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The 2008 Sichuan earthquake killed 87,000 people and left 5 million homeless. In response to the devastation, an unprecedented wave of volunteers and civic associations streamed into Sichuan to offer help. The Politics of Compassion examines how civically engaged citizens acted on the ground, how they understood the meaning of their actions, and how the political climate shaped their actions and understandings. Using extensive data from interviews, observations, and textual materials, Bin Xu shows that the large-scale civic engagement was not just a natural outpouring of compassion, but also a complex social process, both enabled and constrained by the authoritarian political context. While volunteers expressed their sympathy toward the affected people's suffering, many avoided explicitly talking about the causes of the suffering—particularly in the case of the collapse of thousands of schools. Xu shows that this silence and apathy is explained by a general inability to discuss politically sensitive issues while living in a repressive state. This book is a powerful account of how the widespread death and suffering caused by the earthquake illuminates the moral-political dilemma faced by Chinese citizens and provides a window into the world of civic engagement in contemporary China.

Civil society --- Political participation --- Voluntarism --- Wenchuan Earthquake, China, 2008. --- Great Sichuan Earthquake, China, 2008 --- Sichuan Earthquake, China, 2008 --- Earthquakes --- Voluntary action --- Volunteer work --- Volunteering --- Volunteerism --- National service --- Associations, institutions, etc. --- China --- Politics and government --- Wenchuan Earthquake, China, 2008 --- S11/0497 --- S20/1030 --- China: Social sciences--Society since 1976 --- China: Agriculture forestry, fishery, natural disasters--Earthquakes --- Wenchuan Earthquake (China : 2008)

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In the 1960s and 1970s, around 17 million Chinese youths were mobilized or forced by the state to migrate to rural villages and China's frontiers. Bin Xu tells the story of how this 'sent-down' generation have come to terms with their difficult past. Exploring representations of memory including personal life stories, literature, museum exhibits, and acts of commemoration, he argues that these representations are defined by a struggle to reconcile worthiness with the political upheavals of the Mao years. These memories, however, are used by the state to construct an official narrative that weaves this generation's experiences into an upbeat story of the 'China dream'. This marginalizes those still suffering and obscures voices of self-reflection on their moral-political responsibility for their actions. Xu provides careful analysis of this generation of 'Chairman Mao's children', caught between the political and the personal, past and present, nostalgia and regret, and pride and trauma.

Down to the countryside movement (China) --- Youth --- Urban-rural migration --- Zhiqing generation. --- History. --- Government policy --- History --- Political aspects --- Cities and towns, Movement from --- City-country migration --- Counterurbanization --- Migration, Urban-rural --- Urban exodus --- Migration, Internal --- Rural-urban relations --- Young people --- Young persons --- Youngsters --- Youths --- Age groups --- Life cycle, Human --- Down to the countryside campaign (China) --- Sent-down movement (China) --- Shang shan xia xiang yun dong (China) --- Shangshan xiaxiang yundong (China) --- UMDC movement (China) --- Up to the mountains and down to the countryside movement (China) --- Zhiqing generation --- Educated youth (Zhiqing generation) --- Rusticated youth (Zhiqing generation) --- Sent-down youth (Zhiqing generation) --- Shang shan xia xiang zhi qing (Zhiqing generation) --- Shangshan xiaxiang zhiqing (Zhiqing generation) --- Zhi qing generation --- Generations --- Population --- S06/1058 --- S11/0731 --- China: Politics and government--Xiafang (sending down to the villages) --- China: Social sciences--Childhood, youth --- E-books

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This book offers data-based insights into the problems of translation education and their causes in the context of localization and globalization in the era of big data. By examining language services around the globe, illustrating applications of big-data technology and their future development, and describing crowdsourcing and online collaborative translations, speech-to-speech translation and cloud-based translation, it makes readers aware of the important changes taking place in the professional translation market and consequently recognize the insufficiency of translation education and the need for it to be restructured accordingly. Furthermore, the book includes data-based analyses of translation education problems, such as teaching philosophy, curriculum design and faculty development of both undergraduate and postgraduate education in China. More importantly, it proposes solutions that have already been successful in experiments in a number of universities in China for other institutions of higher education to imitate in restructuring translation education. The discussion is of interest for current and future translation policy makers, translation educators, translators and learners.

Translating and interpreting. --- Language and languages. --- Translation. --- Language Education. --- Foreign languages --- Languages --- Anthropology --- Communication --- Ethnology --- Information theory --- Meaning (Psychology) --- Philology --- Linguistics --- Interpretation and translation --- Interpreting and translating --- Language and languages --- Literature --- Translation and interpretation --- Translators --- Translating

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This book introduces the cutting-edge technology of micro/nano structure fabrication from precision machining, electrical discharge machining (EDM) and precision grinding and injection molding, the contents of the presented book includes but not limited to the machining process, cutting tool preparation, tool path generation, and surface evaluation. This book provides a variety of feasible fabrication methods and advanced manufacturing techniques for the precision fabrication of micro/nano-structures, especially for complex micro/nano-structures. Since the book focuses on the micro/nano-structure fabrication methods including hieratical micro/nano-structures, graduate students, engineering technicians, and researchers in related areas will benefit from this book; also, someone in related application fields such as biomedicine, communication, optics may be the potential readers of this book.

Applied physical engineering --- Production management --- fabrieken --- productie --- Micromachining.