Wang: 1062 books
by Hong-Sang Jung, Bin Wang
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
Since 1980, the number of climate-related disasters has been greatly increased globally. Scientific consensus based on the IPCC fifth report suggested that global warming would bring more intense and frequent extreme climate events. These climate-related disasters hinder the achievement of sustainable...
Inventing the World Grant University
Chinese International Students’ Mobilities, Literacies, and Identities
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Through an exploration of the literacy practices of undergraduate Chinese international students in the United States and China, Inventing the World Grant University demonstrates the ways in which literacies, mobilities, and transnational identities are constructed and enacted across institutional...
The Daily Practice of Compassion
A History of the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Its People, and Its Mission, 1964-2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014
Published in honor of the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, this book provides more than an institutional history. Rich with anecdotes and personality, Dora Calott Wang’s account is a must-read for anyone curious about health care in New Mexico.
Celebrated...
“His Dominion” and the “Yellow Peril”
Protestant Missions to Chinese Immigrants in Canada, 1859-1967
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
A history of Chinese immigrants encounter with Canadian Protestant missionaries, “His Dominion” and the “Yellow Peril”: Protestant Missions to Chinese Immigrants in Canada, 1859-1967, analyzes the evangelizing activities of missionaries and the role of religion in helping Chinese immigrants...
Managing God's Higher Learning
U.S.-China Cultural Encounter and Canton Christian College (Lingnan University), 1888-1952
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2007
Managing GodOs Higher Learning offers a distinct empirical study of Lingnan University and addresses issues of adaptation and integration. Author, Dong Wang, demonstrates that many aspects of Lingnan _ governance, links with the local society, financial management, education for women _ have either...
Finding Women in the State
A Socialist Feminist Revolution in the People's Republic of China, 1949-1964
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Finding Women in the State is a provocative hidden history of socialist state feminists maneuvering behind the scenes at the core of the Chinese Communist Party. These women worked to advance gender and class equality in the early People’s Republic and fought to transform sexist norms and practices,...
by Kirk W Madison, Yiqiu Wang, Ana Maria Rey;Kai Bongs
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012
The aim of this book is to present review articles describing the latest theoretical and experimental developments in the field of cold atoms and molecules. Our hope is that this series will promote research by both highlighting recent breakthroughs and by outlining some of the most promising research...
Nuclear Structure in China 2014
Proceedings of the 15th National Conference on Nuclear Structure in China
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
This volume is a collection of the contributions to the 15th National Conference on Nuclear Structure in China (NSC2014), held on October 25–28, 2014 in Guilin, China and hosted by Guangxi Normal University. It provides an important updated resource in the nuclear physics literature for researchers...
Discrimination by Default
How Racism Becomes Routine
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2006
Much as we “select” computer settings by default-reflexively, without thinking, and sometimes without realizing there are other options—we often discriminate by default as well. And just as default computer settings tend to become locked in or entrenched as the standard, discrimination by default...
Dao De Jing in Clear English
Including a Step by Step Translation
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2018
The Dao De Jing (also called the Tao Te Ching) was written more than 2,500 years ago and is considered one of the most important books in world literature. Coming in at only 5,000 Chinese characters, its timeless wisdom has inspired millions of people around the world and serves as one of the cornerstones...
by Xiaolin Wang, Limin Wang, Yan Wang
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
The rapid growth over the past three decades has been instrumental in lifting over 600 million people in China out of poverty, and people want to know why and how it happened. International evidence has made it clear that a global economy based on current patterns of consumption and production is...
Tamed Village “Democracy”
Elections, Governance and Clientelism in a Contemporary Chinese Village
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Wang's book offers an empirically rich and conceptually nuanced analysis of how local state agents maintain control over village self-governance in China. His careful analysis of primary documents enables him to explicate the formal mechanisms used by members of the local state to influence village...
Handbook of Environment and Waste Management
Volume 2: Land and Groundwater Pollution Control
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2013
The Handbook of Environment and Waste Management, Volume 2, Land and Groundwater Pollution Control, is a comprehensive compilation of topics that are at the forefront of many of the technical advances and practices in solid waste management and groundwater pollution control. These include biosolids...
Outsourced Children
Orphanage Care and Adoption in Globalizing China
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
It's no secret that tens of thousands of Chinese children have been adopted by American parents and that Western aid organizations have invested in helping orphans in China—but why have Chinese authorities allowed this exchange, and what does it reveal about processes of globalization?
Countries...