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"This book considers the changing nature of intimacy in contemporary China, providing a unique case study of romantic subjectivities in young people in the world's fastest growing economy. Since the implementation of reform in 1978, the economic and socio-cultural environment of modern China has experienced a dramatic transformation under the influence of urbanization and globalization, facilitating more individualized identity among Chinese youth. This book bridges the gap between an emergent emphasis on individualisation and the country's traditional norms and values. It focuses on young people's understandings of various forms of relationships such as cohabitation, extramarital relationships and multiple relationships, suggesting a challenge to traditional familial values and an increasingly diversified understanding of the concepts of love and romance. By examining the formation of relationships among 21st century Chinese youth, notably through the lens of popular Chinese TV dating programs, this book considers how dating and relationships mirror China's changing societal structure and examines social and cultural transformations in Chinese society. "--

This article examines the changing ethics in dating and personal relationships of a group of young Chinese people born at the beginning of the economic reform era (1978 to present), which feeds into a broader project of investigating the romantic subjectivity of Chinese youth facing sociocultural change in the post-reform era. Based on data generated in semi-structured interviews, an emerging individualised and private personal ethics is observed, which challenges the monopoly of marriage towards sexual practices, and connotes a changing sexuality emphasising the fulfilment of sexual pleasure rather than procreation purposes. Chinese youth often embrace individual freedoms and choices facilitated by the free market economy and consumerist culture, while at the same time draw on (a sometimes new understanding of) traditional familial values in order to pursue personal happiness in a modernising society and gain an identity as Chinese in a globalising era.

This study investigates how monetary policies impacted China's capital (stock and bond) markets during 2010–16 by employing the dynamic conditional correlation GARCH (DCC-GARCH) model. The results indicate that both the 2013 credit crisis and the 2015 stock market crash are closely related to monetary policies. In 2013, excessive lending in the banking sector and the government's monetary policies affected the bond market. Consequently, the credit crisis occurred in the bond market and then expanded to the stock market. To solve the problem of money shortages, the government began to use traditional monetary policies and new monetary instruments to frequently release liquidity. The released liquidity quickly entered capital markets, causing an investment frenzy on the stock market, increasing risk and eventually resulting in a stock market crash. Furthermore, although the co-movement between capital markets changed over time, it would maintain positive or negative correlation for a period. Therefore, when the government implements policies in either of the markets, these policies not only affect the target market, but also impact the other market through their co-movement. (China/GIGA)

"In August 1966, a 14-year-old boy in Beijing is thrust into violence and chaos as Mao Ze-dong's Cultural Revolution begins to blaze across China. In this riveting memoir, Wei Yang Chao now tells his story--how rebels attacked and publicly humiliated his family, upended his education, and sent out into a the country rendered unrecognizable by violence and radical ideology. At first he is swept up by the Red Guards but finds himself at the center of a bloody revolution. After mass rallies at Tiananmen Square, he witnesses attacks on teachers and professors, and the disintegration of his parents' lives as tolerance and freedom begin to crumble he finds himself cast into exile"--Amazon.com

We adopted a two-way analysis of variance to evaluate the effect of positive and negative message framing and consumers' regulatory focus (promotion- and prevention-focused) on the perceived credibility of electronic word-of-mouth (eWOM) and purchase intention. Participants were 344
adults in Taiwan aged between 20 and 60 years. Results show that (a) prevention-focused (vs. promotion-focused) consumers perceived eWOM had greater credibility when they were presented with a negatively framed message, (b) negative (vs. positive) message framing increased the perceived credibility
of eWOM for prevention-focused consumers, (c) promotion-focused (vs. preventionfocused) consumers had a stronger purchase intention when presented with a positively framed message, and (d) both prevention- and promotion-focused consumers had stronger purchase intention when exposed to a positively
(vs. negatively) framed message. Our findings may provide a reference for companies to establish a set of eWOM marketing strategies.

Trip mode inference plays an important role in transportation planning and management. Most studies in the field have focused on the methods based on GPS data collected from mobile devices. While these methods can achieve relatively high accuracy, they also have drawbacks in data quantity, coverage, and computational complexity. This paper develops a trip mode inference method based on mobile phone signaling data. The method mainly consists of three parts: activity-nodes recognition, travel-time computation, and clustering using the Logarithm Gaussian Mixed Model. Moreover, we compare two other methods (i.e., Gaussian Mixed Model and K-Means) with the Logarithm Gaussian Mixed Model. We conduct experiments using real mobile phone signaling data in Shanghai and the results show that the proposed method can obtain acceptable accuracy overall. This study provides an important opportunity to infer trip mode from the aspect of probability using mobile phone signaling data.

We adopted a 2 × 2 mixed experimental design to control for form of corporate social responsibility (CSR), advertising message claims (single message vs. multiple message), and levels of advertising skepticism (high vs. low), to elucidate how these influence advertising preferences
and advertising credibility. On the basis of data collected from 320 participants (152 men and 168 women), 4 significant findings were obtained: (a) The form of message claims in CSR advertisements affects advertising preference and advertising credibility, (b) levels of advertising skepticism
affect advertising preference and advertising credibility, (c) consumers with high advertising skepticism exhibit advertising skepticism toward CSR advertisements with single-message claims, (d) consumers with low advertising skepticism exhibit preference for CSR advertisements with multiple-message
claims. Our findings suggest that enterprises should plan advertisement content carefully when promoting their CSR activities because exaggerated or understated content triggers doubt in consumers' minds.

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