This is one title from the “Economic Transformation and Innovative Development in China” series. Significant development strategies in new period, "Silk Road Economic Belt" and "Maritime Silk Road in the 21st century" have great influence on Chinese politics and economy. The core target of the Belt and Road lies in enhancing the economic deve......

This book consists of the author’s 14 theses on the history of political thoughts of modern China, including Freedom and Prosperity: Problems and Paradox of YAN Fu, LIANG Qichao: Between Civic Nationalism and Statism, etc. Using a large number of sources from the Republic of China period, the author expresses his patriotic consciousness, national enthusiasm, and......

This book is a relatively complete, enriched, and self-organized work on ancient Chinese. Consisting of 20 chapters, it broadly discusses such specialized items as philology, phonology, exegetics, explanation of special meaning of words, sentence pattern, flexible use of parts of speech, special words, different grammar in ancient and modern times, rhetoric, bib......

Colored lacquer with gold paint is an endangered traditional Chinese craft dating back to Hemudu culture more than 7,000 years ago. At that time, people living in Southern China (mainly in Ningbo, Zhejiang) foliated and ground gold and silver, and then added paints to color, trace or fill the patterns on the surface of woodwares. After that, they would elaborat......

This book presents the latest experimental and numerical analysis work in the field of ground deformation and base instability of deep excavations in soft clay subjected to hydraulic uplift. The authors’ latest research findings, based on dimensional analyses, well-instrumented full-scale field tests, systematic coupled-consolidation finite element analyses and ......

Huang Binhong (1865 – 1955) is a famous modern Chinese landscape painter. Huang adopted a fresh and refined style in early years, but his style became heavier and more intensive in his old age, making his works pretty calming. This book collects Chinese art theorists’ discussion on Huang’s artistic thinking, philosophical system, artistic style, cultural positio......