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Shen Wei

In light of the current regulatory regime in China's banking sector, this book investigates the causes, key forms, potential risks and regulation of shadow banking in China.The first China-specific book of its kind, the author takes policy considerations into account whilst providing an analysis of the regulatory instruments tackling the systematic risks in its banking as well as shadow banking sectors. Key shadow banking subsectors discussed include P2P lending, wealth management ...

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Shen Wei

This book analyzes China's new foreign investment law which came into force in January 2020. The new law implemented sweeping changes and overhauled China’s foreign investment law regime of the last four decades. The foreign investment law aims to make the business environment more investor-friendly and address some of the contentious issues between US and China in the ongoing trade war.The book explains how the law enhances regulatory transparency. It also outlines the new approva...

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Shen Wei

This is a major work investigating China's bilateral investment treaties (BITs) regime through various approaches including textual analysis, case study, comparative study and empirical study. This book tries to unveil some of the puzzles in Chinese BITs. The general consensus is that the evolution of China's BIT regime has its underlying logic, which follows an investment liberalization trend and fits China's changing role from a key capital-importing state to a major capital-exporting st...

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Shen Wei

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Routledge Research in Finance and Banking Law

This book examines the regulatory framework, regulatory objectives, regulatory logics, regulatory instruments, regulatory failures, and regulatory responses in China’s financial market after the global financial crisis. The book provides an in-depth analysis of China’s contemporary financial regulatory system, focusing on risks, regulation, and policies in practice. By drawing on public and private interest theories relating to financial regulation, the book contends that the controlled de...

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Wei Shen, Chongjie Si, Chen Yang, Yong Yu

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Computer Science (R0)

Computer vision is an application-oriented field, where various applications correspond to distinct computer vision tasks. Consequently, this book is organized based on the taxonomy of these tasks: image processing, visual recognition, and scene reconstruction.Image processing, the foundational step, includes topics like convolution, edge detection, and image segmentation, often referred to as low-level vision tasks. This section covers classical algorithms. Visual recognition, or ...

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Guo Wei, He Jun, Shen Lei, Ma Yanqiang, Cao Daqin, Dang Jun, Zhang Chunjing

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Reference Module Business, Economics and Social Sciences

This Handbook presents thorough literature reviews and detailed analyses on the development of China’s social sciences research since the reform and opening up in 1978. The handbook is comprised of 4 sections: politics and law, sociology and economics, demography and education, journalism studies and library science. Written and edited by leading scholars from Peking University, each volume critiques the research findings and provides guidance for future investigations of the respective fi...

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Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)

This book explores how emerging technologies are shaping the future of agriculture, with a particular focus on innovative sensing and automation techniques. Topics covered include, but are not limited to: fruit detection and localization for harvesting robots, remote sensing and AI-driven crop yield prediction, and novel methods for assessing fruit nutrition and ripeness. A detailed case study on the development of an apple harvesting robot is also included. One of the book’s key strengths...

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Xiu-Shen Wei

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eBColl Synthesis Collection 12

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the fine-grained image analysis research and modern approaches based on deep learning, spanning the full range of topics needed for designing operational fine-grained image systems. The author begins by providing detailed background information on FGIA, focusing on recognition and retrieval. The author also provides the fundamentals of convolutional neural networks to further make it easier for readers to understand the technical content in th...

Past research and literature suggest that legal institutions drive economic development. Yet China has grown for decades without the fundamental legal infrastructure that was once considered necessary. This is called the 'China puzzle' or the 'China myth'. By carefully comparing the four key branches of private law in China and Taiwan - a jurisdiction that grew with modest legal institutions and shares similar legal and non-legal culture - this collaborative and novel book demystifies the ...

Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Process Systems Engineering offers a broad perspective on the issues related to artificial intelligence technologies and their applications in chemical and process engineering. The book comprehensively introduces the methodology and applications of AI technologies in process systems engineering, making it an indispensable reference for researchers and students. As chemical processes and systems are usually non-linear and complex, thus making it ch...

Responding to the clear need for an immunology text written with the pharmacist and pharmaceutical scientist in mind, this volume highlights issues of particular relevance to pharmacy practice, including hypersensitivity reactions to natural allergens and pharmaceutical agents. Core immunological issues, such as congenital immunodeficiency disorder

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Wei Shen-Calloway

In the winter of 1943, in a city strangled by Japanese military occupation, a group of Chinese teenagers discovered that the most dangerous weapon they possessed was a paper lantern.Shanghai had fallen. Its streets belonged to the kempeitai. Its docks fed a war machine that stretched across half of Asia. And somewhere above the clouds, Allied bombers circled in the dark, unable to find what they needed to destroy.What followed was one of the most extraordinary acts of civil...