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The largest Asian community in Europe has effectively built its public identity in France via popular presentations, the political strategies of its leaders, and those of the French authorities. Sometimes it is presented for tourist and commercial purposes as an exotic image with vague outlines and content, sometimes as a "model of integration and citizenship", and sometimes as a cultural and economic bridge between France and Asia. This article concerns itself with three kinds of situations: the cultural and political events specific to the celebrations of the Chinese New Year; the project of the monument named "Arche de la Fraternité" replacing a traditional "Chinatown gate"; and the consequences of the health crisis on this community. Completed by a portfolio, the article closely examines how this Asian diaspora benefited from its special recognition by the French public authorities (from the left and right) during the past decades. Finally, it asks if this recognition, granted and received as a privilege, will be permanent or if it is a fragile construction, the future of which will depend on France's domestic and international politics.

The Other Digital China: Nonconfrontational Activism on the Social Web maps out the emerging ecosystem of Chinese activism 2.0 that traverses multiple sectors-the NGO sector, universities, the corporate sector, and the IT sector-where change agents are creating social good in non-contentious ways and engaged in constructing the new "social" under difficult ideological constraints. Focusing on social media and tech practices emerging from China's social sector in recent years, this book provides a multifaceted look at the Chinese society caught at a transformative moment, thanks in part to the arrival of Web 2.0 technology and the accompanying cyber utopianism, as well as the Communist Party's recently alleged commitment to policies aimed at energizing the hitherto weak social structure. Wang develops the idea of "nonconfrontational activism" and argues that it's possible to talk about the agency of "change-makers" even in authoritarian countries.--

In the article the author analyzes the history of piano education and finds out exactly how it has evolved from the Baroque period to the present day.

Nowadays, a Smart city design brings smart buildings and structures and environmental using BIM. The performance and evaluation of the model are experimentally sustainability. Building Information Modeling (BIM) performance describes how to measure a construction project or entity's capability and maturity in terms of development, utilization, and assessment. Energy fluctuation remains a barrier in such development and utilization. In this paper, an Optimized Mathematical Model for Energy Management (OMMEM) has been proposed to assess energy utilization in the construction management of smart cities analyzed by determining building information and distribution systems to the OMMEM performance analysis model. A collection of parameters and variables important for planning and prediction concerning the energy management of construction is acquired to model a smart infrastructure in a smart city. The findings revealed that the mathematical model provides a new method of evaluating the potential of the BIM application towards energy management in smart building construction of smart cities with high accuracy, performance with low delay and error rate.

How do Chinese Muslims have their own voices heard under China's tightening online censorship amid a global health crisis like COVID-19? Based on 13-month ethnographic fieldwork, this article examines the active participation and creative use of digital media by Chinese Muslims during the pandemic. This study uses multi-sited ethnography (MSE) and digital ethnography to identify major features of networked Islamic counterpublic in China. It shows how Chinese Muslims creatively blend Islamic discourses of hygiene, scientific discourse, official regulations, and global discourses of public health through digital media. It also examines how Chinese Muslims selectively use digital platforms to cultivate Islamic ethics and strengthening global connections to Muslim world both online and offline. Furthermore, this study shows how resilient the networked Islamic counterpublic in China has been in terms of strategically voicing dissent in the shadows of anti-Muslim sentiments and state policies during a major global pandemic of our time.

This thesis aims to understand the challenges of innovative pedagogies through the perceptions of the different actors of the latter in the contemporary Chinese context. By retracing the history of the movement of new education both in the West and in China at the turn of the twentieth century and by grasping the main ideas shared by different currents of new pedagogies, we question the current situation of innovative pedagogies offered by Chinese private schools. After twenty years of banishment due to its incompatibility with communist ideology, the private school has been requested since the 1980s by the government in order to fill funding gaps in the public school system and to bring diversity and dynamic to the education system and alternative education to Chinese families (Ye et al., 2002). If families from the middle classes, which are booming at the moment, were the public of private schools, in what social context, for what reasons, and according to what issues are new pedagogies sought and valued in contemporary China? In order to answer this question, we are organizing surveys on Chinese private schools and on teachers and parents who are also part of this new school model. In this research, we try to discover the pedagogical proposals of private schools by an analysis of their website and to collect the perceptions of teachers and families on pedagogical innovations proposed by the school by organizing semi-structured interviews. Through this study, which stems from critical sociology, we noticed that the relatively independent position of the Chinese private school, which makes it possible to escape in part from the State prerogatives in educational matters and authorizes pedagogical innovations that it implicitly or explicitly proposes could offer the Chinese middle classes a school product more in line with their values, habits, and aspirations (Bourdieu, 1979; Perrenoud, 1985). A new social transformation is passing through the Chinese middle classes and through private schools. ; Cette thèse ...