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  • Comparative Studies on Regional and National Economic Development

    by Hui Zhang, Yuxuan Tang, Tian Yi ...
    Translated by Ruoxi Li ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book is devoted to quantify the role of the world's major economies in the international division from the perspective of global value chains and clarify the value cycle system between China and developed and developing economies. This book establishes a theoretical paradigm that conforms to the current world economic structure. That is, the world economic structure gradually shifts from a ... Read more

    $153.69 CAD

  • Aging Welfare and Social Policy

    China and the Nordic Countries in Comparative Perspective

    Edited by Tian-kui Jing, Stein Kuhnle, Yi Pan, Sheying Chen ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This perceptive volume presents conceptual, theoretical, and empirical approaches to social policy analysis comparing China and Nordic countries in their treatment of the elderly. An international panel of experts offers valuable policy insights into issues of housing, community care, family care, pensions and social security, and mental health as China translates and adapts Western examples, ... Read more

    $153.69 CAD

  • Urbanization and Party Survival in China

    People vs. Power

    by Xiaofen Chen, Qiang Fang, Zhaohui Hong, Jianjun Ji, Ting Jiang, Jianfeng Jin, Xiaoxiao Li, Guoqiang Shen, Jingyi Song, Linda Wang, Guangqiu Xu0, Dongyu Yang1, Changyong Yu2, Yunqiu Zhang3, Kun Zhao4, Xiaobing Li6, Xiansheng Tian8, Yi Sun9, Patrick Fuliang Shan0 ...
    While the Chinese urban movement has successfully transferred surplus labor from the countryside to urban industries that urgently require free and cheap labor, numerous problems have arisen as a result of the unprecedented huge-scale process. Such conditions such as overcrowding, substandard housing, lack of social services, corruption, and abuse of power have often reached crisis stage. American ... Read more

    $136.79 CAD

  • Optimization Based Data Mining: Theory and Applications

    by Yong Shi, Yingjie Tian, Gang Kou, Yi Peng, Jianping Li ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    Optimization techniques have been widely adopted to implement various data mining algorithms. In addition to well-known Support Vector Machines (SVMs) (which are based on quadratic programming), different versions of Multiple Criteria Programming (MCP) have been extensively used in data separations. Since optimization based data mining methods differ from statistics, decision tree induction, and ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

  • A Century of Student Movements in China

    The Mountain Movers, 1919–2019

    by Peng Deng, Xiaojia Hou, Ting Jiang, Danke Li, Hongshan Li, Liyan Liu, Pingchao Zhu, Xiaoxiao Li, Yi Sun, Xiansheng Tian, Patrick Fuliang Shan ...
    In this book the authors offer their unique perspectives on the important roles Chinese students and intellectuals played in the shaping of the twentieth-century China. Their answers to these pivotal questions explore new nationalistic spirit, modern world-views, and willingness of self-sacrifice, which had attributed to the spontaneous actions of the students as a “New Culture” emerged during the ... Read more

    $158.09 CAD

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  • How China Escaped the Poverty Trap

    by Yuen Yuen Ang ...
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    by Ruchir Sharma ...
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  • The Oxford Handbook of Asian Business Systems

    Edited by Michael A. Witt, Gordon Redding ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Much of the existing literature within the "varieties of capitalism " (VOC) and "comparative business systems " fields of research is heavily focused on Europe, Japan, and the Anglo-Saxon nations. As a result, the field has yet to produce a detailed empirical picture of the institutional structures of most Asian nations and to explore to what extent existing theory applies to the Asian context. ... Read more

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    An International Evaluation

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  • EU Cohesion Policy

    Reassessing performance and direction

    Edited by John Bachtler, Peter Berkowitz, Sally Hardy, Tatjana Muravska ...
    The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.tandfebooks.com/doi/view/10.4324/9781315401867, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license.This book brings together academics, members of European institutions, and regional and national level policymakers in order to assess the performance and direction of EU Cohesion policy ... Read more

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