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Chinese president Xi Jinping is most famously associated with his "Chinese Dream" campaign. Xi environs the dream to be one about the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. Many observers, though, view China's pursuit of this dream as alarming. They see a global power ready to abandon its low-profile diplomacy and eager to throw its weight around. This book represents an inter-disciplinary effort of deciphering the Chinese Dream and its global impact. Jing Sun employs concepts from political science and journalism and those from literature, sociology, psychology and drama studies, to offer a multi-level analysis of various actors' roles in Chinese foreign policymaking: the leaders, the bureaucrats, and its increasingly diversified public. The title - Red Chamber has two layers of meanings: first, it refers to an earlier Chinese dream that nearly all the Chinese are familiar with - an 18th century literature classic Dream of the Red Chamber that describes the rise and fall of seemingly invincible powerhouses; second, it refers to the ornate, red-painted headquarters of the Chinese Communist Party in downtown Beijing, where its leaders now are dreaming global - hence the second part of the title World Dream. The classic epic novel Dream of the Red Chamber also offers methodological inspirations for this book: in telling a grand family's demise, the author Cao Xueqin rejected making any particular group of actors dominating the story narrative. Instead, he detailed activities by people at all levels. By doing so, the book presented a dynamic network of interactions, as power sparks on the nodes of this cobweb. Likewise, this book rejects a simple dichotomy of an omnipotent, authoritarian state versus a suppressed society. Instead, it examines how Chinese foreign policy is constantly being forged and contested by interactions among its leaders, bureaucrats, and people. The competition for shaping China's foreign policy also happens on multiple arenas: intra-party fighting, inter-ministerial feuding, social media, TV dramas and movies, etc. This book presents a vast amount of historical details, many unearthed the first time in the English language. Meanwhile, it also examines China's diplomatic responses to ongoing issues like the Covid-19 crisis. The result is a study multi-disciplinary in nature, rich in historical nuances, and timely in contemporary significance.

Editorial Board -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Background and Value of Industry Digitalization -- Chapter 2: ICT Infrastructure Required for Digital Transformation -- Chapter 3: 5GtoB Market Space and Opportunities -- Chapter 4: 5GtoB Enables Enterprise Production -- Chapter 5: 5GtoB Improves Social Development and Living Standards -- Chapter 6: Construction of the 5GtoB Success Factor System -- Chapter 7: 5GtoB Success Factor Analysis — Performance Capability -- Chapter 8: 5GtoB Success Factor Analysis — Efficiency Capability -- Chapter 9: 5GtoB Success Factor Analysis — Ecosystem Capability -- Chapter 10: 5GtoB Success Factor Analysis — Business Capability -- Chapter 11: Heavy Industry -- Chapter 12: Computers, Communications and Consumer Electronics (3C) Manufacturing -- Chapter 13: Electric Power and Public Transportation -- Chapter 14: Mining and Petrochemical -- Chapter 15: Smart Port -- Chapter 16: Media, Education, and Healthcare -- Chapter 17: 5GtoB Evolution Path -- Chapter 18: Evolution to 5.5G and 6G and Key Applications -- References.

Intro -- Halftitle Page -- Title Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Note on the Text -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 The New Socialist Countryside Mode of State Intervention in Tianjin -- 2 Losers and Post-Resettlement Livelihoods in Tianjin -- 3 The New Rural Reconstruction Mode of State Intervention in Zhejiang -- 4 Winners and Post-Resettlement Livelihoods in Zhejiang -- 5 Winners, Losers and the Village Committees -- Conclusion: What Does the Chinese Dream Mean for Resettled Farmers? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Imprint.

Introduction -- Part 1: Losers and State-led Urbanisation in Tianjin -- 1. The New Socialist Countryside Mode of State Intervention in Tianjin -- 2. Impacts of the NSC Approach on Livelihoods in Tianjin -- Part 2: Winners and State-led Urbanisation in Zhejiang -- 3. New Rural Reconstruction Mode of State Intervention in Zhejiang -- 4. Post Resettlement Livelihoods in Zhejiang -- Part 3: Winners, Losers and the Village Committees -- 5. Comparing Across Tianjin and Zhejiang -- Conclusion -- Index.

"Investigating the nature of Chinese modernity from the perspectives of social and intellectual history and inspired by Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities, my book intends to reveal the ambiguity of nation as a modern concept and thereupon open up a new possibility for the turn of China's national narratives. As it turns out, the definitions of nation as either an imagined community or an entity with a substantive cultural origin are both partially wrong in the Chinese context, since China had its distinctive socio-cultural system in pre-modern times and the binary mode of nationality is inadequate to interpret the complexity of Chinese society. In light of this complexity, this work explores the relationship between the Manchus and the Han Chinese throughout the Qing dynasty, examines the transmission and reproduction of modern knowledge, particularly that of race and nation, on the ground of China's reactions to the Western influence, and discusses how the supra-nationalist discourse of various religions succumbed to the homogenizing nature of nation state in modern China. To depict a general picture of "Chinese modernity" and avoid the risk of oversimplification, I combine the methodology of social history with that of intellectual history in this book, abandoning the East-West binary opposition and grouping all ten chapters into three parts that respectively approach Chinese modernity from a specific perspective. On this basis, it can be concluded that Chinese modernity, as a form of new knowledge, is produced out of the combination of a forward-thinking viewpoint and a fantasy about the modern age, which constitutes an inevitable path to China's "national liberation" from the entanglement of ethnicity and cultural traditions"--

"Social media users fracture into tribes, but social media ecosystems are globally interconnected technically, socially, culturally, and economically. At the crossroads, Huatong Sun, author of Cross-Cultural Technology Design, presents theory, method, and case studies to uncover the global interconnectedness of social media design and reorient universal design standards. Centering on the dynamics between structure and agency, Sun draws on practices theories and transnational fieldwork and articulates a critical design approach. The "CLUE2 (CLUE Squared)" framework extends from situated activity to social practice, and connects macro institutions with micro interactions to redress asymmetrical relations in everyday life. Why were Japanese users not crazed about Facebook? Would Twitter have had been more successful than its copycat Weibo in China if not banned? How did mobilities and value propositions play out in the competition of WhatsApp, WeChat, LINE, and KakaoTalk for global growth? Illustrating the cultural entanglement with a relational view of design, Sun provides three provocative accounts of cross-cultural social media design and use. Concepts such as affordance, genre, and uptake are demonstrated as design tools to bind the material with the discursive and leap from the critical to the generative for culturally sustaining design."--

"World Health Systems is arranged in five parts: the first part presents, from multidisciplinary perspectives, outlines of various health systems throughout the world, as well as current trends in the development and reform of world health systems. The second and third parts expound on the health systems in developed countries, discussing the government's role in the health service market and basic policies on medication administration and expenses, before analyzing the health systems of Britain, Canada, Australia, Sweden, Germany, France, Japan, Poland, USA, Singapore, Hongkong (China), and Taiwan (China). The fourth and fifth parts discuss health systems in less developed countries and areas, typically the BRICS and other countries in Asia (Thailand, Vietnam, the Philippines, Armenia, and Kyrghyzstan), Africa (Egypt, Morocco), Europe (Hungary, Czech Republic, and Bulgaria) and South America (Cuba, Chile, and Mexico), summarizing their past experiences, while making assessments of their current efforts to shed light on future developments"--

Many scholars perceive ethnic politics in China as an untouchable topic due to lack of data and contentious, even prohibitive, politics. This book fills a gap in the literature, offering a historical-political perspective on China's contemporary ethnic conflict. Yan Sun accumulates research via field trips, local reports, and policy debates to reveal rare knowledge and findings. Her long-time causal chain of explanation reveals the roots of China's contemporary ethnic strife in the centralizing and ethnicizing strategies of its incomplete transition to a nation state—strategies that depart sharply from its historical patterns of diverse and indirect rule. This departure created the institutional dynamics for politicized identities and ethnic mobilization, particularly in the outer regions of Tibet and Xinjiang. In the 21st century, such factors as the demise of socialist tenets and institutions that upheld interethnic solidarity, and the rise of identity politics and developmentalism, have intensified these built-in tensions.

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2.China's Agricultural Growth, Technological Change and Consumption -- Chapter 3. The Role of Property Rights in Allocation Efficiency and Inclusive Economic Growth -- Chapter 4. Inclusive Growth of Rural Enterprises and the Role of Institutions -- Chapter 5. Application of the Combination Development Approach to Economic Development -- Chapter 6. IInternational Development and Inclusive Development of Enterprises -- Chapter 7. China's Economic Development and International Cooperation -- Chapter 8. Conclusions. .

"This book examines rural-urban migration policies in China, and considers how Chinese workers cope with migration events in the context of these policies. It explores the contribution of migrant workers to the Chinese economy, the impact of changes within the 'hukou' system (household registration) and the impact of recent migration policies promoting rural-urban migration and targeting key events during migrant workers' migration trajectories - job-seeking, wage exploitation, work injuries and illness - namely the corresponding 'Skills Training Program for Migrant Workers', the 'Circular on Managing Wage Payment to Migrant Workers', the 'Circular on Migrant Workers Participating in Work-Related Injury Insurance', and the 'New Rural Medical Cooperative Scheme' (Health Insurance). Through in-depth interviews, it examines how when facing such challenges, migrant workers choose to either make a claim under existing policies, or use other coping strategies. The book notably proposes a typology of "coping" which includes a variety of administrative coping, political coping and social coping, and considers how workers in China harness the power of civil groups and social networks."--

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Foreword -- Preface -- I: Introduction -- II: Literature Review -- III: Trade News and Stock Prices -- IV: Empirical Investigation for U.S. Import-Competing Firms -- V: Empirical Investigation for Taiwanese Export-Oriented Firms -- VI: Empirical Investigation for South Korean Export-Oriented Firms -- VII: Comparison and Conclusion -- Appendices -- Bibliography -- Index

Foreword I -- Foreword II -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Abstract -- Preface -- Introduction -- P. C. Chang as a World-known Human Rights Activist -- Relevant Literature on P. C. Chang by Scholars and Others -- P. C. Chang's Major English Works, Lectures and Speeches -- Drafting Process of the UDHR with Non-Western Influence -- P. C. Chang's Main Ideas in Drafting the UDHR -- P. C. Chang's Outstanding Contributions to the UDHR -- P. C. Chang's Human Rights Philosophy of Pluralism -- Specific Content and Legal Status of the UDHR -- Appendices -- Index.

The second decade of the twenty-first century has witnessed a surging interest in personalized medicine with the concomitant promise to enable more precise diagnosis and treatment of disease and illness, based upon an individual's unique genetic makeup. In this book, my goal is to contribute to a growing body of literature on personalized medicine by tracing and analyzing how this field has blossomed in Asia. In so doing, I aim to illustrate how various social and economic forces shape the co-production of science and social order in global contexts. This book shows that there are inextricable transnational linkages between developing and developed countries and also provides a theoretically guided and empirically grounded understanding of the formation and usage of particular racial and ethnic human taxonomies in local, national and transnational settings.