Beyond Citizenship examines the government provision of adult literacy training in early twentieth-century China, bringing to light new ways of interpreting the complex impacts literacy training had on strengthening the state in the republican era.

ParCo2007 marks a quarter of a century of the international conferences on parallel computing that started in Berlin in 1983. The aim of the conference is to give an overview of the developments, applications and future trends in high-performance computing for various platforms.

This book consitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Distributed Computing, DISC 2001, held in Lisbon, Portugal, in October 2001. The 23 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 70 submissions. Among the issues addressed are mutual exclusion, anonymous networks, distributed files systems, information diffusion, computation slicing, commit services, renaming, mobile search, randomized mutual search, message-passing networks, distributed queueing, leader election algorithms, Markov chains, network routing, ad-hoc mobile networks, and adding networks.