Yiu-ming Cheung & Yue Hao 
Computational Intelligence and Security [PDF ebook] 
International Conference, CIS 2005, Xi’an, China, December 15-19, 2005, Proceedings, Part I

China has experienced the world”s fastest economic growth for over a decade. It is likely that within a generation, China will have the world”s largest economy. Yet, at the moment when China looks …

Subnational political units are growing in influence in national and international affairs, drawing increasing scholarly attention to politics beyond national capitals. In this book, leading Russian …

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Workers and Workplaces in Revolutionary China collates documents detailing the conflict and politics of Chinese industrial development in the 1970s. Originally published in 1974, issues discussed in …