THE OBJECTIVE AND IMPLEMENTATION OF DYNAMIC VISUALIZATION OF SPATIO-TEMPORAL GEOGRAPHICAL PROCESSES

ABSTRACT: The Spatio-temporal data is the description of the time, space, and attribute information of the geographic spatiotemporal process, which reflects the spatio-temporal process information of geographical phenomenon changing with the time on the earth-surface space. The spatio-temporal process information is complex and changing. Thus according to the objective of dynamic visualization of geographic process, a break-through dynamic visualization method was developed in this paper to express the geographical spatio-temporal evolution process intuitively

Social Impetus, Economic Roots, and Political Logic: China’s Transformation Through the Lens of American History

China is facing a crucial turning point in its sociopolitical development with the recent turnover of the leadership and the potential of further reform carried out by the new administration. To shed light on the future of China, this research compares the United States between 1789 and 1917 with China between 1949 and 2012. We examine the social impetus, economic roots, and political logic of the great transformations of the two countries. Through the lens of American history, we argue, first, that social discontent in the short run may push structural reform forward. Second, to transform the passive, piecemeal, and unpredictable reform into a proactive, systematic, and integral reform, we propose that China must build social consensus and a strong middle class.link_to_subscribed_fulltex