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Collective Democracy

Political and Legal Reform in China

By: Zhiyu Shi

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Collective Democracy

Political and Legal Reform in China

By: Zhiyu Shi

Chinese democracy is collective democracy, argues Chi-yu Shih in Collective Democracy. Democratization in China does not purport to enhance individual human rights; rather, it aims to preserve and promote a sense of community. Democratization is both an assurance that no one will be left alone in the process of development and reform, and an attempt to avoid the building of self-centered boundaries by social members. Consequently, elections for people's deputies, officials, and village directors serve to consolidate the appearance of social consensus. In the nascent Chinese democracy, contends the author, the stress on human relations and the institutionalization of collective interests provide a potentially effective check on the historically familiar abuse of power.

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Chinese University Press

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9622018270

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Civilization, Nation and Modernity in East Asia

By: Chih-Yu Shih,Zhiyu Shi

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Civilization, Nation and Modernity in East Asia

By: Chih-Yu Shih,Zhiyu Shi

This book explores the crisis of cultural identity which has assaulted Asian countries since Western countries began to have a profound impact on Asia in the nineteenth century. Confronted by Western 'civilization' and by 'modernity', Asian countries have been compelled to rethink their identity, and to consider how they should relate to Western 'civilization' and 'modernity'. The result, the author argues, has been a redefining by Asian countries of their own character as nations, and an adaptation of 'civilization' and 'modernity' to their own special conditions. Asian nations, the author contends, have thereby engaged with the West and with modernity, but on their own terms, occasionally, and in various inconsistent ways in which they could assert a sense of difference, forcing changes in the Western concept of civilization. Drawing on postmodern theory, the Kyoto School, Confucian and other traditional Asian thought, and the actual experiences of Asian countries, especially China and Japan, the author demonstrates that Asian countries' redefining of the concept of civilization in the course of their quest for an appropriate postmodern national identity is every bit as key a part of 'the rise of Asia' as economic growth or greater international political activity.

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Routledge

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0415524261

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9780415524261

China's Just World

The Morality of Chinese Foreign Policy

By: Zhiyu Shi

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China's Just World

The Morality of Chinese Foreign Policy

By: Zhiyu Shi

Looking at China's foreign policy, this book focuses on the Confucian-based need of Chinese leaders to present themselves as the supreme moral rectifiers of the world order.

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Lynne Rienner Publishers

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1555873502

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State and Society in China's Political Economy

The Cultural Dynamics of Socialist Reform

By: Zhiyu Shi

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State and Society in China's Political Economy

The Cultural Dynamics of Socialist Reform

By: Zhiyu Shi

As China's reforms take root, citizens are allowed, even encouraged, to be socialist and profit-driven at the same time. This book examines this precarious dyad, demonstrating what reform has done to China's political and economic mechanisms and how this dyad dominates the thinking of reformers.

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Lynne Rienner Publishers

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1555875807

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Simulation and Optimization of Internal Combustion Engines

By: Zhiyu Han

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Simulation and Optimization of Internal Combustion Engines

By: Zhiyu Han

Simulation and Optimization of Internal Combustion Engines provides the fundamentals and up-to-date progress in multidimensional simulation and optimization of internal combustion engines. While it is impossible to include all the models in a single book, this book intends to introduce the pioneer and/or the often-used models and the physics behind them providing readers with ready-to-use knowledge. Key issues, useful modeling methodology and techniques, as well as instructive results, are discussed through examples. Readers will understand the fundamentals of these examples and be inspired to explore new ideas and means for better solutions in their studies and work. Topics include combustion basis of IC engines, mathematical descriptions of reactive flow with sprays, engine in-cylinder turbulence, fuel sprays, combustions and pollutant emissions, optimization of direct-injection gasoline engines, and optimization of diesel and alternative fuel engines.

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SAE International

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1468604007

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9781468604009

Nanostructured Thermoelectric Films

By: Zhiyu Hu,Zhenhua Wu

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Nanostructured Thermoelectric Films

By: Zhiyu Hu,Zhenhua Wu

This book presents a range of low-dimensional superlattice thermoelectric materials based on physical vapor deposition (PVD) methods and explores various material types, thicknesses, and processing conditions. With the advances made in the performance of semiconductor thermoelectric materials and the efficiency of thermoelectric devices in recent years, thermoelectric power generation systems are likely to replace traditional mechanical heat engines, offering an environmentally friendlier alternative. The use of low-dimensional, nanostructured materials can significantly increase the density of states near the Fermi level and greatly improve the thermoelectric properties of materials. In addition, the book demonstrates that it is possible to influence thermoelectric performance, establish more accurate mathematical models through the regulation of relevant parameters, and ultimately improve the thermoelectric figure of merit (ZT).

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Springer Nature

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981156518X

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9789811565182

Decentralized Coverage Control Problems For Mobile Robotic Sensor and Actuator Networks

By: Andrey V. Savkin,Teddy M. Cheng,Zhiyu Xi,Faizan Javed,Alexey S. Matveev,Hung Nguyen

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Decentralized Coverage Control Problems For Mobile Robotic Sensor and Actuator Networks

By: Andrey V. Savkin,Teddy M. Cheng,Zhiyu Xi,Faizan Javed,Alexey S. Matveev,Hung Nguyen

This book introduces various coverage control problems for mobile sensor networks including barrier, sweep and blanket. Unlike many existing algorithms, all of the robotic sensor and actuator motion algorithms developed in the book are fully decentralized or distributed, computationally efficient, easily implementable in engineering practice and based only on information on the closest neighbours of each mobile sensor and actuator and local information about the environment. Moreover, the mobile robotic sensors have no prior information about the environment in which they operation. These various types of coverage problems have never been covered before by a single book in a systematic way. Another topic of this book is the study of mobile robotic sensor and actuator networks. Many modern engineering applications include the use of sensor and actuator networks to provide efficient and effective monitoring and control of industrial and environmental processes. Such mobile sensor and actuator networks are able to achieve improved performance and efficient monitoring together with reduction in power consumption and production cost.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119058163

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9781119058168

Infrared Radiative Cooling and Its Applications

By: Zhiyu Hu,Erzhen Mu

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Infrared Radiative Cooling and Its Applications

By: Zhiyu Hu,Erzhen Mu

This book systematically introduces the physical basis and theory of infrared radiation and the application of radiative cooling. It covers the geographical release of infrared radiation, infrared radiation material system, and preparation technology, infrared radiative cooling measurement and applications, the micro–nano-processing technology, the latest technology of radiative cooling and passive power generation, and the design of future application scenarios. The main content includes the current world energy application status and the development, research, and application status of radiative cooling technology, as well as the principle of radiative cooling technology, the research and application of different radiative cooling materials, the processing technology of radiative cooling devices, the development of radiative cooling technology, and other energy technologies. This book is used as reference for researchers and engineers who work in the fields of radiative cooling.

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Springer Nature

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9811966095

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9789811966095

Harmonious Intervention

China's Quest for Relational Security

By: Professor Chih-yu Shih,Dr Chiung-Chiu Huang

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Harmonious Intervention

China's Quest for Relational Security

By: Professor Chih-yu Shih,Dr Chiung-Chiu Huang

Two major features of international relations at the beginning of the 21st century are global governance and an ascendant China. Whether or not China will ultimately sinicize global governance or become assimilated into global norms remains both a theoretical and a practical challenge. This book offers an understanding of China’s intervention policy, an understanding which is vital to overcome anxiety precipitated by the theoretical and practical challenges.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409464873

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Eros of International Relations

Self-Feminizing and the Claiming of Postcolonial Chineseness

By: Chih-yu Shih

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Eros of International Relations

Self-Feminizing and the Claiming of Postcolonial Chineseness

By: Chih-yu Shih

Eros of International Relations: Self-Feminizing and the Claiming of Postcolonial Chineseness is a distinctive work that explores the much-neglected Chinese perspective in broader international relations theory. Using the concept of “self-feminizing”—adoption of a feminine identity to oblige and achieve mutual caring as a relational strategy—this book argues that postcolonial actors have employed gendered identities in order to survive the squeezing pressure of globalization and nationalism in their own ways. Sovereign actors who have historically claimed to act on behalf of Chineseness have taken advantage of the images of femininity thrust upon them by transnational capitalism, the media, or intellectual thought. Shih illustrates the feminist potential for emancipation through a range of empirical examples, showing that women of various Chinese characteristics, acting on behalf of their nation, city, and corporations, reject the masculinization of their groups of belonging as remedy for inferiority or threat. Carried out effectively, Shih argues, actors who self-feminize have the potential to deconstruct the binaries of masculine competition and seek alternative strategies under the postcolonial global order. Eros of International Relations is a welcome contribution that ties together revisionist yet friendly reflections on the current studies of postcolonialism, international relations, relational theory, China studies, cultural studies, and feminism. “Chih-yu Shih is one of the pioneers doing gender and international relations in China. His critical renovation of postcolonial feminism demonstrates that self-romanticization, non-solution, and inconsistency are plausible strategies that help us transcend the boundaries internalized by hegemonic discourse.” —Yingtao Li, Beijing Foreign Studies University, China “Eros of International Relations develops the potent idea of self-feminizing as a relational, caring, and emancipatory strategy employed by postcolonial actors in a globalized world. This book is a fascinating reflection on feminist, postcolonial, and non-Western international relations scholarship.” —Arlene B. Tickner, Universidad del Rosario, Colombia “Drawing on postcolonial feminism, Shih explores the power of self-feminizing as a strategy in world politics, which he illustrates with case studies from Chinese history. A must-read for students of international relations and China alike.” —Pinar Bilgin, Bilkent University, Turkey

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Hong Kong University Press

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9888754041

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Collective Democracy

Political and Legal Reform in China

By: Zhiyu Shi

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Political and Legal Reform in China

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China's Just World

The Morality of Chinese Foreign Policy

By: Zhiyu Shi

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The Morality of Chinese Foreign Policy

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Looking at China's foreign policy, this book focuses on the Confucian-based need of Chinese leaders to present themselves as the supreme moral rectifiers of the world order.

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Navigating Sovereignty

World Politics Lost in China

By: Chih-yu Shih

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Navigating Sovereignty

World Politics Lost in China

By: Chih-yu Shih

In this book, the author undertakes a postcolonial analysis of identities the Chinese state uses to confront world politics and globalization. Because these identities are created at the confluence of Western modernity and Confucian tradition, two elements that are continually reinterpreted themselves, the result is an ambiguity regarding the identities best suited to explain Chinese behavior. The author argues that this uncertainty is not a new condition but one that reaches back to end of the nineteenth century. It is by understanding this ambiguity surrounding identities that will in turn help present -day authorities predict the future course of Chinese behavior in world politics.

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Palgrave Macmillan

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1403963754

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State and Society in China's Political Economy

The Cultural Dynamics of Socialist Reform

By: Zhiyu Shi

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State and Society in China's Political Economy

The Cultural Dynamics of Socialist Reform

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Navigating Sovereignty

World Politics Lost in China

By: C. Shih

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World Politics Lost in China

By: C. Shih

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Springer

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1403978441

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Autonomy, Ethnicity, and Poverty in Southwestern China

The State Turned Upside Down

By: C. Shih

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Autonomy, Ethnicity, and Poverty in Southwestern China

The State Turned Upside Down

By: C. Shih

The Chinese state reaches out to ethnic communities in three different channels of autonomy, ethnicity, and poverty. However, each of these channels designates a submissive position to ethnic citizenship. Amidst theoretical uncertainty on how the state has affected local communities, ethnic minorities can develop subjectivity. Through this, they can sincerely participate in the state's policy agenda, conveniently incorporate the state into the ethnic identity, give feedback to the state within the framework of official discourse, or hide behind the state to evade ethnic identification. Rather than finding a life outside the state, the ethnic communities can, in one way or another, position themselves inside the state.

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1403984468

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Post-Chineseness: Cultural Politics and International Relations

By: Chih-Yu Shih

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Post-Chineseness: Cultural Politics and International Relations

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Analyzes international and cultural relationships informed by China, a category that is becoming ever more indispensable and yet unstable in everyday narratives.

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Suny Series, James N. Rosenau

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1438487711

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Negotiating Ethnicity in China

Citizenship as a Response to the State

By: Zhiyu Shi

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Negotiating Ethnicity in China

Citizenship as a Response to the State

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This challenging study brings together anthropology and political science to examine how ethnic minorities are constructed by the state, and how they respond to such constructions. Disclosing endless mini negotiations between those acting in the name of the Chinese state and those carrying the images of ethnic minority, this book provides an image of the framing of ethnicity by modern state building processes. It will be of vital interest to scholars of political science, anthropology and sociology, and is essential reading to those engaged in studying Chinese society.

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Psychology Press

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0415283728

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9780415283724

On China by India

From Civilization to Nation-state

By: Zhiyu Shi,Dr. Swaran Singh,Reena Marwah

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On China by India

From Civilization to Nation-state

By: Zhiyu Shi,Dr. Swaran Singh,Reena Marwah

This highly original book shifts our attention away from the preoccupations of the U.S. to India and from conventional social science and area studies perspectives to civilizational sensibilities. In a series of searching essays by well-informed Indian scholars, China's rise appears in a fresh light. Rather than seeking to bend China's experience only to the impatient expectations of secular liberalism, this important book reminds us of the imagined affinities that a civilizational understanding of self and other creates in India for China and the empathetic patience it engenders. Our understanding of China is greatly enriched by new insights that this broader vision yields." - Peter J. Katzenstein, Walter S. Carpenter, Jr. Professor of International Studies, Cornell University

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1604978066

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Borderland Politics in Northern India

By: Yu-Wen Chen,Zhiyu Shi

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Borderland Politics in Northern India

By: Yu-Wen Chen,Zhiyu Shi

The colonial legacy in the construction of the modern Indian state has left a deep imprint on contemporary Indians' self-identity and self-determination. Borderland Politics in Northern India is a collection of essays, giving detailed accounts of the many different ways that people throughout India understand their homeland, the territory where they live, and the broader region to which they belong. Mona Chettri looks at the Gorkha community in the Darjeeling hills to the northeast, Manjeet Baruah examines Assam, and L. Lam Khan Piang explores the dispersion of the Zo people throughout many northeastern states. In the northwest, Aijaz Ashraf Wani illustrates how Jammu and Kashmir state is severed along complex regional, religious, and ethnic lines. This book is an invaluable source for readers interested in comparative studies of borderlands globally. It also contributes to South Asian studies broadly conceived, to Indian border studies, and to local social, cultural, and political histories of the constituent border regions of Northern India. This book was published as a special issue of Asian Ethnicity.

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