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China's foreign policy, like that of other countries, is fundamentally based on national interests. However, according to the author, status discrepancy and status enhancement have been important elements in Chinese foreign policy ever since 1949. Using "status enhancement" as a conceptual framework, he examines China's foreign policy since 2949 and looks at the impact of a rising China in the 1949s with its enhanced status. (DÜI-Sen)

AbstractPrior research has established that status threat leads consumers to display status-related products such as luxury brands. While compensatory consumption within the domain of the status threat (e.g., products associated with financial and professional success) is the most straightforward way to cope with comparisons to high-status individuals, we examine when, why, and how consumers cope with status threat by choosing to "pivot" and display success and achievements in alternative domains. Using a mixed-method approach combining field and lab experiments, incentive-compatible designs, netnographic analysis, observational study, and qualitative interviews, we show that consumers cope with status threat by signaling their status and success in alternative domains. We conceptualize this behavior as "status pivoting" and show that it occurs because experiencing status threat motivates consumers to adopt beliefs about tradeoffs across domains; that is, to believe that status acquisition requires tradeoffs and hence others' success in one domain comes at the cost of success in another domain. We compare the prevalence and appeal of status pivoting to restoring status within the domain of the threat. We further examine when consumers are likely to engage in status pivoting and show that this effect is attenuated when high status within the domain of the threat is attainable.

• Policy: Lowell schools and theatres have been closed indefinitely due to the influenza epidemic by a conference board of health officials and the mayor• Policy: chairman of the public safety committee of Massachusetts, Henry B. Endicott, requests that unnecessary gatherings be called off; the board acted on this decision with a policy/ban• Unnecessary gatherings includes such places as churches, schools, moving picture shows, and theatres• The board took no action on church policy, leaving the matter up to the local pastors who have taken no action, leaving church service open for tomorrow• The communication from the public safety committee reads in part, "No unnecessary gatherings should be held.until the authorities tell us the danger is over" and "I urge. communities to assume their part of the common responsibility and to act as if they were already in the midst of this epidemic"• Regarding doctors and nurses, the communication reads in part, "We are using every effort, both through the government and outside the states, to get additional help for these people"• Regarding Liberty Loan the communication reads in part, "The cancellation of all Liberty loan meeting places upon the people of Massachusetts a responsibility for individual effort greater than that which the citizens of any other state are called upon to bear"• The board of health reports that there were 225 cases so far today, bringing the total to 1,050• Deaths to date number more than 50• Policy: chairman H.B. Endicott wired to Mayor Thompson to report daily on the number of influenza cases and deaths from influenza in Lowell• Chairman Endicott also requests that the number of active and available doctors and nurses be counted and wired to him at once• Nurses of the health department and the Lowell Guild will be given Red Cross vehicles to drive about the city with right of way, furnished by members of the municipal council• Policy: Mayor Thompson requests the police inspect the restaurants, lunch carts, and saloons for all traces of influenza are free from all dishes in use• It is said the board of health does not want to close all public eating places• Policy: all manufacturing plants have been requested to remove any public drinking cups or glasses in these establishments ; Newspaper article ; 1, 4