Title: Shanghai City Development Transition and Social Governance Challenges  
Autor: Shangguang Yang(East China University of Science and Technology, China), Chunlan Wang(Shanghai Population and Development Research Center, China)

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      After nearly 30 years of economic and political reform, China's urban economic, social and spatial structure has experienced profound changes. Meanwhile, with the deepening of China’s urban transition, some new social problems are emerging, how to governance these new urban social problems will affect China’s urban harmonious society building. Shanghai as one of the major cities and important economic nodes in Chinese economy, the economic and social structure and space structure also experienced a dramatic evolution. This paper uses Shanghai’s population census, one percent sample survey, and other socioeconomic statistics to explain the changing path of Shanghai’s economic developmental transition, population space evolution and new social spatial problems. It demonstrates some similar to the western urban problems such as emerging residential segregation, space deprivation, ghetto community in China’s large cities during urban economic and social structure evolution. There is some difference between China’s urban problems and western urban ones, and it is still very urgent to discuss how to do with these new urban governance challenges.

Keywords:Development Transition, Governance Challenges, Shanghai
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Title: Coupling, Recoupling or Decoupling: China in the Global Economy
Autor: Yue Lin (UAM, Spain)

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     The emergence of a dynamic continental economy in the region of East Asia is more and more organized around the nexus of China. Economists expect the decoupling of business cycles in this area. However, the global impact of the current financial crisis opposes to this “decoupling” thesis. Neither China nor other emerging Asian economies was immune to the shocks emanated from US. Before answering the question whether China is decoupling or not, I would demonstrate that China’s economy during the reform era from 1978 is rather a coupling process than a decoupling one, especially after 1997. China’s post-crisis economy may also have a “decoupling” scenario, in terms of construction of a new development mode based on domestic consumption. To achieve this goal, a series of necessary reforms is discussed to conclude the paper.

Keywords:Coupling, China, Global Economy
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Title: A Comparative Study on the Advantages of Ethnic Groups-Based on the Overseas Chinese Businessmen and the Foreign Businessmen in the Small Commodity Market of Yiwu
Autor: Xiaoying Chen (Zhejiang Normal University, China)

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      Based on a comparative study on the overseas Chinese Businessmen and the foreign businessmen in the Small Commodity Market of Yiwu, the present essay attempts to prove that the overseas Chinese Businessmen have advantages on languages, social support network and information access because of their Chinese origin. However,the original advantages of the overseas Chinese Businessmen are gradually weakened and even overtaken by the foreign businessmen, when the latter pay more attentions to learning Chinese languages and building their informal social support network in Yiwu.

Keywords:Overseas Chinese Businessmen; foreign businessmen; social support network
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Title: Corporeal Representation and Divergent Scopic Regimes: The Introduction of Western Anatomical Medecine into China
Autor: Carols Hugo Sierra (University of Basque Country / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, Spain)

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   The fundamental goal of this article is to explore the strategies of incorporation of western medicine in China during the second half of the nineteenth century, insofar as constitutes a fascinating milestone related to the introduction and acceptance of a specific anatomical view of the body. The historical process of adoption of Western medicine during the second half of the nineteenth century in China (led particularly by Western medical missionaries) stimulated an epistemological rupture, that is to say, a gnoseological, perceptual and ideological transformation of the pathological   phenomenon traditionally fixed by Chinese medical culture. At this point, with regard to the iconological prospect, the form of dissection-based anatomy, as it was introduced to China by Western medical missionaries and through the earliest translations of Western medical texts into Chinese, was rhetorically represented into a pervasive visual and symbolic code of medical illustrations and early photographs of human body which marked the boundaries, the resistances and cognitive transformations of the Chinese medicine in the late Qing period and beyond.

Keywords:Anatomy, Chinese medicine, human body, medical iconography, pathology, representational strategies
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Title: Differences in the Colloquial and Literary Pronunciations of the Bangkok Hakka
Autor: Xiao Fang(Centro de Estudios Chinos Lu Xun, Spain), Eduardo Rubio Ardanaz (University of Basque Country, Spain)

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      In a certain sense, Spain is a destination country for Chinese immigrants dominated by a new generation of immigrants. Due to various reasons such as the relative economic development level and language and culture, most of Spain are Chinese immigrants in the form of contract labor or family reunions. Strictly speaking, investment immigrants and high-skilled immigrants account for a very small proportion of Chinese immigrants in Spain. However, in the existing labor immigrants there are still some technical personnel who have received certain higher education or professional technical training in the past. Do a certain psychological analysis on the female immigrants in this group. In the face of tremendous changes in society, culture, and languages, skilled female immigrants will first encounter confusion about family and job choices. The huge gap between dreams and reality and unwillingness often motivates female skilled immigrants to gradually adjust their psychology, learn the local language more actively, understand local culture, participate in social and cultural activities in various ways, and are better at establishing communication with local people. Actively strive to continue their profession in a foreign country and strive for development.

Keywords: Spain, Basque Country, Chinese immigrants, Female skilled immigrants
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Title: Differences in the Colloquial and Literary Pronunciations of the Bangkok Hakka
Autor: Siripen Ungsitipoonporn(Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia, Mahidol University, Thailand)

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      It is more and more common to see the Chinese-Western intercultural couples in China and many other countries. In the era of the global village, the intercultural marriages among different races and nations are more and more frequent. It is becoming very fashionable and popular. There is happiness, but also sorrows; there are understandings but also misunderstandings; there are conflicts but also integrations, etc. With China’s reform and the continuous development, as well as the improvement of Chinese international prestige, many aspects of intercultural marriage have been changed from the ancient times to the contemporary times in China. Although marriage is a very private affair for the individuals who participate in, it also reflects and connects with many complex factors such as economic development, culture differences, political backgrounds, transition of traditions, etc, in both China and the Western world. As a result, an ordinary marriage between a Chinese and a Westerner is actually an episode in the sociological grand narration.
This paper reviews the Chinese-Western marriage in modern China from1840-1949, and it revealed the history of the earliest Chinese married Westerners in the beginning of China’s open. More Chinese men married Western wives at first, and then Chinese wives-Western husbands outnumbered much more. Both Western and Chinese governments’ policies and attitude towards Chinese-Western marriages in this period were also studied. It concluded that marriages between China and Western countries at this period were the result of free choice of both sides. Compared with the prevailing marriages arranged by the parents in China at that time, they could be regarded as models of free marriages in the early times. These marriages happened in the particular settings, thus they have particular characteristics in different types. At last, this paper also pays attention to Chinese men married Western women, and it pointed out that Western countries even had more severe policies on restraining Western women to marry Chinese men. The Chinese men were particularly treated by policies unequally in this setting. The traditional researches only emphasized Chinese women’s inferior position, but they almost neglected Chinese men’s berefted position which more or less led to Chinese men’s very negative emasculated and effeminate positions. .

Keywords: Colloquial and literary pronunciations, Hakka, spoken language
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