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Teachers' Schools and the Making of the Modern Chinese Nation-State, 1897-1937

By: Xiaoping Cong

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Teachers' Schools and the Making of the Modern Chinese Nation-State, 1897-1937

By: Xiaoping Cong

During the educational and social transformations in politically tumultuous early twentieth-century China, Chinese teacher's schools played a critical role. They were a force in the changes that swept Chinese society, bridging Chinese and Western ideals, empowering women, and contributing to rural modernization. This innovative account examines the social and political aspects and impacts of these schools, their role in a society in transistion, and their production of grassroots forces that lead to the Communist Revolution.

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UBC Press

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0774841338

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9780774841337

China's Geography

Globalization and the Dynamics of Political, Economic, and Social Change

By: Gregory Veeck,Clifton W. Pannell,Xiaoping Shen,Youqin Huang

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China's Geography

Globalization and the Dynamics of Political, Economic, and Social Change

By: Gregory Veeck,Clifton W. Pannell,Xiaoping Shen,Youqin Huang

Despite China's clear and growing importance on the world stage, it remains often and easily misunderstood. Indeed, there are many Chinas, as this comprehensive survey, the most current and authoritative introduction available, vividly illustrates. Now in a thoroughly revised and updated edition, this text traces the changes occurring in this powerful and ancient nation across both time and space. Beginning with China's diverse landscapes and environments, and continuing through its formative history and tumultuous recent past, the authors show contemporary China as a product of both internal and external forces. They consider historical and current successes and difficulties, including economic, political, cultural, and environmental challenges, while placing China in its international context as a massive, developing, diverse nation that is meeting the needs of its 1.4 billion citizens while becoming an aggressive major regional and global player. Through clear prose and 160 insightful maps, tables, and photos, China's Geography illustrates and explains the great economic, political, and social differences found throughout China's many regions. Accompanying the book is a companion website that provides a wealth of additional materials, including sample lectures, color versions of all the graphics, time series and provincial data files for student projects in Excel, lists of favorite films and websites, and public domain maps for student use.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1538140810

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9781538140819

Services for Aging Persons in China

Spatial Variations in Supply and Demand

By: Xiaoping Shen,Shangyi Zhou,Xiulan Zhang

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Services for Aging Persons in China

Spatial Variations in Supply and Demand

By: Xiaoping Shen,Shangyi Zhou,Xiulan Zhang

This volume draws upon one of the first comprehensive studies on the regional variations of services for aging persons in China to provide an empirical and theoretical understanding of the impact of China's rapidly growing aging population on the country's socioeconomic, cultural, and political systems. In three parts, the manuscript combines case-oriented comparative methods with variable-oriented statistical and GIS analyses to examine the spatial patterns and relationships between supply and demand of affordable and accessible services for aging persons in China. Part one gives a historical review of population aging in China, including the development of services for aging persons and government policies and programs geared towards elders. Part two provides an analysis of spatial variations of supply and demand for services including food, housing, health, and community services for aging persons. Part three uses case studies to analyse the regional and local dimensions of elderly services. Suggestions are made for future planning, development, and policies. This book will appeal to policy makers, city planners, service providing businesses, and advanced undergraduate and graduate students studying economic geography, planning, and regional development.

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Springer Nature

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3030980324

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9783030980320

Voices Rising

Asian Canadian Cultural Activism

By: Xiaoping Li

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Voices Rising

Asian Canadian Cultural Activism

By: Xiaoping Li

This interdisciplinary inquiry examines Asian Canadian political and cultural activism around community building, identity making, racial equity, and social justice. Informed by a postcolonial and postmodern cultural critique, it traces the trajectory of progressive cultural discourse generated by Asian Canadian cultural activists over the course of several generations. Xiaoping Li draws on historical sources and personal testimonies to convincingly demonstrate how culture acts as a means of engagement with the political and social world. He addresses topical issues of "race," ethnicity, identity, and transculturalism.

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UBC Press

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0774841362

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China in the Age of Global Capitalism

Jia Zhangke's Filmic World

By: Xiaoping Wang

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China in the Age of Global Capitalism

Jia Zhangke's Filmic World

By: Xiaoping Wang

Jia Zhangke is praised as “the most internationally prominent and celebrated figure of the Six-Generation of Chinese filmmakers”. This book provides an examination the content and forms of Jia’s featured films and analyzes their merits and faults. Jia’s films often narrate the lives of ordinary Chinese people against the backdrop of the political-economic changes. The author conducts an in-depth analysis of how this change have ferociously impinged upon the characters’ living conditions since China integrated itself with the world economy in the high tide of accelerated globalization since the 1970s. The author focuses on discussing the “politics of dignity” expressed by Jia’s allegorical renditions to explore the director’s political unconsciousness and cultural-political notions. This book maps ten of Jia Zhangke’s films onto three major themes: Jia’s filmmaking and China in the market society; truth claims and political unconscious; “post-socialist modernity” in the age of globalization. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of Chinese film studies, as well as other disciplines, such as political science, sociology, anthropology, etc.

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Routledge

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100070243X

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9781000702439

Obesity and Its Related Diseases in China

The Impact of the Nutrition Transition in Urban and Rural Adults

By: Xiaoping Weng,Benjamin Caballero

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Obesity and Its Related Diseases in China

The Impact of the Nutrition Transition in Urban and Rural Adults

By: Xiaoping Weng,Benjamin Caballero

This monograph describes a series of studies examining the prevalence and characteristics of obesity and its related metabolic diseases in China, where urbanization and socioeconomic development are occurring at a dramatic pace.

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Cambria Press

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1934043540

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Ideology and Utopia in China's New Wave Cinema

Globalization and Its Chinese Discontents

By: Xiaoping Wang

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Ideology and Utopia in China's New Wave Cinema

Globalization and Its Chinese Discontents

By: Xiaoping Wang

Ideology and Utopia in China’s New Wave Cinema investigates the ways in which New Wave filmmakers represent China in this age of neoliberal reform. Analyzing this paradigm shift in independent cinema, this text explores the historicity of the cinematic form and its cultural-political visions. Through a close reading of the narrative strategy of key films in New Wave Cinema, Xiaoping Wang studies the movement’s impact on film, literature, culture and politics.

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Springer

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3319911406

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9783319911403

Recent Advances in Computational Sciences

Selected Papers from the International Workshop on Computational Sciences and Its Education, Beijing, China, 29-31 August 2005

By: Palle E. T. J?rgensen,Xiaoping Shen,Chiwang Shu

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Recent Advances in Computational Sciences

Selected Papers from the International Workshop on Computational Sciences and Its Education, Beijing, China, 29-31 August 2005

By: Palle E. T. J?rgensen,Xiaoping Shen,Chiwang Shu

This book presents state-of-the-art lectures delivered by international academic and industrial experts in the field of computational science and its education, covering a wide spectrum from theory to practice. Topics include new developments in finite element method (FEM), finite volume method and Spline theory, such as Moving Mesh Methods, Galerkin and Discontinuous Galerkin Schemes, Shape Gradient Methods, Mixed FEMs, Superconvergence techniques and Fourier spectral approximations with applications in multidimensional fluid dynamics; Maxwell equations in discrepancy media; and phase-field equations. It also discusses some interesting topics related to Stokes equations, Schrdinger equations, wavelet analysis and approximation theory. Contemporary teaching issues in curriculum reform also form an integral part of the book.This book will therefore be of significant interest and value to all graduates, research scientists and practitioners facing complex computational problems. Administrators and policymakers will find it is an addition to their mathematics curriculum reform libraries.

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World Scientific

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981270700X

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9789812707000

Marriage, Law and Gender in Revolutionary China

By: Xiaoping Cong

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Marriage, Law and Gender in Revolutionary China

By: Xiaoping Cong

Explores the social and cultural significance of Chinese communist legal practice in constructing marriage and gender relations in the turbulent period from 1940 to 1960.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107148561

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9781107148567

Postsocialist Conditions

Ideas and History in China’s "Independent Cinema", 1988-2008

By: Xiaoping Wang

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Postsocialist Conditions

Ideas and History in China’s "Independent Cinema", 1988-2008

By: Xiaoping Wang

In Postsocialist Conditions: Idea and History in China’s “Independent Cinema,” 1988-2008, WANG Xiaoping offers a comprehensive survey and trenchant critique of China’s “Independent Cinema” by the sixth-generation auteurs. By showing the multi-valence of the postsocialist conditions in contemporary Chinese society, their films articulate a new cultural-political logic in postsocialist China, which is also the logic of the market in this era of neoliberal transformation, brought about by the forces of marketization since the late 1980s. The directors laudably show the spirits of humanism and the humanitarian concerns of the underclass, yet the shortage and repudiation of class analysis prohibits the artists from exploring the social contradictions and the cause of class restructuration.

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BRILL

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9004385584

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9789004385580

Chinese Literature and Culture in the Age of Global Capitalism

Renaissance or Rehabilitation?

By: Xiaoping Wang

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Chinese Literature and Culture in the Age of Global Capitalism

Renaissance or Rehabilitation?

By: Xiaoping Wang

Combining anatomies of textual examples with broader contextual considerations related with the social, political and economic developments of post-Mao China, Xiaoping Wang intends to explore newly emerging social and cultural trends in contemporary China, and find the truth content of Chinese society and culture in the age of global capitalism. Through in-depth textual analyses covering a variety of media, ranging from fiction, poetry, film to theoretical works as well as cultural phenomena which mirror social and cultural occurrences and reflect the present ideological proclivities of the Chinese society, this study offers timely interpretations of China in the age of globalization, its political inclinations, social fashions and cultural tendencies, and provides thought-provoking messages of China’s socio-economic and political reality.

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9004461191

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9789004461192

Contending for the "Chinese Modern"

The Writing of Fiction in the Great Transformative Epoch of Modern China, 1937-1949

By: Xiaoping Wang

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Contending for the "Chinese Modern"

The Writing of Fiction in the Great Transformative Epoch of Modern China, 1937-1949

By: Xiaoping Wang

In Contending for the "Chinese Modern", Xiaoping Wang studies the writing of fiction in 1940s China. Through a practice of political hermeneutics of fictional texts and social subtexts, it explores how social modernity and literary modernity intertwined with and interacted upon each other in the development of modern Chinese literature. It not only makes critical reappraisement of some renowned modern Chinese writers, but also sheds fresh lights on a series of theoretical problems pertaining to the issue of plural modernities, in which the problematic of subjectivity, class consciousness and identity politics are the key words as well as the concrete procedures that it employs to undertake the ideological analysis. The manuscript signifies a new paradigm in studies of modern Chinese literature.

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9004398635

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China and the Cholera Pandemic

Restructuring Society under Mao

By: Xiaoping Fang

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China and the Cholera Pandemic

Restructuring Society under Mao

By: Xiaoping Fang

Mao Zedong’s Great Leap Forward campaign organized millions of Chinese peasants into communes in a misguided attempt to rapidly collectivize agriculture with disastrous effects. Catastrophic famine lingered as the global cholera pandemic of the early 1960s spread rampantly through the infected waters of southeastern coastal China. Confronted with a political crisis and the seventh global cholera pandemic in recorded history, the communist government committed to social restructuring in order to affirm its legitimacy and prevent transmission of the disease. Focusing on the Wenzhou Prefecture in Zhejiang Province, the area most seriously stricken by cholera at the time, Xiaoping Fang demonstrates how China’s pandemic was far more than a health incident; it became a significant social and political influence during a dramatic transition for the People’s Republic. China and the Cholera Pandemic reveals how disease control and prevention, executed through the government’s large-scale, clandestine anticholera campaign, were integral components of its restructuring initiatives, aimed at restoring social order. The subsequent rise of an emergency disciplinary health state furthered these aims through quarantine and isolation, which profoundly impacted the social epidemiology of the region, dividing Chinese society and reinforcing hierarchies according to place, gender, and socioeconomic status.

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University of Pittsburgh Press

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0822988070

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9780822988076

China's Geography

Globalization and the Dynamics of Political, Economic, and Social Change

By: Gregory Veeck,Clifton W. Pannell,Xiaoping Shen,Youqin Huang

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Globalization and the Dynamics of Political, Economic, and Social Change

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Services for Aging Persons in China

Spatial Variations in Supply and Demand

By: Xiaoping Shen,Shangyi Zhou,Xiulan Zhang

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Spatial Variations in Supply and Demand

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3030980324

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Wavelets and Other Orthogonal Systems

By: Gilbert G. Walter,Xiaoping Shen

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Wavelets and Other Orthogonal Systems

By: Gilbert G. Walter,Xiaoping Shen

A bestseller in its first edition, Wavelets and Other Orthogonal Systems: Second Edition has been fully updated to reflect the recent growth and development of this field, especially in the area of multiwavelets. The authors have incorporated more examples and numerous illustrations to help clarify concepts. They have also added a considerable amount of new material, including sections addressing impulse trains, an alternate approach to periodic wavelets, and positive wavelet s. Other new discussions include irregular sampling in wavelet subspaces, hybrid wavelet sampling, interpolating multiwavelets, and several new statistics topics. With cutting-edge applications in data compression, image analysis, numerical analysis, and acoustics wavelets remain at the forefront of current research. Wavelets and Other Orthogonal Systems maintains its mathematical perspective in presenting wavelets in the same setting as other orthogonal systems, thus allowing their advantages and disadvantages to be seen more directly. Now even more student friendly, the second edition forms an outstanding text not only for graduate students in mathematics, but also for those interested in scientific and engineering applications.

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CRC Press

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1482285800

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Multiscale Signal Analysis and Modeling

By: Xiaoping Shen,Ahmed I. Zayed

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Multiscale Signal Analysis and Modeling

By: Xiaoping Shen,Ahmed I. Zayed

Multiscale Signal Analysis and Modeling presents recent advances in multiscale analysis and modeling using wavelets and other systems. This book also presents applications in digital signal processing using sampling theory and techniques from various function spaces, filter design, feature extraction and classification, signal and image representation/transmission, coding, nonparametric statistical signal processing, and statistical learning theory.

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1461441447

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Ideology and Utopia in China's New Wave Cinema

Globalization and Its Chinese Discontents

By: Xiaoping Wang

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Ideology and Utopia in China's New Wave Cinema

Globalization and Its Chinese Discontents

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China in the Age of Global Capitalism

Jia Zhangke's Filmic World

By: Xiaoping Wang

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Jia Zhangke's Filmic World

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100070243X

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Multiscale Modeling Beyond Wavelets

By: Xiaoping Shen,Gilbert G. Walter

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Multiscale Modeling Beyond Wavelets

By: Xiaoping Shen,Gilbert G. Walter

The book is an introduction to the methods that deal with problems raised in using multiscale mathematical/statistical models such as wavelets and other multiscale systems. Special emphasis is given to the applications in filter design, sampling and nonparametric statistical methods for signal modeling, detection and recovering as well as learning and prediction. Applications of these methods notably to signal distortion treatment (Gibbs phenomenon), misisng sample identification, pattern recognition and maching learning problems are discussed and illustrated by examples. Both continuous and sampled (digitized) signals are considered. These methods are in contrast to more traditional methods involving mainly Fourier series withwhich they will also be compared. These multiscale methods have better localization properties, but also avoid excessive oscillations often encountered inboth signal and image analysis.

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1461440688

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