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  • The Good Child

    Moral Development in a Chinese Preschool

    by Jing Xu ...
    Chinese academic traditions take zuo ren—self-fulfillment in terms of moral cultivation—as the ultimate goal of education. To many in contemporary China, however, the nation seems gripped by moral decay, the result of rapid and profound social change over the course of the twentieth century. Placing Chinese children, alternately seen as China's greatest hope and derided as self-centered "little ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • ‘Unruly’ Children

    Historical Fieldnotes and Learning Morality in a Taiwan Village

    by Jing Xu ...
    Series series New Departures in Anthropology
    How do we become moral persons? What about children's active learning in contrast to parenting? What can children teach us about knowledge-making more broadly? Answer these questions by delving into the groundbreaking ethnographic fieldwork conducted by anthropologists Arthur and Margery Wolf in a martial law era Taiwanese village (1958-60), marking the first-ever study of ethnic Han children. ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • Robotic Intelligent Assembly

    by Jing Xu, Hao Su, Rui Chen, Zhimin Hou ...
    Series series Intelligent Technologies and Robotics (R0)
    This book explores peg-in-hole assembly strategies to study robotic intelligent assembly. It presents several state-of-the-art principles for peg-in-hole assembly strategies, supported by experimental evidence. In pursuit of theoretical innovation, the author summarizes their research on robotic intelligent assembly over the past decade, highlighting the limitations of model-based algorithms in ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

  • Cross-Cultural Schooling Experiences of Chinese Immigrant Families

    In Search of Home in Times of Transition

    by Shijing Xu ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book introduces the concept of reciprocal educational learning among cultures with very different historical and philosophical origins. The concept of reciprocal learning grows out of a four year study of immigrant Chinese family narrative experiences in a Western context. This book captures the lived moments of such transitional lives both in and out of school settings to demonstrate why a ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Maritime Cross-Border Insolvency under the UNCITRAL Model Law Regime

    Commonwealth and US Perspectives

    by Dr Jingchen Xu ...
    This book covers the pressing issues of cross-border cases involving admiralty and bankruptcy law. For example, what should happen when a shipowner files an insolvency proceeding in one country, while at the same time facing an in rem action against its vessel in another country? Should the in rem action arising in one country be stayed or dismissed because of the existence of insolvency ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

  • West-East Reciprocal Learning in a Canada-China Sister School Network

    Stories of Hope

    Edited by Yishin Khoo, Michael Connelly, Shijing Xu ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This volume provides a comprehensive cross-cultural knowledge base and understanding of school education, teacher education, and the cultural contexts of education in China and the West. It achieves this by bringing together diverse Chinese and Canadian school educators and educational researchers to reframe Sino-Western relationships within the Canada-China Sister School Network, especially ... Read more

    $152.09 USD

  • Finite Frequency Analysis and Synthesis for Singularly Perturbed Systems

    by Chenxiao Cai, Zidong Wang, Jing Xu, Yun Zou ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book is a self-contained collection of recent research findings providing a comprehensive and systematic unified framework for both analysis and synthesis for singularly perturbed systems. It paves the way for the gap between frequency-domain-transfer-function-based results and time-domain-state-space-based results to be bridged.It is divided into three parts focusing on: fundamental ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • 5G Wireless Systems

    Simulation and Evaluation Techniques

    by Guang Shi, Jing Xu, Cheng-Xiang Wang, Yang Yang ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book focuses on key simulation and evaluation technologies for 5G systems. Based on the most recent research results from academia and industry, it describes the evaluation methodologies in depth for network and physical layer technologies. The evaluation methods are discussed in depth. It also covers the analysis of the 5G candidate technologies and the testing challenges, the evolution of ... Read more

    $152.09 USD

  • Reciprocal Learning between Canada and China in Language and Culture Education

    Edited by Shijing Xu, Luxin Yang, Yuhan Deng, Shuai Fu ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book engages Canadian and Chinese language educators, graduate students, pre-service teachers, school principals and teachers in an enhanced reciprocal learning process by collaboratively reflecting on and writing up the school-based language curriculum projects and school-based language teachers’ professional development activities in Canada-China sister schools. The objective is to develop ... Read more

    $179.09 USD

  • West-East Reciprocal Learning in Teacher Education

    From Knowing to Doing

    Edited by Shijing Xu, Yibing Liu, Zuochen Zhang, Michael Connelly, Chenkai Chi ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    During this uncertain time, teacher education has never been more needed for West-East dialogues and Reciprocal Learning. Xu and Connelly’s concept of reciprocal learning aims to harmonize the West-East dichotomy and foster appreciation in education and understanding of each other’s culture and history. This book focuses on the field work done by the Teacher Education Research Team with chapter ... Read more

    $179.09 USD

  • Atlas of Cleft Lip and Palate & Facial Deformity Surgery

    Edited by Jian-min Yao, Jing-hong Xu ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    This book consists the basic theories and comprehensive skills of surgery, plastic surgery and chin surgery. The book contains more than 1900 color surgical photos, which mainly from lip and palate surgery in “Operation Smile” and the accumulation in decades of clinical practice. It briefly introduces various surgical methods of cleft lip and palate and alternative methods, procedures and steps of ... Read more

    $242.09 USD

  • Microalgae Biotechnology for Food, Health and High Value Products

    Edited by Md. Asraful Alam, Jing-Liang Xu, Zhongming Wang ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    "Microalgae Biotechnology for Food, Health and High Value Products” presents the latest technological innovations in microalgae production, market status of algal biomass-based products, and future prospects for microalgal applications. It provides stimulating overviews from different perspectives of application that demonstrate how rapidly the commercial production of microalgae-based food, ... Read more

    $170.09 USD