Zhou: 239 books
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...
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...
China's Peaceful Rise in a Global Context
A Domestic Aspect of China's Road Map to Democratization
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2010
China's rise has become inevitable, but there is no agreement about whether China will rise peacefully or pose a threat to the United States. The author asserts that both theories of 'China threat' and 'peaceful rise' failed to address China's central domestic problem. Thus, both theories are not...
by Min Zhou, Carl L. Bankston III
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
In this age of migration, more and more children are growing up in immigrant or transnational families. The "new second generation" refers to foreign-born and native-born children of immigrants who have come of age at the turn of the twenty-first century. This book is about this new generation in...
by Shan Zhang, Ning Zhang, Sheng Zhou
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
This book introduces wireless traffic steering as a paradigm to realize green communication in multi-tier heterogeneous cellular networks. By matching network resources and dynamic mobile traffic demand, traffic steering helps to reduce on-grid power consumption with on-demand services provided. This...
Towards a Society with Social Protection for All
A Concise History of Social Security Transformation in Modern China
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
This book systematically reviews the development of social policy since the establishment of the People’s Republic of China. As such, it begins by investigating the establishment of the Insurance System in the early period, then moves on to the planned economy period, the Cultural Revolution period,...
by Gao Xiaoxing, Weng Saifei, Zhou Dehua
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
The PLA Navy is a history of modern China's naval forces, combined with a technical description of the makeup, equipment and missions of the Navy. The book begins with the founding of the Navy, and relates initial successes in the battle for the Yijiangshan Islands. Further milestones round out the...
Globalization and Contemporary Chinese Cinema
Zhang Yimou's Genre Films
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2017
This pivot considers key transformations within the Chinese film industry since the country opened its doors to the outside world in the late 1970s, and moved from an ideologically-centred censorship system to one of contestation and cooperation between politics, art and market. Focusing on Zhang...
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...
The Development of Service Economy
A General Trend of the Changing Economy in China
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2015
This book focuses on service economy development, particularly on how an industrial economy evolves into a service economy. The book is organized in three sections: The first theoretically answers the general question "what is the service economy?” The second explains the mechanism of the service...
by Minglang Zhou
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2018
This text considers contemporary China’s language ideology and how it supports China as a rising global power player. It examines the materialization of this ideology as China’s language order unfolds on two front, promoting Putonghua domestically and globally, alongside its economic growth and...
Thirty Years of China - U.S. Relations
Analytical Approaches and Contemporary Issues
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2010
The year 2009 marks the 30th anniversary of normalization of Sino-U.S. relations. Over the past 30 years, the bilateral relations have developed by twists and turns. It is not until recent years that some stability and forward-looking exchanges have returned to the central stage, albeit tension, grievances,...
Socialist Welfare in a Market Economy: Social Security Reforms in Guangzhou, China
Social Security Reforms in Guangzhou, China
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
This title was first published in 2001. Using the city of Guangzhou as a case study, this text looks at how China has adopted a market economy, whilst still maintaining state-owned enterprises and an all-embracing social security system which protects the majority of Chinese workers. This volume examines...
Design, Fabrication and Electrochemical Performance of Nanostructured Carbon Based Materials for High-Energy Lithium–Sulfur Batteries
Next-Generation High Performance Lithium–Sulfur Batteries
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
This book focuses on the design, fabrication and applications of carbon-based materials for lithium-sulfur (Li-S) batteries. It provides insights into the localized electrochemical transition of the “solid-solid” reaction instead of the “sulfur-polysulfides-lithium sulfides” reaction through...