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The growth of China's foreign trade in recent years has been widely
attributed to its economic reforms and open door policies. This
book outlines the process of China's trade reforms over the past
two decades and assesses the impact of these reforms on the
economy. The author provides a quantitative analysis to trace
China's evolving commodity pattern of trade and changing
comparative advantage structure over the entire reform period.
Comparison is made between the trade patterns and comparative
advantage to reveal the dynamic effects of the recent economic
reform on resource allocation efficiency.
This volume brings together scholars from different disciplines and
nations to examine and assess the effectiveness of China's soft
power initiatives in Africa. It throws light not only on China's
engagement with Africa but also on how China's increasing influence
is received in the African media.
In this book, Xiaoke Zhang addresses two fundamental political and
policy questions: why do politicians have heterogeneous incentives
to pursue public-regarding policies through capital market reforms
and why do they differ in their abilities to initiate and implement
market reform policies decisively and resolutely?
"Genre in Asian Film and Television takes a dynamic approach to the
study of Asian screen media previously under-represented in
academic writing. It combines historical overviews of developments
within national contexts with detailed case studies on the use of
generic conventions and genre hybridity in contemporary films and
television programmes"--
The unique properties and functionalities of chalcogenide glasses
make them promising materials for photonic applications.
Chalcogenide glasses are transparent from the visible to the near
infrared region and can be moulded into lenses or drawn into
fibres. They have useful commercial applications as components for
lenses for infrared cameras, and chalcogenide glass fibres and
optical components are used in waveguides for use with lasers, for
optical switching, chemical and temperature sensing and phase
change memories. Chalcogenide glasses comprehensively reviews the
latest technological advances in this field and the industrial
applications of the technology.
Part one outlines the preparation methods and properties of
chalcogenide glasses, including the thermal properties, structure,
and optical properties, before going on to discuss mean
coordination and topological constraints in chalcogenide network
glasses, and the photo-induced phenomena in chalcogenide glasses.
This section also covers the ionic conductivity and physical aging
of chalcogenide glasses, deposition techniques for chalcogenide
thin films, and transparent chalcogenide glass-ceramics. Part two
explores the applications of chalcogenide glasses. Topics discussed
include rare-earth-doped chalcogenide glass for lasers and
amplifiers, the applications of chalcogenide glasses for infrared
sensing, microstructured optical fibres for infrared applications,
and chalcogenide glass waveguide devices for all-optical signal
processing. This section also discusses the control of light on the
nanoscale with chalcogenide thin films, chalcogenide glass resists
for lithography, and chalcogenide for phase change optical and
electrical memories. The book concludes with an overview of
chalcogenide glasses as electrolytes for batteries.
Chalcogenide glasses comprehensively reviews the latest
technological advances and applications of chalcogenide glasses,
and is an essential text for academics, materials scientists and
electrical engineers working in the photonics and optoelectronics
industry.
Outlines preparation methods and properties, and explores
applications of chalcogenide glasses.Covers the ionic conductivity
and physical aging of chalcogenide glasses, deposition techniques
for chalcogenide thin films, and transparent chalcogenide
glass-ceramicsDiscusses the control of light on the nanoscale with
chalcogenide thin films, chalcogenide glass resists for
lithography, and chalcogenide for phase change optical and
electrical memories
Graphic depictions of crime in Mexico abound in the global
imagination, fueled not merely by media representations, but also
by an abundant body of scholarship that reproduces grotesque,
simplistic characterizations of Mexico’s people, cities and towns
as crime-ridden and almost inherently violent. These
representations, however, often lack evidence and forgo important
contextual analyses, not to mention fail to incorporate the
perspectives of its actors in the research development process.
This collection of essays shows how community-based research
efforts to examine practices like kidnapping, migrant smuggling,
human trafficking, sex work and citizen-led forensics in Mexico can
effectively correct methodological and conceptual gaps present in
Mexico’s dominant organized crime narrative, while providing
effective mechanisms to inform academic and policy debates. This
easy-to-read volume provides a much-needed re-assessment of
Mexico’s organized crime rhetoric, and also outlines a pathway
for those interested in developing critical empirical research on
illicit and criminalized practices. The chapters in this book were
originally published as a special issue of the journal Victims
& Offenders.
Graphic depictions of crime in Mexico abound in the global
imagination, fueled not merely by media representations, but also
by an abundant body of scholarship that reproduces grotesque,
simplistic characterizations of Mexico's people, cities and towns
as crime-ridden and almost inherently violent. These
representations, however, often lack evidence and forgo important
contextual analyses, not to mention fail to incorporate the
perspectives of its actors in the research development process.
This collection of essays shows how community-based research
efforts to examine practices like kidnapping, migrant smuggling,
human trafficking, sex work and citizen-led forensics in Mexico can
effectively correct methodological and conceptual gaps present in
Mexico's dominant organized crime narrative, while providing
effective mechanisms to inform academic and policy debates. This
easy-to-read volume provides a much-needed re-assessment of
Mexico's organized crime rhetoric, and also outlines a pathway for
those interested in developing critical empirical research on
illicit and criminalized practices. The chapters in this book were
originally published as a special issue of the journal Victims
& Offenders.
Coming to America to make a better life has long been a dream of
many from around the world, even if it means being voluntarily
smuggled into the country to gain entry. Perhaps more ominously,
various criminal elements now traffic people to the United
States--especially vulnerable groups like women and children from
poor nations--against their will for sexual exploitation, slavery,
and other illicit, underground purposes. The implications for the
United States are potentially staggering. This book examines how
for-profit human smuggling and trafficking activities to the United
States are carried out and explores the legal and policy challenges
of dealing with these problems. Zhang covers the scope and patterns
of global human trafficking and smuggling activities; the
strategies and methods employed by various groups to bring
individuals into the United States; major smuggling routes and
venues; the involvement of organized criminal organizations in
transnational human smuggling activities; and the challenges
confronting the U.S. government in combating these activities.
By the year 2000, annual sales of computer products to China may
well reach $15-18 billion, making China one of the largest computer
markets in the world. At the same time, China's own computer
industry is expected to become world-class and internationally
competitive. How this will come about, the market and economic
trends that are presently developing, and the opportunities they
present for Western businesses are explored here by two insiders,
offering not only useful analysis but hands-on guidance to the ways
in which China's computer market works. With an appendix listing
more than 500 of the most important Chinese computer companies,
industrial and professional organizations, and related consulting
and law firms, the book will be essential reading for computer
industry management and top sales executives, and for investment
bankers and others with important stakes in the China market.
China's computer market is not easy to enter. The key to doing
so, according to the authors, is to understand not only China's
unique historical, cultural, and environmental factors that
condition the way business is done there, but the way Chinese
businesspeople think and act. China is a low-income and
transitional economy, much different from Japanese and other Asian
economies, and incentives and price structures are distorted and
the rules of the game are not clearly written. The legal
infrastructure is incomplete, and laws are not rigorously enforced.
Using the latest data available only from local Chinese sources,
Zhang and Wang dissect the Chinese computer market in terms that
Westerners can understand and relate to: its opportunities, but
also its risks. Academics teaching and studying international
business, marketing, and investment will also benefit from the
authors' insights.
The Routledge Handbook of International Criminology brings together
the latest thinking and findings from a diverse group of both
senior and promising young scholars from around the globe. This
collaborative project articulates a new way of thinking about
criminology that extends existing perspectives in understanding
crime and social control across borders, jurisdictions, and
cultures, and facilitates the development of an overarching
framework that is truly international. The book is divided into
three parts, in which three distinct yet overlapping types of crime
are analyzed: international crime, transnational crime, and
national crime. Each of these perspectives is then articulated
through a number of chapters which cover theory and methods,
international and transnational crime analyses, and case studies of
criminology and criminal justice in relevant nations. In addition,
questions placed at the end of each chapter encourage greater
reflection on the issues raised, and will encourage young scholars
to move the field of inquiry forward. This handbook is an excellent
reference tool for undergraduate and graduate students with
particular interests in research methods, international
criminology, and making comparisons across countries.
The Routledge Handbook of International Criminology brings together
the latest thinking and findings from a diverse group of both
senior and promising young scholars from around the globe. This
collaborative project articulates a new way of thinking about
criminology that extends existing perspectives in understanding
crime and social control across borders, jurisdictions, and
cultures, and facilitates the development of an over-arching
framework that is truly international. The book is divided into
three parts, in which three distinct yet overlapping types of crime
are analyzed: international crime, transnational crime, and
national crime. Each of these perspectives is then articulated
through a number of chapters which cover theory and methods,
international and transnational crime analyses, and case studies of
criminology and criminal justice in relevant nations. In addition,
questions placed at the end of each chapter encourage greater
reflection on the issues raised, and will encourage young scholars
to move the field of inquiry forward. This Handbook is an excellent
reference tool for undergraduate and graduate students with
particular interests in research methods, international
criminology, and making comparisons across countries.
This volume brings together scholars from different disciplines and
nations to examine and assess the effectiveness of China's soft
power initiatives in Africa. It throws light not only on China's
engagement with Africa but also on how China's increasing influence
is received in the African media.
DON'T MISS THE STUNNING FIRST COLLECTION OF THE TWELFTH DOCTOR'S
ALL-NEW COMICS ADVENTURES! New Doctor! New Beginning! Offering
shocks, surprises, and timestream-shaking revelations, don't miss
your chance to get on board this amazing ongoing series!
A timely and comprehensive introduction to CO2 heat pump theory and
usage A comprehensive introduction of CO2 application in heat pump,
authored by leading scientists in the field CO2 is a hot topic due
to concerns over global warming and the greenhouse effect . Its
disposal and application has attracted considerable research and
governmental interest Explores the basic theories, devices, systems
and cycles and real application designs for varying applications,
ensuring comprehensive coverage of a current topic CO2 heat
transfer has everyday applications including water heaters,
air-conditioning systems, residential and commercial heating
systems, and cooling systems
A thorough and complete examination of LTE networks, their
operating principles and key insights to performance optimization.
* A complete guide to the latest optimization engineering
technologies of LTE networks * Features the latest and most
industrially relevant applications, such as VoLTE and HetNets *
Highlights include detailed scenarios and optimization case studies
In this book, Xiaoke Zhang addresses two fundamental political and
policy questions: why do politicians have heterogeneous incentives
to pursue public-regarding policies through capital market reforms
and why do they differ in their abilities to initiate and implement
market reform policies decisively and resolutely?
Genre in Asian Film and Television takes a dynamic approach to the
study of Asian screen media previously under-represented in
academic writing. It combines historical overviews of developments
within national contexts with detailed case studies on the use of
generic conventions and genre hybridity in contemporary films and
television programmes.
In a country long associated with the trade in opiates, the Chinese
government has for decades applied extreme measures to curtail the
spread of illicit drugs, only to find that the problem has
worsened. Burma is blamed as the major producer of illicit drugs
and conduit for the entry of drugs into China. Which organizations
are behind the heroin trade? What problems and prospects of drug
control in the so-called "Golden Triangle" drug-trafficking region
are faced by Chinese and Southeast Asian authorities? In The
Chinese Heroin Trade, noted criminologists Ko-Lin Chin and Sheldon
Zhangexamine the social organization of the trafficking of heroin
from the Golden Triangle to China and the wholesale and retail
distribution of the drug in China. Based on face-to-face interviews
with hundreds of incarcerated drug traffickers, street-level drug
dealers, users, and authorities, paired with extensive fieldwork in
the border areas of Burma and China and several major urban centers
in China and Southeast Asia, this volume reveals how the drug trade
has evolved in the Golden Triangle since the late 1980s. Chin and
Zhang also explore the marked characteristics of heroin
traffickers; the relationship between drug use and sales in China;
and how China compares to other international drug markets. The
Chinese Heroin Trade is a fascinating, nuanced account of the world
of high-risk drug trafficking in a tightly-controlled society.
Based on years of fieldwork and interviews with 129 human smugglers
as well as scores of government and law enforcement officials, this
book presents a rare look into the secretive world of the
snakeheads (human smugglers), whose ingenious endeavors have
transported hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants into the
United States and other Western countries.The book is rich with
vivid accounts of how groups of opportunistic entrepreneurs form
loosely connected social circles to accomplish seemingly complex
transnational negotiations. Zhang's findings and analyses challenge
many widespread misconceptions about these smugglers in particular
and Chinese organized crime in general. Bound together by little
more than the pursuit of profit, these otherwise ordinary men and
women have demonstrated remarkable flexibility in adapting to
market and socio-legal constraints.The author's concept of the
dyadic cartwheel network integrates major theoretical constructs to
explain how and why freelance operators have come to dominate the
human smuggling enterprise instead of a traditional crime
syndicate.
A must-have resource to the booming field of sulfur-containing
polymers Sulfur-Containing Polymers is a state-of-the-art text that
offers a synthesis of the various sulfur-containing polymers from
low-cost sulfur resources such as elemental sulfur, carbon
disulfide (CS2), carbonyl sulfide (COS) and mercaptan. With
contributions from noted experts on the topic, the book presents an
in-depth understanding of the mechanisms related to the synthesis
of sulfur-containing polymers. The book also includes a review of
the various types of sulfur-containing polymers, such as:
poly(thioester)s, poly(thioether)s and poly(thiocarbonate)s and
poly(thiourethane)s with linear or hyperbranched (dendrimer)
architectures. The expert authors provide the fundamentals on the
structure-property relationship and applications of
sulfur-containing polymers. Designed to be beneficial for both
research and application-oriented chemists and engineers, the book
contains the most recent research and developments of
sulfur-containing polymers. This important book: Offers the first
comprehensive handbook on the topic Contains state-of-the-art
research on synthesis of sulfur containing polymers from low-cost
sulfur-containing compounds Examines the synthesis, mechanism,
structure properties, and applications of various types of
sulful-containing polymers Includes contributions from well-known
experts Written for polymer chemists, materials scientists,
chemists in industry, biochemists, and chemical engineers,
Sulfur-Containing Polymers offers a groundbreaking text to the
field with inforamtion on the most recent research.
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