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Pink Hair as a Cyberfeminist Symbol : Online Gender-Based Violence and the “PinkUp” Movement in China
The Impact of ESG Performance on Corporate Debt Financing Costs: Empirical Evidence from Chinese A-Share Listed Companies
Boom or Bust in China's Jade Trade with Myanmar?
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
Beyond the Great Paywall : A Lesson from the Cambridge University Press China incident
Mediated visions: IT entrepreneurs and internet visions in China
Whose vision is it anyway? The “free internet” in Chinese state media
New Measures for Governing Religions in Xi’s China
Folklorized politics : How Chinese Soft Power Works in Central Asia
The main aim of this article is to develop a discussion on folklorization or how identity is commodified and reduced to only some cultural traits. Currently, folklorization is one of the main devices in PRC’s cultural and political policies in Central Asia. Authors analyze folklorization both inter-state with a particular focus on Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, and intra-state, with focus on Xinjiang,
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:
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
Energy innovation and sustainability transitions in China: Building energy efficiency and renewable energy
Popular Abstract in English Buildings account for almost 30% of global CO2 emissions. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), buildings can be made 75% more efficient by using better design. Globally, every year about half of all new buildings are built in China. In addition, the current lack of comfort level in indoor environments indicates that a large increase in ener
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