Activating China: Local Actors, Foreign Influence, and State Response by Setsuko Matsuzawa
English | Jan 21, 2019 | ISBN: 0815360347, 0367581957 | 182 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This book examines the effects of the transnational social and environmental advocacy of foreign NGOs in China. Based on three case studies, including China's first participatory development project, its first successful case of transnational anti-dam activism, and its first national park project, the book challenges our typical understanding that global forces shape local outcomes. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in China and archival work in the United States, Matsuzawa sheds light on the entrepreneurial behaviors of Chinese activists, researchers, and government officials. She shows that global projects are often substantially transformed by local actors, despite the original intentions of their foreign collaborators and even China's central government. Thus, it is argued that foreign NGOs are not as hegemonic or culturally imperialistic as is commonly viewed. Matsuzawa reveals that their goals may change profoundly as a result of their engagements with local actors on the ground. She offers a new theory of transnational advocacy together with an account of the Chinese party-state's rising concerns over the influence of foreign NGOs. Activating China will be of interest to sociologists and political scientists working in the fields of social movement studies and activism in China.

The Reshaping of China-Southeast Asia Relations in Light of the COVID-19 Pandemic by Nian Peng
English | EPUB | 2021 | 194 Pages | ISBN : 9813344156 | 1.2 MB
This book aims to examine the multiple effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on China-Southeast Asia relations from both Chinese and Southeast Asian perspectives. It invites many officials and scholars from the leading think-tanks and famous universities in China and Southeast Asian states to contribute and tries to reveal how has China-Southeast Asia relations been reshaping during/after the COVID-19 pandemic and discuss what kind of measures could be taken to push forward China-Southeast Asia relations and thus ensuring the peace and prosperity in the region.

Environmental Protection, China and International Trade - Greening the WTO Ban on Chinese Export Duties
pdf | 7.61 MB | English | Isbn:‎ 0367753839 | Author: Fengan Jiang | Year: 2021

TikTok Boom: China's Dynamite App and the Superpower Race for Social Media by Chris Stokel-Walker
English | July 22nd, 2021 | ISBN: 1912454793 | 288 pages | True EPUB | 0.41 MB
'A careful, detailed teardown of the people, culture and technology behind the world's most dynamic social network, TikTok. It is rare for a business analysis to read like a thriller - this one does.'Azeem Azhar, Founder, Exponential View

William S-Y. Wang, "Love and War in Ancient China-Voices from the Shijing"
English | ISBN: 9629372150 | 2013 | 240 pages | PDF | 8 MB
The book presents the reader with a fascinating glimpse of the peoples of Ancient China by analyzing many poems in Shijing and discussing aspects of culture and events reflected in the poems from a wide range of disciplines, including archeology, ethnography, history and linguistics.

Market Maoists: The Communist Origins of China's Capitalist Ascent by Jason M. Kelly
2021 | ISBN: 0674986490 | English | 320 pages | PDF | 6 MB
Long before Deng Xiaoping's market-based reforms, commercial relationships bound the Chinese Communist Party to international capitalism and left lasting marks on China's trade and diplomacy.

Decoding China's Export Miracle: A Global Value Chain Analysis
by Yuqing Xing;
English | 2021 | ISBN: 9811229627 | 214 pages | True (PDF EPUB) | 12.2 MB

China Satellite Navigation Conference (CSNC) 2019 Proceedings: Volume II by Jiadong Sun
English | PDF | 2019 | 675 Pages | ISBN : 9811377588 | 82.4 MB
China Satellite Navigation Conference (CSNC) 2019 Proceedings presents selected research papers from CSNC2019 held during 22nd-25th May in Beijing, China. These papers discuss the technologies and applications of the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), and the latest progress made in the China BeiDou System (BDS) especially. They are divided into 12 topics to match the corresponding sessions in CSNC2019, which broadly covered key topics in GNSS. Readers can learn about the BDS and keep abreast of the latest advances in GNSS techniques and applications.

Sidewinder: Creative Missile Development at China Lake by Ron Westrum
English | August 15, 2013 | ISBN: 1591149819, 1557509514 | EPUB | 352 pages | 2.3 MB
In the mid-1950s a small group of overworked, underpaid scientists and engineers on a remote base in the Mojave Desert developed a weapon no one had asked for but everyone was looking for. This is the story of how that unorthodox team, led by visionary Bill McLean, overcame Navy bureaucracy and other more heavily funded projects to develop the world's best air-to-air missile. Author Ron Westrum examines that special time and place-when the old American work ethic and "can do" spirit were a vital part of U.S. weapons development-to discover how the dedicated team was able to create a simple and inexpensive missile. Today, some forty-four years after its invention, Sidewinder is still considered the best America has.

Contract and Property in Early Modern China By Madeleine Zelin, Jonathan K. Ocko, Robert Gardella
2004 | 401 Pages | ISBN: 0804746397 | PDF | 5 MB
The role of contract in early modern Chinese economic life, when acknowledged at all, is usually presented as a minor one. This volume demonstrates that contract actually played a critical role in the everyday structure of many kinds of relationships and transactions; contracts are, moreover, of enormous value to present-day scholars as transcriptions of the fine details of day-to-day economic activity.Offering a new perspective on economic and legal institutions, particularly the closely related institutions of contract and property, in Qing and Republican China, the papers in this volume spell out how these institutions worked in specific social contexts. Drawing on recent research in far-flung archives, the contributors take as givens both the embeddedness of contract in Chinese social and economic discourse and its role in the spread of commodification. Two papers deal with broad issues: Zelin's argues for a distinctively Chinese heritage of strong property rights, and Ocko's examines the usefulness of American legal scholarship as a comparative analytic framework.