Nonlinear evolution equations and dynamical systems : proceedings of the ICM 2002 Satellite Conference, Yellow Mountains, China, 15-18 August 2002

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Nonlinear evolution equations and dynamical systems : proceedings of the ICM 2002 Satellite Conference, Yellow Mountains, China, 15-18 August 2002

editors, Cheng Yi ... [et al.]

World Scientific, c2003

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Description

This book contains the papers presented at the ICM2002 Satellite Conference on Nonlinear Evolution Equations and Dynamical Systems. About 50 mathematicians and scientists attended the meeting — including E Witten (IAS), C Nappi (Princeton), K Khanin (Cambridge), D Phong (Columbia), d'Hoker (UCLA) and Peng Chiakuei (CAS). The book covers several fields, such as nonlinear evolution equations and integrable systems, infinite-dimensional algebra, conformal field theory and geometry.The proceedings have been selected for coverage in:• Index to Scientific & Technical Proceedings (ISTP CDROM version / ISI Proceedings)

Table of Contents

  • Chineseness and "Overseas" Chinese Identifications and Identities of a Migrant Community: Five Southeast Asian Chinese Empire-Builders: Commonalities and Differences (J Mackie)
  • Providers, Protectors, Guardians: Migration and Reconstruction of Masculinities (R Hibbins)
  • Tasting the Night: Food, Ethnic Transaction, and the Pleasure of Chineseness in Malaysia (S-C Yao)
  • Multiple Identities among the Returned Overseas Chinese in Hong Kong (J K Chin)
  • Chinese or Western Education? Cultural Choices and Education: Chinese Education and Changing National and Cultural Identity among Overseas Chinese in Modern Japan: A Study of Chuka Dobun Gakko [Tongwen Chinese School] in Kobe (B W-M Ng)
  • Chinese Education in Prewar Singapore: A Preliminary Analysis of Factors Affecting the Development of Chinese Vernacular Schools (T B Wee)
  • Hokkien Immigrant Society and Modern Chinese Education in British Malaya (C H Yen)
  • The Search for Modernity: The Chinese in Sabah and English Education (D T-K Wong)
  • Fitting In: Social Integration in the Host Society: Language, Education, and Occupational Attainment of Foreign-Trained Chinese and Polish Professional Immigrants in Toronto, Canada (Z Li)
  • Career and Family Factors in Intention for Permanent Settlement in Australia (S-E Khoo & A Mak)
  • No Longer Migrants: Southern New Zealand Chinese in the Twentieth Century (N Pawakapan)
  • Singapore Chinese Society in Transition: Reflections on the Cultural Implications of Modern Education (G K Lee).

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  • NCID
    BA6470330X
  • ISBN
    • 9812382763
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    River Edge, NJ
  • Pages/Volumes
    viii, 185 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
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