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During the past decade, Taiwan has experienced an unusual and fast growing in the industry of mapping, remote sensing, spatial information and related markets. A successful space program and dozens of advanced airborne and ground-based remote sensing instruments as well as mobile mapping systems have been implemented and put into operation to support the vast demands of geospatial data acquisition. Moreover, in addition to the government agencies and research institutes, there are also tens of companies in the private sector providing geo-spatial data and services. However, the fast developing industry is also posing a great challenge to the education sector in Taiwan, especially the higher education for geo-spatial information. Facing this fast developing industry, the demands of skilled professionals and new technologies in order to address diversified needs are indubitably high. Consequently, while delighting in the expanding and prospering benefitted from the fast growing industry, how to fulfill these demands has become a challenge for the remote sensing and spatial information disciplines in the higher education institutes in Taiwan. This paper provides a brief insight into the status of the remote sensing and spatial information industry in Taiwan as well as the challenges of the education and technology transfer to support the increasing demands and to ensure the continuous development of the industry. In addition to the report of the current status of the remote sensing and spatial information related courses and programs in the colleges and universities, current and potential threatening issues and possible resolutions are also discussed in different points of view.

Filial piety or China's tradition of taking care of one's aging parents continues to evolve as evidenced by a growth in nursing home residents in Shanghai. The reason for this increase in institutional care remains unclear and calls for an exploration on how these elders and their children decided to institutionalize. More specifically, understanding the communication dynamics between generations when they decide to institutionalize would provide insights into whether and how the decision is mutual. Using a phenomenological approach, this study draws on power relations to examine intergenerational communication dynamics during the decision-making process around institutionalization. Twelve matched dyads of elderly residents and their children participated in face-to-face, in-depth interviews in a government-sponsored nursing home in Shanghai (N = 24). Both generations reported how they proposed to institutionalize, initiated intergenerational communication, and finalized the decision, as well as how they reacted to the other generation's stance during the decision-making process. The findings reveal that more children made the decision for their elderly parents (decision-making power) than did their frail parents for themselves. Adult children's stronger power evoked their elderly parents' ambivalent feelings of filial piety. Older adults were simultaneously disappointed about and obliged to their children's decision to institutionalize. Furthermore, in the power trajectory, one difference may exist that the children's end matches up with tangible caregiving resources, whereas the elders' stay at the emotional end. The ongoing aging of Chinese baby boomers requires future research on longitudinal caregiving trajectories between generations. This study also illuminates the needs for comparisons with caregiving expectations between generations to inform the development of long-term care infrastructure in urban China.

During the past decade, Taiwan has experienced an unusual and fast growing in the industry of mapping, remote sensing, spatial information and related markets. A successful space program and dozens of advanced airborne and ground-based remote sensing instruments as well as mobile mapping systems have been implemented and put into operation to support the vast demands of geospatial data acquisition. Moreover, in addition to the government agencies and research institutes, there are also tens of companies in the private sector providing geo-spatial data and services. However, the fast developing industry is also posing a great challenge to the education sector in Taiwan, especially the higher education for geo-spatial information. Facing this fast developing industry, the demands of skilled professionals and new technologies in order to address diversified needs are indubitably high. Consequently, while delighting in the expanding and prospering benefitted from the fast growing industry, how to fulfill these demands has become a challenge for the remote sensing and spatial information disciplines in the higher education institutes in Taiwan. This paper provides a brief insight into the status of the remote sensing and spatial information industry in Taiwan as well as the challenges of the education and technology transfer to support the increasing demands and to ensure the continuous development of the industry. In addition to the report of the current status of the remote sensing and spatial information related courses and programs in the colleges and universities, current and potential threatening issues and possible resolutions are also discussed in different points of view.

Modern industrial development commenced in many Chinese mega-cities after the 1840 Opium War with Britain. Industry continued to develop according to Chinese socialist production policies after 1949. Following the adoption of market economic practices throughout the late 1970s and 1980s, China's industrial landscape began to dramatically transform. One consequence of this transformation is the rapid disappearance of industrial heritage through demolition, as obsolete factories are replaced by new industrial zones outside the city limits. Adaptive reuse of inner city industrial heritage for cultural purposes has emerged as a way to preserve China's dramatic urban industrial heritage. This paper discusses selected cultural precincts in Beijing, Shanghai and Chongqing which have been adapted from abandoned industrial sites. Comparing the differences of the reuse patterns in the three cities, the paper analyses the local contexts behind the patterns, including the history of industrial development, the current remaining industrial heritage types, specific cultural context, and local government policy.