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The impact of confidence verse calligraphy practice on self-efficacy in skill-accurate athletes

open access: yesAsian Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology
The unique physical and psychological benefits of Chinese calligraphy practice (i.e., relaxing the body, soothing anxiety, facilitating mind flow, and enhancing self-control) are well-suited to athletes and sports contexts, but calligraphy interventions ...
Xin Yue   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Gender, Families, and Wealth Accumulation Among the One‐Child Generation

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Prior literature on gender and wealth accumulation largely examines the role of families in reproducing inequalities. However, less attention has been paid to families without sons, a significant demographic, particularly within China's one‐child generation, that challenges conventional understandings of familial wealth dynamics.
Ye Liu
wiley   +1 more source

Seeing Clearly or Bracing for Impact? The Tug‐of‐War Between Neutrality and Conservatism in Financial Reporting Voir clair ou se préparer à l'impact? Le bras de fer entre neutralité et conservatisme en matière d'information financière

open access: yesAccounting Perspectives, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A long‐standing debate exists between neutrality and conservatism in financial reporting. This debate has gained momentum following the 2010 FASB decision to remove the term conservatism from its Conceptual Framework. While neutrality is now promoted as a cornerstone of faithful representation, conservatism remains embedded in numerous ...
Rahat Jafri   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Gendering the medium of writing: material cultural choices and identity expression in Chinese female calligraphy in the song dynasty

open access: yesCogent Arts & Humanities
This study focuses on the gender characteristics of writing media in female calligraphy creation in the Song Dynasty. It uses the perspective of material culture to analyze the gender coding and scene norms of writing tools and carriers and examines ...
Yijing Zhang
doaj   +1 more source

Rise of the south: How Arab‐led maritime trade transformed China, 671–1371 CE

open access: yesAsia‐Pacific Economic History Review, Volume 65, Issue 1, Page 3-38, March 2025.
Abstract China's center of socioeconomic activities was in the North prior to the Tang dynasty but is in the South today. We demonstrate that Arab and Persian Muslim traders triggered that transition when they came to China in the late seventh century, by lifting maritime trade along the South Coast and re‐creating the South.
Zhiwu Chen, Zhan Lin, Kaixiang Peng
wiley   +1 more source

Contemporary reinventions of Chinese calligraphy. A semiotic exploration

open access: yes
Chinese calligraphy can be semiotically approached from its contemporary transformations, in an historical moment of cultural revival and media popularity.
Giacomo Festi, Weihuan Hou
core   +1 more source

A de-noising method based on L0 gradient minimization and guided filter for ancient Chinese calligraphy works on steles

open access: yesEURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing, 2019
A clear stele image of ancient Chinese calligraphy pieces is very useful for studying ancient Chinese calligraphy. However, due to hundreds of or even thousands of years of natural or artificial damage on stele, images of ancient Chinese stele ...
Feihang Ge, Lifeng He
doaj   +1 more source

Does It Matter? Information Releases Before Versus After Trading Hours

open access: yesEuropean Financial Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper shows that for firms in Pacific time zone of the United States, the effect on weekly returns from overnight returns would be 23% stronger than firms in Eastern time zone. This asymmetrical impact is documented to be associated with degrees of information transparency due to firm's different timings of information releases.
Ming‐Che Hu, Alex YiHou Huang
wiley   +1 more source

Embodied Hermeneutics and the Challenge of Intercultural Understanding: Insights from Chinese Traditions

open access: yesThe Heythrop Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Efforts to understand unfamiliar philosophical and religious traditions are often constrained by hermeneutical limitations rooted in the dominance of Western conceptual frameworks. This paper advances embodied hermeneutics as a general model for intercultural understanding—one that grounds interpretation in lived and material expressions of ...
Victoria S. Harrison
wiley   +1 more source

Reconceptualising Motivation as Material‐Semiotic Entanglements: Translanguaging in Graduate TESOL Education

open access: yesInternational Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Multilingual students in Anglophone universities often operate in survival mode. While translanguaging supports learning, critical gaps remain in understanding how translanguaging pedagogies transform and sustain motivation in English‐dominant contexts.
Melissa Jufenna Slamet, Julie Choi
wiley   +1 more source

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