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The Belt and Road Initiative and Australian Mainstream Media

By: Jon Yuan Jiang

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The Belt and Road Initiative and Australian Mainstream Media

By: Jon Yuan Jiang

This book focuses on Australian mainstream media narratives about the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) from 2013 to 2020. Set against the background of Sino-Australian relations and taking into account the different media systems of China and Australia, this book also critically investigates the Chinese public diplomacy narratives of the BRI. Drawing on my analysis and semi-structured interviews with prominent experts in this area, the book addresses an important but under-explored question: how have Australian mainstream media narratives portrayed the BRI of the Chinese Government from 2013 to 2020? This book fills a gap regarding the portrayal of the BRI in Australian mainstream media and provides new insights into the reasons for narrative shifts in the coverage of the BRI. More concretely, the book finds that the public diplomacy narratives of the BRI were not explained well by Chinese officials, thus allowing Australian journalists and commentators to project their own negative, fearful narratives of China onto the BRI project, particularly from 2017 onwards. More importantly, this book argues that the Australian Federal Government’s policy towards China had a significant impact on the Australian media’s coverage of the BRI; that the media clearly followed the Australian Federal Government’s lead, and not vice versa. Thus, in many ways, Australian mainstream media narratives of the BRI have had a similar outcome as China’s ostensibly much more restrictive and propagandistic state-dominated media system. Noticeably, this book not only has academic significance in the international research community but also holds practical importance in the real world, benefiting Australian business leaders, media professionals, think tank specialists, and policymakers.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040014887

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The Belt and Road Initiative and Australian Mainstream Media

By: Jon Yuan Jiang

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Water Supply in a Mega-City

A Political Ecology Analysis of Shanghai

By: Michael Webber,Jon Barnett,Brian Finlayson

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Water Supply in a Mega-City

A Political Ecology Analysis of Shanghai

By: Michael Webber,Jon Barnett,Brian Finlayson

With the increasing threat of depleted and contaminated water supplies around the world, this book provides a timely and much needed analysis of how cities should manage this precious resource. Integrating the environmental, economic, political and socio-cultural dimensions of water management, the authors outline how future mega-city systems can maintain a high quality of life for its residents.

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266

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Edward Elgar Publishing

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1786433931

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Smithsonian America

The Atlas

By: Keidrick Roy,David M. Carballo,Clarissa W. Confer,Celso Armando Mendoza,Jon Chandler,Tamara Venit Shelton,Ben Railton

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Smithsonian America

The Atlas

By: Keidrick Roy,David M. Carballo,Clarissa W. Confer,Celso Armando Mendoza,Jon Chandler,Tamara Venit Shelton,Ben Railton

A depiction of the history of North America and the United States told through maps old and new. The history starts with the peoples who first settled the land tens of thousand years ago, and continues to the present day. Includes a timeline of American history, a guide to the fifty U.S. states, and a map showing the birthplace of every U.S. president.

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384

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Simon and Schuster

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1645178420

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9781645178422

Mao

The Unknown Story

By: Jung Chang,Jon Halliday

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Mao

The Unknown Story

By: Jung Chang,Jon Halliday

The most authoritative life of the Chinese leader every written, Mao: The Unknown Story is based on a decade of research, and on interviews with many of Mao’s close circle in China who have never talked before — and with virtually everyone outside China who had significant dealings with him. It is full of startling revelations, exploding the myth of the Long March, and showing a completely unknown Mao: he was not driven by idealism or ideology; his intimate and intricate relationship with Stalin went back to the 1920s, ultimately bringing him to power; he welcomed Japanese occupation of much of China; and he schemed, poisoned, and blackmailed to get his way. After Mao conquered China in 1949, his secret goal was to dominate the world. In chasing this dream he caused the deaths of 38 million people in the greatest famine in history. In all, well over 70 million Chinese perished under Mao’s rule — in peacetime.

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Anchor

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0307807134

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The Creation of Wing Chun

A Social History of the Southern Chinese Martial Arts

By: Benjamin N. Judkins,Jon Nielson

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The Creation of Wing Chun

A Social History of the Southern Chinese Martial Arts

By: Benjamin N. Judkins,Jon Nielson

Looks at southern Chinese martial arts traditions and how they have become important to local identity and narratives of resistance. This book explores the social history of southern Chinese martial arts and their contemporary importance to local identity and narratives of resistance. Hong Kongs Bruce Lee ushered the Chinese martial arts onto an international stage in the 1970s. Lees teacher, Ip Man, master of Wing Chun Kung Fu, has recently emerged as a highly visible symbol of southern Chinese identity and pride. Benjamin N. Judkins and Jon Nielson examine the emergence of Wing Chun to reveal how this body of social practices developed and why individuals continue to turn to the martial arts as they navigate the challenges of a rapidly evolving environment. After surveying the development of hand combat traditions in Guangdong Province from roughly the start of the nineteenth century until 1949, the authors turn to Wing Chun, noting its development, the changing social attitudes towards this practice over time, and its ultimate emergence as a global art form.

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SUNY Press

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143845693X

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The Lyrical Lu Xun

A Study of His Classical-Style Verse

By: Jon Eugene von Kowallis

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The Lyrical Lu Xun

A Study of His Classical-Style Verse

By: Jon Eugene von Kowallis

The influence of Lu Xun (1881-1936) in China's cultural, literary, and artistic life over the last sixty years has been inestimable. A poet from a backwater town, Lu Xun was propelled by the times into the various careers of educator, writer, publicist, professor, and polemicist. He was, however, first and foremost a classical scholar, writing some of his best works in classical form. The Lyrical Lu Xun is the most complete treatment of his classical-style poetry in any foreign language, containing translations and extensive discussions of sixty-four poems in the highly stylized forms of jueju (quatrains) and lushi (full-length regulated verse) - forms with detailed, strict rules for rhyme and tonal prosody that evolved according to pronunciations and standards set up more than a thousand years ago.

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University of Hawaii Press

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0824815114

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9780824815110

Aristoi

By: Walter Jon Williams

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Aristoi

By: Walter Jon Williams

Written with care, intelligence, and grace, [Aristoi] depicts a future society based on highly developed computers and biological engineering, the key skills of which are controlled by an elite known as the Aristoi. This world is depicted meticulously and vividly, and so is the near war of all against all that is unleashed when one of the Aristoi falls prey to the corruption of power. A fine, thoughtful work, highly recommended; Williams seems to grow with each book. ---Roland Green, Chicago Sun-Times Beneath the facade of universal prosperity, however, lurks a tide of dissension and madness that can only be fought from within. Williams tests the borders of imagination in a novel that combines brilliant hard science and speculative vision with a firm grip on the central humanity of his characters. A priority purchase for sf collections. ---Library Journal In this complex and rewarding novel, Williams has created a future which features many of the wonders SF has been promising us for years: virtual reality, genetic engineering, faster-than-light travel, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, telepathic links with computers, and more. ---Publishers Weekly Gabriel is one of the Aristoi, the elite class that hold dominion over a glittering interstellar culture, their rule more absolute than that of any Old Earth tyrant. When another of the Aristoi is murdered, Gabriel finds that the foundations of his civilization are tottering, and that his own power may have its roots in the greatest lie in all history. In order to defend himself and the interstellar order, Gabriel must go on a quest into the heart of barbarism and chaos, and discover within himself his own lost, tattered humanity.

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Walter Jon Williams

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098545430X

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Advances in Air Conditioning Technologies

Improving Energy Efficiency

By: Chua Kian Jon,Md Raisul Islam,Ng Kim Choon,Muhammad Wakil Shahzad

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Advances in Air Conditioning Technologies

Improving Energy Efficiency

By: Chua Kian Jon,Md Raisul Islam,Ng Kim Choon,Muhammad Wakil Shahzad

This book highlights key recent developments in air conditioning technologies for cooling and dehumidification with the specific objectives to improve energy efficiency and to minimize environmental impact. Today, air conditioning, comprising cooling and dehumidification, is a necessity in commercial and residential buildings and even in many industrial processes. This book provides key update on recent developments in air conditioning systems, cooling cycles and innovative cooling/dehumidification technologies. Key technologies related to cooling include heat-driven absorption and adsorption cooling and water-based dew point evaporative cooling. Technologies connected with dehumidification involve new generations of adsorbent–desiccant dehumidifiers, liquid-based desiccants and membranes that sieve out water vapor from air. Losses in cooling cycles and thermo-economic analysis for a sustainable economy are also judiciously documented.

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Springer Nature

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981158477X

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9789811584770

Membrane Dehumidification and Cooling

Fundamentals and Applications

By: Vivekh Prabakaran,Chua Kian Jon

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Membrane Dehumidification and Cooling

Fundamentals and Applications

By: Vivekh Prabakaran,Chua Kian Jon

Membrane Dehumidification and Cooling: Fundamentals and Applications presents the state-of-the-art on membrane dehumidifiers, highlighting their most recent advancements and providing key insights into global R&D interests. With a strong focus on applications, the book offers characterization techniques to evaluate the potential of hygroscopic materials, as well as experimental methods to study the dehumidifiers' performance. The book begins by highlighting the demerits of conventional cooling systems and then reviews electrically driven alternative cooling solutions. A comparative study between different dehumidification techniques is also given, along with sections on fundamental transport mechanisms and thermodynamic modeling. Finally, scaling, heat transfer and thermodynamic analysis are presented, along with a review of hybrid membrane-based air-conditioners. This book is a one-stop resource for recent advancements in membrane dehumidification and cooling applications. It is an essential read for students, researchers and engineers interested in thermal engineering, heat and mass transfer, alternative cooling, energy materials and dehumidification. - Presents the fundamental aspects and applications of the latest membrane dehumidification technologies - Comprehensively emphasizes new energy materials, experimental techniques, numerical methods, and thermal evaluation frameworks - Focuses on the feasibility of membrane dehumidifiers in the next generation of hybrid cooling systems

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0323955304

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The Taiwan Consensus and the Ethos of Area Studies in Pax Americana

Spectral Transitions

By: Jon Douglas Solomon

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The Taiwan Consensus and the Ethos of Area Studies in Pax Americana

Spectral Transitions

By: Jon Douglas Solomon

This book constitutes a timely intervention into debates over the status of Taiwan, at a moment when discussions of democracy and autocracy, imperialism and agency, unipolarity and multipolarity, dominate the intellectual agenda of the day. Pursuing a parallel trajectory that is both epistemic and historical, that is traced out in relation both to Taiwan’s recent history and to the disparate forms of knowledge production about that history, this work engages in scholarly debate about some of the burning issues of our time, including transitional justice, hegemony and conspiracy in the digital age, debt regimes, cultural difference, national language, and the traumatic legacies of war, colonialism, anticommunism, antiblackness, and neoliberalism. Providing trenchant analyses of the fundamental bipolarity that persists amidst both unipolar and multipolar conceptions of the world schema inherited from the colonial-imperial modernity, this book will be of interest to scholars in many fields, including translation studies, postcolonial studies, Marxism studies, trauma studies, media studies, poststructural theory, gender studies, cold war studies, area studies, American studies, black studies, and so forth.

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9819933226

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9789819933228

Advances in Desiccant Dehumidification

From Fundamentals to Applications

By: Vivekh Prabakaran,Kian Jon Chua

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Advances in Desiccant Dehumidification

From Fundamentals to Applications

By: Vivekh Prabakaran,Kian Jon Chua

This book systematically analyses state-of-the-art technology and research related to desiccant dehumidification. It provides key insights into the current research direction, and presents global research and development interests. It begins by offering a comprehensive review of conventional desiccants and their underlying engineering challenges. Fundamental material characteristic properties and factors critical to the desiccant synthesis are highlighted. The applicability of next-generation advanced materials to address the challenges is documented, and the advantages of desiccant coated heat exchangers are evaluated. Lastly, the potential applications of desiccant dehumidifiers in various energy-connected applications are discussed, and case studies on industrial/building cooling systems are provided. Specifically targeted at HVAC engineers, thermal scientists, energy-engineering researchers, and graduate-level students in the field, the technical content balances fundamental concepts and applications.

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3030808432

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The Belt and Road Initiative and Australian Mainstream Media

The Belt and Road Initiative and Australian Mainstream Media

The Belt and Road Initiative and Australian Mainstream Media

The Belt and Road Initiative and Australian Mainstream Media

Water Supply in a Mega-City

Water Supply in a Mega-City

Smithsonian America

Smithsonian America

Mao

Mao

The Creation of Wing Chun

The Creation of Wing Chun

The Lyrical Lu Xun

The Lyrical Lu Xun

Aristoi

Aristoi

Advances in Air Conditioning Technologies

Advances in Air Conditioning Technologies

Membrane Dehumidification and Cooling

Membrane Dehumidification and Cooling

The Taiwan Consensus and the Ethos of Area Studies in Pax Americana

The Taiwan Consensus and the Ethos of Area Studies in Pax Americana

Advances in Desiccant Dehumidification

Advances in Desiccant Dehumidification

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