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This book on China's Constitution and its tradition of constitutionalism is one of the first in the English language, and, as such, provides a much needed overview. The first part of the book deals with China's constitutional history, its indigenous and Confucian antecedents, as well as the turbulent century which led up to the 1982 Constitution and the new order which this ushered in. This section also examines the distinctive features of China's current Constitution. The second part of the book introduces the institutional structure defined in the current Constitution: the relationship...

This book reinterprets classical Chinese philosophical tradition along the conceptual line of human dignity. Through extensive textual evidence, it illustrates that classical Confucianism, Mohism and Daoism contained rich notions of dignity, which laid the foundation for human rights and political liberty in China, even though, historically, liberal democracy failed to grow out of the authoritarian soil in China. The book critically examines the causes that might have prevented the classical schools from developing a liberal tradition, while affirming their positive contributions to the human...

Diesel Engine System Design links everything diesel engineers need to know about engine performance and system design in order for them to master all the essential topics quickly and to solve practical design problems. Based on the author's unique experience in the field, it enables engineers to come up with an appropriate specification at an early stage in the product development cycle.

• Links everything diesel engineers need to know about engine performance and system design featuring essential topics and techniques to solve practical design problems
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This book introduces the unusual shock-related mineralogical features of the shocked Suizhou L6 (S5) meteorite. A few of the shock-induced melt veins in the meteorite are the simplest, straightest and thinnest ones among all shock-vein-bearing meteorites, and contain the most abundant high-pressure mineral species.