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Linguistic Hauntings at the Margins of China

open access: yesJournal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 29, Issue 4, Page 237-249, September 2025.
ABSTRACT This study examines emotional and material traces lingering in the aftermath of forced linguistic landscape transformations in Inner Mongolia following the implementation of a new assimilationist national language policy in 2022. Drawing on ethnographic and linguistic landscape data, the study specifically examines how the multilingual signs ...
Gegentuul Baioud
wiley   +1 more source

Tungsten in the Second World War: China, Japan, Germany, the Allies and Iberia

open access: yesComillas Journal of International Relations, 2017
This article studies the production, legal and illegal trade, and provisioning of strategic mineral wolfram/tungsten both by the Allies and the Axis during World War II.
Joan Maria Thomàs
doaj   +1 more source

Art as a Channel and Embodiment of Symbolic Interaction Between Migrants and Non‐Migrants

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, Volume 48, Issue 3, Page 410-440, August 2025.
Many non‐migrant politicians, journalists, and scholars in migrant‐destination societies often represent migrants with self‐interested objectives and in specific instrumental ways based on stereotypes. Yet research on symbolic interaction reveals migrants are not passive victims.
Jacob Thomas
wiley   +1 more source

Wartime China’s Resistance against Japanese Aggression: Changing Interpretations and Perspectives [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
In 1931, Japan invaded Manchuria and established the puppet state of Manchukuo in northeast China. Hoping to avoid an all-out war with Japan, China pursued a policy of appeasement and did not resist the occupation of China.
Fortin, Jason, Pagliarini, Tom
core   +1 more source

Developmental Dictatorship in East Asia as Model for Africa? The Era Park Chung‐hee in South Korea (1963–1979) in Comparison to the Era Paul Kagame in Rwanda (2000–Today)

open access: yesSouth African Journal of Economics, Volume 93, Issue 2, Page 171-182, June 2025.
ABSTRACT Rwanda is among the fastest‐growing economies in Sub‐Saharan Africa, often discussed in the context of a ‘development state’. This paper examines whether Rwanda can be classified as a ‘developmental dictatorship’, a term closely associated with South Korea. It compares Rwanda's development under Paul Kagame (2000–2024) with South Korea's under
Ralph Wrobel
wiley   +1 more source

Foreign Historiography of China’s Foreign Policy [PDF]

open access: yesВосточная Азия: факты и аналитика
The foreign historiography of China's foreign policy is dominated by the works of American scholars. This situation did not develop immediately and can be explained by several reasons.
Portyakov V.Ya.
doaj   +1 more source

Exporting Hyperinflation: The Long Arm of Chiang Kai-shek [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
As mainland China's inflationary spiral accelerated in 1947-1949 there was a massive outflow of funds to the island of Taiwan. The exporting of China's hyperinflation was facilitated by the fixed, overvalued, exchange rate between the mainland Chinese ...
Burdekin, Richard C.K.   +1 more
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Monolithic Chinese political culture?: A cross‐regional exploration

open access: yesSocial Science Quarterly, Volume 105, Issue 5, Page 1457-1473, September 2024.
Abstract Objective This article explores whether authoritarian China has a monolithic political culture, or rather a set of somewhat different political cultures across a number of regions. Method On the basis of several criteria we deem particularly important for identifying regions within which development, communication, and socialization of ...
Robert Harmel   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Image of Taiwan as a Travel Destination: Perspectives from Mainland China [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This study presents the perceived and projected image of Taiwan as a travel destination from perspectives from Mainland China. The perceived image of Taiwan was examined by interviewing 28 Mainland Chinese; the projected image of Taiwan was investigated ...
Baloglu S.   +12 more
core   +1 more source

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