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Software-defined Optical Communications and Networking
Principles and Applications
This book features the latest advances and directions in next-generation packet optical transport networks with primary focuses on programmable optical coherent communications, multi-layer packet optical transport system integration, and transport network virtualizations....
To Be Published June 14th 2014 by CRC Press
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Remaking Development Models in Urban China
Beyond New Regionalism, Beyond Global Production
Series: Routledge Studies on China in Transition
China’s miraculous rise has been spearheaded by selected coastal city regions, and their development models and trajectories have generated considerable scholarly attention, especially the three well-known models of industrial districts and regional development--the Sunan model, the Wenzhou model,...
To Be Published April 14th 2014 by Routledge
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Mechanical Design of Electric Motors
Focused on the design, analysis, construction, optimization, and applications of electric motors, this book can be used for regular or advanced mechanical engineering design courses. Mechanical Design of Electric Motors offers research results based on the personal experience of the author as well...
To Be Published February 14th 2014 by CRC Press
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China and Global Trade Governance
China's First Decade in the World Trade Organization
Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series
China's historic accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) in November 2001 not only represents an important milestone in the country’s transition to a market economy and integration into the global economy, but is also among the most important events in the history of the WTO and the...
To Be Published December 14th 2013 by Routledge
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Private Equity in China
Development and Challenges
Series: Routledge International Studies in Money and Banking
Private equity is an important source of funds for start-ups, private middle market firms, firms in financial distress and public or private firms seeking buyouts. This book investigates the industry of private equity in China by documenting its development and identifying challenges underlying the...
To Be Published November 29th 2013 by Routledge
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China
How the Empire Fell
Series: Asia's Transformations
The Qing dynasty was China’s last, and it created an empire of unprecedented size and prosperity. However in 1911 the empire collapsed within a few short months, and China embarked on a revolutionary course that lasted through most of the twentieth century. The 1911 Revolution ended two millennia...
To Be Published October 29th 2013 by Routledge
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Macau – The Formation of a Global City
Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
Macau, the former Portuguese colony in southeast China, has a long and very interesting history of cultural interaction between China and the West. Held by the Portuguese from the 1550s until its return to China in 1999, Macau was up to the emergence of Hong Kong in the later nineteenth century the...
To Be Published September 23rd 2013 by Routledge
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Macau – Cultural Interaction and Literary Representation
Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
Macau, the former Portuguese colony in southeast China from the 1550s until its return to China in 1999, has a long and very interesting history of cultural interaction between China and the West. As an entity with independent political power and unique social setting and cultural development, the...
To Be Published August 27th 2013 by Routledge
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Innovation and Regional Development in China
Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy
Although China is now the ‘factory of the world’, there is no reason to expect that it will always be content with manufacturing labor-intensive goods for foreign corporations. Scholars must now ask: What is the current level of innovation in China? And how can we face this challenge and renovate...
To Be Published August 5th 2013 by Routledge
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The Dynamics of Asian Financial Integration
Facts and Analytics
Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy
The ongoing global financial crisis has manifested a remarkable degree of global financial integration—and its implications—for emerging Asian financial markets. The current crisis will not and should not deter the progress that the region has made toward financial openness and integration. However...
To Be Published June 29th 2013 by Routledge