Xin Zhang Livres

The narrative delves into the impact of significant political, economic, and technological changes on everyday life in Zhenjiang, a midsize Chinese river town during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Xin Zhang highlights how local merchants, entrepreneurs, and ordinary residents navigated the complexities of globalization, offering insights into their experiences and adaptations amidst these transformative times.

The book explores the origins of China's modernization, offering fresh insights into its historical and cultural influences. It delves into various factors that contributed to the country's transformation, examining key events and figures that played significant roles in shaping modern China. Through thorough analysis, the author presents a nuanced understanding of how these elements interconnect, providing readers with a deeper appreciation of China's development trajectory.

The book offers a comprehensive analysis of cross-border debt finance laws and practices in the People's Republic of China, drawing on the author's two decades of academic research and legal experience. It presents firsthand insights and detailed examinations of the legal landscape, making it a valuable resource for understanding the complexities of this financial area.

This book presents essential new insights in research and applications concerning spatial information technologies and coastal disaster prevention modeling for oceanic and coastal regions. As a new research domain of Digital Earth, it covers the latest scientific and technical advances, from the acquisition and integration of observational data, ocean spatio-temporal analysis and coastal flood forecasting to frequency modeling and the development of technical platforms. The individual chapters will be of interest to specialists in oceanic and coastal monitoring and management who deal with aspects of data integration, sharing, visualization, and spatio-temporal analysis from a Digital Earth perspective.

This book focuses on the stellar disk evolution and gas disk turbulence of the most numerous galaxies in the local Universe – the dwarf galaxies. The “outside-in” disk shrinking mode was established for a relatively large sample of dwarf galaxies for the first time, and this is in contrast to the “inside-out” disk growth mode found for spiral galaxies. Double exponential brightness profiles also correspond to double exponential stellar mass profiles for dwarf galaxies, which is again different from most spiral galaxies. The cool gas distribution in dwarf galaxies was probed with the spatial power spectra of hydrogen iodide (HI) gas emission, and provided indirect evidence that inner disks of dwarf galaxies have proportionally more cool gas than outer disks. The finding that no correlation exists between gas power spectral indices and star formation gave important constraints on the relation between turbulence and star formation in dwarf galaxies.