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  • Anxious China

    Inner Revolution and Politics of Psychotherapy

    by Li Zhang ...
    The breathless pace of China’s economic reform has brought about deep ruptures in socioeconomic structures and people’s inner landscape. Faced with increasing market-driven competition and profound social changes, more and more middle-class urbanites are turning to Western-style psychological counseling to grapple with their mental distress. This book offers an in-depth ethnographic account of how ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • AGI is Waking Up!

    From the Thought Lab of Science Fiction

    by Li Zhang ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book is an engaging and comprehensive exploration that delves into the possibility of artificial intelligence developing self-awareness, the conditions under which it may occur, and the potential behaviours it may exhibit once self-aware. It adopts a ‘high-dimensional philosophy’, coined by the author, as its theoretical framework and weaves together elements from science fiction films, ... Read more

    $153.69 CAD

  • Magnetically Actuated Miniature Robots for Medical Applications

    Advancements in Design, Control and Navigation

    by Li Zhang, Tiantian Xu, Mingxue Cai, Moqiu Zhang ...
    Series series Mechanical Engineering (R0)
    This book investigates in detail magnetically actuated microrobots technology. It explores the potential of magnetically actuated miniature robots to revolutionize medical interventions, such as targeted drug delivery, minimally invasive surgeries, and tissue manipulation. Drawing interest from multidisciplinary fields including robotics, medicine, and materials science, this book provides a ... Read more

    $204.99 CAD

  • The Reluctant Migrant's Daughter 2

    A Life Worth Living

    by Li Zhang ...
    Li has not yet told all the formative stories of her childhood in 1940s and 1950s Malaya. This second memoir fills the gaps in her first volume, The ReluctantMigrant's Daughter. Li also regales us with further travel stories before detailing the decline of her husband of nearly 58 years. Her own health concerns beginyet another journey.Li's reflections lead her to realise that, with her roller ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • China in European Narratives

    Policy, Identity, and Image

    by Li Zhang ...
    Series series Communicating China
    This book explores how China, and especially China’s Belt and Road Initiative, is viewed in European media and by European think tanks, thereby uncovering European elites’ views of China. Looking across Europe—the European Union, Western Europe (including the United Kingdom), Central Europe, and Eastern Europe—the book reveals a complex picture, with different views in different places, and with ... Read more

    $82.99 CAD

  • The Reluctant Migrant's Daughter

    A memoir

    by Li Zhang ...
    The Reluctant Migrant's DaughterLi only realised who her parents were when she was five. The fifth of eight children to migrants from China, Li grew up in her family's shophouse in Kuala Lumpur, Malaya. Generally ignored by her elders, but regularly beaten and cursed by her guardian, Li still became infused with her father's longing to return to Shanghai, the home he left only reluctantly.After an ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • In Search of Paradise

    Middle-Class Living in a Chinese Metropolis

    by Li Zhang ...
    A new revolution in homeownership and living has been sweeping the booming cities of China. This time the main actors on the social stage are not peasants, migrants, or working-class proletariats but middle-class professionals and entrepreneurs in search of a private paradise in a society now dominated by consumerism. No longer seeking happiness and fulfillment through collective sacrifice and ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Untethered Miniature Soft Robots

    Materials, Fabrications, and Applications

    by Li Zhang, Jiachen Zhang, Neng Xia, Yue Dong ...
    Untethered Miniature Soft RobotsReference on achieving contactless manipulation of soft robots, detailing high level concepts and perspectives and technical skills of soft robotsUntethered Miniature Soft Robots: Materials, Fabrications, and Applications introduces the emerging field of miniature soft robots and summarizes the recent rapid development in the field to date, describing different ... Read more

    $170.99 CAD

  • Strangers in the City

    Reconfigurations of Space, Power, and Social Networks Within China’s Floating Population

    by Li Zhang ...
    With rapid commercialization, a booming urban economy, and the relaxation of state migration policies, over 100 million peasants, known as China’s “floating population,” have streamed into large cities seeking employment and a better life. This massive flow of rural migrants directly challenges Chinese socialist modes of state control.This book traces the profound transformations of space, power ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • The Origins of COVID-19

    China and Global Capitalism

    by Li Zhang ...
    A new strain of coronavirus emerged sometime in November 2019, and within weeks a cluster of patients began to be admitted to hospitals in Wuhan with severe pneumonia, most of them linked to the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market. China's seemingly effective containment of the first stage of the epidemic, in glaring contrast with the uncontrolled spread in Europe and the United States, was heralded ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Living Longer and Healthier at Older Ages

    A Longitudinal Analysis of Chinese Oldest Old’s Health and Its Determinants

    by Li Zhang ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book analyzes data from eight waves (1998, 2000, 2002, 2005, 2008, 2011-12, 2014 and 2018) of the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Surveys (CLHLS) to explore how health status of the Chinese oldest old has changed over time and across birth cohorts. It also intends to investigate how period and birth cohorts have played a role in the associations between Chinese oldest old’s health and ... Read more

    $102.99 CAD

  • Understanding China's Urbanization

    The Great Demographic, Spatial, Economic, and Social Transformation

    by Li Zhang, Richard LeGates, Min Zhao ...
    China's urbanization is one of the great earth-changing phenomena of recent times. The way in which China continues to urbanize will have a critical impact on the world economy, global climate change, international relations and a host of other critical issues. Understanding and responding to China's urbanization is of paramount importance to everyone. This book represents a unique exploration of ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD