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Remaking Families in Contemporary China

By: Xiaoying Qi

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Remaking Families in Contemporary China

By: Xiaoying Qi

From civil war to Japanese occupation and communist revolution to market transition, China has undergone and continues to experience enormous economic, political, and social change. In Remaking Families in Contemporary China, Xiaoying Qi explores a number of emerging family practices in China today that result from these ongoing changes. Drawing upon 178 in-depth interviews with young adults, married adults, and grandparents throughout China, she finds that ordinary people are transforming their patterns of behavior and expectations in dealing with a changing world, and in so doing, remaking their families. Filling a gap in the current research, Qi investigates novel aspects of family life, such as the practice of providing a child with its mother's surname rather than its father's in an intriguing exercise of veiled patriarchy. She also identifies a new category of floating grandparents, which consists of rural and small-town grandparents who join their adult children in the massive labor migration that characterizes the modern Chinese workforce in order to provide childcare. In addition, Qi examines other often overlooked topics, including spousal intimacy, divorce, and remarriage and co-habitation in later life. Offering new insights and theoretical developments, Remaking Families in Contemporary China highlights why family-related themes are important to understanding the nature of Chinese society, the forces that underpin social relationships more broadly, and the basis and nature of social change around the world.

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Oxford University Press

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0197511007

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Zhongguancun Model: Driving the Dual Engines of Science & Technology and Capital

By: Xiaoying Dong,Yanni Hu,Weidong Yin,Estela Kuo

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Zhongguancun Model: Driving the Dual Engines of Science & Technology and Capital

By: Xiaoying Dong,Yanni Hu,Weidong Yin,Estela Kuo

This book presents for the first time a detailed and comprehensive interpretation of Zhongguancun, China’s first national self-dependent innovation demonstration zone. Explored in the book are examples of world-class, leading enterprises in fields, such as the Internet, big data, artificial intelligence, green and low-carbon, modern supply chain and high-end service. According to some data, the rate of contribution to the economic increase of Beijing made by Zhongguancun rose to 36.8% in 2015 from 17.9% in 2010. More specifically, in 2015, nearly 40% of the economic increase in Beijing was contributed by Zhongguancun Science Park. By 2017, Zhongguancun fostered 650 gazelle enterprises and 70 unicorn companies. The book also uniquely provides readers with a panoramic interpretation of the environment for innovation and entrepreneurship in Zhongguancun. It is mainly divided into three parts: History of Zhongguancun, Data of Zhongguancun, Cases of Zhongguancun and Policies of Zhongguancun. Through the depiction of history, data, cases and policy, this book clarifies that in most cases, enterprises in Zhongguancun become successes by following such a road characterized by starting from scratch and by relying on science and technology innovation and expanding from small to big by virtue of the capital market. ““Zhongguancun Model: Driving the Dual Engines of Science & Technology and Capital” deepens the reader’s understanding of the new economy development in China and is essential reading for business/management researchers and practitioners, economists, IT specialists, and IT policy makers around the world.

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Springer

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9811322678

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9789811322679

Computational Methods Based on Peridynamics and Nonlocal Operators

Theory and Applications

By: Timon Rabczuk,Huilong Ren,Xiaoying Zhuang

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Computational Methods Based on Peridynamics and Nonlocal Operators

Theory and Applications

By: Timon Rabczuk,Huilong Ren,Xiaoying Zhuang

This book provides an overview of computational methods based on peridynamics and nonlocal operators and their application to challenging numerical problems which are difficult to deal with traditional methods such as the finite element method, material failure being “only” one of them. The authors have also developed a higher-order nonlocal operator approaches capable of solving higher-order partial differential equations on arbitrary domains in higher-dimensional space with ease. This book is of interest to those in academia and industry.

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327

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Springer Nature

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3031209060

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9783031209062

Globalized Knowledge Flows and Chinese Social Theory

By: Xiaoying Qi

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Globalized Knowledge Flows and Chinese Social Theory

By: Xiaoying Qi

This book considers the nature and possibilities of conceptual change and transformation under conditions of globalization, especially with regard to Chinese social and cultural concepts. It argues that the influence of globalization promotes the spread of West European and American social science concepts and methods at the expense of local concepts and approaches, and at the same time (paradoxically) provides opportunities for the incorporation of local concepts, including Chinese concepts, into Western or mainstream social science.

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Routledge

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1134691696

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9781134691692

Entrepreneurs in Contemporary China

Wealth, Connections, and Crisis

By: Xiaoying Qi

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Entrepreneurs in Contemporary China

Wealth, Connections, and Crisis

By: Xiaoying Qi

Explores China's new entrepreneurs, uncovering secrets of their business, and the relationships underlying China's economic transformation.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009316109

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9781009316101

Environmental Regulation in China

Institutions, Enforcement, and Compliance

By: Xiaoying Ma,Leonard Ortolano

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Environmental Regulation in China

Institutions, Enforcement, and Compliance

By: Xiaoying Ma,Leonard Ortolano

Even though China has created an administrative structure and regulatory programs to curb pollution, environmental quality has continued to deteriorate. Are polluters following the rules? How do regulators and polluters alike respond to ChinaOs environmental controls? This thoroughly documented study examines these central questions by analyzing compliance with programs involving wastewater discharge standards, fees, and permits. The successes and failures of these programs are tracked in comprehensive case studies and remarkably candid surveys of factory managers in six Chinese cities. The authorsO final chapter adds an international dimension by comparing Chinese water pollution control programs with their counterparts in the United States.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0847693996

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9780847693993

Extended Finite Element and Meshfree Methods

By: Timon Rabczuk,Jeong-Hoon Song,Xiaoying Zhuang,Cosmin Anitescu

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Extended Finite Element and Meshfree Methods

By: Timon Rabczuk,Jeong-Hoon Song,Xiaoying Zhuang,Cosmin Anitescu

Extended Finite Element and Meshfree Methods provides an overview of, and investigates, recent developments in extended finite elements with a focus on applications to material failure in statics and dynamics. This class of methods is ideally suited for applications, such as crack propagation, two-phase flow, fluid-structure-interaction, optimization and inverse analysis because they do not require any remeshing. These methods include the original extended finite element method, smoothed extended finite element method (XFEM), phantom node method, extended meshfree methods, numerical manifold method and extended isogeometric analysis. This book also addresses their implementation and provides small MATLAB codes on each sub-topic. Also discussed are the challenges and efficient algorithms for tracking the crack path which plays an important role for complex engineering applications. - Explains all the important theory behind XFEM and meshfree methods - Provides advice on how to implement XFEM for a range of practical purposes, along with helpful MATLAB codes - Draws on the latest research to explore new topics, such as the applications of XFEM to shell formulations, and extended meshfree and extended isogeometric methods - Introduces alternative modeling methods to help readers decide what is most appropriate for their work

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Academic Press

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0128141077

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9780128141076

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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World Scientific

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9811267774

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9789811267772

China’s Electricity Industry

Past, Present and Future

By: Ma Xiaoying,Malcolm Abbott

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China’s Electricity Industry

Past, Present and Future

By: Ma Xiaoying,Malcolm Abbott

This book provides a comprehensive account of the electricity industry in China, the world's largest power producer and carbon emitter. The authors describe the historical development of China’s energy sector and study the structure and economics of the industry. Furthermore, the book studies the impact of China’s substantial demand for coal, oil and natural gas on world energy markets and discusses future trends and reforms, such as the introduction of renewable energy sources. This book will appeal to anyone interested to broaden their knowledge on the past, present and future of Chinese electricity industry.

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Springer Nature

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3030539598

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Applied Nonautonomous and Random Dynamical Systems

Applied Dynamical Systems

By: Tomás Caraballo,Xiaoying Han

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Applied Nonautonomous and Random Dynamical Systems

Applied Dynamical Systems

By: Tomás Caraballo,Xiaoying Han

This book offers an introduction to the theory of non-autonomous and stochastic dynamical systems, with a focus on the importance of the theory in the Applied Sciences. It starts by discussing the basic concepts from the theory of autonomous dynamical systems, which are easier to understand and can be used as the motivation for the non-autonomous and stochastic situations. The book subsequently establishes a framework for non-autonomous dynamical systems, and in particular describes the various approaches currently available for analysing the long-term behaviour of non-autonomous problems. Here, the major focus is on the novel theory of pullback attractors, which is still under development. In turn, the third part represents the main body of the book, introducing the theory of random dynamical systems and random attractors and revealing how it may be a suitable candidate for handling realistic models with stochasticity. A discussion of future research directions serves to round out the coverage.

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3319492470

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9783319492476

Cisco

Integration of Innovation and Operation

By: Xiaoying Dong,Yan Yu,Jiali Zhou

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Cisco

Integration of Innovation and Operation

By: Xiaoying Dong,Yan Yu,Jiali Zhou

This book picks Cisco as an example to propose a framework of ambidextrous integration of innovation and operation, which is the key to the success of global companies along their evolutions, especially for those technology companies. The authors try to find how the company combines active innovation and efficient operation for its sustainable development. On the basis of comprehensive analysis of the strategic leadership, change management, innovation system, M&As, IT-enabled value chains, collaboration, etc., in Cisco, as well as the interviews with Cisco staff, this book shows that management practices shape the balance of internal-external resources for explorative-exploitative innovations. IT strategies and implementation enable efficient operations when innovations are identified and justified in the leading company. Managerial insights for sustainable competitiveness can be gained from Cisco practices in this book. The companion of the book, Huawei: From Catching up to Lead, telling another growth path of technology company in China by similar framework.

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Springer Nature

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9811978700

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9789811978708

Inventory Management with Alternative Delivery Times

By: Xiaoying Liang,Lijun Ma,Haifeng Wang,Houmin Yan

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Inventory Management with Alternative Delivery Times

By: Xiaoying Liang,Lijun Ma,Haifeng Wang,Houmin Yan

This book develops a modeling framework to analyze the problem of inventory management with alternative delivery times. The general context considered here is that a seller replenishes its inventory in fixed intervals and, between replenishments, allocates the limited inventory to satisfy customers who are both price and delivery-time sensitive. On the demand side, customers have heterogeneous delivery-time requirements and choose either spot or late delivery. This theoretical modeling captures the essence of real-world business practices such as the delivery time market segmentation strategy adopted by automobile dealerships in China and many other similar examples. The book focuses on the seller’s optimal inventory replenishment and demand fulfillment policies, and our results provide managerial insights into the merits of flexible delivery-time options. Similar applications such as the group-buying mechanism are also examined. The main mathematical tool used in theoretical analysis is dynamic programming. This book is written for students, researchers, and practitioners in the areas of operations management and industrial engineering who are interested in understanding the rationale of flexible delivery times and designing successful applications.

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3319486357

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9783319486352

Huawei

From Catching Up To Leading

By: Xiaoying Dong,Mengling Yan,Yanni Hu

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Huawei

From Catching Up To Leading

By: Xiaoying Dong,Mengling Yan,Yanni Hu

Through in-depth case studies, this book seeks to reveal the secret of Huawei's rapid growth. The content of this book is rich and detailed. The authors combine first-hand interview data, including Huawei managers of many functional departments such as research and development, marketing, supply chain management, and human resources, as well as Huaweis suppliers partners and competitors. This book analyzes the articles and speeches published by Huaweis leader Ren Zhengfei since 1994 both in the public and internally and reference to various materials about Huawei including employees postings in the social media, news reports, research papers, books, etc. The book systematically describes the key elements of Huawei's strategy, corporate culture, organizational capabilities, and R&D innovation system and so on. The book also compared the differences between Huawei and Cisco in many subjects as leadership, culture, organization transformation and management capabilities. For whoever tries to understand Huawei, this book is an excellent reference book. In the companion book Cisco: Integration of Innovation and Operation, the author tells another growth path of technology company in America. .

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9811940789

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9789811940781

Attractors Under Discretisation

By: Xiaoying Han,Peter Kloeden

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Attractors Under Discretisation

By: Xiaoying Han,Peter Kloeden

This work focuses on the preservation of attractors and saddle points of ordinary differential equations under discretisation. In the 1980s, key results for autonomous ordinary differential equations were obtained – by Beyn for saddle points and by Kloeden & Lorenz for attractors. One-step numerical schemes with a constant step size were considered, so the resulting discrete time dynamical system was also autonomous. One of the aims of this book is to present new findings on the discretisation of dissipative nonautonomous dynamical systems that have been obtained in recent years, and in particular to examine the properties of nonautonomous omega limit sets and their approximations by numerical schemes – results that are also of importance for autonomous systems approximated by a numerical scheme with variable time steps, thus by a discrete time nonautonomous dynamical system.

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3319619349

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9783319619347

An Introduction to Mathematical Finance with Applications

Understanding and Building Financial Intuition

By: Arlie O. Petters,Xiaoying Dong

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An Introduction to Mathematical Finance with Applications

Understanding and Building Financial Intuition

By: Arlie O. Petters,Xiaoying Dong

This textbook aims to fill the gap between those that offer a theoretical treatment without many applications and those that present and apply formulas without appropriately deriving them. The balance achieved will give readers a fundamental understanding of key financial ideas and tools that form the basis for building realistic models, including those that may become proprietary. Numerous carefully chosen examples and exercises reinforce the student’s conceptual understanding and facility with applications. The exercises are divided into conceptual, application-based, and theoretical problems, which probe the material deeper. The book is aimed toward advanced undergraduates and first-year graduate students who are new to finance or want a more rigorous treatment of the mathematical models used within. While no background in finance is assumed, prerequisite math courses include multivariable calculus, probability, and linear algebra. The authors introduce additional mathematical tools as needed. The entire textbook is appropriate for a single year-long course on introductory mathematical finance. The self-contained design of the text allows for instructor flexibility in topics courses and those focusing on financial derivatives. Moreover, the text is useful for mathematicians, physicists, and engineers who want to learn finance via an approach that builds their financial intuition and is explicit about model building, as well as business school students who want a treatment of finance that is deeper but not overly theoretical.

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1493937839

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9781493937837

Towards 2030 – China’s Poverty Alleviation and Global Poverty Governance

By: Xiaolin Wang,Xiaoying Zhang

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Towards 2030 – China’s Poverty Alleviation and Global Poverty Governance

By: Xiaolin Wang,Xiaoying Zhang

This book assesses the global significance of China’s decade-long campaign to reduce poverty. After showing how the country’s unique approach to poverty alleviation brought about unparalleled progress toward achieving both the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the authors shed light on how China’s experience can help other countries around the globe as they try to permanently rid humanity of the scourge of poverty under ever more challenging social, economic and environmental conditions.

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