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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 rigorous and fair peer-review proces...

Call for papers/chapters for inclusion in edited book (under contract with Springer Nature). Contributors of all ranks (including reflective practitioners) are welcome. Senior authors (full professors) may also be invited to a panel on Social Work with Diverse Communities (including but not limited to AAPI/Chinese Societies) at the World Philanthro...

This book challenges the definition of a new approach for integrating protection and enhancing the Chinese heritage category of "Traditional Villages". By applying a specific case study in the Hancheng context, Shaanxi Province, which lacks sound studies, the book formulates new theoretical prerequisites for future researches , an in-depth knowledg...

The popularity of Douyin (known as TikTok overseas) could provide additional mental health information services to Chinese women. However, the factors that influence women to seek mental health information services in Douyin are still understudied. The study applied the Comprehensive Model of Information Seeking (CMIS) to Chinese women's mental hea...

Global climate change is expected to accelerate biological invasions, necessitating accurate risk forecasting and management strategies. However, current invasion risk assessments often overlook adaptive genomic variation, which plays a significant role in the persistence and expansion of invasive populations. Here we used Molgula manhattensis, a h...

38 名我国英语专业大学生完成工作记忆容量测试、 《任务愉悦与焦虑量表》 以及推理需求不同的两项口语任务。结果表明： 1) 任务复杂度对学习 者任务愉悦和焦虑水平无显著影响； 2) 简单任务中， 工作记忆与口语句法复杂度呈显著正相 关关系， 任务愉悦与焦虑分别与流利性呈显著正相关、 负相关关系； 3) 复杂任务中， 工作记忆 和任务焦虑与口语表现各项指标均无显著相关关系， 任务愉悦与流利性呈显著正相关关系。 本研究对探究二语口语表现中的个体 (认知、 情绪等个体差异)-任务 (复杂度) 协同作用具有借 鉴意义。 关键词： 任务复杂度； 工作记忆； 任务情绪； 二语口语表现； 积极心理学 [中图分类号] H319 [文献标识码] A Abstract: The current study ex...

The purpose of the scientific article is a comparative analysis of the philosophy of consciousness in the context of Western and Eastern theory. In the process of the three stages of scientific research, the authors used general scientific and unique methods, such as analysis, synthesis, generalization, induction, comparative, and content analysis...

This study examines how trade protection, particularly anti-dumping sanctions on foreign exports, impacts innovations developed by affected foreign firms. Using data on anti-dumping sanctions levied by the United States (US) government on Chinese exports and on domestic patents associated with the sanctioned products developed by Chinese firms in C...

In this chapter, we first argue for the need to pay attention to the affective dimension of L2 task-based learning and teaching, especially the role of positive emotions (e.g., enjoyment) in affecting learner task performance. We then differentiate trait enjoyment from state enjoyment depending on their time scales, measurement, and degrees of vari...

A reemerging viral disease known as Marek's disease affects chickens and has a devastating financial impact on the global poultry sector. The emergence of pathogenic strains must be continuously monitored using molecular approaches of Marek's disease and to adevise to use appropriate vaccination program with implement bio-security. This study was c...

Early Chinese cities (ca. 13th c. BCE through early 3rd c. CE) are defined by the existence of city walls (cheng 城). The authors and compilers of early transmitted texts (ca. 5th c. BCE through 3rd c. CE) often emphasized the need to build and maintain city walls. At first glance, this might seem as if early Chinese historians and philosophers were...

Using a constructional approach to morphosyntax, this study describes a triclausal construction (a type of anankastic conditional) and related constructions in the history of Chinese. It demonstrates that the triclausal construction constitutes a context of morphosyntactic vagueness where category boundaries between modals and protasis connectives...

This paper critically evaluates the notion of antonymous polysemy and its diachronic analysis. First, most purported cases of antonymous polysemy are argued to be more appropriately (near-)antonymous polysemy, as they are only antonymous in a broad sense and on a coarse-grained perspective on meaning. Second, the history of rǒng ‘idle; busy’ in Chi...

Forest age is a key parameter for understanding the water and carbon cycles and carbon sequestration potential of planted forest ecosystems. However, estimating forest age on a large scale is difficult. This study aims to determine whether the distribution of forest age can be mapped over a large area using the LandTrendr (LT) algorithm. With the L...

The question of whether environmental regulation fosters technological innovation and green development, as a nuanced extension of the Porter hypothesis, constitutes a focal point in contemporary research. Despite this attention, the literature often omits a multifaceted evaluation framework for green development and fails to consider multiaspectua...

This chapter takes an individual-differences perspective on the dual sound systems of American heritage speakers (HSs) of Mandarin Chinese. Based on detailed socio-demographic data and production data on segmentals and suprasegmentals, we build holistic demographic and phonetic profiles for HSs, as well as native speakers and late learners, to expl...

Credit risk assessment involves conducting a fair review and evaluation of an assessed subject’s solvency and creditworthiness. In the context of real estate enterprises, credit risk assessment provides a basis for banks and other financial institutions to choose suitable investment objects. Additionally, it encourages real estate enterprises to ab...

In the context of global warming and rapid urbanization, urban wind-heat environment has become increasingly prominent. Although the identification of ventilation corridors has been well investigated, the impact of ventilation corridors on thermal environment remains unclear. Here, we use the single-window algorithm and circuit theory method to ana...

Since 1971, when representatives of the Government of the Republic of China in exile were stripped of their exclusive rights to represent China in the UN General Assembly which were then handed over to the Chinese Communist Party, Taiwan's status has remained unresolved. Taiwan is currently not represented in the United Nations or its affiliated or...

Cabbage production is promoted as a cash crop for small-land holders to support poverty alleviation on the Bolaven Plateau in Champasak Province, Lao People’s Democratic Republic (PDR). A stunted cabbage crop in Paksong was inspected due to a near total yield loss. Examination of the root systems revealed the presence of enlarged roots. Subsequentl...

An experiment was conducted to evaluate the influence of Rhizobium leguminosarum inoculation and mulching on the growth and yield of Chinese long bean (Vigna unguiculata subsp. sesquipedalis) in Palungtar, Nepal. A split-plot design was used for the experiment, which was replicated four times. Plastic, straw, and no-mulch conditions constituted the...

Sociocriticism has recently become a cornerstone of cultural literary analysis. However, in contrast to this methodology’s growth in other cultural contexts, innovation is notably lacking in Chinese literary studies. Despite the relevance of the 1980s and 1990s publications, studies of Chinese literature from a sociocritical perspective have not de...

This study defines Provincial Carbon Emission Characteristics (PCEC) as the socioeconomic conditions influencing provincial carbon emissions, the potential for carbon neutrality, and carbon management strategies. Given China's commitment to peak carbon emissions and to achieve carbon neutrality, the development of a robust and versatile PCEC evalua...

Art is the embodiment of national culture and spirit. Singing and dancing are one of the earliest and richest forms of human art. It is not only the product of experience and emotional experience but also the transcendence of vulgar daily life. As the most distinctive feature of modern Indian films, the art of singing and dancing inherits the tradi...

This article analyzes the three main aspects of the “Chinese school of archaeology, with Chinese characteristics and a Chinese ethos”. These characteristics were outlined by President Xi Jinping in a speech on September 28, 2020, and later referred to by several renowned Chinese archaeologists and historians in 2020 and 2021, to demonstrate that es...

This article holds the opinion that some meta-picto-poetry of landscape, composed by American poet Gary Snyder, takes Chinese landscape painting as its subject matter with the characteristics of ancient Chinese poetry, shimmering with incomparable artistic charm and cultural substance. Poetry of this kind is a perfect combination of eastern and wes...

span lang="EN-US">Chinese boys and girls manifest distinct sharing behavior compared with children of other nationalities following different cross-national pathways. Undoubtedly, the Chinese traditional culture projects distinct expectations of female and male roles. Kindergarten teachers are responsible for delivering cultural norm knowledge to c...

Food system is the primary consumer of water resources, and dietary water footprint (DWF) provides insights into exploring food-water nexus from a consumption perspective. Previous studies mostly examine Chinese urban and rural DWF nationwide, but fail to quantify regional inequalities and urban-rural differences at province level when considering...

Whether bilingualism results in improved executive function is controversial. According to some researchers, putative bilingual advantages can be explained by individual differences in unmeasured non-linguistic variables. Additionally, commonly used models containing exclusively fixed-effects do not account for the data structure inherent in multi-...

The share of electricity consumption by urban and rural residents in China’s overall electricity consumption is very close to that of the tertiary sector, which has become an important driver of China’s electricity consumption growth. At the same time, due to the mismatch between China’s regional resource endowments and the level of regional develo...

To solve the problems of density peaks clustering (DPC) algorithm sensitive to cutoff distance and subjectivity of clustering center selection, we propose an improved density peaks algorithm based on information entropy and merging strategy (DPC-IEMS) for realizing power load curve clustering. First, a cutoff distance optimization method based on i...

Air pollution is one of the serious environmental problems facing the world. This paper systematically investigates the impact and transmission mechanism of the construction of national eco-industrial parks (NEDPs) on urban air pollution based on Chinese city-level panel data from 2003 to 2021 using a staggered difference-in-differences (staggered...

Nature conservation is an essential topic in the area of sustainability. Understanding how nature benefits humans, particularly human mental health, contributes to the awareness and promotion of nature conservation. A growing number of studies have demonstrated the positive effects of nature on human well-being. However, not all individuals derive...

Adolescents use various strategies to help their victimized peers during bullying episodes. However, prior research has primarily adopted a variable-centered approach that examines the effect of each defending strategies separately and does not address whether there were different types of defenders who exhibit specific combinations of defending st...

HLA‐C*01:255 differs from HLA‐C*01:02:01:01 by one nucleotide in exon 2.

In recent times, there has been an increasing demand for the development of rapid and non-destructive assessment of the growth and quality of seedlings before transplanting. This study was conducted to examine the growth and quality of Chinese cabbage seedlings that can be determined via the image data acquired using a multispectral camera. Chinese...

In the era of the digital economy, building an internationally competitive manufacturing industry with intelligent manufacturing as its main focus is the only way to promote the transformation of a country into a manufacturing power and achieve high-quality economic development. To explore whether Digital transformation can improve the core competi...

It is known that water filtration devices are used to increase the efficiency of the drip irrigation system on a large scale. Currently, there are various types of filtering devices, the main purpose of which is to reduce the amount of turbidity in water. In Uzbekistan, vertical and horizontal filters made according to Turkish and Chinese technolog...

The impacts of the digital economy on regional carbon emissions have attracted much concerns from all regions of China. Using panel data for 30 Chinese provinces and cities from 2011 to 2020, the study empirically examined the bilateral effects of the digital economy on regional carbon emissions (RCBs) and the heterogeneous characteristics under di...

This study analyzed the trust and purchase intentions of Chinese consumers towards Korean red ginseng products through the marketing characteristics of XiaoHongShu and consumers" lifestyles. The findings revealed that the informativeness and interactivity based on XiaoHongShu positively influence the trust and purchase intentions of Chinese consume...

This study analyzed the correlation between the incidental acquisition of vocabulary using different processing strategies during reading by 56 native Chinese-speaking students studying English at a university in China. Based on top-down and bottom-up cognitive processes, the study discussed the lexical processing strategies employed by the partici...

In this article on Ping Pong Diplomacy, the historical twist of Sino-American relations is explored, emphasizing the pivotal role of sports diplomacy in fostering communication between the United States and China. The significance of the 1971 exchange between American and Chinese table tennis players is highlighted, showcasing how this unexpected e...

To gain a deeper understanding of the genetic factors influencing the growth and development of Eriocheir sinensis, a well-known species of hairy crab found in Yangcheng Lake, this study focused on the de novo genome and full-length transcriptome information of the selected subjects. Specifically, Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs were chosen as the exper...

The strategic importance of the Chinese 5G and Supercomputing Industries necessitates an examination of their development trajectories. Yuhan Zhang provides significant insight into the role of central government policies in shaping industry development outcomes. Using various analytical methods, the author contends that the Chinese government's in...

This study was conducted to determine whether there were significant differences in desire for and anxiety in learning Chinese among students in Grades 3-5 at an international school in Bangkok, Thailand. A sample of 74 students enrolled in the target international school participated in this study. After performing descriptive statistics on the co...

Ketepeng Cina (Cassia alata) is a plant that is widely used to treat various skin problems caused by bacteria or fungi. Various studies have been carried out to obtain optimal extract results such as the influence of the type of drying or solvent used. The optimal extract can be used for applications in making products based on Chinese ketepeng ext...

Agriculture has historically been the basis of life and the key to the prosperity of Chinese society. Although the contribution of the agriculture in China’s GDP has been declining in recent decades against the background of rapid industrialization and urbanization of the country, the importance of agriculture and rural lifestyle for China's sustai...

The present study aims to investigate the role of vocabulary knowledge in composition writing among Chinese children. Drawing on Nation’s (2001) vocabulary framework, this study operationalized Chinese vocabulary knowledge from receptive and productive perspectives and in form, meaning, and use domain, respectively. A total of five measures assessi...

License Plate Recognition (LPR) is one of the tough tasks in the field of computer vision. Although it has been around for quite a while, there still lies the challenges when we have to deal with; the harsh environmental conditions like snowy, rainfall, windy, low light conditions etc. as well as the condition of the plates which includes the bent,...

While children's acquisition of recursion has drawn extensive attention in the field, there is less research offering proper evidence for the uniform developmental path of linguistic recursion. To address this issue cross-linguistically, this study examines how 84 Mandarin-speaking children aged between three and six comprehend two to four-level De...

Ruan Hua Tang (RHT) and Ruan Hua Fang (RHF) are two Chinese herbal mixtures that have been used in clinical cancer treatment for decades. This study validated our hypothesis that RHT and RHF can inhibit lung tumor development in the mouse model of Benzo(a)pyrene-induced lung tumorigenesis. An RHT oral solution was diluted to 9% and 18% in water. RH...

The task of fine-grained named entity recognition is to locate entities in text and classify them into predefined fine-grained categories. At present, Chinese fine-grained NER only uses the pretrained language model to encode the characters in the sentence and lacks the ability to extract the deep semantic, sequence, and position information. The s...

With the deepening of teacher educational reforms, increasing focus has been placed on the importance of evaluating student teachers’ teaching abilities in Chinese universities. The Delphi method and an Analytic Hierarchical Process were used to construct an evaluation system for student teachers’ teaching abilities. Delphi specialists included adm...

Quantum secret sharing occupies an important position in quantum cryptography. In this paper, we propose two (w,ω,n) weighted threshold quantum secret sharing schemes on d-level single quantum systems that share classical information and quantum states, respectively. The dealer Alice distributes the secret share to each participant using the Chines...

The intrinsic link between carbon disclosure and firm value deserves in-depth study in light of the global proposal for “carbon neutrality” and the concurrent advancement of both declarative and interactive carbon disclosure practices. Extant research on separate value effects of declarative and interactive carbon disclosure is inconsistent with th...

Background: Previous studies have demonstrated an association between short-term exposure to ambient temperature and mortality. However, the long-term effects of elevated temperature and temperature variability on mortality have remained somewhat elusive in epidemiological studies. Methods: We conducted a comprehensive epidemiological study utilizi...

As the core driving force of technological innovation and economic development, talent is considered a scarce resource that cities and nations compete for. Facing the pressure of transitioning to high-quality development, many Chinese cities have launched various policies to retain and attract talent since 2017. Talents are comparatively more mobil...

Financial literacy has become increasingly crucial in today’s complex financial markets. This paper explores the impact of financial literacy on the stock market by establishing an artificial financial market that aligns with the characteristics of the Chinese A-share market using agent-based modeling. The study incorporates financial literacy into...

Background University students’ academic engagement has a significant impact on their academic performance and career development. Methods In order to explore the influential mechanisms of social support on university students’ academic engagement and the mediating role of academic motivation and life satisfaction, this study used the Adolescent S...

The study explores the influence of polycarboxylate admixture (PCE) on fluorogypsum-based self-leveling material (FSLM) performance. Wev conducted an array of tests to assess workability and mechanical properties, and utilized XRD, TG-DSC, SEM, and MIP techniques for microscopic analysis. The fresh state results showed that PCE enables FSLM to achi...

In this paper, we revisit the popular assumption that politeness in languages such as Japanese and Korean with a complex honorific system is crucially different from politeness in languages with no comparably rich honorific repertoires , such as Chinese. We propose a bottom-up, contrastive and corpus-based model through which we challenge this bina...

Background Disability in activities of daily living (ADL) significantly increases the risk of mortality among patients undergoing hemodialysis. Malnutrition and decreased exercise capacity are closely correlated with ADL disability. Phase angle (PhA) has been proposed as a measure of nutritional status and exercise capacity. This study aims to inve...

Social media use for risk communication during the COVID-19 pandemic has caused considerable concerns about an overabundance of information, particularly misinformation. However, how exposure to COVID-19 information on social media can lead to subsequent misinformation sharing during the pandemic has received little research attention. This study a...

The relation between knowledge and action has been a lengthy debate in philosophy which traces back to Descartes and Locke. Purism holds that the practical factors related to action are fundamentally independent of the standard of knowledge, while pragmatic encroachment argues that practical considerations about action can impact judgments about kn...

Although land-use change driven by general economic factors has been discussed substantially, rarely has any work been done within the perspective of economic geography – considering the impact of economic spatial differences. This study applies the 3Ds (Density, Division and Distance) framework published by the World Bank to explore their impacts...

Mass media are a key source of public news, significantly influencing the accessibility of certain issues through media coverage. While media coverage of rival nations is known to influence public perceptions, its potential impact on citizens’ attitudes toward their own country is less explored. This study addresses this gap by investigating Chines...

Background and Aims Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a crippling, chronic, gender‐related disease that causes burdens to individuals and society. China has a considerable and increasing population of MS. We aim to analyze the gender disparities in the burden of MS in China and predict the trends. Methods The study was conducted based on the Global Burde...

For Chinese readers, reading from left to right is the norm, while reading from right to left is unfamiliar. This study comprises two experiments investigating how format familiarity and word frequency affect reading by Chinese people. Experiment 1 examines the roles of format familiarity (reading from left to right is the familiar Chinese format,...

Chinese economy has benefited from the transformation from the planned economic system to the market economic system. At the same time, serious environmental problems have emerged, especially the issue of greenhouse gas emissions. We explore the heterogeneity effect of marketization and sub-market perfection levels on China's provincial carbon emis...

The participation of private capital in the mixed ownership reform of SOEs is an important measure to maintain and increase the value of state-owned assets. From the theoretical perspective of sharing economy, this paper uses Chinese data to study the impact of private enterprise participation on the high quality of state-owned mixed enterprises. T...

This article provides a case study of the historical process of the reception of an eminent aspect of pre-modern Chinese music theory in Western scholarship: The music-theoretical works of Zhu Zaiyu 朱载堉 (1536–1611), often considered as the greatest theorist in the history of Chinese music, are discussed in relation to their initial Western receptio...

The concept of wen 文 has multiple meanings, but it plays an exceptionally important role in the development of Confucianism and Chinese philosophical terms. Pre-Qin Confucianism 先秦儒学 and Song Confucianism (Song dynasty Neo-Confucians 宋代儒学/宋代新儒家) are two important representatives in the history of Confucianism. Confucius has insisted that although t...

With the continuous development and innovation of domestic education, the fervor of home schooling in China has been increasing in recent years, and the issue of the legality of home schooling has received more and more attention. This paper briefly summarizes the social situation of home schooling in contemporary China and explores attitudes towar...

This study contributes to environmental research by establishing a four-step research framework for analyzing city tourists’ low-carbon travel intentions and developing a low-carbon travel promotion (LTP) index. The purpose is to explore how perceived convenience of various low-carbon transport modes impacts low-carbon travel intentions of tourists...