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This book is a collection of texts on one of China's boldest social experiments in recent years: the rural reconstruction project in Bishan. The Bishan Project (2011-2016) was a rural reconstruction project in a small village Bishan, Anhui Province, China. The writings describe and criticize the social problems caused by China’s over-loading urbanization process and starts a a contemporary agrarianism and agritopianism discourse to resist the modernism and developmentalism doctrine which dominated China for more than a century, answering a global desire for the theory and action of the alternative social solution for today’s environmental and political crises.This practical utopian commune project ran for 6 years and caused a national debate on rural issues in China, when it was invited to be exhibited and presented abroad. This collection of writing will be of interest to artists, China scholars, architects, and the cultural community at large.
Self-service technologies (SSTs) have radically changed how businesses interact with customers and offer benefits to consumers and organizations. Because using SSTs is a form of co-production, the successful deployment of SSTs not only relies upon factors related to SSTs but also consumers' participation in self-service. Previous research indicates that hedonic, utilitarian and security factors of SSTs, such as perceived control, fun/enjoyment, ease of use, usefulness, perceived risk and anonymity, have the potential to influence the repeated use of SSTs. However, how these factors affect the repeated use of SSTs in retailing is unclear because insufficient research regarding the SST co-prod...
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