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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
With the rapid economic development and social progress, the increased polarization between urban and rural areas makes the wealth gap become the resistance to block the development of state and society. The basic reason to widen the polarization of the rich…
David Halpin
To understand better teaching and learning in schools in modern China, it is not enough to see its pedagogic philosophy as merely a reflection of communist ideology. Core values derived from China’s ancient civilization, especially the teachings of Confucius,…
Gabriel Felley
The Yijing 易經belongs to the famous group of the five classics. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, the Four Books and Five Classics四書五經 were the subject of mandatory study by those Confucian scholars who wished to become government officials. The Yijing (Faure &…
Zhou Xingwu, Jane T. Bertrand, Li Bingcheng, Guo Linfeng, Gabriel Cohen
Objective : The study aims to assess Pu’er rural drinking water quality and to investigate the reasons why microbial indexes exceed the national rural drinking water standard. Methods : The study uses existing data obtained from Pu’er rural drinking water mon…
Valerie Victoria Benguiat y Gomez
With the emergence of a global public sphere and the revolution of global media, international public opinion has gained an intrinsic importance for effective multilateral cooperation. Global governance initiatives are subject to international public opinion,…
Yang Weiwei, Liu Yinghua, Luorong Zhandui
Based on long time field study in Tibetan communities in central Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) and empirical knowledge, through analyzing the population change of donkeys of different communities, this article aims at finding the reasons of the changes caused…
Lei Xu
Born under the one-child policy and growing up in an environment of tremendous socioeconomic change, the post-1980s generation of China tends to have interesting fertility preferences. This study explores the fertility desire, gender preference, and potential…
Sun Wenkai
Many have doubts about statistics, including the consumer price index (CPI) released by Chinese Government. We re-estimate the CPI in urban China from 1997 to 2009, with two widely accepted approaches to treating owner-occupied housing (i.e., user cost approa…
Chen Li, Yao Lan, Jiang Hong
Nowadays, globalization increases the integration between countries, leading to the emergence of a global marketplace or a single world market. And, no country or region can develop in self-seclusion. The financial crisis is unprecedented because it comes at…
Jiang Bo, Chang Jindong, Sun Yiwen
Universities/college P.E. teachers play an important part in universities/ colleges’ development. Professional moral cultivation which acts as the professional attitude and professional standard is the basic ethics standard for college P.E. teachers. Through…
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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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