Preference or Aversion? Exploring Fertility Desires among China's Young Urban Elite

Human Rights in China

Understanding marriage squeezes – Sex ratio imbalance, gender and social policy in China

Privatization and Marketization in Chinese Education

The emergence of China and India as new innovation power houses- threat or opportunity?

Different postprandial metabolic patterns after the consumption of fish oil and lard in healthy Chinese individuals

Aim: It is well known that nutritional intervention has positive effects on the secondary prevention of coronary heart disease. Different fat compositions of meals may alter postprandial plasma lipid patterns, which can further influence lipid metabolism in vivo. Methods: In the present study, we investigated postprandial plasma lipid parameters in twenty healthy volunteers after eating fat meals

The East China Sea maritime and territorial dispute: a stand-off that suits everybody?

Conodont faunal dynamics across the middle and upper ordovician boundary in the Yichang area, western Hubei province, South China

A total of 6094 conodont specimens, assigned to 18 genera and 27 species, have been recovered from the uppermost Kuniutan and Miaopo formations, spanning the latest Darriwilian - early Sandbian in age, at the Jieling section, Yichang, Hubei Province. Three conodont zones have been recognized, i.e., in ascending order, the Pygodus serra Zone, the Pygodus anserinus - Yangtzeplacognathus jianyeensis

A post-mortem analysis of China's township elections

The Potentials of Feicui : Indeterminacy and Determination in Human-Jade Interactions in South-West China

Based on fieldwork among jade traders and carvers in Ruili, this chapter discusses the realization of economic and spiritual potentials of a type of jade called feicui翡翠 as determination of a partially indeterminate material. Some traders posit feicui as an empty container for economic value, while the material constitutes spiritual fullness especially for carvers. An opaque layer of surface skin

Relational exchange and generalized trust in China

Water and related electrical energy use in urban households—Influence of individual attributes in Beijing, China

Water and energy are intricately connected in households. The connections mainly appear in three types of residential behavior: bathing, cooking, and cleaning. This study investigated the features of water and related energy consumption in groups with different individual attributes and identified the key groups and types of behavior that correlate with water and energy conservation. A face-to-fac

Engagement, Witnessing and Activism: Independent Chinese Documentary Filmmakers’ Different Positions, Approaches and Aesthetics

Increased vegetation growth and carbon stock in China karst via ecological engineering

Satellite-observed Major Greening and Biomass Increase in South China Karst During Recent Decade

Heart-lines. On prevention of heart disease in Scandinavian conventional and Chinese medical training

Human Rights and the Internet in China: New Frontiers and Challenges

Towards critical big data studies in and on China

China’s growing E-commerce hitting the countryside: Nongcun Taobao

Applying a Multi-Model Ensemble Method for Long-Term Runoff Prediction under Climate Change Scenarios for the Yellow River Basin, China

Given the substantial impacts that are expected due to climate change, it is crucial that accurate rainfall–runoff results are provided for various decision-making purposes. However, these modeling results often generate uncertainty or bias due to the imperfect character of individual models. In this paper, a genetic algorithm together with a Bayesian model averaging method are employed to provide