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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…
Fanie Herman, Andrew Szanajda
This work examines the role of the Chinese media in African peacekeeping operations (PKOs) in view of Chinese and African traditions that are combined through the concept of communitarianism. The values and belief systems of Confucianism and the African philo…
Hu Lin, Sha Zi-Jun, Liu Xiu-Yi, Chen Wen-Jun
Based on both Chinese and non-Chinese research results, this study uses the research methods of De Bondt and Thaler, selects the trading data from January 2007 to June 2011 in stock market in Shanghai, and tests whether there has been overreaction in the stoc…
Zeng Benxiang
A survey of tourists to the protected areas in the Taibai Mountain ( 太白山 ) Region of China reveals a local domestic market, dominated by students and company employees. The market is attracted by the natural beauty of the Region, but not yet focused on nature…
Rey Tiquia
One of the consequences of the 1911 Revolution in China was the political demise of the traditional Chinese calendar li fa . As China adopted the Gregorian Calendar, the modern Western time system replaced the premodern Chinese time system. This resulted in t…
Chunling Pan, Jie Lü
China’s rapid economic growth has proceeded at considerable cost of resources and environment. To find out how to reduce the cost while maintaining economic growth, we took panel data of 28 provinces from 2000 to 2009 as our samples and conducted comparative…
Chiu-Yin Leung, Jiang Xu
In this paper, a social capital framework is brought in to explore the dynamics of Chinese entrepreneurship with respect to the social and institutional conditions in the post-reform China. Based on data collected from field interviews, it analyzes how enterp…
Jianhua Wu, Xuan Xiao
China’s MICE industry has witnessed rapid growth over the past decade. In the mainland China, however, its further development is affected by deficiencies in the planning and controlling policies. This short report will introduce the pattern of its MICE indus…
Huachun Wang, Chunxue Zhao, Maerhaba Xiaokaiti, Yue Zhou, Rui Zhao
The dual land market has greatly encouraged the economy and urban development and created far-reaching effects on excessive land expropriation and land finance. Using an analytical framework of dual market structure model, this paper investigates the relation…
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