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  • THE LANTERN RUNNERS: Chinese Teenagers in Japanese-Occupied Shanghai Who Used Paper Lantern Signals to Guide Allied Bomber Pilots at Night

    by Wei Shen-Calloway ...
    In the winter of 1943, in a city strangled by Japanese military occupation, a group of Chinese teenagers discovered that the most dangerous weapon they possessed was a paper lantern.Shanghai had fallen. Its streets belonged to the kempeitai. Its docks fed a war machine that stretched across half of Asia. And somewhere above the clouds, Allied bombers circled in the dark, unable to find what they ... Read more

    $8.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Incentive Bargaining and Corporate Governance

    Comparative Enterprise Law among the US, Japan, and China

    by Zenichi Shishido, Wei Shen ...
    This comparative analysis of business systems examines firms and enterprises across three major economies in the world: the US, China and Japan. It asks how the law relates to business practice, economic growth and social development; and how enterprise law maximizes firm value in these three jurisdictions. The divergent legal, social and economic approaches towards the market, firms, and business ... Read more

    $122.99 USD

  • Hands-On Computer Vision

    by Wei Shen, Chongjie Si, Chen Yang, Yong Yu ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    Computer vision is an application-oriented field, where various applications correspond to distinct computer vision tasks. Consequently, this book is organized based on the taxonomy of these tasks: image processing, visual recognition, and scene reconstruction.Image processing, the foundational step, includes topics like convolution, edge detection, and image segmentation, often referred to as low ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • China's Foreign Investment Law in the New Normal

    Framing the Trajectory and Dynamics

    by Shen Wei ...
    This book analyzes China's new foreign investment law which came into force in January 2020. The new law implemented sweeping changes and overhauled China’s foreign investment law regime of the last four decades. The foreign investment law aims to make the business environment more investor-friendly and address some of the contentious issues between US and China in the ongoing trade war.The book ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Fine-Grained Image Analysis: Modern Approaches

    by Xiu-Shen Wei ...
    Series series eBColl Synthesis Collection 12
    This book provides a comprehensive overview of the fine-grained image analysis research and modern approaches based on deep learning, spanning the full range of topics needed for designing operational fine-grained image systems. The author begins by providing detailed background information on FGIA, focusing on recognition and retrieval. The author also provides the fundamentals of convolutional ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Decoding Chinese Bilateral Investment Treaties

    by Shen Wei ...
    This is a major work investigating China's bilateral investment treaties (BITs) regime through various approaches including textual analysis, case study, comparative study and empirical study. This book tries to unveil some of the puzzles in Chinese BITs. The general consensus is that the evolution of China's BIT regime has its underlying logic, which follows an investment liberalization trend and ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • Conceptualizing the Regulatory Thicket

    China's Financial Markets after the Global Financial Crisis

    by Shen Wei ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Finance and Banking Law
    This book examines the regulatory framework, regulatory objectives, regulatory logics, regulatory instruments, regulatory failures, and regulatory responses in China’s financial market after the global financial crisis. The book provides an in-depth analysis of China’s contemporary financial regulatory system, focusing on risks, regulation, and policies in practice. By drawing on public and ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Shadow Banking in China

    Risk, Regulation and Policy

    by Shen Wei ...
    In light of the current regulatory regime in China's banking sector, this book investigates the causes, key forms, potential risks and regulation of shadow banking in China.The first China-specific book of its kind, the author takes policy considerations into account whilst providing an analysis of the regulatory instruments tackling the systematic risks in its banking as well as shadow banking ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Information Theory Tools for Visualization

    by Min Chen, Miquel Feixas, Ivan Viola, Anton Bardera, Han-Wei Shen, Mateu Sbert ...
    Series series AK Peters Visualization Series
    This book explores Information theory (IT) tools, which have become state of the art to solve and understand better many of the problems in visualization. This book covers all relevant literature up to date. It is the first book solely devoted to this subject, written by leading experts in the field. ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Community Structure of Complex Networks

    by Hua-Wei Shen ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    Community structure is a salient structural characteristic of many real-world networks. Communities are generally hierarchical, overlapping, multi-scale and coexist with other types of structural regularities of networks. This poses major challenges for conventional methods of community detection. This book will comprehensively introduce the latest advances in community detection, especially the ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Private Law in China and Taiwan

    Legal and Economic Analyses

    Edited by Yun-chien Chang, Wei Shen, Wen-yeu Wang ...
    Past research and literature suggest that legal institutions drive economic development. Yet China has grown for decades without the fundamental legal infrastructure that was once considered necessary. This is called the 'China puzzle' or the 'China myth'. By carefully comparing the four key branches of private law in China and Taiwan - a jurisdiction that grew with modest legal institutions and ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • International Investment Law at the Juncture

    An Asian Perspective

    Edited by Shen Wei ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    The book focuses on some of the most pressing issues in international investment law in Asia, such as the role of developing countries, the rebalancing between the investors’ rights protection and the host states’ right to regulate, the ISDS reform, among others. The book investigates these issues by looking into the bilateral investment treaties and investment arbitration cases in the region.The ... Read more

    $224.09 USD