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With the development of social economy and the popularization of quality education, the Chinese government invests more and more funding in education. Campus constructions are experiencing a great development phase. Under the trend of sustainable development, modern green campus design needs to meet new requirements of contemporary, informational and diversified education means and adapt to future education development. Educators, designers and other participants of campus design are facing new challenges. By studying and analyzing the universal unsatisfied current situations and sustainable development requirements of Chinese campuses, this paper summarizes the strategies and intentions of the whole-life-cycle campus design. In addition, a Chinese high school in Zhejiang province is added to illustrate the design cycle in an actual case. It is aimed to make all participants of campus design, especially the designers, to realize the importance of whole-life-cycle campus design and cooperate better. Sustainable campus design is expected to come true in deed instead of becoming a slogan in this way.

"Disorienting Politics mines 21st-century media artifacts-including films like The Martian and TV/streaming media shows such as Firefly and House of Cards-to make visible the economic, cultural, political, and ecological entanglements of China and the United States. Describing these transpacific entanglements as "Chimerica"-coined by economic historians to reference the symbiosis of China and America-Yang examines how Chimerican media, originating in the US but traversing national boundaries in their production, circulation, and consumption, co-create the figure of rising China and extend a political imagination beyond the conventional ground of the nation. Examining how Chimerican media is shaped by and perpetuates uneven power relations, Disorienting Politics argues that the pervasive tendency among wide-ranging cultural producers to depict the Chinese state as a racialized Other in American media life diminishes the possibility of engaging transpacific entanglements as a basis for envisioning new political horizons. Such othering of China not only results in overt racism against people of Asian descent, Yang argues, but also impacts the wellbeing of people of color more generally. This interdisciplinary book demonstrates the ways in which race is embedded in geopolitics even when the subject of discussion is not the people, but the (Chinese) state. Bridging media and cultural studies, Asian and Asian American studies, geography, and globalization studies, Disorienting Politics calls for a relational politics that acknowledges the multifarious interconnectivity between people, places, media, and environment"--

Introduction -- Between Normativity and Social Facts: A Sociological Interpretation on Habermas's Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy -- Communicative Rationality or Power Discourse: Foucault's Challenge to Habermas -- Confucian Rationality: Another Normative Interpretation on Discourse Theory -- "Public Sphere" and Political/Legal Discussions in Traditional Chinese Society Influenced by Confucian Rationality -- Rationality and Power in the New Media Public Sphere of China -- General Conclusion.

Introduction -- Urbanization and depression of rural older population in China -- Theoretical framework and data sources -- Urbanization and depression of Chinese rural older population in the social ecological perspective -- Localization of foreign community-based care models in urbanizing China -- Locally developed initiatives to contain elderly depression in urbanizing China -- Conclusion: Advocating for urbanization policies that address depression in older population.

"Faked in China is a critical account of the cultural challenge faced by China following its accession to the World Trade Organization in 2001. It traces the interactions between nation branding and counterfeit culture, two manifestations of the globalizing Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) regime that give rise to competing visions for the nation. Nation branding is a state-sanctioned policy, captured by the slogan "From Made in China to Created in China," which aims to transform China from a manufacturer of foreign goods into a nation that creates its own IPR-eligible brands. Counterfeit culture is the transnational making, selling, and buying of unauthorized products. This cultural dilemma of the postsocialist state demonstrates the unequal relations of power that persist in contemporary globalization."--Page 4 of cover