studying drylands in China or around the globe.

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Springer Nature

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9811534217

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A Brief History of Image Science and Technology in China

By: Congyao Han

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A Brief History of Image Science and Technology in China

By: Congyao Han

This book, within the vision of the study on the image history, clearly manifests the development of Chinese image science and technology of over 2000 years based on compendium, while having briefly sorted out expositions by scientists since ancient times in China, demonstrates the spiritual course, ideas of thinking and forms of life and reveales profound humane ideas, basis of sentiments and styles of the spirit featured by Chinese image culture. The historic outline of images is clear-cut along with authenticated inter-attestation for clues of images and texts. Historic facts concerning images are ecologically diversified, while historic documents about images are properly chosen, in addition to the integration between liberal arts and science and perfect combination between images and texts. Blessed with nice integration between images and texts, this book serves as reference to experts, scholars, undergraduates and postgraduates related to the study on image history, history of science and technology, study of history and news communication.

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9813369221

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The Making of the Chinese Civilization

By: Jianye Han

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The Making of the Chinese Civilization

By: Jianye Han

This book involves collection of papers primarily focused on the origin and development of Chinese civilization in the concept of archaeological context from the 6000 BCE to 1300 BCE through archaeological cultural perspectives. It systematically illustrates the prehistoric cultural history of China at the period from Neolithic to the early Bronze Age during 20000-1300 BCE, composing not only the proper region around the Central Plain but also the margin areas mainly in the west, and examines the cultural relationship and exchanges nationally and internationally through thousand years of advancing social complexity in geographical and temporal genealogies. It introduces three prehistoric stages for the course of Chinese Civilization Development; the three major Civilization Development Models during the Chalcolithic period; how environmental changes and warfare functioned as the part of mechanism to make civilization evolve; the Bronze Age Revolution from the West; and the critical evaluation of the characteristics belonging to Chinese Civilization and the review of ancient legendary histories and legends through the archaeological perspectives. This book is essential reading for all those wanting more information about the foundations of Chinese history and civilization through archaeological studies. Jianye Han is Professor in the Department of Archaeology and Museology, School of History, Renmin University of China.

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9819942136

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Mr. Lee Loves Me Only

Volume 4

By: Mo Han

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Mr. Lee Loves Me Only

Volume 4

By: Mo Han

only now do i understand that what you gave me was not medicine it was poison let me be infatuated with your poison my poison breaks out every day what should i do li chengze sounded as if he was talking to himself and his voice was soft and gentle because of you i can't touch another woman this is very serious are you going to be punished lu xiaoxiao asked what punishment i'm punishing you for the rest of your life you can only like me

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1649552130

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The Unknown Cultural Revolution

Life and Change in a Chinese Village

By: Dongping Han

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The Unknown Cultural Revolution

Life and Change in a Chinese Village

By: Dongping Han

The Unknown Cultural Revolution challenges the established narrative of China’s Cultural Revolution, which assumes that this period of great social upheaval led to economic disaster, the persecution of intellectuals, and senseless violence. Dongping Han offers a powerful account of the dramatic improvements in the living conditions, infrastructure, and agricultural practices of China’s rural population that emerged in this period. Drawing on extensive local interviews and records in rural Jimo County, in Shandong Province, Han shows that the Cultural Revolution helped overthrow local hierarchies, establish participatory democracy and economic planning in the communes, and expand education and public services, especially for the elderly. Han lucidly illustrates how these changes fostered dramatic economic development in rural China. The Unknown Revolution documents a neglected side of China’s Cultural Revolution, demonstrating the potential of mass education and empowerment for radical political and economic transformation. It is a bold and provocative work, which demands the attention not only of students of contemporary Chinese history but of all who are concerned with poverty and inequality in the world today.

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NYU Press

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1583675078

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Chinese Characters

By: Jiantang Han

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Chinese Characters

By: Jiantang Han

Han Jiantang provides an accessible, illustrated introduction to the fascinating history and development of the written Chinese language, from pictograms painted on rocks and pottery and ancient inscriptions to the refined art of calligraphy and the characters in use today. Chinese Characters will appeal to readers looking for an introduction to the rich but complex Chinese language and to all those interested in the relationship between language and culture.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521186609

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Party of One

The Rise of Xi Jinping and China's Superpower Future

By: Chun Han Wong

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Party of One

The Rise of Xi Jinping and China's Superpower Future

By: Chun Han Wong

From one of the most admired reporters covering China today, a vital new account of the life and political vision of Xi Jinping, the authoritarian leader of the People’s Republic whose hard-edged tactics have set the rising superpower on a collision with Western liberal democracies. Party of One shatters the many myths that shroud one of the world’s most secretive political organizations and its leader. Many observers misread Xi during his early years in power, projecting their own hopes that he would steer China toward more political openness, rule of law, and pro-market economics. Having masked his beliefs while climbing the party hierarchy, Xi has centralized decision-making powers, encouraged a cult of personality around himself, and moved toward indefinite rule by scrapping presidential term limits—stirring fears of a return to a Mao-style dictatorship. Today, the party of Xi favors political zeal over technical expertise, trumpets its faith in Marxism, and proclaims its reach into every corner of Chinese society with Xi portraits and hammer-and-sickle logos. Under Xi, China has challenged Western preeminence in global affairs and cast its authoritarian system as a model of governance worthy of international emulation. As a China reporter for The Wall Street Journal, Chun Han Wong has chronicled Xi Jinping’s hard-line strategy for crushing dissent against his strongman rule, his political repression in Hong Kong and Xinjiang, and his increasingly coercive efforts to reel in the island democracy of Taiwan, as well as the domestic and diplomatic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic. When the Chinese government refused to renew Wong’s press credentials and forced him to leave mainland China in 2019, he moved to Hong Kong to continue covering Chinese politics and its autocratic turn under Xi. Now, Wong has drawn on his years of firsthand reporting across China—including conversations with party insiders, insights from scholars and diplomats, and analyses of official speeches and documents—to create a lucid and historically rooted account of China’s leader and how he inspires fear and fervor in his party, his nation, and beyond. “A penetrating and timely unraveling of the personality and impact of a strongman president” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) Party of One explains how the future Xi imagines for China will reshape the future of the entire world.

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Simon and Schuster

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1982185759

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Engineering and Deployment of Cooperative Information Systems

First International Conference, EDCIS 2002, Beijing, China, September 17-20, 2002. Proceedings

By: Yanbo Han,Stefan Tai

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Engineering and Deployment of Cooperative Information Systems

First International Conference, EDCIS 2002, Beijing, China, September 17-20, 2002. Proceedings

By: Yanbo Han,Stefan Tai

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Engineering and Employment of Cooperative Information Systems, EDCIS 2002, held in Beijing, China, in September 2002. The 44 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 159 submissions. The papers are organized on topical sections on workflow, ontologies, semantic web, enterprise application integration, mobile agents, enterprise modelling, distributed systems, analysis, software engineering, architectures, transactions, coordination, and groupware.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540442227

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9783540442226

Contemporary Value Systems in China

By: Zhen Han,Weiwen Zhang

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Contemporary Value Systems in China

By: Zhen Han,Weiwen Zhang

This work illustrates China’s values and how they are practiced. After introducing readers to the theories, systematical structure, historical status, and influence of traditional Chinese values, it points out major developmental trends in connection with modernization. Further, it explores the significance of the contemporary reconstruction of Chinese values and argues that these values can be divided into three layers: values-based goals of national development, Chinese values concepts, and norms of values in a civil society. On this basis, it subsequently interprets the core socialist values “Prosperity, Democracy, Civility and Harmony,” the value concepts “Freedom, Equality, Justice and Rule of Law” and values-based norms “Patriotism, Dedication, Integrity and Friendship.”

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9811323933

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Flower Master on the Campus

Volume 3

By: Han Xiao

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Flower Master on the Campus

Volume 3

By: Han Xiao

Liu Ruchen was a top-notch mercenary who had accepted the old man's "last mission". However, he discovered that this mission was not that simple. Why were there so many more Peach Blossom Tribulations? Are these pretty girls the old man's test? Alas, touching was not a crime.

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Funstory

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164767834X

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CRC Materials Science and Engineering Handbook

By: James F. Shackelford,Young-Hwan Han,Sukyoung Kim,Se-Hun Kwon

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CRC Materials Science and Engineering Handbook

By: James F. Shackelford,Young-Hwan Han,Sukyoung Kim,Se-Hun Kwon

CRC Materials Science and Engineering Handbook provides a convenient, single-volume source for physical and chemical property data on a wide range of engineering materials. As with the first three editions, this Fourth Edition contains information verified by major professional associations such as ASM International and the American Ceramic Society

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1482216566

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Industrial Solid Waste Recycling in Western China

By: Fenglan Han,Lan'er Wu

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Industrial Solid Waste Recycling in Western China

By: Fenglan Han,Lan'er Wu

This book introduces the latest results in research and practice of industrial solid waste recycling in China's western regions, where more than 50% of the waste in the whole country was produced. With rapid development in recent years, the massive industrial solid waste has become a serious problem in China. This book summarizes information and results of several National Research Programs of China concerning the typical solid wastes of the metallurgical and energy industry in western China, such as magnesium slag, manganese slag, acid sludge of lead and zinc smelting, fly ash, steel slag and carbide slag. It will be highly beneficial to scholars and engineers of environmental science and engineering.

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9811380864

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The Constitutional Identity of Contemporary China

The Unitary System and Its Internal Logic

By: Han Zhai

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The Constitutional Identity of Contemporary China

The Unitary System and Its Internal Logic

By: Han Zhai

In The Constitutional Identity of Contemporary China: The Unitary System and Its Internal Logic, Han Zhai offers a profound understanding of China’s constitutional history with her account of constitutional identity of multi-layered states in other parts of the world. This book successfully bridges China’s constitutional complex and the emerging common theory of constitutional law with methodological innovations. In constitutional comparison, this work’s treatment of the Kingdoms of Spain and the Netherlands provides effective structural and historical analysis. This book does not only awaken China’s constitutional identity in contemporary scholarship but also presents rich possibilities in the constitutional study and the way we understand a country’s fundamental arrangements in its national context

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BRILL

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9004388141

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9789004388147

Use System To Flirt With Girls

Volume 3

By: Han ZiYunYu

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Use System To Flirt With Girls

Volume 3

By: Han ZiYunYu

i am a popinjay and love to be free suddenly a meteorite falls from the sky not only did it wake me up it also brought me an unrivalled power in the universe from then on i will become ceo marry a rich and beautiful woman and ascend to the pinnacle of the universe

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1648469566

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9781648469565

Chinese Discourses on the Peasant, 1900-1949

By: Xiaorong Han

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Chinese Discourses on the Peasant, 1900-1949

By: Xiaorong Han

Xiaorong Han explores how Chinese intellectuals envisioned the peasantry and its role in changing society during the first half of the twentieth century. Politically motivated intellectuals, both Communist and non-Communist, believed that rural peasants and their villages would be at the heart of change during this long period of national crisis. Nevertheless, intellectuals saw themselves as the true shapers of change who would transform and use the peasantry. Han uses intellectuals' writings to provide a comprehensive look at their views of the peasantry. He shows how intellectuals with varying politics created images of the peasant—a supposed contemporary image and an ideal image of the peasant transformed for political ends, how intellectuals theorized on the nature of Chinese rural life, and how intellectuals conceived their own relationships with peasants.

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State University of New York Press

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0791483924

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9780791483923

Super Killer in the City

Volume 1

By: Han Mou

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Super Killer in the City

Volume 1

By: Han Mou

The top quality killer had returned to the city! Ten thousand flowers brushed past his face, not a single leaf touched his body! Dark and mysterious enemies, cold and beautiful lovers, and enemies ... Eagles would eventually soar above the nine heavens, who could contend against them!

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164677356X

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CEO's Acquisitive Love

Volume 3

By: Han Yan

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CEO's Acquisitive Love

Volume 3

By: Han Yan

A marriage contract, Xu An Yi became the bride of the official scenery.He said gently and estranged to her: "An An, you and I have to marry each other, when the matter is settled, we will get a divorce."She nodded, but bitterness spread in her heart.When the day came when the dust settled, Guan Jingyi would not be willing to let go."Stay with me!"Xu JinNian trembled as he pushed him away, "Bastard, let go of me! I'm going to look for the director!"His black eyes narrowed and his thin lips curled up into a sneer. He grabbed her lower jaw and said, "You want to find a wild man? You should at least pass my test!

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1648844189

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Theorising Culture

A Chinese Perspective

By: Jinghe Han

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Theorising Culture

A Chinese Perspective

By: Jinghe Han

This book seeks for an alternative perspective in analysing cultural phenomena to supplement the norm of Western dominant theorising and conceptualisation. It engages notions and concepts of culture developed by Chinese cultural theorists when addressing Chinese teachers’ cross-cultural experiences in Australian school settings. This alternative approach acknowledges the fact that the generation and development of cultural theories is contextually based. Through the reciprocated theory-data examination, it enables the arguments: Chinese culture is rooted in its written language (hanzi) which makes culture inseparable from language teaching; the core of the culture is linked back to, streamlined with and continues from China’s elongated history; this core has been consistently influential on these teachers’ practices and the observable cultural shift in them could be non-genuine mimicry for survival. Document analysis witnesses the current political push for the culture’s stability and continuity through the national education system across sectors. This book provides background information for teachers with cultural backgrounds different from their students’, and draws on a bank of practice-based evidence to suggest ways to enhance teacher-student relationships in cross-cultural settings.

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Springer Nature

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3030238806

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Is China An Empire?

By: Han Shih Toh

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Is China An Empire?

By: Han Shih Toh

With the rapid increase in China's overseas investment and trade, China's global economic clout is increasing by the day. Does China's global economic reach make it an empire in the 21st century? What sort of impact will China's trade and investment have on its global counterparts? Chinese investment projects around the world, from railways in Africa and dams in Latin America to the acquisition of landmark buildings in the US, look to alter global patterns of influence and power. How would other countries react to China's rising international influence?The US government and many Americans deny their country is an empire, although the US status as the leading superpower makes it an empire in all but name. How will China coexist with the US, which has arguably been an imperialist power since the end of World War II? How will the incumbent neo-imperialist power, the US, deal with an emergent China?With its acute analysis of Sino-US relations, the book will interest readers who wish to understand the impact of China on various countries, its place on the world stage as well as the geopolitical implications for all in the 21st century.

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World Scientific

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9814667447

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Dissipative Lattice Dynamical Systems

By: Xiaoying Han,Peter Kloeden

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Dissipative Lattice Dynamical Systems

By: Xiaoying Han,Peter Kloeden

There is an extensive literature in the form of papers (but no books) on lattice dynamical systems. The book focuses on dissipative lattice dynamical systems and their attractors of various forms such as autonomous, nonautonomous and random. The existence of such attractors is established by showing that the corresponding dynamical system has an appropriate kind of absorbing set and is asymptotically compact in some way.There is now a very large literature on lattice dynamical systems, especially on attractors of all kinds in such systems. We cannot hope to do justice to all of them here. Instead, we have focused on key areas of representative types of lattice systems and various types of attractors. Our selection is biased by our own interests, in particular to those dealing with biological applications. One of the important results is the approximation of Heaviside switching functions in LDS by sigmoidal functions.Nevertheless, we believe that this book will provide the reader with a solid introduction to the field, its main results and the methods that are used to obtain them.

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9811267774

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Contesting Cyberspace in China

Online Expression and Authoritarian Resilience

By: Rongbin Han

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Contesting Cyberspace in China

Online Expression and Authoritarian Resilience

By: Rongbin Han

The Internet was supposed to be an antidote to authoritarianism. It can enable citizens to express themselves freely and organize outside state control. Yet while online activity has helped challenge authoritarian rule in some cases, other regimes have endured: no movement comparable to the Arab Spring has arisen in China. In Contesting Cyberspace in China, Rongbin Han offers a powerful counterintuitive explanation for the survival of the world’s largest authoritarian regime in the digital age. Han reveals the complex internal dynamics of online expression in China, showing how the state, service providers, and netizens negotiate the limits of discourse. He finds that state censorship has conditioned online expression, yet has failed to bring it under control. However, Han also finds that freer expression may work to the advantage of the regime because its critics are not the only ones empowered: the Internet has proved less threatening than expected due to the multiplicity of beliefs, identities, and values online. State-sponsored and spontaneous pro-government commenters have turned out to be a major presence on the Chinese internet, denigrating dissenters and barraging oppositional voices. Han explores the recruitment, training, and behavior of hired commenters, the “fifty-cent army,” as well as group identity formation among nationalistic Internet posters who see themselves as patriots defending China against online saboteurs. Drawing on a rich set of data collected through interviews, participant observation, and long-term online ethnography, as well as official reports and state directives, Contesting Cyberspace in China interrogates our assumptions about authoritarian resilience and the democratizing power of the Internet.

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0231545657

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