A Chinese Perspective: Will China‐India Friction Paralyze the BRICS?

This chapter adds a Chinese perspective to the comparative study of how national courts treat international law. The chapter finds that the application of international law in Chinese courts is influenced by several major factors, including China’s ambivalence toward international law, the role that the judiciary plays in China’s national governance, and the professional competence of Chinese judges. In particular, the failure of China’s Constitution to specify the status of international law makes secondary laws less likely to embrace international law: many secondary laws do not mention international law at all; only a modest number of secondary laws automatically incorporate international law. This also means that Chinese judges are discouraged from invoking international law in adjudicating disputes. However, in line with and in support of China’s economic opening policy since the late 1970s, Chinese judges regularly apply those treaties that deal with commercial relations between private actors. A major development is that, as China rises as a great power, Chinese courts have begun to prudently become more involved in foreign relations by applying international law.

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The Six Party Talks: A Chinese Perspective

Asian Perspective ◽

10.1353/apr.2008.0003 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 32 (4) ◽

pp. 29-41

Author(s):

Chu Shulong ◽

Lin Xinzhu

Keyword(s):

Chinese Perspective

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A Chinese perspective on the actual and preferred sources of coaching knowledge

International Journal of Sports Science & Coaching ◽

10.1177/17479541211018769 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 174795412110187

Author(s):

Xiangbo Ji ◽

Jianhua Xu ◽

Liping Cheng ◽

Jianfei Sun ◽

Xiaocheng Zhang

Keyword(s):

Knowledge Acquisition ◽

Future Research ◽

Online Questionnaire ◽

Coach Education ◽

Chinese Perspective ◽

Survey Results ◽

The Common ◽

Mentoring System ◽

Sports Coaches ◽

Coaching Effectiveness

Efforts to improve coaching effectiveness require an understanding of the common sources of coaches’ knowledge acquisition. Sports coaches utilise multiple learning sources, yet limited direct evidence elucidates the manner in which Chinese coaches learn to coach and the evolution of their learning sources throughout their careers’ development. This research examines the actual and preferred sources of coaching knowledge for Chinese coaches and analyses changes in learning sources from Junior to Senior level coaches. One hundred coaches from China, including 60 Junior coaches, 23 Intermediate coaches and 17 Senior coaches, completed an online questionnaire. The survey results indicated that coaches acquire knowledge from formal, informal and non-formal learning situations. However, formal coach education (coach education programmes) is the most important source of knowledge acquisition for all coaches. Furthermore, as coaches develop, the sources to acquire knowledge will gradually change from athletic experience to interaction with other coaches. Based on these findings, we suggest that national sport governing bodies build more comprehensive coach education systems by establishing a scientific mentoring system and organising regular coach-themed clinics, seminars, meetings and so on. Future research is needed to examine how coaches in China’s dominant programmes learn to coach and how this learning is practically applied.

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The Right to Privacy in the Internet Age: The Chinese Perspective

The Legal Protection of Personality Rights ◽

10.1163/9789004351714_010 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 164-183

Keyword(s):

The Internet ◽

Right To Privacy ◽

The Right To Privacy ◽

Internet Age ◽

Chinese Perspective ◽

The Right

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The Relationship between Team Hometown Diversity and Team Creativity: From the Chinese Perspective

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su10103458 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 10 (10) ◽

pp. 3458

Author(s):

Jingli Li ◽

Min Zhao ◽

Guanjun Xia ◽

Chao Liu

Keyword(s):

Information Exchange ◽

Mediation Effect ◽

Team Leaders ◽

Team Creativity ◽

Team Members ◽

Chinese Perspective ◽

New Perspective ◽

The Impact ◽

The Relationship

Since no specialized work has researched the relationship between team members’ hometown diversity (team hometown diversity) and team creativity, we investigated their underlying relationship by conducting a two-wave survey from 304 employees in 54 teams and 54 team leaders from 17 companies. The results proved that team hometown diversity was negatively related to both team information exchange and team creativity, while team information exchange was significantly positively associated with team creativity and the mediation effect of team information exchange between team hometown diversity and team creativity was verified. The moderation role of team identification in the relationship between team hometown diversity and team information exchange as well as the moderation function of team conformity on the relationship between team information exchange and team creativity were both verified. This work made at least four contributions. Firstly, it was among the first to research the impact of team hometown diversity on team creativity, which supplemented the gap and provided a new perspective for exploration of team creativity in future. Secondly, we adopted a two-wave design to check the dynamic impact of earlier team information exchange and team conformity on team creativity afterwards, which can be replicated for future studies. Thirdly, by using supervisor and subordinate ratings together and conducting electronic and paper surveys together, the results were more persuasive. Finally, we included a large dataset from a broad range of companies, which maximized the variables and generated our results. The implications and limitations were also illustrated.

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DE-CENTERING CHINESE HISTORY

Journal of Chinese History ◽

10.1017/jch.2017.23 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

pp. 191-201

Author(s):

John E. Herman

Keyword(s):

Seventeenth Century ◽

Methodological Approach ◽

Chinese History ◽

The Past ◽

Alternative Perspective ◽

Chinese Perspective ◽

Qing History ◽

Chinese Texts ◽

Cultural Tensions ◽

Seismic Impact

What would Chinese history look like if we were to examine it from the perspective of the peoples living along China's periphery? How might a non-Chinese perspective challenge the dominant themes in Chinese historiography, themes which represent Chinese history as a linear narrative arising from the Central Plain and its original inhabitants, the Han Chinese? If, for example, we rely solely on Chinese sources to tell us about Chinese-Jurchen/Manchu relations during the first half of the seventeenth century, we will have privileged Chinese sources, affirmed the authority of the Chinese perspective, and suppressed voices that might offer an alternative perspective. Only an aggressive deconstruction of such “authoritative” Chinese texts can expose biases and logical inconsistencies, unpack cultural tensions that demand more rigorous scrutiny, and tease out into the open silenced voices from spaces buried deep in the text. Those historians who engage in such a methodological approach, however, run the risk of being accused of applying fanciful postmodernist conjecture or presentist interpretations to the past. This is why the recent (since the 1980s) addition of Manchu language sources to our examination of Qing history (1636–1912) has had such a seismic impact on the field.

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