Blending fact with fiction, China Dream is an unflinching satire of totalitarianism. After decades of loyal service, Ma Daode, a corrupt and lecherous party official, has been appointed director of the China Dream Bureau, charged with promoting President Xi Jinping’s China Dream of national rejuvenation....

Dai Wei lies in his bedroom, a prisoner in his body, after he was shot in the head at the Tiananmen Square protest ten years earlier and left in a coma....

The hugely influential book that set Ma Jian on the road to exile from China. \"Outstanding\" Irish Times A Chinese writer whose marriage has fallen apart travels to Tibet....

Every week, a writer of political propaganda and a professional blood donor meet for dinner. They are unlikely friends - one of them tortured by his \"art\", the other fat and wealthy from the earthy business of providing spare blood for the citizens of China....

Diploma Thesis from the year 2007 in the subject Economics - Case Scenarios, grade: 2.0, University of Tubingen, language: English, abstract: This paper gives an analysis of China's entry process into the WTO and an assessment on China's accession commitment....

Meili, a young peasant woman born in the remote heart of China, is married to Kongzi, a village school teacher, and a distant descendant of Confucius. They have a daughter, but desperate for a son to carry on his illustrious family line, Kongzi gets Meili pregnant again without waiting for official permission....

This book is on the foundations of Liu Xie’s (c.465-522) literary thought. It focuses on what Liu Xie calls the “pivot of literature”: the question raised in the first five chapters of The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons, concerning its origins and foundation....

In the last three decades, information sources, especially the internet, are growing up more and more rapidly. Thus, people feel very comfortable to find any information they want from these sources. Experiences and observations show that when an agent wants to get any information, it usually gets a large amount from various online sources....

WRN (Werner) protein is a member of the RecQ family showing helicase and exonuclease activity. WRN protein may lose function upon mutation and causes Werner syndrome (WS) which is a cancer-prone and premature aging disease. ATM (Ataxia-Telangiectasia mutated) protein initiates a signaling pathway in response to DNA double strand breaks (DSBs)....

Orbital debris poses significant risks to space activities and is a threat extending into the foreseeable future. While identification and tracking of orbital threats is actively pursued in general, we focus on deorbiting very small satellites of the nanosat or cubesat size with miniature tether systems. Ch....

3D scalar data visualization has been well accepted as a powerful means to allow scientists to explore large data sets, and to present their results to a wider audience. However, most of these visualization techniques have been designed on an assumption that the 3D scalar data to be represented are free from uncertainty....

The book describes how land plays a central role in the rapid economic growth of a Chinese region (with the fictitious name of “Dragon County”). Concerned with grain self-sufficiency, the national government of China employs a central planning approach to control the amount of farmland to be converted to urban uses each year....

In 1983, Ma Jian turned 30 and was overwhelmed by the desire to escape the confines of his life in Beijing. One day he bought a train ticket to the westernmost border of China and set off in search of himself. The result of the journey is this book, presenting the contradictions of China from a man who is both an insider and an outsider....

\"Emerging Techniques in Power System Analysis\" identifies the new challenges facing the power industry following the deregulation. The book presents emerging techniques including data mining, grid computing, probabilistic methods, phasor measurement unit (PMU) and how to apply those techniques to solving the technical challenges....

This book presents a comprehensive overview and some economic analysis of China\'s economic reform experiences, particularly those since the late 1980s....