Lu Chen: 13 books
Chinese Fans of Japanese and Korean Pop Culture
Nationalistic Narratives and International Fandom
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
How can Japanese popular culture gain numerous fans in China, despite pervasive anti-Japanese sentiment? How is it that there’s such a strong anti-Korean sentiment in Chinese online fan communities when the official Sino-Korean relationship is quite stable before 2016? Avid fans in China are raising...
by Lu Chen, Shenglian Guo
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2018
This book presents an overview of copula theory and its application in hydrology, and provides valuable insights, useful methods and practical applications for multivariate hydrological analysis using copulas. In addition, it extends the traditional bivariate model to trivariate or multivariate models....
Precision Motion Systems
Modeling, Control, and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2019
Precision Motion Systems: Modeling, Control, and Applications presents basic dynamics and the control knowledge needed for the daily challenges of researchers and professionals working in the field. The book explains accurate dynamics and control algorithms, along with experimental validation of precision...
A New Economic Growth Engine for China
Escaping the Middle-income Trap by Not Doing More of the Same
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2012
This volume is a report by leading international economic experts on China's economic priorities in the coming years. From various aspects of the domestic and foreign situation, China has now reached a critical juncture in its economic development. Unless China is able to overcome the difficulties...
Toward Better Governance in China
An Unconventional Pathway of Political Reform
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2009
Toward Better Governance in China takes a fresh look at the latest efforts made by Chinese leaders to promote governance-based reform. It asserts that the improvement of governance has now become one of the breakthrough points of the much anticipated political reform. Although the Chinese government...
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...
Vertically-Oriented Graphene
PECVD Synthesis and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2015
This book introduces the basic concepts, synthesis techniques, and applications of vertically-oriented graphene. The authors detail emerging applications of vertically-oriented graphene such as field emitters, atmospheric nanoscale corona discharges, gas sensors and biosensors, supercapacitors, lithium-ion...
Global tea science
Current status and future needs
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
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by Anze Chen, Yunting Lu, Young C.Y. Ng
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015
The book introduces tourism earth-science as a new scientific discipline by applying the principles of earth-science in the study of natural and human tourism resources. It involves studying the geo-scientific characteristics of these tourism resources through surveys, evaluation and aesthetic value...
by Zanxin Wang, Xianming Yang, Ying Chen
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
The Journal of GMS Development Studies is a multidisciplinary peer-reviewed publication that seeks to promote a better understanding of a broad range of development issues of the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS). This journal is published by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) under the framework of the...
Toward Balanced Growth with Economic Agglomeration
Empirical Studies of China's Urban-Rural and Interregional Development
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2015
This book explains the relationships between equality and efficiency, as well as between government and market, in urban-rural and regional development by providing theoretical frameworks and empirical evidence. Urban-rural development in China is understood from a regional perspective, while the...
by Yi Yang, Xi Chen, Ningyun Lu
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2017
Improvement of injection molding processes remains a topic of great interest in both industry and research institutions. This book introduces the analysis of the molding process from a systems technology point of view.It is divided into four parts: the first part provides general background to introduce...
Validamycin and Its Derivatives
Discovery, Chemical Synthesis, and Biological Activity
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Validamycin and Its Derivatives: Discovery, Chemical Synthesis and Biological Activity presents, for the first time, a complete review of the underlying chemistry, synthesis, behavior and application of these compounds.
Beginning with an introduction to validamycin, the book then outlines the...