scholarly journals Records of sunspot and aurora activity during 581–959 CE in Chinese official histories concerning the periods of Suí, Táng, and the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms

2017 ◽  
Vol 69 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Harufumi Tamazawa ◽  
Akito Davis Kawamura ◽  
Hisashi Hayakawa ◽  
Asuka Tsukamoto ◽  
Hiroaki Isobe ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Five Dynasties ◽  
Chinese Official

Chinese official finance and political participation in Africa

2021 ◽  
pp. 103741
Author(s):  
Francesco Iacoella ◽  
Bruno Martorano ◽  
Laura Metzger ◽  
Marco Sanfilippo
Keyword(s):  
Political Participation ◽  
Chinese Official

scholarly journals Design Factors Extraction and Application of Five Dynasties Yaozhou Porcelain Decoration

2018 ◽  
Vol 176 ◽  
pp. 02016
Author(s):  
Qin Song ◽  
Wang Yi
Keyword(s):  
Difference Method ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Innovation Development ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Five Dynasties ◽  
Semantic Difference ◽  
Recessive Genes ◽  
Design Perspective ◽  
Creative Products ◽  
Design Factors

For the better development of Yaozhou Kiln, the article is proposed a research method about cultural and creative products based on the example of extracting the lotus patterns on the Yanzhou Kiln in the Five Dynasties. By collecting data and extracting forms, through the combination of qualitative and quantitative, it mines the obscure information of the Yaozhou porcelain ornamentation in the Five Dynasties. The article analyzes the form evaluations of the 18 representative lotus patterns in the Five Dynasties by semantic difference method, extracts their stylized inheritance and recessive genes and makes the conclusion to guide the cultural and creative products design of the Yaozhou Kiln, which not only supplies a fresh design perspective for the innovation development of the famous domestic traditional kilns as a reference, but also a useful supplements for the research of the design art methodology.

scholarly journals IMPORTANT LESSONS FROM STUDYING THE CHINESE ECONOMY

2010 ◽  
Vol 55 (03) ◽  
pp. 419-434 ◽  
Author(s):  
GREGORY C. CHOW
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
Chinese Economy ◽  
Economic Science ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
Economic Advice ◽  
Chinese Official ◽  
The Government ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Official Data

In 1979 the United States and China established normal diplomatic relations, allowing me to visit China and study the Chinese economy. After doing so for 30 years since and advising the government of Taiwan in the 1960s and the 1970s and the government of the People's Republic of China in the 1980s and the 1990s, this is an opportune moment for me to summarize the important lessons I have learned. The lessons will be summarized in four parts: on economic science, on formulating economic policy and providing economic advice, on the special characteristics of the Chinese economy and on the experience of China's economic reform. At the beginning, I should comment on the quality of Chinese official data on which almost all quantitative studies referred to in this article were based. Chow (2006) has presented the view that by and large the official data are useful and fairly accurate. The main justification is that every time I tested an economic hypothesis or estimated an economic relation using the official data the result confirmed the well-established economic theory. It would be a miracle if I had the power to make the Chinese official statisticians fabricate data to support my hypotheses. Even if I had had the power, most of the data had already been published for years before I conceived the ideas of the studies reported in this article.

scholarly journals THE YASUKUNI SHRINE PROBLEM IN THE EAST ASIAN CONTEXT: RELIGION AND POLITICS IN MODERN JAPAN

2009 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 235-251
Author(s):  
Okuyama Michiaki
Keyword(s):  
East Asian ◽  
Religion And Politics ◽  
Chinese Government ◽  
Documentary Films ◽  
Court Cases ◽  
War Criminals ◽  
Chinese Official ◽  
Asian Context ◽  
Yasukuni Shrine ◽  
Asian People

The problem of issues surrounding Yasukuni Shrine is one of the main topics in religion and politics in contemporary Japan. This paper tries to approach the Yasukuni Shrine problem, first by contextualizing this problem in the East Asian settings, then by reviewing the recent court cases surrounding Yasukuni Shrine, and finally by commenting on two documentary films focusing on this problem. Examining the reactions by the Chinese government to the visits paid by Japanese politicians since the mid-1970s shows that these visits, to the place where the class A war criminals are enshrined, has been regarded in the Chinese official view as offensive to the victims of the aggressive wars of Japan. The recent court cases targeting mainly the former Prime Minister Koizumi’s repeated visits to Yasukuni Shrine are worth special attention because they have involved Koreans and Taiwanese besides Japanese as the plaintiffs. These cases have presented constitutional points of dispute for both Japanese and other Asian people. These situations have set the backdrop of the production and screening of the documentary films, Annyong, Sayonara (2005), and Yasukuni (2007). These two films illustrate not only the current problem of Yasukuni Shrine but also the surrounding setting of this problem in East Asia.

scholarly journals Tracking Underreported Financial Flows: China’s Development Finance and the Aid–Conflict Nexus Revisited

2015 ◽  
Vol 61 (5) ◽  
pp. 935-963 ◽  
Author(s):  
Austin M. Strange ◽  
Axel Dreher ◽  
Andreas Fuchs ◽  
Bradley Parks ◽  
Michael J. Tierney
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Reliable Information ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Financial Flows ◽  
Development Finance ◽  
Alternative Funding ◽  
Omitted Variable Bias ◽  
Chinese Official ◽  
Variable Bias ◽  
Project Level

China’s provision of development finance to other countries is sizable but reliable information is scarce. We introduce a new open-source methodology for collecting project-level development finance information and create a database of Chinese official finance (OF) to Africa from 2000 to 2011. We find that China’s commitments amounted to approximately US$73 billion, of which US$15 billion are comparable to Official Development Assistance following Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development definitions. We provide details on 1,511 projects to fifty African countries. We use this database to extend previous research on aid and conflict, which suffers from omitted-variable bias due to the exclusion of Chinese development finance. Our results show that sudden withdrawals of “traditional” aid no longer induce conflict in the presence of sufficient alternative funding from China. Our findings highlight the importance of gathering more complete data on the development activities of “nontraditional donors” to better understand the link between aid and conflict.

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