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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…
Yongjian Liu, Haoyue Zhang, Xiaozhong Yang
The Push and Pull Theory was originally used to study human migration, and has since been enriched and refined. Push and Pull Theory holds that the factors which promot e population transfer mainly include the push factor, pull factor, intermediate obstacle f…
Zhiguo Zhang
Child custody enforcement in China is still controversial, and there are also g reat differences on some key issues of custody. Lacking clear contents of custody enforcement in adjudicative documents, cognitive biases among judges a nd inadequate supporting m…
Yueyue Wu
This paper aims to analyze the technical basis and theoretical rationality of the People ’ s Court Online Litigation Rules of China regarding the provision that blockchain-stored data has the effect of presumption of authenticity. The presumption is a legal t…
Guolei Wang
Rationalism has been occupying an important position in the interpretation of Confucian thoughts. However, it faces many limitations from the view of recent research. The theory of moral luck comes from the reflection on moral rationalism, emphasizing that th…
Nanfei Yang
<i> Sixth Dalai Lama-Tsangyang Gyatso </i> is a full-length novel written by Gao Ping that vividly describes the short life of the great Tibetan poet and Sixth Dalai Lama, Tsangyang Gyatso, and his poems. It sets against the political, military and religious…
Zhihao Chen, Jiayi Yuan
Nowadays, we are at the junction of the information revolution and the intelligence revolution; China ’ s society is also in the transition from an information society to an innovative society. Under such a backdrop, it has also become an important and challe…
Xiaoxiao Li
It is a general trend for the synergistic development of people’s mediation and commercial mediation in China. Given the current operations of people’s mediation and commercial mediation in China, and in conjunction with the overseas experience of alternative…
Wenjun Yan
Due to the lack of legislation on international sports arbitration institutions and arbitration rules in China, international sports arbitration activities usually lack direct legal support. However, as China successfully hosted the Olympic Games and the Wint…
Chunhua Li, Changyu Ren, Mingyue Luo, Dingyin Chen, Ya Shu
With the development of China ’ s economy and the Internet, short video platforms represented by Douyin have developed rapidly, and Douyin has also become an important platform for marketing choices. This paper expounds the development status of Xinjiang Inte…
Wenjing Wang, Jinyu Liu
As the first work on ancient Chinese economic thought overseas written by a Chinese, The Economic Principles of Confucius and His School attracted huge attention of Western researchers, however the studies of the content and opinions on this work at home are…
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