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Education and Society in Post-Mao China
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 409

Education and Society in Post-Mao China

The post-Mao period has witnessed rapid social and economic transformation in all walks of Chinese life – much of it fuelled by, or reflected in, changes to the country’s education system. This book analyses the development of that system since the abandonment of radical Maoism and the inauguration of ‘Reform and Opening’ in the late 1970s. The principal focus is on formal education in schools and conventional institutions of tertiary education, but there is also some discussion of preschools, vocational training, and learning in non-formal contexts. The book begins with a discussion of the historical and comparative context for evaluating China’s educational ‘achievements’, fo...

Directory of Officials and Organizations in China
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 2052

Directory of Officials and Organizations in China

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2003
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  • Publisher: M.E. Sharpe

This exhaustive cumulative guide covers the changes in key personnel and administrative institutions from 1968 to the present. It traces the career paths of the many high officials within the numerous governmental, military, educational, and economic organizations in China. The directory also provides information on major institutions in China by following the restructuring, division, and mergers of organizations. This new edition includes new sections on trade organizations; special administrative regions; museums, libraries, and galleries; banks and insurance companies; and social and community mass organizations.

Nonlinear-Emission Photonic Glass Fiber and Waveguide Devices
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 243

Nonlinear-Emission Photonic Glass Fiber and Waveguide Devices

Learn about the design of compact and broadband fiber and waveguide devices using active-ion-doped photonic glasses.

China's Elite Politics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 467

China's Elite Politics

'China's Elite Politics' provides a theoretical perspective on elite politics in China to explain power transfer from Jiang Zemin to Hu Jintao, and political dynamics between different factional groups since the Sixteenth Party Congress of November 2002.

Universal and Particular—Ideological Developments in the Contemporary Chinese Confucian Revival Movement (2000–2020)
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 263

Universal and Particular—Ideological Developments in the Contemporary Chinese Confucian Revival Movement (2000–2020)

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2023-11-27
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  • Publisher: BRILL

Wei Shi’s well-crafted study weaves together historical context, ideological complexities, and insightful case studies on Confucian metaphysics, ethics, and politics. Engagingly written, it seamlessly bridges the gap between universal and nationalist (particular) perspectives, offering a rich tapestry of ideas and satisfying unity. Shi describes the profound impact of Confucian revival on China's cultural identity. She argues that Confucian ideas continue to shape China's trajectory in an ever-changing world. Specialists, graduate students, and enthusiasts will find this work an invaluable resource in understanding the multifaceted landscape of China’s Confucian revival in the twenty-first century.

Advanced Graphic Communications and Media Technologies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1176

Advanced Graphic Communications and Media Technologies

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-03-21
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  • Publisher: Springer

This book includes a selection of reviewed papers presented at the 2016 China Academic Conference on Printing, Packaging Engineering & Media Technology, held on November 25-27, 2016 in Xi’an, China. The conference was jointly organized by China Academy of Printing Technology, Xi’an University of Technology and Stuttgart Media University of Germany. The proceedings cover the recent outcomes on color science and technology, image processing technology, digital media technology, digital process management technology in packaging and packaging etc. They will be of interest to university researchers, R&D engineers and graduate students in graphic communications, packaging, color science, image science, material science, computer science, digital media and network technology fields.

Database Systems for Advanced Applications
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 683

Database Systems for Advanced Applications

The three-volume set LNCS 12681-12683 constitutes the proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, DASFAA 2021, held in Taipei, Taiwan, in April 2021. The total of 156 papers presented in this three-volume set was carefully reviewed and selected from 490 submissions. The topic areas for the selected papers include information retrieval, search and recommendation techniques; RDF, knowledge graphs, semantic web, and knowledge management; and spatial, temporal, sequence, and streaming data management, while the dominant keywords are network, recommendation, graph, learning, and model. These topic areas and keywords shed the light on the direction where the research in DASFAA is moving towards. Due to the Corona pandemic this event was held virtually.

Advances in Treatment of Recurrent and Metastatic Nasal-Cranial Base Tumors
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 89
The Chinese Video Game Industry
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 296

The Chinese Video Game Industry

​ The recent and dramatic development of China’s economy and international political muscle is especially pronounced in the country’s video game industry. Now the largest of its kind in the world by gross revenue, the Chinese video game industry impacts every player in the global game market and has begun to directly influence the nature of the video game medium itself. From its conceptualization of the player as a category and commodity, to its approach to the design, development, and marketing of products and services, the Chinese game industry is engaging in a complex, innovative, and fascinating reimagining of the video game as a cultural and industrial force. The purpose of The Ch...

The Economics of Biodiversity
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 679

The Economics of Biodiversity

"This landmark report explains the current state of play in relation to biodiversity loss and explores the ways in which we can find a sustainable path to deal with this problem, one that will require us to change how we think, act and measure success"--