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Prehistory to Unification -- The Qin/Han era -- The Tang dynasty -- The Song dynasty -- The Yuan dynasty -- The Ming dynasty -- The high Qing dynasty -- The late Qing dynasty -- The first decades of the Republic -- The war years -- The early PRC, 1949-1965 -- The Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976 -- The PRC reform era, 1978 to the present -- Global China -- Special categories of migrant

Duan, Haiyan. ; Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2009. ; Includes bibliographical references (leaves 79-83). ; Abstracts also in Chinese. ; LIST OF FIGURES --- p.vi ; LIST OF TABLES --- p.vii ; Chapter Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1 ; Chapter 1.1 --- Research Question --- p.1 ; Chapter 1.2 --- Approach and Methods --- p.4 ; Chapter 1.3 --- Structure of the Thesis --- p.7 ; Chapter Chapter 2 --- Literature Review --- p.8 ; Chapter 2.1 --- Provision of Public Goods as a Governmental Function --- p.8 ; Chapter 2.2 --- The Design and Practice of Fiscal Transfer --- p.11 ; Chapter Chapter 3 --- China´ةs Fiscal Institution --- p.20 ; Chapter 3.1 --- "The Drop of "Two Ratios"", and 1994 Fiscal Reform" --- p.20 ; Chapter 3.2 --- Post-1994 System and the Intergovernmental Fiscal Relation --- p.23 ; Chapter 3.3 --- The Finance of Public Goods Provision --- p.37 ; Chapter 3.4 --- Fiscal Institution below Province --- p.45 ; Chapter Chapter 4 --- The Impact of Fiscal Transfer on Public Goods Provision: Cross-county Analysis of Shanxi --- p.52 ; Chapter 4.1 --- The Equalization Effect of Fiscal Transfer --- p.54 ; Chapter 4.2 --- The Impact of Fiscal Transfer on County Governments´ة Preference of Expenditure --- p.58 ; Chapter Chapter 5 --- Conclusion --- p.75 ; REFRENCES --- p.79

Fung, Chun Kit. ; Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2011. ; Includes bibliographical references (leaves 121-135). ; Abstracts in English and Chinese. ; Declaration --- p.i ; Acknowledgement --- p.ii ; Abbreviations --- p.iii ; Abstract in English --- p.v ; Abstract in Chinese --- p.vii ; Table of Contents --- p.ix ; List of Figures --- p.xii ; Chapter Chapter 1 - --- Introduction ; Chapter 1.1 --- Genus Cordyceps --- p.1 ; Chapter 1.2 --- Cordyceps militaris --- p.4 ; Chapter 1.3 --- Biological Functions and Chemical Constituents of Cordyceps militaris --- p.9 ; Chapter 1.4 --- "Human Bronchial Epithelial Cell Line, 16HBE14o-" --- p.13 ; Chapter 1.5 --- Ion Transport in Human Bronchial Epithelial Cells --- p.16 ; Chapter 1.6 --- Objectives of the Experiments --- p.20 ; Chapter Chapter 2 - --- Materials and Methods ; Chapter 2.1 --- Solutions and Chemicals --- p.21 ; Chapter 2.2 --- Preparation of Hot Water Cordyceps militaris Extract --- p.22 ; Chapter 2.3 --- Culture of Cells --- p.23 ; Chapter 2.4 --- Short-Circuit Current (lsc) Measurement --- p.24 ; Chapter 2.5 --- Short-Circuit Current (lsc) Measurement in Nystatin-Permeabilized Monolayer --- p.29 ; Chapter 2.6 --- Measurements of [Ca2+]i --- p.31 ; Chapter 2.7 --- Measurement of PKA Activity --- p.36 ; Chapter 2.8 --- Statistical Analysis --- p.37 ; Chapter Chapter 3 - --- Results ; Chapter 3.1 --- Regulation of Ion Transport in 16HBE14o- Cells by CM Water Extract --- p.38 ; Chapter 3.1.1 --- Dose-Dependent Relationship of CM Water Extract --- p.39 ; Chapter 3.1.2 --- "Involvement of CI"" Transport in CM-induced lsc Response" --- p.42 ; Chapter 3.1.3 --- Involvement of K+ channels in CM-induced lsc Response --- p.47 ; Chapter 3.1.4 --- Involvement of Adenylate Cyclase/cAMP/Protein Kinase A Pathway in CM-induced lsc Response --- p.52 ; Chapter 3.1.5 --- Involvement of Ca2+-Dependent Pathway in CM-induced lsc Response --- p.57 ; Chapter 3.1.6 --- "Effect of CM Extract on Apical CI"" Current and Basolateral K+ Current in ...

Wu, Yanni. ; Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2009. ; Includes bibliographical references (leaves 60-65). ; Abstract also in Chinese. ; Chapter Chapter 1: --- Introduction --- p.8 ; Chapter Chapter 2: --- Research Significance ; Chapter 2.1 --- Theoretical significance --- p.10 ; Chapter 2.2 --- Empirical significance --- p.11 ; Chapter Chapter 3 --- Literature Review ; Chapter 3.1 --- Background of CSR --- p.12 ; Chapter 3.2 --- The conceptual development of CSR --- p.13 ; Chapter 3.3 --- Definition of CSR --- p.16 ; Chapter 3.4 --- Why or why not corporations make philanthropic contributions? --- p.16 ; Chapter 3.4.1 --- Economic rewards for doing corporate philanthropy --- p.16 ; Chapter 3.4.2 --- Public Visibility --- p.17 ; Chapter 3.4.3 --- Institutional perspective --- p.20 ; Chapter 3.5 --- Research on CSR in China --- p.26 ; Chapter 3.6. --- Theoretical Framework --- p.31 ; Chapter Chapter 4: --- Data and Method --- p.33 ; Chapter 4.1 --- Data --- p.33 ; Chapter 4.2 --- Method --- p.35 ; Chapter 4.3 --- Measurement --- p.37 ; Chapter 4.3.1 --- Dependent Variables --- p.37 ; Chapter 4.3.2 --- Independent Variables --- p.38 ; Chapter 4.3.3 --- Control Variables --- p.41 ; Chapter Chapter 5: --- Findings and Discussions --- p.44 ; Chapter 5.1 --- Significance of variables indicating arguments of economic rewards --- p.45 ; Chapter 5.2 --- Significance of variables indicating new institutionalism --- p.47 ; Chapter 5.2.1 --- Variables indicating the normative influence --- p.47 ; Chapter 5.2.2 --- Variables indicating the cultural-cognitive influence --- p.48 ; Chapter 5.3 --- Significance of variable indicating political incentive --- p.51 ; Chapter 5.4 --- Summary --- p.52 ; Chapter Chapter 6: --- Conclusion --- p.57 ; Reference --- p.60

本文论述陈冠中的长篇小说《盛世:中国,2013》揭示了一种出现于晚期社会主义中国的焦灼感。这种普遍却又隐秘的集体心态体现了当代中国人在两种信念之间的摇摆状态:毛时代遗留下的中国社会主义传统,以及"改革开放"后萌生的个人主义信条。陈冠中分别以"好地狱"与"伪天堂"的意象来概括两种社会形态下的内部矛盾。一方面,"好地狱"中所拥有的中国革命精神既成就了中国"反帝反封建"无产阶级革命的胜利,同时又不可避免地导向了"文化大革命"的发生。另一方面,生活在"伪天堂"中的人们虽然尝到了物质生活所带来的甜头,却也不得不思量为其付出的文化、政治代价。尽管许多人将陈冠中提出的"伪天堂"概念解读为中国现实的缩影,本文却不鼓励中西读者止步于此。在"好地狱"与"伪天堂"中进行非此即彼的抉择无疑固化了这种二元对立的思维范式,而无从冲破现实的窘境。本文希望通过对小说系统而细致的阅读向读者展示《盛世》突显了当代中国人在面对"好地狱"与"伪天堂"时焦虑、矛盾、无所适从的心态。而想要走出这种心态,必须先摆脱"好地狱"与"伪天堂"所设下的思维禁锢。 ; This thesis argues Chan Koon-Chung's The Fat Years (2009) reflects a collective anxiety in late socialist China. The anxiety concerns the tension that is immanent to a receding belief in the emancipatory potential of Maoist Communism and a growing recognition of the failure of the liberatory potential of a turn to individualism. For Chan, this anxiety is written in terms of a "Good Hell" and a "False Paradise." The Good Hell refers to the egalitarian revolutionary spirit, which nonetheless powered the terror of the Cultural Revolution; while the False Paradise refers to the miscarried promises of the turn to capitalism. What Chan presents the reader with, then, is not a simple choice between a Good Hell and a False Paradise, but a confusing or "sticky" world in which China's middle class hesitate to devote themselves to either paradigm. Of course, such indecision does not benefit the State, and so Chan shows how the Central Government ultimately attempts to position the middle class. It does so by monumentalizing the past, which is to say creating an abrupt rupture between "now" and "then," and therein disconnecting history from the present. In this way, the world of confusion turns into an unbearable one where individual will is only permitted if one first surrenders to Government ideology. Chan's wager is that China's middle class should once again embrace the sense of confusion that comes from the complicated psychological state of the unreconciled ideas embedded in the "Good Hell and False Paradise" complex. Only in this way can one begin to examine ...

对于转型期中国地方政府行为的研究,现有文献日益重视正式制度对官员行为的激励和约束作用:以GDP为标尺的相对绩效考核制度是改革开放后中国经济成功的决定因素,同时该正式制度也是地方政府忽视公共物品供给的重要原因。即使在考虑了正式制度及社会经济因素之后,本研究仍然观察到地方政府在公共物品供给水平上存在着显著的地区和时间差异。然而,对于此差异背后的决定因素,现有文献却考察不足。本文认为,非正式制度是造成该差异的原因。通过采用地区领导人籍贯作为非正式制度的代理并利用1990年至2010年的中国地级市数据,本研究系统检验了上述假设。本文发现,和来自外地的地方领导人相比,那些在其籍贯地任职的官员有更大的动力为本地区提供公共服务:本地籍贯的领导在基础教育、公共医疗和环境保护上的财政投入比重显著高于外地籍贯的领导。本研究同时发现,公共服务支出份额的增加是以基础设施建设支出的减少为代价的:本地籍贯官员对该项支出的投入比重显著低于外地籍贯官员。同时,利用省级数据及相同的模型设定,本文也发现非正式制度在省级行政单位依然发挥作用,但作用程度减弱。上述发现彰显出在一个正式制度主导的环境中,非正式制度依然发挥着显著的作用,并在一定程度上弥补了前者的不足。在实证发现的基础上,本研究又通过案例分析和访谈进一步考察了非正式制度发挥作用的机制。通过分析两个地级市的本地籍贯领导大力发展民生项目的行为以及普通民众对本地官员和外地官员的看法,本文详细说明了非正式制度对官员行为产生影响的机制,从而为实证分析揭示出的因果机制提供了证据。本研究认为,造成上述差异的原因在于:相比于外地官员,本地官员更多地被嵌入到当地的人际网络中,出于对本人及本家族在家乡声望的重视,他们会对民生项目有更多的投入。本文对非正式制度及两种制度互动的考察凸显出非民主国家内部官员行为丰富的制度动态。 ; Literature on local government behavior in transitional China has primarily examined the impact of formal institutions on the motivations of officials in promoting local economic growth. In particular, investigations focused on how the existing personnel management system provides a "yardstick competition among local officials and therefore guarantees the success of economic reform. Meanwhile, such formal institutions have similarly been studied for the crucial reason that local government ignores the provision of public goods. Nevertheless, even after controlling the influence of formal institutions and socio-economic factors, variations could still be observed on the level of efforts among local governments regarding the provision of public goods. However, these variations cannot be sufficiently explained by existing literature. This research, based on prefectural data in China in 1990-2010, aims to fill this gap through a systematic examination of the effects of informal institutions on local government behavior, especially the casual relationship between the hometown of officials and the provision of local public goods. This research, based on prefectural data in China in 19902010, aims to fill this gap by systematically examining the effects of ...