Against the current historical context that the United States is in the process of forging and implementing a grand Indo-Pacific strategy, and that the U.S. has shown its intention to align its strategies toward other regions of the world with its strategic interest in Asia together, this study aims to explore and analyse the critical factors, issues, and mechanisms which would most likely be able to affect the relations among major powers and entities in Europe as well as in the Indo-Paci...

This study mainly focuses on exploring how China and the United States, under a new historical context, would possibly engage with each other, and in what ways their interactions would have impacts on both the two countries and the world. More precisely, from a normative and theoretical perspective, this research tends to observe whether and how China-U.S. bilateral engagements could affect the core theories and values that have, in certain ways, guided policy-making of states and relation...

Against the current historical context that, the United States is in the process of forging and implementing a grand Indo-Pacific strategy, and that the U.S. has shown its intention to align its strategies toward other regions of the world with its strategic interest in Asia together, this study aims to explore and analyse the critical factors, issues, and mechanisms which would most likely be able to affect the relations among major powers and entities in Europe as well as in the Indo-Pac...

The university entrance exams are looming on the horizon, and with even his deadbeat biological father now out of the picture, Jiang Cheng knows he has to score exceptionally if he's going to make a stable future for himself. Luckily, he can count on his boyfriend to support him through the grueling gauntlet of studying and practice exams--he just wishes Gu Fei would study for his own sake, too.Gu Fei is smarter and more talented than he likes anyone to see, and Jiang Cheng is eager to see...

With high school behind him at last, Jiang Cheng is excited to start a fresh chapter of his life at university. After months living out of each other's pockets, though, how will he and Gu Fei survive with only calls and texts to rely on?And the distance between them isn't just physical. Jiang Cheng is studying at a top school to become a lawyer, while Gu Fei has no choice but to stay with family in his old neighborhood, where his sister needs him more than ever. Jiang Cheng's new life in t...

For decades, scholars have repeatedly found the inequity of gender representations in informational and entertainment media. Beginning with the seminal work by Gaye Tuchman and colleagues, we have repeatedly seen a systemic underrepresentation and misrepresentation of women in media. Examining the latest research in discourse and content analyses trending in both domestic and international circles, Media Disparity: A Gender Battleground highlights the progress—or lack thereof—in media rega...

Against the current historical context that, the United States is in the process of forging and implementing a grand Indo-Pacific strategy, and that the U.S. has shown its intention to align its strategies toward other regions of the world with its strategic interest in Asia together, this study aims to explore and analyse the critical factors, issues, and mechanisms which would most likely be able to affect the relations among major powers and entities in Europe as well as in the Indo-Pac...

Tackle the most challenging problems in science and engineering with these cutting-edge algorithmsMulti-objective optimization problems (MOPs) are those in which more than one objective needs to be optimized simultaneously. As a ubiquitous component of research and engineering projects, these problems are notoriously challenging. In recent years, evolutionary algorithms (EAs) have shown significant promise in their ability to solve MOPs, but challenges remain at th...

The book summarizes the latest research achievements of the "CAS Earth Poles: Big Data for the Three Poles" project in actively responding to the United Nations' sustainable development goals (SDGs). The book covers six aspects: projections of future climate change in polar regions, assessment and response to climate-related cryospheric disasters, land water resource and terrestrial ecological environments in polar regions, marine environmental changes, the SDG big data platform, and big d...

“Mother is Mother, Daughter is Daughter”- A self-recovery guide for all mothers and daughters by a psychoanalytic expert- How mothers can reclaim their lives as an independent women and human beingsWhy do mothers turn more to their daughters than sons when feeling upset or distressed? Why do mothers look upon their happily married daughters with not just pride but a hint of jealousy? Why do daughters, when thinking about their mothers, feel gratitude as well as guilt...

She was a child prodigy in the 21st century, passing through the golden era and falling into an irredeemable darkness.He was a cruel and merciless king who killed and killed. He gave an imperial edict to all the subjects of the court to enjoy their women. Yeye was sent to a different mansion, and three months later, she would meet a peerless emperor …This time, she would not be able to escape from the hand of destiny. Her intelligence, her intelligence, cou...

She was a child prodigy in the 21st century, passing through the golden era and falling into an irredeemable darkness.He was a cruel and merciless king who killed and killed. He gave an imperial edict to all the subjects of the court to enjoy their women. Yeye was sent to a different mansion, and three months later, she would meet a peerless emperor …This time, she would not be able to escape from the hand of destiny. Her intelligence, her intelligence, cou...