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The United States and China

A History from the Eighteenth Century to the Present

by Dong Wang ...

Series series Asia/Pacific/Perspectives
Now fully revised and updated, The United States and China offers a comprehensive synthesis of US-Chinese relations from initial contact to the present. Balancing the modern (1784–1949) and contemporary (1949–present) periods, Dong Wang retraces centuries of interaction between two of the world’s great powers from the perspective of both sides. She examines state-to-state diplomacy, as well as ... Read more

$39.99 USD

Now fully revised and updated, The United States and China offers a comprehensive synthesis of US-Chinese relations from initial contact to the present. Balancing the modern (1784–1949) and contemporary (1949–present) periods, Dong Wang retraces centuries of interaction between two of the world’s great powers from the perspective of both sides. She examines state-to-state diplomacy, as well as
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Longmen's Stone Buddhas and Cultural Heritage

When Antiquity Met Modernity in China

by Dong Wang ...

Series series Asia/Pacific/Perspectives
This thoroughly researched book provides the first comprehensive history of how a UNESCO World Heritage site on the Central China Plain, Longmen’s caves and the Buddhist statuary of Luoyang, was rediscovered in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Drawing on original research and archival sources in Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese, and Swedish, as well as extensive fieldwork, Dong ... Read more

$34.99 USD

This thoroughly researched book provides the first comprehensive history of how a UNESCO World Heritage site on the Central China Plain, Longmen’s caves and the Buddhist statuary of Luoyang, was rediscovered in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Drawing on original research and archival sources in Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese, and Swedish, as well as extensive fieldwork, Dong
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China's Unequal Treaties

Narrating National History

by Dong Wang ...

Series series AsiaWorld
This study, based on primary sources, deals with the linguistic development and polemical uses of the expression Unequal Treaties, which refers to the treaties China signed between 1842 and 1946. Although this expression has occupied a central position in both Chinese collective memory and Chinese and English historiographies, this is the first book to offer an in-depth examination of China's ... Read more

$47.99 USD

This study, based on primary sources, deals with the linguistic development and polemical uses of the expression Unequal Treaties, which refers to the treaties China signed between 1842 and 1946. Although this expression has occupied a central position in both Chinese collective memory and Chinese and English historiographies, this is the first book to offer an in-depth examination of China's
... Read more
Managing God's Higher Learning

U.S.-China Cultural Encounter and Canton Christian College (Lingnan University), 1888-1952

by Dong Wang ...

Managing God's Higher Learning offers a distinct empirical study of Lingnan University and addresses issues of adaptation and integration. Author, Dong Wang, demonstrates that many aspects of Lingnan - governance, links with the local society, financial management, education for women - have either never been made the subject of scholarly discussion or are different from what we think we know ... Read more

$49.99 USD

Managing God's Higher Learning offers a distinct empirical study of Lingnan University and addresses issues of adaptation and integration. Author, Dong Wang, demonstrates that many aspects of Lingnan - governance, links with the local society, financial management, education for women - have either never been made the subject of scholarly discussion or are different from what we think we know
... Read more
Sparsity Measures and their Signal Processing Applications for Machine Condition Monitoring

by Dong Wang, Bingchang Hou ...

Sparsity Measures and their Signal Processing Applications for Machine Condition Monitoring presents newly designed sparsity measures and their advanced signal processing technologies for machine condition monitoring and fault diagnosis. This book systematically covers new sparsity measures including a quasiarithmetic mean ratio framework for fault signatures quantification, a generalized Gini ... Read more

$134.99 USD

Sparsity Measures and their Signal Processing Applications for Machine Condition Monitoring presents newly designed sparsity measures and their advanced signal processing technologies for machine condition monitoring and fault diagnosis. This book systematically covers new sparsity measures including a quasiarithmetic mean ratio framework for fault signatures quantification, a generalized Gini
... Read more
Machine Performance Degradation Assessment

Convex Optimization Models and Their Interpretable Data Fusion Applications

by Dong Wang, Tongtong Yan ...

Machine Performance Degradation Assessment: Convex Optimization Models and Their Interpretable Data Fusion Applications is an essential resource for industry professionals and researchers seeking to understand the latest trends in performance degradation assessment technologies. This comprehensive guide delves into the fundamental theories of convex optimization models while exploring cutting-edge ... Read more

$152.99 USD

Machine Performance Degradation Assessment: Convex Optimization Models and Their Interpretable Data Fusion Applications is an essential resource for industry professionals and researchers seeking to understand the latest trends in performance degradation assessment technologies. This comprehensive guide delves into the fundamental theories of convex optimization models while exploring cutting-edge
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Employment Law in China

A Practical Guide

by Dong Wang, Peng Zhao ...

This book provides clear and concise explanations to over 200 questions on China’s current employment laws. It helps readers answer the question: “What are my rights and what should I do?” in given practical situations.Adopting a question-and-answer format, the book covers a wide range of topics including labor dispute procedures, employer obligations and immunities, employee entitlements, work ... Read more

$94.99 USD

This book provides clear and concise explanations to over 200 questions on China’s current employment laws. It helps readers answer the question: “What are my rights and what should I do?” in given practical situations.Adopting a question-and-answer format, the book covers a wide range of topics including labor dispute procedures, employer obligations and immunities, employee entitlements, work
... Read more
Social Sensing

Building Reliable Systems on Unreliable Data

by Dong Wang, Tarek Abdelzaher, Lance Kaplan ...

Increasingly, human beings are sensors engaging directly with the mobile Internet. Individuals can now share real-time experiences at an unprecedented scale. Social Sensing: Building Reliable Systems on Unreliable Data looks at recent advances in the emerging field of social sensing, emphasizing the key problem faced by application designers: how to extract reliable information from data collected ... Read more

$89.99 USD

Increasingly, human beings are sensors engaging directly with the mobile Internet. Individuals can now share real-time experiences at an unprecedented scale. Social Sensing: Building Reliable Systems on Unreliable Data looks at recent advances in the emerging field of social sensing, emphasizing the key problem faced by application designers: how to extract reliable information from data collected
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Social Intelligence

The New Frontier of Integrating Human Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence in Social Space

by Dong Wang, Lanyu Shang, Yang Zhang ...

Series series Social Sciences (R0)
Given the rise of AI and the advent of online collaboration opportunities (e.g., social media, crowdsourcing), emerging research has started to investigate the integration of AI and human intelligence, especially in a collaborative social context. This creates unprecedented challenges and opportunities in the field of Social Intelligence (SI), where the goal is to explore the collective ... Read more

$98.99 USD

Given the rise of AI and the advent of online collaboration opportunities (e.g., social media, crowdsourcing), emerging research has started to investigate the integration of AI and human intelligence, especially in a collaborative social context. This creates unprecedented challenges and opportunities in the field of Social Intelligence (SI), where the goal is to explore the collective
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Social Edge Computing

Empowering Human-Centric Edge Computing, Learning and Intelligence

by Dong Wang, Daniel 'Yue' Zhang ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
The rise of the Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) leads to the emergence of edge computing systems that push the training and deployment of AI models to the edge of networks for reduced bandwidth cost, improved responsiveness, and better privacy protection, allowing for the ubiquitous AI that can happen anywhere and anytime. Motivated by the above trend, this book ... Read more

$161.99 USD

The rise of the Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) leads to the emergence of edge computing systems that push the training and deployment of AI models to the edge of networks for reduced bandwidth cost, improved responsiveness, and better privacy protection, allowing for the ubiquitous AI that can happen anywhere and anytime. Motivated by the above trend, this book
... Read more
Tse Tsan Tai (1872–1938)

An Australian-Cantonese Opinion Maker in British Hong Kong

by Dr Dong Wang, PhD, Dr Dong Wang, PhD ...

Series series Asian Studies
Who was Tse Tsan Tai? Insurrectionist? Socialite? Patriot? Revolutionary?Born and raised in Australia and trained in Anglo-Hong Kong’s civil service, Tse Tsan Tai (1872–1938) was all of these and more. A first native media man and anti-Qing patriot, he advocated independent thinking and a free China. Through the lens of his life, this book explores a composite identity, touching on themes of ... Read more

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Who was Tse Tsan Tai? Insurrectionist? Socialite? Patriot? Revolutionary?Born and raised in Australia and trained in Anglo-Hong Kong’s civil service, Tse Tsan Tai (1872–1938) was all of these and more. A first native media man and anti-Qing patriot, he advocated independent thinking and a free China. Through the lens of his life, this book explores a composite identity, touching on themes of
... Read more
Pomegranate, The

Botany, Production and Uses

by Nahla Abdel-Fattah Awd, Shinsuke Agehara, Hamid Ahmadpourmir, Mehdi Alizadeh, Mahdi Asgari, Sedigheh Asgary, James Ayars, Zohreh Azadeh, Farhad Azarmi-Atajan, Dhinesh Babu, Julián Bartual, Maria Cano-Lamadrid, Ángle A. Carbonell-Barrachina, Salvador Castillo, John M Chater, Ferdinando Cossio, Morteza Djamali, Sadegh Dodman, Mohammad Hosein Farzaei, Giuseppe Ferrara, Nilesh N Gaikwad, María E. García-Pastor, G A Geetha, Angelica Giancaspro, Seyed Hossein Goldansaz, Fabián Guillén, Mallikarjun M. Harsur, Mohammad Hassani, Fatemeh Hoseinzadeh-chahkandak, Lefeng Hou, Soroush Hozeifi, Diego S Intrigliolo, Eghbal Jasemi, Mahtab Keshvari, Zhenyu Jia, Hamid R. Karimi, Mehdi Khayyat, Jiyu Li, Chunyan Liu, Zahra Lorigooini, Mahshid Sedaghat, Ashish Maity, Girigowda Manjunath, Domingo Martínez-Romero, Giuseppe Massimino Cocuzza, Andrea Mazzeo, Jorge Medina, Donald J Merhaut, Mohammad H Mirjalili, Jeff Moersfelder, Saeideh Momtaz, Ziyafet Mustafayeva, Diganta Narzary, Marino Palasciano, Lluís Palou, Shilpa Parashuram, Nita B. Patil, Prakash G Patil, María B Pérez-Gag, Ali Mohammad Pourbagher-Shahri, John Preece, Herminia Puerto, Gaihua Qin, Roja Rahimi, Mehdi Rezaei, Muhammaad A Saeedi, Sara Saeidi Ghavi, Steven A. Sargent, Yahya Selahvarzi, María Serrano, Jyotsana Sharma, Rouhollah Shirazi, Zohreh Shirazi, K.S Shivashankara, Zeinab Shokoohi, Tikam S. Rana, Nripendra V Singh, Asiye Soleymani, Federica Spagnoli, Daniel Valero, Gary Vallad, Feryal Varasteh, Dong Wang, Katia V Xavier, Nima Yazdanbakhsh, Cenap Yilmaz, Pedro J. Zapata, Abdolkarim Zarei ...

Series series Botany, Production and Uses
The pomegranate, Punica granatum L., is one of the oldest known edible fruits and is associated with the ancient civilizations of the Middle East. This is the first comprehensive book covering the botany, production, processing, health and industrial uses of the pomegranate. The cultivation of this fruit for fresh consumption, juice production and medicinal purposes has expanded more than tenfold ... Read more

$178.99 USD

The pomegranate, Punica granatum L., is one of the oldest known edible fruits and is associated with the ancient civilizations of the Middle East. This is the first comprehensive book covering the botany, production, processing, health and industrial uses of the pomegranate. The cultivation of this fruit for fresh consumption, juice production and medicinal purposes has expanded more than tenfold
... Read more

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