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    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
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  • Citizenship and Education in Contemporary China

    Contexts, Perspectives, and Understandings

    Edited by Yeow-Tong Chia, Zhenzhou Zhao ...
    Series series Education and Society in China
    A key objective of education in China is to cultivate one's moral values, with the ultimate objective of becoming fully human (做人). Unlike the "West", which regards moral cultivation as related to but separate from citizenship cultivation, East Asia (including China) views moral and citizenship cultivation as synonymous. The essays in this book offer various perspectives on and understandings of ... Read more

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  • Advances in Computational Science and Computing

    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This book includes papers on the recent advances in state-of-the-art computational science and computing presented at the 2018 International Symposium on Computational Science and Computing (ISCSC 2018), held in Huangshan, China, from 28 to 29 July 2018. All the papers were rigorously peer-reviewed by experts in the area. It is a valuable resource for researchers, professors, graduate students, as ... Read more

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  • China's Great Urbanization

    Series series China Policy Series
    China’s extraordinary economic boom since the late 1970s has been accompanied by massive urbanization, with the proportion of the population living in cities rising from 18% in 1978 to 54% in 2014. Currently the Chinese government has amongst its objectives the target to increase this to 60% by 2020, and also to improve the quality of China’s cities. This book examines a wide range of issues ... Read more

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    Your guide to a positive birth experience

    Narrated by George Zhao ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 59 min

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  • The End of Strategic Stability?

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    For many years, political leaders and analysts have debated the impacts of China’s rise on the stability of the existing international system. International observers have also debated whether China would be a status quo power or a revisionist power, and whether China would observe the rules and regulations of international institutions and regimes. China Joins Global Governance: Cooperation and ... Read more

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    As Asian education systems increasingly take on a stronger presence on the global educational landscape, of special interest is an understanding of the ways in which many of these states direct their schools towards higher achievement. What is missing, however, are accounts that take seriously the particular construction of the strong, developmental state witnessed across many Asian societies, and ... Read more

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    Series series Routledge Studies on China in Transition
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