This book investigates China’s contemporary development cooperation mentality and modality through the case of its agricultural engagement with Africa. It identifies three models, namely traditional agro-aid, innovative agro-aid and agribusiness models, of Chinese current agro-development cooperation with Africa, and unpacks the different models by tracing their historical origins and examining the actual practice based on project-level fieldwork conducted in Mozambique and South Africa. T...

This book focuses on the basic theory and methods of multisensor data fusion state estimation and its application. It consists of four parts with 12 chapters. In Part I, the basic framework and methods of multisensor optimal estimation and the basic concepts of Kalman filtering are briefly and systematically introduced. In Part II, the data fusion state estimation algorithms under networked environment are introduced. Part III consists of three chapters, in which the fusion estimation algo...

War in early Chinese thought was never confined to the clash of armies. It unfolded across visible and invisible realms at once—shaped by omens in the sky, disturbances in nature, ritual failure, spiritual interference, and the silent movement of fate. Victory was believed to be permitted before it was seized, and defeat often arrived long before a blade was raised.The Art of Omens and Sorcery in the Guiguzi, Six Secret Teachings and Six Enfolded Tactics i...

There are some serious concerns and critical questions about the on-going minority protesting in China, such as Tibetan monks’ self-immolations, Muslims’ suicide bombings, and Uyghur large-scale demonstrations. Why are minorities such as the Uyghur dissatisfied, when China is rising as a world power? What kind of struggle must they go through to maintain their identity, heritage, and rights? How does the government deal with this ethnic dissatisfaction and minority riots? And what is ethni...

Growing Up in Xin Jiang is a long epic from Xinjiang writer Ju Li that recounts stories from southern Xinjiang. It is a key literary project supported by the Aksu Regional Federation of Literary and Art Circles. The novel depicts the story of the "second generation of Xinjiang" born in the oases of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps in the 1960s-1970s growing up with their fathers' generation. It portrays the passionate era of two generations dedicating themselves to defending ...

Rekindle your magic. Rewrite the myth.In Coven of the East, twenty-two writers from across the Asian diaspora come together to reclaim, reimagine, and resurrect the magical traditions often erased from mainstream narratives. Through short stories and essays, these contributors explore the intimate ways mysticism, folklore, and ancestral wisdom shape their characters' lives — and their own.Magic isn't just in myths. It lives in the networks of nature and in our hist...

This book discusses the problem that why entrepreneurs don’t have clear strategies in different phrases and how to solve it. The author uses the tools of human resource from inside and outside aspects to analyze the problem. What’s more, the author also discusses the problems from 4 dimensions, such as users, organizations, products and markets. Use the co-evolution strategy canvas to summarize solutions for different phrases of enterprises.

This book focuses on the modeling of gas-solid, liquid-solid, non-Newtonian fluid-solid, and supercritical fluid-solid fluidized beds and multiphase flows. Simulation techniques are categorized into Euler–Euler with kinetic theory of granular flow (KTGF) and Euler–Lagrange with discrete element method (DEM) approaches. Both the governing equations and numerical implementations are presented. A new CFD-KTGF-DEM approach describes phase interactions, free from the empirical restitution coeff...

This book introduces the theory and applications of nanometer photocatalysis, and it briefly presents the concept of photocatalysts, photocatalytic reaction mechanisms and kinetics, and photocatalytic reactor design. In addition, the use of photocatalysis in the control of flue-gas pollutants is discussed in detail.The book also describes how a photocatalytic reactor is designed and implemented to evaluate the photocatalytic oxidation capacity of different photocatalysts on element...

Every year, supporting members of WorldCon (one of the largest speculative fiction conventions on the planet) nominate their favorite stories first published during the previous year for the prestigious Hugo Awards, the top six most popular of which make the final ballot in each category. Those works that do not make the final ballot are colloquially referred to as "the long list." This anthology series aims to show those amazing works a little more of the spotlight and, hopefully, share t...

This book addresses the needs of researchers and practitioners in the field of high-speed trains, especially those whose work involves safety and reliability issues in traction systems. It will appeal to researchers and graduate students at institutions of higher learning, research labs, and in the industrial R&D sector, catering to a readership from a broad range of disciplines including intelligent transportation, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, chemical engineering, the ...

This book is an annual publication on the relation between China and ASEAN countries. It presents comprehensive and in-depth studies on China-ASEAN cooperation and development by Chinese scholars. The book is composed of six parts. Part 1 contains the general report including the introduction of China-ASEAN cooperation, achievements and problems in politics, economy, diplomacy, security, military defense, maritime and cultural aspects. Part 2 studies the relation and cooperation between Ch...