Peng: 139 books
Japan's Peace-Building Diplomacy in Asia
Seeking a More Active Political Role
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
The conventional portrayal of Japan’s role in international affairs is of a passive political player which – despite its position as the world’s second largest economic power – punches below its weight on the world stage: its foreign policy driven by Washington, mercantilism and constrained...
by Sheldon Gen, Qian Guo, Shiyuan Hao
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2010
China is a multiethnic country with vast territory, a land of diverse ecosystems. With the drive for industrialization in China and the implementation of 'western grand development' strategy in western regions, both governments and people face great challenges in environmental protection and sustainable...
by Ghulam Ali, Yu Bin, Jean-Marc F. Blanchard
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Since the end of the Cold War, the new Chinese leadership generation has had to promulgate new guiding principles for handling global diplomacy which acknowledges China's new position. Given the dramatic changes in the international system and its domestic economic success for the growing 'China's...
Electromagnetic Linear Machines with Dual Halbach Array
Design and Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
This book extends the conventional two-dimensional (2D) magnet arrangement into 3D pattern for permanent magnet linear machines for the first time, and proposes a novel dual Halbach array. It can not only effectively increase the radial component of magnetic flux density and output force of tubular...
by Jiagui Chen, Qunhui Huang, Huagang Peng
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
This book is compiled based on the research methodology and technical approach applied in the Blue Book of Corporate Social Responsibility. It consists of five parts: Summary, index, Industry, Case Studies, and Appendices. The index evaluates Chinese enterprises annually on their performance in CSR...
China's Multilateral Co-operation in Asia and the Pacific
Institutionalizing Beijing's 'Good Neighbour Policy'
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2010
The leaders and bureaucrats of China have actively attended, initiated, promoted or made skilful use of regional multilateral political, economic, and security institutions to accelerate regional cooperation and integration with neighboring states, convince Asian states that China’s rise will not...
Inorganic Two-dimensional Nanomaterials
Fundamental Understanding, Characterizations and Energy Applications
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
Inorganic 2D nanomaterials, or inorganic graphene analogues, are gaining great attention due to their unique properties and potential energy applications. They contain ultrathin nanosheet morphology with one-dimensional confinement, but unlike pure carbon graphene, inorganic two-dimensional nanomaterials...
Chinese Cooperative-Harmonious Democracy
Research on Chinese Cooperative-Harmonious Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
After several decades of reform and opening up, China has come to a critical period of transformation and development. How to improve the development strategies to effectively promote China's democratic politics has once again attracted the world's attention.
This book compares the commons...
Politics, Culture and Identities in East Asia
Integration and Division
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
This edited book reflects the "yin-yang" of East Asia — the analogy of co-existing "hot and cold" trends in that region. To concentrate only on geopolitical competition and regional "hot spots" will exaggerate, if not misrepresent East Asia as a Hobbesian world. Nevertheless,...
School Effectiveness in China
An Exploratory Study
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
This book is a valuable attempt to address the issue of school effectiveness in mainland China. The author applies multi-level modeling and longitudinal student achievement and survey data to evaluate school effectiveness. In the first study, the author analyzes the effects of school resources and...
Global tea science
Current status and future needs
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
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by Yunkang Sui, Xirong Peng
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
Modelling, Solving and Applications for Topology Optimization of Continuum Structures: ICM Method Based on Step Function provides an introduction to the history of structural optimization, along with a summary of the existing state-of-the-art research on topology optimization of continuum structures....
by Peng Yue
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
By introducing Semantic Web technologies into geospatial Web services, this book addresses the semantic description of geospatial data and standards-based Web services, discovery of geospatial data and services, and generation of composite services. Semantic descriptions for geospatial data, services,...
Contentious Integration
Post-Cold War Japan-China Relations in the Asia-Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
The Asian-Pacific is now one of the most important regions in the global system, where the interplay of integrative economic, geo-political and sociocultural processes provide increasing scope for regional leadership to be exercised, particularly by China and Japan. This book studies the relationship...