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  • Theorizing Chinese Citizenship

    by Zhonghua Guo, Taihui Guo, Thomas Janoski, Kerry Kennedy, Hui Li, Samantha A. Vortherms, Canglong Wang, Ying Xia, Bin Xiao0, Yihan Xiong1, Yi Lin2, Zhenzhou Zhao3, Malgorzata Jakimów4, Bing Guan5 ...
    Series series Challenges Facing Chinese Political Development
    This volume theorizes the concept of citizenship in contemporary China by probing into the formation of Chinese citizenship and synthesizing the practices of citizenship by different social groups. The first section, “Imagining Chinese Citizenship,” analyses how Chinese citizenship was first imagined by means of translation and education at the beginning of the twentieth century. The Chinese ... Read more

    $109.39 USD

  • Chinese Approaches to Global Governance

    BRI and Building a Community of the Shared Future for Mankind in Sino–U.S. and Sino–Africa Contexts

    by Wenshan Jia, Wenshan Jia, Bin Xia ...
    Series Book 4 - The Belt and Road Initiative
    There is a pressing need for a greater understanding among the world’s diverse peoples. Once individuals gain an appreciation of each other’s language and history, they can use this foundation to help construct a more peaceful, harmonious, cooperative and equitable world. But how can they begin to work toward this goal? In 2013 China proposed the Community of Shared Future (CSF), which has since ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Large-scale Graph Analysis: System, Algorithm and Optimization

    by Yingxia Shao, Bin Cui, Lei Chen ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    This book introduces readers to a workload-aware methodology for large-scale graph algorithm optimization in graph-computing systems, and proposes several optimization techniques that can enable these systems to handle advanced graph algorithms efficiently. More concretely, it proposes a workload-aware cost model to guide the development of high-performance algorithms. On the basis of the cost ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

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  • The European Union Explained

    Institutions, Actors, Global Impact

    by Andreas Staab ...
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  • China and the World in a Changing Context

    Perspectives from Ambassadors to China

    Edited by Huiyao Wang, Lu Miao ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book is open access under a CC BY-NC-ND license.Ambassadors are a kind of vehicle and bellwether for globalization. These diplomatic envoys serve as pivotal contact points between nations across a wide range of fields, from economics and culture to health and the environment. The special group of ambassadors in this book – those based in Beijing – are at the forefront of what for many ... Read more

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  • The Essential UN

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    Everything you always wanted to know about the United Nations in one book! This primer to the United Nations is designed for all global citizens. It covers the history of the UN, what it does and how it does it. As the world’s only truly global organization,the United Nations is where countries meet to address universal issues that cannot be resolved by any one of them acting alone. From ... Read more

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  • Global Game Change

    How the Global Southern Belt will reshape our world

    by John Naisbitt, Doris Naisbitt ...
    They captured the essence of the times in their massively influential book Megatrends (selling 14 000 000), so will Global Game Change; where it offers analysis and an indispensable road map of the transforming of the global landscape – enabling entrepreneurs, corporations and governments to reposition themselves to new global conditions.Our purpose, wrote John and Doris Naisbitt, in this book is ... Read more

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  • China and Africa

    A Century of Engagement

    by David H. Shinn, Joshua Eisenman ...
    The People's Republic of China once limited its involvement in African affairs to building an occasional railroad or port, supporting African liberation movements, and loudly proclaiming socialist solidarity with the downtrodden of the continent. Now Chinese diplomats and Chinese companies, both state-owned and private, along with an influx of Chinese workers, have spread throughout Africa. This ... Read more

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  • Understanding China’s Belt and Road Initiative

    by Hong Yu ...
    Series Book 26 - Asia in Transition
    This open access book provokes critical thinking regarding the most ambitious Chinese project since the founding of the People’s Republic of China, The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The book presents extensive quality research and original insights in assessing the status of China’s outbound investment and construction projects under the BRI umbrella. Referring to case studies and projects of ... Read more

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  • Chinese Investment in Africa

    How African Countries Can Position Themselves to Benefit from China’s Foray into Africa

    by David N. Abdulai ...
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  • Conflict Among Nations

    Trade Policies In The 1990s

    Edited by Thomas R. Howell ...
    This book presents a study of the trade objectives and strategies of Japan, Germany, South Korea, Taiwan, Brazil and the European Community, and of the implications of the policies for both the US and the international trading system of the 1990s. ... Read more

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