Energy intensity reduction targets can reduce fossil fuel consumption and excessive pollution emissions by developing renewable energy, as some existing studies suggest. Nonetheless, the contradiction that China's ecological environment has still been severely damaged after setting energy...

This book, published by Columbia University Press in December 2015, investigates how the dominant images of China or Chinese law were created and how and why they acquired extraordinary and lasting power in the context of Sino-Western encounters from approximately the 1740s through the 1840s. By...