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Emissions Trading Systems (ETS) have been hailed as a game changer
for the evolving climate crisis. This book provides an in-depth
analysis of China’s carbon ETS, including its legal and policy
frameworks, carbon market mechanisms, and international and
comparative implications. With nine cutting-edge topics divided
into three thematic parts, this comprehensive book probes the
essential concepts, contemporary research, and key elements of
carbon emissions trading in China. Multidisciplinary in scope, the
book draws on insights from law, policy, economics, environmental
management, and geopolitics, to provide a comprehensive and nuanced
analysis of the development of carbon emissions trading in China.
Placing China’s carbon ETS within the broader context of
international efforts to address climate change, it provides a
comparative perspective with international value. This book will be
an essential resource for scholars and researchers of international
and comparative climate law and policy, environmental management,
economics, and climate politics. It will prove an indispensable
guide for students of Chinese law, climate law, environmental
policy, and comparative environmental law. Practitioners,
policymakers, and government officials working in climate
governance seeking the state-of-the-art of the development of ETS
in China will also benefit greatly from its insights.
This timely and comprehensive Handbook addresses how Chinese cities
govern the environmental changes generated by fast economic growth
and urbanisation. Outlining the relationship between the state,
market, and society, this Handbook provides a systematic
understanding of urban environmental governance in China. Exploring
the context of changing urban environmental policies in China,
leading international scholars highlight the arts of governance and
governmentality through experimentation and discourse. Chapters
investigate the political ecologies of eco-cities and conservation,
urban waste management and governance and sustainability
transitions, as well as focusing on low-carbon innovations and
green buildings. With a territorial perspective grounded in Chinese
cities, contributors interrogate changing and complex
state-market-society dynamics in urbanisation and urban
environmental governance. With a thorough and systematic analysis
of new environmental initiatives, practices, and impacts, this
Handbook provides scholars, students, and policy researchers of
environmental studies, politics, and East Asian studies with an
exemplary selection of contemporary research on China’s urban
environmental governance.
A rapturous novel about a young chef whose discovery of pleasure
alters her life and, indirectly, the world 'A sharp, sensual piece
of art. When I read I'm always searching for pleasure, for the
want, and this book helped me feel something' RAVEN LEILANI 'It's
rare to read anything that feels this unique. A richly imagined,
ambitious, and haunting novel' GABRIELLE ZEVIN 'Truly exceptional'
ROXANE GAY A smog has spread. Food crops are disappearing. A chef
escapes her career in London to take a job at a decadent
mountaintop colony seemingly free of the world's troubles. There,
her enigmatic employer and his visionary daughter have built a lush
new life for the global elite, one that reawakens the chef to the
pleasures of taste, touch and her own body. In this atmosphere of
hidden wonders and seductive violence, the chef's boundaries
undergo a thrilling erosion. Soon she is pushed to the center of a
startling attempt to reshape the world far beyond the plate.
Sensuous and surprising, joyous and bitingly sharp, told in
alluring language, Land of Milk and Honey is a striking novel about
food, sex and the intricacies of desire and longing. Praise for C
Pam Zhang: 'A blazing writer' Daisy Johnson 'Truly gifted'
Sebastian Barry 'An arrestingly original writer' Sunday Times
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Dear Mr. G (Hardcover)
Christine Evans; Illustrated by Gracey Zhang
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A gentle and moving story about an intergenerational friendship
between a young child and their neighbor told through a series of
letters, for fans of Ida, Always. When Jackson’s soccer
ball accidentally lands in his neighbor’s rose bush, he thinks
he’s ruined Mr. Graham’s roses forever. So he quickly writes a
letter to Mr. Graham that blossoms into a marvelous friendship.
Jackson writes letters, highlighting the everyday moments to make
them feel larger than life, and Mr. G keeps writing back until the
very end of his life, encouraging Jackson to live each day to the
fullest.   This breathtakingly beautiful
epistolary story shows the strength of letter-writing and
intergenerational bonds. The text is accompanied by tender and
evocative artwork to remind us that even as seasons change, our
loved ones always stay in our hearts.Â
Introduces basic principles and mechanisms, covers new
developments, and provides a different view of the main facets of
bioelectrosynthesis Bioelectrosynthesis represents a promising
approach for storing renewable energy or producing target chemicals
in an energy-sustainable and low-cost way. This timely and
important book systemically introduces the hot issues surrounding
bioelectrosynthesis, including potential value-added products via
bioelectrochemical system, reactor development of
bioelectrosynthesis, and microbial biology on biofilm communities
and metabolism pathways. It presents readers with unique viewpoints
on basic principles and mechanisms along with new developments on
reactor and microbial ecology. Beginning with a principle and
products overview of bioelectrosynthesis, Bioelectrosynthesis:
Principles and Technologies for Value-Added Products goes on to
offer in-depth sections on: biogas production and upgrading
technology via bioelectrolysis; organic synthesis on cathodes;
chemical products and nitrogen recovery; external electron transfer
and electrode material promotion; and the microbiology of
bioelectrosynthesis. Topics covered include: hydrogen production
from waste stream with microbial electrolysis cell; microbial
electrolysis cell; inorganic compound synthesis in
bioelectrochemical system; microbial growth, ecological, and
metabolic characteristics in bioelectrosynthesis systems; microbial
metabolism kinetics and interactions in bioelectrosynthesis system;
and more. * Comprehensively covers all of the key issues of
biolelectrosynthesis * Features contributions from top experts in
the field * Examines the conversion of organic wastes to methane
via electromethanogenesis; methane production at biocathodes;
extracellular electron transport of electroactive biofilm; and more
Bioelectrosynthesis: Principles and Technologies for Value-Added
Products will appeal to chemists, electrochemists, environmental
chemists, water chemists, microbiologists, biochemists, and
graduate students involved in the field.
Get ready for Lunar New Year, following a little girl and her
family as they get ready for and celebrate the Lunar New Year
festival. With non-fiction information about the significance of
certain rituals, but told through the excited eyes of a child, this
is a book to return to year after year in the run up to the biggest
festival in the Chinese calendar. Each of the 12 spreads will
feature 12 lift flaps, 144 in total. Spreads include:Â - See
the little girl decorate the house
with lucky red decorations - Tidy the house to
welcome in the new year - Watch a special firework display -
Discover which animal year it will be - Make festive dumplings with
Nainai (grandma) - Read a story about the zodiac with Yeye
(grandpa) - Watch a lion and dragon dance in the town square - Make
offerings to her ancestors - And on the very last spread, have a
traditional family reunion new year on the eve of Lunar new year
and exchange lucky red envelopes.
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Aftershock - A Novel
Zhang Ling; Translated by Shelly Bryant
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A catastrophic disaster in China triggers a mother’s
heartbreaking choice and a daughter’s reconciliation with the
past in a powerful novel by the author of A Single Swallow and
Where Waters Meet. In the summer of 1976, an earthquake swallows up
the city of Tangshan, China. Among the hundreds of thousands of
people scrambling for survival is a mother who makes an agonizing
decision that irrevocably changes her life and the lives of her
children. In that devastating split second, her seven-year-old
daughter, Xiaodeng, is separated from her brother and the mother
she loves and trusts. All Xiaodeng remembers of the fateful morning
is betrayal. Thirty years later, Xiaodeng is an acclaimed writer
living in Canada with a caring husband and daughter. However, her
newfound fame and success do little to cover the deep wounds that
disrupt her life, time and again, and edge her toward a breaking
point. Xiaodeng realizes the only path toward healing is to return
to Tangshan, find her mother, and get closure. Spanning three
decades of the emotional and cultural aftershocks of disaster,
Zhang Ling’s intimate epic explores the damage of guilt, the
healing pull of family, and the hope of one woman who, after so
many years, still longs to be saved.
Utilizing a governmentality lens, this timely book offers an
explanation for China's decarbonization performance in the early
21st century. Le-Yin Zhang investigates one of the most ambitious
governing projects in history, analyzing the political
rationalities of Chinese leaders for decarbonization and the
governing techniques and technologies at multiple levels of
governance. Demonstrating the potential of combining the use of
juridical, administrative and governmental powers, Zhang
holistically considers the success of the state in instigating
low-carbon transitions in China and mitigating climate disaster.
The book provides an in-depth exploration of the art of greening
the Chinese financial system and how this links to a wider
formulation of carbon governmentality, highlighting the rise of the
carbon governmental state through a range of governmental
technologies. Engaging with a wide range of primary data from both
national and local levels, the author uncovers profound lessons in
low-carbon transitions for other states in the making of a carbon
neutral world. This cutting-edge book offers key insights for
scholars and researchers of environmental governance and its
importance in mitigating climate change, particularly those with a
key focus on Chinese climate policy. It will also benefit
government officials, researchers and consultants investigating
potential avenues for low-carbon transition and climate action.
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Aftershock - A Novel
Zhang Ling; Translated by Shelly Bryant
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A catastrophic disaster in China triggers a mother’s
heartbreaking choice and a daughter’s reconciliation with the
past in a powerful novel by the author of A Single Swallow and
Where Waters Meet. In the summer of 1976, an earthquake swallows up
the city of Tangshan, China. Among the hundreds of thousands of
people scrambling for survival is a mother who makes an agonizing
decision that irrevocably changes her life and the lives of her
children. In that devastating split second, her seven-year-old
daughter, Xiaodeng, is separated from her brother and the mother
she loves and trusts. All Xiaodeng remembers of the fateful morning
is betrayal. Thirty years later, Xiaodeng is an acclaimed writer
living in Canada with a caring husband and daughter. However, her
newfound fame and success do little to cover the deep wounds that
disrupt her life, time and again, and edge her toward a breaking
point. Xiaodeng realizes the only path toward healing is to return
to Tangshan, find her mother, and get closure. Spanning three
decades of the emotional and cultural aftershocks of disaster,
Zhang Ling’s intimate epic explores the damage of guilt, the
healing pull of family, and the hope of one woman who, after so
many years, still longs to be saved.
A rapturous novel about a young chef whose discovery of pleasure
alters her life and, indirectly, the world FROM THE
BOOKER-LONGLISTED AUTHOR OF HOW MUCH OF THESE HILLS IS GOLD A smog
has spread. Food crops are disappearing. A chef escapes her career
in London to take a job at a decadent, mountaintop colony seemingly
free of the world's troubles. There, the sky is clear again. Rare
ingredients abound. Her enigmatic employer and his visionary
daughter have built a lush new life for the global elite, one that
reawakens the chef to the pleasures of taste, touch, and her own
body. In this atmosphere of hidden wonders and cool, seductive
violence, the chef's boundaries undergo a thrilling erosion. Soon
she is pushed to the center of a startling attempt to reshape the
world far beyond the plate. Sensuous and surprising, joyous and
bitingly sharp, told in alluring language, Land of Milk and Honey
is a delicious, striking and sensual novel about food, sex and the
intricacies of desire and longing.
Information retrieval (IR) is a fundamental task in many real-world
applications such as Web search, question answering systems, and
digital libraries. The core of IR is to identify information
resources relevant to user's information need. Since there might be
more than one relevant resource, the returned result is often
organized as a ranked list of documents according to their
relevance degree against the information need. The ranking property
of IR makes it different from other tasks, and researchers have
devoted substantial efforts to develop a variety of ranking models
in IR. In recent years, the resurgence of deep learning has greatly
advanced this field and led to a hot topic named NeuIR (neural
information retrieval), especially the paradigm of pre-training
methods (PTMs). Owing to sophisticated pre-training objectives and
huge model size, pre-trained models can learn universal language
representations from massive textual data that are beneficial to
the ranking task of IR. Considering the rapid progress of this
direction, this survey provides a systematic review of PTMs in IR.
The authors present an overview of PTMs applied in different
components of an IR system, including the retrieval component and
the re-ranking component. In addition, they introduce PTMs
specifically designed for IR, and summarize available datasets as
well as benchmark leaderboards. Lastly, they discuss some open
challenges and highlight several promising directions with the hope
of inspiring and facilitating more works on these topics for future
research.
A propulsive and dazzling debut novel set against the backdrop of
the Chinese Exclusion Act, and one Chinese girl fighting to claim
her place 'An engulfing, bighearted and heartbreaking novel' ANN
PATCHETT, author of Women's Prize longlisted The Dutch House 'A
sweeping adventure of identity, love and belonging' C PAM ZHANG,
Man Booker longlisted author of How Much of These Hills are Gold
'An impressive and original debut' THE SUNDAY TIMES _______ Daiyu
never wanted to be like the tragic heroine for whom she was named,
revered for her beauty and cursed with heartbreak. But when she is
kidnapped and smuggled across an ocean from China to America, Daiyu
must relinquish the home and future she imagined for herself. Over
the years that follow, she is forced to keep reinventing herself to
survive. From a calligraphy school, to a San Francisco brothel, to
a shop tucked into the Idaho mountains, we follow Daiyu on a
desperate quest to outrun the tragedy that chases her. As
anti-Chinese sentiment sweeps across the country in a wave of
unimaginable violence, Daiyu must draw on each of the selves she
has been - including the ones she most wants to leave behind - in
order to finally claim her own name and story. At once a literary
tour de force and a groundbreaking work of historical fiction, Four
Treasures of the Sky announces Jenny Tinghui Zhang as an indelible
new voice. Steeped in untold history and Chinese folklore, this
novel is a spellbinding feat. _______ 'Brilliant and devastating .
. . Weaving together myth and history, Zhang's work is both
timeless and utterly necessary right now' ANNA NORTH, New York
Times bestselling author of Outlawed
Struggling to balance the expectations of her immigrant mother with
her own deep ambivalence about her place in the world,
seventeen-year-old Ocean Sun takes her savings and goes off the
grid. A haunting and romantic novel about family, friendship,
philosophy, fitting in, and love from Amy Zhang, the acclaimed
author of Falling into Place and This Is Where the World Ends.
Ocean Sun has always felt an enormous pressure to succeed. After
struggling with depression during her senior year of high school,
Ocean moves to New York City, where she has been accepted at a
prestigious university. But Ocean feels so emotionally raw and
unmoored (and uncertain about what is real and what is not) that
she decides to defer and live off her savings until she can get
herself together. She also decides not to tell her mother (whom she
loves very much but doesn’t want to disappoint) that she is
deferring—at least until she absolutely must. In New York, Ocean
moves into an apartment with Georgie and Tashya, two strangers who
soon become friends, and gets a job tutoring. She also meets a
boy—Constantine Brave (a name that makes her laugh)—late one
night on the subway. Constant is a fellow student and a graffiti
artist, and Constant and Ocean soon start corresponding via Google
Docs—they discuss physics, philosophy, art, literature, and love.
But everything falls apart when Ocean goes home for Thanksgiving,
Constant reveals his true character, Georgie and Tashya break up,
and the police get involved. Ocean, Constant, Georgie, and Tashya
are all cartographers—mapping out their futures, their dreams,
and their paths toward adulthood in this stunning and heartbreaking
novel about finding the strength to control your own destiny. For
fans of Nina LaCour’s We Are Okay and Daniel Nayeri’s
Everything Sad Is Untrue.
Comprehensive resource covering concepts, perspectives, and skills
required to understand the preparation, nonlinear optics, and
applications of two-dimensional (2D) materials Bringing together
many interdisciplinary experts in the field of 2D materials with
their applications in nonlinear optics, Two-Dimensional Materials
for Nonlinear Optics covers preparation methods for various novel
2D materials, such as transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) and
single elemental 2D materials, excited-state dynamics of 2D
materials behind their outstanding performance in photonic devices,
instrumentation for exploring the photoinduced excited-state
dynamics of the 2D materials spanning a wide time scale from
ultrafast to slow, and future trends of 2D materials on a series of
issues like fabrications, dynamic investigations, and
photonic/optoelectronic applications. Powerful nonlinear optical
characterization techniques, such as Z-scan measurement,
femtosecond transient absorption spectroscopy, and microscopy are
also introduced. Edited by two highly qualified academics with
extensive experience in the field, Two-Dimensional Materials for
Nonlinear Optics covers sample topics such as: Foundational
knowledge on nonlinear optical properties, and fundamentals and
preparation methods of 2D materials with nonlinear optical
properties Modulation and enhancement of optical nonlinearity in 2D
materials, and nonlinear optical characterization techniques for 2D
materials and their applications in a specific field Novel
nonlinear optical imaging systems, ultrafast time-resolved
spectroscopy for investigating carrier dynamics in emerging 2D
materials, and transient terahertz spectroscopy 2D materials for
optical limiting, saturable absorber, second and third harmonic
generation, nanolasers, and space use With collective insight from
researchers in many different interdisciplinary fields,
Two-Dimensional Materials for Nonlinear Optics is an essential
resource for materials scientists, solid state chemists and
physicists, photochemists, and professionals in the semiconductor
industry who are interested in understanding the state of the art
in the field.
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When Rubin Plays (Hardcover)
Gracey Zhang; Illustrated by Gracey Zhang
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This book addresses the intersection between gender and colonialism
primarily in German colonialism. Gender and German Colonialism is
concerned with colonialism as a historical phenomenon and with the
repercussions and transformations of the colonial era in
contemporary racist and sexist discourses and practices relating to
refugees, migrants, and people of non-European descent living in
Europe. This volume contributes to the broader effort of
decolonization with particular attention to concepts of gender.
Rather than focus on only one European empire, it discusses and
compares multiple former colonial powers in context. In addition to
German colonialism, some chapters focus on the role of gender in
Dutch and Belgian colonialism in Indonesia, Africa, and the
Americas. This volume will be of value to students and scholars
interested in women’s and gender studies, social and cultural
history, and imperial and colonial history.
Collaborated by Chinese and American scholars, Understanding
China's Urbanization opens up a new channel to disseminate Chinese
studies to the world. Highly readable, the book provides
fine-grained materials and detailed information on Chinese
urbanization. Li Zhang, Richard LeGates and Min Zhao effectively
convey an indigenous perspective on Chinese urban futures and
present a picture with sufficient complexity and wide coverage.' -
Fulong Wu, University College London, UK 'A most comprehensive book
about urbanization in China, with in-depth insights from a talented
scholarly team. This book is far more than a snapshot of the
Chinese story, it reveals the important developments that have
occured as China has transitioned into a dynamic urban country.' -
Shi Nan, Secretary General, Urban Planning Society of China 'Zhang,
LeGates, and Zhao's book builds on the voluminous literature on
China's urbanization by adding new data, findings, insights,
perspectives, and recommendations. Both academically sophisticated
and reader-friendly, the book surveys and critiques research in and
outside China and highlights new phenomena in urbanization,
governance, migration, foreign direct investment, and city
clusters. Richly decorated with illustrations as well as the
authors' original statistical and field analyses, the book is a
much welcome multidisciplinary contribution to understanding a
burning question in China.' - C. Cindy Fan, University of
California, Los Angeles China's urbanization is one of the great
earth-changing phenomena of recent times. The way in which China
continues to urbanize will have a critical impact on the world
economy, global climate change, international relations and a host
of other critical issues. Understanding and responding to China's
urbanization is of paramount importance to everyone. This book
represents a unique exploration of the demographic, spatial,
economic and social aspects of China's urban transformation. Based
on years of fieldwork and data analysis from different types of
cities and towns in every region of China, the authors present a
detailed description of how China has urbanized since 1978 and an
original theory about the way in which top-down and bottom-up
policies have impacted urbanization. They describe China's on-going
urbanization process as a 'double-dual' transformation from a
planned economy to a more market-oriented one and from a concern
with the quantity to the quality of urbanization. In doing so, the
authors provide the most comprehensive and up-to-date book on
Chinese urbanization to date. This scholarly study will appeal to
academics and practitioners, including professors and postgraduate
students of urban studies, planning, geography, Asian studies, and
other social science disciplines and professional fields concerned
with cities and urban development. Professionals involved in
international development, particularly in China and elsewhere in
Asia, will be particularly interested in the book.
The crisis of distribution is one of the longest standing and
complicated issues facing human society. Imbued with social,
political, historic, and cultural elements, it varies significantly
across different countries as a result of all these factors. As an
emerging economy which transferred from a planned to a market
economy, China has experienced large distribution gaps since it
implemented the Reform and Opening-up Policy in the early 1980s,
requiring stronger economic law to mitigate and regulate the crisis
of distribution. The two volumes examine the crisis of distribution
that China faces and proposes policy and economic law methods that
can be used to overcome the distribution dilemma. The author
discusses the four main concepts and focus points of the crisis of
distribution - distribution itself, the crises it faces, the rule
of law and development before proposing a theoretical framework of
"system-distribution-development" to resolve distribution problems
that China faces. The book should be of keen interest to
researchers and students of law, economics, and political science.
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