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I explored the relationships among shyness, loneliness, and cell phone dependence (CPD) in college students, with a special focus on the mediating effect of loneliness in the relationship between shyness and CPD. Participants were 593 students recruited from a college in Henan, China,
and they completed the Cheek and Buss Shyness Scale, the UCLA Loneliness Scale–Short Form, and the Mobile Phone Addiction Index. The results show that shyness was significantly correlated with both loneliness and CPD, and that loneliness partially mediated the effect of shyness on CPD.
These findings shed light on how shyness predicts CPD and have implications for preventing CPD in college students.

In this special interview granted to Politique Internationale & Radio France Internationale, broadcast on RFI, the 14th Dalai Lama directly addresses the Chinese public for the first time. What is the right response to the Tibetan people's demand for independence & liberty? How can China -- economically developed but politically backward -- be helped down the road to democracy? According to the Tibetan spiritual leader, these two questions are closely related. To save Tibetan culture in general, the government in exile asked the authorities in Beijing to re-divide the territory, to include all regions inhabited by Tibetans in the autonomous region of Tibet. This suggestion spurred a virulent reaction from the Chinese government, for whom this attempt to reconstitute a "Grand Tibet" is only a veiled claim for independence -- an accusation that the Dalai Lama denies. Adapted from the source document.

The historian & political analyst Chen Yan, who has lived in France for the past 20 years but who still regularly returns to his native China, is one of the sharpest observers of Chinese society. Its social fabric is coming apart at the seams at every point, with growing wealth inequalities, rural revolts, & the arrival of mass unemployment in the big cities. Are the sporadic, headline-grabbing demonstrations of the past few years a harbinger of a massive social explosion? Chen Yan fears it is, because the conditions needed for a "soft" revolution as seen in certain former communist countries (Ukraine, etc.) are not there. Meanwhile, certain courageous intellectuals, journalists & lawyers have spoken out in favor of the victims of the system. Their combat reflects the rebirth of a political consciousness, & possibly a real discovery of democratic principles. Adapted from the source document.

Resumé Chen Yan est né en Chine où il a enseigné l'histoire à l'Université de Wuhan de 1977 à 1982 et en 1987-1988. Depuis 1990, il est journaliste bilingue à RFI et a enseigné l'histoire de la Chine à l'Université Paris VII et sa géographie à l'Université de Lyon 3. Il est directeur de collection chez Sanlian à Pékin et aux éditions de l'Aube.