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Rural-to-Urban Transition in Chongqing’s Hinterland: State-Led Urbanisation or Urbanisation From Below?

open access: yesJournal of Current Chinese Affairs, 2020
Since 2014 the Chinese state has been pushing for “new-style urbanisation.” Its main goals are accelerated urban–rural integration, development of small-to-medium cities and towns, and a “people-centered” urbanisation, all while limiting movement towards
Florian Thünken
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A Journey Between Science and the Arts: Templates for the Depiction of the Pineapple (Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries)

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Native to America, the pineapple—Ananas comosus (L.) Merr.—delighted the Europeans who came across it. The fruit was mentioned by the voyagers and missionaries who observed and tasted it in the Americas and, from the 1500s onwards, infused reports, chronicles and natural history treatises with colour and flavour.
Teresa Nobre de Carvalho
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The Birth of Sinology and the Contributions of Spain

open access: yesSinología hispánica. China Studies Review, 2022
El término “sinología” tiene su origen a finales del siglo XVII y principios del siglo XVIII. Desde entonces, innumerables misioneros se fusionaron en China sin prejuicios, lo que no solo trajo “Difusión hacia el este del aprendizaje occidental hacia ...
Yan Chunde
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Worlding geography, area studies and the study of area

open access: yesTransactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 50, Issue 4, December 2025.
Abstract This paper introduces the collection of five short papers written by scholars from Egypt, Russia, Singapore, China and South Africa that advance this journal's ‘Geography in the World’ initiative through a more robust engagement between geography and area studies.
Han Cheng, Deen Sharp
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Sinology Education & Traditional Chinese Cultural Heritage: Lotus Pond Sinology Society of Hebei University (HBU), China [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Shirley Yang's poster about Hebei University, Baoding Lotus Pond Academy, and Lotus Pond Sinology ...
Yang, Shirley
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Global China's spatial ambition and area studies with geography

open access: yesTransactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 50, Issue 4, December 2025.
Abstract This paper critically evaluates the contemporary remaking of China's area studies and world geography as part of a nationalist project of spatial knowledge production, by examining an emerging landscape of individuals, institutions and ideologies. Two arguments are made.
Han Cheng
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Peace with Chinese characteristics in concept and conduct

open access: yesCogent Social Sciences
Peace studies have thrived on liberal norms. A liberal vs. illiberal divide occurred with the re-emergence of illiberal actors promoting alternative concepts. Peace with Chinese Characteristics is one of them as informed by Confucianist thinking, but how
Josie-Marie Perkuhn
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The Development and Usage of the Overseas Sinology Database

open access: yesData Science Journal, 2007
The Overseas Sinology Database is composed of three databases: scholar, organization, and journal. The thesis database is regard as separate and is attached to the scholar database. The database information comes from major areas of the world, especially
Ling Bao
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Mastering the Body: Reading a Discourse of Embodiment in the Zhuangzi

open access: yesReligion Compass, Volume 19, Issue 10-12, October-December 2025.
ABSTRACT The Zhuangzi is one of the most well‐known early Chinese classics. Subversive and iconoclastic, both in terms of its subject matter and narrative style, the text has profoundly influenced the intellectual and literary history of East Asia. First introduced to the West in the late nineteenth century as an early “Daoist” classic, the Zhuangzi ...
Lana Ko
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Between Sinology and Japanology: Léon de Rosny and Oriental Studies in France

open access: yesJournal of Cultural Interaction in East Asia, 2021
This contribution on Léon de Rosny 羅尼 (1837–1914), the founder of modern Japanese Studies in France, deals with the trajectory of his formation and track record in Chinese and Japanese Studies.
Willy. F. VANDE WALLE
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