A comprehensive description of China's innovation system through in-depth analysis of its transformation in the past two decades. The most recent developments are included in order to summarize Chinese experience of reforming its industry and academy sector to meet the challenge of innovation. The discussion is not only centred on the policy and its impact, but goes further to find the logic behind the actions. The book also examines the strengths and weaknesses of China's innovation syste...

Huawei has become China's most prominent multinational company and a leader in the ICT sector. Given unprecedented access to the company, the authors of this book examine the management transformation of Huawei from its inception in 1987 until 2019, observing in detail not only the creation of its organizational routines but also the breaking of routines across most major functional areas: Management, Product Development, HR, Supply Chain, Finance, R&D, Intellectual Property, and Internati...

Can racism's devastating impact on individuals, communities, and societies be prevented? In the second edition of Disrupting Racism, Dr. Peter Huang offers a uniquely holistic approach to anti-racism efforts that draws from his personal experiences as an Asian American, and from his extensive scholarly work in mathematical economics, law, and education.Writing with wit and intellectual richness, Dr. Huang offers ideas that every person can apply to reduce racism and overcome racist ...

The idea in Post Green: Literature, Culture, and the Environment is not to create another binary like East/West, but rather a call for a shift in the order of perception. The contributors signal a movement from the conventional understanding of green thinking—acknowledging human-centered limitations of the green approaches and recognising the immense possibilities and holistic perspectives that a symbiotic human-nature perspective offers. This book proposes to move beyond the monoculture o...

This book explores how studies of language and aging can be applied to build an aging-friendly society, drawing on the socio-pragmatic turn in language and aging to examine the perspectives of older adults experiencing aging through a linguistic lens. Research on the phenomenon and mechanisms of language in aging can provide older adults with language training, increase their active aging, and offer improved information communication channels for an aging society, which will bring a series...

This is a short story of the last ten days of Alice, a single Albanian woman in her mid-thirties—struggling between the shadows of her past and the hope of a future she barely dares to imagine. Tired of her own fear, shame, and chronic pessimism, she quits her job and escapes to Rome, seeking a spark to reignite her will to live—and to love.There, she meets Huang, a young Chinese man who might just be the beginning of something new. But is it too soon to fall? Can one night turn in...

A funny family story that turns the meaning of “couch potato” on its head.Mr. Russet is the first to spot it. A potato. Right in the middle of the couch. He’s had enough. “Every day I pick up this, I pick up that, I pick up everything!” he exclaims. “I will not pick up that potato!” And he doesn’t. In fact, he won’t pick up anything else either! But as the days pass, the rest of the family don’t seem to mind the potato in the living room. Or the growing mess. What’s a potato protes...

For fans of New Kid and Stealing Home, an unforgettable portrait of childhood during the one-child era in China.In this graphic novel memoir, Yinfan Huang describes growing up as an only child in China in the 1990s. Yinfan’s early years are spent near family in the small county of Xintian, but when they move for her father’s new job to the city of Guangzhou, her life changes dramatically. From speaking a different dialect to complying with new rules at home and in school, Yinfan mu...

Dr. Tom Huangs vision is to change how people view Oriental medicine and acupuncture, especially in the area of arthritis care. If people can understand how Traditional Chinese Medicine can help them, they might be more likely to seek treatment through TCM. In fact, the TCM approach is often miraculous. It is difficult to educate people in the concepts of TCM, because they are radically different from todays accepted Western medical practices. Dr. Huang wants arthritis sufferers to learn a...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Cryptology and Network Security, CANS 2019, held in Fuzhou, China, in October 2019.The 21 full papers and 8 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 55 submissions. The papers focus on topics such as homomorphic encryption; SIKE and Hash; lattice and post-quantum cryptography; searchable encryption; blockchains, cloud security; secret sharing and interval test, LWE; encryption, data ...