Our focus on Classical China has thus far been primarily on the areas of political and intellectual history, and we have relied very heavily on narrative sources. However, the Shiji, which was written a century after the close of the Classical age, and subsequent early Imperial histories give us a considerable amount of information concerning issues of economics: tax and landholding patterns, i...

Literature review has found that despite the considerable attention focused on ‘digital natives’, few studies have carefully investigated the characteristics of this group. The purpose of this study is to contribute to the debate on digital natives by providing a ‘piece of evidence’ on the digital competence status of a group of Chinese teenagers (ninth grade students) randomly selected from th...

South China Sea Takes Center Stage At the Fourth Annual Symposium of the International Pacific Research Center, several researchers presented their recent findings on South China Sea climate. A group has now formed under the leadership of IPRC’s Tangdong Qu to coordinate the research in this important climate region. The following pages feature the discovery of how the play among winds, ocean, ...

Modernizing China’s Growth Paradigm China has achieved tremendous economic progress in the last three decades, but there is much work to be done to make the economy resilient to large shocks, ensure the sustainability of its growth, and translate this growth into corresponding improvements in the economic welfare of its citizens. We discuss the complex challenges that Chinese policymakers face ...

The East China Sea (ECS) is a region with shallow continental shelves and a mixed oceanic circulation system allowing sediments to deposit on its inner shelf, particularly near the estuary of the Yangtze River. The seasonal northward-flowing Taiwan Warm Current and southward-flowing China Coastal Current trap sediments from the Yangtze River, which are accumulated over time at rates of up to a ...

China has achieved tremendous economic progress in the last three decades, but there is much work to be done to make the economy resilient to large shocks, ensure the sustainability of its growth, and translate this growth into corresponding improvements in the economic welfare of its citizens. We discuss the complex challenges that Chinese policymakers face in striking the right balance in ter...

In a diet, probiotics and prebiotics play an important role in regulating the immune response function through the intestinal microbiota, which in turn affects the immune system. While probiotics have been shown to reduce diseases, such as the flu, which is a respiratory infection. The National Health Commission of China and the National Bureau of Traditional Medicine of China recommend that pr...

this study is to report characteristics of people killed in road traffic crashes and to describe major patterns of traffic crashes in china.descriptive and inferential statistical analyses were conducted. road traffic death national data, population denominator data and motor vehicles data of 2009 were obtained from the bureau of traffic management at ministry of public security and national bu...

background: encephalitozoon cuniculi is a microsporidian parasite commonly found in rabbits that can infect humans, causing encephalitozoonosis. our objective in this study was to evaluate the seroprevalence of this parasite in rabbits and humans in china. methods: overall, 300 serum samples each from clinically healthy rabbit and hu-man were collected from three regions of china (sichuan provi...

Tomato yellow leaf curl China virus (TYLCCNV) is a monopartite begomovirus associated with different betasatellites. In this study, we investigate two different isolates of Tomato yellow leaf curl China betasatellite (TYLCCNB) to determine what features of the viral genome are required for induction of characteristic phenotypic differences between closely-related betasatellite. When co-agroinoc...