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Ling Wang

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Reference Module Earth and Environmental Sciences

Mineral material science is a new emerging comprehensive interdisciplinary discipline born in China. Over the past 40 years, Chinese scientific and technological workers have carried out a great deal of research work, which has had a deeper understanding of this discipline. This book discusses the fundamentals and practical applications of mineral material science, as well as future outlook of mineral functional materials. It will be a one-stop manual of mineral material science, and will ...

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Fei-Ling Wang

Examines the rising power of China and Chinese foreign policy through a revisionist analysis of Chinese civilization.What does the rise of China represent, and how should the international community respond? With a holistic rereading of Chinese longue durée history, Fei-Ling Wang provides a simple but powerful framework for understanding the nature of persistent and rising Chinese power and its implications for the current global order. He argues that the ...

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Fei-Ling Wang

This book is the first comprehensive examination of China's hukou (household registration) system. The hukou system registers and governs the 1.3 billion Chinese, while creating deep and rigid divisions and exclusions; in many domains the system determines how the Chinese live and shapes China's sociopolitical structure and socioeconomic development. This book shows that the system has made both positive and negative contributions to contemporary Chinese society: it has h...

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Fei-Ling Wang

An analysis of the China Race—the global competition for leadership and world order between the US-led West and the People's Republic of China.Following its two prequels, The China Order (2017) and The China Record (2023), this book analyzes the China Race, the global competition for power and leadership between the US-led West and the People's Republic of China. Considering the organizational options and optimality with respect to human civilizat...

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Fei-Ling Wang

Detailed assessment of the People's Republic of China as an alternative mode of political system and as a distinctive model of socioeconomic development.The China Record provides readers with an ambitious, detailed, and wide-ranging examination of the People's Republic of China (PRC) under the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) both as an alternative mode of political system and a distinctive model of socioeconomic development. Fei-Ling Wang assesses the record...

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Vivian Ling, Peng Wang

Twelve Traditional Stories That Children Will Love!This bilingual children's book presents a charming collection of folktales and fables on the timeless theme of the twelve animals of the Chinese zodiac. All of these stories are very popular in China, retold and adapted here to appeal to young readers and children all around the world. Each story explores a moral dilemma that young readers can easily understand, and provides a gentle lesson that they will discover ...

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Ai-Ling Wang

Foreign language education is shaped by global neoliberalism, which prioritizes market-driven values like competition, individualism, and economic efficiency. In this context, language learning is often framed as a tool to enhance employability, mobility, and global competitiveness. Educational policies and curricula shift, emphasizing utilitarian outcomes and performance metrics over holistic or humanistic approaches. While this shift expands access for language learning, it also raises c...

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W. Qiu X. Ling R. Li H. Wang

Amid the rapid currents of globalization and digitization, human society is being reshaped at an unprecedented rate. From macro-level social structures to the microcosm of individual lives, from traditional agrarian societies to modern information-age communities, the tentacles of transformation reach everywhere. Changes in family-based modes of production, the evolution of organizational forms, the reconfiguration of humankind's relationship with the natural world, and the shifting patter...

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Jianhua Xiao, Xiaofan Wu, Bing Lian Liu, Ling Wang, Fan Qin

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Business and Management (R0)

This book provides interpretation of China’s logistics development in a new development paradigm and the rural logistics construction under the Rural Revitalization Strategy. Subjects covered in this book encompass the macro-factors pertaining to the overall development in logistics technologies and facilities, region-specific policies and plans, industry-wide transformation in transport, manufacturing, commerce and agriculture. Specifically, this book highlights the impact of COVID-19 on ...

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Vivian Ling, Peng Wang

The timeless wisdom of Chinese folktales presented in parallel English and Chinese texts!Switch up your bedtime reading with this memorable bilingual anthology. These traditional Chinese tales are fun to read and each one contains a gentle moral telling kids how to be a good person and live a good life. The stories are presented with parallel English and Chinese texts on every page, along with dozens of charming color illustrations by illustrator Yang Xi.

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Vivian Ling, Peng Wang

A collection of 15 classic Chinese folk stories—passed down from generation to generation—presented in both Chinese and English.Welcome to the fascinating world of Chinese folklore. The fifteen stories in this book address universal concerns such as the origins of humankind, the impact of wars and natural disasters, the great deeds of cultural heroes, the struggle for dignity and justice for the common man, and the yearnings of the human heart.For ...

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Vivian Ling, Peng Wang

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Stories for Language Learners

The highly anticipated next book in Tuttle's Stories for Language Learners series is here!This book presents 22 classic Chinese proverbs and the traditional tales behind them. The stories are bilingual, with the Chinese and English versions presented on facing pages. Each includes an explanation of how the proverb is used today, cultural notes, vocabulary and discussion questions. Online audio recordings of the tales by native speakers give students a chan...