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Heretics in Revolutionary China

The Ideas and Identities of Two Cantonese Socialists, 1917–1928

By: Xuduo Zhao

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Heretics in Revolutionary China

The Ideas and Identities of Two Cantonese Socialists, 1917–1928

By: Xuduo Zhao

In this book, Xuduo Zhao revisits the early twentieth-century Chinese revolution by focusing on two forgotten Cantonese socialists: Chen Gongbo and Tan Pingshan. By analyzing a host of previously untapped primary sources, Zhao discovers a social democratic approach within the newly founded Chinese Communist Party and argues that its decline marked a key moment in the Chinese communist movement. The study of these two figures, and the ebbs and flows of their lives, reflects and reveals the fundamental tensions in the Chinese revolution which have shaped China’s political trajectory to contemporary times and the broader political, social, and cultural landscapes of Republican China.

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9004547142

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9789004547148

Runaway Wives, Urban Crimes, and Survival Tactics in Wartime Beijing, 1937-1949

By: Ma Zhao

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Runaway Wives, Urban Crimes, and Survival Tactics in Wartime Beijing, 1937-1949

By: Ma Zhao

From 1937 to 1949, Beijing was in a state of crisis. The combined forces of Japanese occupation, civil war, runaway inflation, and reformist campaigns and revolutionary efforts wreaked havoc on the city’s economy, upset the political order, and threatened the social and moral fabric as well. Women, especially lower-class women living in Beijing’s tenement neighborhoods, were among those most affected by these upheavals. Delving into testimonies from criminal case files, Zhao Ma explores intimate accounts of lower-class women’s struggles with poverty, deprivation, and marital strife. By uncovering the set of everyday tactics that women devised and utilized in their personal efforts to cope with predatory policies and crushing poverty, this book reveals an urban underworld that was built on an informal economy and conducted primarily through neighborhood networks. Where necessary, women relied on customary practices, hierarchical patterns of household authority, illegitimate relationships, and criminal entrepreneurship to get by. Women’s survival tactics, embedded in and reproduced by their everyday experience, opened possibilities for them to modify the male-dominated city and, more importantly, allowed women to subtly deflect, subvert, and “escape without leaving” powerful forces such as the surveillance state, reformist discourse, and revolutionary politics during and beyond wartime Beijing.

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1684175593

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9781684175598

Planning Chinese Characters

Reaction, Evolution or Revolution?

By: Shouhui Zhao,Richard B. Jr. Baldauf

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Planning Chinese Characters

Reaction, Evolution or Revolution?

By: Shouhui Zhao,Richard B. Jr. Baldauf

This book presents the most comprehensive synthesis and analysis of major developments in reforming programs in modernizing the Chinese writing system. It traces the language policy and planning related developments for Chinese characters, with particular emphasis on post-1950 period in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and the more recent challenges that technology, and particularly the World Wide Web, have posed for the language.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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0387485767

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Metaheuristic Algorithms

Theory and Practice

By: Gai-Ge Wang,Xiaoqi Zhao,Keqin Li

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Metaheuristic Algorithms

Theory and Practice

By: Gai-Ge Wang,Xiaoqi Zhao,Keqin Li

This book introduces the theory and applications of metaheuristic algorithms. It also provides methods for solving practical problems in such fields as software engineering, image recognition, video networks, and in the oceans. In the theoretical section, the book introduces the information feedback model, learning-based intelligent optimization, dynamic multi-objective optimization, and multi-model optimization. In the applications section, the book presents applications of optimization algorithms to neural architecture search, fuzz testing, oceans, and image processing. The neural architecture search chapter introduces the latest NAS method. The fuzz testing chapter uses multi-objective optimization and ant colony optimization to solve the seed selection and energy allocation problems in fuzz testing. In the ocean chapter, deep learning methods such as CNN, transformer, and attention-based methods are used to describe ENSO prediction and image processing for marine fish identification, and to provide an overview of traditional classification methods and deep learning methods. Rich in examples, this book will be a great resource for students, scholars, and those interested in metaheuristic algorithms, as well as professional practitioners and researchers working on related topics.

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CRC Press

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1040000363

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Favored Crazy Consort: Ghost Emperor too Proud

Volume 2

By: Zhao SiXiaoNiu

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Favored Crazy Consort: Ghost Emperor too Proud

Volume 2

By: Zhao SiXiaoNiu

Zhuo Qingyan, a member of the current generation of special forces, nicknamed Solitary Falcon, had been blown away from her mission and landed on a cliff. When he opened his eyes again, he was like the concubine of the Shang Shu Manor of the Darkhan Empire — the Fourth Miss, a fool. An imperial edict bestowed the marriage to the current emperor's uncle, the Prince of the Ghost Face. With a shake of her body, she became the imperial aunt of the current dynasty. A useless king and a foolish concubine were born a pair. Becoming the king, the sage's assistant patted her chest and said, "If you open the borders, I'll help you expand the land; if you recruit troops, I'll help you train; if you don't have a horse, I'll help you steal one; if you don't have one ..." "My beloved concubine, This King has no children ..." "Let me help you ..." Then, wait a little longer ... His Royal Highness was in his prime, so it was not bad for him to be strong. There would definitely be someone to succeed him! However, what she did not know was that she carried a secret. The treasure map that was imprinted on her back was being fought over by various forces. She had also become a 'prey'! Prince, the wangfei has brought people to pick out the Grand Guardian of the Lin Country ... [Previous Chapter] [Table of Contents] [Next Chapter] "There are too many people who want to be the overseer, switch!" — — "My prince, the wangfei brought people to beat up the great general of the Northern Jin and hung him naked on a tree." — Well done! He wanted to see how the cold faced bronze masked prince doted on his wife. He could fight for her in this world, but loving her was his treasure.

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Funstory

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164677275X

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Chinese Environmental Law

By: Yuhong Zhao

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Chinese Environmental Law

By: Yuhong Zhao

Analysis of Chinese environmental law with a focus on the development in statutory regulation, institution building and judicial innovation.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107039444

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Power by Design

Constitution-Making in Nationalist China

By: Suisheng Zhao

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Power by Design

Constitution-Making in Nationalist China

By: Suisheng Zhao

First established as a cabinet system in Guangzhou in 1925, the Nationalist Government of China was replaced three years later by a presidential system under a unified Nationalist government in Nanjing. The cabinet government was restored in 1931 and existed until the presidential system was again installed by the 1936 constitution. Why did presidential and cabinet systems exist alternately during this formative period of the Nationalist government? Why was the presidential system finally adopted in 1936? Suisheng Zhao answers these and other questions fundamental to understanding authoritarian regimes in this pioneering study of the design of the Nationalist Government of China from 1925 to 1937. although scholars of comparative politics have shown great interest in the institutional choice between parliamentarianism and presidentialism in democratic countries, they have paid little attention to the study of constitutional frameworks in authoritarian settings. By offering a clear and original re-interpretation of the history of this power struggle between Chiang Kai-shek and his rivals over institutional design, Zhao challenges the conventional wisdom that has underestimated the importance of formal institutions in non-democratic regimes.Borrowing ideas from public choice theory, Zhao proposes that political actors who design governmental institutions are diven by power-maximization strategies just as business firms are driven by wealth-maximization strategies. Constitution-making reflects the underlying distribution of power among authoritarian leaders, who attempt to design political institutions that will consolidate their personal power and position. Thus, Zhao argues, if political actors possess more power resources than their rivals and anticipate themselves becoming dominant, they will choose the singular leadership of the presidential system. If they are in a weaker position and do not anticipate becoming dominant, they will prefer the collective leadership of the cabinet form of government.Notable for its persuasive integration of political science theory and the historical evidence, Power by Design is an insightful re-interpretation of Chinese history that will be welcomed by scholars of modern China and those interested in the consequences of the nationalist politics that continue to reverberate in contemporary Chine, as well as by comparative political scientists studying constitution-making and institutional design.

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University of Hawaii Press

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0824817214

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9780824817213

Prisoner of the State

By: Premier Zhao Ziyang

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Prisoner of the State

By: Premier Zhao Ziyang

Prisoner of the Stateis the story of the man who brought liberal change to China and who, at the height of the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989, tried to stop the massacre and was dethroned for his efforts. When China's army moved in, killing hundreds of students and other demonstrators, Zhao was placed under house arrest at his home in Beijing. The Premier spent the last 16 years of his life, up until his death in 2005, in seclusion. China scholars often lamented that Zhao never had his final say. As it turns out, Zhao did produce a memoir, in complete secrecy. He methodically recorded his thoughts and recollections on what had happened behind the scenes during many of modern China's most critical moments. The tapes he produced were smuggled out of the country and form the basis for Prisoner of the State. Although Zhao now speaks from beyond the grave, his voice has the moral power to make China sit up and listen.

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1847377149

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9781847377142

Beijing International Conference on High Temperature Superconductivity

Beijing, China, September 4-8, 1989

By: Z. X. Zhao,G. J. Cui,R. S. Han

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Beijing International Conference on High Temperature Superconductivity

Beijing, China, September 4-8, 1989

By: Z. X. Zhao,G. J. Cui,R. S. Han

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9810201222

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9789810201227

Graphene Oxide: Physics and Applications

By: Jijun Zhao,Lizhao Liu,Fen Li

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Graphene Oxide: Physics and Applications

By: Jijun Zhao,Lizhao Liu,Fen Li

This book gives a comprehensive overview of graphene oxides (GO) from atomic structures and fundamental properties to technological applications. Atomic structural models, electronic properties, mechanical properties, optical properties, and functionalizing and compositing of GO are illustrated. Moreover, the excellent physical and chemical properties offer GO promising applications in electronic nanodevices, chemical sensors and catalyst, energy storage, and biotechnology, which are also presented in this book. Therefore, this book is of interest to researchers in physics, chemistry, materials science, and nanoscience.

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3662448297

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China's Regional Economic Development: A Case Study Of Wenzhou

By: Jinchuan Shi,Xiangrong Jin,Wei Zhao,Xiangdong Luo

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China's Regional Economic Development: A Case Study Of Wenzhou

By: Jinchuan Shi,Xiangrong Jin,Wei Zhao,Xiangdong Luo

Since the reform and opening-up in the late 1970s, Wenzhou City of China's Zhejiang Province has witnessed large-scale institutional change and rapid economic development. This book studies the institutional change and economic development in Wenzhou since China's reform and opening-up. It concludes that the most important characteristic of Wenzhou model is that the city is the first to promote industrialization and urbanization by privatization and marketization in Zhejiang. As privatization and marketization reflect reform, and industrialization and urbanization represent development, Wenzhou model promotes development through economic reform. In the early years of the reform and opening-up, the people of Wenzhou boldly faced the constraints of traditional planned economy, bravely explored the market-oriented reform and opened up a new path to regional economic development. This book also contains the stories of the people of Wenzhou.

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9811212023

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The Confucian-legalist State

A New Theory of Chinese History

By: Dingxin Zhao

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The Confucian-legalist State

A New Theory of Chinese History

By: Dingxin Zhao

The Confucian-Legalist State proposes a new theory of social change and, in doing so, analyzes the patterns of Chinese history, such as the rise and persistence of a unified empire, the continuous domination of Confucianism, and China's inability to develop industrial capitalism without Western imperialism.

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0199351732

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The Chinese Fashion Industry

An Ethnographic Approach

By: Jianhua Zhao

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The Chinese Fashion Industry

An Ethnographic Approach

By: Jianhua Zhao

Less than three decades ago, when the Chinese bought cloth or clothes, they would have had to use a government-issued coupon. Today the Chinese fashion industry is one of the most dynamic in the world - it not only supplies fashions to the increasingly discerning domestic market, but also provides one-third of the clothing sold in the global market. How did this phenomenal transition come about? What can the growth of the Chinese fashion industry tell us about the post-Mao China? What roles do the local and the global play in the dramatic changes? This book offers a historically informed, ethnographically grounded and interpretive analysis of contemporary Chinese fashion and the fashion industry. It examines the interplay of state politics, market forces, local social and cultural factors, and the global political economy, both in the rise of the Chinese fashion industry and in the life and work of Chinese fashion professionals. As the first ethnographic account of the Chinese fashion industry in the post-Mao era, The Chinese Fashion Industry combines first-hand accounts with sophisticated cultural analysis to offer new insights, and will be of interest to students and scholars of fashion, anthropology and China.

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A&C Black

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1847889387

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Competition and Compassion in Chinese Secondary Education

By: Xu Zhao

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Competition and Compassion in Chinese Secondary Education

By: Xu Zhao

Competition and Compassion in Chinese Secondary Education examines the nature of academic competition in Chinese schools and documents its debilitating effects on Chinese adolescents' social, moral, and civic development.

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1137479418

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The Chemistry of the Morita-Baylis-Hillman Reaction

By: Min Shi,Feijun Wang,Mei-Xin Zhao,Yin Wei

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The Chemistry of the Morita-Baylis-Hillman Reaction

By: Min Shi,Feijun Wang,Mei-Xin Zhao,Yin Wei

Carbon-carbon bond formations and functional group transformations are the most fundamental reactions for the construction of molecular frameworks and are at the forefront of organic chemistry research. The Morita-Baylis-Hillman (MBH) type reactions possess the two most important requirements - atom economy and generation of multi-functional groups. The last decade has seen exponential growth of the MBH reaction and its applications. In fact, it is already one of the most powerful carbon-carbon bond-forming methods widely used in organic synthesis. Since the 1990s, more and more research groups have initiated work on different aspects of the MBH reaction. These have focused on the scope of the substrates, novel catalysts (especially chiral catalysts), reaction mechanisms, and synthetic applications. Consequently, there is now a need for a reference detailing the chemistry of this important reaction. This unique book summarizes the MBH reaction, aza-MBH reaction and asymmetric MBH/aza-MBH reaction including the latest research and mechanistic investigations. It provides a complete overview of MBH-type reactions aimed at synthetic organic chemists of all levels within academia and industry. The chapters cover the; origin and growth of the Morita-Baylis-Hillman reaction; reactant classes and reaction conditions; catalytic mechanisms; achiral and chiral catalytic systems; transformations of functional groups; use of Morita-Baylis-Hillman adducts and derivatives as starting materials to construct compounds with carbocyclic or heterocyclic frameworks, and the applications of the MBH reaction in synthesizing natural products.

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1849732655

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Chinese Foreign Policy

Pragmatism and Strategic Behavior

By: Suisheng Zhao

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Chinese Foreign Policy

Pragmatism and Strategic Behavior

By: Suisheng Zhao

This volume explores how China is adapting to international norms and practices while still giving primacy to its national interests. It examines China's strategic behaviour on the world stage, particularly in its relationships with major powers and Asian neighbours.

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1317474821

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Math Physics Foundation of Advanced Remote Sensing Digital Image Processing

By: Lei Yan,Hongying Zhao,Yi Lin,Yanbiao Sun

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Math Physics Foundation of Advanced Remote Sensing Digital Image Processing

By: Lei Yan,Hongying Zhao,Yi Lin,Yanbiao Sun

This book focuses on the mathematical and physical foundations of remote sensing digital image processing and introduces key algorithms utilized in this area. The book fully introduces the basic mathematical and physical process of digital imaging, the basic theory and algorithm of pixel image processing, and the higher-order image processing algorithm and its application. This book skillfully and closely integrates theory, algorithms, and applications, making it simple for readers to understand and use. Researchers and students working in the fields of remote sensing, computer vision, geographic information science, electronic information, etc., can profit from this book. For their work and research in digital image processing, they can master the fundamentals of imaging and image processing techniques.

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Springer Nature

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9819917786

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Sustaining Forest Ecosystems

By: Klaus von Gadow,Juan Gabriel Álvarez González,Chunyu Zhang,Timo Pukkala,Xiuhai Zhao

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Sustaining Forest Ecosystems

By: Klaus von Gadow,Juan Gabriel Álvarez González,Chunyu Zhang,Timo Pukkala,Xiuhai Zhao

Forest ecosystems include a great variety of communities of organisms interacting with their physical environment: multi-aged natural forests, even-aged monocultures, and secondary forests invaded by foreign species. The challenge is to sustain their ability to function, by adapting to changing climates and satisfying a multitude of human demands. Our first chapter sets the scene with a discussion about the effects of forest management on ecosystem services. Details about forest observational infrastructures are introduced in the second chapter. The third chapter presents methods of analysing forest density and structure. Models for estimating the shape and growth of individual forest trees are introduced in chapter 4, models of forest community production in Chapter 5. Methods and examples of sustainable forest design are covered in chapter 6. New scientific contributions continue to emerge as we are writing, and this work is never finished. We hope to continue with regular updates replacing obsolete sections with new ones, but the general aim remains the same, to introduce a range of methods that will assist those interested in sustaining forest ecosystems.

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3030587142

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Interpreting Chinese Foreign Policy

The Micro-macro Linkage Approach

By: Quansheng Zhao

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Interpreting Chinese Foreign Policy

The Micro-macro Linkage Approach

By: Quansheng Zhao

This work applies the micro-macro linkage approach to Chinese foreign policy. It analyzes the effect of the international environment and domestic constraints, exploring the key trends of modernization, nationalism, and regionalism, reviewing literature an.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195874307

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The Qing Opening to the Ocean

Chinese Maritime Policies, 1684-1757

By: Gang Zhao

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The Qing Opening to the Ocean

Chinese Maritime Policies, 1684-1757

By: Gang Zhao

Did China drive or resist the early wave of globalization? Some scholars insist that China contributed nothing to the rise of the global economy that began around 1500. Others have placed China at the center of global integration. Neither side, though, has paid attention to the complex story of China’s maritime policies. Drawing on sources from China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, and the West, this important new work systematically explores the evolution of imperial Qing maritime policy from 1684 to 1757 and sets its findings in the context of early globalization. Gang Zhao argues that rather than constrain private maritime trade, globalization drove it forward, linking the Song and Yuan dynasties to a dynamic world system. As bold Chinese merchants began to dominate East Asian trade, officials and emperors came to see private trade as the solution to the daunting economic and social challenges of the day. The ascent of maritime business convinced the Kangzi emperor to open the coast to international trade, putting an end to the tribute trade system. Zhao’s study details China’s unique contribution to early globalization, the pattern of which differs significantly from the European experience. It offers impressive insights into the rise of the Asian trade network, the emergence of Shanghai as Asia’s commercial hub, and the spread of a regional Chinese diaspora. To understand the place of China in the early modern world, how modernity came to China, and early globalization and the rise of the Asian trade network, The Qing Opening to the Ocean is essential reading.

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0824837924

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Metamaterial Design and Additive Manufacturing

By: Bo Song,Aiguo Zhao,Lei Zhang,Pengfei Wang,Xiaobo Wang,Yusheng Shi

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Metamaterial Design and Additive Manufacturing

By: Bo Song,Aiguo Zhao,Lei Zhang,Pengfei Wang,Xiaobo Wang,Yusheng Shi

Metamaterial Design and Additive Manufacturing covers optimization design, manufacturing, microstructure, mechanical properties, acoustic properties, mass-transport properties and application examples of PMs fabricated by selective laser melting additive manufacturing technology. The book introduces the definition and concept of pentamode metamaterials and then describes their characterization, including manufacturing fidelity, mechanical response, acoustic properties and so on. Final sections analyze research situations, problems and applications of additive manufacturing pentamode metamaterials. - Covers design and optimization methods of pentamode metamaterials - Describes manufacturing fidelity, microstructure and physical properties of pentamode metamaterials fabricated by AM - Includes recent applications for pentamode metamaterials, along with research situations and potential problems

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Elsevier

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0443189013

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Ordinal Optimization

Soft Optimization for Hard Problems

By: Yu-Chi Ho,Qian-Chuan Zhao,Qing-Shan Jia

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Ordinal Optimization

Soft Optimization for Hard Problems

By: Yu-Chi Ho,Qian-Chuan Zhao,Qing-Shan Jia

Performance evaluation of increasingly complex human-made systems requires the use of simulation models. However, these systems are difficult to describe and capture by succinct mathematical models. The purpose of this book is to address the difficulties of the optimization of complex systems via simulation models or other computation-intensive models involving possible stochastic effects and discrete choices. This book establishes distinct advantages of the "softer" ordinal approach for search-based type problems, analyzes its general properties, and shows the many orders of magnitude improvement in computational efficiency that is possible.

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0387686924

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The Power of Tiananmen

State-Society Relations and the 1989 Beijing Student Movement

By: Dingxin Zhao

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The Power of Tiananmen

State-Society Relations and the 1989 Beijing Student Movement

By: Dingxin Zhao

In the spring of 1989 over 100,000 students in Beijing initiated the largest student revolt in human history. Television screens across the world filled with searing images from Tiananmen Square of protesters thronging the streets, massive hunger strikes, tanks set ablaze, and survivors tending to the dead and wounded after a swift and brutal government crackdown. Dingxin Zhao's award-winning The Power of Tiananmen is the definitive treatment of these historic events. Along with grassroots tales and interviews with the young men and women who launched the demonstrations, Zhao carries out a penetrating analysis of the many parallel changes in China's state-society relations during the 1980s. Such changes prepared an alienated academy, gave rise to ecology-based student mobilization, restricted government policy choices, and shaped student emotions and public opinion, all of which, Zhao argues, account for the tragic events in Tiananmen.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226982629

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Marry Her if You Love Her

Volume 1

By: Feng Zhao

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Marry Her if You Love Her

Volume 1

By: Feng Zhao

after experiencing life and death the sullen sixth prince li chenbai finally understood that those noble feelings about being silently blessed were all bastards if you like delicacies you have to eat them if you like them you have to marry them ba shu jia prefecture the three rivers gathered under the feet of the buddha the beautiful scenery of the delicacies and beauties what kind of wonderful collision would there be family is short also not a field of chicken feathers more is warm and happy

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1648845568

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A History of Journalism and Communication in China

By: Yunze Zhao,Ping Sun

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A History of Journalism and Communication in China

By: Yunze Zhao,Ping Sun

From a modern perspective, journalism is highly relevant to modern society, along with the emergence of mass printing system and professionalisation. This book, however, expands the meaning of journalism and views it as a social process. It will not only explore the roots and development of Chinese journalism and communication, but also demonstrate how Chinese journalism and communication interact and struggle with social culture and politics. Arranged in chronological order mainly, this book examines the initial development of Chinese journalism in ancient times in chapter 1, which from then manifested strong political attributes. After the Opium War in 1840, missionaries and businessmen from the West started to set up newspapers and periodicals in China, which brought about the birth of China’s modern journalism industry. Then China’s private newspapers and political party’s press are studied, which are closely linked with political revolutions and have a far-reaching impact on modern Chinese society. What happened to Chinese journalism and communication after the founding of People’s Republic of China in 1949? This book reviews the newspaper reforms, and studies the great negative impacts brought by "Cultural Revolution". Noteworthy news phenomena after the reform and opening-up are also covered. This book will appeal to scholars and students in journalism, communication and Chinese studies. Readers interested in Chinese society and modern Chinese history will also be attracted by it.

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1317519302

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Prince, Kneel Down!

Volume 1

By: Zhao MingTaiZi

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Prince, Kneel Down!

Volume 1

By: Zhao MingTaiZi

Gu Qishao was dressed as an unpopular Princess Wu Cheng. Opening his eyes to take a look, what? Something happened? Her husband was still on his way back to strangle her? F * ck, can he just sit there and wait for death? He had to run! However, Gu Qishao had underestimated the determination of Prince Wu Cheng, Xiao Lie, to take care of her ... Run? Capture them back! Run again? Capture it back! You still dare to run? I will accompany you. The rivers and lakes are dangerous, all kinds of men are impossible to guard against! Meowed... The cruel and violent, the cold and dark... What do you mean by acting stupid?

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1649910258

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A Nation-State by Construction

Dynamics of Modern Chinese Nationalism

By: Suisheng Zhao

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A Nation-State by Construction

Dynamics of Modern Chinese Nationalism

By: Suisheng Zhao

This is the first historically comprehensive, up-to-date analysis of the causes, content, and consequences of nationalism in China, an ancient empire that has struggled to construct a nation-state and find its place in the modern world. It shows how Chinese political elites have competed to promote different types of nationalism linked to their political values and interests and imposed them on the nation while trying to repress other types of nationalism. In particular, the book reveals how leaders of the PRC have adopted a pragmatic strategy to use nationalism while struggling to prevent it from turning into a menace rather than a prop.

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Decision-making in Deng's China

Perspectives from Insiders

By: Carol Lee Hamrin,Suisheng Zhao,A. Doak Barnett

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Decision-making in Deng's China

Perspectives from Insiders

By: Carol Lee Hamrin,Suisheng Zhao,A. Doak Barnett

Considers the politics of central decision-making by focusing on senior policy makers and implementing bureaucracies on the one hand, and actors in economic and non-economic arenas on the other. The contributors held significant party and government positions in China up to 1989.

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1315286599

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Emerging Techniques in Power System Analysis

By: Zhaoyang Dong,Pei Zhang,Jian Ma,Junhua Zhao,Mohsin Ali,Ke Meng,Xia Yin

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Emerging Techniques in Power System Analysis

By: Zhaoyang Dong,Pei Zhang,Jian Ma,Junhua Zhao,Mohsin Ali,Ke Meng,Xia Yin

Emerging Techniques in Power System Analysis" identifies the new challenges facing the power industry following the deregulation. The book presents emerging techniques including data mining, grid computing, probabilistic methods, phasor measurement unit (PMU) and how to apply those techniques to solving the technical challenges. The book is intended for engineers and managers in the power industry, as well as power engineering researchers and graduate students. Zhaoyang Dong is an associate professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China. Pei Zhang is program manager at the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), USA.

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3642042821

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Optimal Coverage in Wireless Sensor Networks

By: Weili Wu,Zhao Zhang,Wonjun Lee,Ding-Zhu Du

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Optimal Coverage in Wireless Sensor Networks

By: Weili Wu,Zhao Zhang,Wonjun Lee,Ding-Zhu Du

This book will serve as a reference, presenting state-of-the-art research on theoretical aspects of optimal sensor coverage problems. Readers will find it a useful tool for furthering developments on theory and applications of optimal coverage; much of the content can serve as material for advanced topics courses at the graduate level. The book is well versed with the hottest research topics such as Lifetime of Coverage, Weighted Sensor Cover, k-Coverage, Heterogeneous Sensors, Barrier, Sweep and Partial Coverage, Mobile Sensors, Camera Sensors and Energy-Harvesting Sensors, and more. Topics are introduced in a natural order from simple covers to connected covers, to the lifetime problem. Later, the book begins revisiting earlier problems ranging from the introduction of weights to coverage by k sensors and partial coverage, and from sensor heterogeneity to novel problems such as the barrier coverage problem. The book ends with coverage of mobile sensors, camera sensors, energy-harvesting sensors, underwater sensors, and crowdsensing.

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3030528243

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Ultrasonic Motors

Technologies and Applications

By: Chunsheng Zhao

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Ultrasonic Motors

Technologies and Applications

By: Chunsheng Zhao

A comprehensive tutorial on ultrasonic motors for practicing engineers, researchers and graduate students. "Ultrasonic Motors: Technologies and Applications" describes the operating mechanism, electromechanical coupling models, optimization design of structural parameters, testing methods, and drive/control techniques of various ultrasonic motors and their applications. Dr. Chunsheng Zhao is a professor at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA) where he is Director of the Precision Driving Laboratory at NUAA. He is a member of the Chinese Academy of Science, and holds 54 patents in China and published more than 400 papers in the field of piezoelectric ultrasonic motors.

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3642153054

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Flexible Batteries

By: Ye Zhang,Lie Wang,Yang Zhao,Huisheng Peng

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Flexible Batteries

By: Ye Zhang,Lie Wang,Yang Zhao,Huisheng Peng

Flexible Batteries highlights the key advances in flexible batteries, a booming new direction in the energy storage field. The authors first introduce lithium-ion batteries, which are currently the most widely used batteries. Flexible aqueous batteries such as aqueous lithium-ion, sodium-ion, and zinc-ion batteries are discussed subsequently due to the safety concerns in organic electrolytes. Since flexible metal-air batteries are recognized as primary choices for the next generation, the authors take lithium-air and aluminum-air batteries as examples to explore their applications in flexible battery construction. They further summarize flexible batteries under the most challenging working conditions such as stretching and integrating flexible batteries with flexible energy harvesting devices, sensors, and supercapacitors. Covering both fundamental and application development, this book may effectively bridge academics and industry. It will be helpful not only to scholars and students studying materials science and engineering, chemical engineering, physics, energy science, and biomedical science but also to scientists and engineers in the industry.

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1000554848

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Autonomous Underwater Vehicles

Localization, Tracking, and Formation

By: Jing Yan,Xian Yang,Haiyan Zhao,Xiaoyuan Luo,Xinping Guan

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Autonomous Underwater Vehicles

Localization, Tracking, and Formation

By: Jing Yan,Xian Yang,Haiyan Zhao,Xiaoyuan Luo,Xinping Guan

Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) are emerging as a promising solution to help us explore and understand the ocean. The global market for AUVs is predicted to grow from 638 million dollars in 2020 to 1,638 million dollars by 2025 – a compound annual growth rate of 20.8 percent. To make AUVs suitable for a wider range of application-specific missions, it is necessary to deploy multiple AUVs to cooperatively perform the localization, tracking and formation tasks. However, weak underwater acoustic communication and the model uncertainty of AUVs make achieving this challenging. This book presents cutting-edge results regarding localization, tracking and formation for AUVs, highlighting the latest research on commonly encountered AUV systems. It also showcases several joint localization and tracking solutions for AUVs. Lastly, it discusses future research directions and provides guidance on the design of future localization, tracking and formation schemes for AUVs. Representing a substantial contribution to nonlinear system theory, robotic control theory, and underwater acoustic communication system, this book will appeal to university researchers, scientists, engineers, and graduate students in control theory and control engineering who wish to learn about the core principles, methods, algorithms, and applications of AUVs. Moreover, the practical localization, tracking and formation schemes presented provide guidance on exploring the ocean. The book is intended for those with an understanding of nonlinear system theory, robotic control theory, and underwater acoustic communication systems.

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9811660964

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Which-Is-Better (WIB): Problems in Reliability Theory

By: Satoshi Mizutani,Xufeng Zhao,Toshio Nakagawa

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Which-Is-Better (WIB): Problems in Reliability Theory

By: Satoshi Mizutani,Xufeng Zhao,Toshio Nakagawa

This is the first book on the Which-Is-Better (WIB) Problem. These are questions that in daily life include such as Which is larger, younger and stronger?". The main objective of this book is summarizing WIB Problems in maintenance and reliability theory. Optimal policies of replacement first, last and overtime are derived and compared theoretically and numerically, and WIB policies are determined. Furthermore, the reliability properties of parallel and standby systems are compared, and WIB system is determined. These WIB Problems are applied to shock and damage models and backup and checkpoint models of computer systems.

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3031273168

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Chintrepreneurship or Shanzhai Model

Why and How Did You Lose in China – The Land of Shanzhai

By: Jiangning Zhao

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Chintrepreneurship or Shanzhai Model

Why and How Did You Lose in China – The Land of Shanzhai

By: Jiangning Zhao

Theoretically, the formational and developmental mechanism of Shanzhai Model (the Chintrepreneurship, the China-way of Doing Business) theorized in this text, in addition to complying with the traditionally Western dominated frameworks of risk-taking-oriented, technology-oriented, resource-oriented, and speculation-oriented – also creates the peculiar or updated characteristics, complementary and supplementary to the existing theories of entrepreneurship and strategic management. The peculiar characteristics of Shanzhai Model may be attributed to the government policy guidance, from macroeconomic level, to technology development level, and to market expansion level, through the regulated cycle process of CCP government ‘Five-Year-Plan’. Such a dynamic process of government policy system determines the dynamisms of China economy, industry and enterprises, linking the previous weaknesses into the upgrade or rectification of the next five-year-plan, forcing enterprises to obligately upgrade or adjust their business and management operations (given the absolute autocracy of China government). Practically, the imitation-based cost-saving operations on the enterprise level, the ‘Wolf Like’ clustered industry-chain operations organized by the principle of ‘Risks-Resources-Benefits Sharing’ on the industry level, and the ‘Price-to-Performance’ products advantages on the market level – together, they have been contributing to the leapfrog of China economy, by taking advantages of increasingly globalized business environment and the network (Internet) information technology system, turning China into an economic Shanzhai, corruption Shanzhai, and a political Shanzhai, imposing the ‘One Belt One Road’ hegemonism on the harmony of international community. Is it too late? The contribution of this text material may benefit MBA, Ph.D students in management, and especially benefiting to those corporate executives. Regardless of De-Globalization or De-China campaigns, the flow of business is inevitably and eternally beyond the boundaries of countries one way or another, sooner or later. Note that, a document of year-to-year government policies is prepared, interested, contact Dr. Johnny by email: jiangning.zhao@yahoo.com; or by phone: 001-604-773-0783, or 001-778-655-1016.

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1039175031

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Inorganic Geochemistry of Coal

By: Shifeng Dai,Robert B. Finkelman,James C. Hower,David French,Ian T. Graham,Lei Zhao

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Inorganic Geochemistry of Coal

By: Shifeng Dai,Robert B. Finkelman,James C. Hower,David French,Ian T. Graham,Lei Zhao

Inorganic Geochemistry of Coal explains how to determine the concentrations and modes of occurrence of elements in coal, how to diminish adverse effects of toxic elements on the environment and human health, which elements in coal could be industrially utilized, and which elements can be successfully used as indications for deciphering depositional environments and tectonic evolution. As coal use will remain at an all-time high for the next several decades, there is a critical need for understanding the properties of this fuel to ensure efficient use, encourage its economic by-product potential, and to help minimize its negative technological, environmental and health impacts. - Features dozens of never-before published illustrations of critical features of the inorganic geochemistry of coal - Covers both the theory and applications of the topic, including case studies to serve as real-world examples - Includes a chapter on the health and environmental impacts of the mining, development and use of coal

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0323956351

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