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Chinese Cities (chinese + city)
Selected AbstractsConference on the Furure of Chinese Cities: A Research Agenda for the 21st CenturyINTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF URBAN AND REGIONAL RESEARCH, Issue 1 2000Nancy C. Netting No abstract is available for this article. [source] Restructuring the Chinese City: Changing Society, Economy and Space, edited by Laurence J. C. Ma and Fulong WuJOURNAL OF REGIONAL SCIENCE, Issue 3 2006Mark Henderson No abstract is available for this article. [source] Chinese Consumers' Attitudes Toward U.S.- and PRC-Made Clothing: From a Cultural PerspectiveFAMILY & CONSUMER SCIENCES RESEARCH JOURNAL, Issue 1 2002Dong Shen To investigate the role of acculturation variables (Western behavioral adoption, adherence to traditional values) in explaining Chinese consumers' attitudes toward U.S.-made and PRC-made clothing, 3,000 consumers from large Chinese cities were surveyed. Responses were received from 870 men and 999 women. Results of a paired sample t test revealed that Chinese consumers' attitudes toward U.S.-made clothing were more favorable than attitudes toward PRC-made clothing. In addition, results of simple regression analyses revealed a positive relationship between attitudes toward U.S.-made clothing and Western behavioral adoption and a negative relationship between attitudes toward PRC-made clothing and Western behavioral adoption. In a related way, simple regression analyses revealed a negative relationship between attitudes toward U.S.-made clothing and degree of adherence to traditional Chinese values and a positive relationship between attitudes toward PRC-made clothing and degree of adherence to traditional values. Implications and ideas for future research are also addressed. [source] Characterization of hepatitis B virus reverse transcriptase sequences in Chinese treatment naive patientsJOURNAL OF GASTROENTEROLOGY AND HEPATOLOGY, Issue 8 2009Yue Han Abstract Background and Aims:, The hepatitis B virus (HBV) reverse transcriptase (RT) plays an important role in viral replication. The aim of the present study was to characterize profiles of the RT region and to construct a database for further studies. Methods:, Serum samples were obtained from 328 treatment naive patients chronically infected with HBV in five Chinese cities. Mutation status, genotypes and deep sequence analysis were carried out by amplifying and sequencing the RT region. Results:, The base usage in the RT region differed at the mono- and dinucleotide level and thymidine dominated. The higher the variability of the strain was, the more it replicated. No significant clustering was found between our HBV RT sequences and those isolated 10 years ago (achieved from genebank). Nucleotide analogue resistance related mutants exist. The M204V/I mutation was found in 1.8% of the strains, 1.2% had L180M+ M204V/I, 0.6% had A181T/V, and only one had all three mutations. Minor strain mutants were found in 9.3% of the samples studied. The genotype B patients made up 36.6% (88.7% B2) and were mostly found in southern China, 63.4% (92.2% C2) were genotype C, and only one was genotype D. The average age of HBeAg positive genotype B patients was 29.5 ± 10.4 years, for genotype C it was 36.1 ± 10.9 (P < 0.001). Conclusion:, Primarily antiviral resistance related mutant strains do exist in treatment naïve patients. Without antiviral pressure, HBV strains evolved at a normal speed. In depth sequence analysis implied that viral replication might be correlated with its variability, which needs to be further investigated. [source] Multinational Retailers in China: Proliferating ,McJobs' or Developing Skills?*JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES, Issue 7 2006Jos Gamble abstract Much has been written on the nature of skills and the extent to which there is increased skills development or a deskilling of workers in modern workplaces. This paper broadens the debate and explores these issues in the novel context of UK- and Japanese- invested retailers' operations in China. Data derived from over two hundred interviews at twelve retail stores in six Chinese cities and questionnaires completed by almost eight hundred employees elicited contextualized accounts of interactive service workers' own perceptions of their training and skills development. It was found that these firms made a substantial contribution to skills development, fostered and enhanced both directly by company training and also through experiential workplace-based learning. It might be, however, that this constitutes an essential but ,one-off' increase in skills in transitional economies such as that of China. [source] Determinants of Chinese consumers' green purchase behaviorPSYCHOLOGY & MARKETING, Issue 4 2001Ricky Y. K. Chan This study examines the influence of various cultural and psychological factors on the green purchase behavior of Chinese consumers. To this end, a conceptual model has been proposed and subjected to empirical verification with the use of a survey. The survey results obtained in two major Chinese cities provide reasonable support for the validity of the proposed model. Specifically, the findings from the structural-equation modeling confirm the influence of the subjects' man,nature orientation, degree of collectivism, ecological affect, and marginally, ecological knowledge, on their attitudes toward green purchases. Their attitudes toward green purchases, in turn, are also seen to affect their green purchase behavior via the mediator of green purchase intention. Although the present findings provide a better understanding of the process and significant antecedents of green purchasing, they also highlight two areas for more thorough investigation. These are the exact role of ecological knowledge in Chinese consumers' green purchasing process and the underlying factors that account for their low level of green purchase. This study also discusses how the present findings may help the Chinese government and green marketers to fine-tune their environmental programs. © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. [source] Global-local initiatives in FDI: The experience of Shenzhen, ChinaASIA PACIFIC VIEWPOINT, Issue 2 2004Mark Yaolin Wang Abstract:,In 2002, China surpassed the USA to become the world's largest foreign investment destination. Many Chinese cities, especially those along the coast, have become hot spots for Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). The urban development of these Chinese cities, as in most market societies, has increasingly depended upon their global connections. However, it is unclear to what degree the governments of these cities are able to influence the decisions of foreign investors. This paper uses Shenzhen city as a case study to examine how multi-nationals' spatial and sectoral patterns have been changed over time and to what degree the local government has been able to influence multinationals' locational and sectoral selection. It is concluded that Shenzhen has managed to create a strategy to maximise its ability to benefit from global economic forces and to attract multinational manufacturers in the locality, and particularly in increasing its target sector of technology-intensive industry. This case study demonstrates the importance of a strong city government in managing growth and reacting decisively to globalisation. [source] "THEY COME IN PEASANTS AND LEAVE CITIZENS": Urban Villages and the Making of Shenzhen, ChinaCULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY, Issue 3 2010JONATHAN BACH ABSTRACT This essay examines the ongoing process of postsocialist transformation at the intersection of cultural and economic forces in an urban environment through the example of the so-called "urban villages"(chengzhongcun) in Shenzhen, China, a booming southern Chinese city and former Special Economic Zone next to Hong Kong. This essay ethnographically examines the role of former rural collectives encircled by a city that has exploded from farmland to an export-driven city of over 14 million people in little over one generation. These villages form an internal other that is both the antithesis and the condition of possibility for Shenzhen city. By co-opting the market economy in ways that weave them into the fabric of the contemporary global city, the villages become as much an experiment as the Special Economic Zone itself. This essay analyzes the urban,rural divide as complicit in each other's continued production and effacement and explores how village and city exploit the ambiguities of their juxtaposition in the making of Shenzhen. [source] | |||||||||||||