Zhang: 830 books
Courtyard Housing for Health and Happiness
Architectural Multiculturalism in North America
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Health and happiness are fundamental to human quality of life. The United Nations World Happiness Report 2012 reflects a new worldwide call for governments to include happiness as a criterion to their policies. The Healthy Cities or Happy Cities movement has been endorsed by the WHO since 1986, and...
Learning Business English in China
The Construction of Professional Identity
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2017
This book analyses the learning experiences of students of Business English at a Chinese university. It addresses several topical issues in English for Specific Purposes (ESP) education and Business English teaching, including how ESP students learn, how they develop multiple identities. In particular,...
by Xiao-Sheng Zhang
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
This book presents a universal mass-production micro/nano integrated fabrication technology, which can be used to realize micro/nano hierarchical structures on Si-based materials and flexible polymeric materials. This fabrication technology has been systematically investigated by using experimental...
Far East, Down South
Asians in the American South
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
In sharp contrast to the “melting pot” reputation of the United States, the American South—with its history of slavery, Jim Crow, and the civil rights movement—has been perceived in stark and simplistic demographic terms. In Far East, Down South, editors Raymond A. Mohl, John E. Van Sant,...
Electrochemical Supercapacitors for Energy Storage and Delivery
Fundamentals and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
Although recognized as an important component of all energy storage and conversion technologies, electrochemical supercapacitators (ES) still face development challenges in order to reach their full potential. A thorough examination of development in the technology during the past decade, Electrochemical...
by Weihai Zhang, Lihua Xie, Bor-Sen Chen
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
The H∞ control has been one of the important robust control approaches since the 1980s. This book extends the area to nonlinear stochastic H2/H∞ control, and studies more complex and practically useful mixed H2/H∞ controller synthesis rather than the pure H∞ control. Different from the commonly...
China’s Ethical Revolution and Regaining Legitimacy
Reforming the Communist Party through Its Public Servants
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2017
This book examines the many ways in which the Communist Party in China is still revolutionary by focusing on how, in recent years, it has attempted to mobilize Party members to become ethical subjects. In the context of the Party’s history of the military revolution, Cultural Revolution and Economic...
by Zhang Yibing
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2001
Format:
Sayfa Sayısı: 494
Baskı Yılı: 2014
Dili: İngilizce
Yayınevi: Canut Yayınevi
Catch-Up and Competitiveness in China
The Case of Large Firms in the Oil Industry
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2004
This book examines the role of corporate structure, including the role of corporate headquarters, in the success of large firms. It considers these issues in relation to large global corporations, thereby providing a 'benchmark', which is then used as a contrast in a discussion of corporate structure...
Leadership of Chinese Private Enterprises
Insights and Interviews
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2017
This original book presents in-depth research into thirteen successful Chinese private enterprises through interviews with their founder-entrepreneurs. While Chinese economic growth has focused primarily on governmental policies and institutional factors, Leadership of Chinese Private Enterprises...
Chinese Perceptions of the U.S.
An Exploration of China's Foreign Policy Motivations
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2011
"China threat" has been one of hotly debated topics since the early 1990s, and this book is an effort to test the China threat thesis. The author argues that a test of the China threat thesis requires addressing two fundamental questions: whether China has the capabilities to challenge the...
by Changchun Hua, Liuliu Zhang, Xinping Guan
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
This book reports on the latest findings concerning nonlinear control theory and applications. It presents novel work on several kinds of commonly encountered nonlinear time-delay systems, including those whose nonlinear terms satisfy high-order polynomial form or general nonlinear form, those with...
by Waiman Cheung, Lawrence C. Leung, George W.L. Hui
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Air traffic and the aviation industry have grown rapidly on the Chinese mainland in the two and a half decades since China's open door policy. Accession to the WTO will further stimulate trade and foreign direct investment (FDI), intensifying the demand for air cargo services. It will also open up...
China’s Local Entrepreneurial State and New Urban Spaces
Downtown Redevelopment in Ningbo
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
In this book, the author seeks to understand China’s urban redevelopment from the theoretical perspective of the local entrepreneurial state. China’s rapid socio-economic transformations since 1978 have been in large part attributed to China’s state transformations. The author closely investigates...