The ever increasing pile-up of electronic waste in dumping sites, especially in developing countries such as China, Pakistan, India and several African countries, might have caused a significant alteration in the microbial community of the contaminated sites. This change in the microbial population may have significant impact to the soil ecology function. The major pollutants of electronic wast...

This paper examines the possible choices and energy security plans of China, focusing on its relations with I.R Iran and Saudi Arabia in the Middle East. Needless to say, these two rival countries in the region are both among the top oil producers of the world and China has deep and old cooperation with both countries. Meanwhile in its new strategy, China tries to establish a kind of balance am...

The ever increasing pile-up of electronic waste in dumping sites, especially in developing countries such as China, Pakistan, India and several African countries, might have caused a significant alteration in the microbial community of the contaminated sites. This change in the microbial population may have significant impact to the soil ecology function. The major pollutants of electronic wast...

States first emerged in several famous locations around the world: Egypt, Mesopotamia, Indus, Central America, and China. These are often labeled by anthropologists as the “pristine states,” with all states that later emerged by contact and emulation labeled “secondary states.” Contrary to what is often thought however, states did not rise in a smooth trajectory toward some peak of power. Inste...

The second report in this series turns to focus on the trace in relation to life-writing and biography in historical geography and beyond. Through attention to tracing journeys, located moments and listening to the presence of ghosts (Ogborn, 2005), this report seeks to highlight the range of different ways in which historical geographers have explored lives, deaths, and their transient traces ...

Abstract Relations between China and the West appear to be caught in a downward spiral. In West, there is widespread perception that has unduly benefited from economic globalization, while China, appears increasing concern seeking contain China’s rise. this essay, we argue picture more complex. We first discuss highly varied ways which Western narratives about globalization. then sketch our und...

China-fir was a key building material used in Taiwan before 1894 and reached Taiwan by import from Fuzhou, China. However, at the start of the period of Japanese governance (beginning in 1895), the China-fir market in Taiwan appeared to gradually reduce as a result of an attempt by the Taiwanese Governor General's Office (TGGO) to develop the market for Japanese timbers in Taiwan. After an inve...