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This book links the environment and corruption with China's large inflows of foreign direct investment (FDI). It investigates the effects of economic development and foreign investment on pollution in China; the effects of corruption and governance quality on FDI location choice in China.

Introduction -- Silk Roads History and Case Country Institutional Dynamics -- Profile of Case Actors and Cases -- CMPort's Investments in Sri Lanka -- China Merchants' Investments in Djibouti -- China Merchants' Investment in Belarus -- Cross-Case Generalizations and Policy Implications -- Chinese Firms' Institutional Strategies -- Generalizations and Implications of Chinese Firms' Institutional Strategies -- Conclusion.

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This article explores how, in 1784 New Orleans, Cecilia Conway—a recaptured maroon woman—asserted that she was pregnant and thereby leveraged the power of her reproductive labor. Her claims about her body briefly slowed down the system of capital punishment activated in response to her marronage by altering the trajectory of the state-sanctioned sexual violence inflicted on her. The conversations between Cecilia and the prison's authorities that this article unearths constitute an original archive of Cecilia's assertions while accounting for their heavily mediated and yet remarkable presence. By centering the details of Cecilia's life, this article helps recast the threat of marronage in colonial Louisiana from simply one of male-led armed rebellion to one of reproduction, thorny kinship networks, and a potential maroon society.

We prove a global Lorentz estimate of the Hessian of strong solutions to the Cauchy-Dirichlet problem for a class of fully nonlinear parabolic equations with asymptotically regular nonlinearity over a bounded $C^{1,1}$ domain. Here, we mainly assume that the associated regular nonlinearity satisfies uniformly parabolicity and the $(\delta,R)$-vanishing condition, and the approach of constructing a regular problem by an appropriate transformation is employed. ; NSFC grant 11371050, NSFC-ERC grant 11611530539 and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of China grant 2016YJS154. The second author is also supported by ERCEA Advanced Grant 2014 669689-HADE, by the MINECO project MTM2014-53850-P, by Basque Government project IT-641-13 and also by the Basque Government through the BERC 2014-2017 program and by Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness MINECO: BCAM Severo Ochoa excellence accreditation SEV-2013-0323.

This article seeks to examine the interplay of material culture and identity politics during what we call the Great Rapprochement Era between China and Taiwan. It focuses on how the government and non-state actors dealt with sensitive histories and difficult heritages as manifested in their taming of Chiang Kai-shek for cross-strait tourists' consumption. The article argues that as much as both governments strove to put 'economics before politics', there was evidently a great deal of political work that went into making an 'inconvenient' past more 'palatable'. Discussion shows that despite the depoliticization of difficult heritages, and the domestication, commercialization and cartoonization of sensitive historical figures as manifested in tourism products, these practices were inherently political.

Traditionally, winter sports have very limited accessibility and popularity in China. In addition to the growing economy in China and increased affordability by Chinese consumers, obtaining the hosting rights for the 2022 Beijing/Zhangjiakou Winter Olympic Games has brought a heightened opportunity for China to build up facilities and related infrastructures, develop and provide programs, promote interests and participation, and advance business operations of winter sports. Although more people are participating in winter sports today, especially in skiing, many of the newly constructed facilities are often operated in financial deficit and relying on governmental subsidy. Understanding the reasons that cause and channel winter-sport participation would help sport managers to improve program functions and services in an effort to meet or exceed consumer expectations. The purpose of this study was to examine push (i.e., socio-motivation) and pull (i.e., external motivation) factors influencing the level of participation of leisure skiing in China. Based on a comprehensive review of literature (e.g., Alexandris, 2009; Driver, 1983; Zhang et al., 2001) and conducting a test of content validity by a panel of experts, the Scale of Ski Motivation (SSM) measuring socio-motivations of ski participation was developed that had 33 items in a Likert 7-point scale and under seven factors, including nature, egotistic, family, social, exercise, risk, and escape factors. Measuring the ski resort pull factors was based on an adaptation of Nabitz's (2014) customer preference scale on a ski resort's offerings, which were of nine factors including condition of slopes, sceneries, equipment, waiting time, accessibility, recreational facilities, safety issues, cost, and training course feature. In addition to the push and pull factors, sociodemographic and skiing resort attendance frequency variables were also included in the survey form. Research respondents (N = 326) were attendees at a major ski resort located in Beijing. Conducting factor analyses and multiple repression analyses, two pull factors, nature and family, were found to be significantly (p < .05) influencing the level of participation of leisure skiing. To a varying extent, five pull factors including accessibility, sceneries, condition of slopes, training course feature, and cost were also found to be significantly (p < .05) influencing the level of attendance at the ski resort when sociodemographic backgrounds of participants were taken into consideration. Discussions are centered on the theoretical and managerial implications on procedures of pushing and pulling consumers to ski resorts at large and increasing winter-sport participating in China.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of contributors -- PART I: Global perspectives -- Chapter 1: Managing resources and opportunities in globalized sport business -- Introduction -- References -- PART II: Managing resources -- Chapter 2: Role of state funding in participation of Croatian athletes at major sports events -- Introduction -- Review of literature -- Method and results -- Discussion -- References -- Appendix A: data used for correlation analysis -- Chapter 3: Developing a demand model to estimate attendance at an individual NBA game from related-game attributes -- Introduction -- Review of literature -- Method -- Results -- Discussion -- References -- Chapter 4: Sport and physical activity human resources in Spain: a managerial perspective -- Introduction -- Method -- Results and discussion -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- Chapter 5: Relationships between standard sports facilities and elite sport development in taekwondo -- Introduction -- Review of literature -- Method -- Results -- Discussion -- References -- Chapter 6: Public relations network, absorptive capacity, and achievement level of traditional soccer schools -- Introduction -- Theoretical framework -- Method -- Results -- Discussion -- References -- Chapter 7: Soccer feasibility study: assessment, value, and demand - a traditional approach -- Introduction -- Major components in the feasibility study -- Conclusion and recommendations -- References -- Chapter 8: A resource-based view of Bayi Fubang Rockets -- Introduction -- Review of literature -- Method -- Results and discussion -- Conclusions -- References -- PART III: Managing opportunities -- Chapter 9: Managing the business of soccer: a conceptual framework -- Introduction -- Review of literature -- Method -- Results -- Discussion -- References.