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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…
Yang Yang
Construction industry is undoubtedly one of the fastest-growing industries in China. But, due to its inadequate technique, the operation of this industry is not standardized. Its affiliated business causes confusion. The operation of the whole industry is at…
Xu Yongmei, Jiang Jiankai
Based on the situation of turnover of golf caddies, we study the relationship of caddies’ reward satisfaction, organizational commitment, and turnover intention in Shenzhen, China. The research shows that 1) caddies’ gender, education, grade, and years of wor…
Ji Pengfei
Service is a very important system in civil action. It runs through civil proceedings and has significant effect on the whole process of civil action. The current service of civil procedure law in China focuses on the ex officio doctrine. Its main purpose is…
Zhang Li
This research examines the determinants of living arrangements among the Chinese elderly by distinguishing the seniors by sex, residence and age. Through analyzing data from the 2011 wave of Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey (CLHLS), the results s…
Fanie Herman
The aim of this paper is to show that strategic interaction provides a fruitful way to understand China’s decision-making behavior. States are actors in global politics and frequently have to make choices that are strategic. Credibility and uncertainty are ce…
Wang Zhenhui, 1 1
China’s current “Criminal Procedure Law” was enacted in 1979, and the law established the basic framework of socialist criminal justice system with Chinese characteristics. The amendments in 1996 and 2012 to the “Criminal Procedure Law”, involving the basic p…
Sha Zijun, Hu Lin
On the basis of previous research, this study assembled trading data from January 2004 to October 2014 to verify the overreaction in Shanghai stock market. The influence of overreaction decreases with time from 2007 onwards and turns to disappear from 2011. T…
Wei Lin, Cao Shan, Song Yu
With the expansion in enrollment scale of financial management and the increase in the pressure of job-hunting, more and more schools start to analyze the problem regarding how to cultivate excellent financial management talents who meet the social demand, an…
Wu Congping, 1 1
This paper analyzes existing low carbon policies as well as policy instruments in the Chinese mainland, where policy making is focused shapely on how to enhance energy efficiency in the high energy-consuming sector of industry to ensure optimal reduction of i…
Lin Zhongxuan
Internet is supposed to have natural and inherent relationship with democratization, and is also supposed to act as the main battlefield for the public to fight against the authoritarian. The Internet in China, however, does not serve as the “democratic publi…
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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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