MENCIUS\u27 JUN-ZI, ARISTOTLE\u27S MEGALOPSUCHOS, & MORAL DEMANDS TO HELP THE GLOBAL POOR [PDF]
, 2012 It is commonly believed that impartial utilitarian moral theories have significant demands that we help the global poor, and that the partial virtue ethics of Mencius and Aristotle do not.
Walsh, Sean
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BMC Public Health, 2022 Background Exposure to famine during early life is related to several adverse health outcomes in adulthood, but the effect of famine exposure during adolescence is unclear.
Ning Sun +10 more
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The relationship of female physical attractiveness to body fatness [PDF]
, 2015 Funding This work was supported by NSFC grant 91431102 from the National Science Foundation of China. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
Diouf, Adama +13 more
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Introduction: Food, Famine, and the Chinese State
The Journal of Asian Studies, 1982 This article delineates new approaches to the study of food and famine in Chinese history. Drawing primarily from the three other articles in the symposium, the author asks in what ways the Chinese state, primarily in the high Qing period, affected population growth, agricultural production, natural cycles, and food distribution, and what a historical ...
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The Lasting Impact of Mothers’ Fetal Malnutrition on Their Offspring: Evidence from the China Great Leap Forward Famine [PDF]
We find that second-generation effects of in utero and early childhood malnutrition on the school participation of the offspring of mothers who experienced the China Great Leap Forward Famine..
Belton M. Fleisher +3 more
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The association between early-life famine exposure and adulthood risk of thyroid diseases
Frontiers in NutritionBackgroundEarly-life exposure to famine is associated with an increased risk of various metabolic disorders. Nevertheless, evidence regarding its long-term effects on thyroid function and disease risk in older adulthood remains scarce.
Li Liu +8 more
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Surviving the Famine Unscathed? An Analysis of the Long‐Term Health Effects of the Great Chinese Famine [PDF]
Southern Economic Journal, 2019 We study the long‐term health effects of the Chinese Famine of 1959–1961 on five cohorts of individuals exposed to it at different stages of their early lives. Based on a 2011 national survey, we use instrumental variables to estimate the impact of the Famine on various health and lifestyle indicators for the whole sample and for the female and male ...
Cheng, Wenli, Shi, Hui
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Gender difference in the long-term impact of famine: [PDF]
"An increasing literature examines the association between restricted fetal or early childhood growth and the incidence of diseases in adulthood. Little is known, however, about gender difference in this association.
Mu, Ren, Zhang, Xiaobo
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Encountering China: the evolution of Timothy Richard's missionary thought (1870-1891) [PDF]
, 2019 In pursuit of the conversion of others, cross-cultural missionaries often experience their own “conversions.” This thesis explores the ways in which one particular missionary, the Welshman Timothy Richard (1845–1919), was transformed by his encounter ...
Ireland, Daryl
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Reflections on the role of institutions on the Chinese road to a market economy [PDF]
, 2004 At the onset of transformation there has been a close to consensus view that the market system has no alternative. While this insight has found its place in the current mainstream on development economics, the so-called Washington consensus or post ...
Csaba, László
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