Within a digital context in contemporary consumer societies, Curating Digital Lives: Consumer Cultures, Digital Platforms, and Everyday Practices draws on practice theories to explore Chinese urban residents’ lived experiences of digital platforms in their ordinary lives, mapping digital geographies of consumption at micro scales. Using the conception of “curation,” this book teases out the engagements of different types of digital platforms and devices within daily practices to u...

This book explores the emergent relationship between food and family in contemporary China through an empirical case study of Guangzhou, a typical city, to understand the texture of everyday life in the new consumerist society.The primary focus of this book is on the family dynamics of middle-income households in Guangzhou, where everyday food practices, including growing food, shopping, storing, cooking, feeding, and eating, play a pivotal role. The book aims to conduct a comprehe...

This book provides a historical review of the transformation of China’s image around the world since the 1978 Reform and Opening Up. Based on a synthetic model that the author constructs for evaluating national images, together with a historical review and quantitative analysis, it discusses the issues and challenges confronting China’s image around the world since the Opening Up.To help rectify the situation that most of the research on China’s reform efforts focuses on hard power...

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE HARDWARE DESIGNLearn foundational and advanced topics in Neural Processing Unit design with real-world examples from leading voices in the fieldIn Artificial Intelligence Hardware Design: Challenges and Solutions, distinguished researchers and authors Drs. Albert Chun Chen Liu and Oscar Ming Kin Law deliver a rigorous and practical treatment of the design applications of specific circuits and systems for acc...

This book offers an introduction to various models and methods for green supplier evaluation and selection (GSES) within different information settings. As such, it provides valuable knowledge, useful GSES methods and practical examples that can be considered by manufacturers in selecting appropriate green suppliers to improve their environmental performance and customer satisfaction. This book is useful for practitioners and researchers working in the fields of supply chain management, op...

This book offers a thorough and systematic introduction to the modified failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA) models based on uncertainty theories (e.g. fuzzy logic, intuitionistic fuzzy sets, D numbers and 2-tuple linguistic variables) and various multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) approaches such as distance-based MCDM, compromise ranking MCDM and hybrid MCDM, etc. As such, it provides essential FMEA methods and practical examples that can be considered in applying FMEA to enhance t...

This book offers an in-depth and systematic introduction to improved failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) methods for proactive healthcare risk analysis. Healthcare risk management has become an increasingly important issue for hospitals and managers. As a prospective reliability analysis technique, FMEA has been widely used for identifying and eliminating known and potential failures in systems, designs, products or services. However, the traditional FMEA has a number of weaknesses wh...

前 ⾔各位爱好汉语的同学们，大家好。HSK五级书写 部分《写短⽂》（结合给定的词语，写⼀篇八十字左右的短文）既是重点也是难点，想要写好这篇短文，需要平时注重素材的积累与 不断地练习。在这里，我们提供了⼀些当今中国最鲜活的⽣活实例， 希望通过这些短文能够让大家更加了解中国,也祝愿同学们顺利通 过考试!INTRODUCTIONHello, all Chinese-loving students.The writing part of HSK Level 5 "Writing Short Essays" (combining the given words and writing a short essay of about 80 characters) is the key difficult point. In order to write this short essay, you must focus on the accumulation ...

A Locus Award Finalist for Best First Novel. "An accomplished eco-techno-thriller with heart and soul as well as brain." —David Mitchell, New York Times -bestselling author of Cloud AtlasTranslated by Ken Liu, who brought Cixin Liu's Hugo Award-winning The Three Body Problem to English-speaking readers.Mimi is drowning in the w...

Dear students who are preparing the HSK5 Chinese exam, in this book you will find the solutions of the textbook and workbook exercises and the corresponding audio files: we hope to help you to study Cinese and pass HSK5 exam各位正在准备HSK5汉语考试的学生，在本书中，课本相关练习参考答案练习册参考答案和配套录音(课文7,8,9)：我们很希望对你们的学习和通过考试有所帮助Cari studenti che state preparando l’esame di cinese HSK5, in questo libro troverete le soluzioni degli esercizi del libro di testo e del libro degli esercizi e gli audio files co...

Dear students who are preparing the HSK5 Chinese exam, in this book you will find the solutions of the textbook and workbook exercises and the corresponding audio files: we hope to help you to study Cinese and pass HSK5 exam各位正在准备HSK5汉语考试的学生，在本书中，课本相关练习参考答案练习册参考答案和配套录音(课文4,5,6)：我们很希望对你们的学习和通过考试有所帮助Cari studenti che state preparando l’esame di cinese HSK5, in questo libro troverete le soluzioni degli esercizi del libro di testo e del libro degli esercizi e gli audio files co...

成语是中国传统文化的一大特色，是汉语词汇中定型的词，在语句中是作为一个整体来应用的，多为四字，也有三字、五字甚至七字以上。成语来自于古代经典或著作、历史故事和人们的口头故事等。本书选取了100个中国人最常用的成语，希望通过学习这些成语，大家既可以掌握正确的读音和使用方法，又能拓展知识面，了解成语背后的中国文化。Chinese Idioms are a major feature of traditional Chinese culture: they are stereotyped words in Chinese vocabulary and are used as a whole in a sentence.Most of them are composed by four characters, but there are also three, five or even more than seven characters Chinese Idioms.Chinese Idioms come from ancient ...