Globalization and Agriculture: Redefining Unequal Development focuses on the development of national agriculture of nine countries in Latin America, Africa, and Asia from two different and complementary angles. One angle is the opportunities created by globalization for agricultural production and how the countries have dealt with the expansion of the world, as a consequence of the world market. The other angle is the social and economic consequences of globalization for agricultural and r...

This book includes original, peer-reviewed research papers from the 16th China Academic Conference on Printing and Packaging (CACPP 2025), held in Xi’an, China on November 13-15, 2025. The proceedings cover the recent findings in color science and technology, image processing technology, communication technology, mechanical and electronic engineering, materials and detection, printing and packaging technology, and so on. As such, the book is of interest to university researchers, R&D engin...

In Socializing Medicine, Pao-chen Tang, Yuqian Yan, and Ling Zhang explore the intersections of medicine, health, and East Asian media. Interweaving archival research, audiovisual analyses, and theoretical insights from the emerging field of health humanities, the book reveals the multifaceted ways in which the mass media—from photography and film to television and live streaming—has been deployed as a tool for controlling medicine and health, privileging those with power and auth...