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Psychometric properties of the Chinese version of the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-Cervix (FACT-Cx) measuring health-related quality of life

Background: The Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy (FACT) is one of the most commonly used self-report instruments for evaluation of health-related quality of life in oncology patients. However, cultural considerations necessitate testing of the subscales in different populations. We sought to qualitatively and quantitatively investigate the applicability and psychometric properties of the Ch

Themis v. Xiezhi: Assessing Judicial Independence in the People's Republic of China under International Human Rights Law

Popular Abstract in Swedish Bedömning av domstolarnas oberoende i Folkrepubliken Kina ur ett människorättighetsperspektiv.The first of three parts in this study elaborates on international human rights law and drawing on the most essential international instruments and jurisprudence, the criteria constituting judicial independence are distilled as a framework for assessment. The point of departure is that judicial independence is a necessary guarantee for the enjoyment of human rights rather than a privilege of judge

Institutions and Social Mobilization: The Chinese Education Movement in Malaysia

This paper studies the persistency of minority social movement in pushing its agenda over a long period of time. Focus on institution as the main independent variable for social mobilization, this thesis argues that structural institutions such as rules and constitutions shaped the foundation framework for collaboration among the movement community, and legitimated the selection of leaders. Howeve

Qian divination and its ritual adaptations in Chinese Buddhism

This article analyzes Buddhist variations of the so called temple oracle (qian divination) that can be traced historically in the form of sets of answers for people seeking counsel about their future. The ritual is commonly known as a habitual practice in popular religious temples today. Three different ritual texts elucidate modes in which the temple oracle has been woven into Buddhist practice:

Walking or Reading the City : Spatiotemporal narrative forms in contemporary urban Chinese fiction

In his influential essay ‘Walking in the City’, Michel de Certeau contrasts the practice of walking in the city, which produces or ‘enounces’ space; “[t]he act of walking is to the urban system what the speech act is to language,” with the practice of viewing the city from above, which in turn “transforms the bewitching world by which one was ‘possessed’ into a text that lies before one’s eyes.” T