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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…
Wu Yang, Isabella Kam
Chinese beginners often find themselves in struggling for learning complicated Chinese characters (also known as Hanzi), after the acquisition of Chinese pronunciation (Chinese Phonetic Alphabets, also called Pinyin). Actual experience of living and studying…
Tiancheng Zhou
This paper examines the capitalization of public school quality into housing prices in the specific context of China’s compulsory education system and “district correspondence enrollment” policy, which stipulates a strict correspondence between residential es…
Xia Liu, Yunfei Zha
Copyright protection of digital movie is becoming increasingly important with increasing developing of the information technology. In China, unlimited replication and rapid propagation of the network makes it increasingly difficult to monitor the copyright pi…
Yilian Zhang
Yuezhi Zhao is famous for her theory of communication criticism. In the western-dominated international academic circles, she is the first critical scholar of communication in mainland China. In her first Chinese monograph, “Communication and Society: Politic…
Robert Brenya, Weijun Cui
Service satisfaction improvement of customers is the present way most industries conduct every trade. Banks are no exception from this revolution. Customers’ preference has become a necessary module of business strategy in financial institutions. This researc…
Jiawen Zhao, Qingjun Meng, Zhijian Wu
Since the declaration of new Budget Law makes issuing municipal bond possible, many local governments deem it as an important way to get fiscal revenue. There is no doubt that issuing municipal bond along with tax revenue, nontax revenue and transfer revenue…
Ying Ren
Human rights discourse and its theoretical system play an irreplaceable role in the history of human civilization. The purpose of this paper is to summarize and discuss the formation of human rights theory system, which consists of three parts. These parts ar…
Dongfang Zhao, Hua Shang, Yuli Wang, Chunyou Wu
As a special policy area under China’s new normal economic background, the National New District plays a key role in the realization of economic and social development and green growth. This paper constructs an evaluation index system for green growth capacit…
Prabir Bhattacharya, Javier Palacio-Torralba, Xinrong Li
The paper provides estimates of Gini coefficients for each of the 31 Chinese provinces for the years 2000-2012. The estimates bring out the extremely high income inequality to be found in nearly half of the provinces in sharp contrast to the extremely low inc…
Lei Chen, Zhihui Wang
Intercultural encounters have become a fact of daily life in so many cities as well as towns in China, yet English learning is far from enough for cultivating talents with international vision and research on ICC has stepped on agenda. This paper is aimed at…
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