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Journal articles on the topic "Arabs in China"
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Zahlan, A. B. "Science and the Arabs: opportunities and challenges." Contemporary Arab Affairs 4, no. 2 (April 1, 2011): 190–207. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17550912.2011.569180.
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Tunisians and Egyptians sought recently to transform their political culture. Their political economy has rendered it impossible to develop the scientific infrastructure needed to benefit from science. This paper shows that, by comparison with China and India, the Arabs in 1999 had a substantially higher level of university enrolment, per million inhabitants abroad and at home; and were ahead in per capita R&D output. Yet both China and India were able to take off with these resources while the Arab countries were left behind. The research output of the Arab countries increased about 50-fold over the period 1967–2010. Egypt, the GCC and the Maghreb are in the lead, and the leading countries are Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Tunisia. Yet Arab governments provide minimal support to R&D at 0.2% of GNP and few countries have recently increased support to R&D. The paper discusses their research output as well international collaboration.
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Mahdihassan, S. "Alchemy, Chinese Versus Greek, An Etymological Approach: A Rejoinder." American Journal of Chinese Medicine 16, no. 01n02 (January 1988): 83–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0192415x88000145.
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The theory generally accepted maintains that Alchemy arose at Alexandra as a child of Greek culture. It has two names, Chemeia as the earlier and Chumeia as the later. There is another theory that Alchemy arose in China. Its founder was the aged ascetic who longed after drugs of longevity. He first tried jade, next gold and cinnabar, but the ideal was a drug which was red like cinnabar and fire-proof like gold. But what was actually prepared was read colloidal gold or "calcined gold," by grinding gold granules in a decoction of an herb of longevity. It was called Chin-I; Chin=gold and I=plant juice. In Fukin dialect Chin-I=Kim-Iya. This was Arabicized, by pre-Islamic Arabs trading in silk with China, as Kimiya, whence arose Al-Kimiya and finally Alchemy. It was first accepted by Bucharic speaking Copts in Egypt who transliterated Kimiya=Chemeia, pronouncing it as the Arabs did. With the increase of trade in silk the Chinese also went to Alexandria and helped the Greeks to translate Chin-I as Chrusozomion meaning, gold (making) ferment, instead of gold making plant juice. Consistant with this origin of the word Chemeia is the fact that the earlier Alchemists were not Greeks but probably Bucharic speaks Copts or Egyptians. The consumer of Chin-I or Chemeia became "a drug-made immortal" called Chin-Jen, Golden-Man. This was translated into Greek as Chrusanthropos. Thus the etymology of two Greek words Chrusozomion and Chrusanthropos support the origin of the loan word, Chemeia as Chinese. To save space it is not proposed to discuss the origin of Chumeia.
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Daher, Massoud. "نموذج التنمية المستدامة في الصين ومدى استفادة العرب منها / China’s Sustainable Development Model and How Arabs Benefit From it." Chinese and Arab Studies 1, no. 1 (June 1, 2021): 68–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/caas-2021-2007.
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Abstract Based on the development of positive relations between China and the Arab countries in the context of a new globalization on the path to a multipolar world, this study addresses the following methodological issues: China’s development achievements in the reform and the opening-up movement, China’s success in the face of the Covid-19 epidemic, and the analysis of the notion of “Sustainable Development” and the Chinese characteristics of the concept of socialism. Accurate scientific conclusions confirmed that sustainable development with Chinese characteristics constitutes a distinct model of rational and balanced development that achieved the well-being of the Chinese population. The Belt and Road Initiative has been widely welcomed in all Arab countries. Arab institutions, both official and private, have begun to study the Chinese development model to build a new style of development based on social stability, economic prosperity and mutual benefit. China is a leading model for promoting the common interest of people. China contributes positively to the well-being of its people and the rest of the world through cooperation. It is moving forward with high-quality development plans that provide new opportunities to revive the global economy, which is suffering from the drawbacks of the Covid-19 pandemic. Having presented China as a leading human model of inclusive development to realize the Chinese Dream, the enlightened Arab elites have shown increasing interest in this high-quality experiment that has succeeded in eradicating poverty, combating Covid-19, helping the recovery of the global economy, and promoting opportunities for advancement, innovation and creativity on a global level. Since China’s development was built on moral and humanitarian rules, it is warmly welcomed in the Arab countries because it affirms that humans are the greatest capital and the goal of sustainable development. It offers rich and useful lessons for everyone around the world.
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Hadi Fadhil ALOGAIDI, Azhar, and Liqaa Khalil ISMAIL. "ANCIENT INDIAN RELIGIONS IN THE MALAY ARCHIPELAGO." RIMAK International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 3, no. 4 (May 1, 2021): 214–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.47832/2717-8293.4-3.22.
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If the country of India is mentioned with it the plurality of religions; It is an example in that, and then India is the source of the diverse and plural religions. Hence, in the Malay Peninsula and its combined Algeria, there are different beliefs and tendencies; They converted to Islam in the thirteenth century, and that was the result of the relations that linked them to the Arabs, which were direct, represented in trade, and indirect, represented in the fact that they were located on the sea route for the Arabs in their trade towards China .. The research aims at researching the ancient Indian religions in the Malay Archipelago - Malaysia - in addition to talking about India as it represents an important source for the spread of those religions in the archipelago, as well as the neighborhood that brings them together, India and the archipelago, and it was for direct contact factors, such as trade and other reciprocal travel. His role in the transmission of those religions from here and there. If there are multiple religions in the archipelago, However, this research will focus on the three major religions (Hinduism - Buddhism - Jainism). They are the most famous and important religions among other religions, as well as being an important source for other religions of India and the archipelago
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Liangying, Ye. "تعليم اللغة العربية في الجامعات الصينية / Arabic Language Teaching in Chinese Universities: Inheritance and Innovation." Chinese and Arab Studies 1, no. 1 (June 1, 2021): 20–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/caas-2021-2003.
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Abstract The Arabic language is the common official language for the Arab nation, and one of the most important components of its identity, and it is also the link that connects the past of the Arabs with their present and their future, as it recorded the historical changes of the Arab nation over the course of the development extending for more than 1,600 years, and embodied its characteristics and preserved its culture and civilization through time. Arabic is one of the oldest foreign languages taught in China, and it played a pivotal role in promoting exchanges between China and Arab countries in various fields, politically, economically and culturally. After the founding of the People’s Republic of China, Arabic language teaching in Chinese universities achieved a remarkable development under the enlightened educational guidance, and succeeded in preparing batches of distinguished people who contributed and are contributing to the development of relations between Arab countries and China. After entering the 21st century and with the establishment of the China-Arab States Cooperation Forum and the consolidation of Sino-Arab strategic cooperation relations, especially with the launch of the Belt and Road Initiative and the concept of “One Community with a Shared Future for Mankind”, the cooperation relations between China and the Arab countries have reached a new threshold on various levels. Simultaneously, Arabic teaching in Chinese universities has entered the path of rapid development and achieved unparalleled remarkable results.
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Zhen, Wang, Alfred Tovias, Peter Bergamin, Menachem Klein, Tally Kritzman-Amir, and Pnina Peri. "Book Reviews." Israel Studies Review 35, no. 1 (March 1, 2020): 109–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/isr.2020.350108.
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Aron Shai, China and Israel: Chinese, Jews; Beijing, Jerusalem (1890–2018) (Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2019), 270 pp. Hardback, $90.00. Paperback, $29.95.Raffaella A. Del Sarto, Israel under Siege: The Politics of Insecurity and the Rise of the Israeli Neo-Revisionist Right (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2017), 298 pp. Paperback, $26.94.Dan Tamir, Hebrew Fascism in Palestine, 1922–1942 (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), 210 pp. Hardback, $99.99.Alan Dowty, Arabs and Jews in Ottoman Palestine: Two Worlds Collide (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2019), 312 pp. Hardback, $65.00.Guy Ben-Porat and Fany Yuval, Policing Citizens: Minority Policy in Israel (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019), 250 pp. Hardback, $89.99.Deborah Golden, Lauren Erdreich, and Sveta Roberman, Mothering, Education and Culture: Russian, Palestinian and Jewish Middle-Class Mothers in Israeli Society (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), 225 pp. Hardback, $114.25.
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Rangkuti, Rahmadsyah, and S. Imtiaz Hasnain. "Indian Contribution to Language Sciences in Non-Western Tradition: With Reference to Arabic." International Journal of Culture and Art Studies 1, no. 1 (October 1, 2018): 11–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.32734/ijcas.v1i1.449.
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Language study relates itself to both ontology and epistemology. Both ontological and epistemological investigations have been the subject of debate and discussion in different civilizations producing a number of grammatical traditions other than the West. Arab, China, India and the ancient Near East can also boast of language traditions of greater antiquity. In terms of richness of insight and comprehensiveness of scope, both India and the Arab compete on equal terms with the West, where each grew independently of the others and for the most part developed separately, drawing on the resources of the culture within which it grew. Hence, there is strong need to have a study of comparative grammatical theory to which Indian, Arabs and Chinese also belong, centring on the questions of: What has been the importance of these theories explanatory categories appear in historically unrelated linguistic theory, and if they do, why? This perspective would bring new dimension to the study of linguistic theory and would not remain at the level of redressing the overwhelming emphasis on the European tradition in the study of history of linguistics.
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Bani Omar, Suhib Yousef Dawood. "The Influence of Chinese Pottery on the Nabataean Pottery During the 1st Century BC and the 2nd Century AD." Bulletin of Advanced English Studies 7, no. 1 (June 2022): 1–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.31559/baes2022.7.1.1.
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The ancient China's historic stages may be separated into some certain ages: Paleolithic, Neolithic, Bronze, and Ironic Age. There were only broken stone tools in the Paleolithic age. The Paleolithic age witnessed stone tools and copper pottery during the excavations; major relics of the old Nabataean and Byzantine village of Aila were uncovered, which flourished from first century B.C. through the Earliest Muslim invasion. The remnants of the historic Nabataean and Byzantine town of Aila, which existed from the first century B.C. through the Early Muslim invasion, were discovered during the excavation. Chinese pottery played a big role in the economic industries all over the world. This trade was famous according to ancient Chinese families such as Yangshao and Cishan (Zhang et al., 2019, p. 112). During the first century BC and the 2nd century AD, Chinese commerce witnessed a strong export for Chinese ceramics to some majority of countries, particularly the Middle East (Miksic, 2009, p. 72). The types of pottery were exported to the Middle East. This is a product that is mostly exported from China. Finally, Chinese pottery is undoubtedly spread in some certain areas for many centuries BC. Some famous Chinese families such as Yangshaoand Longshan cultures started eliciting the soil and manufactured various shapes of pottery. Chinese pottery was transformed to Aqaba and then to Petra where the remains of Chinese pottery were founded. It is evidence of a certain kind of trade between China and Nabataean Arabs.
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Cockx, Lara, Giulia Meloni, and Johan Swinnen. "The Water of Life and Death: A Brief Economic History of Spirits." Journal of Wine Economics 16, no. 4 (November 2021): 355–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/jwe.2021.9.
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AbstractSpirits represent around 50% of global alcohol consumption. This sector is much less studied than other alcoholic beverages such as wine or beer. This paper reviews the economic history of spirits and analyzes recent trends in the spirits markets. The technology to produce spirits is more complex than for wine or beer. Distillation was known in ancient Chinese, Indian, Greek, and Egyptian societies, but it took innovations by the Arabs to distill alcohol. Initially, this alcohol was used for medicinal purposes. Only in the Middle Ages did spirits become a widespread drink. The Industrial Revolution created a large consumer market and reduced the cost of spirits, contributing to excess consumption and alcoholism. Governments have intervened extensively in spirits markets to reduce excessive consumption and to raise taxes. There have been significant changes in spirits consumption and trade over time. Over the past 50 years, the share of spirits in global alcohol consumption increased from around 30% to around 50%. In the past decades, there was strong growth in emerging markets, including in China and India. Recent developments in the spirits industry include premiumization, the growth of craft spirits, and the introduction of terroir for spirits. (JEL Classifications: L51, L66, N40, Q11, Q18)
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Hajaruddin Siregar, Hari, Petrus Natalivan, and Agus Suharjono Ekomadyo. "Cultural Assemblage as Genius Loci: Character Analysis of Medan City Center District." SHS Web of Conferences 41 (2018): 04011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/shsconf/20184104011.
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The city of Medan was formed from a rapidly growing plantation industry in the 1800s. The area that was originally only a village called Medan Putri with a population of about 200 people slowly changed since the Dutch investors saw the prospect of tobacco plantations in this region (Sinar, 2006). The amount of manpower needed to manage the plantation resulted in the investors bringing labor from Java, China and also Tamil. Moving the central government of the Deli Sultanate to Medan in 1891 increasingly crowded Medan at that time. The Arabs, Mining, Mandailing, and Aceh began to arrive for trading purposes as Medan began to grow and become more crowded. The study focused on locating the genius loci of Medan City through tracing the historical meaning by adapting the method undertaken by Norberg Schultz in tracing the spirit of the place and genius loci. The result of the analysis shows the role of culture and economic background that plays a major role in the formation of the character of Medan City center. The city is formed from the history of the plantation industry as well as the diverse cultures that share the same attachment and goals in the economic field.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Arabs in China"
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Ola, Adebola Mobolaji. "Cultural interchange along the Indian Ocean during the global middle ages (700- 1500ad): the role of Arabs and Persians in Africa-China musical exchange." Master's thesis, Faculty of Humanities, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/33938.
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The relationship between Africa and China remains one of the most important geopolitical and economic partnerships of the 20th and 21st centuries. The Africa-China relation, although relatively recent, has its foundation in previous relations dating back over 500 years ago. It is against this backdrop of longstanding relations that this research is situated as it aims to trace and examine Africa-China musical exchange between 700-1500AD. The main goal of this research is to answer the following questions: (1) Are there any musical exchange between Africa and China between 700 -1500AD? (2) If there are, what are these musical exchanges and how did they manifest? (3) Are these musical exchanges mutual? (4) If there are no musical exchanges during this period, why? (5) Are there any musical exchanges at any other time pre-700AD or post 1500AD? (6) What are some of the impacts of such a musical exchange? This research uses a historical framework in understanding and presenting Africa-China cultural relations. My hypothesis, given that Africa and China did not officially meet or establish formal relations until the early 15th century, posits that in the absence of direct musical exchange, the Arabs and Persians may have been the music brokers, circulating music both to Africa and China as they did with trade. Having consulted some translated primary sources, several secondary sources and iconographic materials obtained from libraries and archives, the research findings suggest that my hypothesis is partly correct. The Persians and specifically, the Arabs, were circulating musical and cultural practices around the Indian Ocean, all the way to Al-Andalusia (Arab Spain). This spread of music and culture, I argue, gave the region some musical uniformity within diversity. This uniformity is visible through the circulation of musical instruments such as the short-necked lute; the Persian barbat; the Arabian ūd; the Chinese pipa and the African kwitra, as well as the migration of musical ideas and musicians such as Barbad, Ziryab and Kang, throughout Asia, Africa and Europe. The direct musical exchange between Africa and China only takes place in the 20th century.
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Vaillant, Adrien Alp. "Une langue en voie de disparition : le salar au sein de la turcophonie." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017USPCF019.
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Le salar est un dialecte turc dont la plupart des locuteurs habitent le comté de Xunhua (35°05’’nord - 102°03’’est), dans le sud-est de la province chinoise du Qinghai, où leur présence est attestée depuis la fin du XIVe siècle. Si ces dernières années ont vu une augmentation des études sur ce parler à bien des égards atypique, il n’en reste pas moins l’un des parents pauvres de la turcologie. Réalisée précisément dans le but de contribuer à mieux le faire connaître, en s’appuyant pour ce faire à la fois sur la documentation disponible et sur des données recueillies par l’auteur dans le cadre d’un travail sur le terrain, la présente thèse en propose non seulement une description phonologique, grammaticale et lexicale, mais aussi, semble-t-il pour la première fois, une étude détaillée de son système d’écriture traditionnel, aujourd’hui moribond, qui constitue une adaptation de l’alphabet arabe. Une attention particulière a également été portée à la question de la nature des liens du salar avec les autres dialectes, actuels ou anciens, composant le domaine turc (en particulier ceux du groupe oghouz, auquel il apparaît possible que cette variété appartienne), notamment à travers la comparaison avec le turc de Turquie que permet la traduction dans ce dernier dialecte des exemples illustrant les points de grammaire abordés. Considéré comme une langue en danger par l’UNESCO, qui le classe dans la catégorie « vulnérable », le salar traverse une période critique, et les problèmes que soulèvent son statut en Chine, la place qu’il occupe dans la société où il est pratiqué, et les représentations dont il fait l’objet n’ont pas non plus été négligés dans ce travail, dont une partie a été consacrée à la mise en évidence d’un début de situation diglossique dans le cadre de laquelle parmi les réponses que tentent d’apporter certains Salars à la question de l’avenir de leur idiome figure un projet de revitalisation linguistique particulierSalar is a Turkish dialect most speakers of which live in the county of Xunhua (35°05 north, 102°03 east) in the south-eastern part of the Chinese province of Qinghai where they have been present since the end of the fourteenth century. In spite of the fact that there has been lately an increase in the studies concerning this language, it is still a poor relative of turkology. Carried out with the aim of making it better known, with the support of the available documentation and data collected by the author in his investigation in the field, this thesis offers not only a phonological, grammatical and lexical description of Salar, but also, to the best of the author’s knowledge, for the first time, a detailed study of its nearly extinct traditional writing system that constitutes an adaptation of the Arabic alphabet. We have been particularly careful to take into account the links uniting Salar with other dialects, present and ancient, which form the Turkish domain (particularly with the Oghuz group to which this variety seems to belong) notably through the comparison with Turkey Turkish, based on the translations into the latter of the grammatical items dealt with. Classified as an endangered language by UNESCO, Salar is going through a critical period. The problems raised by its status in China, the position it occupies in the society where it is spoken and the representations to which it is subjected, have also been addressed in this work. A section has been devoted to the identification of a diglossic language situation in the context of which, among the concerns raised by some Salars about the future of their language, lies a project aiming at its revitalisation
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Mahfoud, Abdelhamid. "Calligraphie, cinégraphie : étude de la relation entre le cinéma et les arts du tracé." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017USPCA146.
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Cette recherche tente d’envisager l’art du cinéma comme un art cinégraphique, c’est-à-dire, selon la définition qu’on propose dans ce travail, comme un espace d’images en mouvement se déployant au regard à travers des influx énergétiques qui en animent les composants. Pour en dégager cette substance scripturale et en relever les implications sur le langage du cinéma, cette recherche entreprend un détour par deux pensées de l’image qui ont traditionnellement fait de l’art du tracé un art majeur, manifestant par-là des préoccupations esthétiques et des pensées du langage qui nous semblent en divergence avec celles qui ont conduit l’histoire culturelle occidentale à inventer le cinéma. Que devient alors le cinéma lorsqu’il est investi par ces pensées ? Réciproquement, que peut leur apporter le cinéma en tant que technique, dispositif et matière ? Le premier détour, en posant des questions de mouvement, de geste et de temps, passe par la calligraphie et l’art pictural chinois pour interroger le cinéma en tant que machine à enregistrer, liée à une pensée de la conservation, de la mémoire et de l’événement. Le second détour, en posant des questions de lumière, de regard et d’espace, passe par la calligraphie et l’art pictural musulman pour interroger le cinéma en tant que machine optique, liée à une pensée de la mimésis, de la profondeur et de la monstration. Ces détours servent enfin de base théorique pour penser notre rapport quotidien aux images (numériques principalement), rapport qui se transforme de manière exponentielle et qui reconfigure notre manière de voir, de lire et de toucher les images ; selon un mode précisément cinégraphiqueThis research attempts to envisage the art of cinema as a cinegraphic art, that is to say, according to the definition herein, as a space of moving images unfolding themselves to the gaze through energetic impulses that animate its component parts. In order to draw forth this scriptural substance and to ascertain its implications for the language of cinema, this research detours into two realms of thought on the image, which have traditionally elevated the art of drawing into a prominent art form, thus manifesting aesthetic preoccupations and notions of language which we perceive as diverging from those that led Western cultural history to invent cinema. What then becomes of cinema when endowed by these thoughts? Conversely, what can cinema offer them as a technique, a device and a subject? The first detour, by posing questions of movement, gesture and time, journeys through Chinese calligraphy and pictorial art to question cinema as a recording machine, bound to a conception of conservation, memory and of the event. The second detour, by posing questions on light, gaze and space, journeys through Muslim calligraphy and pictorial art to question cinema as an optical machine, bound to a conception of mimesis, depth and of showing. These detours serve as a theoretical grounding for thinking about our everyday relationship to images (mainly digital), a relationship that changes exponentially and reconfigures our way of seeing, reading and touching images; according to a strictly cinegraphic mode
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Haddad-Fonda, Kyle. "Revolutionary allies : Sino-Egyptian and Sino-Algerian relations in the Bandung decade." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:7e283c84-8138-458b-8123-91c8662b86d4.
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In the decade following the Asian-African Conference of 1955, the communist government of the People’s Republic of China took unprecedented interest in its relations with countries in the Middle East. China’s leaders formed particularly strong ties first with Gamal Abdel Nasser’s Egypt, then, beginning in 1958, with the Algerian Front de Libération Nationale (FLN), which at that time was engaged in a bitter struggle for independence from France. The bonds that developed between China and Egypt and between China and Algeria were strengthened by a shared commitment of the governments of these countries to carry out “revolutions” that would challenge Western preeminence in global affairs and establish their own societies as independent voices on the world stage. The common ideological heritage of these three revolutionary countries allowed their leaders to forge connections that went beyond mere expressions of mutual support. Sino-Arab relations in the 1950s and 1960s cannot be explained by a realist narrative of attempts to exert power or influence through high-level diplomacy; rather, the evolving relationships between China and its Arab allies demonstrate how three countries could co-opt one another’s experiences to define and articulate their own nationalist identities on behalf of domestic audiences. This thesis pays particular attention to two constituencies that played a central role in mediating the development of Sino-Arab relations: Chinese Muslims and Arab leftists. Focusing on publications about Sino-Arab relations written by or intended for members of these two groups makes clear the manners in which domestic ideological concerns shaped the development of international relationships. Sino-Egyptian and Sino-Algerian relations between 1955 and 1965 were primarily symbolic. The perception of international amity gave journalists, policymakers, intellectuals, and religious figures free rein to expound their own distorted interpretations of Chinese and Arab society in order to promote their own ideological causes. These causes, which varied over the course of the decade, included the incorporation of Chinese Muslims into Chinese politics, the conferral of revolutionary legitimacy on Nasser’s government, the celebration of China as a champion of global revolution, the legitimization of the FLN, and the presentation of China as a fully anti-imperialist country in contrast to the Soviet Union. Each of these projects had in common the enduring goal of transforming how citizens of China, Egypt, and Algeria perceived their own national identity.
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Louw, Theunis Gabriël. "A historic overview of oriental solmisation systems followed by an inquiry into the current use of solmisation in aural training at South African universities." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/5143.
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Thesis (MMus (Music)) -- Stellenbosch University, 2010.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The purpose of the present study is twofold: I. In the first instance, it is aimed at promoting a better acquaintance with and a deeper understanding of the generally less well-known solmisation systems that have emerged within the oriental music sphere. In this regard a general definition of solmisation is provided, followed by a historic overview of indigenous solmisation systems that have been developed in China, Korea, Japan, India, Indonesia and the Arab world, thereby also confirming the status of solmisation as a truly global phenomenon. II. The second objective of the study was to investigate the current use of solmisation, and the Tonic Sol-fa system in particular, in aural training at South African universities. In order to achieve this, an inquiry was conducted by means of a survey which consisted of (a) a survey questionnaire that was sent to designers/instructors/coordinators of aural training modules at relevant South African universities and (b) additional correspondence that was subsequently undertaken with some of these respondents. This was done with the aim of obtaining information regarding the following: (1) the extent to which solmisation is still being employed in this context; (2) which solmisation systems or alternative approaches to solmisation are being used; (3) what the respondents’ personal motivations are for employing or not employing solmisation; (4) what instruction material is being utilised in either regard; and (5) what the respondents’ personal views are regarding the use of solmisation in aural training. The outcome of the survey confirmed that solmisation, and the Tonic Sol-fa system in particular, is still actively being used in aural training at South African universities, while at the same time providing some insight into the general application thereof in this context. On the whole, the survey also affirmed the continued relevance of solmisation, and the Tonic Sol-fa system in particular, both in the broader South African context and specifically within the context of aural training at South African universities, showing that solmisation continues to be regarded as a valuable aid in the instruction of aural training by the majority of the designers/instructors/coordinators of aural training modules that participated in the survey.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die doel van die onderhawige studie is tweeledig van aard: I. In die eerste plek is dit gemik op die bevordering van beter vertroudheid met en ’n grondiger begrip van die oor die algemeen minder bekende solmisasiestelsels wat binne die konteks van oosterse musiek na vore getree het. In hierdie verband word daar ’n algemene omskrywing van solmisasie voorsien, gevolg deur ’n historiese oorsig oor inheemse solmisasiestelsels wat ontwikkel is in China, Korea, Japan, Indië, Indonesië en die Arabiese wêreld, en word die status van solmisasie as ’n wesenlik wêreldwye verskynsel dan ook daardeur bevestig. II. Die tweede doelwit van die studie was om ondersoek in te stel na die huidige gebruik van solmisasie, en die Tonic Sol-fa stelsel in besonder, in gehooropleiding aan Suid-Afrikaanse universiteite. Om dit te bewerkstellig, is ’n ondersoek uitgevoer deur middel van ’n opname wat bestaan het uit (a) ’n opnamevraelys wat gestuur is aan opstellers/dosente/koördineerders van gehoorlopleidingsmodules aan relevante Suid-Afrikaanse universiteite en (b) bykomende korrespondensie wat daaropvolgend onderneem is met van hierdie respondente. Dit is gedoen met die doel om inligting te bekom rakende die volgende: (1) die mate waarin solmisasie nog binne hierdie konteks gebruik word; (2) watter solmisasiestelsels of alternatiewe benaderings vir solmisasie gebruik word; (3) wat die respondente se persoonlike motiverings is vir die gebruik van solmisasie al dan nie; (4) watter onderrigmateriaal daar in beide gevalle gebruik word; en (5) wat die respondente se persoonlike sieninge is ten opsigte van die gebruik van solmisasie in gehooropleiding. Die uitslag van die opname het bevestig dat solmisasie, en die Tonic Sol-fa stelsel in besonder, steeds aktief gebruik word in gehooropleiding aan Suid-Afrikaanse universiteite, en het terselfdertyd insig gebied in die algemene aanwending daarvan binne hierdie konteks. In sy geheel het die uitslag van die opname dan ook die voortgesette relevansie van solmisasie, en die Tonic Sol-fa stelsel in besonder, in die breër Suid-Afrikaanse konteks sowel as spesifiek binne die konteks van gehooropleiding aan Suid-Afrikaanse universiteite bevestig, en het dit aangetoon dat solmisasie steeds as ’n waardevolle hulpmiddel in die onderrig van gehooropleiding beskou word deur die meeste van die opstellers/dosente/koördineerders van gehoorlopleidingsmodules wat aan die opname deelgeneem het.
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Gomis, François. "Les nouveaux défis et enjeux de la politique étrangère de la France en Afrique francophone subsaharienne." Thesis, Paris 5, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA05D020.
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Des années 1960 jusqu’à la fin de la guerre froide, voire au-delà, l’influence voire la prépondérance de la France sur les territoires francophones d’Afrique noire est presque totale. Cependant, en ce XXIème siècle naissant, la compétition mondiale dans la recherche de nouveaux débouchés et de la sécurisation de l’approvisionnement énergétique amène inexorablement les grandes puissances à entrer en ‘‘conflit d’intérêts’’ par la pénétration réciproque des « arrière-cours ». Ceci est particulièrement vrai pour la France qui voit des pays tels que les Etats-Unis, la Chine, l’Inde, le Brésil, la Turquie, les pays du Golfe, etc., faire une entrée fracassante dans une région géographique qu’elle considère depuis longtemps comme sa « chasse gardée » compte tenu des liens historique, linguistique et politique. Ces nouveaux défis et enjeux pour la politique africaine de la France se mesurent désormais, à l’aune des transformations à l’œuvre sur la scène internationale avec la mondialisation et l’émergence de nouvelles puissances du Sud. Les défis et les enjeux sont importants pour l’action extérieure de la France et sa place dans le monde, compte tenu de la concurrence féroce des nouveaux acteurs et des changements des sociétés africaines en cours. Néanmoins elle possède encore des atouts économiques, diplomatiques et stratégiques susceptibles de lui permettre d’élaborer, grâce à l’espace culturel francophone, un projet original, ambitieux et porteur d’espoir. Pour ce faire, il faudra répondre aux deux interrogations suivantes : Comment réformer cette politique traditionnelle basée sur des relations étroites et privilégiées avec les dirigeants africains sans toutefois compromettre les avantages comparatifs de la France sur place? Quelle stratégie politique mettre en œuvre pour identifier les véritables intérêts communs des Français et des Africains francophones, en tenant compte des opportunités et des menaces, et les développer dans un partenariat mutuellement bénéfique ?From 1960s to the end of the cold war, even beyond, the influence even the supremacy of France in the French-speaking territories in Sub-Saharan Africa is almost total. However, in this 21st century, the world competition in the research of new markets and the security of the energy supply leads inexorably the great powers to enter in “conflict of interests” by the mutual penetration of the “back-yards”. This is particularly true for France which has countries such as the United States, China, India, Brazil, Turkey, the Gulf Arab States, etc., to make a dramatic entrance in a geographical area where she judged it for a long time as her “exclusive domain” considering the historical, linguistic and political links. These new challenges and issues for the African policy of France are measured from now on, in the light of the transformations at work in the world with the globalization and the emergence of new powers of the South. The challenges and the issues are important for the external action of France and its place in the World, considering the fierce competition between new stakeholders and the ongoing African society changes. Nevertheless it still has economic, diplomatic and strategic assets which enable him to elaborate, thanks to the francophone cultural center, an original project, ambitious and promising. With this aim in mind, it will be necessary to answer to the two following questions: How to reform this traditional policy based on close and privileged relationships with African leaders without compromising, however, the comparative advantages of France on the spot? Which political strategy has to be implemented in order to identify the real common interests of the French and the French-speaking Africans, by taking into account the opportunities and threats, and to develop them in a mutually beneficial partnership?
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Schlothmann, Daniel. "Kurz- und langfristige Angebotskurven für Rohöl und die Konsequenzen für den Markt." Doctoral thesis, Technische Universitaet Bergakademie Freiberg Universitaetsbibliothek "Georgius Agricola", 2016. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:105-qucosa-201396.
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In dieser Arbeit wurden Angebotskurven für 22 bedeutende Ölförderländer ermittelt und anschließend zu globalen Angebotskurven aggregiert. Gemäß den ermittelten Angebotskurven sind nahezu alle gegenwärtig in der Förderphase befindlichen Ölprojekte in den Untersuchungsländern auch beim aktuellen Ölpreis von 35 bis 40 US-$ je Barrel unter Berücksichtigung der kurzfristigen Grenzkosten rentabel. Sollte der Ölpreis jedoch in den kommenden Jahren auf diesem Niveau verharren, wird es bis zum Jahr 2024 zu einem Angebotsengpass auf dem globalen Ölmarkt kommen, da zur Deckung der zukünftigen Nachfrage die Erschließung kostenintensiver, unkonventioneller Lagerstätten und von Lagerstätten in tiefen und sehr tiefen Gewässern notwendig ist. Damit es bis zum Jahr 2024 nicht zu einem solchen Angebotsengpass kommt, ist gemäß des ermittelten langfristigen Marktgleichgewichts ein Ölpreis von mindestens 80 (2014er) US-$ je Barrel notwendig.
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Wen, Meizhen. "Arab Traders Pursuing Chinese Dream in East China." Phd thesis, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/204727.
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The rise of Arab traders from the Middle East and North Africa in Yiwu, a county-level city in Zhejiang Province, the People's Republic of China, has received unprecedented media attention in the context of the Belt and Road initiative. The resident population of Arab traders was over 4,000 in 2016, attracted to the world largest petty commodities wholesale marketplace in the city and were mainly engaged in exporting commodities back to their home countries. Little academic attention has been given to the Arab traders' life and business in China.
This is an ethnographic study of Arab traders' engagement in producing power and building cross-cultural trust in their host society. It examines what attracts Arab entrepreneurs to Yiwu, their role in building multinational trading networks, and their increasingly diverse modes of interaction with the majority Chinese community. Drawing on twelve months' fieldwork from November 2015 to December 2016 and follow-up research in November 2017 and February 2019, this project highlights foreign migrant entrepreneurial communities in China, the informal economy and low-end globalization. It shows how Arab traders establish cross-cultural trust with their Chinese partners to maintain a transnational trading system, and outline what their social and business interactions tell us about migrant entrepreneurship and interracial dynamics in China.
The ethnographic findings reveal that Arab traders operate and facilitate their transnational business using various kinds of social capital. Many were expatriated by their families and were based in China; this being considered the most stable group of Arab traders by potential Chinese partners. A few were students who had become intermediaries, having studied in Chinese universities and subsequently worked for Arab buyers. The third group were fortune seekers, who presence in the marketplace as shuttle-travelers were considered the most unstable partners for Chinese business people.
Arab traders redefined the power relationships in the market. They bought products on credit and forced Chinese suppliers to accept their trading patterns. When married to Chinese women, Arab husbands also required their wives to convert to Islam and subordinate their own culture to their husbands to maintain to maintain their affective relationship. By producing power over other groups, Arab traders transforms their marginal and powerless status in the host society.
The presence of Arab traders also influenced the labor market. They integrated Hui migrant Muslims, who can speak Arabic, into export industries to work as interpreters. These Hui people held a dominant role in export industries reversing the general characterization of Chinese minorities being at a disadvantage in the job market. Arab traders regulated the Hui migrant Muslims by spiritual means (e.g. how to be good Muslim, as the traders saw it) rather than control their laborers by more the typical means seen in China.
This study aims to deepen our knowledge of small-scale foreign traders in China. Through discussing the process of building trust among different groups, it provides an opportunity to observe cross-cultural communication in detail and in practice.
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Hawng, Chao-neng, and 黃昭能. "A Study on Mailand China''s Association for Relations Across the the Taiwan Strait(ARATS),Its Role & Function." Thesis, 1995. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/33341621323889356511.
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Hindlsová, Lucie. "Komparace vlivu externích mocností - Spojených států, Evropské unie, Ruské federace, Číny a Turecka - v izraelsko-arabském prostoru." Doctoral thesis, 2012. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-308462.
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Komparace vlivu externích mocností - Spojených států, Evropské unie, Ruské federace, Číny a Turecka - v izraelsko-arabském prostoru Abstrakt disertační práce L. Hindlsová The dissertation thesis entitled, Comparing Influence of the USA, the EU, China, Russia and Turkey in the Israeli-Arab Area, discusses sub-regional power distribution of selected external global and regional powers. The Buzan & Wæver regional security complex in its expanded form serves as a scheme for measuring influence of above listed external powers through their military, political, economic and cultural foreign-policy tools. The analysis is conducted in four historical phases that were critical for the evolution of the Israeli-Arab conflict since the Israeli-Egypt Peace Treaty in 1979 until the most current period. The objective is to determine shifts and general trends in power distribution and to comprehend where, how and to what extent new rising powers exercise their influence. The thesis tries to determine, whether less synoptic structure of power hierarchy on the global level resulting from relative decline of US power may impact regional power distribution in the Israeli-Arab sub-region and the conflict resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian dispute. Therefore it primarily covers activities in the Israeli-Arab sub-region, but...
Books on the topic "Arabs in China"
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Beckwith, Christopher I. The Tibetan empire in central Asia: A history of the struggle for great power among Tibetans, Turks, Arabs, and Chinese during the early Middle Ages. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 1993.
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Beckwith, Christopher I. The Tibetan Empire in central Asia: A history of the struggle for great power among Tibetans, Turks, Arabs, and Chinese during the early Middle Ages. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 1987.
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Chʻen, Ta-sheng. Corpus d'inscriptions arabes et persanes en Chine. Paris: Libr. orientaliste P. Geuthner, 1991.
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Board, Singapore National Library, ed. The Hadhrami Arabs in Southeast Asia with special reference to Singapore: An annotated bibliography. Singapore: National Library Board, 2010.
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Toward well-oiled relations?: China's presence in the Middle East following the Arab Spring. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
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The new silk road: How a rising Arab world is turning away from the West and rediscovering China. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
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Therivel, William A. Studying national creativity: Abundance or scarcity : China, Byzantium, Arab world, Venice, Egypt, Greece, Rome, Western world. Minneapolis, Minnesota: Kirk House Publishers, 2013.
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Baglay, Marat. Constitutional law of foreign countries. ru: INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1569641.
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The fifth, significantly revised edition of the textbook highlights the basic concepts and institutions of foreign constitutional law, reveals its subject, system, sources. The issues of the legal status of the individual, forms of the state, local self-government, etc. are comprehensively analyzed.
In the interests of a more in-depth and integral, comprehensive understanding of the state system of the leading countries, the textbook includes chapters on the USA, Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the Nordic countries, Japan, China, India, the Arab states, the EAEU countries, Uzbekistan. Special chapters contain regional reviews of the main constitutional and legal institutions.
For students, postgraduates and teachers of law schools and faculties.
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The new silk road: How a rising Arab world is turning away from the West and rediscovering China. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
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Ptáčková, Jarmila. "Attracting the Arabs? Promoting ‘Muslim’ China to Boost Regional Development in Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region." In Transnational Sites of China’s Cultural Diplomacy, 145–71. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-5592-3_7.
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Bisenić, Dragan. "China, the Arab World and the Middle East." In The Belt and Road: Reality and Expectations, translated by Zoran Pavlović, 93–108. Beograd: University of Belgrade, Faculty of Security Studies, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.18485/fb_bri_se.2019.ch5.
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Hancock, James F. "Pan Islamica." In Spices, scents and silk: catalysts of world trade, 135–45. Wallingford: CABI, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1079/9781789249743.0011.
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Abstract This chapter discusses the expansion of Islam and details of the international Muslim trade. It consists of eleven subheadings which are about the Rapid Spread of Islam, The Byzantine Trade, A New Trading Empire in the Northern Steppes: The Khazar Khaganate, The Arab Agricultural Revolution, The Shifts of the Centre of the Muslim World, The City of Baghdad, Islam and Medieval Medicine, The Spread of Islam across South East Asia, Muslim Expansion Towards China, Muslim Maritime Trade with South East Asia, and lastly, The Muslim Sea Trade with China.
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Simpfendorfer, Ben. "The New Silk Road: The Arab World Rediscovers China." In The New Silk Road, 7–27. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230302075_1.
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Simpfendorfer, Ben. "The New Silk Road: The Arab World Rediscovers China." In The New Silk Road, 7–27. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230233652_2.
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El-Amine, Rayan. "China-Arab Relations: Opportunities in a Transitioning Regional Order." In Research Series on the Chinese Dream and China’s Development Path, 143–48. Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-7165-5_19.
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Weil, Dror. "Collation and Articulation of Arabo-Persian Scientific Texts in Early Modern China." In Routledge Handbook on the Sciences in Islamicate Societies, 696–704. London: Routledge, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315170718-62.
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Alsudairi, Mohammed Turki. "Arab encounters with Maoist China: transnational journeys, diasporic lives and intellectual discourses." In Marx and Lenin in Africa and Asia, 55–76. London: Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003227564-4.
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Grinin, Leonid, and Andrey Korotayev. "The Middle East in the World System Context in Comparison with India and China: Some Backgrounds of Islamism in the MENA Region." In Islamism, Arab Spring, and the Future of Democracy, 27–57. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91077-2_2.
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"T’ANG CHINA AND THE ARABS." In The Tibetan Empire in Central Asia, 108–42. Princeton University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv131bwbb.13.
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LI, KE-WEI, and HANG FU. "RESEARCH ON THE EVOLUTION AND INFLUENCING FACTORS OF NATURAL GAS TRADE NETWORK IN COUNTRIES ALONG THE BELT AND ROAD." In 2021 International Conference on Management, Economics, Business and Information Technology. Destech Publications, Inc., 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.12783/dtem/mebit2021/35644.
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This paper analyzes the characteristic structure and influencing factors of the natural gas trade network between China and the countries along the "Belt and Road" by building an international trade network model and a least squares regression model. Research shows that: China, Russia, the United Arab Kingdom, and Turkey are central countries in the natural gas trading network, and have certain influence and control over other countries in the network, which is in line with the "The 80/20 Rule". The degree of heterogeneity of the weighted network structure is decreasing. The gap between large trading countries and small countries is shrinking. In terms of influencing factors, the difference in per capita carbon dioxide and urbanization has positive and negative effects on the trade volume between China and the countries along the route, respectively.
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Elmagherbi, Faisal Ibrahim. "A case study of China relations with the Arab world." In 2010 2nd IEEE International Conference on Information and Financial Engineering (ICIFE). IEEE, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/icife.2010.5609442.
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Xia, Junrong, Chun Wang, Xiaohui Xu, Maosheng Ding, Pei Zhang, Yunfei Mu, Xiaoming Li, and Shu Wang. "Perspectives on inter-state transmission interconnection between China and Arab States." In 2016 IEEE PES Asia-Pacific Power and Energy Engineering Conference (APPEEC). IEEE, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/appeec.2016.7779904.
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GOURIDA, SIHAM. "Rural- Urban Migrants as Second Class Workers; Chinaa Arab Case." In 2015 International Conference on Industrial Technology and Management Science. Paris, France: Atlantis Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/itms-15.2015.296.
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Gou, Yingjun. "China-Arab Cross-Civilization Exchange and the Construction of the Community of Destiny." In 2018 International Conference on Education, Economics and Social Science (ICEESS 2018). Paris, France: Atlantis Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/iceess-18.2018.56.
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Gramajo, Eduardo, and Rached M. Rached. "Not All Unconventional Reservoirs are Similar MENA Regional Vs Global Anisotropic Rock Index and Mechanical Characterization – Part 2." In ADIPEC. SPE, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.2118/210990-ms.
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Abstract Improved understanding of unconventional formations requires advanced mechanical and index assessments to explore their complex geology, fissility, and anisotropic behavior. This publication is an extension of the work presented in (Gramajo and Rached 2022), which presented comprehensive datasets of unconventional rocks from China, the United States of America (USA), Canada, and Saudi Arabia. The datasets include the mineral composition, petrophysical parameters (Total Organic Carbon (TOC), porosity, and permeability), and mechanical properties (elastic parameters and compressive strength values). This paper extends the analysis to include unconventional formations from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) datasets, specifically from Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The study enhances our understanding of the newly added rock formations and defines the rock analogs and initial parameters needed to tailor down-hole tools, fracturing fluids, and engineering processes. The results will help reduce the costs (equipment, sample preparation, and measurement time) associated with the initial experimental assessments and achieve higher production outcomes in the emerging reservoirs.
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Erdogan, Seyit Ali, and Andrej Naumčik. "Evaluation of investing in real estate in EU and non-EU countries based on MCDM." In The 13th international scientific conference “Modern Building Materials, Structures and Techniques”. Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.3846/mbmst.2019.151.
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Investment in real estate is a zoning issue as the real estate market is closely related to economic development and trends in real estate market are considered to be indicators of trends in the whole economy of the country. The goal of this paper is to analyse the main aspects and considerations when investing in real estate, evaluate investment in real estate situation in different EU and non-EU countries and introduce MCDM methods that could be used for selecting a state for investment in real estate. It is identified that when investing in real estate various political, social, economic, environmental and other factors have to be taken into consideration. Analysed examples of EU (Lithuania, Romania, UK) and non-EU (Turkey, China, Russia) countries show different risks and opportunities for investments in real estate. MCDM methods are applicable to evaluate which countries are most attractive for investment in real estate. Described TOPSIS and ARAS methods could be used for assessing states as alternatives when selecting where to invest
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Lei, Da, Qinyun Di, Liangyong Yang, and Dawei Yao. "Combination of HDRES and CSAMT methods in the Exploration of Natural Gas Hydrate in the Qilian Mountain Permafrost of China." In International Conference on Engineering Geophysics, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates, 9-12 October 2017. Society of Exploration Geophysicists, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1190/iceg2017-033.
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Kumara, H. P. S. G. S., N. Zainudeen, T. A. D. K. Jayasanka, and K. G. A. S. Waidyasekara. "BARRIERS IN IMPLEMENTING SUSTAINABLE PILING CONSTRUCTION PRACTICES IN SRI LANKA." In The 9th World Construction Symposium 2021. The Ceylon Institute of Builders - Sri Lanka, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.31705/wcs.2021.13.
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The construction of pile foundation is a multifaceted activity among rest of the construction activities that are performed by heavy machines, materials, and energy sources generating substantial amount of CO2 and greenhouse gases along with many other forms of environmental pollution. Sustainable piling construction guarantees that the whole piling process meets environmental sustainability and ultimately human health and wellbeing. Many countries around the world, including United States, China, the United Arab Emirates, are in the forefront of reengineering piling construction activities. Implementation of sustainable practices in piling construction Sri Lanka is still at a low level. Succinctly, several hindrances and barriers can be identified when adopting sustainable piling construction practices. Hence, the aim of this paper is to identify the environmental impact due to the current piling construction practices in Sri Lanka and to investigate barriers in implementing sustainable piling construction practices. A questionnaire survey was conducted among thirty (30) experts in piling construction. Significant barriers were identified using the relative importance index technique in data analysis. The findings revealed that among the ten (10) barriers identified, cost overrun and poor pile design, investment risk, lack of awareness of sustainable techniques and technologies as the top three (3) barriers in implementing sustainable piling construction practices. The study clearly identified the need for improving sustainability practices that can also enhance cost-effectiveness and performance efficiency. Findings of this study will be useful in formulating strategies to overcome the barriers and improve sustainability practices in the local construction industry.
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Kang, Tae Kyo, Won Ho Jo, Yeon Ho Cho, Sang Gyoon Chang, and Dae Hee Lee. "The Application of an Integrated Head Assembly for Advanced Power Reactor 1400." In 2016 24th International Conference on Nuclear Engineering. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/icone24-60860.
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The reactor vessel head region consists of a number of components and systems including reactor vessel head, CEDMs with their cables, cooling air system with ducts and fans, missile shield, seismic supports, head lift rig and cable supports. Prior to refueling operation, those components must be dismantled separately, and moved to the designated storage area. It was a very complicated and time consuming process. As a result, the integrated head assembly (IHA) was introduced to simplify those disassembling procedures, reduce refueling outage period, and improve safety in the containment building as those components are combined into a single system. To reduce refueling outage duration and radiation exposures to the workers by integrating the complicated reactor head region structures, KEPCO E&C has developed the IHA concept in the Korean Next Generation Reactor (KNGR) project [1]. The first application was implemented for the Optimized Power Reactor 1000 (OPR1000) at Shin-Kori units 1&2 and Shin-Wolsong units 1&2. With the past experience, the IHA was upgraded to be applied to the Advanced Power Reactor 1400 (APR1400). The design was patented in Korea [2], China, EU and the USA as modular reactor head area assembly. The IHA was applied for APR1400 nuclear power plants at Shin-Kori and Shin-Hanul, Korea. The design was also supplied to Barakah Nuclear Power Plants in the United Arab Emirates. This paper presents the design features and a variety of analysis which have been used for the APR1400 IHA.