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  • China's High-Tech Companies

    Case Studies of China and Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR)

    by Tai Wei Lim ...
    China is now considered a tech superpower in many areas. This book illustrates certain aspects and case studies of China's technological developments and further analyzes them under various areas like coal energy, housing, connectivity, digital and space technologies. Furthermore, it examines technological developments in the periphery of China, focusing especially on Hong Kong Special ... Read more

    $76.99 CAD

  • Crafting an Asian Future in the Post-COVID-19 Asia

    by Tai Wei Lim ...
    Not too long ago, the world was busy crafting a global future with unmitigated globalization and the relentless march of Industry 4.0. A black swan event then happened. An outbreak of COVID-19 coronavirus surged worldwide and resulted in a global pandemic that devastated economies, eliminated the weak/infirmed/elderly/young, and then targeted the general population. It destroyed small and medium ... Read more

    $68.19 CAD

  • East Asian Entrepreneurs: A Study Of State Role, Education And Mindsets

    by Tai Wei Lim ...
    The publication started with a succinct and brief literature review of the different definitions of the term 'entrepreneurship'. After examining the different conceptual ideas of entrepreneurship, the ecological system of entrepreneurship was identified with a wide array and universe of stakeholders like the state, venture capitalists, non-profit organizations (NPOs), students, universities, ... Read more

    $68.19 CAD

  • Cultural Heritage and Peripheral Spaces in Singapore

    by Tai Wei Lim ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book documents through first-hand experience and academic research the historical, cultural and economic interactions affecting land use in Singapore. Offering a unique study of nostalgia in Singaporean heritage, it discusses the subjective nostalgic meanings and interpretations that users of peripheral, heritage and green spaces in Singapore create and maintain, through a combination of ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

  • Fired Clay in Four Porcelain Clusters

    A Comparative Study of Energy Use, Production/Environmental Ecology, and Kiln Development in Arita, Hong Kong, Jingdezhen, and Yingge

    by Tai Wei Lim ...
    Fired Clay in Four Porcelain Clusters examines how energy use in the ceramics-making industry has evolved as a result of technological advancements and changing social norms and ideas in environmental conservation. Three main research themes are highlighted. First, the book examines how the evolving use of energy fuels has impacted the developmental history of the ceramics-making industry, ... Read more

    $100.09 CAD

  • Women Hold Up Half The Sky: The Political-economic And Socioeconomic Narratives Of Women In China

    by Tai Wei Lim ...
    This volume will look into some macro factors that have an impact on gender conceptualizations in China. First, China is a highly-centralized state with a one-party political system that is also an authoritarian strongman regime. Thus, policies (including those related to gender) from the center are promulgated centripetally to provinces, cities, towns, villages, and local areas effectively.In ... Read more

    $59.39 CAD

  • History and Regional Area Studies of Hachioji

    Tokyo's Western Frontier

    by Tai Wei Lim ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book looks at the case study of Hachioji as a major transit hub with a world-class public transportation system in Japan. It tracks how Tokyo slowly expands into its suburban, rural or sub-rural districts. It also wants to profile the multiple identities of a city that is simultaneously an ecological asset, a heritage locale in addition to a logistics hub. The volume is probably the first of ... Read more

    $83.29 CAD

  • Industrial Revolution 4.0, Tech Giants, and Digitized Societies

    by Tai Wei Lim ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Industry 4.0 explores the emergence of disruptive digital technologies such as robotics, blockchain, nanotechnology and 3D printing and their impact on human lives and jobs in globalized 21st century societies. Incorporating a cutting edge area studies perspective, it considers the challenges and long term implications of the rise of ‘Tech Giants’ such as Alibaba, Google and Baidu through the lens ... Read more

    $96.09 CAD

  • Merlion And Mt. Fuji, The: 50 Years Of Singapore-japan Relations

    by Tai Wei Lim ...
    Anime, Manga, Sushi, Teriyaki, J-pop, Harajuku fashion ... these are just some of the cultural exports from Japan that the rest of the world have embraced and Singapore is one of Japan's biggest fans. Singaporeans have benefited not just by being a consumer of the many technological advances from Japan (Mitsubishi, Toyota, Honda, Panasonic, and Sony to name a few) but also shared and learnt ... Read more

    $16.49 CAD

  • Studying Hong Kong: 20 Years Of Political, Economic And Social Developments

    by Tai Wei Lim, Tuan Yuen Kong ...
    This book captures the essence of Hong Kong's development in the past two decades from 1997 to 2017. It is broken into four parts — economics, society, politics and culture.Hong Kong's role remains as a gateway for global trading houses, businessmen, investors and traders. Hong Kong continues to be an open economy and has stuck to free trade policies, as one of the former four successful 'tiger ... Read more

    $103.39 CAD

  • Energy Transitions in Japan and China

    Mine Closures, Rail Developments, and Energy Narratives

    by Tai Wei Lim ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This volume focuses on the topic of energy transitions in the coal mining industries of China and Japan by adopting a Sino-Japanese comparative approach in area studies to examine the experiences between the two major East Asian economies. In China, rapid industrialization led to dramatic growth in energy demand and much of this energy demand was fueled by affordable coal energy. With growing ... Read more

    $140.89 CAD

  • Contextualizing Occupy Central In Contemporary Hong Kong

    by Tai Wei Lim, Xiaojuan Ping ...
    In the past 18 years, after the handover of the former British colony Hong Kong to China, Beijing and the Special Administration Region (SAR) have been trying to work out a mutually beneficial relationship based on pragmatism and a focus on economic prosperity. The Occupy Central with Love and Peace in Hong Kong (September to December 2014) movement represents a significant event in Hong Kong's ... Read more

    $46.19 CAD