As signatory of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), China supports the 2010 Biodiversity Target to achieve a significant reduction in the current rate of biodiversity loss by the year 2010. This very ambitious goal must be seen agains

Lake sediment evidence for long-range air pollution on the Tibetan Plateau

Jun 24th, 2008 20m 50s

Recent decades have seen the emergence of sign linguistics as a sub-discipline of linguistic research, accumulating a body of knowledge that has enlightened linguists about the complex grammatical properties of sign language. Researchers have a

Climate change in northwest China over the past millennium

Jun 23rd, 2008 20m 23s

Around half of the world’s population lives under the influence of the Asian monsoons. The sustainability of water resources, which is intimately tied up with future monsoon variability, is a critically-important issue in northwest China where

The impact of Sign Bilingualism and Co-enrolment on the language development of deaf and hearing children in Hong Kong: A whole school case study

Jun 23rd, 2008 19m 36s

Differences in the neural basis of Chinese and English reading

Jun 23rd, 2008 20m 26s

Introduction: Previous functional imaging studies comparing Chinese and English reading have reported that a left middle frontal region is more activated by Chinese reading and the left superior temporal cortex is more activated by English read

City history and multi-scale spatial master-planning

Jun 23rd, 2008 23m 19s

The UK and Chinese Governments have agreed at the highest level to collaborate through the China-UK Sustainable Development Dialogue on research and knowledge exchange to help ensure that the way we develop our cities will become truly sustaina

Chinese Medicine: From the Yellow Emperor to the Whole Wide Web

Jun 23rd, 2008 20m 24s

This presentation will present a range of collaborative research into the history and culture of Chinese medicine that has been undertaken in the last five years at the Wellcome Trust Centre for History of Medicine, UCL. Most of my personal res

Guangming Smart-city: A New Chinese City

Jun 23rd, 2008 25m 25s

By 2010 it is anticipated that half of China’s population will have moved from the countryside to the cities. The Chinese Government has recently presented Dongtan, near Shanghai, as their ecological showcase to the United Nations World Urban F

Sustainable Urban Systems to Transfer Achievable Implementation Network (SUSTAIN)

Jun 23rd, 2008 16m 50s

The main aim of SUSTAIN is to develop collaborative research proposals to investigate how to improve the development of sustainable cities. This will be achieved by convening a series of 4 workshops; water, energy, synergy and transport, each c

The Bases Of Rice Domestication In Lower Yangzte, China: Fifth Millennium BC Evidence For Early Cultivation And The Transition From Hunting & Gathering

Jun 23rd, 2008 25m 45s

A complete revision to dating of early agriculture in the Lower Yangzte region of China is now underway as new methods for archaeobotanical analyses are being applied to trace the gradual evolution of domesticated rice from its wild ancestors,

Public Archaeology in China Now

Jun 23rd, 2008 19m 21s

In 2006 Peter Ucko and Wang Tao visited more than ten universities in mainland China, in order to meet staff and students in each Department of Archaeology. We interviewed staff and students to find out about their experiences, expectations and

Early and traditional copper metallurgy in western China

Jun 23rd, 2008 15m 45s

Copper underpins the technology and economy of most societies of the last four thousand years, and ancient China is no exception. It relies heavily on copper for the production of bronze objects, such as weapons, tools and vessels, but also for

Modernism in China: Architectural Visions and Revolutions

Jun 23rd, 2008 21m 8s

China’s development and speculation about its future impact on the world are stimulating considerable attention in design-related disciplines internationally. This process has already encouraged various forms of cross-cultural and cross-discipl

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