Americans place a greater emphasis on emotional moderation. To assess whether such cultural differences influence actual emotional responding, we compared the physiological responses and reported affect of 22 Chinese American and 20 European American college-age dating couples in an interpersonal context, that is, during conversations about areas of conflict in their relationship. Although some...

In July this year, China’s Ministry of Health (MoH) commissioned an independent external mid-term review of progress in its current health system reform (HSR), itself designed after unprecedented input from six external agencies and the general public (1,2). In its draft report, as yet unreleased, the six-member team of eminent reviewers praises the leadership and financial commitment demonstra...

This paper aims to investigate the subtle nuances of meaning of two Chinese particles “guo1” and “guo2” as well as their different functions in Chinese temporal system. Two technical terms, “tense” and “aspect”, in traditional Chinese grammar are reconsidered in terms of the nature of these two concepts and the criteria to distinguish them. It is argued that in traditional Chinese grammar, “ten...

Though recent adult immigrants often seem less acculturated to their new society than people who immigrated as children, it is not clear whether this difference is driven by duration of exposure or exposure during a sensitive developmental period. In a study aimed at disambiguating these influences, community and student samples of Hong Kong immigrants to Vancouver, Canada, completed the Vancou...

This article examines the role of nationalism in shaping Chinese foreign policy in the history of contemporary China over the last 100 years. Nationalism is used here as an analytical term, rather than in the usual popular pejorative sense. By tracing the various expressions of contemporary Chinese nationalism, this article argues that nationalism is one of the key enduring driving forces which...

Common Chinese characters between Japanese and Chinese have been proved to be effective in Japanese-Chinese phrase alignment. Besides common Chinese characters, Japanese and Chinese also share many other semantically equivalent Chinese characters. However, there are no available resources for this kind of Chinese characters. In this paper, we propose a statistical method aiming to detect these ...

Under the rapid development of sharing economy, performance is important for the prosperity of this innovative commercial model. However, the performance in sharing economy is less discussed in the academic field. Revenue and occupancy rate are widely applied as two ideal measures of performance in hospitality market. This study tries to fill the research gaps with both two measurements. Based ...

This paper examines the characteristics and growth of Chinese environmental sociology and then predicts future developments. The authors argue that the development of environmental sociology in China can be divided into two phases: its spontaneous introduction and research without a clear disciplinary consciousness prior to the mid 1990s, and then intentional research and its construction with ...