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China and Global Food Security

By: Shaohua Zhan

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China and Global Food Security

By: Shaohua Zhan

In less than half a century (1978–2020), China has transformed itself from a country that barely fed itself to a powerful player in the global food system, characterized by massive food imports, active overseas agricultural engagement, and the global expansion of Chinese agribusiness. This Element offers a nuanced analysis of China's global food strategy and its impacts on food security and the international agri-food order. To feed a population of 1.4 billion, China actively seeks overseas agri-food resources whilst maintaining a high level of domestic food production. This strategy gives China an advantageous position in the global food system, but it also creates contradictions and problems within and beyond the country. This could potentially worsen global food insecurity in the long term.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108906613

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9781108906616

The Land Question in China

Agrarian Capitalism, Industrious Revolution, and East Asian Development

By: Shaohua Zhan

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The Land Question in China

Agrarian Capitalism, Industrious Revolution, and East Asian Development

By: Shaohua Zhan

This book interrogates the inevitability and practicability of full-scale, land-intensive capitalist agriculture in China, whilst analyzing the labor-intensive industrious revolution as an alternative rural development path. It presents a critical account of the recent rise of agrarian capitalism as a force that would undermine hundreds of millions of people's livelihoods in the populous country. The Land Question in China traces the roots of the industrious revolution in China back to the eighteenth century, drawing comparisons between contemporary rural development and economic prosperity in the mid-Qing dynasty. In the context of neoliberal restructuring, it argues that vigorous rural development with broad access to land offers a solution to mitigate precarious urban employment and population pressure, while the transfer of land from villagers to large producers and urban investors will exacerbate these problems. Comparisons with South Africa and the East Asian economies of Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan further illustrate this and help to develop a new interpretation of the industrious revolution and its contemporary relevance. Providing a critical examination of the "new land reform" in China from a world historical perspective, this book will be useful to students and scholars of sociology, economics, and development, as well as Chinese Studies.

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Routledge

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1351839462

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9781351839464

Quorum Quenching for Biocontrol of Plant Diseases

By: Shaohua Chen,Wen-Juan Chen

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Quorum Quenching for Biocontrol of Plant Diseases

By: Shaohua Chen,Wen-Juan Chen

Pathogenic microorganisms can cause crop diseases in various plants, leading to a decline in the quality and yield of crops. To more sustainably mitigate the impact of crop diseases on plant health and productivity, there is a need for more safe and eco-friendly strategies as compared to chemical prevention.

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Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. USA

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1649974620

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9781649974624

Evidence-based Clinical Chinese Medicine - Volume 23: Episodic Migraine

By: Claire Shuiqing Zhang,Shaohua Lyu

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Evidence-based Clinical Chinese Medicine - Volume 23: Episodic Migraine

By: Claire Shuiqing Zhang,Shaohua Lyu

This 23rd volume of the Evidence-based Clinical Chinese Medicine series aims to provide a multi-faceted 'whole evidence' analysis of the management of Episodic Migraine in integrative Chinese medicine.Beginning with overviews of how Episodic Migraine is conceptualized and managed in both conventional medicine and contemporary Chinese medicine, the authors then provide detailed analyses of how Episodic Migraine were treated with herbal medicine and acupuncture in past eras.In the subsequent chapters, the authors comprehensively review the current state of the clinical trial evidence for Chinese herbal medicines (Chapter 5), acupuncture and other Chinese medicine therapies (Chapter 7), and combination Chinese medicine therapies (Chapter 8) in the management of Episodic Migraine, as well as analyse and evaluate the results of these studies from an evidence-based medicine perspective. In Chapter 6, the authors review and summarize experimental evidence for the bioactivity of commonly used Chinese herbs in Chapter 6. The outcomes of these analyses are summarised and Chapter 1 Introduction to Migraine.This book can inform clinicians and students in the fields of integrative medicine and Chinese medicine regarding contemporary practice and the current evidence base for a range of Chinese medicine therapies used in the management of Episodic Migraine, including herbal formulas and acupuncture treatments, in order to assist clinicians in making evidence-based decisions in patient care.

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World Scientific

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9811233950

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9789811233951

The Evolution of the Chinese Internet

Creative Visibility in the Digital Public

By: Shaohua Guo

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The Evolution of the Chinese Internet

Creative Visibility in the Digital Public

By: Shaohua Guo

Despite widespread consensus that China's digital revolution was sure to bring about massive democratic reforms, such changes have not come to pass. While scholars and policy makers alternate between predicting change and disparaging a stubbornly authoritarian regime, in this book Shaohua Guo demonstrates how this dichotomy misses the far more complex reality. The Evolution of the Chinese Internet traces the emergence and maturation of one of the most creative digital cultures in the world through four major technological platforms: the bulletin board system, the blog, the microblog, and WeChat. Guo transcends typical binaries of freedom and control, to argue that Chinese Internet culture displays a uniquely sophisticated interplay between multiple extremes, and that its vibrancy is dependent on these complex negotiations. In contrast to the flourishing of research findings on what is made invisible online, this book examines the driving mechanisms that grant visibility to particular kinds of user-generated content. Offering a systematic account of how and why an ingenious Internet culture has been able to thrive, Guo highlights the pivotal roles that media institutions, technological platforms, and creative practices of Chinese netizens have played in shaping culture on- and offline.

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Stanford University Press

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1503614441

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The Land Question in China

Agrarian Capitalism, Industrious Revolution, and East Asian Development

By: Shaohua Zhan

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Agrarian Capitalism, Industrious Revolution, and East Asian Development

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Innovative Microbial Disease Biocontrol Strategies and Their Multifaceted Applications

By: Wen-Juan Chen,Shaohua Chen

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Innovative Microbial Disease Biocontrol Strategies and Their Multifaceted Applications

By: Wen-Juan Chen,Shaohua Chen

With the increasing resistance exhibited by undesirable microorganisms to tradition-al antibiotics, the need to discover alternative (or, at least, supplementary) treatments to combat chemically resistant microbes is becoming urgent. Quorum sensing (QS) refers to a novel microbial communication system for monitoring cell density and regulation of a network of gene expression that is mediated by a group of signaling molecules called autoinducers (AIs). QS-regulated multicellular behaviors include biofilm formation, horizontal gene transfer, and antibiotic synthesis, which are demonstrating increasing pathogenicity to plants and aquacultural animals as well as contamination of wastewater treatment devices. To inhibit QS-re- gulated microbial behaviors, the strategy of quorum quenching has been developed. Different quorum quenchers interfere with QS through different mechanisms, such as competitively inhibiting AI perception (e.g., by QS inhibitors) and AI degradation (e.g., by quorum quenching enzymes). In this book, we aim to collect research dealing with the inno-vative microbial disease biocontrol strategies via QS that have relevance in microbi-ology, biochemistry, molecular biology, genetics, pathology, chemistry, and all om-ics-based sciences. Reaching a great combination of the recent studies on the micro-bial disease biocontrol strategies and their multifaceted applications, this book is one of the most practical and up-to-date references available on the subject. This allows the knowledge of quorum sensing accessible to a wider range of audiences, and also introduces new thoughts and new methods for researchers, practitioners in dealing with biocontrol or related issues. The fundamental concepts, experimental process, statistical analyses, and comprehensive discussions are covered in detail, providing the readers a systematic understanding of the field.

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Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. USA

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1649978391

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China and Global Food Security

By: Shaohua Zhan

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Book's by Shaohua Zhan

China and Global Food Security

China and Global Food Security

The Land Question in China

The Land Question in China

Quorum Quenching for Biocontrol of Plant Diseases

Quorum Quenching for Biocontrol of Plant Diseases

Evidence-based Clinical Chinese Medicine - Volume 23: Episodic Migraine

Evidence-based Clinical Chinese Medicine - Volume 23: Episodic Migraine

The Evolution of the Chinese Internet

The Evolution of the Chinese Internet

The Land Question in China

The Land Question in China

Innovative Microbial Disease Biocontrol Strategies and Their Multifaceted Applications

Innovative Microbial Disease Biocontrol Strategies and Their Multifaceted Applications

China and Global Food Security

China and Global Food Security

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