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Ion-Exchange Chromatography and Related Techniques defines the
current state-of-the-art in ion-exchange chromatography and related
techniques and their implementation in laboratory and industrial
practice. This book provides a compact source of information to
facilitate the transfer of knowledge and experience acquired by
separation science specialists to colleagues from diverse
backgrounds who need to acquire fundamental and practical
information to facilitate progress in research and management
functions reliant on information acquired by separation. Individual
chapters written by recognized experts lending credibility to the
work will allow this book to serve as a high value reference source
of current information for analytical and biopharmaceutical
chemists.
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 expansion, portraying the Zhou king as ruling the
frontier from the center of civilization. Present-day scholarship
often still adheres to this core-periphery perspective, emphasizing
cultural assimilation and political integration during Zhou rule.
However, recent archaeological findings present a more complex
picture. Many Worlds Under One Heaven analyzes a wide range of
newly excavated materials to offer a new perspective on political
and cultural change under the Western Zhou. Examining tombs, bronze
inscriptions, and other artifacts, Yan Sun challenges the
Zhou-centered view with a frontier-focused perspective that
highlights the roles of multiple actors. She reveals the complexity
of identity construction and power relations in the northern
frontiers of the Western Zhou, arguing that the border regions
should be seen as a land of negotiation that witnessed cultural
hybridization and experimentation. Rethinking a critical period for
the formation of Chinese civilization, Many Worlds Under One Heaven
unsettles the core-periphery model to reveal the diversity and
flexibility of identity in early China.
This book aims to fill a growing need in the research community
for a reference that describes the state-of-the-art in securing
group communications. It focuses on tailoring the security solution
to the underlying network architecture (such as the wireless
cellular network or the ad hoc/sensor network), or to the
application using the security methods (such as multimedia
multicasts).
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 Paul consider what happens to social welfare when more and
more people live, work, study, and retire outside their countries
of citizenship where they receive health, education, and elder
care. The authors use the concept of resource environment to show
how migrants and their families piece together packages of
protections from multiple sources in multiple settings and the ways
that these vary by place and time. They further show how a new,
hybrid transnational social protection regime has emerged in
response to the changing environment that complements, supplements,
or, in some cases, substitutes for national social welfare systems
as we knew them. Examining how national social welfare is affected
when migration and mobility become an integral part of everyday
life, this book moves our understanding of social protection from
the national to the transnational.
Group-oriented communications will play a significant role in the
next generation of networks as many services, such as pay-per-view
media broadcasts and the delivery of network control messages, will
rely upon the ability to reliably deliver data simultaneously to a
large group of users. As these networks become increasingly
pervasive and these multi-user services become increasingly
ubiquitous, it will become essential that a complementary suite of
security solutions are deployed in order to protect these services
from a broad spectrum of security threats that are unique to group
communications.
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 causal chain of explanation reveals the roots of
China's contemporary ethnic strife in the centralizing and
ethnicizing strategies of its incomplete transition to a nation
state-strategies that depart sharply from its historical patterns
of diverse and indirect rule. This departure created the
institutional dynamics for politicized identities and ethnic
mobilization, particularly in the outer regions of Tibet and
Xinjiang. In the 21st century, such factors as the demise of
socialist tenets and institutions that upheld interethnic
solidarity, and the rise of identity politics and developmentalism,
have intensified these built-in tensions.
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 Zedong have seen a profound reexamination of a more
basic question: to what extent are the root problems of the system
due to Chinese socialism and Marxism generally? Here Yan Sun
gathers a remarkable group of primary materials, drawn from an
unusual range of sources, to present the most systematic and
comprehensive study of post-Mao reappraisal of China's socialist
theory and practice.
Rejecting an assumption often made in the West, that Chinese
socialist thought has little bearing on politics and policymaking,
Sun takes the arguments of the post-Mao era seriously on their own
terms. She identifies the major factions in the debate, reveals the
interplay among official and unofficial forces, and charts the
development of the debate from an initially parochial concern with
problems raised by Chinese practice to a grand critique of the
theory of socialism itself. She concludes with an enlightening
comparison of the reassessments undertaken by Deng Xiaoping with
those of Gorbachev, linking them to the divergent outcomes of
reform and revolution in their respective countries.
Improving STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics)
education and strengthening the STEM workforce have long been
acknowledged as national priorities. Ceaseless efforts have been
made to address these national priorities through educational
research, innovative STEM education initiatives, and professional
development for teachers. Engaging STEM Students From Rural Areas:
Emerging Research and Opportunities is an essential reference
source that discusses the potential of rural schools to impact the
STEM workforce pipeline, as well as Project Engage, an educational
program for preparing rural undergraduate students from the Alabama
Black Belt region. Featuring research on topics such as the
three-pillar approach for preparing tomorrow's STEM professionals,
this book is ideally designed for academicians, STEM educational
researchers, STEM educators, and individuals seeking coverage on
techniques to improve the undergraduate STEM education framework.
Improving STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics)
education and strengthening the STEM workforce have long been
acknowledged as national priorities. Ceaseless efforts have been
made to address these national priorities through educational
research, innovative STEM education initiatives, and professional
development for teachers. Engaging STEM Students From Rural Areas:
Emerging Research and Opportunities is an essential reference
source that discusses the potential of rural schools to impact the
STEM workforce pipeline, as well as Project Engage, an educational
program for preparing rural undergraduate students from the Alabama
Black Belt region. Featuring research on topics such as the
three-pillar approach for preparing tomorrow's STEM professionals,
this book is ideally designed for academicians, STEM educational
researchers, STEM educators, and individuals seeking coverage on
techniques to improve the undergraduate STEM education framework.
Based on longitudinal ethnographic work on migration between the
United States and Taiwan, Time and Migration interrogates how
long-term immigrants negotiate their needs as they grow older and
how transnational migration shapes later-life transitions. Ken
Chih-Yan Sun develops the concept of a "temporalities of migration"
to examine the interaction between space, place, and time. He
demonstrates how long-term settlement in the United States, coupled
with changing homeland contexts, has inspired aging immigrants and
returnees to rethink their sense of social belonging, remake
intimate relations, and negotiate opportunities and constraints
across borders. The interplay between migration and time shapes the
ways aging migrant populations reassess and reconstruct
relationships with their children, spouses, grandchildren,
community members, and home, as well as host societies. Aging, Sun
argues, is a global issue and must be reconsidered in a
cross-border environment.
Honor-related values are a source of gendered inequality and of
violence. In so-called honor cultures, traditionally located in
parts of the Middle East, Mediterranean regions, North Africa, and
South America, honor translates into women's roles as dictated by
family ideology. There is a direct link between male reputation and
the female body. In these matters, East Asian face cultures are
similar to but also different from honor cultures. For the first
time, this book studies literary together with sociological
representations of the loss of honor and of face. Fiction explores
honor-based values which impose shackles not only on female but
also on male society members. The book is endorsed with prefaces by
Turkish writer Sema Kaygusuz and Chinese scholar Ma Chi.
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 causal chain of explanation reveals the roots of
China's contemporary ethnic strife in the centralizing and
ethnicizing strategies of its incomplete transition to a nation
state-strategies that depart sharply from its historical patterns
of diverse and indirect rule. This departure created the
institutional dynamics for politicized identities and ethnic
mobilization, particularly in the outer regions of Tibet and
Xinjiang. In the 21st century, such factors as the demise of
socialist tenets and institutions that upheld interethnic
solidarity, and the rise of identity politics and developmentalism,
have intensified these built-in tensions.
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 ideas and practices were reconstructed transculturally.
These identities were often merged and displayed in material
culture. Types of objects, styles, and iconography were often
hybrids or new to the region, as were the tomb assemblages in which
they were deposited and found. Patrons commissioned objects that
marked a symbolic vision of place and person and that could
mobilize support, legitimize rule, and bind people together.
Through close examination of key artifacts, this book untangles the
considerable changes in political structure and cultural makeup of
ancient Chinese states and their northern neighbors.
The roles of women in Chinese archaeology, with only a few
exceptions, have at worst been overlooked, and at best consigned to
conventional Marxist theory that prescribes formulaic frameworks
for understanding gender - until now. Renowned archaeologist
Katheryn M. Linduff and fellow researcher Yan Sun have brought
together a fascinating collection that reexamines gender in ancient
Chinese cultures. Acknowledging and negotiating the complications
that challenge their efforts, the authors analyze and begin to
reconstruct the roles of women in various regions of China from the
late Neolithic to the early Empire period. Topics range from
mortuary ritual, social status and structures of power, economic
influences on cultural practice, textile production, and art in
these early Chinese societies. This book is a must for students,
professors, and practitioners of archaeology that seek a more
complete examination of the archaeological record, for scholars in
the fields of Asian Studies, Art History, and Chinese History more
generally, as well as for those interested in the roles of women in
ancient Chinese society.
Is corruption an inevitable part of the transition to a free-market
economy? Yan Sun here examines the ways in which market reforms in
the People's Republic of China have shaped corruption since 1978
and how corruption has in turn shaped those reforms. She suggests
that recent corruption is largely a byproduct of post-Mao reforms,
spurred by the economic incentives and structural opportunities in
the emerging marketplace. Sun finds that the steady retreat of the
state has both increased mechanisms for cadre misconduct and
reduced disincentives against it. Chinese disciplinary offices, law
enforcement agencies, and legal professionals compile and publish
annual casebooks of economic crimes. The cases, processed in the
Chinese penal system, represent offenders from party-state agencies
at central and local levels as well as state firms of varying sizes
and types of ownership. Sun uses these casebooks to illuminate the
extent and forms of corruption in the People's Republic of China.
Unintended and informal mechanisms arising from corruption may, she
finds, take on a life of their own and undermine the central
state's ability to implement its developmental policies, discipline
its staff, enforce its regulatory infrastructure, and fundamentally
transform the economy.
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