Li: 1151 books
Mediatized China-Africa Relations
How Media Discourses Negotiate the Shifting of Global Order
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
This cutting edge book explores the role of the media in the highly disputed area of China-Africa relations, notably how various aspects of the issue have been portrayed, negotiated and contested in media and academic discourses. As Africa’s biggest trading partner and creditor, China explores...
by Zijun Cao, Yu Wang, Dianqing Li
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2016
This is the first book to revisit geotechnical site characterization from a probabilistic point of view and provide rational tools to probabilistically characterize geotechnical properties and underground stratigraphy using limited information obtained from a specific site. This book not only provides...
by Ba Jin (Li Feigan)
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Ba Jin, one of the main figures of twentieth century Chinese literature, died in Shanghai on the 17th of October 2005. He was also a survivor of the Chinese anarchist movement that disappeared with the victory of the Communists. While he was required to ‘repent’, and purged and humiliated during...
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...
by Minqi Li
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
This book studies the limits imposed by the depletion of fossil fuels and the requirements of climate stabilization on economic growth with a focus on China. The book intends to examine the potentials of various energy resources, including oil, natural gas, coal, nuclear, wind, solar, and other renewables,...
China's Outward Foreign Investment
A Political Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2010
This book explores the characteristics of China's outward foreign investment, its motivation, its sector distribution, and its geographical distribution in order to illustrate the current pattern of 'merchant-state dualism' in China's overseas foreign direct investment. Merchant-state dualism is a...
China's Centralized Industrial Order
Industrial Reform and the Rise of Centrally Controlled Big Business
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
This book is about the political economy of China’s industrial reform and the rise of a group of Chinese big businesses under the Communist Party and the central state’s control. It examines the origins, evolution and institutional configuration of this centralized system in governing the ‘commanding...
Industrial Ecology and Industry Symbiosis for Environmental Sustainability
Definitions, Frameworks and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
This book opens up a critical dimension to the interdisciplinary field of Industrial Ecology (IE) and one of its four areas - Industrial Symbiosis (IS). Presenting the concept of closed-loop thinking, this timely book explains how industries and societies can achieve environmental sustainability,...
Enterprise Integration and Information Architecture
A Systems Perspective on Industrial Information Integration
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
Enterprise solutions have emerged as promising tools for integrating and extending business processes across business functions. Supplying a clear and comprehensive introduction to the field, this book provides a detailed description of enterprise information integration-from the development of enterprise systems to extended enterprise information
Imbalance and Rebalance
To Create a New Framework of Global Governance
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
This book focuses on global financial systems. After summarising historical financial institutions, it subsequently uses economic and econometrical models to analyse the strengths and weaknesses of these institutions and their role in the history. Readers, especially international readers, will be...
Emerging Trends in Smart Banking
Risk Management Under Basel II and III
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
The 2008 global financial crisis has illustrated the need for tighter regulations and management of banking institutions, approaching banking and money lending in a more intelligent, directed fashion. Emerging Trends in Smart Banking: Risk Management Under Basel II and III discusses some of the latest...
by Peter Mr. Clark, Shang-Jin Wei, Natalia Ms. Tamirisa
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2004
The effect of exchange rate volatility on trade flows was examined by a 1984 IMF study on G-7 countries. Over the past two decades, many developments in the world economy, such as the currency crises in the 1990s and increasing cross-border capital flows, may have exacerbated exchange rate volatility,...
by Tania Li
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2005
Drawing upon current theoretical debates in social anthropology, development studies and political ecology, and presenting original research from across the Archipelago, this book addresses the changing histories and identities of upland people as they relate in new ways to the natural resource base,...
by Ruogu Li
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
This book argues that only by reforming the international monetary system can we prevent financial crises in the future and the internationalization of the Renminbi, China's national currency, will be an important step in the process.
Just as the old saying goes, "An old building needs...