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2015 - Vol.10 Issue 2 |
Volume 10 - Issue 2 - 2015
Chinese and Chinese American Life-Writing Through a comparison of Chinese and Chinese American (auto)biographical accounts, this article facilitates a transpacific literary exchange that tracks cultural persistence and diffusion, offers a transnational perspective on the alleged absence of indigenous Chinese autobiography and the controversial use of fake "Orientalist" material in Chinese American life-writing, and highlights the need for bicultural literacy in grappling with this literature.... full Text (pdf)
Does social class affect nutrition knowledge and food preferences among Chinese urban adults The purpose of this article is to analyse the influence of social class on nutrition knowledge and food preferences among Chinese urban adults with an emphasis on the middle class. First, we propose a multidimensional definition of social class that combines income, occupation and education.We highlight the heterogeneity of the Chinese middle class with four distinct groups: the elderly and inactive middle class, the old middle class, the lower middle class and the new middle class. ... full Text (pdf)
Erasing the Dead in Kaixiangong Ancestry and Cultural Transforms in Southern China This article is based on a re-reading of the classical field monograph on Jiangsu Province, written by Fei Xiaotong in the 1930s. It highlights the forms of ancestral worship that prevailed there, forms that from a comparative perspective seem at odds with more general views on the topic. The ethnography is weak but suggestive, indicating a cultural strategy in which the dead were transformed from being benign ancestors into being efficacious gods.... full Text (pdf)
Study on Evaluation and Influence Factors of Floating Population Social Integration in Changsha-Zhuzhou-Xiangtan According to the data of floating population dynamic monitoring survey organized by National Population and Family Planning Commission of China, floating population social integration in Changsha-Zhuzhou-Xiangtan is evaluated and its influence factors are analyzed on factor analysis and OLS econometric model. ... full Text (pdf)
A Pragmatic Study on Refusal Strategies by Chinese College Nursing Majors The purpose of this study is to investigate the refusal strategies employed by Chinese college nursing majors, which is studied in the framework of speech acts theory, cooperative principle, face theory and politeness principle.The survey is carried out among a portion of students from Shanghai Institute of Health Science in the form of DCT Questionnaire. ... full Text (pdf) |
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