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Hyperspectral Imaging, Volume 32, presents a comprehensive exploration of the different analytical methodologies applied on hyperspectral imaging and ...
11th International Workshop, MCS 2013, Nanjing, China, May 15-17, 2013. Proceedings
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Multiple Classifier Systems, MCS 2013, held in Nanjing, China, in...
A Factual History Through the Lens of Archaeology, Bronzeware, Astronomy, Divination, Calendar and the Annals
The Sinitic Civilization A Factual History through the Lens of Archaeology, Bronzeware, Astronomy, Divination, Calendar and the Annals The book covere...
China’s Information-Age Weapons in International Security
How and why China has pursued information-age weapons to gain leverage against its adversaries How can states use military force to achieve their poli...
Ten outstanding specialists in Chinese foreign policy draw on new theories, methods, and sources to examine China's use of force, its response to glob...
The Kremlin's Cold War Bid for Global Power
What would it feel like To Run the World? Soviet rulers spent the Cold War trying desperately to find out. Perennial insecurities, delusions of grande...
Perspectives from China, India, and the United States
In the twenty-first century, the Indo-Pacific, which spans from the western Pacific Ocean to the western Indian Ocean along the eastern coast of Afric...
Looking at approaches to understanding the interactions among three critical players, China, Japan and the United States, the authors of this text sho...
Chinese Military Assistance to North Vietnam
Built upon a solid foundation of sources, memoirs, and interviews, this study sheds new light on China's efforts in the Vietnam War. Utilizing seconda...
A New History
Based on Chinese archival documents, interviews, and more than twenty years of research on the subject, Zhihua Shen and Yafeng Xia offer a comprehensi...
China's Military Rise
This issue analyses China's inexorable rise from peasant society to economic powerhouse....
Siping, 1946
“A well-organized and excellently researched work” (H-War) on one of the crucial battles of China’s civil war. In the spring of 1946, Communists...
This book deals with two areas: Global Commons and Security: inextricably melted together and more relevant than ever in a world which is ever globali...
The Chinese Army in the Vietnam War
This book covers the chronological development and operational experience of the Chinese Army's intervention in the Vietnam War against the U.S. in 19...
World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia
ACCLAIMED AS ONE OF THE YEAR’S 10 BEST BOOKS BY THE WASHINGTON POST • 12 ESSENTIAL NONFICTION BOOKS BY THE NEW YORKER • 100 NOTABLE BOOKS BY THE...
Chinese Perspectives, 1895–1945
To many Chinese, the rise and expansion of Japanese power during the years between the two Sino-Japanese wars (1895–1945) presented a paradox: With ...
Expanding Capabilities, Evolving Roles?
Contending Interpretations
What is strategic stability and why is it important? This edited collection offers the most current authoritative survey of this topic, which is centr...
The Chinese Second Offensive in Korea
For members of the U.S. Army’s “Task Force Faith” and the First Marine Division, the Battle of Chosin Reservoir is an epic story of survival, co...
This volume consists of selected papers presented at a workshop on War and Memory in Malaysia and Singapore to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Wor...
China was the most advanced country in the world when Huizong ascended the throne in 1100 CE. In his eventful twenty-six year reign, the artistically-...
The Chinese Civil War, 1946-1950
"Though the book highlights the military aspects of the war, it also shows how these took place alongside profound changes in Chinese politics, societ...
Mao Zedong, Kim Il-sung, and Sino-North Korean Relations, 1949-1976: Revised Edition
Today, the People’s Republic of China is North Korea’s only ally on the world stage, a tightly knit relationship that goes back decades. Both coun...
The Chinese in North America, 1898-1918
The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries saw the turbulent end of China's imperial system, violent revolutionary movements, and the fraught e...
Hearing Before the Special Oversight Panel on Terrorism of the Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, One Hundred Sixth Congress, Second Session, Hearing Held May 23, 2000
Hearing Before the Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, One Hundred Sixth Congress, Second Session, Hearing Held June 21, 2000
Beijing's Strategy for the Twenty-first Century
China's relationship with the developing world is a fundamental part of its larger foreign policy strategy. Sweeping changes both within and outside o...
Drivers, Trajectories, and Strategic Implications
China’s anti-ship ballistic missile (ASBM), the DF-21D, has reached the equivalent of Initial Operational Capability. Although it probably has been ...
Strategic Culture and Geopolitics
This book re-visits the history of the Korean War of 1950-1953 from a Chinese perspective, examining Chinese strategy and exploring why China sent thr...
Themes in Global Perspective
This book aims at providing an accessible introduction to and summary of the major themes of Hong Kong history that has been studied in the past decad...
China, Indonesia, and Thailand, 1893–1952
This book explores ways foreign intervention and external rivalries can affect the institutionalization of governance in weak states. When sufficientl...
Historical Diagnoses of the »Sick Man of East Asia«
Die Vorstellung, China sei ein "schwacher Staat", der in einer zunehmend darwinistisch konzipierten Welt nicht konkurrenzfähig sei, beherrschte vom E...
Recounting War in Modern China
China was afflicted by a brutal succession of conflicts through much of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Yet there has never been clear underst...
Future Strategic Balances and Alliances
The Rise and Fall of the Chinese Military-Business Complex, 1978-1998
In 1978, faced with the pressure to modernize and a declining budget, the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) reluctantly agreed to join China's ec...
China's Secret War in Tibet
An untold story that reshapes our understanding of Chinese and Tibetan history From 1956 to 1962, devastating military conflicts took place in China's...
This book explores China's growing strength at the poles and how it could shift the global balance of power. The strategic plans of China are of inter...
The PLA Experience Since 1949
This is the first systematic study of modern China's military campaigns and the actual fighting conducted by the People's Liberation Army since the fo...