Jiang: 140 books
The Artisans and Entrepreneurs of Dongyang County: Economic Reform and Flexible Production in China
Economic Reform and Flexible Production in China
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
The book represents a continuation of research begun by Cooper in Hong Kong in the early 1970s among expatriate artisan furniture makers and woodcarvers from Dongyang County, Zhejiang Province. He now sets out to investigate the fate of the same craft in the hands of the same folk under totally different...
China’s Hong Kong
A Political and Cultural Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
This book differs from most others of its kind, by looking at the Hong Kong issue from China’s perspective, which in turn mirrors China’s own situation. Through a legal lens, the author conducts a political and cultural examination of the past and the present, and provides a comprehensive overview...
by Jiang Wu, Yan Cao, Weiguo Pan
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
Mercury (Hg) is one of the most toxic heavy metals, harmful to both the environment and human health. Hg is released into the atmosphere from natural and anthropogenic sources and its emission control has caused much concern. This book introduces readers to Hg pollution from natural and anthropogenic...
by Xiaoyi Jiang
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2012
Today, climate change is among the most hotly-debated topics. The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), one of the three financial mechanisms under the Kyoto Protocol open to developing and developed countries, was devised to assist in mitigation of global warming. This book discusses what China should...
Reinventing the Tripitaka
Transformation of the Buddhist Canon in Modern East Asia
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
The Chinese Buddhist canon is a systematic collection of all translated Buddhist scriptures and related literatures created in East Asia and has been regarded as one of the “three treasures” in Buddhist communities. Despite its undisputed importance in the history of Buddhism, research on this...
by Kevin Jeffay, Hong Jiang Zhang
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2001
Readings in Multimedia Computing and Networking captures the broad areas of research and developments in this burgeoning field, distills the key findings, and makes them accessible to professionals, researchers, and students alike. For the first time, the most influential and innovative papers on...
Future Wireless and Optical Networks
Networking Modes and Cross-Layer Design
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2012
This book reviews the challenges of all-optical and wireless networks for the future Internet, with a focus on cross-layer design and optimization. Features: presents a thorough introduction to major networking modes and their effect on Internet development; proposes a new structure favorable for...
by Yufei Jiang, Xu Zhu, Eng Gee Lim
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
This SpringerBrief investigates the performance of semi-blind independent component analysis (ICA) based equalization and carrier frequency offset estimation approaches (CFO) for a number of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) based wireless communication systems. It provides a comprehensive...
by Yaji Huang, Jiang Wu, Weiguo Zhou
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
This book provides extensive information on high-temperature H2S removal for integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) coarse gas, together with briefly introductions to the concept of clean coal technology, and to the mechanism and kinetics of hot coal gas desulfurizers.
Readers will gain...
by Lianfa Bai, Jing Han, Jiang Yue
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2019
This book systematically analyses the latest insights into night vision imaging processing and perceptual understanding as well as related theories and methods. The algorithm model and hardware system provided can be used as the reference basis for the general design, algorithm design and hardware...
Mao's Children in the New China
Voices From the Red Guard Generation
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Around 18 million young Chinese people were sent to the countryside between 1966 and 1976 as part of the Cultural Revolution. Mao's Children in the New China allows some of them to tell their moving stories in their own voices for the first time. In this inspiring collection of interviews with former...
by Beidou Xi, Yonghai Jiang, Mingxiao Li
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2016
This book focuses on the treatment and disposal technology used for solid waste in China, puts forward an optimal management scheme that takes into account the complete lifecycle, and introduces a new technical model that reflects the synergies of resource utilization and secondary pollution control....
Ethnic China
Identity, Assimilation, and Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
There are some serious concerns and critical questions about the on-going minority protesting in China, such as Tibetan monks’ self-immolations, Muslims’ suicide bombings, and Uyghur large-scale demonstrations. Why are minorities such as the Uyghur dissatisfied, when China is rising as a world...
Applied Mathematics
Data Compression, Spectral Methods, Fourier Analysis, Wavelets, and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
This textbook, apart from introducing the basic aspects of applied mathematics, focuses on recent topics such as information data manipulation, information coding, data approximation, data dimensionality reduction, data compression, time-frequency and time scale bases, image manipulation, and image...