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Chinese Studies is an international journal about China and Chinese civilization. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for social scientists and academicians all over the world to promote scholarship on China and China-related topics. All manuscripts must be prepared in English and are subject to a rigoro…
Xiaozheng Lei
In China, the reform of the system of lifelong responsibility for the quality of handling cases and the system of accountability for wrongful cases, which requires “whoever handles cases shall be responsible and whoever breaks the law shall bear the responsib…
Lujun Zhou, 1 1
Based on the “Residents’ Willingness and Policy Improvement” questionnaire survey data of 394 families in Hunan Province in 2017, this study compared the family’s two-child fertility willingness, and used the multi-category logit model to explore the factors…
Shuresh Moradi
China is Africa’s largest trade partner and enjoys deep political ties with many African states. However, the strength and depth of these relations are not reflected in China’s contribution to African peace and security. This research therefore unpacks the re…
Xiaozheng Lei
Globally, the prevalence of drugs has become a major problem. Rehabilitation and correction programmes are experiencing great difficulties. In Sichuan province of China, two comparative modes, namely “Blue Lotus Home” and “Green Return Home” have been establi…
Rong Chai, Hao Li
Since the promulgation of the Cultural Relics Protection Law of the People’s Republic of China in the last century, China’s legislation on the protection of cultural relics has gradually formed a multi-level system of protection of legal sources, including th…
Gulimila Aini
The development of network technology allows traditional bullying behaviour to extend into the network space and transform into a new type of campus bullying, called campus cyberbullying. Campus cyberbullying is a subcategory of campus bullying, presenting ch…
Hongying Li, Pengju Li
Flaws widely exist in the English translation of the public signs at the Ten-mile Liquor City, such as lack of translation, grammar mistakes, spelling mistakes, misuse of words disagreement in translation, semantic fault, wordiness, etc., which not only broug…
Yajun Wu, 1 1, Xia Kang
The core value and moral codes in Laoist politics are the essential factors that mold the political ethics in the Eastern Asia. In this study, the notion of “ziran” (self-thus-ness) was explored from four perspectives: its literal meaning, its five uses, the…
Ye Deng, Zhuowei Chen
Inspection is the crucial process to gain the physical condition of a patient before diagnosis and treatment in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). Unlike the completely objective description of a patient in Western Medicine, the subjective thinking of the me…
Md. Shihabuzzaman, Tongtao Zheng
This paper analyses the condition of teaching and learning Chinese in Bangladeshi university classroom. Analysis of classroom conversation and interactions between teacher and student has been done to demonstrate the nature of interactions. The different subj…
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Chinese Studies is an international journal about China and Chinese civilization. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for social scientists and academicians all over the world to promote scholarship on China and China-related topics. All manuscripts must be prepared in English and are subject to a rigoro… All articles are open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence, with authors retaining copyright.
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