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From the Soil, the Foundations of Chinese Society

A Translation of Fei Xiaotong's Xiangtu Zhongguo, with an Introduction and Epilogue

By: Xiaotong Fei,Gary G. Hamilton,Zheng Wang

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From the Soil, the Foundations of Chinese Society

A Translation of Fei Xiaotong's Xiangtu Zhongguo, with an Introduction and Epilogue

By: Xiaotong Fei,Gary G. Hamilton,Zheng Wang

A lucid and fascinating work about Chinese society and values. Fei's account of how China differs from the West is every bit as telling now as it was when this book was first published almost half a century ago."--Orville Schell "What are the fundamental characteristics of Chinese society and how does it differ from the West? In From the Soil, China's foremost sociologist offered his insights, based on fieldwork in China and residence in the West, into this fascinating question. Vivid and clearly written, it has long been a classic of Chinese sociology, widely read by Chinese. It is wonderful finally to have it available in English."--David Arkush, University of Iowa

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Univ of California Press

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0520077954

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9780520077959

Rural Development in China

Prospect and Retrospect

By: Xiaotong Fei

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Rural Development in China

Prospect and Retrospect

By: Xiaotong Fei

This collection of essays written from 1947-1986 by Fei Hsiao-tung, China's most distinguished sociologist and anthropologist, presents a rich and representative sampling of the research that has characterized his long career. In 1936, Fei conducted field work in Kaixian'gong, a village in Jiangsu province in east China. This village became the subject of his now classic study Peasant Life in China, in which he argued that, because of China's huge population and the scarcity of cultivable land, household industries such as production of raw silk were vital to the peasants' economic survival. His conclusions, long rejected by China's policymakers, have recently been embraced by the government under the political leadership of Deng Xiaopeng. Returning to Kaixian'gong in 1957 and again in the 1980s, Fei examined the changes that had occurred since his initial research. Three essays that resulted from these follow-up studies are included in this collection, providing a rare summary and analysis of developments in the village between 1936 and 1986. Also included here are four articles based on Fei's 1983-84 research in other areas of Jiangsu province. His explorations of the contrast between the wealth of southern Jiangsu and the long-standing poverty of the northern half of the province address key issues of public policy in China today. Useful to students of rural sociology as well as of Chinese history, politics, economics, and anthropology, this collection will provide an overview not only of developments in the small towns of China but also of Fei's thought.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226239608

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9780226239606

Globalization and Cultural Self-Awareness

By: Xiaotong Fei

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Globalization and Cultural Self-Awareness

By: Xiaotong Fei

This volume comprises some twenty articles, speeches and conversations of Fei Xiaotong from the late 1980s to the early 2000s. Their central connecting theme is how civilizations could co-exist against a backdrop of rapid globalization. Fei proposes his concept of “cultural self-awareness,” summarized in the axiom “each appreciates his own best, appreciates the best of others, all appreciate the best together for the greater harmony of all.” This is the result of many years of research and fieldwork, and represents a synthesis of his Western training and traditional Chinese thought. Professor Fei Xiaotong was one of the most prominent Chinese sociologists and anthropologists in the last century, and a leading figure in Chinese intellectual circles. He was noted in the West for his Peasant Life in China, From the Soil and other works written during the 1930s and 1940s. His later important research and theoretical concepts, though extremely influential in China on both theoretical and practical levels, are almost unknown in international academia.

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Springer

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3662466481

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9783662466483

Linkage Power Europe

The EU’s Trade Negotiations with China (1975-2019)

By: Zhang Xiaotong

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Linkage Power Europe

The EU’s Trade Negotiations with China (1975-2019)

By: Zhang Xiaotong

This book looks at the history of the EU’s trade negotiations with China from 1975 to 2019 from a distinctive perspective – the EU as a linkage power. The author explains how the EU through linkage strategies speaks with one voice, overcomes its weakness in military capabilities and translates its non-military capabilities into advantages and influences in some specific policy areas. The book systematically traces the European negotiators’ tactics in managing the EU’s trade relations with China. It’s the first time that the history of EU–China trade negotiations is presented to the public by a seasoned trade negotiator. The author, combining the identities of a negotiator and a scholar, gives a panoramic view of EU–China trade relations from 1975, when the European Economic Community established diplomatic relations with China, to 2019 when the Juncker Commission leaves office. This book will appeal to policymakers, think-tankers, professors and students, as well as anyone who is interested in trade policies and negotiations in the EU and China. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis .com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000889513

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9781000889512

Robust Recognition via Information Theoretic Learning

By: Ran He,Baogang Hu,Xiaotong Yuan,Liang Wang

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Robust Recognition via Information Theoretic Learning

By: Ran He,Baogang Hu,Xiaotong Yuan,Liang Wang

This Springer Brief represents a comprehensive review of information theoretic methods for robust recognition. A variety of information theoretic methods have been proffered in the past decade, in a large variety of computer vision applications; this work brings them together, attempts to impart the theory, optimization and usage of information entropy. The authors resort to a new information theoretic concept, correntropy, as a robust measure and apply it to solve robust face recognition and object recognition problems. For computational efficiency, the brief introduces the additive and multiplicative forms of half-quadratic optimization to efficiently minimize entropy problems and a two-stage sparse presentation framework for large scale recognition problems. It also describes the strengths and deficiencies of different robust measures in solving robust recognition problems.

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120

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Springer

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3319074164

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9783319074160

China's Gentry

Essays on Rural-Urban Relations

By: Hsiao-tung Fei,Xiaotong Fei

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China's Gentry

Essays on Rural-Urban Relations

By: Hsiao-tung Fei,Xiaotong Fei

These seven essays on the structure of Chinese society are based on articles contributed by Fei to Chinese newspapers in 1947 and 1948. Six case histories from a study of the gentry by Yung-teh Chow are appended. "The chief interest and charm of this book lie in the fact that it is not directed to the Western reader; these were studies written in Chinese, by an erudite Chinese, for a Chinese public. . . . Mrs. Redfield is to be complimented for her own careful research in preparing this translation for a non-Chinese public."—Robert F. Spencer, American Anthropologist

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University of Chicago Press

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0226239578

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9780226239576

Global LAnd Surface Satellite (GLASS) Products

Algorithms, Validation and Analysis

By: Shunlin Liang,Xiaotong Zhang,Zhiqiang Xiao,Jie Cheng,Qiang Liu,Xiang Zhao

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Global LAnd Surface Satellite (GLASS) Products

Algorithms, Validation and Analysis

By: Shunlin Liang,Xiaotong Zhang,Zhiqiang Xiao,Jie Cheng,Qiang Liu,Xiang Zhao

This book describes the algorithms, validation and preliminary analysis of the Global LAnd Surface Satellite (GLASS) products, a long-term, high-quality dataset that is now freely available worldwide to government organizations and agencies, scientific research institutions, students and members of the general public. The GLASS products include leaf area index, broadband albedo, broadband emissivity, downward shortwave radiation and photosynthetically active radiation. The first three GLASS products cover 1981 to 2012 with 1km and 5km spatial resolutions and 8-day temporal resolution, and the last two GLASS products span 2008 to 2010 with 3-hour temporal resolution and 5km spatial resolution. These GLASS products are unique. The first three are spatially continuous and cover the longest period of time among all current similar satellite products. The other two products are the highest spatial-resolution global radiation products from satellite observations that are currently available. These products can be downloaded from Beijing Normal University at http://glass-product.bnu.edu.cn/ and the University of Maryland Global Land Cover Facility at http://www.glcf.umd.edu/ The GLASS products are the outcome of a key research project entitled “Generation & Applications of Global Products of Essential Land Variables”, supported by funding from the High-Tech Research and Development Program of China and involving dozens of institutions and nearly one hundred scientists and researchers. Following an introduction, the book contains five chapters corresponding to these five GLASS products: background, algorithm, quality control and validation, preliminary analysis and applications. It discusses the long-term environmental changes detected from the GLASS products and other data sources at both global and local scales and also provides detailed analysis of regional hotspots where environmental changes are mainly associated with climate change, drought, land-atmosphere interactions, and human activities. The book is based primarily on a set of published journal papers about these five GLASS products and includes updated information. Since these products have now begun to be widely used, this book is an essential reference document. It is also a very helpful resource to anyone interested in satellite remote sensing and its applications.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3319025880

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9783319025889

Prediction and Discovery

AMS-IMS-SIAM Joint Summer Research Conference, Machine and Statistical Learning : Prediction and Discovery, June 25-29, 2006, Snowbird, Utah

By: Joseph S. Verducci,Xiaotong Shen,John Lafferty

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Prediction and Discovery

AMS-IMS-SIAM Joint Summer Research Conference, Machine and Statistical Learning : Prediction and Discovery, June 25-29, 2006, Snowbird, Utah

By: Joseph S. Verducci,Xiaotong Shen,John Lafferty

These proceedings feature some of the latest important results about machine learning based on methods originated in Computer Science and Statistics. In addition to papers discussing theoretical analysis of the performance of procedures for classification and prediction, the papers in this book cover novel versions of Support Vector Machines (SVM), Principal Component methods, Lasso prediction models, and Boosting and Clustering. Also included are applications such as multi-level spatial models for diagnosis of eye disease, hyperclique methods for identifying protein interactions, robust SVM models for detection of fraudulent banking transactions, etc. This book should be of interest to researchers who want to learn about the various new directions that the field is taking, to graduate students who want to find a useful and exciting topic for their research or learn the latest techniques for conducting comparative studies, and to engineers and scientists who want to see examples of how to modify the basic high-dimensional methods to apply to real world applications with special conditions and constraints.

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American Mathematical Soc.

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0821841955

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9780821841952

Robust Recognition via Information Theoretic Learning

By: Ran He,Baogang Hu,Xiaotong Yuan,Liang Wang

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Robust Recognition via Information Theoretic Learning

By: Ran He,Baogang Hu,Xiaotong Yuan,Liang Wang

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Rural Development in China

Prospect and Retrospect

By: Xiaotong Fei

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Prospect and Retrospect

By: Xiaotong Fei

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From the Soil, the Foundations of Chinese Society

From the Soil, the Foundations of Chinese Society

Rural Development in China

Rural Development in China

Globalization and Cultural Self-Awareness

Globalization and Cultural Self-Awareness

Linkage Power Europe

Linkage Power Europe

Robust Recognition via Information Theoretic Learning

Robust Recognition via Information Theoretic Learning

China's Gentry

China's Gentry

Global LAnd Surface Satellite (GLASS) Products

Global LAnd Surface Satellite (GLASS) Products

Prediction and Discovery

Prediction and Discovery

Robust Recognition via Information Theoretic Learning

Robust Recognition via Information Theoretic Learning

Rural Development in China

Rural Development in China

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