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Religious Experience in Contemporary Taiwan and China

Revisiting the role of transpiration in the variation of ecosystem water use efficiency in China

Efforts to develop effective climate strategies necessitate a better understanding of the relationship between terrestrial water and carbon cycles. Water use efficiency (WUE) has been often used to characterize this relationship, while the role of transpiration (T) in the variation of ecosystem WUE has been less investigated. Here, we partitioned WUEET (the ratio of gross primary productivity (GPP

How to promote effective irrigation pricing reform in northern China? Insights from the Taocheng District

Joint analysis of water rights trading and water-saving management contracts in China

Dr. Sam Geall: how the one-party state, China, shapes the development of the Mekong River Basin

Jia Shaofeng: Beijing’s transition to freshwater sustainability in Peoples Republic of China 1949-2019

Brahma Chellaney: India’s hydro-diplomacy with Pakistan, Bangladesh and China

Kevin Rudd on the global water crisis, WASH, and the role of China

How does hybrid environmental governance work? Examining water rights trading in China (2000–2019)

Chinese Buddhism and Divination

Benjamin Penny and Hsun Chang (eds.), Religion in Taiwan and China : Locality and Transmission. Taipei: Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, 2017.

The EU recommendations for tackling foreign interference in research and innovation: What do they mean for European research collaboration with China?

A Cross-Language Study of Tonal Alignment in Scania Swedish and Mandarin Chinese

Pitch-to-segment Alignment in South Swedish and Mandarin Chinese: A Cross-language Comparison

Nonlinear associations of the built environment with cycling frequency among older adults in Zhongshan, China

The health and welfare of older adults have raised increasing attention due to global aging. Cycling is a physical activity and mode of transportation to enhance the mobility and quality of life among older adults. Nevertheless, the planning strategies to promote cycling among older adults are underutilized. Therefore, this paper describes the nonlinear associations of the built environment with c

Change patterns of sleep problems predict mental health problems among adolescents : a 10-year cohort study of Chinese Wenchuan earthquake

Background: The predictive effects of change patterns of sleep problems on mental health after a long-term disaster remain poorly known. We examined the change patterns of sleep problems after the Wenchuan earthquake, and tested whether specific sleep-related change patterns could predict mental health problems (posttraumatic stress disorder [PTSD], anxiety, and depression) in the 10 years after W

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

Towards a noncapitalistic or zombified neoliberal China

Contextual Factors and Crisis Attribution in Social Media Crisis : Revisiting situational crisis communication theory in the Chinese context

Generating Situational Authority Through Genre of Governance : A Case Study of Chinese Public Sectors’ Crisis Management Strategies

This study investigates how public sector organizations generate authority in social media crisis. Furthermore, it examines how genres of governance, namely genre chain and genre mixing, contribute to the generation of authority. On this basis of an interdisciplinary theoretical framework consisting of the concepts of “network governance” and “authority,” a genre analysis of 100 top forwarded post