Cheng Li: 15 books
Chinese Politics in the Xi Jinping Era
Reassessing Collective Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Chinese politics are at a crossroads as President Xi Jinping amasses personal power and tests the constraints of collective leadership.
In the years since he became general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party in 2012, Xi Jinping has surprised many people in China and around the world with...
China's Leaders
The New Generation
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2001
Who will govern China at the dawn of the twenty-first century? What are the social backgrounds and career paths of the new generation of leaders? How do they differ from their predecessors in their responses to perplexing economic and sociopolitical challenges? Drawing upon a wealth of both quantitative...
New Frontiers in China's Foreign Relations
Zhongguo Waijiao de Xin Bianjiang
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2011
This book stands as a rebuke to any who would attempt to forward simplistic interpretations of China's rise. In place of parsimonious arguments, or an endorsement of any singular set of images (whether pacific or confrontational), it repeatedly calls attention to the remarkable complexity of China's...
Globalization and Agriculture
Redefining Unequal Development
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
Globalization and Agriculture: Redefining Unequal Development focuses on the development of national agriculture of nine countries in Latin America, Africa, and Asia from two different and complementary angles. One angle is the opportunities created by globalization for agricultural production and...
The Power of Ideas
The Rising Influence of Thinkers and Think Tanks in China
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
China's momentous socioeconomic transformation is not taking place in an intellectual vacuum: Chinese scholars and public intellectuals are actively engaged in fervent discussions about the country's domestic and foreign policies, demographic constraints, and ever-growing integration into the world...
Ecoambiguity, Community, and Development
Toward a Politicized Ecocriticism
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
Ecoambiguity, Community, and Development takes stock of cultural and environmental contexts in many different regions of the world by exploring literature and film. Artists and scholars working in the social ecology, environmental justice, and postcolonial arenas have long recognized that as soon...
Big Mechanisms in Systems Biology
Big Data Mining, Network Modeling, and Genome-Wide Data Identification
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
Big Mechanisms in Systems Biology: Big Data Mining, Network Modeling, and Genome-Wide Data Identification explains big mechanisms of systems biology by system identification and big data mining methods using models of biological systems. Systems biology is currently undergoing revolutionary changes...
China and East Asian Strategic Dynamics
The Shaping of a New Regional Order
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2011
China and East Asian Strategic Dynamics: the Shaping of a New Regional Order, edited by Mingjiang Li and Dongmin Lee, examines how China's remarkable economic growth and its proactive diplomatic efforts in recent years have not only shored up its importance in global issues, but also induced a transformation...
Dragons with Clay Feet?
Transition, Sustainable Land Use, and Rural Environment in China and Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2007
Dragons with Clay Feet? presents state-of-the-art research on the impact of ongoing and anticipated economic policy and institutional reforms on agricultural development and sustainable rural resource in two East-Asian transition (and developing) economies—China and Vietnam. The contributions to...
Analysis and Control of Boolean Networks
A Semi-tensor Product Approach
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2010
Analysis and Control of Boolean Networks presents a systematic new approach to the investigation of Boolean control networks. The fundamental tool in this approach is a novel matrix product called the semi-tensor product (STP). Using the STP, a logical function can be expressed as a conventional discrete-time...
by Hai-Ping Huang, Jing-Jing Li, Jun-Jie Zhu
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
This book provides a broad introduction to all major aspects of quantum dot properties including fluorescence, electrochemical, photochemical and electroluminescence. Such properties have been produced for applications in biosensing, cell tracking, in vivo animal imaging and so on. It focuses on their...
by T. C. Edwin Cheng, Jian Li, C. L. Johnny Wan
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
Postponement strategy is one of the major supply chain management (SCM) pr- tices that has a discernible impact on rms’ competitive advantage and organi- tional performance. Postponement is a mass customization strategy that captures the advantages of both mass production and mass customization....
by Zongmin Ma, Fu Zhang, Li Yan
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2013
This book goes to great depth concerning the fast growing topic of technologies and approaches of fuzzy logic in the Semantic Web. The topics of this book include fuzzy description logics and fuzzy ontologies, queries of fuzzy description logics and fuzzy ontology knowledge bases, extraction of fuzzy...
Nāgārjuna’s Twelve Gate Treatise
Translated with Introductory Essays, Comments, and Notes
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
MADHYAMIKA The hallmark of Miidhyamika philosophy is 'Emptiness', sunyata. This is not a view of reality. In fact it is emphatically denied that sunyata is a view of reality. If anybody falls into such an error as to construe emptiness as reality (or as a view, even the right view, of reality), he...
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