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  • Transnational Social Protection

    Social Welfare across National Borders

    by Peggy Levitt, Ken Chih-Yan Sun, Ruxandra Paul, Erica Dobbs ...
    Argues that a new set of transnational social welfare arrangements has emerged that challenge traditional social welfare provision based on national citizenship and residence. The idea that social rights are something we are eligible for based on where we live or where we are citizens is out-of-date. In Transnational Social Protection, Peggy Levitt, Erica Dobbs, Ken Chih-Yan Sun, and Ruxandra ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Child Development in Contemporary China

    Translated by Sun Yan, Wang Lianjiang ...
    by Wang Xiuping ...
    This book delves deep into the remarkable transformation of Chinese children, who now represent the nation’s future and hope. With “Chinese children” as the central focus and national policies and statistical data as the basis, it explores the Chinese government’s consistent attention and significant investment in children’s survival and development, as well as the evolution of the protection of ... Read more

    $85.99 USD

  • From Empire to Nation State

    Ethnic Politics in China

    by Yan Sun ...
    Many scholars perceive ethnic politics in China as an untouchable topic due to lack of data and contentious, even prohibitive, politics. This book fills a gap in the literature, offering a historical-political perspective on China's contemporary ethnic conflict. Yan Sun accumulates research via field trips, local reports, and policy debates to reveal rare knowledge and findings. Her long-time ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • High-Orders Motion Analysis

    Computer Vision Methods

    by Yan Sun ...
    This book shows how different types of motion can be disambiguated into their components in a richer way than that currently possible in computer vision.Previous research of motion analysis has generally not yet considered the basic nature of higher orders of motion such as acceleration. Hence, this book introduces an approximation of the acceleration field using established optical flow ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • From Crisis to Catastrophe

    Care, COVID, and Pathways to Change

    by Joan C. Tronto, Juliana Martínez Franzoni, Veena Siddharth, Ito Peng, Odichinma Akosionu, Janette S. Dill, J'Mag Karbeah, Laura Mauldin, Pat Armstrong, Janna Klostermann, María Nieves Rico, Laura Pautassi, Valeria Esquivel, Pilar Gonalons-Pons, Johanna S. Quinn, Zitha Mokomane, Ameeta Jaga, Ken Chih-Yan Sun, Franziska Dorn, Nancy Folbre, Leila Gautham, Martha MacDonald, Sabrina Marchetti, Merita Mesiäislehto, Orly Benjamin, Thurid Eggers, Christopher Grages, Birgit Pfau-Effinger, Cynthia J. Cranford, Cindy L. Cain, Helen Dickinson, Catherine Smith, Katherine Ravenswood, Julie Kashen ...
    Series series Carework in a Changing World
    The COVID pandemic has shaken the material and social foundations of the world more than any event in recent history and has highlighted and exacerbated a longstanding crisis of care. While these challenges may be freshly visible to the public, they are not new. Over the last three decades, a growing body of care scholarship has documented the inadequacy of the social organization of care around ... Read more

    $25.89 USD

  • Time and Migration

    How Long-Term Taiwanese Migrants Negotiate Later Life

    by Ken Chih-Yan Sun ...
    Winner of the Richard Kalish Innovative Publication Book Award from the Gerontological Society of America, and Winner of the Outstanding Publication Book Award of the American Sociological Association's Aging and Life Course Section.Based on longitudinal ethnographic work on migration between the United States and Taiwan, Time and Migrationinterrogates how long-term immigrants negotiate their ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Many Worlds Under One Heaven

    Material Culture, Identity, and Power in the Northern Frontiers of the Western Zhou, 1045–771 BCE

    by Yan Sun ...
    Series series Tang Center Series in Early China
    In the mid-eleventh century BCE, the Zhou overthrew the Shang, a dynastic power that had dominated much of northern and central China. Over the next three centuries, they would extend the borders of their political control significantly beyond those of the Shang. The Zhou introduced a political ideology centered on the Mandate of Heaven to justify their victory over the Shang and their territorial ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Many Worlds Under One Heaven

    Material Culture, Identity, and Power in the Northern Frontiers of the Western Zhou, 1045–771 BCE

    by Yan Sun ...
    Series series Tang Center Series in Early China
    In the mid-eleventh century BCE, the Zhou overthrew the Shang, a dynastic power that had dominated much of northern and central China. Over the next three centuries, they would extend the borders of their political control significantly beyond those of the Shang. The Zhou introduced a political ideology centered on the Mandate of Heaven to justify their victory over the Shang and their territorial ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Ancient China and its Eurasian Neighbors

    Artifacts, Identity and Death in the Frontier, 3000–700 BCE

    by Katheryn M. Linduff, Yan Sun, Wei Cao, Yuanqing Liu ...
    This volume examines the role of objects in the region north of early dynastic state centers, at the intersection of Ancient China and Eurasia, a large area that stretches from Xinjiang to the China Sea, from c.3000 BCE to the mid-eighth century BCE. This area was a frontier, an ambiguous space that lay at the margins of direct political control by the metropolitan states, where local and colonial ... Read more

    $121.39 USD

  • The Chinese Reassessment of Socialism, 1976-1992

    by Yan Sun ...
    A momentous debate has been unfolding in China over the last fifteen years, only intermittently in public view, concerning the merits of socialism as a philosophy of social justice and as a program for national development. Just as Deng Xiaoping's better advertised experiment with market- based reforms has challenged Marxist-Leninist dogma on economic policy, the years since the death of Mao ... Read more

    $62.69 USD

  • Gen Z's Fashion Revolution

    Understanding the influence of Gen Z on Fashion Brands

    Edited by Eleonora Cattaneo, Yan Sun ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This book explores the significant changes that the fashion industry is undergoing as a result of the powerful influence of Gen Z - a demographic that demands authenticity, diversity, and sustainability from the brands they interact with. Understanding and catering to the interests of Gen Z is vital for fashion brands who want to remain competitive, build brand loyalty, and secure future success ... Read more

    $179.09 USD

  • Punishing Transgression in Honor Culture and Face Culture

    by Mine Krause, Yan Sun, Michael Steppat ...
    Series Book 37 - Cross Cultural Communication
    In the world’s so-called honor and face cultures, certain values and codes related to the protection of a family’s stainless reputation are deep-rooted. When they are violated by what is perceived as an immoral action, and the respective transgression becomes known, the honor not only of the deviant, but also of the in-group itself is damaged. This leads to stigmatization followed by collective ... Read more

    $66.59 USD