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• The politics and identity of fashion changes in early-twentieth century China 

  Wang, Lu (2019-04-26)

  Incorporating gender as a category of historical analysis, this article will take a look at the debate on the symbolic meaning of women’s fashion in early-twentieth century China. Women’s fashion has been perceived as an ...

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• Visualized gender and gendered visuality: Love, marriage, and labor in contemporary Chinese women’s visual culture 

  Yao, LingLing (2019-04-17)

  Feminism was long sidelined as a bourgeois ideology in Communist China and has never fully recovered as the leading apparatus for female empowerment. Chinese women have made tremendous progress under the leadership of the ...

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• Weak nerves in China: Neurasthenia-depression controversy as a window on psychiatric nosology 

  McLawhorn, Jr., Donald Edward (2019-04-17)

  Although shenjing shuairuo (SJSR) has remained a salient clinical and cultural concept in China since the first decade of the twentieth century, in 1980 neurasthenia was removed from the American Psychiatric Association’s ...

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• The processing of two types of Chinese idioms by L1 and L2 speakers 

  Zheng, Hang (2019-04-11)

  Chinese idioms originated from the pre-Qin dynasty (~ 221 A.D.) and are the linguistic and cultural heritage of the Chinese civilization. However, only 2.47% of the still-in-use idioms have a regular structure that follows ...

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• Re-envisioning community policing: Histories, discourses, and practices in the People’s Republic of China 

  Zhou, Lingxiao (2019-04-26)

  This essay extends the debate over whether “shequ jingwu” should be regarded as an imported term of “community policing”, or in nature repetition of long-term Chinese policing practice. This study uses a local community ...

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