This book explores how Chinese border provinces have become actors in international relations.Through an analysis of the international actorness – the inherent characteristics of a subnational entity as an international player – of Yunnan and two other geographically peripheral provinces, Guangdong and Guangxi, the domestic, economic, and legislative circumstances that motivated these provinces to conduct transboundary engagements are determined. The book is based on an extensive f...

Embodied Memories, Embedded Healing critically engages with the major East Asian cultural knowledge, beliefs, and practices that influence environmental consciousness in the twenty-first century. This volume examines key thinkers and aspects of Daoist, Confucianist, Buddhist, indigenous, animistic, and neo-Confucianist thought. With a particular focus on animistic perspectives on environmental healing and environmental consciousness, the contributors also engage with media studies (eco-cin...

The Song dynasty was an imperial dynasty of China that began in 960 and lasted until 1279. The dynasty was founded by Emperor Taizu of Song following his usurpation of the throne of the Later Zhou, ending the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. The Liao dynasty, also known as the Liao Empire, officially the Great Liao, or the Khitan State, was an empire and imperial dynasty in East Asia that ruled from 916 to 1125 over present-day Northern and Northeast China, Mongolia and portions of ...

This book provides insight into the coordinated optimization of local energy market (LEM) with low-carbon digital operation of the distribution system from a demand-side perspective. There are four sections to characterize the ongoing development and future trends of LEM, including trading behaviors of prosumers, market design considering the impacts of uncertainties, LEM constrained by the distribution network, green LEM considering carbon emission and cutting-edge technologies. This book...

Intelligent Language Services: Theory and Practice with Large Language Models offers a comprehensive exploration of how artificial intelligence, particularly large language models (LLMs), is revolutionizing the language services industry. This forward-thinking textbook bridges the gap between academic theory and real-world application, making it an essential resource for students, researchers, and professionals in translation, localization, and multilingual content development. Th...

This book reflects the latest research trends, methods and experimental results in the field of Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Transportation, which covers abundant state-of-the-art research theories and ideas. As a vital research area that is highly relevant to current developments in a number of technological domains, the topics covered include Autonomous Transportation Systems, Autonomous Transportation Management and Control Technology, Autonomous Transportation Equipment Techn...

This book is about deciphering extraordinary couplets that the author can collect during the epidemic when he suddenly has a lot of free time. It does not distinguish between the legacy of the past or the new creation of the present. They were deciphered and matched one by one. The author hopes that this book turns to attract jades.对联生就玲珑身，自有它小巧轻灵的独特之处。它可以把突闪的思想火花、奇趣的吉光片羽瞬间捕捉并化为有趣的对联艺术。本书旨在分析破解古今奇难趣绝之单联，并雕琢片玉，以配其双。所採之联，均为古今未破或未工对之殊异趣联。虽然诸多联类，未能详尽赅备，但是奇趣有余锦绣满眼异彩纷呈，已臻洋洋大观。

This book systematically describes the achievements and current situation of in vitro diagnostic (IVD) industry in China. It consists of eight parts, including the overview on the IVD industry in China in 2019, hot technologies and products of IVD industry, academic, technological and product development in the field of IVD, such as biochemical diagnosis, immune-diagnosis, molecular diagnosis, blood and body fluid diagnosis, microbial detection, point-of-care testing, laboratory assembly l...