Christianity Today Book Award Finalist—Missions/Global ChurchReader's Choice Award WinnerThroughout China's rapidly growing cities, a new wave of unregistered house churches is growing. They are developing rich theological perspectives that are both uniquely Chinese and rooted in the historical doctrines of the faith. To understand how they have endured despite government pressure and cultural marginalization, we m...

AI in MRI-based Brain Disease Prediction presents a comprehensive exploration of artificial intelligence technologies in the analysis of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for brain disease prediction. Bridging medical imaging, neuroscience, and AI, this volume covers core methodologies—such as deep learning, multimodal fusion, and fast MRI processing—and applies them to neurological disorders including Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, stroke, glioma, and autism. Featuring theoretical foun...

Dive into the cutting-edge integration of deep learning with audio signal processing in this authoritative guide. Designed for audio engineers, data scientists, and tech enthusiasts, this book demystifies the complex world of deep neural networks, including CNNs and RNNs, and their applications in speech recognition, music transcription, and sound event detection.Explore the practical side of deep learning with hands-on tutorials using TensorFlow and PyTorch, building your intuitio...

This book describes Soft robotics is considered as one of the most promising frontiers for robotic research and versatile applications. As an interdisciplinary field, soft robotics brings together material science, manufacture, mechatronics and control. This book focuses on actuation, perception, control and applications of soft robots, showing their new functions and behaviors based on unique small-strain mechanisms, to offer readers a wide guidance for interdisciplinary exploration on so...

The book is a compilation of selected papers from the 14th International Workshop of Advanced Manufacturing and Automation (IWAMA 2024), held in Kunming University of Science and Technology, China on 11-12 October, 2024. Topics focusing on novel techniques for manufacturing and automation in Industry 4.0 are now vital factors for the maintenance and improvement of the economy of a nation and the quality of life. It will help academic researchers and engineering to implement the concept, th...

This book presents the proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Future Information Technology (FutureTech 2025) held in Changsha, China, April 24-26, 2025. It also discusses the state of the art in the development of Hybrid Information Technology, High Performance Computing, Cloud and Cluster Computing, Digital Convergence, Multimedia Convergence, Human-centric Computing and Social Networks, and Bioinformatics and Bio-Inspired Computing in engineering, science, and other discipl...

The Heritage Turn in China: The Reinvention, Dissemination and Consumption of Heritage focuses on heritage discourse and practice in China today as it has evolved from the 'heritage turn' that can be dated to the 1990s. Using a variety of disciplinary approaches to regionally and topically diverse case studies, the contributors to this edited volume show how particular versions of the past are selected, (re)invented, disseminated and consumed for contemporary purposes. These studi...

On his way to his morning classes, college student Feng Ming heroically jumps in front of a speeding truck to save a toddler in its path. When he comes to, he finds himself in an ancient Chinese palace with servants calling him “Your Highness”! Before he’s had time to make sense of what’s happened, the handsome yet cruel Ren Ting sweeps in and pins him to the bed! Though at first disdainful, Ren Ting becomes fascinated with Feng Ming’s modern knowledge and with Feng Ming himself. No sooner...

This book presents the proceedings of CRIOCM 2023, sharing the latest developments in real estate and construction management around the globe. The conference was organized by the Chinese Research Institute of Construction Management (CRIOCM) and Southeast University. Written by international academics and professionals, the proceedings discuss the latest achievements, research findings and advances in frontier disciplines in the field of construction management and real estate, covering a...

As rich in detail and emotion as Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club and Lisa See's Lady Tan’s Circle of Women, but with an exciting structure that reinvents the genre, Bo Wang’s gorgeous and immersive debut historical novel immortalizes the life of the first Chinese woman to be brought to the United States in the 1800s.Little Sparrow, Julia, Afong Moy, Madame Moy, The Chinese Lady, were her many names . . . but her true name has been lost to time.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th Chinese Conference on Image and Graphics Technologies and Applications, IGTA 2025, held in Beijing, China, during August 9-10, 2025.The 25 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 103 submissions. The papers focus on image processing, computer graphics, and related topics, including but not limited to image analysis and understanding, computer vision and pattern recognition, data mining, v...

This conference is one of the most significant annual events of the China Electrotechnical Society, showcasing the latest research trends, methodologies, and experimental results in electrical, electronic, and networked energy systems. The proceedings cover a wide range of cutting-edge theories and ideas, including topics such as power systems, power electronics, smart grids, renewable energy, energy integration in transportation, advanced power technologies, and the energy internet.