Chen: 1169 books
The Meaning of Citizenship in Contemporary Chinese Society
An Empirical Study through Western Lens
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
This book is a direct and empirical response to the mounting official interest in citizenship education, increasing dynamics between state and society, and growing citizenship awareness and practice in society in contemporary China. Placing the focus on society, the book investigates the meaning of...
Finance and the Behavioral Prospect
Risk, Exuberance, and Abnormal Markets
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
This book explains how investor behavior, from mental accounting to the combustible interplay of hope and fear, affects financial economics. The transformation of portfolio theory begins with the identification of anomalies. Gaps in perception and behavioral departures from rationality spur momentum,...
The Impact of Societal and Social Innovation
A Case-Based Approach
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2016
This book elaborates on the distinction between societal innovation and social innovation. It provides eight case studies to illustrate the scope, process, outcome, and impact of societal innovation and social innovation. In addition, the book proposes a model for interested parties to maximize their...
Regulating the Takeover of Chinese Listed Companies
Divergence from the West
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
This book provides a comprehensive review of the Measures for Administration of Takeover of Chinese Listed Companies (the Chinese takeover law), with emphasis on the differences between the Chinese takeover law and takeover legislation in the UK, the US and Hong Kong. The Chinese M&A market has...
Legal Reforms in China and Vietnam
A Comparison of Asian Communist Regimes
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
Although the adoption of market reforms has been a key factor leading to China’s recent economic growth, China continues to be governed by a communist party and has a socialist-influenced legal system. Vietnam, starting later, also with a socialist-influenced legal system, has followed a similar...
The Sino-Japanese War and Youth Literature
Friends and Foes on the Battlefield
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016
The Sino-Japanese War (1937 – 1945) was fought in the Asia-Pacific theatre between Imperial Japan and China, with the United States as the latter’s major military ally. An important line of investigation remains, questioning how the history of this war has been passed on to post-war generations’...
by Quan Pan, Seong G. Kong, Yongmei Cheng
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
This book introduces the optical multi-band polarization imaging theory and the utilization of the multi-band polarimetric information for detecting the camouflage object and the optical hidden marker, and enhancing the visibility in bad weather and water. The book describes systematically and in...
by Lin Chen
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
This book discusses basic thermodynamic behaviors and 'abnormal' properties from a thermo-physical perspective, and explores basic heat transfer and flow properties, the latest findings on their physical aspects and indications, chemical engineering properties, microscale phenomena, as well as transient...
Decision-Based Design
Integrating Consumer Preferences into Engineering Design
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2012
Building upon the fundamental principles of decision theory, Decision-Based Design: Integrating Consumer Preferences into Engineering Design presents an analytical approach to enterprise-driven Decision-Based Design (DBD) as a rigorous framework for decision making in engineering design. Once the...
by Yu-ting Chen, Jason Cong, Michael Gill
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Since the end of Dennard scaling in the early 2000s, improving the energy efficiency of computation has been the main concern of the research community and industry. The large energy efficiency gap between general-purpose processors and application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) motivates the...
Modern Railway Engineering Consultation
Methods and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2018
Report on the rapid development of railway engineering construction in China, this book introduces the basic concepts of railway engineering supported by reference to cases. This book underpins the experiences and technologies of the Chinese engineering sector in railway construction and explores...
by Mark D. Johns, Shing-Ling Sarina Chen, Laura Terlip
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2014
The new social media build on and further complicate all of the issues and processes of symbolic interaction. This volume builds on and expands the existing symbolic interactionist perspective to include the study of social interaction made possible by the use of new social media. This special issue...
Evolving Eldercare in Contemporary China
Two Generations, One Decision
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2016
With an increasing number of elders moving into nursing homes, the shift from family to nursing home care calls for an exploration of caregiving decision-making in urban China. This study examines how a rapidly growing aging population, the one-child policy, and economic reform in urban China pose...
Immigrant Children
Change, Adaptation, and Cultural Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011
Over the past several decades, the demographic populations of many countries such as Canada as well as the United States have greatly transformed. Most striking is the influx of recent immigrant families into North America. As children lead the way for a 'new' North America, this group of children...