This book offers a comprehensive review of the far-reaching social changes that have taken place since the start of the Chinese economic reform and opening up of the Chinese society over 30 years ago.
China's success on economic growth and its exploration on political reform in the past few decades have attracted the attention from worldwide economic and political experts. This book studies China's
After over 30 years of reform and opening up, China’s aggregate economic volume is now the second largest in the world. Over the past decade many provinces in the western region of China have implemen
Contributors to this volume update readers on developments in areas such as income and consumption, industrial transformation and the job market, social security, healthcare, education, quality of lif
This volume gives an overview of China’s social conditions. Issues discussed include trends in the job market, income, consumption, social security, internet development and others. Groups such as urb
Chinese Research Perspectives on Society, Vol. 2 includes analyses of some important social issues in China for 2011-2013, including the urban-rural income and its reform; new development in Chinese s
Along with the fast growing economy, the term “BRICs” was coined to represent the newly emerging countries, Brazil, Russia, India and China. The enhanced economy in these countries has largely improve
Presents a detailed and in-depth introduction to the economic and technical foundations of modern electricity markets operating with locational marginal price (LMP).Based on the author’s graduate-leve
In this complete survey of the theories, methods, and key findings within applied linguistics, students are introduced to core research questions and the various approaches to tackling these.Provides
This book represents a collection of papers presented at the 2nd World Congress on Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME), a specialty conference organized by The Minerals, Metals &
Youzheng presents a four-volume set (republication) which is meant to introduce a more realistic picture of Chinese historical ethics and the related classical school. He aims to present more relevant
This set collects the authoritative and acclaimed Drug Synthesis books that Jie Jack Li and Douglas Johnson edited:Contemporary Drug SynthesisThe Art of Drug SynthesisModern Drug Synthesis
Corporate executives struggle to harness the power of social technologies. Twitter, Facebook, blogs, YouTube are where customers discuss products and companies, write their own news, and find their ow
Focusing on the materials suitable for biosensor applications, such as nanoparticles, quantum dots, meso- and nanoporous materials and nanotubes, this text enables the reader to prepare the respective
This symposium represents Jim Evans, Professor of Metallurgy Emeritus and the P. Malozemoff Professor Emeritus in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Berkele
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The book is engineering oriented and covers a large variety of topics ranging from fundamental principles to performance evaluation and applications. It is written systematically and completely on the
