As one of the leading GHG (greenhouse gas) emission countries, China is playing the most important role in the world climate mitigation issue. Since 1980s, China's climate change policy has been transformed deeply: from the symbolic participation to substantial cooperation, from the refusing to...

This book records the anxiety, concerns, uncertainty and enthusiasm of Chinese scholars in the face of China's embracing of globalization. In other words, it presents a unique Chinese perspective on globalization and state autonomy.

For the generalized statistical mechanics based on the Tsallis entropy, a variational perturbation approximation method with the principle of minimal sensitivity is developed by calculating the generalized free energy up to the third order in variational perturbation expansion. The approximation...