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Focusing especially on Guangdong province as a case study to illustrate both the macro-level trends and the micro-level reality, this book explores the formation, development and characteristics of modern China's finance. The chronological range of this book is mainly from the late Qing period to the early Republican Era ending in 1937, when the full-scale Second Sino-Japanese War broke out. After the concept of modern finance was introduced to China for the first time in the late Qing period, the efforts to build modern finance continued in the Republican Era both nationally and locally.

This book examines state efforts to shape the public memory of past atrocities in the service of nationalist politics. This political engagement with the 'duty to remember', and the question of historical memory and identity politics, began as an effort to confront denialism with regard to the Holocaust, but now extends well beyond that framework, and has become a contentious subject in many countries. In exploring the politics of memory laws, a topic that has been overlooked in the largely legal analyses surrounding this phenomenon, this volume traces the spread of memory laws from their origins in Western Europe to their adoption by countries around the world. The work illustrates how memory laws have become a widespread tool of governments with a nationalist, majoritarian outlook. Indeed, as this volume illustrates, in countries that move from pluralism to majoritarianism, memory laws serve as a warning - a precursor to increasingly repressive, nationalist inclinations

"There's no doubt that our world has gotten more extreme. Pandemics, climate change, superpower rivalries, cyberattacks, political radicalization--virtually, everywhere we look there is mayhem bearing down on us, putting trillions of assets at risk. And at least two factions have formed around how to respond. In Chaos Kings, Scott Patterson depicts how one faction, led by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, bestselling author of The Black Swan, believes humans can never see the big disaster coming. In their view, extreme events--so-called Black Swans--while inevitable, will always catch us by surprise. In 2007, Taleb's longtime collaborator, Mark Spitznagel, launched the Universa hedge fund, which would go on to make billions protecting investors against unforeseen chaos in the market. A second faction, which relies on complex formulas, believes looming chaos can be detected. Chief among these risk prognosticators is Didier Sornette, a colorful French mathematician who enjoys riding his motorcycle at speeds in excess of 170 miles per hour. When Sornette looks out from what he calls his Financial Crisis Observatory in Zurich, Switzerland, what he sees are Dragon Kings--punishing events that are unlikely to occur but have probabilities that can be predicted...and defended against. Which faction is right? All of our financial futures may depend on the answer." - Amazon

Introduction -- Contextual overview: why is capacity a problem -- Relationships of capacity building with SUMPS 2 -- Sumps implementation: designation of capacity gaps of local authorities in the delivery of smart and sustainable projects -- Emergent capacity needs -- Delivering capacity building in small to medium local authorities -- Introduction to capacity building toolset and SUITS capacity outputs.

Intro -- Foreword -- Consulted Archives -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- About the Author -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- List of Graphs -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- 1.1 Administrative Science as a Historical Problem -- 1.2 Modus Operandi -- 1.3 Outline of the Book -- Chapter 2: State Building and the Institutionalisation of Administrative Science -- 2.1 National Roots and International Transfer -- 2.2 Regulations, Borders and Territories -- 2.3 Consecration: Clues -- 2.4 The Attraction of Other Disciplines: Luigi Rava -- Chapter 3: Who Decides What Administrative Science Is? -- 3.1 The Italian University Model: Between France and Germany -- 3.2 Recruiting the Recruiters -- 3.3 From Individuals to Networks -- 3.4 Vittorio Emanuele Orlando: Between the Coordination Nucleus and the Decision-Making Periphery -- 3.5 Disciplines and Regulations: Giovanni Vacchelli -- Appendix -- Chapter 4: Administrative Science, Total War and Social Reform -- 4.1 Modern Warfare, Work and Care for the Population -- 4.2 A Reforming Nebula: Prosopographic Analysis -- 4.3 The Commission's Proposals for the Study of Social Legislation -- 4.4 The Invention of the Middle Classes -- 4.5 On the Edge of the Precipice: Administrative Science, the Liberal State and Fascism -- 4.6 When the Gates Are Not Open -- Chapter 5: The Deinstitutionalisation of Administrative Science -- 5.1 The Catholic University, Romeo Vuoli and the Institutionalisation of Political Sciences -- 5.2 Administrative Science and Corporatism -- 5.3 The Tetrarchy -- 5.4 At the Margins of the Discipline: Carlo Francesco Ferraris -- 5.5 The Anomaly: Guido Cavaglieri -- 5.6 The Nomos of the Discipline: Oreste Ranelletti -- Chapter 6: "Silkworm Man": Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index.

1. Introduction: End of the line, or new threshold? Pedagogy at Bay -- 2. Online educational & sustaining resiliency in Bangladesh: Scaffolding pathways -- 3. Undergraduate studies & the Covid context: Promoting self-regulated learning -- 4. Making the most of online classes: Clipping pedagogy's future? -- 5. Bangladesh's public universities, online education, & Covid-19 pandemic: Convulsions & corrections -- 6. Bangladesh women varsity students face Covid-19 online Education & inter-sectionalist insights -- 7. Online university teaching during Covid-19: The Malaysian experience -- 8. Dealing with Covid-19 in a Mexican university: Academic challenges, psychological wear & faculty economy -- 9. Transition to digital classrooms: Learning on one's own -- 10. Conclusions: Roller-coasting Pedagogy: "We ain't seen nothin' yet!".

Intro -- Contents -- 1: Introduction -- 2: The Nature of Conflicts -- 2.1 Constructive Conflicts -- 2.2 Destructive/Dysfunctional Conflicts -- 2.3 Hot and Cold Conflicts -- 2.4 The Escalation of Conflicts -- 2.5 The Aura of Conflict -- 3: Conflict Types -- 3.1 Everyone Is Different: Personalities -- 3.2 What Type of Conflict Am I? -- The Extroverted, Direct Conflict Type -- The Introverted, Avoidant Conflict Type -- The Detail-Oriented, Factual Conflict Type -- The Intuitive, Empathic Conflict Type -- The Analytical, Open Conflict Type -- 3.3 What Types of Conflict Resolution Are There? -- The Avoidance -- The Enforcement/Competing -- The Yielding/Accommodating -- The Compromise -- The Consensus/Collaboration -- 4: The Spiral of Conflict -- 4.1 Change in Thinking -- 4.2 Change in Feeling -- 4.3 Change in the Will -- 5: Conflict Resolution -- 5.1 Self Clarification -- 5.2 Understanding the Others -- 5.3 Making Peace.

Intro -- About the Project -- Scientific Supervisor -- Scientific officers -- Research group -- About the Images -- Contents -- About the Authors -- 1 Designing the Regeneration of Urban Communities -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Community Governance, Social Innovation and Urban Strategic Design -- 2 Sustainable Urban Regeneration: A Literature Review (A. Fanfoni, E. Ortolan, N. Raimo) -- 2.1 The Concept of Sustainable Urban Regeneration and Its Evolution Over Time -- 2.2 Assessing the Sustainability of Urban Regeneration Projects -- 3 The Research Design: The Definition of the Key Performance Indicators and the Choice of the Analysis Sample -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Definition of Sustainability Dimensions, Aspects and KPIs -- 3.3 Validating the Relevance of KPIs -- 3.4 The Choice of Sample -- 3.5 The Analysis of 30 Cases for the Definition of a European Atlas of Sustainable Regeneration -- 4 A European Atlas of Urban Regeneration Projects: City Fact Sheets -- 4.1 Eskilstuna -- 4.2 Mollet Del Vallès -- 4.3 Växjö -- 4.4 Cornellà De Llobregat -- 4.5 Galway -- 4.6 Jönköping -- 4.7 Limerick -- 4.8 Mechelen -- 4.9 Torres Vedras -- 4.10 Umeå -- 4.11 Aalborg -- 4.12 Angers -- 4.13 Cagliari -- 4.14 Clermont-Ferrand -- 4.15 Göttingen -- 4.16 Grenoble -- 4.17 Jyväskylä -- 4.18 Lahti -- 4.19 Leuven -- 4.20 Luxembourg City -- 4.21 Nancy -- 4.22 Nijmegen -- 4.23 Odense -- 4.24 Salzburg -- 4.25 Trento -- 4.26 Aarhus -- 4.27 Graz -- 4.28 Ljubljana -- 4.29 Tampere -- 4.30 Vitoria Gasteiz -- 5 Data Analysis and Discussion -- 5.1 Urban Design Sustainability -- 5.2 Institutional Sustainability -- 5.3 Social Sustainability -- 5.4 Economic Sustainability -- 5.5 Environmental Sustainability -- 6 The Guidelines for European Cities -- 6.1 Redefining the Community Governance Model -- 6.2 Extending the Instruments and the Level of Social Cohesion.

Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Introduction -- 1: Digital Cultures -- 1.1 Decentralized and Collaborative - The Genesis of the Internet -- 1.2 A 'Grid of Numbers' or the 'Digital Folding' of Reality -- 1.3 Culture in Medial Change -- 1.3.1 Culture - An Attempt at Definition -- 1.3.2 On the Blissful People and 'the Prejudice Is Good' -- 1.3.3 The Opening of Culture - Simmel's Concept of the Stranger -- 1.3.4 The Internet as the Culturally Alien -- 1.3.5 Cultural Discourses in Motion - From the Pedagogy for Foreigners to Intercultural Encounters -- 1.3.6 Trans-culture - Cultural Patchwork in the Digital Age -- 1.3.7 Hyper-culture - De-localization and De-removal of Culture -- 2: Postmodern Cyberspace -- 2.1 From Modernity to Postmodernity -- 2.1.1 Modernity - Society in Transformation -- 2.1.2 Metanarrations and Postmodern Subversion -- 2.1.3 Order of Modernity and Postmodern Disorder -- 2.1.4 Postmodern Ethics as Reflective Tolerance -- 2.1.5 The Postmodern Subject, Dialogue as Postmodern Knowledge and Eurocentrism in Postmodern Epistemology -- 2.1.6 Irony as a Postmodern Protest - From Schlegel, via Spontaneous Slogans to Twitter -- 2.1.7 The Emergence of Subversive Diversity - Postmodern Protest in the Third Space -- 2.1.8 The Struggle for Publicity - From the Monologue of Television to Web 2.0-Based Dialogue -- 2.2 Web 2.0 as a Mass Medium of the Digital Age -- 2.2.1 Epistemological Perspective on the Subject in Medial Change -- 2.2.2 The Author as an Agent of Knowledge -- 2.2.3 Rhizomorphic Cognition - Root Network Instead of the Tree Structure -- 2.2.4 Hypertext and Memex - Structures of Non-linear Thinking -- 2.2.5 Learning Culture in the Digital Age - Connectivism and e-Learning 2.0 -- 2.2.6 Read and Write Culture and Collective Authorship as Textual Instability.

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- About the Author -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- 1 Sociology of Governance and the Grassroots Democracy -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Sociology of Governance: Power or Regulation -- 1.3 Sociologically Locating the Study of Governance -- 1.4 The Porous State and the Society: Between the Centralized Consent and the Localized Perceptions -- 1.5 The Social Field and the Study -- 1.6 Locating the Area -- 1.7 Napam -- 2 Locating the State, Power and Governance in the Social Sphere -- 2.1 Governance: Etymology and Concept -- 2.2 Forms of Governance -- 2.3 Formal and Informal Governance -- 2.4 Governance and Social Structure -- 2.5 Governance and Embeddedness -- 2.6 Power, Sociality and Trust -- 2.7 Understanding Sociality -- 2.8 State and Society: A Porous Link -- 2.9 Governmentality and Governance -- 2.10 Structure, Agency and Governance -- 2.11 Knowledge, Governance and Failure -- 2.12 From Government to Governance -- 2.13 Governance Without Government -- 2.14 Culture Governance -- 2.15 Discourses on Good Governance, Development and Civil Society -- 3 Seeing Like a Citizen: People's Everyday Engagement with the State and Governance -- 3.1 Society, State and Governance -- 3.1.1 Precolonial Period -- 3.1.2 The Colonial Period -- 3.1.3 The Present-Day Assam and Governance -- 3.1.4 Social Life of the Village -- 3.1.5 Village-Level Governance and Development -- 3.1.6 Education -- 3.1.7 Problems Affecting Education -- 3.1.8 Maintenance of Primary Education by Panchayat -- 3.1.9 Health: Facility, Perception and Participation -- 3.1.10 Availability of Medicine -- 3.1.11 Suggesting the Better Governance -- 3.1.12 Employment -- 3.1.13 Answer to Unemployment -- 3.1.14 Dispute Settlement -- 3.1.15 Need of the Village -- 3.1.16 Rural Development Programmes -- 3.1.17 Experiencing the Government Office.